Our internet connection was out almost all day - just got it back - I’ve been going out of my gourd wondering if I was the only one who heard what Rush said this morning, during a long expounding on the libs and what they got themselves into with Obama. For any who want to print it out, on Rush’s site it’s in the article “Media Declares Boehner Win as Ruse to Fire Up Democrat Base” [April 11, 2011]. It’s in the 20th paragraph. Rush speaking, about Paul Krugman. Caps mine, for emphasis:
“So Mr. Krugman, you’re just like this poor guy from the Huffpo. You are realizing he never was what you thought he was. You helped create a template of a phony. You created this messiah. WE’VE GOT SOMEBODY ABOUT WHOM THERE ARE LEGITIMATE CITIZENSHIP QUESTIONS HERE SERVING AS PRESIDENT. THAT’S WHAT THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE THING MEANS. THAT’S WHAT PEOPLE ARE REALLY WONDERING ABOUT. IT’S A CITIZENSHIP ISSUE. You guys pasted up an illusion. You created a fisticious character in the image that you hold dear and now reality is showing you that you lied to yourself and everybody else, too, and now you’re asking, ‘Where’s Obama? Where’s the guy you elected?’ Hey, he was at the Lincoln Memorial Saturday. He’s gonna be making a speech Wednesday. He’s the guy. He is who you elected. You guys created a lie and you fell for your own lie.”
Maybe Rush and Trump had a confab over the weekend? Did he get an email from one of our most articulate FReepers?
He didn’t say anything more about the “legitimate citizenship questions”, but it seems he’s been giving it some serious thinking, and perhaps some serious research. I hope I’m not reading too much into it.
I, too, hope Rush looks into it. The disinformation being put out there by the actual spokesperson for the HI AG is so blatant it’s breathtaking. He’s actually trying to claim that Obama CAN’T get his long-form birth certificate to show anybody.
Yet every Hawaiian who has walked into the HDOH office and ordered their long-form knows this guy is lying thorugh his teeth. We’ve got video footage of somebody doing just that, and being told that they would receive the certified long-form in 2 weeks. Miki Booth got a certified copy of her son’s long-form less than a month ago.
These people are just blatantly lying, when the truth is available for anybody to see. They’re counting on a lot of lazy people.
I’m really hoping Rush isn’t one of them.
No, I don't think so. Rush started to "toe-dip" last week, but he has never gone this far. He has been excoriated by Freepers for avoiding the issue.
Thanks for posting; had to see it for myself.
Larger excerpt:
So I read this, this has gotta be a ruse. This has to be a ruse about how the Democrats are getting shellacked here. How many of you think Obama's losing? How many of you think the Democrats are getting shellacked at every turn? Unemployment is still 9%, and it's really higher than that. Gasoline is heading up to five bucks. Housing market is a disaster. People can't find work. The opportunity for prosperity is dwindling. These guys are getting everything they want. What their misery is rooted in is a mistaken belief that Obama policies will spread happiness around, make everybody equally happy and content. It doesn't do that. It makes everybody miserable. And what these guys are unhappy about is, I mean they're staring it straight in the face. Their policies don't work.
Never in the history of the country has so much abject socialism been foisted on a culture and society at such a rapid rate. And it isn't working. And that's what's really roiling 'em. It's hilarious to hear the media tell it, you would think Obama has joined the Tea Party. Obama's celebrating the budget cuts, he's out there at the Lincoln Memorial, he's doing all this. This is not an accident and it's so far from reality that it's a ruse.
Paul Krugman in the New York Times, the president is missing. Obama is conspicuously failing. "What Have They Done with President Obama?" What happened to the inspirational figure his supporters thought they elected? "Who is this bland, timid guy who doesn't seem to stand for anything in particular?" Paul Krugman: "I realize that with hostile Republicans controlling the House, there's not much Mr. Obama can get done in the way of concrete policy. Arguably, all he has left is the bully pulpit. But he isn't even using that -- or, rather, he's using it to reinforce his enemies' narrative. ... Maybe that terrible deal, in which Republicans ended up getting more than their opening bid, was the best he could achieve." The really believe that $38 billion was more than the opening bid. They really think Obama added to the original Republican demand.
So, Mr. Krugman, you're just like this poor guy from the Huffpo. You are realizing he never was what you thought he was. You helped create a template of a phony. You created this messiah. We've got somebody about whom there are legitimate citizenship questions here serving as president. That's what the birth certificate thing means. That's what people are really wondering about. It's a citizenship issue. You guys pasted up an illusion. You created a fictitious character in the image that you hold dear and now reality is showing you that you lied to yourself and everybody else, too, and now you're asking, "Where's Obama? Where's the guy you elected?" Hey, he was at the Lincoln Memorial Saturday. He's gonna be making a speech Wednesday. He's the guy. He is who you elected. You guys created a lie and you fell for your own lie.
Now, the country's waking up to it so you somehow have to gin the left base up here to get their reelection efforts back on track 'cause you can't go back to 2008 anymore. You can't re-create those days. So the best you can do is to say poor old Obama got rolled, Boehner's a hero, the Tea Party is ruling this country and getting its way with everything it wants. (laughing) It's worse than an alternative universe. I'm telling you it's a ruse. And Boehner knows what's coming, by the way. He just this minute tweeted: "Tax hikes means more uncertainty, fewer jobs. Must cut spending. DC doesn't have revenue problems, it has spending problems." He knows what's coming. He just tweeted that.