Obama Watches Documentary on Himself, Not the Election Returns?
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RUSH: RUSH: Obama's not a narcissist, he's not a narcissist. He watched
a documentary about him while the election returns were coming in last
night. That's what Bob Gibbs tells us.
Welcome, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, and the Limbaugh Institute for
Advanced Conservative Studies.
Folks, I would be embarrassed if somebody put together a documentary
about me the way this has been put together about him. I mean it is
godlike. But I have a question. He's the president. This thing aired
live last night at nine o'clock on HBO, you mean to tell me that they
didn't send him a screener copy or a preview copy? You mean to tell me
he had to wait to see this thing? I, frankly, folks, can't believe that
he hadn't seen it and didn't help in having the whole thing put
together, 'cause it's the most fawning. If a documentary could get anal
poisoning, this one could. I mean it's just kiss butt, kiss butt, kiss
butt all over the place, and here he's watching it, he's watching a
one-year-old version of himself and events? This is like Citizen Kane
alone in the 45,000 square foot mansion sitting in front of the 500
square foot fireplace drinking Brandy as his empire is crumbling all
around him and thinking he's having a good time. I mean this just
weird. It's just weird.
He doesn't have time to decide on Afghanistan, doesn't have time to go
to Berlin, but he did have enough time to campaign for Democrats in
various states who lost anyway. And, by the way, he did not go to New
York where the Democrat won. The one place Obama didn't go is where the
Democrat won. Virginia was a landslide. It was not just the governor's
race. It was all the way down the ticket. All the major candidates'
numbers in Virginia were almost identical to each other. This was about
the lack of coattails, the lieutenant governor, few points lower since
he was incumbent, but basically McDonnell, the lieutenant governor, the
attorney general got the same percentage of the vote. There's no
question it was anti-Obama coattails working its way down the ticket.
Now, I was waiting for this. Axelrod has spoken out. CBSNews.com: "As
Barack Obama marks one year since his historic election, one of the
architects of his campaign acknowledges the president has not forged the
post-partisan atmosphere that he had hoped to achieve. Senior Adviser
David Axelrod said the president 'is not a magician. You don't with a
wave of a wand make everything different.' The top White House aide
said while the president has 'extended a hand of cooperation, some in
the other party made a political decision that isn't in their interest.'
... 'There's an awful lot of pressure from the right wing of the
Republican party that has made it more difficult for moderate
Republicans to step forward,'" and join us. (laughing) Wait a minute,
though. He was The Messiah. He was the one we were all waiting for:
the hope, the change, post-partisan, post-racial. Now it's even
post-accomplishment because there isn't any of that, either. (laughing)
So now it's my fault; it's right-wing Republicans.
Meanwhile, you know, I've talked to Mitch McConnell, I've talked to John
Boehner, they can't get a meeting with the president. He's not talking
to Republicans. I guess that's my fault. And remember when Boehner did
go up there with the congressional leadership back in February, Obama
said, (paraphrasing) "You gotta stop listening to Rush Limbaugh, that's
not how things get done in this town." His defense secretary can't get
a meeting, McChrystal can't get a meeting. He's watching a documentary
about himself. He's not a narcissist.
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RUSH: My friends, do not ever doubt me. I expressed incredulity
moments ago when I heard that Obama did not watch election returns last
night because he was watching himself, an HBO documentary on his
campaign and election. And I said to myself, "This doesn't make any
sense. He's president! He doesn't have to wait for this thing to air
live. He'd get a screener copy of it." I said, "To hell with that. He
probably had a role in approving the damn thing." Talking Points Memo,
a lib blog, November 1st, 6:17 p.m. "White House Press Secretary Robert
Gibbs says Obama has already seen 'By the People,' produced and directed
by Alicia Sams and Amy Rice, and backed by actor Edward Norton. Gibbs
told TPMDC Obama's review: 'Thumbs up!'"
Now, this is November 4th. Last night was November 3rd. Gibbs told us
that Obama was watching himself last night, but we know that he's
already seen the damn thing. Oh, of course he wasn't watching the
returns! He didn't care about that. He watched a rerun about himself.
If that's what happened -- if he actually did, he watched a rerun to see
if the version that aired live was the same one that they had sent him
-- and can you imagine? He's probably watching the rerun, "Boy, boy, do
I look good! Do I look good!" Do we buy any of this? He was watching
himself? Why would Gibbs say it? Even if he was doing it, do you
realize...? Why announce on election night you're president of the
United States you would put it all on the line. The signs in New Jersey
have your name above Corzine's, you flew in there -- and you don't care?
You're not interested? You are watching yourself?
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RUSH: We have had people here going through the Barack Obama
documentary, called combat pay, and we put together a little montage
here. The documentary is entitled By the People: The Election of
Barack Obama. From the film November 7th, 2006, during the midterm
elections here is a montage of Obama and Robert Gibbs talking about the
returns.
OBAMA: Do they have a count on the House seats yet?
GIBBS: That's the only one was a pick up. Though (unintelligible) in
Louisville is up with %96 in --
OBAMA: That's what I'm talking about.
GIBBS: Yeah, but they haven't called it.
OBAMA: My goal is every candidate I campaign for I want to win, every
single one. I love elections. It's so much fun. It's even more fun
when you're not on the ballot.
RUSH: My goal is every candidate I campaign for I want to win. Ah.
Ah. And that was in the documentary that aired last night. I guess it
doesn't apply anymore to Corzine as Bob Beckel called him.
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