This hour of the Limbaugh Wire brought to you by the media's "positive news" conspiracy
By Simon Maloy

Good afternoon and Happy Tuesday, everyone. There's news popping all over the place today -- President Obama discussing Israel policy, a new (Republican) Secretary of the Army, Sonia Sotomayor on Capitol Hill, continuing GM bankruptcy fallout, a local Republican official punished for daring to criticize Rush, and more. On top of all that, Rush is advertising on his website that he's going to discuss on-air today an "Xbox Gitmo" video game programmed by a former detainee. As such, I think it's safe to say we're in for an unhinged and scattershot performance from El Rushbo this afternoon. More so than usual, perhaps.

Rush got things started with a programming note -- Sean Hannity will be coming down to the EIB studios so he and Rush can have another loud, long shout in the echo chamber. Rush explained that his last "interview" with Hannity created "the media firestorm of the year," as Rush repeated and explained his desire that Obama "fail." Then Rush had a message for all the Republicans who admonished him for hoping for Obama's failure -- Rush assumes that they are endorsing Sotomayor, supporting nationalization of Chrysler and GM, endorsing $12 trillion in deficits, endorsing coming massive tax increases, and endorsing the nationalization of health care. That's Obama's agenda, said Rush, and he's getting it done, so if you wanted Obama to succeed, you got it. This is exactly what he meant when he made that original comment, said Rush -- Obama's agenda is destructive, and America succeeds when Obama fails. But Obama is not failing, so Rush said doesn't want to hear a word of complaint from these Republicans about the problem Rush creates for them, because Obama is succeeding in implementing his leftist agenda.

Then Rush made good on his word, discussing the Xbox game in which a Guantánamo detainee has to kill American soldiers in order to escape from the prison camp. Rush said that Bill and Melinda Gates should be held accountable if this game goes forward, and that military families are going to be outraged.

Speaking of Gitmo, Rush then moved on to the latest USA Today/Gallup poll, which found that "Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to closing the detention center for suspected terrorists at Guantánamo Bay and moving some of the detainees to prisons on U.S. soil." Rush said this poll is interesting because it's part of a pattern -- on practically every issue, a clear majority of Americans oppose Obama's policies, but they still approve of him. Actually, no -- clear majorities of Americans believe that Obama's policies "will move the country in the right direction." Anyway, Rush said this could mean -- and it's a "wild guess" -- that at some point the bottom will drop out of Obama's approval ratings. Obama's popularity is not related to his policies, said Rush, unlike Reagan. Something has to give, and Rush said that's a light of optimism at the end of the tunnel that is going to get brighter. Rush also said that the media know very well that it's very tenuous that American oppose Obama on practically every issue, so they're going to "blur" this "conundrum" by highlighting "positive" news in order to give the impression that the economy is coming back when it's really not.

An example of this, said Rush, is an AP story from today that reported "[f]resh signs emerged Monday that the recession is letting up." According to the AP: "Manufacturing's slide is slowing. Builders are boosting spending on construction projects -- including homes. And consumers aren't cutting back as much as some had feared." The AP also reported that the positive news is what "[i]nvestors and economists" are focusing on. But, according to Rush, this is exactly what Rush is talking about, and it follows Obama saying last week that we're back from the brink. The Dow Jones goes up a few points and it's credited to Obama, said Rush, but when it drops it has nothing to do with the president. Rush warned: "In the midst of all of this economic shrinkage and realignment into a socialist, fascist-type economy, if they can convince you during times of plenty that we are in a recession or just around the corner from one, then believe me, they think they can convince people who are unemployed and can't find a job that things are booming."

After the break, Rush explained that he's an aviation buff, and that's why he's "distressed" that Obama is "destroying private aviation." Rush said that Obama is a "hypocrite" for telling CEOs not to get on their private planes and travel to Las Vegas, while taking "three private planes and two helicopters" to New York for a date with his wife. Limbaugh elaborated: "I think the guy is a raging hypocrite and I think he's got some anger issues he's dealing with about this country and success."

