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\"Listen<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: As you know, Obama at a fundraiser blamed me for the fact that nothing is getting done in Washington. He said that his agenda is stalled because of me. He told a bunch of people, donors at a fundraiser at Harvey Weinstein\u2019s house that included Justin Timberlake and his wife Jessica Biel. The designer Tommy Hilfiger was there. Obama told \u2019em that he expected, after he won reelection in 2012, that the Republicans would throw in the towel.<\/p>\n

They would realize, “Okay, Obama won, and we can\u2019t beat him any more because he\u2019s not running any more. So let\u2019s go ahead and work with the guy.” But they\u2019re not, and they\u2019re not because of me, because they\u2019re afraid of me. They\u2019re afraid of what I will say if they are cooperative with Obama. They are afraid of what I will be able do to their base and their electoral chances if they cooperate with Obama. So it\u2019s my fault. As far as Obama\u2019s concerned, I am too powerful.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve offered to meet him.<\/p>\n

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I said, “Whenever you like, Mr. President…” I extended the invitation yesterday to help advise him on a way past this, advise him on how to get the cooperation of Republicans, how to move the country forward. I\u2019d be glad to sit down with the president and discuss this, to help to begin moving the country in the right direction. I don\u2019t expect him to reply, but I just want to reiterate that I have extended the invitation. Well, this has caused some comment in the mainstream media.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s start with ABC\u2019s World News Tonight and Jonathan Karl.<\/p>\n

KARL: The White House insists it had no idea any of this was going on. Conservatives aren\u2019t buying.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: Obama\u2019s objective is to eliminate all opposition.<\/p>\n

KARL: All of this comes as a White House that takes pride in being scandal free has been hammered by a series of controversies.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Jonathan Karl. That was World News Tonight and on Good Morning America yesterday, all over ABC yesterday. Whenever there was a story about Obama and scandal, they threw me in it, because I personify the opposition to Obama. As far as the White House is concerned, and as far as the State Controlled Media is concerned, I, your beloved host, El Rushbo, I am the opposition to Barack Obama. I\u2019m not making it up. He said that at the fundraiser. That\u2019s exactly what he said. If it weren\u2019t for me, the Republicans would be going along with him. If it weren\u2019t for me, the Republicans and he would be able to work together and they\u2019d be able to move Obama\u2019s agenda. <\/p>\n

So, in his own words, I personify the opposition to Obama. Let\u2019s now go to The Five at Five on Fox. Eric Bolling took his spin at cohosting yesterday, talked to Bob Beckel about Obama blaming me for the gridlock. Eric Bolling said, “The commander-in-chief of the most powerful nation in the history of man blamed Rush Limbaugh for his failure to get anything done in Washington. And Rush, being the great guy that he is, offered to help out, Bob. I\u2019d like to be at that table right there, Mr. Beckel. How about you?”<\/p>\n

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BECKEL: You know, I\u2019m sure the president of the United States, Rush, just spends all day long, from the time he gets up \u2019til the time he goes to bed, thinking about you. I think you\u2019re overstating your influence here good old boy.<\/p>\n

BOLLING: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on.<\/p>\n

BECKEL: Did Obama say that at —<\/p>\n

BOLLING: Last night. At a fundraiser last night.<\/p>\n

BECKEL: — at a fundraiser, he said it. That doesn\u2019t mean he thinks about it all day long, as Rush suggested he does.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I don\u2019t know if I said that. I said I live rent free in Obama\u2019s head. I was the first person he mentioned at the White House Correspondents Dinner. This is the third or fourth time, Bob old boy, that Obama has blamed me. Remember the first two weeks of his regime he had that congressional leader meeting in the White House and he told John Boehner and the boys, “Look, you gotta stop listening to Rush Limbaugh. That\u2019s just not the way things get done in Washington.” This is the fourth or fifth time that Obama has singled me out. Next up Eric Bolling said to Andrea Tantaros, “Rush Limbaugh\u2019s actually stopping Republicans from agreeing to work with President Obama. Do you buy any of this stuff?”<\/p>\n

