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Rush Limbaugh: ‘They thought I was finished’
politico ^ | 3/13/12 | MJ LEE

Posted on 03/13/2012 9:03:47 PM PDT by Nachum

Rush Limbaugh on Tuesday laughed at Democrats for having tried to use the radio host’s now-infamous “slut” comment to their political advantage, gloating about recent polls showing President Barack Obama’s approval numbers tanking while taunting, “They thought I was finished.”

“Remember, one week ago, they thought it was over. One week ago, they thought for one day, there was a Santa Claus. Normally, they don’t believe in Santa Claus, but they did,” Limbaugh said at the beginning of his three-hour afternoon show. “They thought I was finished. They thought you [the listeners] were vanquished, and Obama was elevated to heights that would make him unbeatable.

He added, “And don’t doubt me when I tell you they are in shell shock.”

As he played a series of audio clips of media commentators suggesting a few weeks ago that Limbaugh calling Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke a “slut” was a “gift” and political “opportunity” for the president, Limbaugh said, “One week after launching this all-out attack on your host — a sure winner! Going to launch Obama and the Democrats back to electorate success! What happened?”

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To: Bon of Babble

I bought a pillow from TemperPedic instead of Select Comfort, and am buying a part for my stove from a local appliance dealer rather than directly from SEARS.

ALso am going to send QUicken Loans a nasty message on their advertisement letter.

Money talks, bullshit walks.


21 posted on 03/13/2012 9:41:43 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: AlexW

What station do you use to record Rush on Dar.fm? I recently started using Dar and not once have I been able to record his show. Dar always says “station unavailable”. Frustrating...


22 posted on 03/13/2012 9:42:23 PM PDT by LifePath
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To: Roamin53; lonestar

“OMG...this guy sounds like me!!!”
The first time my husband and heard him, we were in the car and I said - he says what I think - but better!!

THAT’s why we love Rush. Rush IS right and no, Don’t Doubt him. haa..........


23 posted on 03/13/2012 9:42:50 PM PDT by WaterWeWaitinFor (If we don't help make a change, then who will? It starts with us.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Ho Chi Fonda and that NAG, Steinhem, didn’t help...

No, they didn't. When an astonished audience saw itself lectured to by the likes of Gloria Steinem on the topic of civility toward the opposite sex, and by Jane Fonda on the topic of avoiding divisiveness, we found ourselves in a grotesque, parody-defying alternate universe of hypocrisy. You can't even make that stuff up - nobody would believe it.

24 posted on 03/13/2012 9:43:05 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Nachum

Rush’s audience has not suffered much if at all has it? (I mean in numbers.)


25 posted on 03/13/2012 9:47:25 PM PDT by raccoonnookkeeper (I keep raccoons in a nook!)
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To: Mouton
The words were incendiary

In what way? She admitted she was a whore/slut on national TV. Rush just put it in the vernacular.

26 posted on 03/13/2012 9:48:20 PM PDT by doc1019 (Romney will never get my vote!)
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To: Yaelle
I don’t think they understand. Rush listeners would pay to listen. I am sad that I will probably outlive rush and thus miss him terribly for that part of my life. He is one of the greatest gifts this country has been given. He is a national treasure. He taught many of us far more about America than these schools ever did or dared.

Funny. I keep my Rush membership up to date because they preempt him during Pirate games in Pittsburgh. I'm sure he could afford to launch his own EIB satellite if necessary. :-)
27 posted on 03/13/2012 9:48:26 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Time to beat the swords of government tyranny into the plowshares of freedom.)
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To: raccoonnookkeeper

Not that I have heard. If anything, this has generated a larger audience. The sponsors are crawling back to him :)


28 posted on 03/13/2012 9:49:21 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

Rush explained how the ads work. Most are local, some 18,000
of them. He has either replaced, or in the process of replacing the few he lost. No harm.


29 posted on 03/13/2012 9:52:59 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: AlexW

You had a Collins SW radio? Wow, those were good radios!


30 posted on 03/13/2012 10:13:45 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Fonda and Steinhem were a gift to our side.

Indeed they were.

They are the poster hags of leftist hypocrisy.

31 posted on 03/13/2012 10:17:58 PM PDT by citizencon
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To: Nachum
"What happened?”

Nobody but the idiot liberals gave a shiite, that is what happened. Most of the rest of Americans thought the slut descriptor was apt, and more so when they all found out she was no young coed, but a hardened and calloused political operator.

32 posted on 03/13/2012 10:28:23 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Nachum

What they don’t know about Rush’s listeners is that we are probably the most knowledgable ppl in the country When it comes to the dirty dems. We know the tricks and we are not easily fooled. I can’t think of anything that would turn us away from him. He is our family member. We will stick with him all the way.


33 posted on 03/13/2012 10:33:14 PM PDT by LookingUp
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To: LookingUp

Yes and the race and sex haters, when they come out screeching, scare the heck out of normal people. The Left always overplays their hand when their back is against the wall - like now.


34 posted on 03/13/2012 10:40:44 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: doc1019
Several million dollars later, they are still saying the same thing. Fools never learn.

Several million? More like hundreds of millions.

35 posted on 03/13/2012 10:41:38 PM PDT by Bullish
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“Fonda really needs to shut up and just go away. REAL Americans still hate her for her treason against our country.”

I’m just one of the many VN vets who will line up to p*** on her grave as soon as she assumes room temp.


36 posted on 03/13/2012 10:42:16 PM PDT by Rembrandt (.. AND the donkey you rode in on.)
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To: Yaelle; IMissPresidentReagan; Clint N. Suhks; advertising guy; PennsylvaniaMom; Biggirl; ...
He (Rush) is one of the greatest gifts this country has been given. He is a national treasure. He taught many of us far more about America than these schools ever did or dared.

Amen to that, Yaelle!

37 posted on 03/13/2012 11:06:15 PM PDT by nutmeg (Rest in Peace, and THANK YOU, Andrew Breitbart)
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To: LifePath

WBAP 820 AM is about as reliable as it gets. 11a-2pm CDT


38 posted on 03/13/2012 11:12:02 PM PDT by Company Man (La Quinta -- Spanish for "Next to Denny's")
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To: Nachum

Tin foil cat agrees!
39 posted on 03/13/2012 11:15:37 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Nachum
He added, “And don’t doubt me when I tell you they are in shell shock.”

I found Rush in May of '89 and have been listening ever since. He's like family.

Regarding the above mentioned quote, I'm always fascinated when Rush says that, because he's never wrong. I recall him talking about Fast and Furious months before it ever got legs and he said, "This whole thing is about undermining the 2nd Amendment. Don't doubt me." Lo and behold, a few months later that is where the conversation pointed. He doesn't use that phrase too often, but when he does it's purposeful and he knows he's right.

40 posted on 03/13/2012 11:22:20 PM PDT by Kharis13 (That noise you hear is our Founding Fathers spinning in their graves.)
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