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President Obama Laments Rush Limbaugh And Fox News’ Influence On Public Debate
Mediaite ^ | 1/27/13 | Andrew Kirell

Posted on 01/27/2013 12:44:38 PM PST by Libloather

**SNIP**

The president also conceded that “[t]he same dynamic happens on the Democratic side,” but in his mind, “the difference is just that the more left-leaning media outlets recognize that compromise is not a dirty word.”

He claimed that “leaders like myself—and I include Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi in this—are willing to buck the more absolutist-wing elements in our party to try to get stuff done,” as opposed to the opposing party which he views as obstructionist.

“[T]hat’s one of the biggest problems we’ve got in how folks report about Washington right now, because I think journalists rightly value the appearance of impartiality and objectivity,” Obama said. “And so the default position for reporting is to say, ‘A plague on both their houses.’ On almost every issue, it’s, ‘Well, Democrats and Republicans can’t agree’—as opposed to looking at why is it that they can’t agree. Who exactly is preventing us from agreeing?”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: debate; fox; limbaugh; propaganda; rush; rushlimbaugh; statemedia
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To: Libloather

Oh lookie, Limbaugh’s ratings are about to take another spike.

Rush thanks you.


21 posted on 01/27/2013 1:01:38 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: wewereright
does he know that he just made them stronger?

Nope. Proof positive the boy's a real dumbass.

22 posted on 01/27/2013 1:03:32 PM PST by COBOL2Java (Fighting Obama without Boehner & McConnell is like going deer hunting without your accordion)
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To: Chode

Hilarious toon!


23 posted on 01/27/2013 1:03:39 PM PST by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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To: Libloather
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24 posted on 01/27/2013 1:04:29 PM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: Libloather

He’s whining about the moderates at FOX? LOL!


25 posted on 01/27/2013 1:07:52 PM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Libloather
I've heard over the years -- since the end of the "Fairness Doctrine" -- each and every talk show host dare Washington to try it -- whatever it is.

Some virtually beg Congressional haters to subpoena them to testify before committees.

Tens of millions of Americans will stand foursquare behind each and every modern day Patriot.

Go ahead Obama, Reid, Pelosi, et al., make our day.

Let's get it over with.

26 posted on 01/27/2013 1:09:57 PM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Libloather
Ah yes. It's a real shame that alternative opinions to the socialist blather of liberals be able to receive a hearing.

Maybe what Obama needs is a "Commission to Examine and Neuter Sensibility from Our Republic" to make the voices he doesn't like "shut up."

It's so much easier to be a dictator when you don't have to deal with critics, after all.

27 posted on 01/27/2013 1:10:28 PM PST by MWS
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To: Libloather

You got 51% of the vote, you pretentious jagoff.


28 posted on 01/27/2013 1:11:45 PM PST by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
I just can’t tell if he’s crazy or a Big Lie guy

I grew up just out side of Chicago where Obama politically emerged from
and I can tell you unequivocally, anything eminating from Chicago operates via the BIG LIE premise.

29 posted on 01/27/2013 1:12:40 PM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: Libloather

I have had my differences with Rush from time to time on minor points, but can say without reservation that the bamster isn’t fit to lick dog feces from Rush’s shoes.


30 posted on 01/27/2013 1:13:46 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: VanDeKoik

It should make for an interesting opening monologue from Rush on Monday.


31 posted on 01/27/2013 1:14:36 PM PST by Free America52 (The White guys are getting pissed off. We beat Hitler Hirohito and Krushchev. Obama will be easy.)
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To: andyk
yup, a picture is worth...
32 posted on 01/27/2013 1:14:58 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Libloather

Ah, ‘personalize and demonize’ or however Alinsky states it. Obama’s at it again. I suspect that Rush is an enemy he’ll wish he’d never engaged. I bet El Rushbo’s chortling even now as he plans next week’s show.


33 posted on 01/27/2013 1:18:02 PM PST by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: Libloather

What a jackass.


34 posted on 01/27/2013 1:18:25 PM PST by GVnana
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To: Libloather
ElRushbo makes more sense in 5 min of monologue than the White Clown makes in four years. The “voice” of the WH Clown is not allowed in my home - off goes the switch.
35 posted on 01/27/2013 1:26:28 PM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Libloather

The Obama Doctrine -

Push. Complain about you. Push. Complain about you. Push. Complain about you. Push. Complain about you. Push. Complain about you. Push. Complain about you. Push. Complain about you. Push. Complain about you. Push. Complain about you. Push. Complain about you. Push. Complain about you. Push. Complain about you. Push. Complain about you. Push. Complain about you. Push. Complain about you. Push. Complain about you. Push. Complain about you.


36 posted on 01/27/2013 1:26:40 PM PST by servo1969
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To: Libloather

If he is so centrist, why no votes for his budgets?


37 posted on 01/27/2013 1:39:10 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: JohnBrowdie

“You got 51% of the vote...”

...by buying votes from the Takers and the Sluts with our tax money. Nothing to be bragging about.


38 posted on 01/27/2013 1:41:20 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: Libloather
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39 posted on 01/27/2013 1:51:47 PM PST by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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To: Libloather

Rush’s reaction will be: “Spell that L-I-M-B-A-U-G-H”.


40 posted on 01/27/2013 1:53:46 PM PST by norwaypinesavage (Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
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