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RUSH: Robert Gibbs yesterday failed to show up at the White House press briefing. They said he had a bad cough. The real reason was he ticked off the left. ‘White House press secretary Robert Gibbs [trying] to climb down from angry remarks he aimed at leftwing critics, calling them ‘crazy.” This was in an interview with The Hill newspaper in Washington. Gibbs said, ‘I hear these people saying [that Obama\u2019s] like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested. I mean, it\u2019s crazy.\u2019 He called these people criticizing Obama the ”professional left\u2019 in terms very similar to those used by their opponents on the ideological right.\u2019 He said, ‘Look, these people\u2019 — this is Gibbs talking about Obama\u2019s left — ‘they\u2019re going to be satisfied when we have Canadian health care and we\u2019ve eliminated the Pentagon. That\u2019s not reality.\u2019 ‘Within hours of the interview being published, Gibbs tried to walk back his comments, calling them ‘inartful\u2019. He told the [Huffing and Puffington] Post, ‘I watch too much cable, I admit it.” What could he be possibly watching on cable? There\u2019s only one thing he watches on cable: MSNBC. So he has just blamed MSNBC for his inartful comments. He\u2019s just blamed them for influencing the way he came off. It\u2019s hilarious, ladies and gentlemen. <\/line> <\/line>Now, in this Colorado election, the Democrat that Obama endorsed, about whom the media is orgasmically excited today, Bennet, he got 183,521 votes. The winning Republican candidate — and this is really what this is all about — the winning Republican candidate, Ken Buck, got 209,967 votes. They can sit there and they can have their little orgasm all they like about, ‘Look at that! Look at Obama\u2019s coattails! Look at the star power! Man, he endorses, wins, Clinton endorses, he loses!\u2019 The Republican candidate cleaned up with more votes than any of them. <\/line> <\/line>Now, I actually think that some of the media are beginning to say that Obama is losing his cool, because Gibbs doesn\u2019t go out there and speak on his own. Gibbs is not gonna go out and call these people, these Obama critics, ‘the professional left.\u2019 You have to know that this was orchestrated, this was Obama\u2019s attempt at triangulating. There\u2019s no question Obama used Gibbs to try to go out there and create a Sister Souljah moment, by going out there and criticizing the left. ‘Ah, yeah! These professional leftists, professional liberals!\u2019 That\u2019s practically — that\u2019s the ruling class he\u2019s attacking, and that comment was aimed at whites and independents who are fleeing Obama in droves. Can you really believe that the White House press secretary would run down Canadian health care, when that\u2019s exactly where they\u2019re aiming? Single payer health care is exactly where they\u2019re aiming! And yet Gibbs goes out there and says (paraphrase), ‘Yeah, they\u2019re upset, they want Canadian health care, it\u2019s never going to happen.\u2019 It is going to happen! That\u2019s their sole objective! So once again, Obama has to hide behind Gibbs, lie about his intentions, in order to try to win back some mainstream support that he\u2019s lost, and the same thing with the Pentagon. Believe me, don\u2019t doubt me, if these guys could, they would make the Pentagon as irrelevant as they could. They already announced some budget cuts yesterday. They eliminate the Pentagon, never going to happen. It probably won\u2019t happen, but don\u2019t doubt for a moment that Obama and his most trusted inner circle would love to make the Pentagon irrelevant. That\u2019s who they are.<\/line><\/p>\n

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RUSH: To the phones quickly. Dave in Nina, Wisconsin, great to have you on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mega dittos, Rush, from the cheese-head land of America. I just got a quick question for you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: This sudden criticism, you know, I\u2019m always suspicious when Democrats, particularly liberal Democrats, start criticizing each other, because there\u2019s an unwritten rule, never speak ill of another Democrat. I wish Republicans would do that, but when they suddenly start going after President Obama, I\u2019m not wondering if the White House is not sending out back-channel communications to start doing this so he\u2019ll appear more centrist and more palatable to the people come election time.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t think this is a strategy. I think this is founded in reality. It\u2019s election year and the Democrats know they\u2019re governing against the will of the people. They know it. But the Democrats believe that most voters don\u2019t start paying attention to elections until August or September. So now they are going to start saying things that represent the majority thinking in the country. It\u2019s all phony. It\u2019s not a White House-led strategy. It\u2019s called lying. And they\u2019ve been doing it since there was a Democrat Party.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: As to the last caller, why do we always think that there\u2019s some brilliant strategy that we can\u2019t see coming from the White House, they\u2019re always smarter than we are, they\u2019re always a step ahead of us? Folks, there\u2019s no plot here from the White House to get Democrats to sound like Republicans. The Democrats are imploding, and the rats are jumping ship. There is nothing complicated about this. There\u2019s nothing clever about it. They see the poll numbers. There\u2019s not a poll anywhere that shows the Democrats not getting crushed at some level. They know it. They\u2019re trying to prevent that from happening. They don\u2019t need to have a secret meeting to have this attitude. They\u2019re not that smart, folks.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Here\u2019s Gibbs doubling down. This is the White House press briefing today, a reporter said, ‘Do you feel that there\u2019s substance to what you said –‘ the professional left, that they need to take a drug test? ‘– is there too much of a demand from the left of the party?\u2019<\/p>\n

GIBBS: I didn\u2019t say there was too much of a demand, I think — or — or too much pressure. I think that a lot of the issues that Democrats throughout the party have worked to see happen have come to fruition. Health care was an issue that was worked on for a hundred years. President after president after president discussed the importance of passing something comprehensive and historic that cut how much we were paying for health care. That extended the life as we saw last week of the Medicare trust fund. I think those are accomplishments that we all should be proud of regardless of whether it encompasses a hundred percent of what we had wanted in the beginning.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So he said he\u2019s not backing down, hanging in there and continuing to play the role that has been assigned him. He knows instinctively that he has to play. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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