{"id":4217,"date":"2016-02-11T19:22:24","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T19:22:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-02-11T19:22:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T19:22:24","slug":"president_obama_faults_a_guy_on_radio_for_the_tone_in_washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/02\/11\/president_obama_faults_a_guy_on_radio_for_the_tone_in_washington\/","title":{"rendered":"President Obama Faults a Guy on Radio for the Tone in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/70068\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I mentioned earlier Obama\u2019s blaming me for the lack of a good tone in politics, blaming me for the lack of improvement in the good tone of politics.  Well, he\u2019s worked hard, he\u2019s the president, he\u2019s the most powerful man in the world.  I am holding him back.  And I held back Bill Clinton, folks.  The same thing.  If it wouldn\u2019t have been for me, why, we\u2019d be in so much better shape in this country.  I\u2019m just a guy on the radio.  Audio sound bites. We\u2019ll do Obama first.  Two bites, Springfield, Illinois, yesterday the Illinois state capitol, Obama addressing the Illinois General Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>OBAMA:  It\u2019s been noted, often, by pundits that the tone of our politics hasn\u2019t gotten better since I was inaugurated.  In fact, it\u2019s gotten worse.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  It has.<\/p>\n<p>OBAMA:  And there\u2019s still this yawning gap between the magnitude of our challenges and the smallness of our politics.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  That\u2019s BS.  Nobody knows &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>OBAMA:  We have an importation of our politics nationally, and on cable and talk radio, it seeps into everything.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_117829\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rush-Burst-Obama-Speaks.jpg\"\/><BR\/>RUSH:  What is he talking about?  What is this, the yawning gap between the magnitude of our challenges and the smallness of our politics?  He\u2019s a failure in terms of the things he promised to do.  He was gonna unify us, create a new tone, whatever it is.  He\u2019s not failed in his liberal agenda, but we\u2019re not unified, we\u2019re not loved, we\u2019re not adored around the world.  We\u2019re laughed at.  We\u2019re joked about.  We\u2019re mocked.  Now we got pictures of our sailors in tears being held captive by the Iranians, which John Kerry assured us, no, no, no, they were very polite.  We solved the problem.  No sweat.  The Iran nuclear deal is still on. <\/line><\/p>\n<p>Oh, wonderful.  So Obama notes that the tone of our politics hasn\u2019t gotten better.  I thought he was the answer, I thought he was the one we were waiting for.  Barack Obama.  Remember all the things people invested in him?  How can some little guy on the radio stand in the way?  How\u2019s that happen? <\/p>\n<p>How does a guy on the radio stop Obama from changing the tone.  If Obama wanted, he could dwarf me with the success of his policies.  Obama could render me irrelevant by making everything he believes in work for people.  The problem is it isn\u2019t.  It\u2019s all getting worse.  But see, in Obama\u2019s world there shouldn\u2019t be any opposition.  That is the problem.  The reason he blames me is because I\u2019m here.  There shouldn\u2019t be any opposition.  The objective of all leftists is to eliminate opposition.  No fair level playing field, no playing field, period, no opponents, just get rid of \u2019em.  The Soviet Union, Cuba, they put \u2019em in jail.  In this country, they audit you, they don\u2019t let you have a 501(c)(3) tax status or they just try to destroy your reputation with elements they control in the media, whatever, they silence opposition.  Here\u2019s the next Obama bite.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_117847\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushRunsAMER4HOME.jpg\"\/><BR\/>OBAMA:  Trying to find common ground doesn\u2019t make me less of a Democrat or less of a progressive.  It means I\u2019m trying to get stuff done.  The fact that that\u2019s hard to do is a testament to how difficult our politics has become.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  It means that you\u2019re wrong.<\/p>\n<p>OBAMA:  Because, folks, are worried, well, I\u2019m gonna get yelled at by here or this blogger is gonna write that or, you know, this talk show host is gonna talk about me and suddenly I\u2019ve got a challenger in calling me a RINO or a, not a real progressive.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  No, it means you\u2019re trying to get stuff done.  It means you haven\u2019t gotten stuff done; it means people are miserable and you need a scapegoat.  <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  And it\u2019s not just Barack Hussein Obama who has sought to blame failures on talk radio.<\/p>\n<p>CLINTON:  After I get off the radio today with you, Rush Limbaugh will have three hours to say whatever he wants.<\/p>\n<p>HOST:  Would you like to leave a message?<\/p>\n<p>CLINTON:  And I won\u2019t have any opportunity to respond, and there\u2019s no truth detector.  You won\u2019t get on afterwards and say what was true and what wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Yeah.  That was Clinton calling KMOX St. Louis from Air Force One back in 1994 in the summer.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I mentioned earlier Obama\u2019s blaming me for the lack of a good tone in politics, blaming me for the lack of improvement in the good tone of politics. Well, he\u2019s worked hard, he\u2019s the president, he\u2019s the most powerful man in the world. I am holding him back. 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