{"id":12393,"date":"2013-05-16T18:39:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T18:39:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-05-16T18:39:56","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T18:39:56","slug":"obama_is_putin_or_chavez_not_nixon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/05\/16\/obama_is_putin_or_chavez_not_nixon\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama is Putin or Chavez, Not Nixon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/49991\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  This Obama comparison to Nixon, you hear it now and then.  In fact, it was asked about at the press conference this afternoon with the Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.  Reuters White House correspondent Jeff Mason said, &#8220;How do you feel about comparisons by some of your critics of this week\u2019s scandals to those that happened under the Nixon administration?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>OBAMA:  I\u2019ll let you guys engage in those comparisons, and you can go ahead and read the history, I think, and &#8212; and draw your own conclusions.  My concern is making sure that if there\u2019s a problem in the government, that we fix it.  That\u2019s my responsibility, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re gonna do.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/THree.jpg\"\/><BR\/>RUSH:  Yeah, if there\u2019s a problem, we\u2019re gonna fix it.  I didn\u2019t know there was a problem, but if there is one, we\u2019re gonna fix it.  Right.  I\u2019m gonna have a jobs plan.  Well, deficit problem, okay, I\u2019m gonna have a plan to reduce the deficit.  Obamacare.  He\u2019s causing all these.  Anyway, this Nixon comparison is starting to bug me \u2019cause it\u2019s the wrong comparison.  The comparison ought to be to Putin.  That\u2019s the comparison.  What\u2019s going on in this country is the same kind of stuff that goes on under Vladimir Putin.  It\u2019s not Obama-Nixon, it\u2019s Obama-Putin.  Nixon talked about siccing the IRS on people on one White House tape.  Nixon didn\u2019t do it.  Nixon talked about it.  He speculated about it, as though, man, wouldn\u2019t it be fun to sic the IRS &#8212; but he never did. <\/line><\/p>\n<p>Nixon did not sic the IRS on McGovern.  Nixon\u2019s campaign was audited, if you can believe that, which is what he was talking about on the tape.  The head of the IRS at the time was a guy named Donald Alexander, and he was hailed as a hero for the rest of his life because he didn\u2019t allow the IRS to be used against Nixon\u2019s enemies.  But can I tell you the honest-to-God truth?  There is no proof that Richard Nixon ever tried to get the commissioner of the IRS to do anything, ever, Donald Alexander.  There\u2019s no proof that Nixon ever sicced the IRS on anybody.  He talked about it in a White House tape, and that was unprecedented.  Presidents we assume joke and talk about all kinds of things, fantasizing about their power. <\/p>\n<p>Nixon was taping himself.  He was the first one who was heard doing it, but he never did it.  You don\u2019t think JFK sat around or FDR sat around joking about maybe using the IRS on people, or Clinton or whatever.  But the point is, Obama did it.  The comparison is Obama-Chavez, Obama-Putin, not Nixon.  I don\u2019t know, folks.  This stuff bugs me.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: So Snerdley can\u2019t believe it. Snerdley thinks I have to have some advice for Obama. He\u2019s gotta be in trouble here. Sorry, folks. I don\u2019t see him in trouble. If he gets in trouble, real trouble, I\u2019ll have some advice, but he\u2019s not in real trouble. You want to make a Nixon comparison? At least Nixon had the grace to quit. That\u2019s about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: This Obama comparison to Nixon, you hear it now and then. In fact, it was asked about at the press conference this afternoon with the Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. 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