{"id":15435,"date":"2012-06-12T17:14:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T17:14:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-06-12T17:14:45","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T17:14:45","slug":"the_private_sector_is_doing_fine_illustrates_how_obama_thinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/06\/12\/the_private_sector_is_doing_fine_illustrates_how_obama_thinks\/","title":{"rendered":"“The Private Sector is Doing Fine” Illustrates How Obama Thinks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, let me tell you what\u2019s happened now. Obama has tweeted<\/a> the following: “If a teacher, police officer, or first responder has made a difference in your life, share your story here.” And it links to a website where they want people to send an e-mail to Romney sharing their above-referenced story about whether a teacher, a police officer, or first responder\u2019s made a difference in their life. Because they\u2019re out there trying to claim that Romney wants to cut teachers and cops and firemen.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s all they\u2019ve got: Romney wants to cut these jobs!<\/p>\n

So Obama does what?<\/p>\n

He tweets out: Hey, if a cop or a firefighter, teacher made a difference in your life, share your story at this link. It\u2019s an e-mail to Romney. Share your story about your dilapidated school. So predictable! How…? What are they thinking? Who\u2019s president? All these problems… Share your story about your dilapidated school. Share your story about your whatever. As if Romney is anti-teacher and anti-firefighter and anti-cop. So let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. This is the AP correspondent, Ben Feller. He said, “Can you assure us that the White House and the people who speak for President Obama will not take a somewhat flattering sentence from Governor Romney and use that out of context?”<\/p>\n

CARNEY: By “public sector,” we\u2019re talking about state and local governments who have had to lay off teachers from classrooms, firefighters from the force, and police officers <\/a>from the force. That was the “context” in which he was speaking and which everyone in this room was aware of at the time. Certainly we believe that you all ought to do your jobs and report on context.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: “[Y]ou all ought to do your jobs and report on context.” There was a little back-and-forth here. Remember, it was Mark Halperin yesterday who offered a truce. TIME Magazine. You know when the media offers a truce, their guy\u2019s getting pummeled. So Halperin said (summarized), “Look, could we stop playing these silly little games? Everybody knows that Obama didn\u2019t mean the economy\u2019s good, and everybody knows that Romney doesn\u2019t want to lay off cops and teachers. Can we just accept that and move on?”<\/p>\n

Well, no, “everybody” doesn\u2019t know that Obama doesn\u2019t think the economy\u2019s good.<\/p>\n

The jury is still out on what Obama thinks about the economy. The jury is still out on what he knows about the economy. The jury is still out on what he intends for the economy! He clearly does not want a growing and robust private sector. But I\u2019ll tell you what: Jay Carney, you better be careful, because the last thing you and Obama want is the media actually doing their job. You start challenging these people to go do their jobs, and you are in for it. Last night. We have a montage of CNN\u2019s Anderson Cooper and just bunch other people, and they\u2019re talking about six words “taken out of context” that the private sector is doing fine.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re doing everything they can to massage this.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re doing everything they can to say he didn\u2019t really mean what he said.<\/p>\n

ANDERSON COOPER: Six words that Republicans seized upon. The president\u2019s statement has been taken out of context in this case.<\/p>\n

DAVID CORN: Given the full context of the remark, it\u2019s not what he really meant to say.<\/p>\n

MARIA CARDONA: I don\u2019t think it was the best six words that the president could have used.<\/p>\n

STEVE MCMAHON: Put it into a broader context.<\/p>\n

BILL O\u2019REILLY: Six words could cost President Obama reelection.<\/p>\n

CHRISTINE ROMANS: Those six words that launched a weekend of politicking.<\/p>\n

EZRA KLEIN: The entire political and media establishment in this country have had their collective hair on fire over the last three days over six words uttered by President Obama. But it\u2019s the 43 words that followed those six that are really, really important.<\/p>\n