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By Simon Maloy

If you've been listening to Rush (or, better yet, reading the Limbaugh Wire) for the past week, you've probably noticed that Rush has been giving health care reform the broken-record treatment -- the same falsehoods and the same ridiculous commentary, over and over and over again. And we already know what's in store for today, without even looking at the Drudge Report -- speeded-up sound bites of President Obama's health care press conference last night, interspersed with more of the same falsehoods and ridiculous commentary. He'll probably read from Betsy McCaughey's latest dishonest attack on comparative effectiveness research. More than likely, he'll call Obama a racist for his comments on the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. So strap yourselves in, folks -- it's going to get silly.

Well, Rush got things started by saying: "I guess we learned last night that President Obama did listen to Reverend Wright those 20 years. The only time he acted interested in being there was the last question of the night when he got to talk about race and profiling, that's when Barack Obama came alive last night." Can we call 'em or can we call 'em? Anyway, Rush said when he got that question at the end of the presser, he came alive. He got animated, and then said some really dumb things. He called the Cambridge police stupid. Cambridge is a bunch of liberals, Rush retorted. Liberal mayors, liberal colleges, liberal cops! He couldn't wait to talk about profiling after admitting he didn't know what was going on there. Presidents do not descend to talk about such things, said Rush. We're in the middle of a major offensive in Afghanistan, the economy is being purposefully destroyed, and he's talking about this.

Rush then said he hasn't found one positive review of the press conference. Well, here's one. And here's another. How about a third? Anyway, Rush said even The New York Times has a fact-check of Obama that was devastating, and the Politico and Howard Fineman excoriated the White House press corps for their performance last night. But this was not a waste of time, said Rush -- we learned more about Obama in that press conference than we ever have. That was a series of teachable moments. He was rambling and incoherent, professorial and chock-full of some of the most blatant lies a president has ever told, and he was not called on any of them. The media, Rush repeated, have given up their integrity for Obama.

Rush said that we found out last night just how fired up about race he remains. We also learned that doctors and pediatricians purposefully take out kids' tonsils to line their pockets. Pediatricians, for the most part, are not surgeons, said Rush, so is the pediatrician is going to get a kickback from the surgeon? Rush said he's sure that doctors do a lot of unnecessary stuff, but they're doing it to protect themselves from lawsuits, not to line their pockets. None of what Obama said last night was true, Rush declared, and it was breathtaking to watch. He offered nothing new, no details, and his buddies in the press and Capitol Hill are upset at this. But that's strategic, said Rush, because this isn't about health insurance.

Obama accused doctors of performing unnecessary organ removal for money, Rush charged. Doctors do a lot of unnecessary things so they don't get sued into bankruptcy by Democrat tort lawyers. He kept talking about how we spend $6,000 more per person than other developed countries, said Rush, and he's going to lower that by ending unnecessary tonsillectomies. We have the best health care in the world, and that costs money. Obama has spent more than $6,000 per person "by a factor of a gazillion" on his stimulus package, Rush rejoined. And he admitted that he's going after private insurance company profits. That was tantamount to an admission that you're not going to have private insurance under his plan, said Rush. Obama has such a resentment for success and achievers, he admits he's going after the profits of insurance companies, and he's going to kill them off so the public option is the only option.

There's a reason why there were no details offered last night, said Rush, and it's a strategic reason -- remember that Tom Daschle was the guy who was originally going to head this up, and his advice was to stick to broad themes. And Obama's sticking to broad themes because he thinks the details will kill it. And he's right -- the more people find out about it, the more they don't like it.

After the break, Rush said: "We saw white firefighters under assault by agents of Barack Obama and Sonia Sotomayor -- we're talking about Frank Ricci and the boys from new Haven. ... Now white policemen are under assault from the East Room of the White House, by the President of the United States." Rush said he hasn't seen this much racism in a liberal enclave since the Duke rape case. Here you have the idyllic liberal enclave, and there's all this racism. Rush added: "You know what, if I'm Henry Louis Gates, I'd thank my neighbor for looking out for me." And of course, said Rush, Obama went on and on about profiling. That was the only time he was jazzed.

Obama also kept saying last night that the push for health care reform was not personal and not about him. Rush responded by saying that it is personal to him and tens of millions of other people who are going to be forced into more expensive plans or fined if they don't have health insurance. The problem here, said Rush, is that Obama and the Democrats are failing to make it personal, they're making it ideological. They're relying on Obama's appeal, and that's not working any more because nothing Obama is doing has worked.

