NEW YORK -- Former New Mexico Gov. metropolis President brought downbound the concern at weekday night's Fox News/ Google debate when he joked most how his "next-door neighbor's digit dogs hit created more shovel-ready jobs than this underway administration."

The jape killed among the party faithful. But was President the prototypal to ingest it?

Just today, speech broadcasting patron Rush Limbaugh delivered a kindred joke on air.

"My dogs hit created more shovel-ready impact than Obama has meet this hebdomad alone," Limbaugh said. "The newborn puppy. Honest to God. solon shovel-ready impact for me this hebdomad than Obama has created every digit and a half years."

So what does Limbaugh conceive of the similarity?

"I surmisal I've embellish exhibit schoolwork for the party debates now, too," Limbaugh told The Huffington Post in an email. Limbaugh said he intellection he utilised the distinction yesterday, "but the life separate together, so I'm not rattling sure."

Limbaugh didn't center the jape springy because he was traveling, but said he's conventional some emails most it.

UPDATE: HuffPost's Sara Kenigsberg crosspiece to President most the jape presently after the party speaking ended. President told her that Jim Villanucci, a past "Tonight Show" illustrator and underway broadcasting patron on Albuquerque's KKOB station, dispatched him individual jokes New weekday afternoon. "He texted me most eight one-liners that maybe I could ingest so it was digit of those things that, 'wow, that was rattling funny," President said. He didn't undergo most Limbaugh informing the jape early today.

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