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RUSH: Yeah. I know. People are calling me, people are e-mailing me saying: ‘You maybe want to take it back.\u2019 The jackass comment. I said, ‘Why would I?\u2019 Look, I\u2019m happy it got everybody\u2019s attention, and it really did. I mean it really did. This jackass comment, you know, it was a throwaway line and look what happened. I mean ABC, Jake Tapper and his cohort write it up, and for the most part, you know, I went back and I looked at the transcript at RushLimbaugh.com. For the most part they got it in context, for the most part most part they did. They left some things out of it that might have improved it, but, you know, nothing to complain about. I\u2019m glad it got everybody\u2019s attention. It\u2019s the number one click at the Drudge Report, or it was earlier this morning. <\/p>\n

Anyway, hi, folks. I\u2019m — he-he-he — Rush Limbaugh. Everybody knows who I am and what we do here. So here\u2019s the phone number: 800-282-2882. The e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com. <\/p>\n

You know, jackasses — and it really was a throwaway. I was really ticked off. I mean, this guy is talking about the most idiotic, ignorant things. The rich don\u2019t need a tax cut, they\u2019re already spending their money on flat screen TVs. He said the rich aren\u2019t gonna take their money and go home, they\u2019re not gonna take their ball and go home, that\u2019s where the jackass comment came in. They already have, you jackass. They\u2019re sitting on trillions of dollars of cash. They\u2019ve already taken the ball and gone home and everybody knows this. They\u2019re not investing any money. Corporations, large, medium, and small, they\u2019re sitting on it. I thought this was all about creating jobs, saving jobs, whatever, that\u2019s what Obama kept saying. The one thing about this jackass comment, I\u2019m glad it had wide circulation, but it may not be correct because I still maintain all this is on purpose. <\/p>\n

I just got so into this yesterday, adopted the position he really is an idiot and doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing, that he\u2019s an economic ignoramus. But, as you people who have listened regularly know, I don\u2019t really believe that. I think this is all purposeful. I think this is all being done on purpose. I think Obama\u2019s very pleased with himself. I think he\u2019s very happy. I think he\u2019s ecstatic. He\u2019s got these economic advisors, one of them is Martin Feldstein, and they\u2019ve done far more in economics than Obama ever has. They tell him what\u2019s what and he just rejects it out of hand, and enjoys doing it, enjoys rejecting it out of hand. These guys were talking about the need for confidence throughout the economy. Confidence will breed growth. Confidence will breed investment. Confidence will breed, obviously, positive feelings, and so it will make people a little bit more willing to not hoard the cash that they have, they\u2019re gonna go ahead and invest it. But he looks at it as spending. Here on one hand on the scales of justice, the Limbaugh Institute, he is an economic jackass ignoramus, doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing. Or, on the other hand, he knows exactly what he\u2019s doing; it\u2019s being done on purpose. <\/p>\n

We had a call yesterday, I was thankful for this caller who gave me the chance to point out once again that this is an intentional plan by the Democrats. This was the caller who said, ‘Why aren\u2019t they worried? I mean here they\u2019re about to get their clocks cleaned, they don\u2019t seem worried about it.\u2019 I got some e-mails about that. Some said, ‘Rush, you missed a golden opportunity out there.\u2019 I\u2019m amazed at the number of people who tell me what I miss. He said, ‘You missed the opportunity to tell people about voter fraud. The Democrats aren\u2019t worried about it \u2019cause they\u2019re gonna steal the elections and they\u2019re gonna cheat and so forth.\u2019 Yeah, well, they\u2019re gonna try, but the scope of this is so massive that I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any amount of cheating here that could — I mean, the only thing they could do cheat-wise is cancel the election, you know, call martial law, cancel the election. They\u2019re not going to do that. So anyway, not to be redundant, but I\u2019m glad it got widespread attention. You should go to the ABC website, Jake Tapper\u2019s blog, and look at the comments. <\/p>\n

This is the ABC website. This is Jake Tapper\u2019s blog and the comments are practically a hundred percent in agreement with what I said. So, in that sense, it was a brilliant move, it was a throwaway line, ended up being a brilliant move, another illustration of just how dead on my instincts are. I threw something away and it resonates coast to coast, east to west, north to south, and what it\u2019s done is validate what a lot of people obviously think. A lot of people think he\u2019s an idiot, economic idiot, he\u2019s an economic ignoramus. Well, it is common sense, but again, back to the scales here. A lot of people would prefer to think that he\u2019s just an economic ignoramus instead of he\u2019s doing this on purpose. It\u2019s easier and simpler to believe he\u2019s just an idiot, an economic ignoramus, because it fits. The guy hates capitalism. He\u2019s never been involved in capitalism. Well, he had one job in the private sector. He described it in his book as feeling like he\u2019s behind enemy lines. His love and adoration goes to unions, public sector employees, growing government and so forth. <\/p>\n