Another break and Rush came back saying that as he listened to Obama throw around completely made up numbers last night and tell us he's a deficit reducer, he kept thinking that the CBO completely skewered his health plan. The CBO reports to Congress, said Rush, but guess who Obama summoned to the White House this week - the head of the CBO. "That's not cool," said Rush, adding: "So Obama calls the guy up there. You think it's to have hundred-dollar Kobe beef? Or do you think he and Rahm Emanuel got in the guy's face, said,'What are you doing to us?' These are authoritarians." Rush suggested that Obama come up with an organization to counter the CBO -- the Office of Imaginary Information. Or "OIL," as Rush dubbed it. We're not sure where that "L" came from -- there isn't a single "L" in "Office of Imaginary Information."

Anyway, Rush said he warned all of us about this health care stuff back before the election when he pointed out how Daschle urged Obama to eschew details and go on offense immediately. The big key to a successful government takeover of health care is giving as few specifics as possible, said Rush, and we're seeing this in action - no details, ramming it through as quickly as possible, but Obama got caught in the weeds. How about a political party and a president wanting to take over 1/6 of the economy and offering no details? Daschle and Obama know this is not about health care or health insurance. It's about having a legal means to get around the Bill of Rights.

Remember, said Rush, that Obama believes that the Bill of Rights is a charter of "negative rights," and statists like Obama view that as an obstacle. What Obama wants is things in the Constitution that say what the government can do to you, which totally bastardizes what this country was founded on. He knows he can't amend the Constitution, but he can get around that by taking over one-sixth of the economy with health care reform, which means the government can then dictate and regulate every aspect of your behavior. This is not about health care, said Rush, and Obama doesn't even really care about health care. All he did last night was lie. It's hard to convince people that something like this is being done purposefully, said Rush (probably because it's self-evidently stupid), but when you realize that liberals are the brethren of Nazis and socialists and such, it becomes clear. Everyone involved in this knows this is about stimulating the Democrat Party, enlarging government, and giving them the power to regulate your behavior.

Obama has failed, but not in the way Rush hoped he would fail. Rush came up with an analogy to explain what Obama is doing: "It's almost like saying you can jump out of that airplane without a parachute, and just hope you'll be safe when you land, and it'll all work out. And then a bunch of people follow the order and they jump out of the airplane -- no parachute -- and they die. Let's say 100,000 of them die. 'Doesn't matter. It'll work. Just give us time. Just give us time. We didn't intend for those 100,000 to live. We -- it's gonna -- when we push more out of the plane, they'll live next year.' He knows what the parachute is; he's not giving it to anybody. It's about that way. They know that they're sending people out of airplanes with no parachutes."

After one more break, Rush came back noting that Obama said last night that health care reform is not about him, it's about the people whose letters he reads in the Oval Office. Not once, said Rush, did Obama talk about the greatness of this country or its medical system. There's something about this country that Obama does not like and he's eager to apologize for it. If this is about letters about health care, said Rush, then Obama loses, because talk radio is ginning up way more correspondence that anyone else is, and it's all against health reform.

Rush closed out the hour with his first caller of the afternoon, a woman who said she's been a nurse for 20 years, and for someone to say that doctors take tonsils out just like that -- doctors don't do that. Rush said what Obama was trying to do with that comment was impugn the integrity and character of doctors. "This man last night was trying to gin up hatred for doctors. He was essentially calling them criminals." It was unpresidential, said Rush. He's after the insurance companies, too, and he really hates the private sector, and he admitted that he's going to wipe out private insurance. He telegraphed the fact that he wants everyone on the public option. How's he going to go after the insurance company profits anyway? If you squeeze their profits, said Rush, you're going to send them out of business. That's why Obama's claim that you'll be able to keep your insurance if you like it is a misrepresentation.

Greg Lewis and Zachary Pleat contributed to this edition of the Limbaugh Wire.

Highlights from Hour 1

Outrageous comments

LIMBAUGH: I guess we learned last night that President Obama did listen to Reverend Wright those 20 years. The only time he acted interested in being there was the last question of the night, when he got to talk about race and profiling. That's when Barack Obama came alive last night.

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LIMBAUGH: You know what, if I'm Henry Louis Gates, I thank my neighbor for looking out for me.

