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Rush Limbaugh: It’s ‘Nauseating And Hilarious’ To Watch Obama ‘Hijack’ Credit For Everything

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One has to seriously be impressed with Rush Limbaugh‘s limitless creativity, as every day he truly does seem to find a new angle to give a full-throated attack of President Obama and his policies. According to Rush, Obama is now guilty, beyond a reasonable doubt, of “parade-hijacking.” That well-known crime of taking too much credit when too many good things are happening.

Rush declares:

“Obama has gone from being the leader of the party . . . that believes the American military consists of terrorists and baby-killers to now claiming the mantle of America’s toughest, most patriotic cowboy. Obama has hijacked John Wayne from us. He’s hijacked Bush. . . . He’s gone from being best friends with flag-stomping domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, to now being best friends and the leader of Seal Team Six.”

If Rush truly believes Obama has undergone a transformation, such that Obama is now acting like tough and courageous figures, then wouldn’t that be cause for celebration? Maybe that’s why Rush claims it is “simultaneously nauseating and hilarious to watch” rather than truly outrageous?

Yet Rush wasn’t done, also warning that Obama’s credit-stealing superpowers can extend to any issue Obama tackles:

“He leads from the rear while the parade forms. After the parade forms and a consensus has developed, Obama gets on the white horse and races to the front of the parade – takes credit for whatever the cause is and hijacks it.”

It seems in the aftermath of Osama bin Laden‘s killing, conservative commentators are desperate for any new issue to really bludgeon Obama with, yet while some have latched on to the rapper controversy, it seems like Rush is sputtering a bit in his search for the next big thing.

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

    If you disagree with Rush provide a counter argument…
    When has BHO been out in front of anything that requires leadership?

  • Sam M.

    skoorbekim said:
    If you disagree with Rush provide a counter argument…
    When has BHO been out in front of anything that requires leadership?

    You seriously don’t know? I’ll give you one guess.

    Did you know Limbaugh has a background in marketing / advertising? He uses it every day. He is a business and like any business he has a product to sell. His product at the moment is anything anti-Obama. If he were reasonable and factual people like you wouldn’t listen. I get it.

    Frankly his audience is getting old and he is desperately trying to appeal to a younger crowd by being more like Glenn Beck.

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

    Sam M. said:
    You seriously don’t know? I’ll give you one guess.

    I asked for an example of BHO leading from the front of an issue that required leadership…
    if you don’t have one just admit it…

  • Sam M.

    skoorbekim said:
    I asked for an example of BHO leading from the front of an issue that required leadership…
    if you don’t have one just admit it…

    UBL killed; I know I read that somewhere. Sweet Jesus you baggers are among the dumbest species on planet earth. You should be studied.

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

    Sam M. said:
    UBL killed; I know I read that somewhere. Sweet Jesus you baggers are among the dumbest species on planet earth. You should be studied.

    The McRaven Operation?
    You think Obama had a choice?!
    If he rejected that mission he would be politically finished…

  • cjd ohio 1

    skoorbekim said:
    The McRaven Operation?You think Obama had a choice?!If he rejected that mission he would be politically finished…

    hell, he was the first one out of the chopper

  • TillieGlockenspiel

    Sam M. said:
    UBL killed; I know I read that somewhere. Sweet Jesus you baggers are among the dumbest species on planet earth. You should be studied.

    Poor Sam, he thinks 0bama was the leader on the plan to assassinate bin Laden. CIA, JOSC, SEAL Team 6, et al didn’t have anything to do with the planning. Wait for it, as Rush suggested, 0bama is going to drag Osama bin Laden with him to every campaign event from now until the election- think “Weekend at Bernie’s I & II. I wonder if 0bama can make him wave?

