Limbaugh: I hope Obama fails

// added January 20, 2009 // 88 comments //
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On his radio show last friday, Limbaugh told his listeners that he was asked by “a major American print publication” to offer a 400-word statement explaining his “hope for the Obama presidency.” He responded:

So I’m thinking of replying to the guy, “Okay, I’ll send you a response, but I don’t need 400 words, I need four: I hope he fails.” (interruption) What are you laughing at? See, here’s the point. Everybody thinks it’s outrageous to say. Look, even my staff, “Oh, you can’t do that.” Why not? Why is it any different, what’s new, what is unfair about my saying I hope liberalism fails? Liberalism is our problem. Liberalism is what’s gotten us dangerously close to the precipice here. Why do I want more of it? I don’t care what the Drive-By story is. I would be honored if the Drive-By Media headlined me all day long: “Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails.” Somebody’s gotta say it.



.... click above for the full story about this spiteful, drug-addled jerk who wishes ill on our country. Talk about traitors. He & Coulter should be shipped off to an island somewhere far away from America, where they can't do us any harm.
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88 comments // Limbaugh: I hope Obama fails

  • MistressOfJade
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      MistressOfJade  
    • *false enthusiasm* Wooow, c'mon people, let's all cross our fingers that America fails worse than we are now and have in the past...

      Ugh, what an idiot...

    • 3 months ago
  • carmalite
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      carmalite  
    • I recall Mr. Limbaugh saying that Colin Powell supported Obama for ONE reason only, because they were both Black.

      So I wonder how does Mr. Steele, now head of the RNC, feel about this. Rush hates Black people, but he dare not speak against Mr. STeele in public. But i noticed that Mr. Steele said very strongly but smoothly several times that, he, not Rush Limbaugh, was head of the RNC.

      I bet that Mr. Steele can not stand Rush and for good reason.

    • 1 year ago
  • courage
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      courage  
    • As in all things Context matters I was listening when rush said what he said he supported the president but not his socialist policies he doesnt want the goverment to control every aspect of our lives.That is what rush wants President Obama to fail at.He wants him to fail at destroying the free market and capitalism he wants him to fail at goverment control of all things he wants him to fail at creating a voting majority that is totally dependent on the goverment for every thing in there lives.Tell me folks on what point do you disagree with President Obama.I can say I disagree with him in his use of my tax dollars to support abortion or infanticide.I agree with him closing gitmo it was a pr nightmare.

    • 1 year ago
  • Katanajon
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      Katanajon  
    • Rush often says things just to get the left fired up, kinda like the cowboys giving Indians whiskey in the old movies. Looks like it worked again. He toys with the Left like a Big Fay Cat with a little retarded mouse. When he gets them angry, it provides resources for his show. He has to stay on top he just got a 400 million dollar contract. The Left would just love it if Rush and the Right just faded away, or just died off. They look at the Obama administration and the Dems controlling both houses of congress as the death nail in both Rushes and the Repubs coffins, but O contra re, Rush rose to REAL prominence in the Clinton years, these factors are just oats and he is the horse, and a horse has two ends "The Horses Mouth" and "The Horse Ass" he just play both ends very well. If the Left got their way and we just went silently into the night, withen minutes they would cannibalize each other we cant have that so..we provide balance, a yin for a yang, tit for a tat, A Cat needs the Mouse. Thanks for being the mouse guys. Tis better to be a Mouse in Washington than a Sheep in Montana"

    • 1 year ago
  • capt_ayhab
  • alicynx
  • trut
  • newbeginnings
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      newbeginnings  
    • Rush Limbaugh you have already failed at life.

      But he is successful for broadcasting his ignorance. Way to bring up ratings for your show that no one really listens to unless bigoted remarks are said.

    • 1 year ago
  • tunk
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      tunk  
    • Limbaugh, like O'Reilly, Glen Beck, etc., is doing what he does best--sucking up to the far right. He is a fathead. He is a blowhard.

