This hour of the Limbaugh Wire brought to you by Rush -- Dark Knight fanboy
By Simon Maloy

It's amusing to us to hear Rush cheer on the Teabagger Disruption Squads for a number of reasons. First of all, when ACORN was involved in protests against AIG executives in Connecticut this past March, Rush pronounced it an outrage, calling it "mob rule" and "demonization," and he (falsely) alleged that Obama coordinated all of this with the multi-billion dollar grant ACORN (didn't) receive as part of the stimulus. Now that conservatives are loudly crashing town halls, acting in a very mobbish fashion and intimidating members of Congress, Rush says it's little more than the educated citizenry standing up to its mendacious representatives. The second point is that Rush actually allows for the widely recognized fact that these "organic" town hall protests are organized exercises in political activism, but he says that would be a good thing. Why? Because the left has allegedly been doing the same thing with "rent-a-mobs" for years, and it's about time conservatives started fighting back. So forget about principles and decency and all the high-minded hosannas about conservatives winning in the marketplace of ideas -- this is about payback and the ends justifying the means. It reminds us of when Rush famously announced that he'd support having a "racist" like Sonia Sotomayor on the Supreme Court if she turned out to be pro-life. It's reprehensible, but this sort of candor from a political figure is strangely refreshing.

Rush got things rolling today by saying that you are facing a challenge: Do you believe your own life and experience, or Obama? Well, said Rush, The Washington Post reports that the administration says its economic policy is working. There is no recovery! There has been no rescue, said Rush. Tax revenue is at a low now seen since the '30s, but Obama says we're rebuilding, and the state-run media dutifully report it. The real number to focus on, said Rush, is that U.S. incomes tumbled 1.3 percent in June. If we've got a 1.3 percent drop in income, how does consumer spending go up? It's up because gasoline prices are up. People have to buy gasoline. There is no recovery, Rush repeated, because income and tax receipts are down, Obama has added $1 trillion to the national debt, and unemployment is up. Rush read from a CBS News article, which reported that "the National Debt has increased over a trillion dollars since President Obama took office." He conveniently omitted the part of the article that reported: "A great deal of current deficit spending was already in the pipeline from the Bush administration and Mr. Obama, anticipating this day, said that increases have to be kept in perspective."

Rush then noted that AFP is reporting that "US companies are increasingly turning to offshoring their functions to achieve cost savings, and few plan to bring those jobs back to the United States." The cconomic plan is working? This is right out of Saul Alinsky, said Rush -- sell things to people by using terms they're familiar with. More taxes are coming, health care mandates are coming, and that's going to help the situation? People are fleeing this situation! The Democrats are now dripping with contempt for the public, who are taking more action and attending these town hall meetings. The libs and the media have no clue what the people are thinking, said Rush. These town hall meetings are erupting all over the place, the White House is attacking Drudge, Dick Durbin is targeting insurance companies -- this is all out of Alinsky.

And Chris Matthews, said Rush, is wondering where all the Obama supporters are. Rush had a question for Matthews: Did you ever stop to think that this whole health care business is a trumped lie from the '90s? The reason people aren't showing up for health care is because they don't want it. Rush said what's surprising to him is that ACORN hasn't gotten involved in this. Rush added: "I find it fascinating that all these Democrats are -- exactly what we said last week -- they're starting to refer to these town hall meetings as unruly mobs; we can't promise security. No, no, no. These are orderly people. These are genuine, voting American citizens. ... [I]t's not ginned up; it's genuine. It's real." Orderly? Genuine? Real? Not in the slightest, on any count. Anyway, Rush added: "The Democrat Party has now got a new slogan to the American people -- it's 'Screw you.' Actually, that has been their modus operandi for as long as I've been alive, but now they're out there actually saying it in so many words. 'Screw you!' 'The hell with you!' They're just dripping with contempt for the American people, for the public."

Rush said that when hard-working people become involved and active for the first time, they're denounced. Democracy doesn't belong just to the leftists. There's something boiling over out there, the only question is whether it will last. Obama's own aggressiveness has sparked this, said Rush, and Obama doesn't recognize that there's opposition to health care; he just assumes that everyone is in full-fledged support.

