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RUSH: Big news still coming outta Washington on Stanley McChrystal, General Petraeus, but everybody\u2019s missing this. As I said yesterday, the reason you listen to this show — I mean these people are nothing but a bunch of hypocrites, all this praise for Petraeus now? We\u2019re gonna go back and we\u2019re gonna revisit all of the audio sound bites of all these Democrats ripping Petraeus a new one. Look at this in The Politico: ‘How Obama Took Command,\u2019 by Mike Allen. I predicted this. I\u2019m going to play you the prediction from the program yesterday. I predicted that this would be Obama rising to the occasion. Joe Klein, TIME Magazine: ‘The sort of moment people write books about.\u2019 I feel like I\u2019m on another planet. We\u2019ve already written 50,000 books on this guy trying to buck him up and now you have to sit here and say how Obama took command? If you have to write a story that says Obama took command, it\u2019s obvious that he hadn\u2019t taken command, and I\u2019m still not sure that he has. <\/p>\n

What a pathetic example of journalism. ‘How Obama Took Command.\u2019 He\u2019s only been commander-in-chief for a year and a half. He\u2019s only delivered how many speeches at West Point. He\u2019s only dithered how long about all the policy in Afghanistan. He tried to affect the elections in Afghanistan, got Karzai out of there, and now because he fires the general, they come up and say, ‘How Obama Took Command.\u2019 Well, what\u2019s he been doing up to now if he didn\u2019t have command? This is nonsense. This is flat-out absurdity, journalistic malpractice trying to portray something here. It\u2019s like the first year of Clinton, ‘He\u2019s still searching for his voice. Bill Clinton is still searching for his voice.\u2019 I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: You know what would be funny — and, by the way, it would be totally intellectually honest — is if the Senate Armed Services Committee does not confirm Petraeus. Well, they\u2019re going to hold the hearings starting next week on Petraeus. That has to happen, as the new commander in Afghanistan. Now, everybody in that committee, the Democrats — and they\u2019re the majority and you\u2019re gonna hear the audio coming up in due course in the program today. They all accused him of being a liar. They all said he was incompetent. They all said the surge wouldn\u2019t work. They all said the war was lost. For these guys to come now and confirm him? (snorts) What hypocrisy is that? If these guys were intellectually honest, they would say to Obama, ‘This guy is gonna guarantee to lose Afghanistan like he lost Iraq. We can\u2019t confirm this guy! Who do you think you are?\u2019 We know that\u2019s not going to happen. That would be the intellectually honest thing to happen. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Why do you listen to this program? Here is why. This is me yesterday.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: Yeah, let BP run the show, said now, now, he\u2019s on top of things, he took care of McChrystal, it\u2019s going to help him out here, looking like a leader now. That\u2019s what the spin\u2019s going to be: Obama finally taking control, Obama finally kicking ass, Obama finally asserting his authority here.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, The Politico: ‘How Obama Took Command.\u2019 And here\u2019s a media montage, the same stuff.<\/p>\n

WHIT AYRES: The President came out smelling like a rose today. <\/p>\n

WOLF BLITZER: He showed he is the Commander-in-Chief. <\/p>\n

MICHAEL SCHERER: Obama\u2019s done very well at asserting himself as the Commander-in-Chief. <\/p>\n

BARRY MCCAFFREY: The good news is you\u2019ve got a Commander-in-Chief that took decisive action. <\/p>\n

SGT. SCHULTZ: There\u2019s no question who the boss is. It\u2019s the Commander-in-Chief. <\/p>\n

FRAN TOWNSEND: It was a brilliant and inspired move to look to General Petraeus. <\/p>\n

DAVID RODHAM GERGEN: I would rate this as one of the best decisions he\u2019s made as president. He managed a brilliant choice in General Petraeus. <\/p>\n

BLITZER: A very brilliant move to tap General Petraeus. <\/p>\n

CHIP REID: It sounds like a pretty brilliant decision. <\/p>\n

GRETA VAN SUSTEREN: It seems like a brilliant choice. <\/p>\n

ERIN BILLINGS: Petraeus was a brilliant choice. <\/p>\n

CHUCK TODD: It\u2019s going to be seen as a brilliant choice by the president. <\/p>\n

CHRIS MATTHEWS: The recruitment of General Petraeus for this new assignment is brilliant. It\u2019s perfect.<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: I really do not understand any of this. These people all ripped Petraeus to shreds. Every one of these media people, and every one of these people in this bite that are not media like Fran Townsend — well, they\u2019re all media now, I guess. Brilliant choice to choose Petraeus? Wait \u2019til you hear the sound bites we have coming up illustrating what people like this were saying about Petraeus during Iraq. But let\u2019s put this in perspective. The best decision Obama ever made, to go with George W. Bush\u2019s general? Do they not realize that\u2019s what they\u2019re saying? The best decision Obama ever made is to go back to George Bush\u2019s general? I mean honestly, folks, that\u2019s the take. The president came out smelling like a rose today. ‘He showed he\u2019s commander-in-chief,\u2019 that\u2019s Wolf Blitzer. What do you mean, he showed he\u2019s commander-in-chief yesterday. What\u2019s he been doing for the past 18 months? <\/line><\/p>\n

Do these people not realize how they sound? Do they not realize what they\u2019re saying? For the first time in 18 months, we\u2019re proud of him. It\u2019s kind of like what Michelle said, ‘For the first time in my life I\u2019m proud of my country.\u2019 Well, these guys are saying, ‘For the first time in the last 18 months I\u2019m proud of my president. Why, today he sounded like commander-in-chief, why, today he took control.\u2019 What are some of these other quotes? ‘Obama\u2019s done very well asserting himself as commander-in-chief.\u2019 Asserting? ‘The good news is you got a commander-in-chief that took decisive action.\u2019 That\u2019s Barry McCaffrey. What the hell, you mean it\u2019s a crapshoot when we elect somebody? Yes, in this case it was a crapshoot and all these comments prove it. That\u2019s why you listen. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Oh, yeah, folks, I love it. Best decision Obama ever made, to go with George W. Bush\u2019s general. Ha! Doesn\u2019t Obama run around complaining about what he inherited from Bush? He\u2019s just inherited his general. He just inherited Petraeus. Ha! Folks, I love this. So is he gonna start complaining about having inherited Petraeus from Bush if things go wrong over there? And how decisive is it to fire somebody and then realize you don\u2019t have anybody else that can replace him, so you have to make his boss do his job, too? He didn\u2019t know anybody else in the military other than Petraeus \u2019cause in the Senate hearings he didn\u2019t like him. This is a joke, it is a total joke!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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