      He is a pathetic remnant, speaking for part of a past generation that is slowly but surely passing from the scene.

      See you, Rush.

    • 1 year ago
  • darkhorsejim
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      darkhorsejim  
    • Rush Limpbag – you sick fuck. Since you hate America so much - the one that’s paying you $400 million over the next 8 years to spew hatred & keep dividing Americans with your malicious, outdated & completely inappropriate mentality - then do us a favor & leave. And maybe your misguided flock of listening sheeple can start thinking for themselves after they pull their heads out of your ass.

    • 1 year ago
  • fonzo
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      fonzo  
    • what a d-bag. Liberalism is the problem? What political idealogy dominated the past 8 years? Conservatism . Its conservatism is the problem. And tards like this need to end their lives.

    • 1 year ago
  • cheche_201
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      cheche_201  
    • I just hope that this statement doesn't come back and bite you in your ass. We are tired of the old way, lest try something new like putting a cap on freedom of speech. If you don't have nothing nice to say then just keep your mouth close - AO

    • 1 year ago
  • Conniepae
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      Conniepae  
    • cheche_201:

      I don't think changing freedom of speech is the answer. Accountability and shame by the masses would go a long way. We can stop them from spinning hate. They spin on paid for TV. We control the purse, stop supporting stations which spew hate! Let their sponsors know "hate speak" is no longer acceptable. If money talks, hate will walk.

    • 1 year ago
  • Conniepae
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      Conniepae  
    • I think the best way for Barack Obama to succeed is to go after air bags like Limbaugh and the rest who work so hard to divide the country.

      Barack Obama will have oversight over our air waves. I'm sure he could find a way to stop them from spewing hate. Bring accountability back! Make them ashamed for making such statements. Call them out and then squash them like bugs. Show America their dark side and the damage they are doing to our country.

      People like Limbaugh have spun Americans into thinking facts could go either way. Many times using lies and distorted facts. Lies and distorted facts should become a thing of the past. If the FCC can govern profanity, they can change the way Americans are spun by these guys.

      President Barack Obama should call Limbaugh out by name and let the world see his shame. President Barack Obama must take these guys head on, let them know they will be exposed for their shameful comments. Maybe not for saying they wish he would fail, but just take a breath, they will say something else, just as shameful.

    • 1 year ago
  • Gargaryun
  • Nephwrack
  • Maggiekortchmar
  • 2hellnwait
  • Maggiekortchmar
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      Maggiekortchmar  
    • Maggiekortchmar:

      Yep, that's exactly what I said. I think I have heard a lot of comments on current regarding killing innocent palestinian children is a good thing, my comment is demure compared to many. Rush is calling for many deaths if he wants Obama to fail, so yes, F^&k Rush. He's a big fat idiot just like Al Franken says.

    • 1 year ago
  • navider
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      navider  
    • It's not surprising, at least he spoke whats on his mind and he shows that he would rather have the country fail than to have it succeed under Obama.

      This statement proves that he is not a patriot and instead an cancer that will not go away.

    • 1 year ago
  • dabne
  • lifestudentno83
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      lifestudentno83  
    • dabne:

      Why is it whenever a black man isn't afraid to speak his mind about racial and social situations he's a racist, but when someone like Rush Limbaugh makes racist statements about black people guys like you think it's "opinionated journalism"?

    • 1 year ago
  • laika666
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      laika666  
    • Ever watch Michelle Hussein Obama walk? She's in drag!!! Looks like a man! It's going to be a long 4 years, & hopefully the economy takes a total dump...and see how many Obama supporters admit to voting for this clown.

    • 1 year ago
  • edbr
  • navider
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      navider  
    • laika666:

      How ridiculous is this statement. First of all if you did not notice by now OUR COUNTRY'S ECONOMY HAS ALREADY TAKEN A TOTAL DUMP UNDER GEORGE W. BUSH.