  • TillieGlockenspiel

    Operation Neptune’s Spear: Death of Osama bin Laden

    McRaven is credited for organizing and executing Operation Neptune’s Spear,[3] the special ops raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden. CIA Director Leon Panetta delegated the raid to McRaven who has worked almost exclusively on counterterrorism operations and strategy since 2001.[3] According to the New York Times, “In February, Mr. Panetta called Vice Adm. William H. McRaven, commander of the Pentagon’s Joint Special Operations Command, to C.I.A. headquarters in Langley, Va., to give him details about the compound and to begin planning a military strike. Admiral McRaven, a veteran of the covert world who had written a book on American Special Operations, spent weeks working with the C.I.A. on the operation, and came up with three options: a helicopter assault using American Navy SEAL commandos, a strike with B-2 bombers that would obliterate the compound, or a joint raid with Pakistani intelligence operatives who would be told about the mission hours before the launch.”[4] The day before the assault, “Mr. Obama took a break from rehearsing for the White House Correspondents Dinner that night to call Admiral McRaven, to wish him luck.” [5]

    Hey, Obama wished him luck! That’s LEADERSHIP.

  • Barack Must Go

    That’s because Barack is a hybrid mixture of racist, pathological liar, jitterbug, and social gadfly all rolled up into one the most annoying SOB’s the world has ever seen.

  • Sam M.

    TillieGlockenspiel said:
    Poor Sam, he thinks 0bama was the leader on the plan to assassinate bin Laden. CIA, JOSC, SEAL Team 6, et al didn’t have anything to do with the planning. Wait for it, as Rush suggested, 0bama is going to drag Osama bin Laden with him to every campaign event from now until the election- think “Weekend at Bernie’s I & II. I wonder if 0bama can make him wave?

    Poor Tillie – here’s some news that you won’t like because you’re an idiotic ideologue. He did, he made the call and gutsy call and idiots like you can’t stand it. Sorry, deal with it.

    PS – You swallow whatever Limbaugh puts in your mouth which automatically qualifies you for the Moron Club. Congrats.

  • Thelonious Funk

    If Obama really wanted to show appreciation for Seal Tam 6 and not take credit for it, he would fly onto an aircraft carrier in a fighter jet.

  • Newt Limbaugh

    Thelonious Funk said:
    If Obama really wanted to show appreciation for Seal Tam 6 and not take credit for it, he would fly onto an aircraft carrier in a fighter jet.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P6UU6m3cqk

  • insideguy

    A healthcare plan, ending don’t ask don’t tell, ending enhanced interrogations,starting to work on immigration reform, working with NATO to stop slaughter in Libya, oh and what was the other one again mmmmmm ummmm oh yea making the call to Kill the worlds most wanted criminal and pulling it off which drives you guys crazy!

  • Bill Huggins

    Rush needs to SOBER UP and check out the losers giving credit to Bush for killing Bin Laden when he, in fact, HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT

    Compared to W “I don’t think about him anymore” Bush, Obama deserves ALL THE CREDIT

  • Sam M.

    Bill Huggins said:
    Rush needs to SOBER UP and check out the losers giving credit to Bush for killing Bin Laden when he, in fact, HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT

    Compared to W “I don’t think about him anymore” Bush, Obama deserves ALL THE CREDIT

    Given his physical appearance, his over-the-top need to convince us that he’s a tough guy (when we know he’s a draft dodging coward) and his interest in the boys of the Dominican Republic, all point to the fact that he has relapsed. There is no other explanation for his erratic behavior.

  • TillieGlockenspiel

    Sam M. said:
    Given his physical appearance, his over-the-top need to convince us that he’s a tough guy (when we know he’s a draft dodging coward) and his interest in the boys of the Dominican Republic, all point to the fact that he has relapsed. There is no other explanation for his erratic behavior.

    It is unfortunate that you cannot be sued for libel.

    You can, however, be laughed at for imagining that 0bama did anything more than approve the SEAL team raid that McRaven planned. I am glad that Osama bin Laden is no longer on this earth, but 0bama could not have done anything but approve the raid, if he wanted to be re-elected.

    Unicorns and fairy dust for everyone, courtesy of Sam M.

  • Sam M.

    TillieGlockenspiel said:
    It is unfortunate that you cannot be sued for libel.