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LIMBAUGH: We saw white firefighters under assault by agents of Barack Obama and Sonia Sotomayor -- we're talking about Frank Ricci and the boys from New Haven. They were under assault during the Sotomayor confirmation hearings; you remember that. Groups went out to try and destroy these guys. Now, white policemen are under assault from the East Room of the White House, by the President of the United States, after admitting he had no -- he didn't know all the facts, what went on in there.

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LIMBAUGH: Guess who Obama summoned to the White House this week? The head honcho of the CBO. That's not cool. Now there's - the CBO's got these numbers that show everything Obama's saying is not true. They're saying, "The first year, the deficit -- $240 billion added to it." And that's probably low. So Obama calls the guy up there. You think it's to have hundred-dollar Kobe beef? Or do you think he and Rahm Emanuel got in the guy's face, said, "What are you doing to us?" These are authoritarians.

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LIMBAUGH: He has failed, but not in the way I hoped he would fail. He failed -- his policies are failing miserably to accomplish his own stated objectives. But his stated objectives are not his real objective. Folks, I'm telling you, I gotta come up with an analogy to explain this. It's almost like saying you can jump out of that airplane without a parachute, and just hope you'll be safe when you land, and it'll all work out. And then a bunch of people follow the order and they jump out of the airplane -- no parachute -- and they die. Let's say 100,000 of them die. "Doesn't matter. It'll work. Just give us time. Just give us time. We didn't intend for those 100,000 to live. We -- it's gonna -- when we push more out of the plane, they'll live next year." He knows what the parachute is; he's not giving it to anybody. It's about that way. They know that they're sending people out of airplanes with no parachutes.

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LIMBAUGH: Do you realize the impugning of their integrity? The impugning of their character? This man last night was trying to gin up hatred for doctors. He was essentially calling them criminals.

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LIMBAUGH: Anyways, I'm watching this and I'm listening to all these lies -- and that's what they were -- get tossed around. I decided, since the CBO, he can't count on, he can't - well, we'll see, but it doesn't look like he can control 'em. He needs to create a new agency that will counter the CBO. He needs to come up with his own version of the CBO. A White House agency that will analyze Congressional budgets and legislation and produce the result that Obama wants and I have the name for this new agency. The Office of Imaginary Information; OIL. The Office of Imaginary Information. He can cite whatever that OIL group puts out to back up all of his statistics and claims. The Office of Imaginary Information. That's what the Oval Office has already become; he may as well just set up his own agency to counter the CBO, he'll call it OIL, and they'll report whatever he wants to discredit the CBO. Office of Imaginary Information; OIL.

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By Simon Maloy

Rush got the second hour going by saying we had a disaster of a press conference last night, according to the drive-by media that loves Obama. Obama was whining all night, said Rush, whining about what he inherited, lying about inheriting a $1.3 trillion deficit. He voted for everything that busted the budget, he inherited his own work. The casual viewer last night is going to ask why he keeps whining, and then talk about all these successes, Rush said. He then aired a sound bite of Obama saying: "As a result of the actions we took in those first weeks, we've been able to pull our economy back from the brink. We took steps to stabilize our financial institutions and our housing market. And we passed a Recovery Act that has already saved jobs and created new ones; delivered billions in tax relief to families and small businesses; and extended unemployment insurance and health insurance to those who've been laid off." Rush said that there is no job creation taking place, the economy is not back from the brink, we have not stabilized the housing market. None of that is true.

Rush then read from a Washington Examiner blog entry arguing that we should look at the Bureau of Labor Statistics' U6 measure for unemployment, which takes into account "discouraged workers" who have stopped looking for work, instead of the U3 measure, which doesn't. We should point out that just last month, Rush was complaining that this number was "something they always included when reporting unemployment numbers with George W. Bush" to make the economy seem worse than it was. Rush said he doesn't know how you can say we pulled the economy back from the brink. Everyone watching this last night was wondering where all those jobs are. And we've only spent five or six percent of the stimulus. He lied through his teeth, said Rush, and there wasn't one question disputing anything. There wasn't one question on Iraq or Afghanistan.

Rush then aired audio of Obama saying: "I understand how easy it is for this town to become consumed in the game of politics -- to turn every issue into a running tally of who's up and who's down. I've heard that one Republican strategist told his party that even though they may want to compromise, it's better politics to 'go for the kill'; another Republican senator that defeating health care reform is about 'breaking' me." They are really getting to him, said Rush. You never heard Bush whine or complain. Here's Obama whining about these mean Republicans.