      Second you are unpatriotic becausse you want the worst for the country for so your party looks ligitamate.
      Third least Obama can communicate and not sound illiterate!!

      Thats right bush go to Texas where you belong you failure.

    • 1 year ago
  • Conniepae
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      Conniepae  
    • laika666:

      That comment was just mean. No wonder your screen name ends in 666. I guess the devil made ya post it? Sad little creature who has to post something so vile about the First Lady of the United States of America, just to feel personal satisfaction. Crawl back in your hole. While you're at it, take Rush with you. You can all go to hell! Leave this earth and let the rest of us move along.

    • 1 year ago
  • Found_Avenue
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      Found_Avenue  
    • laika666:

      You are an American, yet you want the USA to fail, which makes you a traitor just like Limbaugh. Sad. You should move to a country that you DON'T wish ill upon. With patriots like you, who needs enemies?

    • 1 year ago
  • ILiveonaClock
  • laika666
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      laika666  
    • Rush Limbaugh is right! And I'e m glad he said it. Obama didn't even have the balls to produce his birth certificate as proof of citizenship. The rest of us have to come up with the correct documents before going to work....but most liberal maggots are fine with working at Burger King, & perhaps don't need a birth certificate.
      Isn't BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, from Kenya?

    • 1 year ago
  • khromadjo
  • edbr
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      edbr  
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    • laika666:

      since you obviously haven't been around here very long, the claims you suggest have already been disproven.

      obama's birth certificate has been physically examined and photographed, along with the embossed HI state logo.

    • 1 year ago
  • navider
  • Nicklas
  • khromadjo
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      khromadjo  
    • Consider the source, folks. Rush's words only yield allure to the intellectually handicapped (and the occasional outraged few offering scathing rebuttals--as evidenced here). I feel sorry for those so unable to think logically that they resort to Rush Limbaugh as a viable source of information and discourse.

    • 1 year ago
  • eldamon
  • courage
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      courage  
    • Why is it wrong now to disagree with the lord obama.It is starting to remind me of germany in 38.It was fine to do everything you could to destroy Bush for eight years but now all people in the world nust line up and do the conga off the side of a cliff following the lord obama all the way.

    • 1 year ago
  • Found_Avenue
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      Found_Avenue  
    • courage:

      Disagreeing with The President, whoever he may be, is very different than WISHING HE FAILS, THEREBY WISHING THE COUNTRY FAILS.

      One is political discourse, the other is a spiteful, immature, traitorous act. If you can't see the difference between the two, I pity you.

    • 1 year ago
  • SHAWN_RITTIMAN
  • pjacobs51
  • SHAWN_RITTIMAN
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      SHAWN_RITTIMAN  
    • His opinion means nill...as far as I am concerned he can eat a BLOWME sandwich till the blewcheese rolls down his chin! Eat more painkillers punk boy!

    • 1 year ago
  • SamuraiDave
  • Katanajon
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      Katanajon  
    • Yeah, guess you Guys didn't expect PAYBACK for betraying BUSH huh? awe. What can one man do anyway? A lot if he is the most popular radio host in history. LMAO way to have a set RUSH they are whining and sniveling already.

    • 1 year ago
  • khromadjo
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      khromadjo  
    • Katanajon:

      Payback? Betrayal?

      Ha! WTF are you talking about? Every President has had dissenters, and should (Pres. Obama included). Read an American History book once in a while and come correct next time with this lame excuse of 'payback'.

      BTW, Rush only affects those either (a) stupid enough to ride his scrotum into the pits of banality, or (b) people who won't buy him more pills. I won't even go into betrayal. Speaks for itself (Bush).

    • 1 year ago
  • edbr
  • ejasun
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      ejasun  
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    • Hey Limbaugh move to Russia and say that **** piss off you bugger! LEAVE THE "O" ALONE !
      ...................................................

