Follow The New Leader: Limbaugh Echoes Beck's Anita Dunn Smear

By Tom Allison

Rush calls radio host who disagrees with him "bigoted"

Rush complained that none of the stories on ESPN.com about his failed bid to buy the St. Louis Rams mentioned that NFL Players Association director DeMaurice Smith worked for Attorney General Eric Holder and on Obama's transition team. Rush cited an American Thinker blog post for backup and another one that tracked the IP address that originally posted purportedly fabricated Limbaugh quotes on Wikipedia, as well as edits to the Wikipedia pages of Sean Hannity, James Dobson, and Sarah Palin. Interestingly enough, the post claims that the quotes originated at a New York City law firm that formerly employed Rudy Giuliani.

Rush also talked about Juan Williams and Warren Ballentine's debate on The O'ReilIy Factor last night, praising Williams for defending Limbaugh's NFL bid and attacking Ballentine:

LIMBAUGH: Now, Ballentine said, "Juan, you can go back to the porch." Snerdley, what do you think that's a reference to? Exactly right! Snerdley, of all the people here who would know, he's calling him an Uncle Tom. Juan Williams simply dispersing the facts. Juan Williams is black. Juan Williams caught hell for writing a positive piece about Justice Thomas back during that whole scenario when he was nominated. You've got this guy Warren, "Go back to the -- go back to the porch, Juan." He just called him an Uncle Tom, in other words, a sellout, because he's not following the lie, he's not following the party line on this. And I just, you know, feel -- you talk about bigoted is right. I feel, I don't know, feel -- here's a guy, Juan Williams, just trying to get the truth out about this, and comes under attack, comes under assault. And this is -- this is Obama's America, folks. This is it.

Rush then talked about meeting former Rams running back Marshall Faulk at a party where Faulk appeared to have snubbed Rush. That's when we had our TMI moment of today's show:

LIMBAUGH: So, at that point, one of my buddies said, "Well, let's show him who you are." So one of my buddies went over to the table of the five women and said, "We'd like to buy you a drink." And the women said "No. Limbaugh can buy us one, but you can't." So I smiled, I went over to the table and they just -- they all wanted pictures. And I'm sitting on their laps and they're sitting on my lap, taking pictures and that other table, once I had gotten out of the table, said "OK, I'll do some pictures," they all wanted pictures, and Faulk and his buddies were in the corner looking, "What the hell's going on? Oh, Rush guy, who is, what's going on in here?" Because nobody was asking Marshall Faulk for a photo or anything.

"I can play the media like a Stradivarius"

Limbaugh claimed that he had schemed all week long and avoided giving interviews about his failed NFL bid to force the media to listen to his show. Claiming victory, Rush then announced his next plan: endorse Obama's policies. Why would he do this? Because the media hate Rush so much that they will destroy anything that he supports and they would rather see Obama fail than agree with Rush. As an example, Rush said that he agreed with Obama's position on "death panels" because the elderly are greedy and corrupt, predicting the media would finally criticize Obama's health proposals.

Rush finally concluded: "The objective here of scheme is get the state-controlled media to declare Obamacare a disaster and to reject it out of hand simply because I support it. Research confirms this, they will not be able to help themselves, think Pavlov's dogs."

Obama couldn't buy NFL team because of "racially tinged comments"

Rush's first caller on Open Line Friday claimed that the American left had politicized the NFL but that he took solace in other sports. Responding to a second caller's question, Rush said that he didn't think Obama would be able to buy an NFL team because of his controversial racial remarks, but at the same time claimed that the "Obama people have got their hooks in the NFL now."

LIMBAUGH: By the way, I have a question. Would Obama be allowed to buy an NFL team, do you think?

CALLER: Oh, I think so.

LIMBAUGH: No. Not according to current standards. Look at all the racially tinged comments Obama has made in his very brief time in the national spotlight, all five minutes of it. The bitter clingers, grandmother being a typical white person, the stupid cop up at Cambridge. Now, these are things he's actually said, by the way, as opposed to quotes made up out of whole cloth.