    You can, however, be laughed at for imagining that 0bama did anything more than approve the SEAL team raid that McRaven planned. I am glad that Osama bin Laden is no longer on this earth, but 0bama could not have done anything but approve the raid, if he wanted to be re-elected.

    Unicorns and fairy dust for everyone, courtesy of Sam M.

    Tillie – you should be sued simply for being one dumb bitch.

  • insideguy

    And now I will list the accomplishments of President Bush. Being president during the worst attack on US soil in the history of the United states. Not firing the CIA director but giving him a medal. Cutting Taxes during a war( A FIRST!) Losing the worlds most wanted criminal and then giving up. Attacking the wrong country for a reason that has been proven false. Running up huge deficits every year he was in office. Debt going from 5 trillion to 9 trillion in 7 years. And last but not least being president during the worst economic collapse since the great depression. Im glad took the lead on all of this Rush!

  • http://www.snowspot.net Snowspot

    I think he’s saying hilarious because he’s so angry and he can’t admit it.

  • TampopoLoco

    In other words it’s just killing that fat pill popping douchebag that this happened on Obama’s watch. Pop another Perk, fat bot it will numb the pain.

  • tha_whisperer

    When it come to the Right-wingers almost never take their own advice and apply the “so-called” rules to their own.
    So, when Rush Limbaugh developed a serious Oxycontin habit, all the talk about the moral weakness of drug users and abusers suddenly disappeared, to be replaced by claims that he had become addicted, as if by a disease: the same diagnosis the right regularly eschews for street junkies. Rush obstructed investigators who wanted to see his medical records, to determine if he’d been doctor shopping for SURPLUS pills. There’s no “personal responsibility” in that: after all, he’d be the first to tell a suspected criminal, or suspected terrorist who was fighting a search of his (or an investigation into his book-buying habits), that if they had nothing to hide, they shouldn’t mind having their privacy invaded.

  • timcajun

    TillieGlockenspiel says:
    species on planet earth. You should be studied.

    Poor Sam, he thinks 0bama was the leader on the plan to assassinate bin Laden. CIA, JOSC, SEAL Team 6, et al didn’t have anything to do with the planning. Wait for it, as Rush suggested, 0bama is going to drag Osama bin Laden with him to every campaign event from now until the election- think “Weekend at Bernie’s I & II. I wonder if 0bama can make him wave?

    ………………………………………….
    Wait for it, Bush on a battleship taking credit for OSL being out of the picture, when all they got was a few good tortures in, that (as if MAGIC) yielded nothing until several years later! Nothing like fresh information! Wait for it, hypocrisy!

  • TampopoLoco

    timcajun said:
    TillieGlockenspiel says:
    species on planet earth. You should be studied.

    Poor Sam, he thinks 0bama was the leader on the plan to assassinate bin Laden. CIA, JOSC, SEAL Team 6, et al didn’t have anything to do with the planning. Wait for it, as Rush suggested, 0bama is going to drag Osama bin Laden with him to every campaign event from now until the election- think “Weekend at Bernie’s I & II. I wonder if 0bama can make him wave?

    ………………………………………….
    Wait for it, Bush on a battleship taking credit for OSL being out of the picture, when all they got was a few good tortures in, that (as if MAGIC) yielded nothing until several years later! Nothing like fresh information! Wait for it, hypocrisy!

    STFU with all your “wait for it” bullshit!

  • Michael Charles

    “I don’t know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don’t care. It’s not that important. It’s not our priority.”
    - G.W. Bush, 3/13/02

    “I am truly not that concerned about him.”
    - G.W. Bush, repsonding to a question about bin Laden’s whereabouts,
    3/13/02 (The New American, 4/8/02)

    Some one had to….Good for you Barak and the Team!

  • Glackin

    TillieGlockenspiel said:
    It is unfortunate that you cannot be sued for libel.

    You can, however, be laughed at for imagining that 0bama did anything more than approve the SEAL team raid that McRaven planned. I am glad that Osama bin Laden is no longer on this earth, but 0bama could not have done anything but approve the raid, if he wanted to be re-elected..

