This hour of the Limbaugh Wire brought to you by Joan Walsh, the “magic honky”
By Simon Maloy

The question has been posed, said Rush -- when is the media going to start wondering whether they've been too hard on Obama? They're telling him to take a vacation! And one thing about this “voice” business, said Rush, let's not forget that they started it. Throughout the campaign, Rush said, it was Obama who put the “God echo” in his speeches. Rush mentioned yesterday that profits are down at Time Warner, and they just announced that Obama will be on the next cover of Time. This will be the twelfth time in as many months, said Rush, and it's not working.

By the way, Rush said, the Blue Dogs did not come around on health care; they had guns held to their heads. They had their arms twisted, and they were kneecapped. They saw the light? They saw the light at the end of the tunnel, which was a train coming right at them. But Maxine Waters is still upset about this, said Rush. She was on MSNBC and said we know that the Blue Dogs have been very successful at getting the ear of the White House in these negotiations, and they're not going to let up. Rush asked if she doesn't know what happened yesterday. They were neutered. She's so upset that the Blue Dogs are running the show.

Rush then announced that he had a spy on the ground in Raleigh for Obama's town hall meeting yesterday, and this spy told him that Obama went to North Carolina because he's having problems within his own party and needed Sen. Kay Hagan's vote on health care. Hagan, however, didn't bother to show up. She was nowhere in sight. North Carolina is also the home of three serious Blue Dogs, said Rush, none of whom were there. Rush warned us that before we assume that they were simply back in Washington working on the people's business, we have to understand that when the president goes to your state, the president takes you their on Air Force One and he introduces you at the even. But they wanted no part of it, said Rush. People do not want this health bill, but they're ramming it down our throats.

Rush then said that the liberals in the media are once again trying to ignite a race war between Obama and Rush. Let's go back to February 2008, said Rush, when he said that Obama's election would not end racial divisions in this country, but exacerbate them. With that in mind, said Rush, let's move to NBC Nightly News last night, where Andrea Mitchell did a report on the right-wing racist attacks on Obama. Now that he's in trouble in the polls, said Rush, they're playing the race card. This is exactly what Rush knew was going to happen. Let's not forget the incident that started this: Obama's the one having the beer summit with Gates and Crowley today, and his comment on this was rooted in a racial attitude about racial profiling, and when people simply point this out, they're attacked by Andrea Mitchell.

Salon.com's Joan Walsh was on Chris Matthews' show yesterday. Remember, said Rush, that when Rush and his colleagues call out Obama and Sotomayor for their “racist” statements, they become the racists. Rush then aired audio of Walsh saying that she sees in Beck and Limbaugh a clear case of projection, they're projecting their own hate on the president, and that “Obama got to where he was, in my opinion, largely because he makes white people feel like he knows we're all trying really hard, and we really like it when black people make us feel that way.” Woah my goodness gracious! Rush exclaimed. Who is projecting their racial attitudes here?

After the break, Rush returned to Joan Walsh, airing her remarks again, and retorting by saying that Obama threw his own grandmother under the bus in his race speech in Philadelphia, remember that? Walsh's comments were as race-oriented as you can be, said Rush. And then he moved on to Obama's books, playing selected excerpts, and suggesting that they belie the notion that Obama has “love” for white people:

LIMBAUGH: Let's go to Obama's book. Now, we don't have this particular bite, but I remember Obama, in one of his books -- and I've heard the audio portion of it -- said, “They way you have to deal” -- and I'm paraphrasing -- “the way you have to deal with white people, show 'em you're not a threat. You show 'em you're not a threat, and you don't mean 'em no harm, and then everything's fine.” Really loves white people. Here's the first -- this is a portion of Obama reading from his book Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.

OBAMA (audio clip): That's just how white folks will do you. It wasn't merely the cruelty involved, it was learning black people could be mean and then some. It was a particular brand of arrogance, an obtuseness in otherwise sane people that brought forth our bitter laughter. It was as if whites didn't know they were being cruel in the first place, or at least thought you deserving of their scorn.

LIMBAUGH: Well, this sounds like a lot of love for white people. And here's Obama bringing up the book Heart of Darkness and what it taught him about white people, or why white people -- why white people hate.

OBAMA (audio clip): So I read the book to help me understand why white people are so afraid, their demons, the way ideas get twisted around. It helps me understand how people learn to hate.

LIMBAUGH: “So I read the book to help me understand what makes white people so afraid. Their demons, the way ideas get twisted around, helps me understand how people learn to hate.” That doesn't sound like a guy who loves white people, Ms. Walsh. This is his own words. He supposedly wrote these words. And he concludes by reading more from the book.

And by the way, did you notice that bit at the end where he said that Obama “supposedly wrote these words”? That's a dog whistle to the lunatics out there who think that Obama's memoir was ghostwritten by -- wait for it -- Bill Ayers. It's a theory that, if you can believe it, has even less credibility than the birther craze.

Anyway, Rush continued in this vein, denying that he's a racist, but painting Obama as “race obsessed.” His evidence? "[H]e wrote a book about the father he never really knew, subtitled 'A Story About Race and Inheritance.' He marries a woman who's lucky enough to get into Princeton but writes a book about how she is always an outsider in white culture. Then the two of them sit in Reverend Wright's hate temple of black liberation theology for 20 years." This is all too dumb to comment on except for one bit -- Michelle Obama never wrote a book on white culture, she wrote her senior thesis at Princeton on race, and she was describing the views of her classmates, not herself.

