This hour of the Limbaugh Wire brought to you by the “liberal professors and professorettes”
By Simon Maloy
At the top of the hour, Rush continued to insist that the surge in the markets had nothing to do with anything Obama did (except leave the country). In fact, Rush ran with a headline he said he thinks he saw (although he said he wasn't sure) on television about the alleged establishment at the G-20 of a “global regulator of the world economy,” claiming that the markets will “level out” once they got wind of it. According to Rush, this is more evidence of Obama's “slow surrender” of the country's interests, and “the truth of the matter is that the socialists at the G-20 have prevailed, and Obama is, for all intents and purposes, one of them.”
Rush took a quick moment to attack a caption of a photo of Michelle Obama on her way to the opera with a button on her sweater undone. The caption's sin, according to Rush, was to describe the rogue button as “endearing.” Rush said that Laura Bush or Sarah Palin could never get away with have their buttons undone.
Before the break, Rush engaged in yet another plug for the Heritage Foundation, reading at length from a post on their Foundry blog contrasting the White House budget with the GOP's budget. Rush loved everything in the GOP budget and wished it had been unveiled during the campaign, but that was not to be, said Rush, because McCain was the standard-bearer.
On the other side of the break, Rush read from The New York Times, which reported that the White House said: “There's not going to be a ceding of sovereignty to a global regulator.” This obviously conflicted with Rush's doom-and-glooming from the previous segment about “socialist” Obama going along with his “socialist” comrades, so he switched it up a bit, claiming that Obama is doing more damage on his own than a global regulatory body could ever do, so Rush might welcome such a body if it could “stop” some of the “damage” Obama is doing in the U.S.
Rush then took a caller from a college campus, just like he did yesterday, and just like yesterday this caller effectively derailed the remainder of the hour, telling Rush that he has not ever seen as much hatred towards Republicans as he's seeing now. Rush told him that this is nothing new -- George W. Bush was “despised” by the left, Ronald Reagan more so. “Ideology trumps everything” on the left, according to Rush, and now we can add “arrogance” and “cockiness” to the mix since the Democratic victory in November.
Rush returned from the break still on this topic, reminiscing about how Nixon was “despised” and “hated” by the left (we're sure that anger had everything to do with “ideology”). Rush said that “every activist liberal” wakes up in the morning angry and only gets angrier as the day goes on. From their Rush revisited his youth (at length), explaining how his spirit of rebellion, nonconformity, and individualism led him to drop out of college, and how he sees that same spirit in kids who go to college nowadays, but “it takes not but a split second and they get into these classes run by liberal professors and professorettes, and all the individualism is gone and they become sheep. They become little liberal marching robots. They forget all of their spirit of rebellion. They forget all of their spirit of individuality.” What followed was an extended harangue on the evils of liberal college professors and how going to college is a “waste of time” if you're going to sacrifice your individuality to the academic left.
After one more break it was time for another caller who expressed amazement that people were “surprised” at what, ahem, “Emperor Giggles” was doing. Assuming as we did that the caller was referring to Obama, Rush said he didn't see a whole lot of surprise in the media -- they love what he's doing. The only people who might be “surprised,” according to Rush, are “pockets” of Obama voters and fake conservatives.
Highlights from Hour 2
Outrageous comments
LIMBAUGH: They arrive on college campus with the spirit of individuality. They are unique, and they're there -- and they're going to take the world by storm. Yeah, they're conforming in a way because college is what you're supposed to do, but they still arrive for the most part as individuals, and then it takes not but a split second and they get into these classes run by liberal professors and professorettes, and all the individualism is gone and they become sheep. They become little liberal marching robots. They forget all of their spirit of rebellion. They forget all of their spirit of individuality.
“Socialism” watch
LIMBAUGH: Obama is engaged in a slow surrender of United States' best interests, our national interests. But as I told you, this is being reported as a slam dunk, grand slam. He's the star of the show. The leaders there can't get enough of him and Michelle. They are American royalty. Tingles are up everybody's legs. It's just sickening. But the truth of the matter is the socialists at the G-20 have prevailed, and Obama is, for all intents and purposes, one of them. It's not just the $1 trillion they have pledged, the G-20 nations to the IMF and the World Bank to ostensibly wipe out third-world poverty -- worldwide poverty and stabilize the world economy. These clowns wouldn't have the first idea about stabilizing anything. They're about destabilization.
Echo chamber
Read from the Heritage Foundation blog post on the GOP budget.
Clips from this hour
In discussion about college life, Limbaugh refers to female professors as “professorettes”