by Sean Easter

Limbaugh opened today's show discussing Sarah Palin's primary endorsements, saying that the “drive-bys” wish not to mention that 11 Palin-endorsed candidates secured primary victories. Reading about the discovery of a new oil-eating microbe in the Gulf, Limbaugh celebrated his prediction that the ocean would take care of the Gulf oil spill. Limbaugh's last political point of the segment centered on the recent U.S. human rights report to the United Nations , which Limbaugh called our most recent apology to the world. Limbaugh continued to bemoan the report at other times during the broadcast. Limbaugh dedicated most of his first hour to friends coping with the recent loss of their 16-year-old son to cancer.

Responding to a segment on Hardball, Limbaugh asked, “How can America be Islamophobic? We elected Obama, didn't we? If this is a nation that is Islamophobic, how do we elect a man whose name is 'Barack Hussein Obama'?” Limbaugh said he has always been puzzled by how “leftist females in this country” could “support Islam, with what happens to women in Islamic countries.” Discussing the proposed Islamic community center in New York City, Limbaugh described the goal of those who oppose the building of the center: “We're trying to save [our society].” Limbaugh said, "[L]et's focus on an uncontested fact: There is no separation of church and state in Islam." Limbaugh then suggested it was hypocrisy on the part of liberals to support both separation of church and state and defend the proposed center. Limbaugh begged listeners to name another time the left had stood up for any religion other than Islam, saying that liberal groups such as the ACLU and the Southern Poverty Law Center exist to attack “right-wing religious people” under the guise of opposition to racism and bigotry.

Responding to a caller asking about tea partiers, Limbaugh said they are not Republicans, but conservatives with “very specific objectives: smaller government, lower taxes, property rights, liberty, freedom, so forth and so on.”

Limbaugh theorized that Associated Press coverage warning Yellowstone campers to be wary of hungry bears was, in fact, the media grasping for a scare narrative in a year of too few shark attacks. Limbaugh closed the show by suggesting that Big Tobacco, drug companies, or federal and state governments interested in maintaining cigarette tax revenue could be behind FDA efforts to regulate e-cigarettes.

Some highlights from today's show:

Rush compares right-wing campaign against Islamic community center to Cold War: “We're now fighting the mosqueovites”

Limbaugh asks: “How can America be Islamophobic? We elected Obama, didn't we?”

Limbaugh: Republicans are “trying to save” “our society” by opposing Islamic community center

Limbaugh advances myth that Thomas Jefferson “ended up going to war with the Muslims”