Another break and Rush was not quite done with Joan Walsh yet, calling her a “racist” and “the magic honky.” Then Rush read another excerpt from Dreams, offering the disclaimer that he, Rush Limbaugh, has never referred to anyone a typical black No, he just describes in broad brushes the “angry” mentality of “minorities.” He just calls the black president of the United States an “Oreo.” But there's nothing racial about Rush's rhetoric. Nope. Not at all. Anyway, Rush read the excerpt, in which Obama used the word “black,” presented that as further evidence of Obama's alleged obsession with race, and then explained that he's spending so much time on this because people like Walsh have spent that past 20 years trying to label Rush and conservatives racist, and that's not going to fly here.

Rush then took a call from a doctor who said he wants to get rid of Medicare, but he thinks these “death-care” counseling sessions are a good idea. If you think it's a good idea to have “death care” discussions with your doctor, that's fine, said Rush. But, said Rush: “I will be damned if it's going to become federally mandated law that the government tells every doctor -- not doctor, hires a bunch of counselors that has these death-care -- as you call it - death-care discussions, end-of-life discussions.” As we've explained more times than we care to count, the counseling sessions are between patient and doctor. There are no government counselors.

Rush's next caller thought the beer summit is just Obama trying to “cute-ify” the whole thing, smooth it over. This is a photo op designed to show Obama bringing the races together, said Rush. This is not presidential. This diminishes the office of the president.

Rush took one more caller before the break, a “fat guy” who was worried about being taxed for being a fat guy, and wants to know if Roe v. Wade gives him the protection to do whatever he wants to his body. Rush said it doesn't unless you have a womb and what you eat makes you pregnant. Your body does not have Constitutional protections, only a pregnant woman's does. If they tax all the fat and calories in food, all you have to do is hire some skinny little kid to go buy your food.

One more break and Rush returned with an “interesting” story from Reuters, headlined “Common, safe blue food dye may treat broken spines.” Rush said this is the exact blue food dye that is used in M&Ms. Many of you might have known that M&Ms were good for you, but what are we going to do? We have all these fat people out there eating M&Ms, but it turns out they might be healthy!

Rush's last caller for the hour asked if he's on Obamacare and he gets the painkiller instead of the pacemaker, who does his family sue after he dies? Rush said citizens can't sue the government for a lot of things, but in this case, since the Obama administration is the insurer, Rush thinks he's stuck. The only caveat to this is that Rush knows this health care bill will not eliminate suing doctors, because there's no way Obama or the Democrats are going to take money out of the trial lawyers pockets.

Arianna Probinsky, Zachary Aranow, and Zachary Pleat contributed to this edition of the Limbaugh Wire.

Highlights from Hour 2

Outrageous comments

LIMBAUGH: Let's go to Obama's book. Now, we don't have this particular bite, but I remember Obama, in one of his books -- and I've heard the audio portion of it -- said, “They way you have to deal” -- and I'm paraphrasing -- “the way you have to deal with white people, show 'em you're not a threat. You show 'em you're not a threat, and you don't mean 'em no harm, and then everything's fine.” Really loves white people. Here's the first -- this is a portion of Obama reading from his book Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.

OBAMA (audio clip): That's just how white folks will do you. It wasn't merely the cruelty involved, it was learning black people could be mean and then some. It was a particular brand of arrogance, an obtuseness in otherwise sane people that brought forth our bitter laughter. It was as if whites didn't know they were being cruel in the first place, or at least thought you deserving of their scorn.

LIMBAUGH: Well, this sounds like a lot of love for white people. And here's Obama bringing up the book Heart of Darkness and what it taught him about white people, or why white people -- why white people hate.

OBAMA (audio clip): So I read the book to help me understand why white people are so afraid, their demons, the way ideas get twisted around. It helps me understand how people learn to hate.

LIMBAUGH: “So I read the book to help me understand what makes white people so afraid. Their demons, the way ideas get twisted around, helps me understand how people learn to hate.” That doesn't sound like a guy who loves white people, Ms. Walsh. This is his own words. He supposedly wrote these words. And he concludes by reading more from the book. Here we go.

OBAMA (audio clip): The emotions between the races could never be pure. Even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or our salvation, the other race would remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart.

LIMBAUGH: Joan Walsh: “Obama got where he is largely because he makes white people feel like he knows we're all trying real hard. And we really like it when black people make us feel that way.” What a dense, shallow person. It is -- it's almost buying into the magic Negro thing, and when you get down to it, Joan Walsh is almost saying, “Hey, this is the guy that doesn't scare us.” Only she's saying it in reverse -- we're the ones that don't scare him. It's like Joan -- no, it's not magic, it's Joan Walsh and the white -- well there's no such thing as a white -- the magic white. Joan Walsh is describing the magic white.

Now, I just want to make sure I have this straight -- turns out I am the racist. Now, you people have been listening to this program for 20 years. I have been hosting it for 20 years. I have never said and you've never heard me call my grandmother a “typical white woman.” You've never heard me call any black person a typical black person. The truth is, Ms. Walsh, President Obama is so race-obsessed he writes a book about the father he never really knew, subtitled “A Story About Race and Inheritance.” He marries a woman who's lucky enough to get into Princeton but writes a book about how she is always an outsider in white culture. Then the two of them sit in Reverend Wright's hate temple of black liberation theology for 20 years. And I am the one with the race problem, Ms. Walsh? The problem is people like you being in the media, Ms. Walsh.

America's Truth Rejector

Once again falsely claimed that government counselors will be hired for end-of-life counseling:

LIMBAUGH: But I will be damned if it's going to become federally mandated law that the government tells every doctor -- not doctor, hires a bunch of counselors that has these death-care -- as you call it -- death-care discussions, end-of-life discussions.