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Limbaugh Hits Back at Obama for Criticism
Newsmax ^ | April 3, 2010 | Dan Weil

Posted on 04/04/2010 8:50:41 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Rush Limbaugh is striking back at President Barack Obama.

On Friday, the nation's top-rated radio host hit back at Obama, saying the president isn’t telling the truth and doesn't have the support of the American people.

The controversy started Thursday, when Obama used an interview with CBS' Harry Smith to level a broadside at Limbaugh and Fox News host Glenn Beck.

Smith asked Obama if he is “aware of the level of enmity that crosses the airwaves and that people have made part of their daily conversation" about him, including being called a Nazi and socialist.

Obama shot back, "Well, I think that when you listen to Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck, it's pretty apparent, and it's troublesome, but keep in mind that there have been periods in American history where this kind of vitriol comes out."

The president said, "It happens often when you've got an economy that is making people more anxious, and people are feeling like there is a lot of change that needs to take place. But that's not the vast majority of Americans. I think the vast majority of Americans know that we're trying hard, that I want what's best for the country."

Limbaugh didn't take Obama's comments lightly.

In a response on his radio show, also posted to rushlimbaugh.com, the talk radio king said, “Who has called him a Nazi? Who do we know that has called him a Nazi? Socialist? Yeah. Stalinist? Yeah. Marxist? Yeah. Nazi? We have compared healthcare in America to what the Nazis tried to do in Germany and get the control of the people going in that regard.”

As for Obama’s claim to have the people’s support, “The American people do not think that Barack Obama is doing what's best for the country,” Limbaugh said.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 0b0z0; barackobama; bho; bho44; cbs; glennbeck; harrysmith; nazis; obama; rushlimbaugh; socialists
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
“For Barack Obama to run around and say that this show and Beck and all of talk radio is filled with vitriol? Barack Obama sat in Jeremiah Wright's church for 20 years and never once complained about the tone of Jeremiah Wright's bigoted, anti-American, racist rants.”

Well said, Rush.

21 posted on 04/04/2010 9:14:42 PM PDT by zeebee (Ask a teenager now, while they still know everything.)
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To: gwilhelm56
" I disagree with Rush, Obama’s not a Marxist, he's a Communist."

A minor distinction. Both philosophys are destructive to liberty.

22 posted on 04/04/2010 9:16:54 PM PDT by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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To: re_nortex
"must be Italian."

So was Mussalini!!!

23 posted on 04/04/2010 9:19:51 PM PDT by SierraWasp ("Contempt of Congress" used to be a minor crime. Now it's a badge of honor!!!)
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To: eyedigress
He is a jackass.

All RATs are. That's why they have that mascot.

24 posted on 04/04/2010 9:20:21 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Deathcare, a solution desperately looking for a problem.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Typical elitist—Obama mistakenly believes people have to be told how to think; however, we know socialist policies and tyrannical actions when we see them, with or without Limbaugh, Beck or any other media personality.


25 posted on 04/04/2010 9:21:22 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: bramps
I hope to spend time in the next few months researching the speeches of the likes of Marx, Stalin (if public) and the like and compare to speeches and comments by our President

Well 0bama sure uses lots of tactics and makes plenty of speeches that could have come from Hitler himself.

For example, this Hitler quote coulda come straight from the 0bama playbook:

"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it."
— Adolf Hitler

Pop Quiz: Which of these quotes was said by Hitler and which was said by Obama?

A. “…our individual salvation depends on collective salvation. Because thinking only about yourself, fulfilling your immediate wants and needs, betrays a poverty of ambition.”

B. “Our nation can achieve permanent health only from within on the basis of the principle: The common interest before self-interest.”

26 posted on 04/04/2010 9:24:24 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Obama shot back, "Well, I think that when you listen to Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck, it's pretty apparent, and it's troublesome, but keep in mind that there have been periods in American history where this kind of vitriol comes out."

He hasn't heard anything yet. We have just begun to fight! We shall fight them on the beaches, we shall fight them on the airwaves, we shall fight them on the internet, we shall march to Washington D.C., we shall . . .


27 posted on 04/04/2010 9:27:03 PM PDT by Art in Idaho
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
clearly, the Liberals are very "rattled / scared $h!tle$$" w/ the upcoming Nat..elections.
...of course, IF we have any elections.

28 posted on 04/04/2010 9:28:24 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Zer0 to the voters: "Here's my DeathCARE Plan"...now....just die (quicky), please. :^)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

I have met folks that lie to themselves day to day and I ask them why? No answer. That is the liberal machine.


29 posted on 04/04/2010 9:30:16 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: SmokingJoe

Does it matter? It’s the same tired old crap seen throughout history. But I would say A was Hitler.


30 posted on 04/04/2010 9:32:29 PM PDT by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

As smart as Zero is supposed to be I can’t believe he hasn’t figured out that this isn’t working for him and only makes him look VERY UN-Presidential—which is already obvious.


31 posted on 04/04/2010 9:32:35 PM PDT by lonestar (Better Obama picks his nose than our pockets!)
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To: lonestar

I agree with you. I also think Rush has Barry right where he wants him.


32 posted on 04/04/2010 9:35:31 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Dude! Where's my Constitution!)
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To: lonestar

Puts Rush and Beck in the same category as the Supreme Court Justices and the Prime Minister of Israel, individuals all publicly spanked by this Commie Loon The Kenyan Dictator. If he could put them all in prison the way Chavez does, he would not hesitate for a second.


33 posted on 04/04/2010 9:35:43 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: lonestar

I’ll stop now.


34 posted on 04/04/2010 9:36:52 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: blackbart.223
Quote A. was Obama, quote B. was Hitler
But it just goes to prove my point that there are so any similarities between 0bama and Hitler.
35 posted on 04/04/2010 9:36:57 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Don’t pick a fight with a man who buys radio waves by the megawatt....
Hey Zero, this is good advice. Besides, you are WAY out of your league!
36 posted on 04/04/2010 9:38:00 PM PDT by wjcsux ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Kick 'em hard, Rush, kick 'em hard!

Look Alive
37 posted on 04/04/2010 9:39:27 PM PDT by Oceander (The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
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To: lonestar
"As smart as Zero is supposed to be I can’t believe he hasn’t figured out that this isn’t working for him."

I think he has. Why go on the the stump to sell something he has signed into law?

38 posted on 04/04/2010 9:40:13 PM PDT by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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To: SmokingJoe
"But it just goes to prove my point that there are so any similarities between 0bama and Hitler."

I had a fifty fifty chance. Google "Triumph Of The Will". I have posted doing that several times and am doing it one more time. Many more need to see it.

39 posted on 04/04/2010 9:44:35 PM PDT by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I must confess to calling Obamao a Nazi, Socialist-Nazi, maybe even a Nazi pig, whatever it takes to define the fascist tyranny that Obamao’s thugs are creating. Rush, to his credit, is far more controlled and considerate than I am.


40 posted on 04/04/2010 9:45:43 PM PDT by pallis
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