But the reason Rush brought up aviation was that he wanted to talk about the disappearance of Air France Flight 447 off the Brazilian coast. Rush said that everyone in the media is convinced that lighting was the cause, but Rush says that doesn't completely make sense, and there's something strange about it that lightning doesn't explain.

After another break, Rush said that CNBC reported that GM has sold the Hummer line to the "ChiComs." So the Hummer will be made, said Rush, it just won't be made in the U.S. Well, that's not entirely true -- The New York Times reported that "G.M. will continue making the H3 and H3T models in Shreveport, La., through the end of next year," and that the "buyer plans to shift additional production of the H3 from a plant in South Africa to Shreveport." Anyway, Rush said that the Hummer has been "vilified," and now they're going to build them in China, and we don't know if we're going to be able to import them into the U.S. Rush then took a couple of calls from pilots explaining what might have caused whatever problems Air France Flight 447 experienced.

After the break, Rush said that the "state media" is reporting more positive economic news -- the AP, again, reporting that the "number of U.S. homebuyers who agreed to purchase a previously occupied home in April posted the largest monthly jump in nearly eight years, a sign that sales are finally coming to life after a long and painful slump." So, we now find ourselves in the situation where the simple reporting of economic news that is unambiguously positive is evidence of some grand conspiracy by the media to protect Obama's approval ratings.

Rush rounded out the hour with a couple of callers who wanted to talk Hummers. One of them asked what the chances are, now that GM has sold Hummer to the Chinese, that the company will follow through on its commitment to save jobs. Rush said GM has already given up on that promise. Actually, The New York Times reported that GM says the sale of Hummer to the Chinese "would save about 3,000 jobs in the United States, including those at its 153 domestic dealerships, and that Hummer would remain based in the United States." Rush said that Geithner is not leveling with us about what the Chinese think about our economic policy. This goes back to what Rush said yesterday -- the Chinese are going to stop exporting and just make products for themselves, and "whether or not they're going to export the Hummer back to us or still make it here depends on whether or not -- and I'm serious -- by 2016 any of us are allowed to own one."

Highlights from Hour 1

Outrageous comments

LIMBAUGH: I'm also very distressed that Barack Obama is destroying private aviation. I mean, how -- here is a guy who tells CEOs and others, "The days of getting on your private plane and going to Las Vegas for a good time, those days are over," but his days of getting on three private planes and two helicopters to New York for a date are fine and dandy. I just -- I think the guy is a raging hypocrite, and I think he's got some anger issues he's dealing with about this country and success.

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LIMBAUGH: I think one of the real dangers here -- they own so much of our debt, they might finally say, "You know, we're going to stop buying your debt, and we're just going to start manufacturing products for our own population, and we're going to build up our own economy so our own population can buy the stuff we make, and we're going to stop relying so much on exports to you." So whether or not they're going to export the Hummer back to us or still make it here depends on whether or not -- and I'm serious -- by 2016 any of us are allowed to own one.

"Socialism" and "fascism" watch

LIMBAUGH: In the midst of all of this economic shrinkage and realignment into a socialist, fascist-type economy, if they can convince you during times of plenty that we are in a recession or just around the corner from one, then believe me, they think they can convince people who are unemployed and can't find a job that things are booming, and that hope and change are right around the corner from the unemployment office.