      Limbaugh: Obama Should ‘Renounce’ His Race And Just ‘Become White’»

      The right wing has repeatedly thrown baseless racial slurs at Obama.

      Earlier in the week, right-wing radio host Glenn Beck said that Obama “is colorless,” and that “as a white guy…you don’t notice that he is black. So he might as well be white, you know what I mean?”

      ......................
      I don't care for Limbaugh! he is a "real jackass"
      standing on a box trying to be intelligent drawing attention from Obama and millions of people working together to make this WORLD a better place!

    • 1 year ago
  • Cynic2
  • lifestudentno83
  • Elevator
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      Elevator  
    • If you all hate him so much why are you doing exactly what he wants? Look at all the attention your giving his statement. If you really wanna stick it to him don't waste your time reading this story or leaving comments.

    • 1 year ago
  • lifestudentno83
  • CiiMONSTR
  • Found_Avenue
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      Found_Avenue  
    • Elevator:

      I posted it because I found it shocking. You can listen to republican pundits day-in and day-out, and all they say (veiled or unveiled) is how much they hate Obama and refuse to give him a chance. But when one of these morons actually says what they're REALLY thinking, which is that they WISH FAILURE upon our new president (therefore implying that their spite is so deep that they'd rather see the country go down in flames than Obama succeed), I find the candor both shocking and newsworthy. Usually they don't have the balls to be that honest about the depth of their spite and negativity.

    • 1 year ago
  • JCOURTN1
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      JCOURTN1  
    • Look - the guy is an "entertainer". He says what he believes will get him attention. He is not to be taken seriously - if you do, the joke is on you.
      Lighten up - nobody in their right mind wants the President to fail. Especially, not after eight years of failure. That would be crazy.

    • 1 year ago
  • footystud
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      footystud  
    • Rush is too outspoken. I'm not pleased with the election, but i'm all for Mr. President... I want him to succeed, because if he doesn't, then I don't. Our country will go down in flames if he doesn't succeed.

    • 1 year ago
  • velma3857
  • northerntouchblog
  • arcticspirit
  • Found_Avenue
  • eden49
  • sylntfewl
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      sylntfewl  
    • I find the actual input from this user was nothing but name calling and accusing Rush of attacking our country. He was simply attacking Obama's Ideals the hallmark of liberalism and last I checked, we are still a free country and all the people like Found_avenue with thier cunts and druggie and racist pig remarks do nothing but show the very core of who you are. I guarantee they didn't get the same hate speech in response to their overwhelming support of Bush failing. Grow up and show some change yourselves to the world around you. If this is all you "CAN DO", then go back to doing nothing!

    • 1 year ago
  • khaosworks
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      khaosworks  
    • sylntfewl:

      Bush didn't need anyone to hope for or "support" his failing - he did that all by his lonesome.

      And in reply to Rush, to paraphrase Voltaire, "I will defend to the death your right to say it, but I still think it's a load of horse hockey."

    • 1 year ago
  • PlatoTacius
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      PlatoTacius  
    • sylntfewl:

      You're defending Rush's right to disparage others unreasonably while you're discrediting those who speak out with logic and reason against him...you're defending free speech and condemning it at the same time...get a clue, you make yourself look like an ass...

    • 1 year ago
  • ZombiePhil23
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      ZombiePhil23  
    • sylntfewl:

      "I will defend to the death your right to say it, but I still think it's a load of horse hockey."

      free speech is everyone's right.

      You are free to do[say] whatever you like. You need only face the consequences.

    • 1 year ago
  • Found_Avenue
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      Found_Avenue  
    • sylntfewl:

      Please explain the "people like Found_Avenue with thier cunts and druggie and racist pig remarks" section of your post. The word I used was "drug-addled," and that refers to his famous bout with OxyContin, to which he admits freely.

      I posted the article, and then, as Current instructs its users to do, posted my opinion on the matter (that I believe that anyone who wishes failure upon the president before his first day in office is a spiteful traitor because by doing this, he is also wishing for the failure of his own country). I am free to do so, just as you are free to post your opinions on here. That's called free-speech.