    McRaven designed a plan because he was ordered to by Leon Panetta.
    Panetta ordered the plan under orders from Obama.
    Obama authorized the plan, the training, and the launching of the mission.
    It’s called the chain of command.

    Meanwhile, Rush can’t attack the mission.
    He, like you, can say Obama just okayed it.
    But Admirals don’t make up plans on their own dime. They do it on orders.
    CIA Chiefs don’t plan missions without orders, (unless they work for Reagan).
    Like it or not, it WAS Obama’s operation.
    And, if it had failed, it would be his fault.
    And you would be here screaming about it.

  • insideguy

    Can you even imagine the fallout if this would have failed? Holy Smokes the right would have popped viagra for days. I cant even begin to think of the stuff they would be saying. Show what stones Obama had for doing this.

  • stephenpyle

    skoorbekim said:
    If you disagree with Rush provide a counter argument…
    When has BHO been out in front of anything that requires leadership?

    Dude, you’re right. You’re a much better leader. I should have voted for you.

    And to answer your questions on his leadership… his parameters on Afghanistan, his working with NATO on LIbya, health care, the economic crisis. There’s a few. I know you won’t agree or like any of those stances, but you asked for leadership in areas and there it is.

  • Dem4Ever

    I hear BO created the universe.

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  • TfT

    Nice try Glackin, but not exactly correct. Obama approved the plan that was developed as part of the overall strategy on the war on terror and the “wanted dead or alive” doctrine of Bush. Yes, this was a tactical mission, but the strategery was already in place and adopted by Obama after claiming he would never adopt it. In other words, Obama lied. SHOCKER!

    Did you see his speech on immigration? Filled with falsehoods and AP and mediaite a re silent – no fact checking of hehimself…..he just gets credit for anything/everything unless of course it’s Bush’s fault, and the media and hehimself only play that game when it suits them, and not the truth.

    It’s Bush’s fault, wake up, smell the cofee and get over it.

    Obama’s chest thumping is pretty disgraceful and will backfire. He got a bump up in the polling because the poll was skewed 17 points to the dems. 17 points…..makes the AP live up to their alternate long name: Always propaganda.

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

    “conservative commentators are desperate for any new issue to really bludgeon Obama with”

    You libs would know seeing as how this is your “modus operandi” when it comes to Republicans. Everyday this site nitpicks and attacks Republicans for every little thing you can find on them. Not so much when it comes to your own party, the Democrat party.

  • TillieGlockenspiel

    TfT said:
    Nice try Glackin, but not exactly correct. Obama approved the plan that was developed as part of the overall strategy on the war on terror and the “wanted dead or alive” doctrine of Bush. Yes, this was a tactical mission, but the strategery was already in place and adopted by Obama after claiming he would never adopt it. In other words, Obama lied. SHOCKER!

    Did you see his speech on immigration? Filled with falsehoods and AP and mediaite a re silent – no fact checking of hehimself…..he just gets credit for anything/everything unless of course it’s Bush’s fault, and the media and hehimself only play that game when it suits them, and not the truth.

    It’s Bush’s fault, wake up, smell the cofee and get over it.

    TfT, you might like to listen to these interviews with Chris Plante- I’d never heard of him before, but I assume his dad is Bill Plante.
    http://dailycaller.com/2011/05/12/leaders-with-ginni-thomas-chris-plante/

    Obama’s chest thumping is pretty disgraceful and will backfire. He got a bump up in the polling because the poll was skewed 17 points to the dems. 17 points…..makes the AP live up to their alternate long name: Always propaganda.

  • http://politicallyincorrectlibertarian.wordpress.com PoliticallyIncorrectLibertarian

    Hey Mediaite, if Rush is wrong then prove him wrong, don’t waste my time by copying and pasting his statements and then complaining about how dare does Rush attack America’s favorite mulatto.
    http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/

  • WHarropson

    I offer you an excerpt from WSJ. daniel Henniger:
    Barack Obama will never be where George W. Bush was with the war on terror, but personally and psychologically, it’s not likely he is the same man who in the campaign mocked the Patriot Act and the Bush antiterror policies (many of which he has continued).

