RUSH: Here’s Mike in St. Louis. Mike, great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. You know, yesterday you played the recording of that guy — you referred to him as a “prop” — at the Obama town hall making that comment, that very supportive comment that seemed so staged and faked?
RUSH: Yeah, yeah. (paraphrased) “You’re working so hard and you’re facing such opposition and standing so tall for us.” Yeah, I remember that. Yeah.
CALLER: You know, I was listening to it, and the tone of voice and the way you were saying it, the words? I thought, “You know, this sounds like a prayer to Obama.” You change just a few of the words around and it could be a prayer.
RUSH: We gotta go get that bite from yesterday. Cookie, find that bite, and we’ll listen to it. I want to listen to it again now that that was your take.
CALLER: That was my take on it, yeah.
RUSH: A prayer, almost like a prayer. It sounded to me like something nobody would speak or say extemporaneously, it had to be written.
CALLER: Right, it was unnatural.
RUSH: Yeah, that’s what I mean, yeah, exactly.
CALLER: Yeah, yeah. Well, anyway, if you listen to it with that mind-set, maybe you’ll see what I’m talking about.
RUSH: Here’s the bite. I forget where this was in Illinois yesterday, or Ohio, maybe it was Minnesota, one of the first days of the tour. Listen.
MAN: I want to echo the sentiments of those who have spoken before me in praising you and thanking you for all of your efforts and all the things that you tried to do during probably one of the most difficult situations faced by any president in the face of unreasonable obstruction and opposition. So thank you.
RUSH: Yeah, you’re right. Almost like a prayer. I want to echo the sentiments of those who have spoken before me in praising you and thanking you for all of your efforts and all the things you’ve tried to do during probably one of the most difficult situations faced by any president. That’s something the regime wrote for the guy, it sounds like, that’s my suspicion. But Mike, we have to admit, sadly, there are people I’m sure who still view Obama that way.
CALLER: Hm-hm. That’s true.
RUSH: No question. All praise to Obama. I still want to know what opposition. He had supermajorities in the House and the Senate. The Republicans did not have the numbers to stop anything. Folks, people have forgotten, during Obamacare the Republicans didn’t have the numbers to stop anything the first two years in the House or the Senate. They had 60 votes in the Senate until Scott Brown won the Kennedy seat. They had supermajorities. What opposition? I’ll tell you what the opposition is, it’s me and the conservative talk radio community and the bloggers and so forth. What did Obama try to do in the first two years that he didn’t do? He didn’t really seriously try cap and trade. He didn’t really seriously try some of these things and it bothered a lot of people, some pet issues that he didn’t get to.
He got his Porkulus. He got his stimulus. He got all the other stimuluses he wanted. He got health care. What opposition? It’s just a typical myth. Poor beleaguered messiah, people just don’t have any appreciation for how hard it is being so opposed at every turn.
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RUSH: Here’s Ray in Miami. Ray, great to have you on the program. Hi.
CALLER: Thank you, Rush. Obama is on his misery tour —
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: — black and red misery tour. You know what the colors black and red represent to the international socialist movement?
RUSH: What do the colors black and red represent to the international socialist movement?
CALLER: It’s a symbol for them.
RUSH: No, you’ll have to tell me.
CALLER: Fidel Castro, 26 of July movement, Sandinista, ACORN, the red brigades, on and on. He’s showing his true colors, Rush.
RUSH: Showing his true colors. Yeah, why couldn’t you have a red and blue bus?
CALLER: Nah, it has to be black and red.
RUSH: It has to be black and red. Yeah.
CALLER: Symbolism is very important to socialists.
RUSH: Well, you sound like you would know.
CALLER: I surely do. I’m sorry, but I do. I saw my country being ruined by people like that. And I hope that the American public wise up and get this guy out of there before he completely ruins this country.
RUSH: Are you Cuban?
CALLER: Yes, I am.
RUSH: How long have you been in the states?
CALLER: Forty-nine years. I left ten days before the missile crisis.
RUSH: How many years did you think you would be able to go back? How many of these 49 years have you thought, okay, next year I get to go back to Cuba.
CALLER: No, I’m a realist. Even if this guy, you know, even if he disappears from the face of the earth, him and his brother, it will take a couple generations to clean that place up and — (crosstalk)
RUSH: And then if that happens, then Hugo Chavez is gonna move in and try to take over the place. Yeah, it’s a sad, sad situation. Thanks Ray.
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RUSH: I want you to listen to this again cause this guy from St. Louis really nails this. This was Monday, Cannon Falls, Minnesota, where this audience member got a chance to ask Obama a question and said this.
MAN: I want to echo the sentiments of those who have spoken before me in praising you and thanking you for all of your efforts and all the things that you tried to do during probably one of the most difficult situations faced by any president in the face of unreasonable obstruction and opposition. So thank you.
RUSH: That sounds like a prayer. It also sounds like Neil Cavuto. I know it wasn’t Neil Cavuto, ’cause he was on TV that day.