Stewart: Rush desire for Obama to fail is arguably treasonous

Limbaugh's desire for Obama to 'fail' is 'arguably treasonous': Stewart 01/23/2009 @ 8:32 am Filed by David Edwards and Ron Brynaert After only a few days, Fox News does its "duty," and, of course, all the while, remaining "fair and balanced," finds reasons Americans should fear the Obama administration. As Comedy Central's Jon Stewart shows, the attacks on Obama - some that even the Fox hosts themselves considered ridiculous but still decided to air to sound off on - began in the first twenty-four hours of his presidency. "Holy shit! Fox News is really scared about what might happen, oblivious to what already has," exclaimed Stewart, sounding as "shocked" as Claude Rains pretended to be about gambling in Casablanca. After playing an old clip of Fox's Bill O'Reilly sounding off on the "anti-Bush liberals" ("But this hate stuff, this rooting for the administration to fail in Iraq and other areas is un-American, unbecoming, and unacceptable. Like him or not, Mr. Bush is the elected leader of this country..." said O'Reilly in March of 2007), Stewart showed conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh talking about how he wants Obama to "fail," during an appearance on FOX News' Hannity on Wednesday. "I am hearing many Republicans say that — well, we want him to succeed and prominent Republicans," Limbaugh had said. "Yes, we wanted — they have laid down. They have totally — they're drinking the Kool-Aid, too." "So I shamelessly say, no, I want him to fail," O'Reilly said later in the interview with Hannity. Not really joking, Comedy Central's Stewart asked, "Does Bill O'Reilly think Rush Limbaugh hates America?" Stewart posited that Limbaugh's words could be considered "arguably treasonous." This video is from Comedy Central's The Daily Show, broadcast Jan. 22, 2009. MCL comment: Again from a post I put up yesterday I remember anytime a person was critical of George W. Bush, Rush along his butt plug Sean Hannity and their clones in the right media would accuse George W. Bush's critics of wanting American to lose the war on terror or wanting Bush to fail even though they could not find one bit of proof to back this claim up. Now the ring leader of the right wing media went on the record saying he hopes the president fails and what does Sean Hannity do? Nods his head and repeat the RNC talking points.