This hour of the Limbaugh Wire brought to you by "stealth" Sotomayor and her "flowering" radicalism
By Simon Maloy

Rush got the second hour rolling by admonishing the people who e-mailed him during the break asking what he means when he said "if we're allowed to buy a Hummer" in the previous hour. What are you not getting? Rush asked. Do you not understand what is happening here? Obama, said Rush, grabbed all of these state-controlled industries and announced their support of a speedier implementation of new CAFE standards. "They had no choice. They were bitch-slapped into agreeing. They were whipped into agreeing." Anyway, Rush explained, SUVs are not going to meet these new standards, but it's a fleet standard, so the individual SUVs don't have to meet it. And yesterday, Rush said, Obama said that GM is going to make "lawnmowers with seats on them," and today we have the news that the Chinese bought Hummer. Then Rush took us back to last August, when BusinessInsider.com reported that "[d]espite how badly GM wants to dump the Hummer, a looming global recession (and of course high oil prices) may be putting the kibosh on that plan." And now fast-forward back to today, The New York Times is reporting that the Chinese company that bought Hummer doesn't even make cars yet!

After all these breakneck jumps from story to story, we were still waiting for an explanation for how Obama will prevent us from buying SUVs, but Rush had another one in store as he went completely off topic to note that Kim Jong Il had named his youngest son as his successor, reportedly overlooking his middle son, whom he deemed to be too "effeminate."

But then we were back to China, as Rush explained that he hasn't read all the stories, so he doesn't know if Hummers are going to be made in the U.S. (even though he cited just moments earlier a story that said the Hummer will continue to be made in the U.S.) The Chinese pollute the world more than anyone, Rush said, and here we are, the greatest country in the history of the world, and what are we doing? We're heading back to the Stone Age because CAFE standards are putting Americans in cars they do not want.

You'll notice that in all that, there was never an explanation as to how Obama will prevent us from buying SUVs ...

Anyway, Rush moved on to Sotomayor, playing audio of Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy saying that vicious attacks on Sotomayor are going to motivate him to have the confirmation hearings sooner, because he wants Sotomayor to have a chance to answer these charges. Rush said he wants that too, and Leahy has basically announced that the hearings, at least in part, will be about Rush. Rush then repeated his silly claim that no one has denied his claim that Sotomayor is a racist and a bigot. Rush explained:

LIMBAUGH: If you look at the entire speech that Sonia Sotomayor gave in which this line was supposedly taken out of context, where the richness of her experience as a Latina would enable her to come to better decisions than a white male, that was not taken out of context. In fact, that is and was the context of her entire speech. Her entire speech, or a vast portion of it, was devoted to the proposition that the oath of office -- she didn't say this -- the oath of office is irrelevant, that of course you bring your personal life experiences to the job, and of course you render decisions based on that. She made a case for it. This one line has not been taken out of context. This whole speech is a disqualifying speech.

Of course, both Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas have acknowledged the significant impact that their personal background and experiences have had on their judicial thinking. So we guess, in Rush's view, they're racists and bigots too. And since no one has denied that charge we just made, we're going to assume that everyone agrees with it and it's true.

Then Rush said his legal friends have examined Sotomayor's hearings and found that her decisions do not match the racism of that speech. Now, in a normal world, one might take that bit of information as cause to rethink the accusation that the person who wrote them is a racist. But we're not in a normal world here. In Limbaugh Land, this can only mean one thing -- she's been secretly hiding her real radicalism for decades in order to be confirmed to the Supreme Court: "She's been wrong on the law, but her decisions do not give you a -- something firm you can put your arms around that would indicate that she is using racial or racism aspects to come to a decision. And the theory behind that is because she knew she had higher ambitions, and despite her speeches, she knew that people were going to be looking at her actual decisions." We find this amusing, because Rush is one of those people who thinks that Sotomayor is not that bright, but somehow she's clever enough to pull off a decades-long scam to hide her true radicalism and get people to think she's a moderate.

Anyway, after reading from Richard Cohen's Washington Post column today on Sotomayor, Rush explained that the Republican line of attack on Sotomayor will be "that she's had ambitions and she's been very careful about these rulings but that she's stealth. She is an Obama and once she gets to the court, her radicalism can fully flower because there's nobody that can reverse her there."

