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Limbaugh On Trump: He Is ‘Providing A Lesson On How To Beat Obama’

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On his show today, radio host Rush Limbaugh took a concerned call from Matt, a listener for whom his show is the very foundation of his being. Matt wanted to discuss the “smokescreen” around Barack Obama‘s birth, telling Limbaugh that he doesn’t quite understand all the hoopla about whether the President’s certificate of live birth or birth certificate or what-have-you are “fraudulent documents.”

Limbaugh explained that some of the questions surrounding Obama’s eligibility as president stem from the fact that his “grandmother or aunt” in Kenya claims to have witnessed Obama’s birth in Africa. He then turned the topic over to Donald Trump, who has been steadily making the search for Obama’s birth certificate the primary focus point of his… pre-campaign campaigning, we’ll say. What Trump is doing, Limbaugh explained, goes beyond catering to so-called “birthers” – he is essentially providing Republicans with a framework for how to beat Barack Obama in the 2012 election, and for how to deal with Democrats in general:

Donald Trump is providing a lesson on how to beat Barack Obama. Donald Trump is showing that the way to do… You go after go after these people. Not just Obama. You go after the left, you go after the Democratic party. You don’t get timid, you don’t act defensive, and you don’t act afraid.

Limbaugh adds that Trump – and others’ – interest in Obama’s citizenship goes beyond a mere piece of paper; it has much to do with what some, like Limbaugh, perceive as his “un-American” attitude.

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  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    Maybe Rush is a Democratic plant. I doubt Obama would mind running against a guy who has many failed business dealings and inherited $400 million from his father.

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    Rush’s point was to take it to the media…
    Trump has the media in a tizzy…

  • Liberal Tormentor

    Rush is right. Those on the right have been afraid to go after BO for fear of being called a racist. (Of course, the journOlist scandal taught us that was the liberal plan). The Donald wasn’t my choice, but I LOVE how he’s taking it to Obama. You know The Donald wouldn’t bow and apologize his way around the globe like the current Apologist in Chief does

  • ndanielson

    Publius219 said:
    Maybe Rush is a Democratic plant. I doubt Obama would mind running against a guy who has many failed business dealings and inherited $400 million from his father.

    Why? Because 0bama has never ran a business, or worked for anything but 0bama in his pampered life? At least all of Trump’s wives have never given speeches on how mean America is, and how they are never proud of their country. At least Trump’s life is out there for all to see. At least Trump is no socialist. At least Trump believes in American exceptionalism, and would never apologize for his country. At least Trump believes in the military. At least Trump knows how to run a successful business, as well as a losing one. 0bama has run NOTHING at a profit except his mouth.

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    ndanielson said:
    0bama has run NOTHING at a profit except his mouth.

    And TARP.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek

    Alex Alvarez: Why didn’t you put in the part when Rush says he doesn’t care about the birth certificate issue and that he chooses to go after Obama’s polices?

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    Publius219 said:
    And TARP.

    Treasury is selling off TARP assets to cover the deficit…
    if you need proof, just ask…

  • Liberal Tormentor

    Doesn’t fit the template Dronetek.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ellen-Carey-Rowe/683757018 ellie

    And we hope he takes all the advice you have to give him Limpbaugh. As everyone has done so well who’s listened to you so far.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ellen-Carey-Rowe/683757018 ellie

    Publius219 said:
    Maybe Rush is a Democratic plant. I doubt Obama would mind running against a guy who has many failed business dealings and inherited $400 million from his father.

    And has a franchise called Bankruptcies’R'Us!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ellen-Carey-Rowe/683757018 ellie

    Liberal Tormentor said:
    Rush is right. Those on the right have been afraid to go after BO for fear of being called a racist.

    LOL This is the funniest thing I’ve read today. Because the right has been way too kind to Obama. And of course there’s been no racism in their attacks. Let her rip! The American people want to see what you’ve really got once your not afraid of being called racist.

  • Davo

    Publius219 said:
    Maybe Rush is a Democratic plant. I doubt Obama would mind running against a guy who has many failed business dealings and inherited $400 million from his father.

