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RUSH: Obama\u2019s not a narcissist, he\u2019s not a narcissist. He watched a documentary about him while the election returns were coming in last night. That\u2019s what Bob Gibbs tells us. <\/p>\n

Welcome, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. <\/p>\n

Folks, I would be embarrassed if somebody put together a documentary about me the way this has been put together about him. I mean it is godlike. But I have a question. He\u2019s the president. This thing aired live last night at nine o\u2019clock on HBO, you mean to tell me that they didn\u2019t send him a screener copy or a preview copy? You mean to tell me he had to wait to see this thing? I, frankly, folks, can\u2019t believe that he hadn\u2019t seen it and didn\u2019t help in having the whole thing put together, \u2019cause it\u2019s the most fawning. If a documentary could get anal poisoning, this one could. I mean it\u2019s just kiss butt, kiss butt, kiss butt all over the place, and here he\u2019s watching it, he\u2019s watching a one-year-old version of himself and events? This is like Citizen Kane alone in the 45,000-square-foot mansion sitting in front of the 500-square-foot fireplace drinking brandy as his empire is crumbling all around him and thinking he\u2019s having a good time. I mean this just weird. It\u2019s just weird. <\/p>\n

He doesn\u2019t have time to decide on Afghanistan, doesn\u2019t have time to go to Berlin, but he did have enough time to campaign for Democrats in various states who lost anyway. And, by the way, he did not go to New York where the Democrat won. The one place Obama didn\u2019t go is where the Democrat won. Virginia was a landslide. It was not just the governor\u2019s race. It was all the way down the ticket. All the major candidates\u2019 numbers in Virginia were almost identical to each other. This was about the lack of coattails, the lieutenant governor, few points lower since he was incumbent, but basically McDonnell, the lieutenant governor, the attorney general got the same percentage of the vote. There\u2019s no question it was anti-Obama coattails working its way down the ticket. <\/p>\n

Now, I was waiting for this. Axelrod has spoken out. CBSNews.com: ‘As Barack Obama marks one year since his historic election, one of the architects of his campaign acknowledges the president has not forged the post-partisan atmosphere that he had hoped to achieve. Senior Adviser David Axelrod said the president ‘is not a magician. You don\u2019t with a wave of a wand make everything different.\u2019 The top White House aide said while the president has ‘extended a hand of cooperation, some in the other party made a political decision that isn\u2019t in their interest.\u2019 … ‘There\u2019s an awful lot of pressure from the right wing of the Republican party that has made it more difficult for moderate Republicans to step forward,” and join us. (laughing) Wait a minute, though. He was The Messiah. He was the one we were all waiting for: the hope, the change, post-partisan, post-racial. Now it\u2019s even post-accomplishment because there isn\u2019t any of that, either. (laughing) So now it\u2019s my fault; it\u2019s right-wing Republicans. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, you know, I\u2019ve talked to Mitch McConnell, I\u2019ve talked to John Boehner, they can\u2019t get a meeting with the president. He\u2019s not talking to Republicans. I guess that\u2019s my fault. And remember when Boehner did go up there with the congressional leadership back in February, Obama said, (paraphrasing) ‘You gotta stop listening to Rush Limbaugh, that\u2019s not how things get done in this town.\u2019 His defense secretary can\u2019t get a meeting, McChrystal can\u2019t get a meeting. He\u2019s watching a documentary about himself. He\u2019s not a narcissist.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: My friends, do not ever doubt me. I expressed incredulity moments ago when I heard that Obama did not watch election returns last night because he was watching himself, an HBO documentary on his campaign and election. And I said to myself, ‘This doesn\u2019t make any sense. He\u2019s president! He doesn\u2019t have to wait for this thing to air live. He\u2019d get a screener copy of it.\u2019 I said, ‘To hell with that. He probably had a role in approving the damn thing.\u2019 Talking Points Memo, a lib blog, November 1st, 6:17 p.m. ‘White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says Obama has already seen ‘By the People,\u2019 produced and directed by Alicia Sams and Amy Rice, and backed by actor Edward Norton. Gibbs told TPMDC Obama\u2019s review: ‘Thumbs up!”<\/p>\n

Now, this is November 4th. Last night was November 3rd. Gibbs told us that Obama was watching himself last night, but we know that he\u2019s already seen the damn thing. Oh, of course he wasn\u2019t watching the returns! He didn\u2019t care about that. He watched a rerun about himself. If that\u2019s what happened — if he actually did, he watched a rerun to see if the version that aired live was the same one that they had sent him — and can you imagine? He\u2019s probably watching the rerun, ‘Boy, boy, do I look good! Do I look good!\u2019 Do we buy any of this? He was watching himself? Why would Gibbs say it? Even if he was doing it, do you realize…? Why announce on election night you\u2019re president of the United States you would put it all on the line. The signs in New Jersey have your name above Corzine\u2019s, you flew in there — and you don\u2019t care? You\u2019re not interested? You are watching yourself?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We have had people here going through the Barack Obama documentary, called combat pay, and we put together a little montage here. The documentary is entitled By the People: The Election of Barack Obama. From the film November 7th, 2006, during the midterm elections here is a montage of Obama and Robert Gibbs talking about the returns.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Do they have a count on the House seats yet?<\/p>\n

GIBBS: That\u2019s the only one was a pick up. Though (unintelligible) in Louisville is up with 96%–<\/p>\n

OBAMA: That\u2019s what I\u2019m talking about.<\/p>\n

GIBBS: Yeah, but they haven\u2019t called it.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: My goal is every candidate I campaign for I want to win, every single one. I love elections. It\u2019s so much fun. It\u2019s even more fun when you\u2019re not on the ballot.<\/p>\n

RUSH: My goal is every candidate I campaign for I want to win. Ah. Ah. And that was in the documentary that aired last night. I guess it doesn\u2019t apply anymore to Corzine as Bob Beckel called him. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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