{"id":35389,"date":"2010-05-13T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:00:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T01:00:32","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:00:32","slug":"state_run_media_fascinated_by_the_rush_and_obama_golf_story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/05\/13\/state_run_media_fascinated_by_the_rush_and_obama_golf_story\/","title":{"rendered":"State-Run Media Fascinated by the Rush and Obama Golf Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: Well, ladies and gentlemen, the media is continuing today to be a little fascinated with the Page Six revelation yesterday from the forthcoming book on me, which I have not read fully, but a number of people have and have told me it\u2019s good. Zev Chafets, Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One, due out on May 25th. Now, last summer when he was writing &#8212; I decided to participate with him because he was going to write the book anyway &#8212; he said, &#8216;Would you play golf with Obama?\u2019 I said, &#8216;Sure, it\u2019ll never happen. But any president that calls me and asks me to meet or play golf, out of respect I\u2019d do it.\u2019 He said, &#8216;Well, I know Axelrod a little bit, I\u2019m going to call Axelrod and see.\u2019 So he called Axelrod and he told me Axelrod didn\u2019t return his calls, and that was the end of it as far as I knew. And then Page Six runs the excerpt from the book yesterday in which a Democrat strategerist was next up, Chafets went to him and said, &#8216;Hey, would Obama agree to play golf with Limbaugh? Limbaugh\u2019s up for it.\u2019 And two days later the message came back that Obama said, &#8216;No, Limbaugh can play with himself,\u2019 to which I said, &#8216;I think they have me confused with Bill Clinton,\u2019 with that comment. So let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. Now, what I just told you was the first thing we discussed yesterday on this program. That would be 26 hours ago, first thing out of the box on this program I commented on the story. WFLD television, Eyeball News, Chicago, the cohost Jan Jeffcoat and the so-called report.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125110.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright\"\/>JEFFCOAT: Rush Limbaugh is not commenting this morning on a new book that claims the president will not play golf with him. According to Zev Chafets, the author of the book called Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One, he tried to set Limbaugh and the president up for a golf date. This is his claim. Limbaugh supposedly said he was willing to play but according to the author, a White House advisor claims the president did not say the same thing. Now, a spokesman for Limbaugh says he\u2019s not seen the book and therefore cannot comment on it and we don\u2019t really know if this happened, what happened since there\u2019s so much he said that he said that he heard, and the president not talking about it this morning, either.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, that was this morning. Do they do any reporting in local television Eyeball News anymore? It was the first thing on my program yesterday. I reacted to it, just as I did today. This morning: &#8216;Limbaugh says he\u2019s not seen the book and therefore can\u2019t comment on it.\u2019 And it wasn\u2019t just WFLD TV Eyeball News in Chicago. Roland Martin, CNN Campbell Brown last night.<\/p>\n<p>MARTIN: Golf is a game where you don\u2019t have to play with somebody else, and, you know what also? Golf is a game where you don\u2019t want to play with somebody who yaps, yaps, yaps. That probably would be Rush playing golf, so, yeah, go play with yourself so we can enjoy a nice walk.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: That\u2019s Roland Martin on CNN. Mary Matalin was also on CNN and had this to say in reaction.<\/p>\n<p>MATALIN: Yeah, that\u2019s civility, that\u2019s your president, Mr. Civility. I liked it a lot. One of the few days I didn\u2019t listen to Rush I would have loved to have heard Rush\u2019s response, which I\u2019m sure was far more civil than that protestation to the contrary.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah, they were confusing me with Bill Clinton. A rather witty response, which Page Six publishes today, to their credit, and the people in Chicago still don\u2019t think I\u2019ve commented on it now. Last night Maude Behar on her show on Headline News.<\/p>\n<p>MAUDE: When asked if he would play golf with Rush Limbaugh, the president, Obama, allegedly replied, &#8216;Limbaugh can play with himself.\u2019 Okay, don\u2019t feel bad, Rush can always go back to his original foursome: Dick Cheney, David Duke, and Satan.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: (laughing) Now, she wasn\u2019t through, Maude was not through. She\u2019s really upset that Obama\u2019s even talking about me.<\/p>\n<p>MAUDE: Why should he shoot down like that? He should be above it all. Come on, Limbaugh is on the radio.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Maude, you know, you can\u2019t stop talking about me, either. Here\u2019s Greta Van Susteren on this whole thing.<\/p>\n<p>VAN SUSTEREN: The only thing weirder than Tiger Woods playing golf with Gloria Allred is President Obama playing with Rush Limbaugh.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: No, that would be as weird as Tiger Woods leading a campaign for virginity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Well, ladies and gentlemen, the media is continuing today to be a little fascinated with the Page Six revelation yesterday from the forthcoming book on me, which I have not read fully, but a number of people have and have told me it\u2019s good. 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