This hour of the Limbaugh Wire brought to you by Obama the “grown crybaby”
By Simon Maloy
Rush got the second hour rolling by revisiting Rev. Wright's comment about “them Jews” keeping him from talking to Obama, then moved on to the Chrysler/Fiat deal, saying that this is the biggest outsourcing of business ever and it's being done by the most radical left-wing president ever.
After running through the God vs. Obama comparisons again, Rush again attacked Obama over pay-go: “He wants Congress to pass a pay-go law after he's robbed the United States for 25 years. Every criminal who has ever served time could learn something from Barack Obama when it comes to stealing money. The hell with Willy Sutton for crying out loud -- Willy Obama.” In asking for pay-go legislation, Rush said, Obama is admitting that he cannot be trusted to spend money wisely without a law to constrain him. Obama demanded that we hold him accountable, Rush said, but now that we are, he's “childishly” and “immaturely” running to Congress and asking for pay-go, like “a grown crybaby.” He's saying that we've run out of money and it's all Congress' fault. Guess who's going to be next, Rush said -- us. The rationalization, Rush said, is that if we just pay more taxes, then that will be enough to make Obama's plans work. But that will be the “final nail” in the coffin for the U.S. economy, said Rush: “We are soon to be buried. Reverend Obama is about to do the eulogy. And when you hear him start sermonizing about tax increases, you will know that he's getting ready to hammer the last nail in the coffin of the U.S. economy.”
Then Rush re-aired the sound bites of John Ziegler's interview on MSNBC this morning. We grew concerned that perhaps a wormhole had opened up and we'd returned to the first hour of the program -- Rev. Wright, God vs. Obama, Ziegler on MSNBC. But a quick check of our surroundings confirmed that a) our lunch was still eaten, and b) Rush clearly just needed to kill some time. Anyway, after airing the audio for the second time, Rush pronounced MSNBC's Contessa Brewer a “glittering jewel of colossal ignorance.”
After the break, Rush wasn't quite done with Contessa Brewer, “satirizing” David Letterman's “jokes” about Sarah Palin looking “slutty” and her daughter getting “knocked up” by Alex Rodriguez: “Hey, folks, did you hear this? The other night, during the first feed of the Chris Matthews show, he, during a commercial break, knocked up Contessa Brewer? You hear about that? The slutty Contessa Brewer, Chris Matthews knocked her up. That's [unintelligible] during a commercial break, during Hardball. He could have done it during the program and nobody would have seen it, but they still thought to be safe about it during the commercial break.”
Anyway, Rush took another caller, this one wondering if Rush feels “pathetic” in the way that Sarah Palin said David Letterman was “pathetic,” since, every day, Rush says things that are similar to what Letterman said about Palin. Rush asked for an example. The caller couldn't give one, and the call devolved steadily until Rush ended it with yet another installment to the God vs. Obama series -- God differs from Obama in that Obama gets better media coverage.
Rush's next caller was a little more friendly to the cause, saying that it's well and good to talk about the taxing of health care benefits, but they need to put some actual numbers to it. Rush said that would be a good project for him to undertake, but the fact of the matter is that taxes are going to have to go up because Obama has nothing else he can do. By the way, said Rush, the price of gasoline is going up. The experts are saying that oil might hit $80-85, and we've had a 100-percent increase in the price over the past three months and Obama's not concerned. Rush explained -- the higher the price of oil, the higher the price of gasoline, the sooner Obama thinks he can get you into junker cars.
Before the break, Rush took a quick call from a Virginian saying that the alarm had to be sounded on the upcoming gubernatorial election because Creigh Deeds is just another Obama and he's going to raise taxes. Rush didn't really respond, saying instead that he had a sound bite of James Carville saying that the Virginia race will be between Deeds and Rush Limbaugh, and that he'd play it after the break. And, sure enough, he played it upon coming back from commercial, along with a sound bite of CNBC media and technology editor Dennis Kneale attacking Rush for comparing Obama to Mikhail Gorbachev and saying that it's time for Rush to shut up. Rush said he didn't compare Obama to Gorbachev; Gorbachev compared himself to Obama in his Washington Post op-ed, and Rush was just pointing it out. Actually, Rush did compare Obama to Gorbachev, and here are two words that do not appear in the former Soviet president's op-ed -- Barack Obama.
Then it was time for another caller, who wondered if Rush blows kisses at himself in the mirror in the morning. The caller added that he thinks Rush is ridiculous and hateful in the way he goes about things. You can imagine how the call proceeded after that point.
Coming back from the break, Rush said the two calls he'd received today from liberals mean that there are some “frazzled nerves” on the left about Obama; they can't even stand any comedy about the man. Meanwhile, Rush said, Obama himself is responding to the criticism, and he's in panic mode. Rush then moved on to the next caller, this one explaining that he believes -- based on “hope” -- that Republican Bob McDonnell will beat Creigh Deeds by double digits in Virginia because the election will be a referendum on Obama. The “problem” with Virginia, said Rush, is the northern part of the state, where they all work for the government.
Then Rush chastised The Washington Times for -- wait, what? Yeah, The Washington Times, for its editorial this morning, which said: “Rush Limbaugh is being too easy on Judge Sonia Sotomayor. Pro-life groups should not follow the famed radio host in assuming the Supreme Court nominee will have empathy for their legal or moral positions.” Rush wondered if Times reporters read the transcripts instead of listening to the show, because they “obviously don't get it.”
Rush rounded out the hour with a caller who was furious over the Supreme Court decision allowing the Chrysler deal to go forward, and wondered why anyone would ever invest in Chrysler now. Rush said he feels like he's on Lost and they keep messing with the time machine. Anyway, Rush said he got an email this morning from a guy who was certain that the Supreme Court would stop the Chrysler deal, and he could almost feel the man's tears coming out of his computer monitor.
Greg Lewis and Lauryn Bruck contributed to this edition of the Limbaugh Wire.
Highlights from Hour 2
Outrageous comments
LIMBAUGH: He wants Congress to pass a pay-go law after he's robbed the United States for 25 years. Every criminal who has ever served time could learn something from Barack Obama when it comes to stealing money. The hell with Willy Sutton for crying out loud -- Willy Obama.
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LIMBAUGH: We have a deficit that's not going to be paid off for at least two generations, and that's, of course, now all Congress' fault because they didn't pass pay-go. What a -- this is -- worthless, on a -- just a crybaby. He's just a grown crybaby. Run out of money, now it's Congress' fault.
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LIMBAUGH: If we just pay more taxes, that's the final -- that's it. That's what will make the plan work. Paying more taxes is more like the final nail in the coffin of the United States economy. We are soon to be buried. Reverend Obama is about to do the eulogy. And when you hear him start sermonizing about tax increases, you will know that he's getting ready to hammer the last nail in the coffin of the U.S. economy. He's going to come after us because he's not accountable. You see, we are the real problem.
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LIMBAUGH: Hey, folks, did you hear this? The other night, during the first feed of the Chris Matthews show, he, during a commercial break, knocked up Contessa Brewer? You hear about that? The slutty Contessa Brewer, Chris Matthews knocked her up. That's [unintelligible] during a commercial break, during Hardball. He could have done it during the program and nobody would have seen it, but they still thought to be safe about it during the commercial break.