{"id":8265,"date":"2014-09-29T16:18:18","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T16:18:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-09-29T16:18:18","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T16:18:18","slug":"drive_bys_ridicule_the_obama_kroft_show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/09\/29\/drive_bys_ridicule_the_obama_kroft_show\/","title":{"rendered":"Drive-Bys Ridicule the Obama-Kroft Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Folks, it\u2019s funny the number of people making fun of Obama on 60 Minutes last night. Ron Fournier, who used to be the AP bureau chief and is quoted so much, by the way, when he issues criticisms of Obama. The reason why that makes news is because Fournier used to be one of the guys — I don\u2019t mean to insult him by saying this, but he used to be in the tank. He was like a lot of people were in 2008, just swept up in whatever messianic atmospherics we had with Obama. And of course, like most in the Drive-By Media, the tendency is to align with fellow travelers on the left anyway. <\/p>\n

So the reason why, when Fournier deviates from slavish behavior it makes news is because he\u2019s determined to be credible because of this, even though he\u2019s not saying anything any of you haven\u2019t heard from me or others. The fact that he is saying it is news precisely because of the indication it means he\u2019s losing favor with Obama. He tweeted out after last night\u2019s 60 Minutes interview the following. Summarized Obama\u2019s interview with Steve Kroft, which was another softball fest, which is what Kroft has become known for, too. And, by the way, that\u2019s another thing that\u2019s showing up in the Drive-Bys. <\/p>\n

Interestingly enough, Steve Kroft — and this is not good for Steve Kroft — Steve Kroft is beginning or has attracted now a reputation. If you\u2019re lib, if you\u2019re a Democrat in power and you want a softball interview, you get Kroft to ask you the questions and it\u2019s guaranteed to be a PR puff piece. And this is another thing that Fournier was reacting to last night. Here\u2019s the way he tweeted his summary of Obama\u2019s appearance last night. <\/line><\/p>\n

“I, me, my. It\u2019s their fault. I, me, my. It\u2019s their fault. I, me, my. It\u2019s their fault. I, me, my. It\u2019s their fault. I, me, my …”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the assessment, and of course it\u2019s right on the money. Nothing new, the fact that Obama talks about himself and blames everybody else. Of course, to you and me, nothing new. But to have this noted by former avid supporters is, well, I don\u2019t know, it\u2019s funny and interesting at the same time. <\/p>\n

But see, here\u2019s, the bottom line, what does it all mean? Real presidents, folks, try to fix problems. What Obama does is try to fix the blame, and now he\u2019s doing it again. He\u2019s blaming all the problems of ISIS on bad intel. It\u2019s amazing. And when it comes to the economy, you know what? Things are gangbusters out there. I mean, we\u2019ve got a roaring recovery. You just don\u2019t feel it and therefore it\u2019s your fault, because he\u2019s done his job. He ended the recession in 2009 and he\u2019s got job creation humming and he\u2019s got the recovery humming and he\u2019s got this economy growing. If you don\u2019t feel it, it\u2019s your problem. That\u2019s essentially what he said. <\/p>\n

But how successful — remember when there were no weapons of mass destruction after the invasion of Iraq. Well, there were, but another story. General consensus was that there weren\u2019t any weapons of mass destruction. And of course the reason was bad intel, and it really was. Every intelligence service that\u2019s worth its salt in the world confirmed that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. CIA, FBI, MI5, MI6, you name it, everybody said it. And of course Saddam was bragging about all he had \u2019cause he\u2019s trying to be the kingpin of the Middle East. So he created a massive fabrication or lie, and everybody believed it, and when this was pointed out, that excuse didn\u2019t fly, did it? <\/p>\n

Bad intel didn\u2019t fly, didn\u2019t get Bush off the hook. It didn\u2019t mollify the Democrats, Harry Reid, you name it, they weren\u2019t interested in bad intel. It was very helpful for them because they\u2019ve been trying to make the case that the Iraq war was unnecessary, unjust, immoral, waste of time, blah, blah, blah. Here\u2019s Obama, doing and taking same tack that George W. Bush took, and never got Bush off the hook, even with Obama. Obama: Bad intel, not good enough. Presidents cannot rely on bad intel as excuses, Obama said. And now Obama and the Democrats are taking the same tack. <\/p>\n