After the break, Rush explained that we have a president whose objective is to get us out of our SUVs. Remember when he said we can't drive our SUVs and eat what we want and keep our homes at 72 degrees? He has a chip on his shoulder about this country, intends to cut it down to size, said Rush, and so does his wife. He has a huge chip on his shoulder. Then Rush acknowledged the murders of Dr. Tiller and the Army recruiter in Arkansas, adding: "We can't associate with these kind of local terrorists. Has anybody heard the name William Ayers? Here is a terrorist that launched President Obama's political career in Chicago with a fundraiser in his home - a man who proudly admitted to blowing up the Pentagon, wished he'd gone further. So we've got a president that is associated with a domestic terrorist." Good point, Rush. Ayers has a lot of relevance here. Well played.

Another break and Rush was back telling us one thing we should never forget -- Obama chose Sotomayor for a reason, he wants a mirror image of himself on the Supreme Court. Any judge he nominates for the Supreme Court would not be nominated if he weren't a leftist, radical activist, said Rush. She wants "empathy" - what more do you need to know? Then Rush asked if Patrick Leahy will allow, at the Sotomayor hearings, Miguel Estrada to testify about the bigoted way in which Leahy treated Estrada during his confirmation hearings. Rush said he doubts that will happen, and we have to say that we do to - mainly because Estrada has nothing to with Sonia Sotomayor.

Then Rush repeated his theory that Sotomayor has been hiding her radicalism all these years in her rulings and led into the break saying: "Obama is willing to dynamite the mountains to get the get the coal to get the union vote, the miner vote and so fourth because he's not doing well in West Virginia. And you know, totalitarians like this, they need the image that the whole country is behind them."

After one more break, Rush took a call from a man who said something about the ignorance of America, the Hummer, his mother, and her paycheck. We didn't know what he was talking about, and Rush didn't either, and Rush's repeated requests to clarify didn't really help. Rush finally seemed to give up, saying he understood the man's point about his "ignorant" mother, and then moved on to sound bytes of CNBC's Rick Santelli saying that Treasury Secretary Geithner is lying when he says we're not monetizing our debt. Rush said Santelli is right - we're monetizing debt, we're issuing debt and the Fed is printing money to buy it. Not for nothing, a real economist, Paul Krugman, wrote regarding this very topic: "Now, it's true that the Fed has taken unprecedented actions lately. More specifically, it has been buying lots of debt both from the government and from the private sector, and paying for these purchases by crediting banks with extra reserves. ... But these aren't ordinary times. Banks aren't lending out their extra reserves. They're just sitting on them - in effect, they're sending the money right back to the Fed. So the Fed isn't really printing money after all." We're more inclined to trust the Nobel Laureate than, well, Rush.

Highlights from Hour 2

Outrageous comments

LIMBAUGH: Obama grabbed all of these state-controlled industries behind him in a ceremony in the Rose Garden to announce speeding up new CAFE standards. Now, the people standing behind him, he said, had all come together and they had all agreed it was a wonderful thing. They had no choice. They were bitch-slapped into agreeing. They were whipped into agreeing.

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LIMBAUGH: If you look at the entire speech that Sonia Sotomayor gave in which this line was supposedly taken out of context, where the richness of her experience as a Latina would enable her to come to better decisions than a white male, that was not taken out of context. In fact, that is and was the context of her entire speech. Her entire speech, or a vast portion of it, was devoted to the proposition that the oath of office -- she didn't say this -- the oath of office is irrelevant, that of course you bring your personal life experiences to the job, and of course you render decisions based on that. She made a case for it. This one line has not been taken out of context. This whole speech is a disqualifying speech.

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LIMBAUGH: She hasn't ruled in most of her cases -- there have been exceptions -- but she hasn't ruled as a radical. Her decisions haven't come down as a radical, although that's the wrong way to put it because she has been reversed 60 percent of the time by the Supreme Court. She's been wrong on the law, but her decisions do not give you a -- something firm you can put your arms around that would indicate that she is using racial or racism aspects to come to a decision. And the theory behind that is because she knew she had higher ambitions, and despite her speeches, she knew that people were going to be looking at her actual decisions.

