And Fox News wonders why the White House has been critical of them lately…
This morning, Chris Wallace had conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh as the headline guest on Fox News Sunday. Wallace did ask some adversarial questions — though also told Limbaugh, “I think you’re a great broadcaster.” And Limbaugh’s very presence on the news show seemed to confer a sense of legitimacy that a lot of people might take issue with. Unsurprisingly, Limbaugh said a number of out-there, inflammatory things. Among the, um, highlights:
-On the economy: “I believe that the economy is under siege,” Limbaugh said, adding that “anybody with any economic literary would not do one thing that this administration’s done.”
-On President Obama: “I think he’s got an out-of-this-world ego”; “He’s immature, inexperienced, in over his head”; and he “actively sought the defeat of the U.S. military.” Oh, and “we’ve never seen this kind of radical leadership at such a high level of power in the country.”
-On Obama’s visit to Dover to honor fallen soldiers returning home: “It was a photo op precisely because he’s having big-time trouble on this whole Afghanistan dithering situation.”
-On health care reform: “This is not about insuring the uninsured. This is not about health care. This is about stealing one-sixth of the U.S. private sector.” That, Limbaugh said, is “the easiest, fastest way for them to be able to regulate every aspect of human behavior.”
-On Vice President Joe Biden: “Pompous, a bit of a windbag and wrong” — and “a walking comedy of errors.”
-On Sarah Palin: “I do have profound respect for Sarah Palin.”
White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod was asked about some of Limbaugh’s comments during his appearance today on Face the Nation. Mostly, Axelrod just shrugged Limbaugh off.
“It’s a surreal day when you’re getting lectures on humility from Rush Limbaugh,” Axelrod said.
He is an entertainer. The president has to run the country.
On the Dover criticism, Axelrod said, “The president of the United States went to Dover to represent the American people and to pay his respect to the families who had made so much of a sacrifice and the brave service people who made the ultimate sacrifice.”
“I think most Americans appreciate that,” Axelrod said.
