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<\/a>And this story said so. And the story also said that as a negotiator, Obama was the only things: Arrogant but incompetent. It also pointed out that Harry Reid and Pelosi were mere useful idiots in all of this, that it was Obama\u2019s show. They had nothing to do with it, but they were set up to take a lot of the heat politically. Those were the three primary things came out. I said, “What is going on here?” Washington Post. You remember if you were here Monday, we agonized — humorously and with good cheer — for two hours.<\/p>\nAnd we finally came to conclusion that the best guess was that this story resulted from angry Democrats in the House and the Senate because Obama, when he runs against a “do-nothing Congress,” he\u2019s running against Democrats in Congress, too. And Obama had told Reid and Pelosi: I\u2019m not campaigning for you, and I\u2019m not giving you any of my war chest for your campaign efforts. So the Democrat Congressional and Senatorial Campaign Committees were told: I\u2019ll give you one fundraiser stop each, but I\u2019m not gonna give you any money. So therefore this story hits. And that\u2019s the best guess we came up with. Now I\u2019ve gotta add something else to the mix. It\u2019s David Corn\u2019s book, which tells an entirely different story. <\/p>\n
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RUSH: Again to explain, the reason I\u2019m spending time on this is because Obama\u2019s in trouble and forces are at work obviously to help him overcome the problems that he has towards his reelection. And in the process, they\u2019re gonna have to massage and spin and lie a little bit. And he\u2019s not universally loved in the Democrat Party. When it comes to Obama versus our nominee, there will be unanimity there. But within the Democrat Party universe itself, when the president, who had put out that he\u2019s gonna raise a billion dollars, tells the House and Senate Democrats: You\u2019re on your own. I\u2019m not giving you any of my war chest, and furthermore I\u2019ll only do one campaign appearance for you.<\/p>\n
Well, whether or not that\u2019s helpful or not, that\u2019s an arrogance that\u2019s not appreciated. Thus the story in the Sunday Washington Post. Now, I also mentioned on Monday while trying to figure out why — \u2019cause we don\u2019t see these kinds of stories in Obama-supported media; that\u2019s what\u2019s so striking about this — that one of the possibilities that we alleged existed of this book by David Corn coming out. Bob Woodward\u2019s doing a book on this, by the way, this whole debt deal negotiation last summer. The New York Times magazine has a story coming out on this. So the Washington Post jumps the gun and beats everybody with their version on Sunday. <\/p>\n
Corn\u2019s book will be released this week. By the way, a little humorous factor. Corn had some kind of a (it\u2019s being reported, anyway) temper tantrum at a Barnes & Noble store in Union Station in Washington DC the other day because his book wasn\u2019t prominently displayed enough. He walked in there, I guess he was gonna do a signing, and they didn\u2019t have big David Corn pictures and posters up with big displays of the book, and apparently it\u2019s reported he threw a fit. And the manager of the Barnes & Noble said, “It\u2019s not us. We just do what the boss — the management people — tell us to do.” And Corn, it\u2019s reported, was overheard yelling.<\/p>\n
Corn was overheard yelling at the manager that every paper in America was gonna be talking about his book that day and nobody could find it. He was all ticked off. But, see, everybody in America wasn\u2019t gonna be talking about his book, but Corn thinks so. In Corn\u2019s universe of Washington and New York, that\u2019s America, and he thought everybody was gonna be talking about his book. You wouldn\u2019t even know about his book were it not for I, El Rushbo, telling you about it. But he lives in this world (and they all do) where everybody knows who they are and what they\u2019re doing and what they think. So he goes into the Barnes & Noble, and there\u2019s no display, there\u2019s no big deal, and he freaks.<\/p>\n
He starts ragging on the manager. The manager says, “Well, we\u2019re just executing the orders that came from on high.” The manager explained that corporate tells him what books get displayed and the order didn\u2019t call for Corn\u2019s book. So Corn then started yelling at \u2019em that the bookstore wasn\u2019t well run and stormed out in a huff. But what does his book say? Well, if I don\u2019t tell you this, you won\u2019t know \u2019cause I guarantee you\u2019re not gonna happen go buy it. You\u2019ll go buy Ted Bell\u2019s book, Phantom. Ted Bell. Alex Hawke is his character. It\u2019s a great, great book. I, of course — as a powerful, influential member of the media — have had my advance copy for weeks. <\/p>\n