    Rush’s point flew right over your head. Trump is playing OFFENSE, not the DEFENSE spineless Republicans have tried unsuccessfully to play the past few election cycles. I’ve identified the futility of “playing nice” with Democrats some 20 years ago. In fact, Demon Commandment #5 clears up the Democrat tact that Republicans haven’t caught on to yet:

    “5. Always consider bi-partisanship, compromise and “fairness” as weaknesses to exploit. Lure Republicans into the false sense of bi-partisanship that will lower their guard, and they will be easier to destroy when you spring the trap.

    Always stay vigilant and on guard against falling into the altruistic trap of American pride and patriotism. Those are also weaknesses to the exploit.”

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ellen-Carey-Rowe/683757018 ellie

    ndanielson said:
    At least Trump knows how to run a successful business, as well as a losing one.

    He sure knows how to bankrupt a business over and over and over again. How do you bankrupt a casino fer keerist sake … they’re rigged for the house to win. Run Donald run!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ellen-Carey-Rowe/683757018 ellie

    I’d love to see Limbaugh run with Trump. Nothing would be more fun than to see them fighting for the spotlight. They’d end up looking like a couple of blow fish!

  • justanotherconservative

    bring on even more lessons. anything to get this fraudulent president out of the white house.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ellen-Carey-Rowe/683757018 ellie

    Davo said:
    I’ve identified the futility of “playing nice” with Democrats some 20 years ago.

    Ah, so we’ve only been seeing your kinder, gentler side so far. Go for it! The American people love aggressive and mean. It will contrast nicely with Obama’s calm cool and kind nature.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ellen-Carey-Rowe/683757018 ellie

    Davo said:
    “5. Always consider bi-partisanship, compromise and “fairness” as weaknesses to exploit. Lure Republicans into the false sense of bi-partisanship that will lower their guard, and they will be easier to destroy when you spring the trap.

    Go for this too. Refuse to compromise on anything. Fore go fairness. That’s for wussies! Let all that pesky “playing nice” go! Show the American people what a REAL Republican is all about. I’m sure they’ll love it! :)

  • leftistvermin

    Leftists should be hog tied and forced to listen to El Rushbo for at least one hour a day.

  • Yoda002

    And as usual Rush is wrong again. Trump is letting Obama play him like a fool. I think his NBC show got to his head because the more he talks about this the more he will look like a joke. Trump may want to learn some lessons from Whitman and Fiorina on what not to do.

  • Jaurez

    Publius219 said:
    Maybe Rush is a Democratic plant. I doubt Obama would mind running against a guy who has many failed business dealings and inherited $400 million from his father.

    Clearly you never have and never will run a business of any kind. Is it some kind of crime to inherit money, loser? The jealousy is thick.

  • Cisco

    The birth certificate issue is a diversion, and for simplicity, Obama can explain where his father was born and to which country he held allegiance when Hussein was born. Simple request, hidden answer!

  • http://politicallyincorrectlibertarian.wordpress.com PoliticallyIncorrectLibertarian

    You Trump haters are so jealous, Trump is several times more richer than his father ever was. So what if he’s had a few business failures? Who hasn’t? The fact that millions buy his ties, shirts, steaks, cologne, books, not to mention his TV audience, speaks more than being just another developer. Oh, and get this, people actually PAY Trump to name their buildings after him. It’s true.

    RODNEY KING KEEPS SCREWING UP
    http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/

  • Davo

    Yoda002 said:
    And as usual Rush is wrong again.

    Oh? My scorecard shows Rush almost always right. Do you have examples of Rush “usually” being wrong, or are you so simple to just be satisfied with the way that looks in print?

  • Barack Must Go

    All it’ll take to knock Humpty Dumpty down from his MSM reinforced wall is one ” real ” American billionaire with a love for his country, that paralyzed and shaking in their Barney slippers.

  • TrollJuice

    I swear he speaks to the dumb!

  • TrollJuice

    Rush and Donald have a dog whistle to the bigots and racist in this country. Those that listen to these guys to so because they think the same as them.

  • cjd ohio 1

    TrollJuice said:
    Rush and Donald have a dog whistle to the bigots and racist in this country. Those that listen to these guys to so because they think the same as them.

    borrowed from al sharpton and jesse jackson

  • Garth

    leftistvermin said:
    Leftists should be hog tied and forced to listen to El Rushbo for at least one hour a day.

    leftistvermin said:
    Leftists should be hog tied and forced to listen to El Rushbo for at least one hour a day.