Rush then said that elements of the state-run media have to be getting guilty consciences, just look at the New York Times fact-check of Obama's press conference. AP also has one, said Rush, and they outline the lies Obama told last night. Rush added: "What we had last night was arrogance on parade. You have to be arrogant and full of hubris to think you can actually go out and tell those kinds of lies and have them believed. You must have a really, really high impression of yourself. You must really believe the people in your audience don't care what you're saying, they just marvel that they're in your presence and listening to you. We're talking about an ego here that has no boundaries." We added emphasis to that point because we think there might have been a bit of projection going there -- we touched on the idea of respect for one's audience last week, and how people like Rush and Glenn Beck display a stunning lack of respect in the way they distort the facts to their audiences every day.

After the break, Rush said that the press conference was so good that Harry Reid said that Congress will not vote on the health care bill until after the August recess. We'll be ready, Rush said to Reid, and your colleagues are going to go home and have town hall meetings, where they're going to get a barrage of questions from voters who know more about health care than they do. Obama was so persuasive last night that they put off the vote, Rush cracked sarcastically. We will be ready, he reiterated.

Rush's next caller said Obama keeps talking about people who lost their job or can't afford their insurance, but don't we already have Medicaid for these people? That's the point, said Rush -- everyone already has coverage. Medicaid is for the poor, Medicare is for the elderly, and the promise is that it's free. Both programs are bankrupt, said Rush, and the Obama plan builds off them. The premise of this health care question is not the right one. We don't have anything structurally wrong with our health care. Compared to the rest of the world, said Rush, we're the best. Rush said he made this point to Greta Van Susteren in the interview he just gave her. Ninety percent of the American people have health insurance, but it's fear that everyone is capitalizing on -- our population is inundated with information leading them to believe that they're going to get sick or die. All of this stuff is interlinked in order to create the demand for bigger government, Rush conspiratorially intoned.

After another break, Rush came back with a call from a gentleman saying that the more you go through this health bill, the more it stinks, look at this medical device registry section on page 1000. The caller said he is waiting for the day when an ACORN representative comes by saying that he has to register for insurance. All roads lead back to ACORN, we guess. Anyway, Rush said he's glad the caller is reading the bill. It's not about health care, said Rush, and these details illustrate what this is about - regulating your behavior and keeping tabs on what you are doing. The simplest way to understand this is to realize that this isn't about health care. That's why Obama is not getting into details.

Rush then said he wanted to get back to Obama saying that the cops in Cambridge acted "stupidly." This means that he did listen to Rev. Wright for 20 years, Rush reiterated. That question was the only time he came alive. He didn't want to be there, he knew he was in trouble on health care, but there was passion on that Gates question. Rush aired a portion of Obama's answer, including the president's joke that he'd get shot if he tried to break into his house now. Rush responded: "He says he would get shot. That's right, 'I'm a black guy.' In fact, grab sound bite three. I didn't want to use this, but I'm not going to use it. 'I'm a black guy, I'd get shot.' Don't doubt me on this, folks. Don't doubt me. 'I'd get shot.' He's laughing, and they're all laughing. If I tell a joke about somebody getting shot on this show and I laugh about it, I will not hear the end of it for I don't know how long."

Rush then aired audio of Obama saying of Gates: "[A]ny of us would be pretty angry; number two, that the Cambridge Police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home; and number three, what I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there is a long history in this country of African Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately." Rush said he has long thought that there's a chip on Obama's shoulder -- Gates was not stopped. This was not a profiling case. Rush guaranteed that after all this is over, Gates' neighbor who called the cops will be a racist, too.

So last week we dump on the white firefighters, said Rush, and this week we're dumping on cops. The cop said there will be no apology. He didn't do anything wrong! Rush aired audio of Gates saying that the cop was a "rogue policeman." This is how this kind of thing starts, said Rush. Gates is trying to make this a national issue. Rush then aired audio of Gates saying this isn't about him, it's about the vulnerability of black men in America. We have a new mantra from "these guys," said Rush.

Coming back from the final break, Rush said he had been "gingerly" treating the Gates business, but now was going to tell us what he really thinks. Gates was not arrested sipping tea in his house, said Rush, he was arrested after he started screaming at the cops. Here's what Rush thinks -- the cops came and found out that it was his house and he was legally there, and there's no reason to follow the cops and yell at them, ergo: "I think Skip Gates wanted to be arrested and provoked the cop." Rush explained: "the cops show up, Gates instantly saw opportunity for capital-P Publicity -- chance to get out from the shadow of his former colleague Cornel West. There's a rivalry there between those two guys."

