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RUSH: We have a montage, ladies and gentlemen, of State-Controlled Media comparing Obama to Harry Truman. They can\u2019t compare Obama to Obama. They have to compare Obama to other great presidents — Lincoln, you name it.<\/p>\n

ANDERSON COOPER: The last time this happened, President Harry Truman relieved Douglas MacArthur.<\/p>\n

DOUGLAS BRINKLEY: …Truman-dumping-Douglas MacArthur moment here.<\/p>\n

DIANNE SAWYER: Echoing back to 1951: President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur.<\/p>\n

JONATHAN ALTER: …since Truman fired MacArthur.<\/p>\n

TARA MERGENER: The biggest showdown between a president and a wartime commander since Harry Truman stripped General MacArthur.<\/p>\n

JACK JACOBS: After Truman fired MacArthur, MacArthur became even more publicly popular.<\/p>\n

EUGENE ROBINSON: Harry Truman didn\u2019t need Douglas MacArthur, and, uh, I think this is that situation.<\/p>\n

JOE SCARBOROUGH: I had to go back to Truman and MacArthur for such an example.<\/p>\n

CHUCK TODD: There\u2019s a lot of comparisons here that people are trying to make to Harry Truman and Douglas MacArthur.<\/p>\n

DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN: What happened with MacArthur was that he made public statements that actually threatened the mission.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So they\u2019re just doing everything they can to elevate the status of our young Boy Wonder president. ‘It\u2019s like Lincoln, like Truman, McClellan with Lincoln and MacArthur. Yeah, was really great.\u2019 (sigh) It\u2019s inept. There\u2019s nobody to compare this guy to other than Jimmy Carter. That\u2019s the closest comparison there is. By the way, the Denver Post today: ‘President Should Let Drilling Moratorium Die.\u2019 There\u2019s a reason for everything, folks. It\u2019s puzzling. Why would a militantly pro-union president shut down oil rigs that have mostly nonunion jobs? Did you know that? Most of the rigs are nonunion. This president doesn\u2019t have the oil companies under his union-loving thumb yet. That may be an issue with him, who knows. Denver Post reports: ‘President Barack Obama has been given a chance to avert a second and possibly larger disaster in the Gulf of Mexico that he ought to take. <\/p>\n

‘Tuesday, a federal judge rightly rejected the ill-advised moratorium the Obama administration placed on deepwater drilling projects that imperils tens of thousands of jobs in the region. Drilling interests, with the support of the state of Louisiana, had sought the injunction. Regrettably, the White House has said it will immediately appeal. Why is the president so bent on sending those jobs elsewhere?\u2019 The Denver Post. This is an editorial. ‘Why is the president so bent on sending those [Gulf] jobs elsewhere? … [S]ome 38,000 jobs are related to drilling projects in the Gulf.\u2019 ‘Why is he so bent on sending them elsewhere?\u2019 <\/p>\n

NBC News is reporting that McChrystal has been relieved of his command. We were told yesterday he had tendered his resignation. So… You know, frankly, I\u2019m surprised. I thought Obama wouldn\u2019t do it. I thought that… Yeah, I made a mistake. I should have realized immediately that he would can this guy. I shoulda realized it immediately. This is the only get a rise out of this guy. All these people losing jobs? The oil spill? It took him 50 days to give a rat\u2019s rear end about that, but this Rolling Stone article comes out? And, by the way, read it. You will not find one quotable quote of Obama from McChrystal. You will not read one. You\u2019ll find one snarky little comment about Biden. But even that is more of an, ‘I\u2019m not going there. I got in trouble once by talking about these guys. I\u2019m not going to do it.\u2019 The Rolling Stone piece is a hit job on the US military, it\u2019s a hit job on the war, and now as a result of this the media is going to be able to claim they have altered the course of a war and the war strategy. What\u2019s at stake? <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019re still waiting on the president. We\u2019re still waiting on the president to show up in the Rose Garden with the godlike echo in the speeches to announce that McChrystal has been relieved of command and General David Petraeus is going to take over. Now, don\u2019t the Democrats and the liberals consider Petraeus a liar? Or has that and the ‘General Betray Us\u2019 ads been forgotten now? Remember, Petraeus was going to show up on Capitol Hill, did show up, to talk about the surge in Iraq. Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid, all these people, before he said a word, called him a liar. ‘This war is lost,\u2019 said Harry Reid. Now all of a sudden the guy they called a liar… Obama did not have any good words for Petraeus when he was a senator. Now all of a sudden this guy who was so horrible and rotten, and was a liar — we couldn\u2019t trust him, his plan in Iraq wouldn\u2019t work — is the guy to take over? Petraeus? <\/p>\n

I got this note from a high-ranking military guy. ‘Hey, Rush, since when can some slime bag from Rolling Stone magazine rewrite our wartime strategy? There\u2019s no way to compare this to General MacArthur\u2019s firing by President Truman. No way! Is this today\u2019s version of Hanoi Jane Fonda? With General McChrystal\u2019s firing the media wins this round. So does Al-Qaeda. I think they\u2019re both dancing in the streets. As a military guy, I just don\u2019t get it.\u2019 A high-ranking man — who served with great honor in Iraq, by the way, and continues to go back wherever he\u2019s needed on various tours of duty. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: We\u2019re working on getting some audio of Joe Biden ripping Petraeus and saying his surge plan was stupid and idiotic. Vanity Fair magazine: ‘When his turn came, Obama lectured Petraeus on the futility of his mission…\u2019 meaning the surge in Iraq ‘…using up the full seven minutes allocated to him and giving the general no chance to respond. ‘We have now set the bar so low,\u2019 said Obama, ‘that modest improvement in what was a completely chaotic situation … is considered success. And it\u2019s not. This continues to be a disastrous foreign-policy mistake.” That\u2019s what Obama said to Petraeus when he was up being dissed by Hillary and Harry Reid as a liar. And now he\u2019s hired Petraeus to take over for McChrystal; is making the announcement right now. He just got through praising McChrystal and asked us all to give him a couple attaboys, but he\u2019s history now. <\/p>\n

Now, you got Hillary over there at state, and now you got Petraeus. I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve heard, Petraeus has been mentioned, it\u2019s kind of underneath the radar, Petraeus has been mentioned as a potential Republican presidential candidate 2012. There\u2019s some people in the Republican Party who think that we need somebody like a Petraeus, military hero, successful general. Well, I don\u2019t know how that works now since Obama, after ripping this guy a new one to his face for seven minutes when he was a senator during the Petraeus hearings, has now hired him.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Matt in Atlanta, I\u2019m glad you waited. You\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m calling about MacArthur. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s really a good comparison here at all because MacArthur was fired. He wanted to take on the Chinese in China, he wanted to defeat the North Koreans, and he disagreed with the policy of the president, and the reason why he was fired, he even talked to Republican leadership in the House to get that job done. So there was really no comparison. I mean you got McChrystal handing a resignation versus MacArthur actively trying to forward the — <\/p>\n

RUSH: I know. Look, what\u2019s going on here is real simple. We have a man-child incompetent in the White House. The media who helped put him there are fully aware of it. He\u2019s gotta be propped up and be compared favorably to all these great presidents of the past. They did it to Clinton, too. They\u2019re always trying to give these guys credibility by saying they are walking in the footsteps, in this case, of Harry Truman. Yeah, well, let\u2019s see how quickly they like it when people remind Obama and the media Harry Truman dropped a couple nuclear weapons on Japan. Is that Obamaesque? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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