TANTAROS: President Obama is enabling himself — or preventing himself from being able to work with Republicans. It\u2019s not Rush Limbaugh\u2019s fault, but I think the president believes that he has a good enemy in Rush Limbaugh. It\u2019s a great way for him to raise money. I will say this. The left and President Obama\u2019s cronies sit around and they think of ways to defund talk radio. They do this all the time. They thought that they were going to get a talk radio host during the Sandra Fluke controversy. They got, in their minds, a big fish with Rush Limbaugh. That is why they\u2019ve targeted him. That is why they continue to do it.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, Andrea “Tarantula” is a radio talk show host now. She has her own radio talk show. And so she now understands what\u2019s going on with Obama. They are targeting talk radio, which, they\u2019re targeting me, because it is the most concise, on-point, factual opposition to Obama out there. Obama has a singular objective, a singular political objective, and that is to eliminate all opposition. And he does. He\u2019s admitting it. His opposition is me. His opposition isn\u2019t Boehner. It isn\u2019t McConnell. It\u2019s not elected Republicans. It\u2019s me. We oppose Obama specifically in a wholesale way here, not retail, not the standard, ordinary, “He\u2019s a Democrat, we don\u2019t like him kind of way.” We are specific and effective. So up next Eric Bolling said, “Okay, we have Benghazi breaking. We have the IRS. We have the AP scandal breaking all at once, but Obama goes to New York, he does his fundraisers with the 1% –” meaning the rich “– and he has to blame Rush Limbaugh again.” And Dana Perino then weighs in.<\/p>\n

PERINO: One thing you gotta give President Obama is that he knows his audience. Okay, so his audience loves to get fired up and riled up against somebody, and Rush Limbaugh has been their favorite punching bag for years. It\u2019s kind of boring and tired. If President Obama really wanted to achieve something in Congress, there is a way to do that, and it\u2019s to be persuasive and to have a good argument, lay out the facts, and get someone to come on to his side.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Dana, they don\u2019t debate in the arena of ideas. That\u2019s not how Obama does things. The left cannot win in a debate of ideas. That\u2019s why they have to stifle opposition, to shut it up, to intimidate it into nonexistence. That\u2019s why they impugn and destroy people like Mitt Romney or whoever they can, because they can\u2019t beat us in the arena of ideas. They\u2019re a minority. We\u2019re being governed by a minority.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: So Dana Perino just got through saying, that if Obama wants to get his ideas moving, if he wants to advance his agenda, then he ought to be persuasive and have a good argument. That\u2019s not what the left does. They can\u2019t persuade people on their ideas. The left almost always has to discredit their opposition. That\u2019s how they advance themselves. They do not win debates in the arena of ideas. Liberalism does not persuade people over conservatism when both are properly, energetically presented and explained. <\/p>\n

Beckel, after Dana Perino made her comment, came back with this.<\/p>\n

BECKEL: Well, it also is true that every time a Republican wants to try to do something in a bipartisan way, they get threatened with a primary —<\/p>\n

PERINO: But, they do.<\/p>\n

BECKEL: — on their side. And Limbaugh and these other purists who want to keep them this way, say, “Okay, you do that, then we\u2019re gonna primary you.”<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

RUSH: I do not threaten to primary anybody. I don\u2019t get involved in primaries, endorsing anybody in primaries or any of that. And they lump me in with this purest business. But that\u2019s Beckel. It was left to Greg Gutfeld to wrap it up.<\/p>\n

GUTFELD: President Obama\u2019s right. He\u2019s right. Rush Limbaugh is probably the most significant Republican in the country. When you think about it, the Republicans have yet to put forth a strong, polar opposite, our version, they would say, of Obama. They haven\u2019t done that yet.<\/p>\n

BECKEL: Herman Cain.<\/p>\n

GUTFELD: Like I said.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) Beckel said, “Herman Cain.” And Gutfeld said, “Like I said.” So I just want to remind everybody that my invitation was serious. I\u2019m the opposition. I\u2019ve been named as the opposition. Obama is telling people closest to him, he\u2019s telling people that give him money. Those are the people you tell the truth to. Union people, he told them what his real plans for single payer health care were, for example. The people that give him money expect results. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s telling them, “Okay, yeah, I got a problem with Rush Limbaugh. Republicans won\u2019t work with me. I\u2019ve got a gridlock problem \u2019cause of Limbaugh.” Now, they\u2019re Hollywood people, he knows they\u2019re influential. He\u2019s sending them a message, maybe other people, but I just want to say, I\u2019m willing to meet with the president any time to advise him, to help him. My mother said, as I said yesterday, “Talk these things out, son. That\u2019s the way you solve these things, talk it out.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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