100 days of Limbaugh's attacks on Obama

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100 days of Limbaugh's attacks on Obama
http://mediamatters.org/
Given all the outrageous comments and attacks of the last 100 days,
Media Matters had a hard time choosing the worst media moment and
asked our readers to decide. The winner was Rush Limbaugh's comment,
"We are being told that we have to hope he succeeds, that we have to
bend over, grab the ankles ... because his father was black."

Indeed, Limbaugh has spent the first 100 days of Obama's presidency
repeating and elaborating on his claim that he wants Obama to fail,
as
well as attacking Obama for being "angry" and accusing him of wanting
to "destroy" the United States of America. A review of his falsehoods
and attacks illustrates his commitment to personally leading the
charge against anything and everything Obama does as president:


Day 3: Setting a disturbing tone for the next four years of his
attacks, Limbaugh says: "We are being told that we have to hope he
succeeds, that we have to bend over, grab the ankles ... because his
father was black."
Day 7: Limbaugh says that getting the "truth" out about Obama is
"gonna be an epic battle, as Saddam Hussein said. Saddam Hussein
Obama
said."
Day 21: In an all-too-common moment of self-aggrandizement, Limbaugh
declares of Obama's first few weeks in office: "I've crashed the
honeymoon. ... I've hijacked it, in fact."
Day 25: Limbaugh declares: "I want the stimulus package to fail. ...
I
want everything he's doing to fail."
Day 29: Demonstrating his deep disdain for Democrats, Limbaugh says
of
calls for "bipartisanship" in fixing the economic crisis: "Should
Jesus have made a deal with Satan?"
Day 39: Limbaugh throws Republicans under the bus: "The dirty little
secret ... is that every Republican in this country wants Obama to
fail, but none of them have the guts to say so. I am willing to say
it."
Day 40: Limbaugh speaks at the CPAC conference in Washington, D.C.,
thrashing Obama and the Democrats in front of a fervent crowd.
Limbaugh says: "How did the United States of America become the
world's lone superpower, the world's economic engine, the most
prosperous opportunity for an advanced lifestyle that humanity has
ever known? How did this happen? And why, pray tell, does the
president of the United States want to destroy it?"
Day 42: Responding to comments from RNC chairman Michael Steele that
Limbaugh's rhetoric was "incendiary" and "ugly" - comments Steele
would later walk back -- Limbaugh says of Steele: "Why do you claim
that you are leading the Republican Party when you are obsessed with
seeing to it the President Obama succeeds?"
Day 58: Limbaugh claims that "everybody in the White House is in over
their heads in fixing" the economic crisis and says those in the
White
House are "perfectly timed, perfectly programmed, perfectly educated
to destroy capitalism ... and they're in the process of doing it."
Day 64: Limbaugh says of Obama: "He's taking away freedom
incrementally each and every day."
Day 66: A poll claiming Americans think Obama will raise taxes yet
still support him provides Limbaugh an opportunity to bash Obama and
display some sexism: "They know he is lying through his teeth and
they
still support him. It just means this, what women have always known:
'Cheat on me, just don't tell me about it.' "
Day 67: Limbaugh issues a pseudo-apology for saying that: "[W]hile my
closing comment yesterday was certainly a comment containing a large
element of truth, it still perhaps was inappropriate and so for that,
I apologize." Yet, later in the show, Limbaugh returns to the
rhetoric, saying of Obama: "He's a cult leader. Battered liberal
syndrome. 'Cheat on me, just don't tell me.' "
Day 70: Limbaugh says: "Based on what we've seen with General Motors
and the banks, if he fails, America is saved. Barack Obama's policies
and their failure is the only hope we've got to maintain the America
of our founding."
Day 80: Limbaugh uses the kidnapping of an American sea captain by
Somali pirates to attack Obama and the Democrats: "Piracy is
rebounding precisely because of the American left and the European
left's lack of intestinal fortitude -- gonads, if you will." He later
added: "The Democrat Party -- enemies of America are friends of the
Democrat Party."
Day 84: Following the rescue of the sea captain, and after previously
bashing Obama for his handling of the situation, Limbaugh says he
"was
confident this was going to get settled. It was going to be resolved
on way or the other way and regardless how, President Obama was going
to be given credit for it."
Day 85: Limbaugh predictably reacts to the leaking of a Department of
Homeland Security report on "right-wing extremism" distorting the
conclusions of the report, claiming Obama and DHS head Janet
Napolitano are "extreme partisan radicals and they're ready to go war
with a domestic enemy - conservatives - that they consider to be a
greater threat than Iran, than China, than North Korea."
Day 86: Limbaugh steers his listeners toward empathizing with right-
wing extremists by falsely claiming that "Obama's DHS report" called
"every mainstream conservative a right-wing extremist."
Day 88: Limbaugh reacts to the Obama administration's release of
previously classified Justice Department memos detailing
interrogation
techniques that were authorized to be used on detainees by claiming:
"[I]f you look at what we are calling torture, you have to laugh." He
went on to assert: "I just slapped myself. I'm torturing myself right
now. That's torture according to these people."
Day 91: In a comment emblematic of Limbaugh's frequent linking of
Obama with Marxist and socialist leaders, Limbaugh asks: "Do you
realize that Obama and [Venezuelan President Hugo] Chavez have more
in
common than they do not?"
Day 100: Limbaugh gives Obama a "D" for his first 100 days, saying
"We
gotta allow room for more failure, cause it's gonna get worse."
There should be little doubt that for the next three years and nine
months, Rush Limbaugh will continue his daily assault on President
Obama. Limbaugh's attacks on President Bill Clinton in his first
couple years in office were credited with helping Republicans take
control of the House in 1994. If Obama does fail -- and the rest of
America with him -- Limbaugh will deserve the credit he will be all
too happy to accept.