McCain To Obama: Leave Limbaugh Alone
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| Fri, 01-30-2009 - 7:07pm |
McCain To Obama: Leave Limbaugh Alone!»
Over the past week, the fealty of GOP lawmakers to hate radio host Rush Limbaugh has become increasingly clear. They have been reluctant to criticize his comment that he hopes Obama fails, and those who have spoken out have been forced to retract their statements and beg forgiveness from the hate radio host.
Today on Fox and Friends, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) further circled the wagons, saying that Obama shouldn’t have made critical remarks about Limbaugh (which were made in a private meeting with Republicans and then leaked to the press):
McCAIN: I don’t know why he would do that. Mr. Limbaugh is a voice of a significant portion of our conservative movement in America. He has a very wide viewing audience. He is entitled to his views, and he has a lot of people who listen very carefully to him. I don’t know why that the President would take him on.

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1) No, that's not the "exact thing he said" on Hannity.
Foxnews.com transcript and video:
Of course, this relies on an inaccurate definition of 'socialism'
Katie
No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison.
We two alone will sing like birds i' th' cage.
When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down
And ask of thee forgiveness. So we'll live,
And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh
At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues
Talk of court news, and we'll talk with them too—
Who loses and who wins, who's in, who's out—
And take upon 's the mystery of things
As if we were God's spies. And we'll wear out
In a walled prison packs and sects of great ones
That ebb and flow by the moon.
-King Lear, Act V, Scene III
1) Just to clarify, that wasn't the "exact thing" he'd said on Hannity
Let's go ahead and discuss the original transcript, which I am going to post along with the website.
RUSH: I got a request here from a major American print publication.
In my post above, pay special attention to the parts that are bold face and underlined.
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