Limbaugh played an excerpt from the "Dreams from My Father" audiobook. Limbaugh: Obama was a bully, too

Rush Limbaugh on Friday slammed President Barack Obama for not apologizing to the young girl he shoved in fifth grade, and implied The Washington Post was biased in reporting that Mitt Romney had bullied a student in high school.

“So Obama admits to bullying a young girl, still hasn’t apologized for it,” Rush said. “The Washington Post hasn’t dug deep. The Washington Post hasn’t tried to find her. The Washington Post hasn’t tried to find her family. The Washington Post hasn’t alleged that Coretta was a lesbian. The Post hasn’t alleged that there was any presumed anti-gay bias in Obama’s bullying.”


Limbaugh played an excerpt from the “Dreams from My Father” audiobook, in which the president says: “Before my arrival she had been the only black person in our grade. She was plump and dark and didn’t seem to have many friends. I ran up to Coretta and gave her a slight shove. She staggered back and looked up at me, but still said nothing. ‘Leave me alone,’ I shouted again. And suddenly Coretta was running, faster and faster until she disappeared from sight. Appreciative laughs rose around me. For the rest of the afternoon I was haunted by the look on Coretta’s face.”

Referring to the Post’s report yesterday that Romney had forcibly cut a student’s hair in high school, Limbaugh said the article “is something that they have obviously been waiting and holding in reserve.”

“I mean, really, is this all they’ve got?” he said. “No, I’m serious. I’m sitting here — correct me if I’m wrong, and I probably am on this — I’m sitting here, I can’t imagine this being effective with one person who’s undecided about anything. I know I’m wrong. I know that this country’s full of people who, hell, want to ban football, for crying out loud. Cutting off a blond kid’s hair is probably worse than anything that happens on the football field with some people, I can imagine.”

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He also weighed in on Obama’s star-studded Hollywood fundraiser at George Clooney’s home last night, saying “the whole thing is a crock.”

“The story on that is, the original expectation was ten million. That’s what they were gonna raise,” he said. “But then, our brave, courageous president went out there and said that he thinks the states ought to determine gay marriage, and that gay people should be able to get married. Lo and behold, the floodgates opened, and an additional five million was raised at the Clooney fundraiser. I’m not believing that either. The whole thing is a crock. They got fifteen from the get-go.”

Limbaugh noted, however, that the event should provide the Romney campaign with plenty of attack ad fodder over the next few months.

“While he was there, if this isn’t in every Romney ad from now ‘til November, somebody needs to be fired,” he said. “Obama said, quote, ‘Sometimes I forget the magnitude of the recession.’ Sometimes I forget the magnitude of the recession. Is it cool to be out of touch? That’s what he said.”