    Research shows that listening to the Anal Cyst for less than 20 min a day will lower your IQ at least 40 points. Can you imagine what one hour would do let alone the three hours a day that people like you listen to? We’d have a nation full of door knobs or tea-baggers.

  • leftistvermin

    Garth said:
    Research shows that listening to the Anal Cyst for less than 20 min a day will lower your IQ at least 40 points. Can you imagine what one hour would do let alone the three hours a day that people like you listen to? We’d have a nation full of door knobs or tea-baggers.

    Thinking that referring to people as “tea-baggers” is still clever and funny is proof that you have a low IQ.

  • Garth

    leftistvermin said:
    Thinking that referring to people as “tea-baggers” is still clever and funny is proof that you have a low IQ.

    You are an Anal Cyst listener, 3 hours a day, 5 days a week. You are technically a brain dead tea-bagger.

  • leftistvermin

    Garth said:
    You are an Anal Cyst listener, 3 hours a day, 5 days a week. You are technically a brain dead tea-bagger.

    I listen to Rush for probably an hour or two every week, very open minded, prejudice free leftist you are.

  • StandUp

    The funniest line on Rush’s show in a long time-

    The Gov. shutdown will be a good idea, Obama will be furloughed since he is a “non-essential” employee.

  • StandUp

    Garth said:
    Research shows that listening to the Anal Cyst for less than 20 min a day will lower your IQ at least 40 points.

    Wouldn’t that put you in the negative??

  • Garth

    leftistvermin said:
    I listen to Rush for probably an hour or two every week, very open minded, prejudice free leftist you are.

    Well, there you have it. Your IQ has dropped as much as 80 points in one week. Now multiply that over several weeks. Not good.

  • Garth

    StandUp said:
    Wouldn’t that put you in the negative??

    Are you trying to make my point for me?

  • Resistance Is Futile

    Trumps lesson is to lie, use the race baiting birther b.s. and otherwise be a sleazy, deceitful mud thrower. In other words Trump is being just like Limbaugh and his listeners, a piece of human deification.

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    Trump For President!

    Stop Funding the Bastard-Broods!

  • Sean68

    Actually, Trump believes what he believes about Obama’s birth certificate. It’s the media that keeps asking him about , and then reporting on what he says as if it’s new news.

  • Barack Must Go

    TrollJuice said:
    I swear he speaks to the dumb!

    You were following along, so I think you might be on to something there.

  • Sean68

    A ridiculously high number of blacks believe that the US government invented AIDS to kill black people. Why doesn;t the press ask Obama and every other black politician what they think about that?

  • Sean68

    Sean68 said:
    A ridiculously high number of blacks believe that the US government invented AIDS to kill black people. Why doesn;t the press ask Obama and every orother black politician what they think about that?

    I should add–though I probably dont need to–a ridiculously high number including, judging by the applause “Reverend” Wright received, the large majority of the people who attended his church.

  • Garth

    Barack Must Go said:
    You were following along, so I think you might be on to something there.

    You are exactly the guy the Anal Cyst hopes to real in. Simpletons like you are an easy catch.

  • Barack Must Go

    Garth said:
    You are exactly the guy the Anal Cyst hopes to real in. Simpletons like you are an easy catch.

    Yup, you’ve got me pegged Girth. Nothing and nobody gets past YOU. Mostly from the Girth, than anything else though.

  • Garth

    Barack Must Go said:
    Yup, you’ve got me pegged Girth. Nothing and nobody gets past YOU. Mostly from the Girth, than anything else though.

    Not the hardest thing in the world to do. You’re an idiot, the Cysts fan base.

  • Yoda002

    Some Republicans think he is an Obama plant. Even Rove is telling Repubs to distance himself from Trump

  • Poison Puss

    When did Trump beat Obama?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ellen-Carey-Rowe/683757018 ellie

    Sean68 said:
    A ridiculously high number of blacks believe that the US government invented AIDS to kill black people. Why doesn;t the press ask Obama and every other black politician what they think about that?

    Is it any wonder they might think that after the government’s Tuskegee experiment? http://tinyurl.com/yjd9qpr

  • Nacho

    NORBIT Jr. said:
    Trump For President!