So, anyway, the show prep continued after I familiarized myself with all of that. Last night Obama and his appearance, we\u2019ve got sound bites from it. It was pretty pathetic. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Obama even “acknowledged” that “the US underestimated the rise of ISIS” and “overestimated the abilities of the Iraqi military” to fend off the group in that interview that aired last night on 60 Minutes. The president was asked by softball-asker extraordinaire Steve Kroft about the comments from James Clapper, the director national security.<\/line><\/p>\n

He has said the US not only underestimated ISIS, it also overestimated the ability and the will of the Iraq military to fight them. And Obama said (summarized), “Yep, yep. That\u2019s true. It\u2019s absolutely true. Jim Clapper has acknowledged that I think they underestimated what had been taking place in Syria.” Of course you\u2019re not supposed to remember any of the things said previously. “Oh, yeah, they\u2019re the JV team! I\u2019ve wiped out Al-Qaeda.”<\/p>\n

All of this, folks, just adds up to another conclusion that is inarguable and that is that everything we\u2019re doing here is political. The reasons that we\u2019re taking on this group, the reasons that we\u2019re going into ISIS and trying to take them out (whatever it is that we\u2019re trying to do) is all political because of poll numbers. See, there\u2019s no principled reason for this operation, and there never has been. <\/p>\n

Obama doesn\u2019t really care. Left to his own devices, if there weren\u2019t problems for Democrats\u2019 reelection efforts, we wouldn\u2019t be doing this at all because Obama really doesn\u2019t think this is any big kind of a big problem. “It\u2019s over there, and what happens over there, it\u2019s their business.” In many ways, Obama thinks what happens over there is our fault in the first place because of our support for Israel. <\/p>\n

I mean, he\u2019s part of the group that believes we\u2019ve created all of this unrest over there with our superpower status and our arrogance and our bravado running around the world as though we own it. So all of the problems in the world can be traced back, in one degree or another, to the United States. <\/p>\n

So if there weren\u2019t any problems with election polls, if there weren\u2019t any problems with Obama\u2019s approval numbers, if there weren\u2019t any problems in polling data show he\u2019s weak on foreign policy and national defense, we wouldn\u2019t even be doing this. So we are doing this, and that means we have to come up with reasons for it — and they\u2019re not principled, strategic military reasons.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re all political. When something is political, it\u2019s going to bend and shape and react to political events that are applying pressure on it, externally or internally. Whereas if there were a strict military operation, there wouldn\u2019t be any reason for Khorasan. They wouldn\u2019t make up a group. They\u2019d just say, “Al-Qaeda has come back and we gotta wipe them out,” but we couldn\u2019t because Obama had said we wiped them out. <\/p>\n

So it\u2019s unserious, as far as they\u2019re concerned. And the problem is, it is really serious. This is really serious stuff, and it\u2019s not being treated that way. They\u2019re trying to make you think they\u2019re treating it serious. This Jim Clapper guy, he\u2019s got no business being where he is. Jim Clapper, national security director, said the Muslim Brotherhood was non-secular, nothing to worry about — and so did McCain, by the way. <\/p>\n

By the way, McCain? This is kind of funny. McCain thinks that Roger Goodell blew it in that Friday press conference. McCain said, “This guy\u2019s got lousy PR. This guy doesn\u2019t know how to do PR. This guy, the first thing you learn in politics is you don\u2019t call a press conference unless you have something to say, and he had nothing to say, so he shouldn\u2019t have called the press conference.”<\/p>\n

Is it just me or is it kind of funny to listen to a Republican sound like an expert on PR? (laughing) I saw it and I kind of cracked up. Maybe “ironic” Is not the word. Maybe “unbelievable” is the word. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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