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RUSH: Obama got really ticked off, got really annoyed last night. He went down to the pressroom in the White House, and the Drive-Bys dared to ask him a real question when he was out there glad-handing!<\/p>\n

REPORTER: Mr. President, how do you reconcile Mr. Lynn…?<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Uh, oh, see? You guys! I came down here today — <\/p>\n

REPORTER: (continued insolence)<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I — I — I came down here today — I didn\u2019t come down here to answer questions. <\/p>\n

REPORTER: You have very strict lobbying rules, but Mr. Lynn was a lobbyist, sir. <\/p>\n

OBAMA: All right. See you.<\/p>\n

OBAMA HANDLER: Don\u2019t worry, guys! We\u2019ll… We\u2019ll, uh…<\/p>\n

OBAMA: This is what happens if — if — I — I can\u2019t end up visiting you guys and shake your hands if, uh, I\u2019m going to get grilled every time I come down. We will be having a press conference, at which time you can feel free to answer the questions. <\/p>\n

OBAMA HANDLER: ASK more questions. (nervous laugh)<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Right now I just wanted to say hello and — and — and introduce myself to you guys. That\u2019s all I was trying to do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So he didn\u2019t want to answer the question. You\u2019re not supposed to ask The Messiah questions unless he\u2019s cleared it. The guy was saying, ‘How can you put this guy in there as a deputy DoD guy when he\u2019s a lobbyist, and you got new rules saying you\u2019re not going to have any lobbyists?\u2019 He shoulda just said, ‘Well, rules are made to be broken. We need to give ourselves flexibility. We have reasonable rules with reasonable exceptions to them.\u2019 That\u2019s what they said yesterday. I would counsel Obama (I\u2019m sure Greg Craig will get to him on this, too, but I would counsel Obama), don\u2019t sweat this little stuff. Don\u2019t get all irritated here with this. On the big issues, like socializing the country, these Drive-Bys are going to be right there with you, Barry. You got nothing to worry about.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Maureen Dowd on Larry King Live last night. She has a column, she had dinner with Obama much like the conservative columnists did, here\u2019s what she said about it.<\/p>\n

DOWD: It\u2019s not more fun if, you know, Obama, as he does sometimes already, gets a little snippy with me about something I\u2019ve written, you\u2019re thinking, ‘Oh, gosh, the president of the United States is already annoyed with me.\u2019<\/p>\n

KING: What, does he call you?<\/p>\n

DOWD: No, no, but, you know, we had a session with him the other day, and he was trying to make clear that just because sometimes he doesn\u2019t react or whatever doesn\u2019t mean that he\u2019s weak. It just means that he has a very even temperament and so you should be careful how you characterize him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, we\u2019ve seen evidence of this because Obama once told her that references to his large ears made him nervous, he didn\u2019t like that. I don\u2019t think she ever referred to his large ears ever again. King says, ‘Has Obama called you?\u2019 ‘No, but we had a session with him, trying to make clear that just because sometimes he doesn\u2019t react or whatever doesn\u2019t mean that he\u2019s weak, it just means that he has a very even temperament so we should be careful how we characterize him,\u2019 that\u2019s what he said, ‘be careful because you might get me wrong.\u2019 They\u2019re whipped. I mean, it\u2019s pure PW, no question, it\u2019s pure PW out there, they are pathetic. They\u2019ve totally caved. I mean, it\u2019s a cult. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I want to replay this Maureen Dowd sound bite. This sounds like… She\u2019s getting to sound more and more like Helen Thomas, which ain\u2019t good. You see if you think the same thing.<\/p>\n

DOWD: It\u2019s not more fun if, you know, Obama — as he does sometimes already — gets a little snippy with me about something I\u2019ve written. You\u2019re thinking, ‘Oh, gooosh, (cackling) the president of the United States is already annoyed with me.\u2019<\/p>\n

KING: What, does he call you?<\/p>\n

DOWD: No, no! But, you know, we had a session with him the other daaaaay, and — <\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, that\u2019s enough. She sounds dangerously close to Helen Thomas. She is. She is speaking from her throat. (rare, nasal Maureen Dowd impression) She\u2019s speaking from her nose held like that. ‘You can make yourself sound nasal like I\u2019m doing right now. That, it\u2019s an elitist manner of speaking. Mr. Limbaugh, you don\u2019t understand the proper manner. We elites have learned to be hoity-toity. Our noses are in the air anyway and why not speak through them? It\u2019s just exactly just like Susan Hoerchner. You remember her during the Clarence Thomas hearings. Ah, Judge Hoerchner, Susan Hoerchner. If I\u2019m Maureen Dowd, I speak the same way, \u2019cause this is how we sound smarter and more educated than you.\u2019 <\/p>\n

I, on the other hand, ladies and gentlemen, breathe from the diaphragm. I do not speak through the throat or the nose. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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