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RUSH: You want to hear something funny? We\u2019ve got Gibbs, by the way. He was on the Today show with Matt Lauer. Now, as you people know, I commonly use the phrase, ‘bend over forward, bend over backwards, grab the ankles.\u2019 Matt Lauer wanted to quote me on this today but couldn\u2019t bring himself to use the words. He was talking to Robert Gibbs, the ‘ace\u2019 White House press spokesman. There has never been anybody any better that ever did this job.<\/p>\n

LAUER: There\u2019s been a lot of partisan banter going back and forth this week. Rush Limbaugh, the conservative radio host, had this to say — and I\u2019m paraphrasing here, but he said, ‘We\u2019re being told we have to hope he succeeds,\u2019 referring to the president, ‘that we have to,\u2019 and then he made reference to getting into kind of a subservient position, ‘just because he\u2019s the first black president.\u2019 Now, that\u2019s not surprising. That\u2019s what Rush Limbaugh does. That\u2019s how he makes a living and he\u2019s pretty good at it. But the president addressed Rush Limbaugh directly, speaking to congressional Republicans, saying, ‘You can\u2019t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done.\u2019 Does the president of the United States really want to get drawn into a give-and-take with any partisan radio host?<\/p>\n

RUSH: And then Gibbs… Did you notice…? By the way, Matt, he did it. What are you asking after the fact? He did it! They should have told Matt about this before he was going to ask the question so that he coulda said, ‘Why did you do it?\u2019 Matt\u2019s acting like he doesn\u2019t even know that it happened. He says, ‘a subservient position.\u2019 ‘He made reference to getting into a kind of subservient position.\u2019 Say it, Matt! Bend over forward or backwards and grab the ankles. Anyway, here\u2019s what Gibbs said. By the way, Matt, you need to ask Gibbs: ‘Is it true that Rahm Emanuel has a conference call every morning with Paul Begala and James Carville at CNN and George Stephanopoulos at ABC? Does the president really want to have his chief of staff planning strategy with media personnel?\u2019 If his staff can do it, how come Obama can\u2019t? Why can\u2019t Obama reach out to me? I have offered. I have offered to build a bridge, build a road from the EIB Network to the White House to explain my bipartisan stimulus plan to him. I\u2019m willing to go up there, share an adult beverage, some wagyu beef hors d\u2019oeuvres. I\u2019ll do it for the people, for the country, for the American economy. Anyway, here\u2019s Gibbs\u2019 answer to the question, ‘Does the president really want to get drawn into a give and take with a radio host?\u2019<\/p>\n

GIBBS: Well, look, I think what the president said is true, is if leaders in Washington from either party are just listening to one person rather than listening to the millions of voices of their constituents and of the American people, it\u2019s usually where Washington goes wrong. That\u2019s why the American people want an economic reinvestment and recovery plan that gets jobs moving again. I think that\u2019s why in the end you\u2019ll see bipartisan support for the president\u2019s plan to do just that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hey, Bob? The only thing bipartisan was the people who voted against it. The American people do want to see their economy rebound. It\u2019s just it\u2019s not going to happen with your plan. And one thing, Mr. Gibbs — and I understand you\u2019re the best press secretary they ever had up there. That\u2019s what the Drive-Bys told us before you got the gig, I understand that, but you ‘don\u2019t want leaders from either party listening to just one person rather than listening to millions of voices.\u2019 Don\u2019t you understand, Mr. Gibbs? Certainly by now you do. My voice is the voice of millions of God-fearing American conservatives. That\u2019s why I\u2019m listened to. It\u2019s because my voice equals millions. It isn\u2019t just me. I\u2019m not going it alone here. I have an army. I\u2019m the general, but I have an army. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I want to replay this again simply because I, ladies and gentlemen, have reached my absorptive limit on one of the tacks the Drive-Bys are taking to trying to marginalize me. <\/p>\n

LAUER: There\u2019s been a lot of partisan banter going back and forth this week. Rush Limbaugh, the conservative radio host, had this to say — and I\u2019m paraphrasing here, but he said, ‘We\u2019re being told we have to hope he succeeds,\u2019 referring to the president, ‘that we have to,\u2019 and then he made reference to getting into kind of a subservient position, ‘just because he\u2019s the first black president.\u2019 Now, that\u2019s not surprising. That\u2019s what Rush Limbaugh does. That\u2019s how he makes a living and he\u2019s pretty good at it. But the president addressed Rush Limbaugh directly, speaking —<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. That\u2019s good. Now, this technique is going on throughout NBC. It\u2019s happening on the NBC network. It\u2019s happening on the MSNBC cable channel, and I did. You know, I said it on Hannity, and it\u2019s exactly what I said. I said, ‘We\u2019re being told we gotta support the guy \u2019cause his father was black.\u2019 It\u2019s just another way of saying he\u2019s the first black president. Now, I\u2019ve said I got over the historical nature of this stuff a long time. But, Matt and the rest of you… Norah O\u2019Donnell tried this yesterday with Mike Pence. I didn\u2019t get a chance to go through our whole roster. I wonder if Cookie has that, \u2019cause Mike Pence was just fabulous yesterday afternoon on MSNBC with Norah O\u2019Donnell. Yeah, yeah, we\u2019ve got it. Number 13. Have that coming, have that standing by, because… In fact, let\u2019s play it now, and I\u2019ll react to Matt Lauer and Norah O\u2019Donnell at the same time. But this was Mike Pence from Indiana — Republican, Indiana — on the phone yesterday. Well, he was actually live on television the anchor Norah O\u2019Donnell, and they were talking about the stimulus package and a number of other things.<\/p>\n

