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RUSH: Doug Wilder — who last week wrote a piece saying that Obama needs to fire the Chicago thugocracy surrounding him because they\u2019re misleading him (forgetting that Obama is the lead thug of the Chicago thugocracy) was on C-SPAN\u2019s Washington (that would be ‘Warshington\u2019 for those of you in Rio Linda) Journal on Saturday morning. Does anybody watch C-SPAN on Saturday morning, other than people…? (interruption) Snerdley does. <\/p>\n

Do you also dress up in Revolutionary War garb and run around and pretend to fight? Well, that\u2019s what people who watch C-SPAN on Saturday morning do. I once — in my ill-fated one year in college — I had a college history professor that did that. They reenacted the Civil War in Kapahaw Park, the Blues and the Grays. They actually pretended to shoot people and die. This is a forerunner of the Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament in which they walked across the countries. They got to the Energy Department and they ‘died,\u2019 had a die-in on the steps there. They just poured red paint all over themselves on the steps to simulate what would happen at a moment of nuclear blast. Actually it\u2019s what would happen in a Saw movie. In a nuclear blast you wouldn\u2019t see any blood, you\u2019d be vaporized. Have you seen the Saw movies? You don\u2019t want to. If you don\u2019t know about them, you don\u2019t want to watch them. But they do pose an interesting moral question. <\/p>\n

In fact, I just watched Saw VI last night. (interruption) Oh, yeah. I\u2019ve watched \u2019em. I watched Saw VI last night. It\u2019s gruesome. But it\u2019s all about the immorality of insurance companies and health care. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Even the Saw movies got political. But I like Tobin Bell, who played the evil bad guy in these movies. Tobin Bell was also in the first or second season of 24. He\u2019s a great evil mastermind guy. Anyway, Doug Wilder. Where was I? It\u2019s hard to stay focused on something like Doug Wilder. He\u2019s eminently boring. That\u2019s why he\u2019s on C-SPAN on Saturday. He was Washington Journal and they had a caller from Ohio: ‘Why has Obama and his spokespeople allow certain people in the Republican Party to get away with saying that they hope he fails? Somebody like Rush Limbaugh could get away with it because he\u2019s not a patriot in any way, shape, or form. He\u2019s a political pundit. Nonetheless, he and anybody else who would ever publicly state that they hope the president should fail should be called out and say, ‘How can you possibly be a patriot?\u2019 Predict failure, that\u2019s okay. Hope for it? No way.\u2019<\/p>\n

WILDER: They\u2019re really saying they want to see themselves fail. They want to see their country fail. They want to see, uh, their children and their grandchildren fail. Anyone who wants to see that isn\u2019t really seeking for the betterment of our country and our nation. And, uh, th-there\u2019s no need to continue to argue with those people.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Nobody\u2019s arguing with me, Governor. They\u2019re denouncing me, but nobody will debate me on this. But how can somebody be so wrong? ‘They\u2019re saying they want to see themselves fail\u2019? No-o-o. Governor, I want to continue to succeed, and I don\u2019t want some president taking away the opportunity. I want every American to have the chance to succeed — I want every American and his kids and grandkids to have a chance to succeed — and it\u2019s being taken away from us by Barack Obama. If Obama gets what he wants, success is going to have to be defined in a whole different way, like, ‘How much did I score from the government last month?\u2019 not, ‘How well am I doing my job?\u2019 Anyone who wants to see that isn\u2019t really speaking for the betterment of our country. We\u2019re trying to save it, Governor. We\u2019re trying to save America from this assault. A caller from Ohio: ‘The comments by a judge who disagreed with Rush Limbaugh\u2019s ability are right to say he hopes Obama fails. He didn\u2019t want him to fail, he wants his policies to fail such as cap and trade, this overblown health care stimulus plan. I get tired of people taking certain things out of context making an issue out of them and that\u2019s what I really have to say. Thank you very much.\u2019<\/p>\n

WILDER: Well, you know that old expression, ‘It ain\u2019t what you do, it\u2019s the way you do it\u2019? It ain\u2019t what you say, it\u2019s the way you say it. A lot of people have come away with the idea that Mr. Limbaugh\u2019s impression and his statements were calculated to say that he wished that the president would fail. That has been corrected by Mr. Limbaugh.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, I won\u2019t correct it!<\/p>\n

WILDER: He has every opportunity because he\u2019s on live all the time, to say, ‘No, I wish the president does not fail.\u2019 I don\u2019t think you\u2019re going to get him to say that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No way! If he adopts a Reagan agenda then I\u2019m going to be the biggest supporter that Barack Obama has in this country. If he adopts a freedom and liberty and economic-expansion-of-the-private-sector-not-government agenda, he\u2019s going to have the biggest supporter in the world in me. But if he continues on this path of wrecking the country as we\u2019ve known it, I do want him to fail! Wanting him to fail is identical with his policies failing. I wanted Gorbachev to fail. I wanted Stalin to fail. I wanted Dung Xiaoping to fail! I want Chavez to fail. I hoped that Castro would fail. (interruption) Snerdley is going nuts in there. What possible…? (laughing) On Presidents Day! Oh. ‘On Presidents Day, Limbaugh Doubles Down: Wants Obama to Fail.\u2019 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Doug Wilder — who last week wrote a piece saying that Obama needs to fire the Chicago thugocracy surrounding him because they\u2019re misleading him (forgetting that Obama is the lead thug of the Chicago thugocracy) was on C-SPAN\u2019s Washington (that would be ‘Warshington\u2019 for those of you in Rio Linda) Journal on Saturday morning. 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