And, rest assured, the hour ended on a pretty steep downhill trajectory: "We all know who Henry Louis Gates is. Do you know what department he teaches in at Harvard? What's his department? African-American Studies. What is African-American Studies? It's an entire department devoted to creating racial friction. All of his academic writings are about racial issues."

Greg Lewis and Zachary Pleat contributed to this edition of the Limbaugh Wire.

Highlights from Hour 2

Outrageous comments

LIMBAUGH: What we had last night was arrogance on parade. You have to be arrogant and full of hubris to think you can actually go out and tell those kinds of lies and have them believed. You must have a really, really high impression of yourself. You must really believe the people in your audience don't care what you're saying, they just marvel that they're in your presence and listening to you. We're talking about an ego here that has no boundaries.

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LIMBAUGH: He says he would get shot. That's right, "I'm a black guy." In fact, grab sound bite three. I didn't want to use this, but I'm not going to use it. "I'm a black guy, I'd get shot." Don't doubt me on this, folks. Don't doubt me. "I'd get shot." He's laughing, and they're all laughing. If I tell a joke about somebody getting shot on this show and I laugh about it, I will not hear the end of it for I don't know how long.

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LIMBAUGH: I think Skip Gates wanted to be arrested, and provoked the cop. The only person who should really come under any scrutiny about the cops being there is Gates' almost certainly liberal neighbor -- I mean we're talking Cambridge here. These houses are kind of close together. The neighbor didn't recognize her own neighbor -- didn't recognize Gates -- called the cops. When you live in a neighborhood with houses right next to each other, normal people recognize their neighbors. But the neighbor - no doubt being a liberal, probably racist -- saw what she saw. Once the cops show up, Gates instantly saw opportunity for capital-P Publicity -- chance to get out from the shadow of his former colleague Cornel West. There's a rivalry there between those two guys.

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LIMBAUGH: And by the way, Snerdley, let me check. We all know who Henry Louis Gates is. Do you know what department he teaches in at Harvard? What's his department? African-American Studies. What is African-American Studies? It's an entire department devoted to creating racial friction. All of his academic writings are about racial issues.

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By Greg Lewis

Rush began the final hour of today's program with more to say about Henry Gates. First, he noted that White House press secretary Robert Gibbs today said that Obama was not calling the police officer stupid. Rush pointed out that Obama said the police acted "stupidly." Rush said Obama's reaction last not "was not presidential" and Obama should not have answered the question.

And here's where things took a turn for the worse. Rush described Obama's reaction that of a community organizer, the "ACORN reaction," the "militant black reaction, the Cornel West angry reaction."

His rant continued:

LIMBAUGH: And he sends a message to young people all over the country: Kids, your -- the cops are stupid. The president of the United States says the police act stupidly. All it does is cement in certain peoples' minds that there's a constant adversarial relationship with the cops. "The cops are bad. My president even knows that. The president says the cops are stupid. The president says the cops are racist, the cops are profiling," and so forth.

This is agitation last night, folks, I'm -- that's why I'm very uncomfortable with this. Obama is not a force for positive race relations in this country. He is not a uniter. He played into stereotypes with this, and he repeats them. He should have kept his mouth shut; he's not capable of that. He should have kept his mouth shut. He doesn't know the facts; he wasn't there. He pops off just exactly as he would back in Chicago in the community organizing days. And he goes off about racial profiling, all the rest. Based on what? A limited amount of information about a single incident where he's quick to condemn the cop, the whole police department, white America.

Where to go from here? Ah, that's right, the economy. Rush read from a few articles, the first from The Wall Street Journal, then from the Associated Press, about the lousy job market and Obama "fading to reality" in the polls. Then Rush read the latest Rasmussen right track/wrong track poll. Rush said this is why Sen. Reid said is putting off the health care vote. Rush again warned that when they come back to vote on health care in the fall, that he would be ready.

Then Rush read a few more items in his Stack of Stuff. There was a Politico article about Democrats "concern[ed]" about Sen. Barbara Boxer, and Rush also talked about Hillary Clinton's trip to Thailand, where she discussed policy regarding Iran. Finally, Rush read from an article on The New York Times' jump in profits. Rush said this should be a lesson for liberals on managing budgets. Rush pondered if this would be reflected in their editorials or reporting -- no, it wouldn't, because for them, real world experience is "trumped" by statist, radical ideology. After a break, Rush quickly touched on another Hillary article, about the North Koreans calling her "vulgar," among other things.