    LOL

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steve-Killgo/1637085325 Steve Killgo

    It’s really quite simple;
    1. His daddy was never an American Citizen. To be a A2. S1. p5. Natural Born American Citizen one has to have both parents American Citizens at the time of one’s birth and that birth has to be on American soil.
    2. His daddy was a Kenyan Brit. Therefore he was under British Law not American Law. The British Nationality Act of 1948 states that any child of a male British Subject born overseas shall be born a British Subject, nationality of mother is not mentioned. Whatever his real name is the man sleeping in our White House was born a British Subject.
    3. No person born a British Subject can be Commander in Chief. (Just Google; John Jay, George Washington, Natural Born).
    So = If your daddy was a Kenyan Brit, for the office of POTUS you’re never fit! (Easy enough for a 5th grader).

  • glenn113

    Correct Limbaugh. Just like “operation chaos”.

  • glenn113

    Steve Killgo said:
    It’s really quite simple;1. His daddy was never an American Citizen. To be a A2. S1. p5. Natural Born American Citizen one has to have both parents American Citizens at the time of one’s birth and that birth has to be on American soil.2. His daddy was a Kenyan Brit. Therefore he was under British Law not American Law. The British Nationality Act of 1948 states that any child of a male British Subject born overseas shall be born a British Subject, nationality of mother is not mentioned. Whatever his real name is the man sleeping in our White House was born a British Subject.3. No person born a British Subject can be Commander in Chief. (Just Google; John Jay, George Washington, Natural Born).So = If your daddy was a Kenyan Brit, for the office of POTUS you’re never fit! (Easy enough for a 5th grader).

    Sounds like the same argument birther queen Orly Taitz had. Better yet go ask the Army Colonel who got court marshalled. He got sold that same bill of goods

  • glenn113

    Donald Trump and Orley Taitz 2012!

  • Arkansas Steve

    When this question first came up, I thought the “birthers”, as they were derogatorily named, were just a few crazy far right guys with too much time on their hands.

    Today I seriously wonder what’s going on with our President.

    The important thing is the REASON I’m more curious:

    It is NOT because of anything the birthers say or ask.
    It IS BECAUSE of the way President Obama has responded (or not responded) to the questions!
    Everything he & his representatives say & do is exactly what a guilty man might do!

    Unless he is saving something for later, WHICH WOULD MAKE HIM A SICK MAN, he should done what anyone would do in this circumstance & furnish the proper documents. If he couldn’t he should have just offered whatever he could and said “that’s all I’ve got folks, it’ll have to do”. Then this could have gone away.

    Most people, like Trump, just want this to go away. It appears the President, his minions, Bill Maher, Chris Matthews, etc., etc., are the ones who do not want it to go away. Maybe they think of it as a trap for Republicvan candidates, who knows. If they do, they are one group of sick people.

  • Pablo

    TrollJuice said:
    I swear he speaks to the dumb!

    You heard him, right? So, yeah.

  • Pablo

    Resistance Is Futile said:
    In other words Trump is being just like Limbaugh and his listeners, a piece of human deification.

    Freudian malaprop of the day. Deification. Trump would agree with you, I’m sure.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek

    I’d still like to know why the author of this story didn’t include a quote from when Rush said he doesn’t care about the birth certificate issue and would rather take Obama on over his policies.

  • Pablo

    ellie said:
    Is it any wonder they might think that after the government’s Tuskegee experiment? http://tinyurl.com/yjd9qpr

    Yes, because it’s batshit crazy. Like Rev. Wright.

  • Wallycrawler

    “Gawd Dang it Mildred”! “Rush am speak’n to da common man”. “We aint gonna votes fer no gawd blame nagar!”

  • Newsjunky

    You should use a more recent photo of Limbag. He’s very fat again. Also, if you watch the video you can see his mouth hanging wide open and hear all that hot air escaping his huge throat while the caller is speaking.

  • Armageddon T Thunderbird

    That lesson is actually a very simple one. It is nothing more than the same tactic that all Repugs use anytime whey want to beat a Democrat which is simply to spread lies and create bullshit that pushes the ignorance and stupidity of most voters. This is not difficult and is part of why we now have the Tea Bagger Party out there. Hey…stupidity, ignorance, hate and lies sell. It worked for Bush Jr and his daddy Cheney as they had absolutely no problem capitalizing on the stupidity that dominates the average repug voter.