Rush then said he saw on Drudge that the administration has a new health care logo. Rush said he hasn't seen anything like this since World War II. It has stars with "zombie-like" people surrounding this radiant sun -- this guy is obsessed with crowds. This is just odd, said Rush, explaining that he thinks Obama is in the process of Obama becoming a caricature of himself. You know this Obama-Joker poster? People are all bent out of shape about this, calling it racist and humiliating. The very people who spent seven years mocking Bush are outraged about this. There's nothing racist about this poster, said Rush. If you've seen The Dark Knight, Obama is just like the Joker! "He had a big damn chip on his shoulder about his childhood and about a bunch of other things. His goal was to undermine the whole system, the whole current system. I think whoever did this is pretty brilliant, actually. And to effect the change that the people of Gotham City didn't want. The Joker created chaos upon chaos. The whole city was focused on him and what he was gonna do next. He viewed crisis as an opportunity. So the Joker orchestrated crisis after crisis after crisis."

As Rush went through all this, we were wondering who, exactly, is complaining about the poster. Well, Rush came through on that one, reading a Daily Mail article reporting that "[a] spokesman from the Los Angeles urban policy unit said that depicting the president as demonic and a socialist 'goes beyond political spoofery.' " That's it. That's the extent of the "complaining."

But Rush came back from the break still upset about it, asking why it is considered art when someone dips a crucifix in urine, but a poster of Obama as the Joker on telephone poles in Los Angeles is over the line. Rush said that maybe someone could write a book about Obama called, "Barack Obama is a Big-Eared Idiot." The libs would love that, wouldn't they? The libs don't get to tell us what's acceptable, said Rush, and we choose not to take this lying down. If Rush knew the guy who created the poster, he'd have commissioned it.

Another break and Rush was back, still mad about all the "complaining" from liberals about the Obama-Joker poster, saying that everyone is so upset at a poster of the Joker, and, meanwhile, we're supposed to put up with all the debasements of our culture from the left.

Then Rush moved on to the Drudge-White House conflict, reading from an Associated Press report on Linda Douglass' video response to Drudge's distortion of Obama's health care remarks from a 2007 SEIU conference. Rush aired a sound bite of Linda Douglass saying that there are a lot of deceiving headlines out there about health care, and people are taking sentences and phrases out of context. Nothing is being taken out of context, said Rush. What's happening is that Obama is taking a member of the mainstream media to try and cover his lies; the White House is pressuring the network to cover his health care lies; Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius is out there lying about health care -- she has the most amazing op-ed in The Washington Post in which she's essentially saying "forget the details," just pass the bill. So, Rush said, you have Sebelius, you have press secretary Robert Gibbs lying about Obama's plan to raise taxes on everyone -- "This is the Bernie Madoff method of taking money under false pretenses. There is an open fraud being conducted on the American people by this administration. It is nothing but a campaign of pure fraud and deceit, each and every day."

Rush then aired more from Douglass' video, in which she said that people cherry-pick quotes and make Obama sound like he's saying something that he isn't. This is nothing but pure deceit, said Rush. Rush said there are a lot of personality characteristics that bug him, and deceit is one of them. This is a campaign of pure fraud and deceit intended to take away as much freedom and liberty blah blah blah. Rush then aired the audio of Obama speaking at the 2007 SEIU health care forum. It's not incidental who he's speaking to here, said Rush. The SEIU are the people who community organize and agitate to upset normalcy. These are his buds, the ones he speaks the truth to. When you take employer coverage out, there's no more private insurance; it's all government. Rush said he doesn't know why they did this video response to Drudge. We think of these people as brilliant, but all they're doing is exposing their own deceit. Linda Douglass looks like a sap. She looks like a propagandist.

Then Rush got to some good, old-fashioned bamboozlement: "On page 16 of the House bill -- it's right there. And you've heard people quote from it. You've heard people -- I'm going to summarize it. Page 16: Private insurance will become illegal." As we've pointed out before, this is wildly untrue. What followed was Rush's near word-for-word recitation (unsourced, of course) of a health care smear email that purports to be a page-by-page analysis of the House health care bill. PolitiFact already scrutinized this email and concluded: "Most of what the e-mail says is wrong. In fact, it's a clearinghouse of bad information circulating around the Web about proposed health care changes." So you can see why Rush so enthusiastically embraced it...

After the final break, Rush announced that economist Art Laffer will be joining him at the top of the second hour to discuss health care, despite the fact that Laffer is apparently unaware that Medicare and Medicaid are already government-run.

