By Greg Lewis

Another day, another round of Limbaugh suggesting blizzards during winter mean that global warming is a “hoax”

Anyone want to guess what Limbaugh started his show off with today? Consider the following: there's another blizzard in the northeast, and Rush Limbaugh loves nothing more than to repeat his tired “jokes” at every opportunity. Yup, the intro was another cry that snow in the winter meant that global warming is a hoax. And just like every other science-hating conservative out there, Rush also begged to know the current whereabouts of Al Gore. Because that's supposed to prove something.

It didn't end there. Rush then read an ode to the internal combustion engine. He explained that because of the internal combustion engine and the “unsung heroes” who build and operate them to clear snow, liberals will soon be able to get back to work making life more difficult for every one of us. The unsung heroes are the people outside their homes clearing streets, Rush continued, so that environmental wackos and the “green Nazi police” can get where they have to go. Rush followed this up with a short rant about Obama continuing his war on the private sector because of news that a Ritz hotel in Vegas would be shutting down.

Discussing argument that conservatives calling Obama “professorial” has racial undertones, Rush says Obama is “uppity” -- “not as a black” but as “an elitist”

Following the break, Rush changed gears and read an article posted at InsideHigherEd.com about the conservative attacks on “Professor” Obama. The article contained a section with quotes from Harvard professor Charles J. Ogletree claiming that there are racial undertones when conservatives attack Obama in this way. Ogletree also compared this to a quote from Clarence Thomas, who called his Supreme Court confirmation hearings: “a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas.” Ogletree's argument was that “professor” was a coded way to call Obama “uppity.”

This being a discussion on race, and the discusser being Rush Limbaugh, this is the point where things went downhill. Rush disagreed with Ogletree's argument and declared that “the single most important reason Obama was elected was his race”:

LIMBAUGH: This is two different kinds of uppity that are being discussed about here. So now is professor the P-word? We've got the N-word, we have the R-word, and now we have the P-word? We can't -- we gotta -- we gotta speak in code? And only people who don't know what P-word is will understand what we're saying.

“The idea that he's not one of us, Ogletree says of the professor label. He has these ideas on that are left-wing that are socialist, that he's palling around with terrorists. Those are buzzwords, but the reality was that they were looking at this president as an African-American who is out of place.” You know, Professor Ogletree, I hate to burst the balloon, but the single most important reason Obama was elected was his race.

A bunch of white people who thought electing a black president would assuage all of their guilt and erase our racial past voted for Obama. They couldn't of cared less what he thought, what he said. He didn't think of his as uppity, they were being selfish. They didn't like feeling guilty over our racists past, slavery, and so they thought pulling the lever for Obama would absolve them. It wasn't for his policies, as we are now quickly learning.

Then Rush said that Obama “is uppity, but not as a black. He is an elitist”:

LIMBAUGH: What Clarence Thomas meant by uppity, meaning he wasn't a liberal black. When Clarence Thomas said uppity black thinks for himself means he's off the reservation, so to speak. He's not following the civil rights speech codes set forth by the Reverend Jackson and Al Sharpton and whoever else is in charge of them. But nobody -- Obama is uppity, but not as a black. He is an elitist. He does think he's smarter and better than everybody else. That's what he was taught. He's a Harvard man.

Rush went on to say that we need to redefine “smart” and “intellectual” because Obama is dead wrong on virtually everything, which is ruining our country. Moreover, Rush explained that Ogletree's argument was an attempt to shut down an effective criticism of the president.

After another commercial, Rush dug his heels in further regarding the proposed bipartisan health care summit. He aired audio clips of the Fox & Friends crew and Bill Kristol disagreeing with his stance that Republicans should avoid the summit. Rush huffed and puffed and continued to defend his argument. Rush claimed that one of the reasons Obama wants to have the summit is because he wants to be seen with the “hot commodity” that is the GOP.

Rush concluded the hour with a caller who defended professors, but not the arrogant, elitist kinds of professors like Obama.

The second hour began with Rush picking up from yesterday in attacking Obama for saying that small businesses were having trouble obtaining credit for such things as making payroll. Rush claimed that “not one person” in Obama' cabinet had any experience with the private sector, and called Obama's inexperience “frightening.”

Rush went on to highlight a portion from an interview Obama did with Bloomberg News in which Obama said he doesn't begrudge bonuses to bank CEOs. Rush said that this statement was making his supporters livid today because they hate corporations and bonuses.

Undermining any credibility he might have had left, Limbaugh capped off this monologue by re-airing a long-debunked, heavily edited audio clip of Charlie Rose and Tom Brokaw suggesting that they did not know “who Obama is.” Rush rewrote history even more, saying that this Frankenstein audio clip showed that Rose and Brokaw were “covering their bases” before the election.

