Obama: Ignore Limbaugh

The President warned GOP lawmakers that they should ignore radio personality Rush Limbaugh if they want to get things done. (From UPI);

During an exchange with Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., Obama reminded Republicans of the outcome of the November election.

“I won,” he said.

At one point, the president told the GOP lawmakers they should stop paying attention to right-wing radio personality Rush Limbaugh if they want bipartisanship, the New York Post reported.

“You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done,” Obama said.

In other words, the GOP has to accept that they lost and just capitulate to every demand that Obama puts on them even if the things they want to get done are contrary to Republicans’ principles.

Fox News quotes;

One White House official confirmed the comment but said he was simply trying to make a larger point about bipartisan efforts.

“There are big things that unify Republicans and Democrats,” the official said. “We shouldn’t let partisan politics derail what are very important things that need to get done.”

So apparently, Rush Limbaugh tells all Republicans what to think, none of us have our own minds and our own reasoning skills. We’re just automatons waiting for input from Limbaugh.

I’ll admit that I used to listen to Limbaugh (when I was in sales and on the road all day), but I don’t have time anymore. I was a Republican years before there was a Rush Limbaugh – the first I heard of him was when he was on the cover of National Review (back when the only way a Republican could read Republican opinions was to subscribe to National Review and Commentary magazines) and I bought his book – and then found that there was someone out there who thought like I thought.

But, if the Left is so frightened that we’ll still listen to Limbaugh, they’ve got serious problems. They could take Limbaugh off-the-air, and my opinions wouldn’t change about a single issue – and I’m pretty sure that’s true of every Conservative. We don’t need Limbaugh to think, you spazzes.

Imagine The One’s horror that some poor unsuspecting middle school students were accidentally exposed to Limbaugh’s commentary during the Inauguration (from AP);

Rush Limbaugh is offering to teach a civics lesson at a Green Bay school after a complaint that his commentary distracted from a radio broadcast of President Obama’s inauguration while children were listening in.

Edison Middle School spokeswoman Amanda Brooker said the radio played for the school Tuesday was tuned to a station carrying the event via the conservative pundit’s show. She said in a written statement the station was changed once officials realized “the form of the commentary.”

Teacher Amanda Griggs complained in an e-mail to the local station, WTAQ, and Limbaugh quoted from it on his show Wednesday, including the statement that the students were “shocked, angered and saddened by the interruption.” He also played parts of her critical phone call to the station.

I’m sure those students have been locked up in a re-education camp to be de-programmed.

It’s too bad our new President doesn’t fear those clowns locked up in Guantanamo as much as he fears a contrary political opinion.

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