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<\/p>\nRUSH: Grab audio sound bite number 1 — for three weeks now they have been doing this.<\/p>\n
DON LEMON: If he doesn\u2019t do this, the Rush Limbaughs and the other conservative media will go nuts.<\/p>\n
CHRIS MATTHEWS: The (crosstalk) president of the United States is a Dittohead. He\u2019s doing literally what Rush Limbaugh calls his people, those who “ditto” everything.<\/p>\n
JONATHAN CAPEHART: It\u2019s about keeping Rush Limbaugh from criticizing him.<\/p>\n
HOWARD FINEMAN: …tribal chieftains like Rush Limbaugh.<\/p>\n
RUSH: “Tribal chieftain”?<\/p>\n
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ROBERT ZIMMERMAN: Rush Limbaugh took the president on and started attacking him.<\/p>\n
JOE LOCKHART: He said he\u2019ll sign the bill, and then Rush Limbaugh told him not to do it.<\/p>\n
JAMES CARVILLE: Rush Limbaugh went crazy and he had to change his mind.<\/p>\n
ANA NAVARRO: …president of Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh — and, look, he has allowed these right-wing conservatives to take him hostage.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Right. I thought I was “a guy in Palm Beach with a golf shirt.” Now I\u2019m a “tribal chieftain.” For three weeks, these clowns!<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Here\u2019s Jim McGovern, Democrat from Massachusetts today, on the House floor…<\/p>\n
MCGOVERN: Mr. Speaker, why should Americans go hungry just because the president wants to appease someone like Rush Limbog? (sic)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Did he say “Limbog”? So I am “a guy in a golf shirt in Palm Beach,” “tribal chieftain,” and now responsible for hunger among the children in America. Americans are going hungry because of me. Here is CNN, Nia-Malika Henderson. I guess she\u2019s some commentator.<\/p>\n
HENDERSON: We live in a Washington where there is a president that really is looking to see what Ann Coulter has to say, what Rush Limbaugh has to say, what the whole, entire kind of conservative tattling class, uh, had to say.<\/p>\n
RUSH: So they\u2019re sticking to this idea that Trump is sitting around waiting to hear from me — his tribal chieftain in a golf shirt in Palm Beach — before deciding what to do. They can\u2019t let go of it. Do you think they really, really think this is happening, or is this just a twofer for them: A way to rip me and Trump at the same time? Don\u2019t be surprised if they actually believe this, folks.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Grab audio sound bite number two. This stuff is… what\u2019s the word? It may be happening now more than it\u2019s happened in the past. That\u2019s tough to say. But these people just will not let go of this.<\/p>\n
SHAHEEN: For the last several hours we have heard compelling remarks from a number of our colleagues. And I thank all of those who have come to the floor to talk about the lasting and negative effects of this senseless shutdown, a shutdown that is all about President Trump yielding to Rush Limbaugh and the right-wing commentators who told him he wasn\u2019t being tough enough.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Jeanne Shaheen, the senator, Democrat, from New Hampshire. They won\u2019t let go of this. Now, did you notice last night Chuck and Nancy didn\u2019t blame me. Chuck and Nancy when they were doing their response, they didn\u2019t chide Trump for listening to me. They didn\u2019t chide Trump for being afraid to cross me.<\/p>\n
But everywhere else, all of these Democrats on the floor of the House, on the floor of the Senate or on cable news — what that tells me is that they\u2019ve created this talking point and that they\u2019re advocating all of their television commentators, media people to use it because they\u2019ve got obvious focus group data that when liberals hear my name, they erupt and they start writing checks, I think is what happened.<\/p>\n
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They hear my name and they start writing checks. I\u2019m second to Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In fact, the Democrats would do everything they could to make sure I keep doing this, in their minds, because I\u2019m such a great fundraiser for them. Because why not blame me when you\u2019re on national TV and you want to humiliate Trump and you want to blame Trump and you want to be consistent with your messaging, how come none of us right-wing provocateurs get mentioned? ‘Cause they really don\u2019t think it. It\u2019s just more media drivel that they\u2019re engaging in for talking point purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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