After the break, Rush said that Democrats were all over TV today touting the Washington Post poll showing that 63% of Americans want the GOP to work with Democrats to forge a compromise on Obamacare. Rush thought the results of the poll were dubious, citing no proof other than claiming that no other poll showed such results.

Rush berates callers who dare disagree with him

The next two callers on The Rush Limbaugh Show were of the liberal persuasion. The first of these callers asked why Rush never had any praise for the president. After a lot of back-and-forth, Rush took another left wing caller who noted -- correctly -- that a lot of the deficit in the budget was there before Obama took office. The caller should have realized that when you confront Limbaugh with facts that shatter his reality, he becomes blusteringly angry. After the caller stated that socialist ideals have been successfully implemented in many developed countries, Rush berated the caller by saying that people like him are going to facilitate the destruction of this country.

Finally Rush took some more agreeable -- to him -- callers to finish the hour. One caller proposed an alternative for Republicans to the bipartisan summit that Rush sort of liked. Rush talked about how the press and the blogs “went nuts” after the Q&A session at the Republican retreat a few weeks ago. Rush said this was because members of Congress had to treat Obama with respect, and that the same thing would happen at a potential health care summit. This was another reason why Republicans shouldn't participate.

Rush closed out the hour by explaining the path Republicans need to take in the coming years to beat back Democrats and liberal ideas. Speaking of the health care bill, Rush claimed that “you won't find any Republican fingerprints” on the bill. This really isn't true.

Before the hour was up, Rush had one more outrageous remark to send us off. Remarking on African American leaders meeting about jobs at the White House today, Rush asked: “Have any of these people ever run anything besides their mouths?”

Rush wonders what would have happened if he weren't so mean to Obama a year ago

The third hour still talking about the liberal callers from the previous hour. Rush said that all revolutionaries weren't peasants, but children of intellectuals, and that the second liberal caller “fit this bill” of revolutionaries coming from wealthy families.

Then Rush reminisced about one year ago when the White House had made him the leader of the GOP and “everybody” was “gunning for me.” Rush said he was trying to make a point: what if he had gone with the flow and given Obama a chance instead of immediately calling for his failure before he took office? Rush had no real answer to his hypothetical. Maybe we would have gotten health care in August, he said. Rush also said he credited a lot of the opposition to Obama to the grassroots and tea parties. Rush added that he always considered himself a grassroots person who was closer ties with the people “who make the country work” than the effete snobs in Washington and New York.

The remainder of the hour was fairly inconsequential. Rush read from a Paul Krugman blog post on Obama's bonus comments to promote his liberal-infighting narrative. A caller also inspired Rush to pinpoint what types of intelligence best applied to him. He capped off the program by taking shots at Michelle Obama's anti-childhood obesity initiative. Rush claimed it wasn't so much a mission of Michelle Obama's heart as it was an SEIU agenda item that she was helping to push.

Michael Burns and Michael Timberlake contributed to this edition of the Limbaugh Wire.

Highlights

Outrageous comments

LIMBAUGH: Yes, my friends, you heard me read that. I heard myself read it. So now when we call Obama a professor, we are racist. “Calling Obama the professor walks dangerously close to labeling him uppity, a term with racial overtones that has surfaced in the political arena before, Ogletree said. Describing his divisive confirmation hearings as a circus, Justice Thomas called the proceedings a high tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deigned to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas. It's perhaps ironic, then, that the Ogletree, who represented Anita Hill, now sees a bit of the 'uppity' label being placed on Obama.”

This is two different kinds of uppity that are being discussed about here. So now is professor the P-word? We've got the N-word, we have the R-word, and now we have the P-word? We can't -- we gotta -- we gotta speak in code? And only people who don't know what P-word is will understand what we're saying.

“The idea that he's not one of us, Ogletree says of the professor label. He has these ideas on that are left-wing that are socialist, that he's palling around with terrorists. Those are buzzwords, but the reality was that they were looking at this president as an African-American who is out of place.” You know, Professor Ogletree, I hate to burst the balloon, but the single most important reason Obama was elected was his race.

A bunch of white people who thought electing a black president would assuage all of their guilt and erase our racial past voted for Obama. They couldn't of cared less what he thought, what he said. He didn't think of his as uppity, they were being selfish. They didn't like feeling guilty over our racists past, slavery, and so they thought pulling the lever for Obama would absolve them. It wasn't for his policies, as we are now quickly learning.

What Clarence Thomas meant by uppity, meaning he wasn't a liberal black. When Clarence Thomas said uppity black thinks for himself means he's off the reservation, so to speak. He's not following the civil rights speech codes set forth by the Reverend Jackson and Al Sharpton and whoever else is in charge of them. But nobody -- Obama is uppity, but not as a black. He is an elitist. He does think he's smarter and better than everybody else. That's what he was taught. He's a Harvard man.