Then Rush took his first caller of the show, who said that Bill Press epitomizes what is wrong with liberals, because he was saying on Fox this morning that the town hall protests are orchestrated, and that insults our intelligence. Rush said Press is just reading off a script. Chris Matthews inadvertently came up with the real question: Where are the pro-health care people? The supporters aren't showing up because people don't care about health care. They're concerned about their jobs. What Chris was really asking is where is ACORN; where are our agitators?

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

Highlights from Hour 1

Outrageous comments

LIMBAUGH: And also, I find it fascinating that all these Democrats are -- exactly what we said last week -- they're starting to refer to these town hall meetings as unruly mobs; we can't promise security.

No, no, no. These are orderly people. These are genuine, voting American citizens. It is -- what these Democrats are accusing you of doing, who go to these town hall meetings, is exactly what Obama taught people to do. He's the community agitator. He's the community organizer. Obama is the guy who taught people how to show up at events like this over and over again and rip 'em apart, and tear 'em down, disrupt 'em and make sure they don't happen.

And now the tables have been turned. It's happening to him. Only, this time, it's not ginned up; it's genuine. It's real.

[...]

LIMBAUGH: The Democrat Party has now got a new slogan to the American people -- it's "Screw you." Actually, that has been their modus operandi for as long as I've been alive, but now they're out there actually saying it in so many words. "Screw you!" "The hell with you!" They're just dripping with contempt for the American people, for the public.

[...]

LIMBAUGH: But there's nothing racist about this Obama poster. In fact, if you've seen The Dark Knight -- have you seen The Dark Knight, Snerdley? All right. Well, then you know the character of the Joker in that movie.

The Joker in that movie took every opportunity to remake Gotham City, didn't he? He had a big damn chip on his shoulder about his childhood and about a bunch of other things. His goal was to undermine the whole system, the whole current system. I think whoever did this is pretty brilliant, actually. And to effect the change that the people of Gotham City didn't want.

The Joker created chaos upon chaos. The whole city was focused on him and what he was gonna do next. He viewed crisis as an opportunity. So the Joker orchestrated crisis after crisis after crisis. And the Joker wore a mask.

I mean, whoever put this poster together is pretty smart, because there are some similarities here between what the Joker did in that movie and what Obama's doing to this country.

[...]

LIMBAUGH: This is the Bernie Madoff method of taking money under false pretenses. There is an open fraud being conducted on the American people by this administration. It is nothing but a campaign of pure fraud and deceit, each and every day.

America's Truth Rejector

LIMBAUGH: On page 16 of the House bill -- it's right there. And you've heard people quote from it. You've heard people -- I'm going to summarize it. Page 16: Private insurance will become illegal.

This hour of the Limbaugh Wire brought to you by the totally spontaneous, nationwide tea party protests
By Simon Maloy

Rush got the second hour going by saying that he "Bill Clinton get off the plane over in North Korea where he was going to go meet with Kim Jong-Il to get two female journalists released, one of whom works for Al Gore." Rush had one question to ask: "Now, where is Hillary? The real secretary of State is in Kenya. Why go to Kenya, unless you've been ordered to go over there and kiss Obama's grandfather's grave? Is North korea too important to send the girl?"

This provided an excellent segue for Rush to begin his promised interview with Art Laffer, whom Rush asked to react to his own findings on the proposed health care reform legislation. Laffer said when you separate people from their expenditures, they stop being responsible, and the separation between the doctor and the patient removes all controls of health care costs. Rush said one of his "bugaboos" is that when someone like Obama proposes something massive like this, the premise that we need it is automatically accepted, contra the facts. Laffer said he's more concerned about the costs and the quality of the program than he is the motivations behind it, and, with this program, they're both a real problem. Limbaugh said Laffer's point about separating the costs is a great one, and he asked Laffer if he thought his forthcoming research paper has the capacity to stop this health care reform. Laffer said he'd love to see health care reform stopped -- this type of reform is the wrong direction for the country to go. Rush asked Laffer about the solution he proposes, and Laffer said they're really simple and common sense, like tort reform and health savings accounts.

Rush then moved on to the economy in general, asking if Laffer, as the author of the Laffer Curve, is frustrated that the principle he articulated, which has been proven true so many times, is continuously attacked. Laffer said yes, and that Obama is proposing some really dumb ideas, like increased taxes on millionaires. Rush said anyone with any economic literacy knows that the whole stimulus theory was bound to fail, and Laffer agreed. Rush said he had to ask if Laffer believes, like Rush does, that this is purposeful. Laffer said he's not sure, but if you've ever been in a university with other professors, you know how stupid they can be. This is a professorial approach that is ignorant of the real world. This administration doesn't have a clue, particularly Larry Summers, and it's sad that Christina Romer has to defend the party line on this. It's crazy and dangerous, said Rush, who went on to repeat his grand conspiracy of wealth distribution. Laffer said it's all hubris -- they don't have to bear the weight of their own mistakes.

