Cenk Fires Back at Rush Limbaugh on MSNBC

Cenk Uygur responds to a video of Rush Limbaugh analyzing a clip of Robert Reich on Cenk's MSNBC show discussing taxes and wealth redistribution. Uygur is especially amused by how Rush pronounces names - Cenk suggests that years of drugs (Oxycontin) screwed up Limbaugh's hearing.

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On Tuesday we had Robert Reich on this program

and we suggested raising taxes and we knew

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that was going to make conservatives angry

and we also knew that it was completely supported

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by the american people and the polls today

bear that out but it made one guy angry Rush

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Limbaugh and this is what he had to say about

Secretary Reich. Rush Limbaugh:"He's talking

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in terms of an actual war, he's telling the

rich you better give up the money before the

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people with pitch forks come to your house

and and get it from you. Isn't that what's

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happening in Wisconsin? Can we be honest,

isn't this sort of what all this is about?

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All these people occupying the capital building.

And demanding all these public sector union

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people demanding but it's not the rich they're

demanding it from is it? It's average americans,

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average americans many of them whom are underemployed,

unemployed or what have you isn't that who

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these teachers and public employees are saying

give us more, it's what the king of Saudi

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Arabia's doing, it's what Gaddafi is doing"

Rush Limbaugh cares about the unemployed and

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the underemployed when did that happen? And

did you notice the little trick he did in

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the middle, first he's like Reich is going

after the rich oh my god he might come after

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my mansion in Palm Beach, did I say that?

No, okay, I, no I'm for the unemployed and

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the underemployed, no, no, no Robert Reich

didn't go after the unemployed, he wants to

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help the unemployed and underemployed he went

after the rich, people like you. Do you know

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that Rush has his staff light lavender scented

candles before he comes into his home? How

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very nice. So that's why he's scared. And

then he got even more clever and he made fun

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of our names. Rush Limbaugh: "Robert B. Reiiiiiiiiiiccccccccccccccccchhhhhhhhhh

was on MSNBC Live last night with the anchor

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Sink Wehgur" He said my name wrong [laughing

and pounding desk] that's so funny Rush, that's

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really funny. To be fair to Rush though he

has a hearing problem because of all the Oxycontin

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he took so that's maybe why he mispronounced

the name, it is a hard name.