The silliness continued when Rush claimed that the NFL has its own racial problems, considering the special rules applied to kickers and quarterbacks, positions largely filled by white men. Rush also read yet another American Thinker blog post that snarkily complained lack of diversity and equality in the league.

"[C]orruption in the voting process is the one constant to Obama's success"

After the break, Rush criticized Obama's trip to New Orleans and noted a Gateway Pundit blog post about a tea party protest held outside of a Democratic fundraiser in San Francisco. Rush then basically accused Obama of stealing every election and contest in which he's been successful ... ever:

LIMBAUGH: Let's step back for a moment, shall we, and examine situations where Obama has found success. And in each of these instances, Obama's success begins and ends with corrupting the voting process. And not just the November elections. I'll mention me first -- the process where bids are taken for NFL owners to vote on new owners. The vote process has been totally corrupted. Votes for the Nobel Peace Prize, packing boards of directors, General Motors and Chrysler, legislation in Congress, card check, the Democrat caucus votes during primaries, and the November elections. Any time a vote is involved, Barack Obama or his proxies will stop at nothing to delegitimize the vote in process, and that's primarily what ACORN is all about. That is -- you know, corruption in the voting process is the one constant to Obama's success.

Throughout the show, Rush criticized the "drive-by media" for their coverage of the "boy in the balloon yesterday." While we don't exactly disagree with him over the story's dominance yesterday, Rush went a little far in saying that the media would turn on the family and predicting that "before this is done, the family will commit suicide about of humiliation."

Rush's next caller talked about Obama's upcoming visit to Texas A&M University and an apparent notice from the university asking people not to protest. Rush then commented that Texas is ready to secede because of Obama.

Rush on Dunn: "Mao is her favorite murderer"

Naturally, Rush echoed Glenn Beck's attacks on White House communications director Anita Dunn and her innocuous and not-out-of-the-ordinary citation of Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa to defend his comparisons of the Obama administration to communism. Rush went on to falsely claim of Dunn that "Mao is her favorite murderer."

Despite reports of lower heating bills this winter, Rush predicted that Obama would pay heating bills as part of his "design" to keep people from taking care of themselves.

Sticking with the fearmongering, Rush told an elderly caller that America's senior citizens are "screwed" if health reform passes and that if the Democrats will politicize something as harmless as the NFL, then you should expect them to politicize kidney transplants as well.

Wiley is "applauded by bigots at ESPN"

Back from the break, Rush promoted a Big Hollywood blog post that highlighted the antics of minority shareholders of NFL teams, such as Fergie urinating on stage, to claim a double standard between liberals and conservatives in the NFL.

After another caller asked if ESPN commentator Marcellus Wiley would be forced to resign because he called the program "racist radio," Rush claimed that Wiley would be "applauded by bigots at ESPN." Rush then told the caller that if somebody calls you a racist, you should tell them to shut up and to mind their own business.

Rush concluded today's show with another self-aggrandizing prediction of victimhood: that the "next hit piece" against him will be intended to take him out of judging the Miss America Pageant, supposedly beginning over the weekend or early next week.

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

Highlights

LIMBAUGH: Now, Ballentine said, "Juan, you can go back to the porch." Snerdley, what do you think that's a reference to? Exactly right! Snerdley, of all the people here who would know, he's calling him an Uncle Tom. Juan Williams simply dispersing the facts. Juan Williams is black. Juan Williams caught hell for writing a positive piece about Justice Thomas back during that whole scenario when he was nominated. You've got this guy Warren, "Go back to the -- go back to the porch, Juan." He just called him an Uncle Tom, in other words, a sellout, because he's not following the lie, he's not following the party line on this. And I just, you know, feel -- you talk about bigoted is right. I feel, I don't know, feel -- here's a guy, Juan Williams, just trying to get the truth out about this, and comes under attack, comes under assault. And this is -- this is Obama's America, folks. This is it.

