Obama money: Rush Limbaugh moves the Google needle

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Robert Gibbs, White House press secretary

This was so much easier when we were writing the rules

Rush Limbaugh doesn't just control conservative talk radio, he's moving mountains of online traffic with a YouTube clip of women in Detroit who say they are waiting for "Obama Money."

Social media is only going to continue playing a critical role in politics and while conservatives jammed Congressional phone lines a couple of years ago to kill immigration reform, they appear able to pull Google and Internet traffic today. The conservative blogosphere is indeed a force to be reckoned with as the social media machine Obama used to win the presidency develops into his greatest foe. For weeks, ACORN dominated the news until Bill Ayers allegedly claimed to have authored Obama's Dreams from My Father. Now this.

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