  • CAconservative

    Wallycrawler:

    I think your still under the dellusion that Obimbo is Black? What’s up with that? Obimbo is for…wait for it….OBIMBO! If he had just one more vertebrae, he wouldn’t be married. That’s how deep he’s in love with….OBIMBO!

  • Nachi

    Rush but dwells within & among his huge, heaping hunks of hatred. The drug-addicted Fat Man is but another lonely, frightened, disoriented Murcuhn – whose parents have doubtlessly been grieving over their mistake for his – entire lifetime.

  • glenn113

    When Rush Limbaugh was born his mother screamed “It’s alive. Don’t flush it!”.

  • Yukon Jack

    Ellen Carey Rowe said:
    Is it any wonder they might think that after the government’s Tuskegee experiment? http://tinyurl.com/yjd9qpr

    According to the link, the Tuskegee Experiment went on from 1932 to 1972, during which time there was a Republican President for eight years. Which means that the Experiment was done with more approval from Democrats than Republicans. Which would make one think that Democrats are racists. Which is clinched by the way Democrats treated American citizens of Japanese descent, during WWII.

  • Gasket

    Steve Killgo said:
    It’s really quite simple;
    1. His daddy was never an American Citizen. To be a A2. S1. p5. Natural Born American Citizen one has to have both parents American Citizens at the time of one’s birth and that birth has to be on American soil.

    You just made that up. Where in the US Constitution does it define that? Quote in full.

    Steve Killgo said:
    2. His daddy was a Kenyan Brit. Therefore he was under British Law not American Law.

    Another mythical creation. Obama being born in the US was under US jurisdiction. No foreign law trumps American law when it comes to US citizens in the US.

    The British Nationality Act of 1948 states that any child of a male British Subject born overseas shall be born a British Subject, nationality of mother is not mentioned. Whatever his real name is the man sleeping in our White House was born a British Subject.

    Again, irrelevant what a foreign law says about an American citizen born in the US. (Familiarize yourself with the 14th amendment) We follow American law in the US. Not British law.

    You seem to know a bit of foreign law, but it should behoove you to learn of American laws first.

    Yukon Jack said:
    According to the link, the Tuskegee Experiment went on from 1932 to 1972, during which time there was a Republican President for eight years. Which means that the Experiment was done with more approval from Democrats than Republicans. Which would make one think that Democrats are racists. Which is clinched by the way Democrats treated American citizens of Japanese descent, during WWII.

    We have conservatives to thank for slavery and the institution of racism that still exists today. BTW, a liberal President apologized on behalf of the federal government for the Tuskegee experiment.

  • Gasket

    Steve Killgo said:
    3. No person born a British Subject can be Commander in Chief. (Just Google; John Jay, George Washington, Natural Born).

    LOL. George Washington WAS a British subject at birth. I like how you wingnuts cherry-pick your factoids.

  • celiinddahk

    hi I think your still under the dellusion that Obimbo is Black? What’s up with that? Obimbo is for…wait for it….
    http://nutraslimfacts.com/

  • http://libertyinprogressnow.wordpress.com/ ProgLib

    LOL… right because it worked so successfully in 2008, right? Good one, Limpballs.

  • TrollJuice

    Who actually listens to Rush the Blowhart?

  • Sean68

    ellie said:
    Is it any wonder they might think that after the government’s Tuskegee experiment? http://tinyurl.com/yjd9qpr

    Would it be any wonder if Obama himself believed it too? If not, why not?

  • eingriff

    Trump is so far teaching an incomplete lesson.

    Official investigations of Obama’s origins and life history are necessary to carry the fight to him. He pretends to have a Negro father. His DNA and original birth certificate must be subpoenaed. Certainly Obama the black Luo tribesman is not his birth father, and more likely than not neither parent is African. Stanley Ann Dunham and Obama the alien Luo are adoptive parents.

    Official investigations of Obama’s origins and life history are also necessary to determine his true citizenship and allegiance, and the corrupt bargains made to conceal foreign citizenship, particularly Indonesian citizenship.

    If Obama is not shown up for what he is, nobody has a chance against him.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Charles-McAdams/797148205 Charles McAdams

    It is such a shame. I truly wanted “The Donald” to be the nominee, now that Palin has been marginalized. Now the Republicans might actually run someone who can win……….NAAAAAAAAH

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