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LIMBAUGH: The Republican line of attack on Sonia Sotomayor -- they're not going to be able to go to her rulings and say "See, the ruling's parallel with that statement." They can show how she's been reversed 60 percent of the time, so what they're going to say -- my guess -- what they're going to say is that she's had ambitions and she's been very carful about these rulings but that she's stealth. She is an Obama, and once she gets to the court, her radicalism can fully flower because there's nobody that can reverse her there.

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LIMBAUGH: We all know about the murder of the abortion doctor. That's reprehensible, but yesterday in Arkansas, we had a militant Muslim take out some Army recruiters, military recruiters because he doesn't like the U.S. military. I don't think any marshals, U.S. marshals have been posted to protect any Army recruiters or military recruiters. And we've been warned, of course, this guy, this wacko, this Scott Roeder guy that murdered the abortion doctor, well, we've got to be careful. We can't associate with these kind of local terrorists. Has anybody -- anybody heard the name William Ayers? Here is a terrorist that launched President Obama's political career in Chicago with a fundraiser in his home -- a man who proudly admitted to blowing up the Pentagon, wished he'd gone further. So we've got a president that is associated with a domestic terrorist, is friends with him. The guy know runs education in Chicago, Bill Ayers. Boy, the double standard, left and right. Incredible.

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LIMBAUGH: Her rulings do not reflect the racism and bigotry in that speech in Berkeley, nor do her rulings reflect her statement about how judges make policy. Her rulings are -- they're just bad, they're wrong. They're not bad law; they're not very smart. Her rulings are not very intelligent, but they don't contain all of the bigotry and racism that was in that speech, and the theory is that she's simply holding back. She's ambitious. She wants to be promoted, so her rulings are not controversial, except that they're wrong.

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LIMBAUGH: So Obama is willing to dynamite the mountains to get the get the coal to get the union vote, the miner vote and so forth, because he's not doing well in West Virginia. And, you know, totalitarians like this. They need the image that the whole country is behind them.

"Organize this."
By Simon Maloy

Is it the final hour already? Lamentably, it is, and Rush got it going by issuing a "straw man alert" over Obama's BBC interview, in which the president said: "The danger, I think, is when the United States, or any country, thinks that we can simply impose these values on another country with a different history and a different culture." Rush asks when the U.S. has imposed its values on anyone. It's a straw man. You might say the Japanese, but we did that after we kicked their butts in a war. Those are the rules, and Rush doesn't think there are any Japanese people upset with their Democratic government and capitalist economy.

Then Rush asked how freedom is an "imposition." It's the result of liberation, said Rush, whereas communism and dictatorial statism are things that you can impose. It's a straw man that we can't impose our value because "[o]ur values are rooted in freedom and democracy. This guy is a slick son of a gun, but I'm telling you he contradicts himself in every sentence he utters. Did we impose our values on Kuwait, Afghanistan, Iraq? I thought the people of those countries created their own constitutions. See, Obama's the authoritarian here. If anybody knows about imposing vales, it's Barack Obama." What's happening here, said Rush, is that Obama is imposing his values on Wall Street, GM, the Supreme Court, and Israel.

Then Rush objected to Obama's statement that the most important thing for the U.S. to do is to "serve as a role model." Rush went to town on the phrase "role model," saying: "Oh, OK. So we're going to serve as a good role model for the world by kneecapping the private sector, seizing private property, seizing private sector businesses and turning it over to political contributors. Is that the thing we want to encourage? Is that the image we want to promote?" Rush added: "We want to encourage voter intimidation? We want to take the example of his group, ACORN? Community organizers and vote fraud experts extraordinaire -- export those values? Encouraging countries to serve as we serve as a good role model? Obama as a role model is vote fraud, voter intimidation, community organizing, seizing private sector property, kneecapping the private sector, giving it to political contributors." Rush concluded this harangue by saying: "In fact, it's the rest of the failed world that's serving as a role model for Barack Obama. Socialism has failed. Fascism has failed. He's emulating it. If anybody is falling prey to role models, it's Obama, and his role models are Alinsky and whatever socialist leaders and dictators around the world that he has been made to idolize."

