{"id":8686,"date":"2014-08-07T16:25:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T16:25:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-08-07T16:25:24","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T16:25:24","slug":"obama_is_the_nuclear_bomb_mr_fournier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/08\/07\/obama_is_the_nuclear_bomb_mr_fournier\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama IS the Nuclear Bomb, Mr. Fournier"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I\u2019ve got my two TV monitors on here today as I\u2019m doing show prep, and I already knew that Ron Fournier of the National Journal was on the Fox All Stars, the Special Report with Bret Baier last night, really hammering Obama. I mean, really hammering Obama. So I\u2019m watching, Bret Baier comes on to promote the show for tonight, being interviewed I think by Bill Hemmer, and Bret Baier is asked about Fournier. And Bret Baier said, “Now, look this is serious. This is Ron Fournier. This is not talk radio. This is Ron Fournier.” And I said, “What the hell is that, ‘This is not talk radio\u2019? What the heck does that mean?” <\/p>\n

Let me tell you something, folks, I will stack up the substance and the seriousness on any issue we discuss. I will gladly stack that up against anywhere else on cable news. Now, what Baier meant was, “Well, talk radio, everybody knows, bunch of partisans, maybe a little loudmouth extremism there. But Ron Fournier, oh, Ron Fournier is totally unbiased. Oh, yeah, Ron Fournier, down the middle. When Ron Fournier forms an opinion it\u2019s really rare.” I\u2019m watching this and I know that\u2019s exactly what he means. And I have to tell you, it kind of ticks me off this idea that just because it\u2019s said on talk radio means it doesn\u2019t count. Well, we are way ahead of everybody on all this stuff. <\/line><\/p>\n

I would dispute the notion that Ron Fournier isn\u2019t opinionated. Ron Fournier is dead stuck in the left. He may not think he is. If you look at Ron Fournier on environmental issues, he\u2019s stuck right there in the midst of the environmentalist wackos on global warming, the AP bureau chief. I mean, there\u2019s no question in my mind that whatever Ron Fournier — he may be a nice guy, I don\u2019t know him. But the idea that Ron Fournier never has an opinion on anything, and when he does, that means it\u2019s really powerful and that we should all listen to it. This isn\u2019t talk radio, you know. <\/p>\n

Well, I don\u2019t know. Maybe I took it a little too personally, but it just bugs me, this kind of stuff, because as you know, as regular listeners, we\u2019re way ahead of the curve on all of these things. Because we\u2019re not afraid, I\u2019m not afraid on this program to tell you who\u2019s who, what\u2019s what, and what I think about it. Anyway, so what did Fournier say? Well, we have two audio sound bites. This is during the pre-Obama press conference coverage. There\u2019s a discussion of possible Obama executive action on amnesty. And Ron Fournier, the National Journal senior political columnist, said this.<\/p>\n

FOURNIER: The fundamental reason he became president was he was promising there\u2019s no red state, there\u2019s no blue state, I\u2019m gonna bring the country together. He\u2019s been a polarizing president, and this would be a nuclear bomb that would blow open and make this country even more divided in a way that most Americans just don\u2019t want.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. Yeah. Your first clue? No question. Don\u2019t misunderstand. I\u2019m happy to welcome Mr. Fournier to the camp of right. And this is right. But remember, my friends, it was I who told you on January 16th, 2009, that all this was gonna happen and I didn\u2019t want it to. I told you it wasn\u2019t gonna be the end of racism. I told you this unity and postracial, none of that was gonna happen. I told you it was gonna get worse and I gave you the reasons why it was gonna get worse. And that\u2019s why I said I hope he doesn\u2019t succeed at it. <\/p>\n

“The fundamental reason he became president was he promised no red state, no blue state.” I don\u2019t believe that, by the way, as the primary reason he became president. These guys all live in this world where the American people don\u2019t want any arguing and the American people don\u2019t want any partisanship. And the American people voted for Obama \u2019cause he was gonna unite us and we were all gonna love each other. And that\u2019s not why Obama was elected. Some people voted for him for that reason, but not the majority. <\/p>\n

The majority of people voted for Obama because of his race. They thought they could erase the black mark of slavery. There were a lot of people that thought it would be the end of racist America if we showed we would elect a black man as president. The other factors were he was an empty canvas. You could do whatever you want with him. You could make him whatever you wanted him to be. He wasn\u2019t George W. Bush, was the is third reason. The media dredged up so much hatred for Bush, blaming Bush for everything. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Okay. So the inside-the-Beltway conventional wisdom is Obama is in trouble because he didn\u2019t unite the country. He didn\u2019t get rid of red states and blue states and that\u2019s what he was gonna do. He didn\u2019t bring the country together. He\u2019s been a polarizing president. Yeah. He\u2019s been polarizing since his campaign, if anybody was paying any attention. He was never going to unite the country, never. That was what everybody else was hoping would happen, just like they were hoping it would be the end of racism. And just like they were hoping we would get somebody smart \u2019cause they thought Bush was so stupid. And just like people were hoping the rest of the world would love us because they mistakenly thought they hated us because that\u2019s what the media said. <\/p>\n