Messiah Gets Testy with Katie Couric

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RUSH:  Hello.

CALLER:  (Rick from Hannibal, Missouri.)  Yesterday you were talking about Obama, and his response to the surge on how I think he said we don't know how that would have happened because we didn't use his plan or something.  That's just... When you pointed him out to be a jerk, I was like, pumping my fist and saying, "right on," because I can't believe he's getting away with not as much scrutiny as he should be. 

RUSH:  There are people talking about it, but most in the media are trying to undercut it and ignore it and throw everybody else who's criticizing him (Obama) under the bus because it's not about what Obama says.  He's tripping up all over the place.  He is rambling and incoherent in these answers, and yet they just stand there and fawn.  But Katie Couric, of all people, really bore in on this surge business.  So I want you to listen to this, Rick.  This is last night.  Now, not all of this aired on the CBS evening news.  We were very resourceful.  We found where CBS hid this.  CBS hid this on their news site, their website: CBSnews.com.  Now, some of this aired on the Evening News with Katie Couric or whatever it's called, but not all of it.  Here's the first portion of her interview. 

The Interview:

COURIC:  You raised a lot of eyebrows on this trip saying even knowing what you know now, you still would not have supported the surge.  People may be scratching their heads and saying, "Why?" 

OBAMA:  Well, uh, er, ka, uh -- because uh, eh, er, what I, uhhh. What I was referring to and I consistently referred to is the need for a strategy that actually concludes our involvement in Iraq and moves Iraqis to take responsibility for the country, uh, and --

COURIC:  But didn't the surge do that? 

OBAMA:  L-l-l-et me -- Let me finish, Katie.  The, uh -- What happens if we continue to put $10 to $12 billion a month into Iraq, if we are willing to send as many troops, uh, as we can muster continuing into Iraq, uh, there's no doubt that that's going to have an impact.  But it doesn't meet our long-term strategic goal which is to make the American people safer over the long term. 

[RUSH:  Once again, random incoherence here, putting down the surge. It worked.  She wasn't satisfied.  She continued on this same theme.] 

COURIC:  Do you not give the surge any credit for decreasing violence? 

OBAMA:  No, no. Of course -- of course I have.  There is no doubt that the extraordinary work of our US forces has contributed to a lessening of the violence. Just as making sure that, uh, uh, the Sadr militia stood down or the fact that the Sunni tribes, uh, decided to flip and work with us instead of with, uh, Al-Qa-e-da, something that we hadn't anticipated happening.  All those things have contributed to a reduction in violence. 

[RUSH:  All those things that we didn't expect to happen?  We didn't anticipate this happening? "All those things have contributed to a reduction in violence."  You take the surge out of that and none of this would have happened -- and once again he's a Democrat admitting that Al-Qaeda was in Iraq.  He's been saying Al-Qaeda's in Afghanistan.  Al-Qaeda's not in Afghanistan.  The Taliban's in Afghanistan.  Rambling incoherence.]  

COURIC:  But talking microcosmically, did the surge, the addition of 30,000 --

OBAMA: Heh, heh.

COURIC: -- additional troops --

OBAMA: Katie?

COURIC: -- help the situation in Iraq? 

OBAMA:  Katie, the -- the -- the -- Uh, you've asked me three different times and, eh, eh, I said repeatedly that there is no doubt that, uh, our troops helped to reduce violence. 

COURIC:  But yet --

OBAMA: There's no doubt.

COURIC: -- you are saying if you knew --

OBAMA: But, duh --

COURIC: Given what you know now, you still wouldn't support it.

OBAMA: Because the -- Because the --

COURIC: So I'm just trying to understand this. 

OBAMA:  Because -- because, uh, uh, i-i-it's pretty straightforward.  By us putting $10 to $12 billion a month -- $200 billion -- that's money that could have gone into Afghanistan.  Those additional troops could have gone into Afghanistan.  That money also could have been used to shore up, uh, a declining economic situation in the United States. 

[RUSH:  Pure pap. This is pure pap. Take the money and put it in Afghanistan?  The war was in Iraq.  Who cares why? This guy, he was honest yesterday.  He said (paraphrased), "I needed something to disagree with Bush on! I needed something to get nominated to my party's presidential ticket.  I needed to disagree with Bush.  I needed, if I had to," like McCain said, "I needed to lose the war if I had to in order to get the nomination."  That's what he's saying. He's getting really testy. The Messiah is getting very, very upset at Katie Couric, and yet she tried one more time.] 

COURIC:  I really don't mean to belabor this, senator, because I'm really trying to figure out your position.  Do you think the level of security in Iraq would exist today without the surge? 

OBAMA:  Katie, I have no idea what would have happened had we applied my approach which was to put more pressure on the Iraqis to arrive at a political reconciliation.  So this is all hypotheticals. 

[RUSH:  None of it is hypothetical!  You blooming... You are glittering jewel of colossal ignorance, Obama!  You wanted us to try surrender, dunce! You wanted us to try to surrender! That's what he was after.  That's what his party was after.  They met the political benchmarks.  The surge worked every which way it was designed to work.  And he's lamenting we never got a chance to try his plan?  His plan was surrender!  Beef up the political circumstance?  We did that.  In fact, I would suggest that the Iranian congress of parliament, is probably meeting more benchmarks for performance than the US Congress is.]

[Teresa]

What continues to haunt me about Obama is:
Simply.........................

Who's side is he REALLY on?

[Diane Amberg]

I thought you decided he was on the "outside."

[sixdogsmom]

 

Sounds like somebody is full of crabs! LOL!!

[Diane Amberg]

Who, me?  ~burp~....oop, sorry! I ate 5 big fat ones, some extra claws and a nice sweet piece of watermelon. I am full to the top!!! There is just nothing better on a nice summer day than dumping a bunch of big Chesapeake Bay Blue Claw crabs out on a newspaper covered picnic table and picking crabs all afternoon with your friends.

[sixdogsmom]

Iced tea or cold beer? Yum!

[Diane Amberg]

They had both available, but I don't like beer, so I had a diet coke. There were also lots of hamburgers, hot dogs, sweet corn, fresh toms, and various desserts. Nobody went home hungry.

[sixdogsmom]

Sounds like a wonderful time! Glad you enjoyed yourselves! 

[Jo McDonald]

Diane ---- if I could I would reach out and cover your mouth, or rather, tie your fingers together so you could not type.  LOL
I came on duty here at the gatehouse at 3 PM and my shift is until 9 PM, and I have had NO FOOD, except a cookie the ranger gave me at 4, and now just read  your post about all of that YUMMY food, is Killing me, girl.
  Sounds absolutely delightful.  Glad you got to enjoy it all ,  even if I am crying my eyes out, because I'm hungerier now than I was.

[Diane Amberg]

 I am very sorry ! Hopefully by now you have had something good to eat and you'll forgive me.