After the break, Rush continued in this vein, saying that "It is not the United States that serves as Barack Obama's role model. It's other socialist nations that have failed and the concept of socialism that is his role model." Rush capped off this astute observation with an incisive and mature comment on Obama's policies, muttering under his breath: "I tell you what, I -- community organizer -- organize this." We're not sure what community organizing, or Obama's experience therein, has to do with any of this. Nor do we know exactly what Rush wants Obama to "organize." If we had to guess, we'd go with "sock drawer."

Then Rush explained that for all his screaming about the racist bigot Sonia Sotomayor, he might be inclined to support her nomination if she passed the Rush Limbaugh pro-life litmus test. "All libs who want to go anywhere in liberalism are pro-choice, and they make no bones about it. She hasn't said a word about it, which could mean that her private feelings are that she's pro-life. If I could be convinced that Sonia Sotomayor might be the biggest hope to overturning Roe v. Wade down the line, then I might be persuaded to look at her nomination in a different light."

Then Rush had a couple more Obama sound bytes for us, the first of which had the president saying that Iran has legitimate energy concerns, but the international community has an interest in preventing their creation of a nuclear weapons program. Rush retorted by saying that the international community hasn't done anything to stop Iran's nuclear ambitions, and once again muttered that this is "community organizer crap." Again, we're not sure what community organizing has to do with this, other than Limbaugh's continued desire to turn the term into some sort of epithet.

After the break, Rush took a call from a gentleman who said that his relationship with GM has ended. Rush said everyone's relationship with GM has ended -- you're not buying cars from GM, you're buying them from Obama. What's going to happen, said Rush, is that GM is going to bring back planned obsolescence so that you'll trade in your car for a new one after it breaks down in three years.

Rush's next caller had a point she wanted to make about Sotomayor -- she loves that Sotomayor came from a government-funded housing project, and that was something she had to overcome to make it where she is today. Now, some might say that that the government-funded housing kept her from being, you know, homeless. But Rush doesn't count himself among those people, and he repeated his inane observation that liberals never thank welfare when they're nominated to high office, they always thank conservative values.

One more caller before the break, this one an "American mom" and an "optimist" who figured out why Sotomayor's "wise Latina" comments bothered her so much -- because Sotomayor was telling her two white children that they can never be as good as she is at something. Rush said that's an "interesting perspective." That's how she was educated, said Rush. She had a "multicultural" education in high school and college that attacked evil white people, and she believes that. Obama too, that's what he was taught. They were taught by angry people. Rush added: "was trained to hate majorities -- well, one majority. She was trained to be suspicious of them. She was trained to believe this country was unjust and immoral. And throw feminism in the mix, and you've got a poisoned soul, and that's who she is."

After one more break, Rush was excited that Richard Wolffe's book, Renegade, quotes Obama saying that former president Bill Clinton "was just lying, engaging in bald-faced lies" during the 2008 campaign. Rush loved this, and he also found it interesting that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is spending her time "spreading gay rights" to countries around the world. That's a "far cry" from what Secretaries of State have done in the past, said Rush.

Rush took one last call for the afternoon, this one from a man wanting to know what the purpose of dumping car dealerships is given that they're independent businesses. Rush then laid out what he saw as the Obama business plan for GM and Chrysler: take over the company, put in charge someone who doesn't know how to turn on a car, decide to build cars that people don't want, then close thousands of dealerships, which means it's going to be harder to go get one of these cars. Rush said he thinks it's designed to fail, because none of this makes any sense. And, just in case you were wondering: "It's the way a community organizer does it, folks."