Well, that was scintillating. We're glad we could share it with you. Anyway, Rush came back from the break asking if we remembered when Bill Clinton said that Obama has the instincts of a Chicago thug. We don't, but Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) said the same thing, apparently, and Rush was very excited about it.

Rush then celebrated the idea that these town halls are really just boiling over. Something is happening out there and the Democrats and the media don't realize it, he said. Rush then aired audio of a town hall with Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), during which Ellison was asked if he's willing to put his family on the government health system. Rush said it's an excellent question, and all you need to do is ask the question because you can't trust their answers. Oddly enough, that's exactly what the organizers of these tea party protests say -- just ask the questions, and don't let them answer. Rush then aired another clip of a woman saying to Ellison that she'd rather go bankrupt than let her father die of leukemia. Rush cheered her on, then aired audio of Ellison saying that end-of-life health care costs are prohibitive, and result from a guilt-trap. Rush said that Obama is going to cut costs by removing the "guilt trap" -- you won't have to treat your dying parents; they'll just take the pain pill.

Rush came back from the break armed with a couple of forgettable health care parodies, and then read from an Associated Press article reporting: "The Obama administration is refusing to release government records on its 'cash-for-clunkers' rebate program that would substantiate -- or undercut -- White House claims of the program's success, even as the president presses the Senate for a quick vote for $2 billion to boost car sales." Noting that the article said that "limited information released so far shows most buyers are not picking Ford, Chrysler or General Motors vehicles," Rush said that "Obama Motors" is trying to subsidize themselves, and they're subsidizing their competitors.

Then it was back to North Korea, as Rush expressed his hope that Bill Clinton comes back and announces a deal with Kim Jong-Il in which no more missiles will be fired, and then two days later, they launch a missile. That would be great.

Rush then took a call from a gentleman who was "livid" with Obama's health care proposal, explaining that he's an independent contractor in the entertainment industry, the union provides his insurance, and there's no way he'd give up his benefits for this government-run plan. Rush said the odds are that businesses are going to offload their health care to get rid of the costs, but you're part of a union, so you might be allowed to keep your plan, but if the plan changes in the smallest way, you won't be able to have it any more and you'll be pushed to the public plan. The caller said he doesn't expect the unions to be impacted because they support Obama with so much money. Rush said remember that Obama said he wants a single-payer system, he wants everyone covered by the government. Sixty percent of the population don't want to change their health care, Rush said, but that doesn't matter to the Democrats.

Rush's next caller wanted to talk about the unruly town hall with Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX). She was there, and she believed that the majority of the people there were there as individuals. Well, despite what this caller believes, the fact is, as The New York Times reported, the "protest was coordinated by a looseknit group of conservative voters who have worked in the past with the Texas Republican Party and Americans for Prosperity, a national conservative organization." Rush bragged that this sort of protest is being replicated all over the country (which kind of belies the idea that there's no coordination happening, don't you think?). Rush then attacked Politico for reporting: "Angry protesters shouted down Democrats at public events from Texas to Pennsylvania over the weekend, leaving the party only one real hope for getting its message out over recess: a backlash." They are "hoping" for a backlash, said Rush. They're desperate. They're losing. They don't have a game-changer. They're hoping for someone to go whacko so they can point at all of them and call them an unruly mob.

One more break and Rush limped out of the hour by repeating his claim that the Democrats are dripping with contempt for the public, and the people attending these town hall meetings; they do so at their own political peril, Rush said, because these town hall people have the power to throw them out of office. Rush aired audio of Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) saying that insurance companies are trying to stack the town hall meetings, just like flooding the switchboards at Capitol Hill. There's another compassionate, responsive Democrat, said Rush, saying that you people are nothing but a bunch of phony-baloney sucker punchers. You Democrats don't get to tell us what we can or cannot do or say, Rush repeated. You're the ones who have disgusting backgrounds, who fund these debasements of our culture. Rush aired another Durbin bite, in which the Illinois Democrat said that health insurers don't want to see reform, so they're organizing these rallies and getting people out there and shouting. So the health insurance companies are behind this?

