Step one to silencing the "loyal opposition".

[03_SHOOTER]

Obama tells GOP lawmakers to "stop listening to Rush Limbaugh"...or else.

Seems that PBHO doesn't want our elected mis-representatives to listen to any voices of opposition, "if they want to get anything done". Nothing like starting off a brand new administration by engaging in BLACKMAIL!

Obama: Quit Listening to Rush Limbaugh if You Want to Get Things Done

Obama warned Republicans to quit listening to Limbaugh if they want to get along with Democrats, during a White House discussion on his nearly $1 trillion stimulus package.
By NY Post

WASHINGTON -- President Obama warned Republicans on Capitol Hill today that they need to quit listening to radio king Rush Limbaugh if they want to get along with Democrats and the new administration.

"You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done," he told top GOP leaders, whom he had invited to the White House to discuss his nearly $1 trillion stimulus package.

One White House official confirmed the comment but said he was simply trying to make a larger point about bipartisan efforts.

"There are big things that unify Republicans and Democrats," the official said. "We shouldn't let partisan politics derail what are very important things that need to get done."

That wasn't Obama's only jab at Republicans today.

While discussing the stimulus package with top lawmakers in the White House's Roosevelt Room, President Obama shot down a critic with a simple message.

"I won," he said, according to aides who were briefed on the meeting. "I will trump you on that."

The response was to the objection by Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) to the president's proposal to increase benefits for low-income workers who don't owe federal income taxes.

Click here to read the full story from the NY Post.

[Woody]

Good advice for anyone .Limbaugh is funny ,but,no one to take serious in my opinion .

[Lee Ragan]

Originally Posted by timwoodhead@hotmail.com

Good advice for anyone .Limbaugh is funny ,but,no one to take serious in my opinion .

You either do not listen to him, or you are a liberal. Living in the UK and being a willing "subject", I suspect the later.

[Woody]

He is a chicken hawk and a drug addict .Very funny entertainer but not someone to let near government too many of those already involved in it

[HairyEyeball]

Originally Posted by timwoodhead@hotmail.com

He is a chicken hawk and a drug addict .Very funny entertainer but not someone to let near government too many of those already involved in it

And yet another example of empty jugs ringing the loudest. Precisely what, beyond the maunderings of a demonstrably biased media, do you know about him?

I've spoken to Rush at length in a social situation, and yes, he's a conservative, and yes, I don't agree with him on everything. He is also an entertainer - few would bother listening to someone on the radio reading a list of facts (or a telephone directory), so he uses humor, sarcasm, and parody to generate interest and controversy. Obviously, it works: He's arguably the most popular conservative commentator on the radio, among those who agree as well as those who feel his contempt.

As to the 'addiction', constant pain is not a pleasant thing, and overmedicating doctors are a common plague - is being a 'conservative icon' somehow supposed to exempt one from the normal vulnerabilities of humanity? And if being a standard bearer for a particular political philosophy renders one a 'primary target' for the lamestream, drive-by media, why is it that the weight of the government falls on those of one extreme, while conspiring with the media in any illegal practice to include those of the other - failures at their commercial enterprises because nobody wanted to listen to them or sponsor their programs - as members of that government?

[Ivan_The_Mute]

Personally, I find Rush to be very entertaining, and occasionally he does have a very valid or profound point. However, he IS another talking head (although not as empty as those on MSNBC or Air America, nor as full of excrement as Michael Savage) and shouldn't be taken as seriously as many seem to do. Personally, among talking heads, I prefer Glen Beck. He's really a riot.

I won't fault him for his opiate (opioid?) addiction because, as Harry said, chronic pain is a terrible thing, and the most effective drugs to treat them are usually highly addictive and even the best among us may fall over the line from use to abuse. I've seen it in two officers I've personally served with/under, and these were top notch men who strictly watched their use and yet still fell into addiction.

(EDIT) Also, to respond to the op, I don't think it was so much a statement about Limbaugh himself nor other conservative commentators. It, to me, came across more as a statement that he wants Republicans to stop towing the party line and listening to the right wing "street." Honestly, it comes across as more highly partisan and oppressive than simply shutting Rush up.