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LIMBAUGH: They don't listen. You and I know that, right, folks? So here -- I want to let you in on a little scheme, a little plan that I have based on what we know. My trick here, my plan is based on the possibility that I might be able to trick the media into dumping Obama. You heard me right. I've been working on this scheme for weeks. How can I trick the media into dumping Obama? As you well know, I can play the media like a Stradivarius, and it's all based on one simple reality: the arrogant SOBs refuse to listen to this program.

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LIMBAUGH: See, the fact is, the state-controlled media would rather see this country succeed and Obama fail than agree with me. It appears, what we have learned here, that the last thing the media wants to do is agree with me. They just refuse to do it. It's their hatred is such that they will go out and make up quotes, or they will believe made-up quotes. So for example, if I were to say, down the road when I initiate the actual scheme -- you know, just a rough draft here, I believe in keeping you in the loop -- if I were to say, "You know what, I've been wrong. I've allowed my own ideological bias to inform me improperly on the essence of Obama's agenda. And I would like to change my original pronouncement on the agenda that I hope he feels. I really now, having looked at it, I hope he pulls it off." What would happen if I were ever to say, "I agree with the president. Senior citizens, they're too stupid to figure out that Obamacare will bankrupt the country, that Obamacare will destroy liberties, create massive new taxes on those making less than $200,000 and will require death panels happily run by Robert B. Reich." You see him in a little white lab coat [laughing] head of the death panels?

"And what's more, I think when it comes to Obamacare, the elderly are corrupt and greedy, and they can be bought off with a one-time $250 payoff in newly printed money that we don't have, to come out and say that I support this, because Obama's agenda is all that matters." Ho. What do you think their reaction would be? The objective here of scheme is get the state-controlled media to declare Obamacare a disaster and to reject it out of hand simply because I support it. Research confirms this. They will not be able to help themselves -- think Pavlov's dogs.

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LIMBAUGH: Let's step back for a moment, shall we, and examine situations where Obama has found success. And in each of these instances, Obama's success begins and ends with corrupting the voting process. And not just the November elections. I'll mention me first -- the process where bids are taken for NFL owners to vote on new owners. The vote process has been totally corrupted. Votes for the Nobel Peace Prize, packing boards of directors, General Motors and Chrysler, legislation in Congress, card check, the Democrat caucus votes during primaries, and the November elections. Any time a vote is involved, Barack Obama or his proxies will stop at nothing to delegitimize the vote in process, and that's primarily what ACORN is all about. That is -- you know, corruption in the voting process is the one constant to Obama's success.

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LIMBAUGH: And a prediction for you -- be ready for it. The next hit piece the media will be to take me out of being a judge in the Miss America pageant. You will see that rev up over the weekend or the first part of next week, bet ya.

Ladies' man

LIMBAUGH: So, after about a half hour, I said to my buddies, "I'm gonna go over say hello to Marshall Faulk." So I go over to Marshall Faulk, say "Hey Marshall, Rush Limbaugh." He had this blank look on his face, "Hey Rush, Marshall -- Marshall, it's Rush Limbaugh, and I just want to tell you, I really admired your work." He had retired from the NFL, and he looked at me and "OK, [unintelligible], we're fine." He was polite but non-interested, uninterested. So went back to the table and said, "You know, I think I just got dissed here Marshall Faulk. I just went over to him to tell him how much I admire his work and so forth, and he acted like he don't know who I am." Which might have been the case.

So, at that point, one of my buddies said, "Well, let's show him who you are." So one of my buddies went over to the table of the five women and said, "We'd like to buy you a drink." And the women said "No. Limbaugh can buy us one, but you can't." So I smiled, I went over to the table and they just -- they all wanted pictures. And I'm sitting on their laps and they're sitting on my lap, taking pictures and that other table, once I had gotten out of the table, said "OK, I'll do some pictures," they all wanted pictures, and Faulk and his buddies were in the corner looking, "What the hell's going on? Oh, Rush guy, who is, what's going on in here?" Because nobody was asking Marshall Faulk for a photo or anything.