Then Rush took a caller who proclaimed that her "anger and hatred" for Obama was "growing by the day." She went on to brag about her health insurance, an asked why the media would not say what the "real" number of uninsured was. Then she brought up Graeme Frost, the 12-year-old boy who, in the caller's estimation, was paraded around when the Democrats were pushing SCHIP a couple years ago. The caller said his parents were "loaded" and that people like that who "don't want to pay" for health insurance. (Actually, both of those claims are false.) The caller continued her rant, calling people without health insurance "idiots." Rush said the caller's complaint isn't limited to health care -- people are fed up with paying for a lot of things which people aren't taking responsibility for.

After another break, Rush mentioned Obama's "rock star" reception just now at his town meeting in Pittsburgh. Rush was wary of the idea of cheering government officials like they're rock stars. Rush also took a moment to bring up the latest Fox News poll, zeroing in on a particular piece of data showing that Americans think that fixing the economy is more important right now than fixing health care. First of all, that's a false choice -- our health care woes are inextricably tied to the state of the economy, so to say you can fix one without addressing the other is a fallacy. Secondly, there is one bit of economy-related data in that poll that we noticed right away, but which must have slipped past Rush: when asked who is to blame more for the current state of the economy, Obama or George W. Bush, 61 percent of respondents blamed Bush. What's more, the crosstabs on that question show that more Republicans blame Bush for the economy (34 percent) than they do Obama (30 percent). So despite Rush's many, many, many foam-dripping rants on the subject, Americans just aren't buying into the fantasy that President Obama managed to ruin the economy in six months.

Then it was time for another very special caller, this one hyping the twin themes of deception and honor. He argued Obama was deceiving us with his influences -- like Bill Ayers, Rev. Wright, Saul Alinsky -- as well as deceiving us with the birth certificate "falsification question," his ACORN connections, and his agenda. It was a "culture of deception" as the caller described it. This went on for a few minutes, with the caller's uninterrupted rant finally climaxing with his claim that Obama's "cult of deception" was "approaching treason." To his credit, Rush refused to "go there" on the treason charge, but he generally agreed with the caller, which is unsurprising considering the caller just made all the same points Rush has been making for months. Also unsurprising, Rush launched into his own rant about how liberalism is "deceit" and communism is "lies," and how rising unemployment is being done "purposefully."

From there, Rush repeated his parachute analogy from Hour 1, and then his Titanic analogy from yesterday. Then he teased his interview with Greta van Susteren again. And after one more break, it was an ad for the Heritage Foundation, and that was it. Is it fair to say his show ended with a whimper today? Whatever. As always, we'll be back tomorrow, rain or shine. And as always, our ever-compelling and ever-amassing Limbaugh Wire archives are probably the best thing you'll find on the Internet, period.

Simon Maloy, Zachary Pleat, and Ariana Probinsky contributed to this edition of the Limbaugh Wire.

Highlights from Hour 3

Outrageous comments

LIMBAUGH: What we got last night -- the president's reaction to this -- was not presidential. The presidential reaction is "I don't know everything that happened. I know Gates, friend of mine - I don't know what happened. And I'm going to leave this up to the local authorities when all the details are known, blah blah blah." Just stay out of it.

But, what we got was the reaction of a community organizer. We saw the community organizer that is Barack Obama. We got the ACORN reaction last night. We got the militant black reaction, the Cornel West angry reaction. But basically, we saw a community organizer in action last night.

And he sends a message to young people all over the country: Kids, your -- the cops are stupid. The president of the United States says the police act stupidly. All it does is cement in certain peoples' minds that there's a constant adversarial relationship with the cops. "The cops are bad. My president even knows that. The president says the cops are stupid. The president says the cops are racist, the cops are profiling," and so forth.

This is agitation last night, folks, I'm -- that's why I'm very uncomfortable with this. Obama is not a force for positive race relations in this country. He is not a uniter. He played into stereotypes with this, and he repeats them. He should have kept his mouth shut; he's not capable of that. He should have kept his mouth shut. He doesn't know the facts; he wasn't there. He pops off just exactly as he would back in Chicago in the community organizing days. And he goes off about racial profiling, all the rest. Based on what? A limited amount of information about a single incident where he's quick to condemn the cop, the whole police department, white America.