{"id":383537,"date":"2021-02-26T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=383537"},"modified":"2021-03-01T16:46:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T21:46:00","slug":"rush-explains-i-hope-he-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/02\/26\/rush-explains-i-hope-he-fails\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush Canceled Cancel Culture on “I Hope He Fails”"},"content":{"rendered":"

TODD: One of my very favorite lessons from Professor Limbaugh was Rush defeated cancel culture from the actual White House, an attempt to cancel him from the White House before that was even a phrase. And it happened after Rush gave the Wall Street Journal four words about Obama\u2019s first term. Let\u2019s hear this, and I\u2019ll explain how Rush defeated it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, you Millennials are young enough, you may not have been listening to this program January 16th, 2009. On January 16th, 2009, the day before, I had been contacted by the Wall Street Journal. Obama was yet to be immaculated. That would be five days later. The Wall Street Journal was asking highly reputed, relevant commentators to submit 400 words on their hopes and dreams for the new Obama administration. And I came here to the Golden EIB Microphone, and I told my audience my reply to the Wall Street Journal, sound bite number one.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>RUSH ARCHIVE: I don\u2019t need 400 words, I need four: “I hope he fails.” What are you laughing at? See, here\u2019s the point. Everybody thinks it\u2019s outrageous to say. Look, even my staff, “Oh, you can\u2019t do that.” Why not? Why is it any different, what\u2019s new, what is unfair about my saying I hope liberalism fails? Liberalism is our problem. Liberalism is what\u2019s gotten us dangerously close to the precipice here. Why do I want more of it? I don\u2019t care what the Drive-By story is. I would be honored if the Drive-By Media headlined me all day long: “Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails.” Somebody\u2019s gotta say it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And they did. They headlined it exactly that way. “Limbaugh: I hope Obama fails.” What they purposely got wrong was they reported that I was hoping America failed, that I was so rank partisan that I was willing for my country to suffer in order for Obama\u2019s presidency to fail. And it was the exact opposite. I wanted Obama to fail so that my country would not. I wanted Obama\u2019s liberal agenda, his socialist community organizer agenda to fail.<\/p>\n

I did not and never have and never will want America to fail. Never. No way. This was my point of trying to articulate the difference. I wanted Obama to fail implementing things like Obamacare. I wanted Obama to fail in letting the Iranians have nuclear weapons. I wanted Obama to fail at keeping our borders open. I wanted Obama to fail at everything he did. I wanted Obama to fail at the stimulus. I did not want America to fail. I wanted America to be saved.<\/p>\n

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