So it fits in a lot of people\u2019s minds that he really doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing, so, ‘You jackass, you\u2019re an economic illiterate\u2019 happens to resonate I think a lot better than saying, ‘You sly dog, you\u2019re getting away with doing this on purpose.\u2019 People still, even now, don\u2019t really want to believe that \u2019cause it\u2019s harder to grasp, it\u2019s harder to commit to than believing that the president is just — (interruption) No, I did not get any flak. Well, from people I know that I care about, you mean? I didn\u2019t get any flak. No, I did not, Snerdley. Personally, people I know, people I care about, people whose opinion I trust, not one person said, ‘You went overboard there.\u2019 I mean we\u2019re talking about the presidency. You don\u2019t just call a guy jackass. They said that they thought I went overboard on ‘I hope he fails.\u2019 You know, I\u2019m gonna tell you, Jake, and Steven Portnoy, the other guy that actually wrote the piece at Jake Tapper\u2019s blog, I happen to think that jackass is pretty tame compared to other things that I have said on this program. I mean, Jake, don\u2019t you think it\u2019s pretty hard-hitting to accuse the president of purposely destroying America? I mean they write this as though, ‘Yeah, Rush, he\u2019s pretty tough on the president each and every day, but this may have crossed the line.\u2019 Jackass? I mean a jackass, they have big ears; they refuse to listen. I mean there are donkey jackasses out there.<\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t there a TV show on MTV called Jackass? Yeah, and it\u2019s about jackasses trying to do stupid things. My reaction was, ‘They got upset over this?\u2019 They did get upset over ‘I hope he fails.\u2019 But I think it\u2019s far more penetrating, far more hard-hitting to accuse the elected president of the United States of purposely trying to destroy the American private sector. I know they don\u2019t highlight it, and you know what else, Snerdley, nobody\u2019s ever denied it. This is something else that\u2019s striking. I mean normally something like that is said, and if it\u2019s really over the line, if it\u2019s so ridiculous as to be unbelievable, somebody in the White House would laugh and say, ‘Can you believe how kooky they\u2019re getting? Can you believe how insane they\u2019re getting? The president is driving these guys nuts.\u2019 I said it on Fox News Sunday. I went to church, you know, political church is Fox News Sunday or any of the Sunday shows, and I said to Chris Wallace, ‘He\u2019s doing it on purpose.\u2019 ‘Come on, Rush, do you really mean that?\u2019 ‘Yes.\u2019 They don\u2019t even comment on that, and nobody denies it. <\/p>\n

But calling him a jackass, you would think that all civility and decorum had been lost. But to answer the question, nobody told me they thought I went too far, nobody. But somebody at Mediaite raises the possibility, somebody writing about this at Mediaite. ‘Did Limbaugh go too far?\u2019 And once again they totally ignore what I think are far more serious accusations, allegations, than to simply call him a jackass. Besides, the president, I think called Kanye West a jackass. Yeah, we have this, September 14th, 2009, a little over a year ago, CNBC, special program, an interview with the president. The chief Washington correspondent John Harwood spoke with Obama about the rapper Kanye West upstaging singer Taylor Swift at the MTV Music Awards. Harwood said, ‘Were your girls as hacked off as mine were that Kanye gave Taylor Swift the Joe Wilson treatment?\u2019<\/p>\n

OBAMA: The young lady seems like a perfectly nice person. She\u2019s getting her award. What\u2019s he doing up there?<\/p>\n

HARWOOD: Why did he do that?<\/p>\n

OBAMA: He\u2019s a jackass. (room laughs)<\/p>\n

RUSH: So the president of the United States calling Kanye West, one of the nation\u2019s most beloved rappers, one of our national treasures, Kanye West, big-time rapper, a jackass, ‘He\u2019s a jackass.\u2019 Almost the same melody, if you will, that I used the term describing the president. Anyway, the real point of all this is taxes, tax cuts, what Obama plans on doing, the verbiage that they\u2019re using as they describe this and talk about it. That\u2019s what needs to be focused on.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, honestly, if these guys don\u2019t like the term jackass, then why did they make it the symbol of their party? The symbol of the Democrat Party is a jackass. I would even go further than that. I would say calling somebody a jackass seems far kinder than to call \u2019em a Democrat these days. ‘You know, he\u2019s a Democrat\u2019 — that\u2019s far more damaging to one\u2019s reputation and character than calling him a jackass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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