Rush was incredulous that the insurance companies -- or anyone, for that matter -- were behind the town hall protests, and as evidence he had on the phone a gentleman who asked Sebelius and Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) a question at the Philadelphia town hall. The caller said he was at the town hall because he heard about it through local groups. Rush said he's glad this guy called because MSNBC is smearing them as this coordinated agitation effort. Actually, the tea partiers themselves are bragging about their organizational efforts: "On the boo side were dozens of people who pasted 'Tell Washington No' bumper stickers on their chests. [Diana] Reimer said her organization, the Philadelphia Tea Party Patriots, brought 40 people."

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

Highlights from Hour 2

Ladies' man

LIMBAUGH: I was just watching television. I saw Bill Clinton get off the plane over in North Korea where he was going to go meet with Kim Jong-Il to get two female journalists released, one of whom works for Al Gore, and I got to thinking two things. I remember when Jimmy Carter went over to North Korea on his own during the Clinton administration and came out of there saying, "I just finished talking to their little potbellied dictator, and he promised me no nukes." And he sorta cut Clinton's knees out from under him. I wonder what kind of side deals are being made here.

Now, where is Hillary? The real secretary of State is in Kenya. Why go to Kenya, unless you've been ordered to go over there and kiss Obama's grandfather's grave? Is North korea too important to send the girl?

This hour of the Limbaugh Wire brought to you by Astroturfing, which Republicans aren't using, but if they were using, it's only because liberals started using it first
By Greg Lewis

The third hour began with Rush reading from a Red State blog post claiming that the White House was calling for "informants." The post pointed to a White House blog post requesting readers to send in false emails and other "disinformation" they come across regarding health care reform. Rush characterized this as the White House asking its "groupies" to "snitch" on people telling the truth about health care reform. And, this being The Rush Limbaugh Show, everything went straight downhill from there.

You see, according to Rush, the White House asking for "informants" is "parallel" to what is going on in Iran right now:

LIMBAUGH: There's a parallel going on in the world right now to this bunch that's running this country, and the parallel is Iran. They supposedly had a fair election. The people of Iran didn't think it was fair, they think it was a fraudulent election, and they started protesting in the streets. They -- even the people of Iran, this was too much to swallow.

The mullahs were just putting one over 'em. They wanted a reform candidate to win. They didn't think any of this -- they didn't think Ahmadinejad was the legitimate winner. They started protesting, and what was the result? The government went out and started cracking heads. Started putting people in jail. Some people have died as a result of government treatment when they were in the protests.

And now, you've got the White House asking people, its groupies, to be informants?

He also made this vague historical reference:

LIMBAUGH: So, this is, again, this has happened before in human history. Parents, whose minds weren't right, parents who were saying things against the regime, their children were supposed to inform on them. And so, now, the Obama administration is genuinely, legitimately asking for informants.

Then Rush moved on to Astroturfing, noting that many of the health care town hall protests are being described as such, but arguing that it was actually White House senior adviser David Axelrod who "invented" this strategy. Rush read a March 2008 Business Week article about the "secret side" of Axelrod. After a quick Bill Clinton sex joke, Rush said that liberals are accusing them of doing what they invent and do everyday, but the health care protests are "genuine grassroots." People are genuinely opposed to fraud and deceit being jammed down everybody's throat. Yes, it's so genuine and spontaneous that a) there is a memo going around giving these people very specific instructions on how to Astroturf, b) the organizers themselves are bragging about how they're flooding the town halls with people, and c) the anti-reform group, Consumers for Patients' Rights, is publically taking credit for "helping gin up the sometimes-rowdy outbursts" at the town hall events.

After the break, Rush took a caller who has been unemployed since being laid off last February, and was concerned that the administration is rushing so many things that they're forgetting about creating more jobs. Rush added that the Obama administration is also "doing everything it can to prevent this economy from rebounding." The caller went on to echo one of Rush's favorite falsehoods, that under health care reform, if his wife's insurance plan were to change, then they would lose the plan and would have to switch to the public option (see Hour 1 for rebuttal).

Returning from another break, Rush replayed, for the third time, his new "comedy" skit about "ObamaCare" he first aired in the previous hour. Then he aired an audio clip of then-Sen. Hillary Clinton in 2003 saying that she was sick of people saying it is unpatriotic to disagree with the Bush administration. Rush quipped that it still hurts his deaf ears to listen to that. Now the White House is asking informants to send them the "names" of people "being critical" of health care reform.