The Washington Post story says that Obama is arrogant and incompetent in his negotiations, and that Harry Reid and Pelosi are basically useful idiots (or were useful idiots) in this process. This morning on Morning Joe, MSNBC, David Corn was the guest, and the cohost was Willie Geist. And he said to Corn, “You got great color in here, some behind the scenes about the grand bargain.” That\u2019s what the debt deal was called. “How close were the president and John Boehner to striking the deal and at what point did the third wheel on the date come in: The Tea Party, Eric Cantor?”<\/p>\n RUSH: All right. Now, Corn\u2019s version is the one the White House wrote for him… Uh, dictated to him. I think Corn wrote the book. I\u2019m not saying he didn\u2019t write the book. But his version is the White House version. Now, we\u2019re talking about two media outlets that are totally far left here: Washington Post, David Corn. No conservative media involved here. David Corn says (paraphrased): “Oh, yeah, Boehner and the president were very, very close. But the Tea Party came in, and they ended up telling Boehner he\u2019s acting like a RINO and forced Boehner to pull out.” The Washington Post doesn\u2019t say anything like this. <\/p>\n The Washington Post mentions the Tea Party, but the Washington Post story is that Boehner wasn\u2019t just quite close. He gave Obama what he wanted. So now we have two stories, two versions of the same story that are at big variance with one another. Now, we don\u2019t pretend to know what it all means yet, but one thing that\u2019s happening is, there\u2019s discord on the left over this whole lot, and for some reason a lot of people think that what happened in that debt deal last summer could come back to really bite Obama on his reelection. That has us scratching our heads, too. But you gotta throw the Paul Ryan budget in the mix. <\/p>\n Dana Milbank in the Washington Post is out today with his review of the Ryan budget, and as predictable as the sun coming up, Milbank and the Washington Post compare Ryan\u2019s budgeting to a Dickens novel where the poor get everything they have taken away from them. Ryan\u2019s gonna starve the poor, take away all their programs, take away all their money. That\u2019s how Ryan\u2019s budget\u2019s being reported. There\u2019s a lot going on with this, and it\u2019s all about Obama\u2019s reelection. And they\u2019re trying to cover up what is apparent to all, and that\u2019s his incompetence. And apparently… Which version do you think is right, Washington Post or Corn here?<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/phantom-an-alex-hawke-novel-alexander-hawke-hardcover.jpg\"\/)
<\/a>The e-version came out. Yeah, I think the hardcover copy is out as well. Phantom by Ted Bell<\/a>. That\u2019s what you\u2019ll read, not Corn\u2019s book. You don\u2019t have to read Corn\u2019s book. I\u2019ll tell you what\u2019s important about it here. It\u2019s an entirely different version of events than the Washington Post story. Remember, now, just to review. The Washington Post reported that Boehner gave Obama what he wanted: $800 billion in tax increases. Obama cancels the negotiations, says he can\u2019t work with the Republicans, calls a national address to the country and lies about the Republicans being unwilling to compromise or help. <\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObamaBoehnerBudgetCorn.jpg\"\/)
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<\/a>‘Cause the differences are stark, and the Washington Post makes clear that Obama went out and lied to the nation. There\u2019s another sound bite on this. CBS This Morning, Senator Dick Durbin, he of the fame that attached to him on the Senate floor by comparing our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq and Guantanamo Bay to being just like the troops in the Soviet gulag or Pol Pot\u2019s killers. Yeah, that\u2019s the guy, Dick Durbin, who compared our troops to Nazi thugs. He weighed in on this with Charlie Rose on CBS, who said to him, “The president was late in coming to the support of Bowles-Simpson.” That\u2019s the deficit reduction committee that Obama ignored. “He hasn\u2019t completely supported every aspect of it, Dick.”<\/p>\n