And that was they way we do it, folks, here at the Limbaugh Wire. We hope you'll join us again tomorrow. Until then, Media Matters' expansive, extensive, and inexpensive Limbaugh Archives are available for your enjoyment.

Highlights from Hour 3

Outrageous comments

LIMBAUGH: Our values are rooted in freedom and democracy. This guy is a slick son of a gun, but I'm telling you he contradicts himself in every sentence he utters. Did we impose our values on Kuwait, Afghanistan, Iraq? I thought the people of those countries created their own constitutions. See, Obama's the authoritarian here. If anybody knows about imposing values, it's Barack Obama.

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LIMBAUGH: Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, democracy, rule of law. Obama said he would be encouraging countries on this trip to promote these values, but then he added, "I think the thing we can do most importantly is serve as a good role model." Oh, OK. So we're going to serve as a good role model for the world by kneecapping the private sector, seizing private property, seizing private sector businesses and turning it over to political contributors. Is that the thing we want to encourage? Is that the image we want to promote?

We want to encourage voter intimidation? We want to take the example of his group, ACORN? Community organizers and vote fraud experts extraordinaire -- export those values? Encouraging countries to serve as we serve as a good role model? Obama as a role model is vote fraud, voter intimidation, community organizing, seizing private sector property, kneecapping the private sector, giving it to political contributors. What's he talking about here -- good role model?

And that's why he said, "Closing Guantánamo from my perspective, as difficult as it is, is important. Yes, we know. Remaking America is as difficult as it is important. Very hard work imposing socialism and fascism on a free-market economy, and, as a good role model, we take on more debt than we can ever repay. As a good role model, we begin a worldwide trade war by imposing protectionism on General Motors. Nothing about what this guy wants to do is worth following.

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LIMBAUGH: I have one exception to my objection to Sonia Sotomayor. I am not retracting that she will bring racism and bigotry to the court if she is confirmed. However, there might be mitigating factors that might convince me to overlook that. Well, what do we know about her? We know she's Catholic. We also know she has no record on abortion. I think she did affirm funds for international abortion -- I'm going to have to have legal beagles look at that. But Sonia Sotomayor, being Catholic and having not said a word about abortion -- I find that interesting. All libs who want to go anywhere in liberalism are pro-choice, and they make no bones about it. She hasn't said a word about it, which could mean that her private feelings are that she's pro-life. If I could be convinced that Sonia Sotomayor might be the biggest hope to overturning Roe v. Wade down the line, then I might be persuaded to look at her nomination in a different light.

I'm serious. I'm dead serious. I'm dead serious. Life -- preserving life for me is a far more important issue. We can deal with the racism and the bigotry. That can be canceled out, you know, by other justices and so forth.

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LIMBAUGH: By the time she got to high school, she started in on multicultural curricula and she heard about the evil, white Europeans that brought all of the pestilence and all of the discrimination and all of the hardship, all the disease. They destroyed the environment, they did all of this stuff. The she gets to college, and she hears even more of it. And she believes that to the same extent that those of us who believe in the sheer miracle of our founding believe in that. That's what she was taught -- Obama too. That's what Obama was taught. Obama was taught by angry people. Sotomayor was taught by angry people. She was trained to hate majorities -- well, one majority. She was trained to be suspicious of them. She was trained to believe this country was unjust and immoral. And throw feminism in the mix, and you've got a poisoned soul, and that's who she is.

"Socialism" watch

LIMBAUGH: In fact, it's the rest of the failed world that's serving as a role model for Barack Obama. Socialism has failed. Fascism has failed. He's emulating it. If anybody is falling prey to role models, it's Obama, and his role models are Alinsky and whatever socialist leaders and dictators around the world that he has been made to idolize.

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LIMBAUGH: It is not the United States of America that serves as Barack Obama's role model; it's other socialist nations that have failed and the concept of socialism that is his role model. I tell you what, I -- community organizer -- organize this.