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Rush Limbaugh:

That is just outrageous. In the first place, this country is not a zero-sum game. This economy's not a zero-sum game. That means if you get a dollar somebody loses it, that's not the case. That does not mean if you get fired, somebody gets hired. Or if you get hired, somebody gets fired. That's a zero-sum game and that's not what this country is. The American people are not looking at things like he just described it. Obama plans on being filthy rich when he gets out of the Oval Office. Obama is planning right now how to become filthy rich without having to do any more work and without having to write any more phony books or paying somebody else to write 'em, whatever the hell happened there. And he is exempting himself from criticism for becoming filthy rich with this crap.

(imitating Obama) "We don't begrudge financial success. We admire it. Hell, people like me talk about not paying my fair share, it's not 'cause they envy the rich. It's 'cause they understand that when I get tax breaks I don't need..." Spare us the pain and misery of a tax cut you don't need. That's how the Clintons do it. It's how the Kennedys did it. It's how Bill Gates... Jobs didn't do it, Steve Jobs didn't do it. He took the money, kept it, and he cut off all philanthropy at Apple. That's another thing. Here's Obama wailing and moaning about outsourcing jobs and manufacturing jobs, and then there's Jobs' wife that was invited. There's no greater outsourcer of work in this country than Apple -- and I'm not criticizing it -- and yet there's Steve Jobs being praised by Obama last night.

I saw the Apple financials. They blew it out, set a record. I listened to their conference call and their earnings report. As you people know, I'm an Apple evangel. But my point is, here's Obama ripping into American businesses that ship jobs overseas, and nobody does that better than Apple. And yet there's Apple being honored. I'll tell you, this was a mass of confusion, hypocrisy, lies, distortions and a failed attempt of a failed president to attach himself to America's greatness, when he wouldn't recognize it if it slapped him upside the head.