Moving on, Rush addressed Obama's lunch today with Senate Democratic leaders. First, he aired an audio clip of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) describing the lunch as a "pep talk." Rush said that in sports, you only need pep talks when something is wrong -- so that must mean there is panic in the White House. He went on to read a "snarky" post on ABC's The Note about the Democratic luncheon.

Then Rush noted that Obama went to the White House press room today to celebrate Helen Thomas' birthday (it's her birthday today, too). He described their interaction: "Obama said that Helen wished for health care reform. Helen you're 89, be careful what you're wishing for here." Rush continued: "Helen Thomas is 89 years old. If Obama health care passes, Helen Thomas is soon to be put out to pasture at Statist Farm. First time she gets sick, it's going to be judged not worth it."

Next, Rush took a call from a woman who said that Americans are starting to wake up and let their representatives know they're not happy. Rush took this as an opportunity to rehash his new favorite conspiracy theory, telling the caller that "the only way you can insure 50 million more people and not add any more doctors is to make sure certain people die, and the right people dying will also save us some Social Security money." The caller responded by saying they can't have the power if we don't give it to them. Rush went on to explain that if they passed health care, it would be difficult to turn back, but Rush noted that he is an optimist and thinks that something "that bad will not be tolerated."

One more break, and Rush returned with an AP article reporting that National Guard troops might be needed in an Alabama county which made steep spending cuts in the face of a budget crisis. Rush figured that a red state like Alabama wouldn't get a whole lot of stimulus money. In fact, Alabama appears to have gotten a reasonable share of the stimulus money, with per capita allocation of funds on par with blue states like Maryland and Wisconsin.

Then Rush decried Transportation Secretary Roy LaHood's apparent hypocrisy during his appearances on MSNBC yesterday. Earlier in the day, he told Andrea Mitchell about the environmental benefits of cash for clunkers by getting old gas guzzlers off the road, but told Chris Matthews later in the day that if he bought a new car, it would be a Ford Explorer. Rush cried out that LaHood wasn't even being loyal to Obama, because Obama "doesn't own Ford yet."

Finally, Rush took one last caller who claimed that liberals invented Astroturfing. Rush said liberals think conservatives are as trashy, duplicitous, and lying as they are. The caller went on to mention Obama's church, to which Rush responded that Obama went to his church to "establish cred" and also because he liked the message of "black socialism" and black liberation theology.

That's it for the Limbaugh Wire today. We'll be back for another round of punishment tomorrow. If we weren't, how would the Limbaugh Wire archives ever achieve its unstated goal of being the most thorough collection of Limbaugh-related snark on the Internets?

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

Highlights from Hour 3

Outrageous comments

LIMBAUGH: I'm going to tell you who this bunch reminds me of. There's a parallel going on in the world right now to this bunch that's running this country, and the parallel is Iran. They supposedly had a fair election. The people of Iran didn't think it was fair, they think it was a fraudulent election, and they started protesting in the streets. They -- even the people of Iran, this was too much to swallow.

The mullahs were just putting one over 'em. They wanted a reform candidate to win. They didn't think any of this -- they didn't think Ahmadinejad was the legitimate winner. They started protesting, and what was the result? The government went out and started cracking heads. Started putting people in jail. Some people have died as a result of government treatment when they were in the protests.

And now, you've got the White House asking people, its groupies, to be informants?

[...]

LIMBAUGH: So, this is, again, this has happened before in human history. Parents, whose minds weren't right, parents who were saying things against the regime, their children were supposed to inform on them. And so, now, the Obama administration is genuinely, legitimately asking for informants.

[...]

LIMBAUGH: This administration not only is not focusing on jobs and the economy at the expense of health care, it is doing everything it can to prevent this economy from rebounding.

[...]

LIMBAUGH: Oh, by the way, Obama went to the press room to celebrate Helen Thomas' birthday today. Helen Thomas and Obama have the same birthday. Obama said that Helen wished for health care reform. Helen you're 89, be careful what you're wishing for here.

[...]

LIMBAUGH: Helen Thomas is 89 years old. If Obama health care passes, Helen Thomas is soon to be put out to pasture at Statist Farm. First time she gets sick, it's going to be judged not worth it.

[...]

LIMBAUGH: The only way you can insure 50 million more people and not add any more doctors is to make sure certain people die --

CALLER: Exactly.

LIMBAUGH: -- and the right people dying will also save us some Social Security money.