{"id":31965,"date":"2009-03-19T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:35:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T02:35:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:35:41","slug":"few_out_there_have_the_courage_to_truly_criticize_president_obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2009\/03\/19\/few_out_there_have_the_courage_to_truly_criticize_president_obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Few Out There Have the Courage to Truly Criticize President Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: Coach K, Mike Krzyzewski, the basketball coach at Duke found out that Obama did not pick his team to win the NCAA Final Four. &#8216;Somebody said we\u2019re not in President Obama\u2019s Final Four, and as much as I respect what he\u2019s doing, really, the economy is something he should focus on, probably more than the brackets,\u2019 Mike Krzyzewski told a reporter from the AP on Wednesday. Do you notice how everybody has to throw in &#8212; from Warren Buffett, I don\u2019t care who they are &#8212; they have to throw in here, &#8216;I really respect what he\u2019s doing, but.\u2019 Why is that? Fear, ladies and gentlemen, fear. We have a courage shortage in this country, not on this program, and not behind the Golden EIB Microphone. But we have a courage shortage to deal with things head on here. But Krzyzewski\u2019s point is right, &#8216;What are you doing? We\u2019ve got an economy in a mess and you\u2019re picking brackets with ESPN? Get focused, buddy, get focused on what\u2019s important here.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>If this were George Bush and Krzyzewski had done this, that\u2019s all you\u2019d be hearing about. I gotta tell you, if it had been Bush and the Irish prime minister and the teleprompter had told Bush to thank himself, it would be all over the place, but we can\u2019t find the video. We know there\u2019s video, there\u2019s video everywhere all the time of the president and the White House at parties like this, especially with foreign dignitaries. There is no video, there is no audio of Obama\u2019s teleprompter telling Obama to thank himself for throwing a great party. He read the damn thing. He read what the teleprompter told him to say. &#8216;I wish to thank President Obama, nice party, uhhhh, St. Patrick\u2019s Day. Oh, ho-ho-ho, that was wrong.\u2019 So the teleprompter got a little dig in at President Obama, but there\u2019s no video of it to be found. It\u2019s being suppressed.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I want to play the audio sound bites, actually, of Obama and Mike Krzyzewski. This is Wednesday on ESPN. Senior college basketball writer Andy Katz interviewing Obama for the NCAA basketball tournament picks, a portion of the interview.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125107.Par.4584.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"239\" height=\"160\" class=\"alignright\"\/>OBAMA: I\u2019ve gotta pick Duke.<\/p>\n<p>KATZ: The whole way, or just right here?<\/p>\n<p>OBAMA: No, no. No, not the whole way, come on.<\/p>\n<p>KATZ: What\u2019s going on in the lower part of the South?<\/p>\n<p>OBAMA: Here\u2019s what I like about Carolina: experience and balance. Now, the Tar Heels that are watching, I picked you all last year, you let me down. This year, don\u2019t embarrass me in front of the nation, all right? I\u2019m counting on you.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, I have to make an observation here before any other observations. The teleprompter was not there. The teleprompter was not there, and yet I notice that there were no pauses and no stutters, no uhs, when talking about something as meaningless in the big scheme as the NCAA brackets, it\u2019s wham, bam, thank you, ma\u2019am. It\u2019s get in, get it, and get out, without, uh, uh, I think, uh &#8212; none of that. And the teleprompter had to be peeved because the teleprompter was not necessary. Obama might have been peeved at the teleprompter and didn\u2019t use the teleprompter on purpose because the teleprompter got back at him by making him thank himself when the Irish prime minister was there at the White House on Shamrock Night for a party. Now, aside from all of that, he says the Tar Heels are watching, I picked you all last year, you let me down. The Tar Heels let him down? How would you feel to be the coach of the Tar Heels? What do you mean, don\u2019t let you down? You think we\u2019re playing this game for you? You think we\u2019re in this tournament to win for you? We\u2019re trying to win for us &#8212; of course and our boosters and donors &#8212; but we\u2019re trying to win for us. Don\u2019t let you down? This did not sit well with Coach K, the coach at Duke, Mike Krzyzewski, a press conference. He said this about Obama\u2019s remarks, again, which did not come from a teleprompter.<\/p>\n<p>KRZYZEWSKI: Somebody said that, you know, we\u2019re not in President Obama\u2019s Final Four, you know. And as much as I respect what he\u2019s doing, really, you know, the economy is something that he should focus on, you know, probably more than the brackets. And so why would I care about that?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: All right. This is Coach K. Coach K is revered. Coach K is loved and adored in parts of North Carolina and around the country and he just takes it to Obama here. What are you doing, buddy? You got an economy to fix out there, an economy, by the way, that you\u2019re breaking. You got an economy to fix out there. 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