The Daily Show took the right to task over their views of Obama. As always, it is funny and slightly biting.



Of course, it is amusing when The Daily Show points out rampant hypocrisy. But let's really look at what Rush Limbaugh stated:

If I wanted Obama to succeed, I'd be happy the Republicans have laid down. And I would be encouraging Republicans to lay down and support him. Look, what he's talking about is the absorption of as much of the private sector by the US government as possible, from the banking business, to the mortgage industry, the automobile business, to health care. I do not want the government in charge of all of these things. I don't want this to work. So I'm thinking of replying to the guy, "Okay, I'll send you a response, but I don't need 400 words, I need four: I hope he fails." (interruption) What are you laughing at? See, here's the point. Everybody thinks it's outrageous to say. Look, even my staff, "Oh, you can't do that." Why not? Why is it any different, what's new, what is unfair about my saying I hope liberalism fails? Liberalism is our problem. Liberalism is what's gotten us dangerously close to the precipice here. Why do I want more of it? I don't care what the Drive-By story is. I would be honored if the Drive-By Media headlined me all day long: "Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails." Somebody's gotta say it.

Limbaugh doesn't want liberalism to succeed. It doesn't matter if Obama's policies would make America better. It doesn't matter if the new administration would be able to fix the economy and provide jobs for people. It doesn't matter if a more liberal administration would be able to make American look better in the eyes of the rest of the world by being less imperialistic, ending torture, removing soldiers from Iraq, etc.

Limbaugh wants Obama to fail simply because he hates liberals.

As Leonard Pitts Jr. wrote about Rush:

The irony is that Limbaugh and the other clowns would have you believe they are bedrock defenders of this country, that they love it more than the rest of us, more than anything.

That's a lie. Limbaugh just told us so, emphatically.

What a fucking patriot. Clearly he really loves his country if he is openly rooting for the President of the United States to fail simply based on political ideology.

We on the left didn't dislike Bush's presidency because he was a Republican. It was because the guy got us into two wars, tortured people, spied on American citizens with no court authority and no oversight, and generally made us all slightly fearful of our own leadership.

Limbaugh, however, has no problem with any of that. Because it was the right that did that stuff. Therefore, it's OK.

But those damn liberals and their...doing stuff for others and not torturing and whatnot. Bunch of fuckers. Right, Rush?