    A candidate is not a president. In the fall of 2008, after Mr. Obama won, our offices were visited by then-Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, a former anti-mob prosecutor. Asked about the Obama criticisms of the war on terror, Mr. Chertoff replied that it was impossible to overstate the sobering effect of learning the true magnitude of the threat and bearing responsibility for thwarting it. On another occasion, former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, who as a federal judge presided over terrorist trials in New York, was asked the difference between his understanding of terrorism then and as attorney general. “About the difference,” he replied “between what you thought you knew in the sixth grade and a post-doctoral education.”

    Barack Obama just got his post-doc degree. Sitting in the White House Situation Room, he followed the fate of the SEALs he sent into Abbottabad to take down Osama bin Laden. Days later, he was at Ground Zero with the families bin Laden destroyed. Then came a long-overdue visit to the troops in Fort Campbell and a face-to-face with the soldiers who did what he asked them to do. No normal person could pass through this unchanged.

    This does not mean we will be spared Mr. Obama’s goofy campaign claims for replacing carbon energy with windmills and solar panels. His immigration speech in El Paso yesterday shows that the president is comfortable with ridicule as his primary political tone.

    Killing bin Laden, though, is a different realm. Praising the president, Dick Cheney wisely said that in this battle a president has to build on the work of his predecessor. There is reason to hope that bin Laden’s final disruption was to deepen seriousness about the U.S.’s most important mission in the one place it matters most. What goes around comes around.

    Write to henninger@wsj.com

    Mr. Henneger is kind to call Obama’s claims just Goofy.

  • BILLYtheWILL

    The funny this is, whenever I laugh I get nauseous too! Rush is so right! I couldn’t figure out what was wrong…but it’s because I’ve been laughing so hard at our Comedian in Chief, that it makes me want to vomit

    I love laughing!

  • brownsound

    “That well-known crime of taking too much credit when too many good things are happening.”

    Too many good things? Like the economy and unemployment and gas prices and food prices and the dollar and monthly national debts exceeding yearly debts as recent as 2007′s?

    Yeah, 0bama is presiding over an unprecedented (we hear that term a lot right?) and historic (that one too!) period of prosperity.

  • brownsound

    “It seems in the aftermath of Osama bin Laden’s killing, conservative commentators are desperate for any new issue to really bludgeon Obama with, yet while some have latched on to the rapper controversy, it seems like Rush is sputtering a bit in his search for the next big thing”

    Actually, the truth is that Matt and his journolist-like buddies are “latching” onto all things bin Laden, positive and negative, in a desperate attempt to deflect attention from the economy and unemployment and gas prices and food prices and the dollar and monthly national debts exceeding yearly debts as recent as 2007’s

  • Girth Brick

    Fat Rush needs to keep his pie-hole filled with DR boy.

  • Lolwut

    Dronetek said:
    “conservative commentators are desperate for any new issue to really bludgeon Obama with”

    You libs would know seeing as how this is your “modus operandi” when it comes to Republicans. Everyday this site nitpicks and attacks Republicans for every little thing you can find on them. Not so much when it comes to your own party, the Democrat party.

    You’ve never seen anyone attack a dem on this site? o_O

  • Lolwut

    WHarropson said:

    Mr. Henneger is kind to call Obama’s claims just Goofy.

    I’m pretty sure Obama isn’t claiming that we WILL replace oil with green energy, just that he’d like to start a process of trying to achieve it over time. Call it goofy, but it seems like a reasonable ideal if anything because it’s obvious what oil is doing to the world and our dependency. If you argue with that, I’m not really sure what would ever change your mind short of everything going to hell in a hand basket.

  • Jayson

    It’s ‘Nauseating And Hilarious’ To Watch Rush Limbaugh ‘Hijack’ Credit For Everything.

    Now the shoe fits.

  • Tedderman

    Nauseousness is one side effect of Oxycontin use, while viagra gives you a hard on. Combining these two is what allows Fat Windbag to have sex with women.

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