O\u2019DONNELL: On that specific thing that we have to ‘bend over…because this is the first black president.\u2019 Why don\u2019t you feel like you could denounce something like that? Are you so beholden to someone like Rush Limbaugh that you —<\/p>\n

PENCE: Oh, God, Norah.<\/p>\n

O\u2019DONNELL: — say, ‘That\u2019s not the type of rhetoric, when America is trying to come together and do something for the unemployment rate, in your state of Indiana now 8.2%\u2019? Is that the type of rhetoric we need?<\/p>\n

PENCE: I don\u2019t believe Rush Limbaugh\u2019s got a racist bone in his body and if you\u2019re suggesting that his statement had a racist element to it, I would commend you to, you know, a greater understanding of the positions that he\u2019s taking. He\u2019s a man that\u2019s about opportunity for all Americans regardless of race, creed, or color; and I think that\u2019s why he\u2019s so admired and appreciated all across America. Rush is out there championing the kind of stimulus bill that will put Americans back to work. We\u2019re grateful for that, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, in both instances — this is spread out through MSNBC. But that\u2019s just a great answer from Pence. These guys are not backing down to these phony attempts, but about they\u2019re trying to imply that I\u2019m racist or making a racist comment here. Norah and Matt and the rest of you in the Drive-Bys: It is you who have been harping on this man\u2019s race since he first announced his intentions. It is you who are telling us that this is historic because of his race. It is you and your fellow Democrats who made race a fundamental, prominent issue during the Democrat primaries. <\/p>\n

It is you guys who are constantly using race. I\u2019m simply reacting to what you\u2019ve been telling everybody! We\u2019re not supposed to look at the details of this debacle, Norah, because he\u2019s black. We\u2019ve gotta support him because he\u2019s black. What other reason, other than he\u2019s a black liberal? So you hit two birds with one stone here. The guy\u2019s the first black president. It\u2019s historic! Plus he\u2019s a liberal. Bam, bam! We support whatever he wants to do, and you don\u2019t even look at it. There\u2019s not one job created in this bill that\u2019s worth anything. There are temporary jobs created, laying sod on the Mall and this kind of thing. There aren\u2019t any careers. This bill is a job killer. <\/p>\n

‘America is trying to come together and do something for the unemployed\u2019? America\u2019s not coming together on this. Forty-six percent of America did not vote for this, Norah. That is why my stimulus plan in the Wall Street Journal today is a genuine compromise, genuine bipartisanship. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the truth about this. So there\u2019s this never ending effort here — and by the way, if I might say, this is part and parcel of Obama calling me out on last Friday. He wanted the media to pick this up. He wanted the media to make a big deal out of this. He wanted the media to carry the water to try to marginalize me on this. It\u2019s all out of the Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky, and rule number 13 here is: ‘Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.\u2019 That\u2019s what they\u2019re attempting to do: cut off the support network from the target. Isolate the target from any sympathy whatsoever. Go after people and not institutions. People hurt faster than institutions. <\/p>\n

The real question ought to be aimed at Norah O\u2019Donnell and Matt Lauer: Why do you support something you haven\u2019t even bothered to explain? Why do you support something you won\u2019t tell people what the truth is? Why do you support a piece of legislation that is morally wrong? Why do you support a piece of legislation, Norah, you probably haven\u2019t even seen? It is because he\u2019s black. It\u2019s because he\u2019s a liberal. It\u2019s because you\u2019re under the impression that every American wants him to do whatever he wants to do with no checks and no balances. You bought into this whole hope and change business, and I\u2019m telling you: you are destroying your own reputations and your own credibility. It is so obvious that you\u2019re in the tank. Newspapers are dying left and right. Your ratings at MSNBC are now going in the tank, except when you talk about me. You guys can go ahead and try to isolate and marginalize me. You\u2019re just making yourself look like fools, but that\u2019s the way this is shaking out. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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