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Listen to Limbaugh’s Response to Obama’s Slam: ‘He’s Trying to Goad Me Into Saying Something Extreme’

Jan. 28, 2013 3:25pm Becket Adams

President Barack Obama during an interview last week with the left-leaning publication The New Republic said that Fox News and conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh are to blame for Washington gridlock.

“Well, look, I’ve always believed that there are a bunch of Republicans of goodwill who would rather get something done than suffer through the sort of nasty atmosphere that prevails in Washington right now,” said the president.

“And I think if you talk privately to Democrats and Republicans, particularly those who have been around for a while, they long for the days when they could socialize and introduce bipartisan legislation and feel productive.

“One of the biggest factors is going to be how the media shapes debates. If a Republican member of Congress is not punished on Fox News or by Rush Limbaugh for working with a Democrat on a bill of common interest, then you’ll see more of them doing it,” he added.

Naturally, Limbaugh wasn’t going to take this sitting down.

“I think, folks, the president, he’s just probably trying to goad me into saying something extreme, like that would ever happen,” Limbaugh said on his show Monday. “I’m gonna tell you, folks, I am not paid enough. If Fox News and I are the only thing keeping the Republicans from caving to Barack Obama on every issue, I’m not paid enough.”

“I know what’s going on here. I know Obama. He’s trying to goad me into saying something extreme, like that would ever happen, so that he can kick off a new boycott or secondary boycott.

“So in an interview with the New Republic, rather than be focused on the employment situation or the debt circumstance, or whatever other problems, the only big problems that Obama has are Fox News and me,” the conservative host added.

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Comments (89)

toledofan
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 9:54am
One thing is really pretty clear is the petty and childishness of Obama and his staff. I mean, please, the debt is growing out of control, unemployment is still high and should be unacceptable at about 8%, the middle east is on fire, Benghazi is still a mystery, hand gun violence is out of control, and we’re now paying more money for people not to work than to work and this guy is taking cheap shots at Fox and Rush and even football. Is this for real, the guy is the President of the United States, he’s supposed to be the President for everyone and we’re forced to listen to this kind of drivel. Are you kidding me?

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- Mainer forever
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 11:15am
  Oblahh bahh is a fairy tail…..this according to Bill Clinton.
  
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noslave
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 9:20am
this is what you get for buying the obama owned medias telling this crooked bastard won the election with out any question of voter fraud,more people voteing than actually LIVE THERE??,ETC. SHORT OF A REVOLUTION ,JUST GO BACK INTO A COMA FOR THE NEXT 4 YRS??AMERICA MAY STILL BE THERE WHEN YOU WAKE UP???

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edie1945
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 7:39am
So……Fox and Rush are responsible for the gridlock in DC HA, HA, HA, HA, HA Now …… it is not obama with his racial rants!!!!!! Oh, no come on House do not give an inch. It is called PRINCIPLE not what the “king” says he wants. Come on Har….lets get a SENATE BUDGET OFF THE GROUND AND GET IT PASSED. Whoops…..the king would not want that. Sorry

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Wyerd_001
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 6:52am
The “gridlock” in congress happens at the second house in congress, the senate, that has sat on every bipartisan bill passed in the house in the last 2 years, I think people are finally realizing how our government works and it’s time for a new scandal to distract from the gimmicks and snake oil he’s been selling

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AlcoholicMB
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:54pm
Wait wait wait, hold the phone, hold up…

Obama’s fictional son is named “Trayvon?”

I just facepalmed so hard I’m seeing stars.

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TexasSenior
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:15pm
They will come for Rush and for Fox News. Conservatives will continue to rant and rave on whatever venue is still available and the country will go to hell. We had better start doing something different or we are doomed. Rush could have called for a new speaker of the house and mobilized millions to overwhelm their representative. He could call for a boycott of liberal entertainers and businesses and it would actually work. He could endorse a true conservative we could trust and lay out a strategy to do and end run around the establishment Repubs and the media and millions would get on board. He could energize the Tea Party and counteract the Alinsky tactics of the left. Rush is possibly the only one who could lead us to save America and he had better before they come for him, one way or another.

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COFemale
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:08pm
So Harry Reid has not even played a part why Democrats won’t come to the table. They try to write and pass crap legislation and then cry wolf when the Republicans won’t pass their crap. Then Democrats whine to their clueless masses that Republicans won’t pass their crap legislation. It is a never ending cycle.

Obama is crap, Pelosi is crap, Schumer is crap, and Reid is crap. It is time to shovel this crap out.

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- noslave
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 9:54am
  you hit on something thats TRUELY SHOVEL READY,IF ONLY AMERICANS HAD THE BALLS TO DO IT??
  
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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:33pm
No, Washington gridlock is caused by politicians working with individual personalities, instead of defending the US Constitution, instead of representing the People, and not introducing legislation that denies groups of People certain rights, or punishes and rewards others?

If Rush Limbaugh was so effective, he would not be on the air? We have all learned a lot from Rush Limbaugh, by being inspired to revere and defend the US Constitution, and that’s why he deserves the status he has?

To suggest that Rush Limbaugh is the vanguard, instead of Sean Hannity, or Glenn Beck, or countless others pushing back at the media, trying to make them feal like alien invaders attacking The People and their civil rights, is a matter of opinion?

How many has Glenn Beck mentioned the name of Sen. Paul? How many times for Rush Limbaugh? How many times has Glenn Beck told his audience that the office of the President was stolen from Hillary Clinton? How many times has Rush Limbaugh?

Moral of the story? At some point, you stop proving to people how smart you are, when you repeat the justification of liberals, with your own emotional spin in the voice of “Kirk”, as though, that’s the way it is folks, get used to it? We have low information voters?

Does Mark Levin do that? The Democrat administration hopes they get 100 more Rush Limbaughs, instead of having Mr. Beck, Mr. Hannity, Mr. Levin, or others growing their audiences every week?

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noslave
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:24pm
obamas sick paronoid mind will try to screw with the super-bowl teams?? everytime they go into a huddle??,he’ll think their planning a overthrow of his dictatorship??

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