      As for your grammatically incorrect plea that I, or we, "Grow up and show some change yourselves to the world around you," it makes me giggle, because you have absolutely no idea who I am, or what level of activism I participate in. You have no understanding of the marches, rallies, volunteerism, or canvassing that has been a part of my life for the past 15 years. I won't bother explaining the details to you, because your opinion of me holds no value. But do know, little one, that you'd be well advised to check yourself before throwing the word "cunt" around on this website, and attributing it's usage to the wrong person. Liberal OR conservative, or anything in between, please know that Current is a blog for intelligent people who use real words. Step up to the plate or you'll get laughed out of here toot sweet, sunshine.

    • 1 year ago
  • 2hellnwait
  • sil
  • jogglef
  • RS57
  • Elevator
  • Found_Avenue
  • PugPugRepug
  • ruebezahl
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      ruebezahl  
    • This is the USA not Nazi Germany he can say what he like to say. He makes lot of money while mocking democracy. The people that support him in his mockery and pay for him are the ones to fear. His listeners whom seem to like his Nazi style mockery are the danger for USA fabric.

    • 1 year ago
  • Found_Avenue
  • merasyad
  • extblues
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      extblues  
    • Hypocrite

      Limbaugh sang the praises of the so-called "conservative" movement while he, at the same time, ignored conveniently it's most grievous violations.

      I'm sure that W has a spare room in Houston for him and all of the other relics from the past eight years...

    • 1 year ago
  • csmonut
    • 0
      csmonut  
    • Limbaugh is a has-been and he knows it. He's just trying to get his name back in the spotlight.
      Bad press is better than no press.

    • 1 year ago
  • Steven44
  • capt_ayhab
  • mutedmajority
  • quixotic12
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      quixotic12  
    • Yes, let's hope liberalism fails. Because god forbid the USA do well.

      Once again demonstrating his narrow-mindedness, Limbaugh essentially states that if it's not his ideology than he doesn't want it to succeed. How selfish.

    • 1 year ago
  • carmalite
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      carmalite  
    • quixotic12:

      Right. Rush the sucking druggie is a multi-millionair so he is not worried abouy losing his job and house. He hates the poor and says so over and over. He should experience water-boarding as he approves of it so much.

    • 1 year ago
  • MornRail
  • jennyschu
  • Found_Avenue
  • MornRail
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      MornRail  
    • MornRail:

      It's no problem. It's easy to fall into these traps that he, Ann Coulter and others put out there. If it wasn't you who posted it, it would have been someone else. It can't be helped.
      He even stated: "I would be honored if the Drive-By Media headlined me all day long: “Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails.” And that's what we gave him. But not today. Maybe tomorrow or another day he'll infuriate me over the trash that comes out of his mouth. Just not today.

    • 1 year ago
  • mutedmajority
  • neocongo
  • carmalite
  • danweasel
    • 0
      danweasel  
    • Hahaha, who gives a shit? That guy just reaches inot his pitifully small bag of catch phrases (that aren't all that catchy) and slaps two or three together and, boom, you have a quick and easy pile of nonsense that his flock will take as truth. I support Rush, he makes me look smart.

    • 1 year ago
  • iSpitFire
  • CiiMONSTR
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      CiiMONSTR  
    • the only good use for a cigar is goin' to waste on a cuntface like ruch. the old fart joke should be considered too sick to speak in public

    • 1 year ago
  • sonoway
  • gem7007
  • PlatoTacius
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      PlatoTacius  
    • sonoway:

      He's just a drug addled self centered egotistical money hungry pompous jackass...he's got his millions from sucking up to the elite...now he gets to pop pills unencumbered, spew hateful rhetoric and suck on the finest cigars...while the base dotes on their darling...

    • 1 year ago
  • carmalite

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