While being interviewed on CNN's "New Day" President Barack Obama complained about how he was frustrated by Republicans who were afraid to act because of what conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh would say about them; Limbaugh fired back by saying that no one is listening to the president anymore, according to Politico.
In an interview that touched subjects from what to do about Syria to how to lower the price of college education President Obama talked about how he believes that there are some Republicans who would help to implement the Affordable Care Act but that they are too afraid of the consequences, according to the Huffington Post.
"I've made this argument to my Republican friends privately, and, by the way, sometimes they say to me privately, 'I agree with you, but I'm worried about a primary from, you know, somebody in the tea party back in my district' or, 'I'm worried about what Rush Limbaugh is going to say about me on radio,'" Obama said in the CNN interview.
Limbaugh, who recently re-signed with Cumulus Media for three years after a publicized and often contentious contract negotiation, responded by saying that the president was going back to the same argument he has made in the past about Limbaugh influencing the GOP, according to Politico.
"I think that nobody is listening to Obama anymore. I don't think he commands nearly the attention or the interest that he [did] and so what he's doing is going back to the greatest hits," Limbaugh said on his radio show. "And like if you're in a radio station losing audience, you'll play hits...stop the new age stuff and go play the hits. Well, he's going back and he's recycled this idea that Republicans are not cooperating with him because they're afraid of what I'm going to say about him."
Limbaugh, who is at odds with conservative lawmakers for not following his libertarian beliefs almost as often as he is with Democrats, went on to say that the president appears to have greatly overvalued the level of influence that the radio host has.
"The president of the United States seems to think that I'm something more than relevant, seems to think that I am something more than an entertainer," Limbaugh said. "The president of the United States has blamed me more than he's blamed Boehner or McConnell or anybody else in the Republican organizational chart."
