Hour 2: Limbaugh calls President Obama "dunce"

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By Simon Maloy

At the top of the second hour, Rush noted that Slate.com featured an article titled "Should You Feel Guilty About Having a Job?" According to the article: "Many people who are working say they've stopped asking unemployed friends about job prospects, and they make sure not to gripe about their own jobs when those friends are around." Rush claimed that this is a "full frontal assault" on the 91 percent of Americans who are working to make them "feel guilty" for having a job. That's a hell of an assault -- one article in an online news magazine. Anyway, Rush said this attitude of feeling guilty for having a job is not what made America great. It's senseless to Rush, this "overwrought self-focus," which is "political correctness run amok."

After a quick break, Rush came back to talk football with a caller from Denver, who said that Obama and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner should have fired the general manager of the Denver Broncos to prevent the trade of quarterback Jay Cutler to the Chicago Bears. Rush's next caller wanted to comment on Slate's "full frontal assault" on the American worker, saying that he was unemployed for a long time, which cost him many things -- his house, car, and fiancée. Rush quipped: "Well, that's not all bad, then." After the caller said he then started his own business, Rush mockingly chastised him for being insensitive for not feeling guilty.

Back from another break, Rush read from a Politico article offering details of Obama's meeting with bank CEOs last week. Rush was incensed that Obama was quoted in the story as having said to the bankers: "My administration ... is the only thing between you and the pitchforks." He's talking about "the mob," according to Rush, that Obama and ACORN "inspired" and "fueled." Rush claimed to be "literally out of words to describe his anger." We didn't believe that for a second, and our incredulity was promptly rewarded, as Rush attacked Obama for "dragging" the CEOs into the White House to "threaten" them.

Time for another caller, this one wanting to know if "card check" permits employers to encourage unions to dissolve. Rush says that's not the point, "card check" is all about "Tony Soprano standing in your business with a baseball bat or a lead pipe." It's still as silly as when he said it before. But according to Rush this is what liberalism is all about -- the left is never satisfied, they always want more and they never give up. "It's like the Soviets. They didn't have four-year plans based on the service of term of their leader. They had forever plans, and if you had to, you know, take a year off, maybe a step back before you took two steps forward, then fine. But they had the objective, it was there, and whenever it got done was fine as long as you're always working for it." Apparently it's also like Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, and "[w]e're getting an early sign of what Chavez did by watching things happen here. But they just -- they don't stop." Rush said that the Democrats have to be defeated, but even when they lose elections they find other ways to accomplish the agenda -- take a look at the Iowa Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage. Rush said that if you were to dig up James Madison and ask him if he thought the Constitution should say that gay people can get married, he'd say you were crazy. Based on our experience, if you were to reanimate James Madison the first thing he'd say would be "Braaaaaaiiiinnnnsssss..."

Then Rush turned his attention to the media, attacking the Politico for the story he referenced earlier in the hour, as well as Newsweek, McClatchy, Howard Fineman, The New York Times, and MSNBC. Apparently David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel are the "executive editors" of all these media outlets. Rush's primary objection was to stories that recounted Obama's role at the G-20 in smoothing over a dispute between France's Nicolas Sarkozy and China's Hu Jintao.

Rush capped off the hour by returning to his theory that Russia and China "can't believe their luck" that this "dunce" Obama is the president of the United States, because all they have to do is sit back and make him look good while Obama dismantles all the nuclear weapons and empties the U.S. Treasury.

Highlights from Hour 2

Outrageous comments

CALLER: I have a question about an aspect of card check that has not been explored, and it's this. If card check allows union organizers to intimidate workers into joining unions, does it also permit employers to encourage workers to dissolve the union?

LIMBAUGH: Well -- no. I mean, you might be able to say that it would permit it, but that's not the point. With Tony Soprano standing in your business with a baseball bat or a lead pipe, you as the business owner are not going to try to convince your workers to A) throw him out and decertify because even if you throw him out, Tony Soprano is waiting outside the door when the employees leave.

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LIMBAUGH: For how many years were they talking about gay marriage? How many years were they talking about demonizing the SUV? That started in 1995. Here it is 14 years later, and they're on the verge of doing it. They don't stop. It's like the Soviets. They didn't have four-year plans based on the service of term of their leader. They had forever plans, and if you had to, you know, take a year off, maybe a step back before you took two steps forward, then fine. But they had the objective, it was there, and whenever it got done was fine as long as you're always working for it. Same thing with Hugo Chavez. Hugo Chavez taking over the banks now. Hugo Chavez nationalizing the oil industry. Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. We're getting an early sign of what Chavez did by watching things happen here. But they just -- they don't stop. They advance these ideas, and this is why an electoral majority needs to happen in order to defeat these people.

Ladies' man

CALLER: I wanted to comment on the young lady with the job situation, you know. I was out of work for about a year and a half. It cost me my house, my car, cost me my fiancée, cost me everything.

LIMBAUGH: Well, that's not all bad, then.

CALLER: You know, I just couldn't sit around. I took the last hundred bucks and I had to start a company so that I could have a job so I could pay my bills and, you know, here I am. I'm not going to take any government money. I'm not going to take any handouts.

Clip from this hour

Limbaugh continues mob references in discussion of Employee Free Choice Act: "Tony Soprano standing in your business with a baseball bat or a lead pipe"