This hour of the Limbaugh Wire brought to you by the Chinese “butts” the Democrats are kissing
By Simon Maloy

Rush got the hour started by turning programming duties over to Matt Drudge. Rush said that the Democrats are kissing the “butts” of the “ChiComs,” as evidence by House Speaker Pelosi traveling to Beijing to urge China “to cooperate on climate change, calling a safe environment a basic human right.” Rush said the Chinese government wants us to think they're going along with environmentalist wacko stuff, as “militant environmentalism” is the home of displaced communists. After a brief detour into the stupidity of wind turbines, Rush got to the Drudge-siren aspect of the article -- Pelosi saying: “Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory ... of how we are taking responsibility.” Rush wanted to take an inventory of Pelosi's life -- how many times does she flush every day? What is her carbon footprint? And so forth.

The point of all this, Rush said, is that we're begging China to keep buying our debt. They don't take Pelosi seriously, Rush said. They view her as a “useful idiot.” The Chinese, he said, already do inventories of the lives of their citizens, so they're probably all about this.

Rush then noted that the White House is “downplaying” North Korea's saber-rattling, saying that it only serves to deepen their isolation. Meanwhile, Rush said, the AP is reporting that North Korea is threatening military action against the U.S. and their neighbor to the south. But don't worry, Rush said, because Obama was in Hollywood last night saying that we're back from the brink. Rush then led into the break with another hilarious parody of Kim Jong-Il, who this time criticized Obama for nominating Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.

After the break, Rush took his first call of the program, this one from a woman who described herself as a “poster child” of the recession, because she was laid off by a large bank and couldn't get her mortgage terms modified. Rush says the point of her call is that despite all the promises of help on her mortgage, she's seen nothing come her way. The lesson, Rush said, is do not trust the government. Obama has been on TV assuring people that they would be helped, said Rush, but because the caller was never behind on a payment, she was never a target for assistance, she was a target for “damage.”

After another break, Rush endeavored to explain what was really going on with the Chinese -- they're warning us, and they're trying to scare us because they own so much of our debt. That's why Pelosi is going over there and kissing their butts, said Rush. The Chinese own so much of our debt, Rush said, and if we make it worthless with inflation, you can be sure they're going to be upset. Rush doesn't think this environmental stuff has anything to do with it. Pelosi saying the U.S. will treat its citizens like China treats theirs (taking “inventories”) is just icing for them.

Then Rush returned -- once again to Robert Gibbs' “threat” to conservatives regarding what they say about Sotomayor: "[I]t is probably important for anybody involved in this debate to be exceedingly careful with the way in which they've decided to describe different aspects of this impending confirmation." Then Rush faked us out -- he switched to reading from an Associated Press article which reported that “President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran has boosted its capacity to enrich uranium,” and quoted Ahmadinejad saying: “Now we have more than 7,000 centrifuges and the West dare not threaten us.” We thought he had just made another trademark segue-free transition from one topic to another, but these two bits of information, in Rush's mind, were related: “Well, shazam -- you know, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad sounds like Robert Gibbs. Robert Gibbs: 'Be very careful about what you say about this nomination.' Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: 'The West dare not threaten us.' Just wanted to point out similarities.”

Then it was time for another caller, this one who said he voted for Obama because he thought the president was someone who could help settle the issue of race in America, but after seeing Obama's conduct at the Summit of the Americas, he had been disabused of that opinion. Rush reminded that caller that he said on several occasions last year that Obama's election would exacerbate racial strife, and that we'd have more racial problems than we've ever had. What the caller didn't realize, Rush said, is that in Obama's “perspective, Jeremiah Wright is right -- that this country is racist, and the way to get this country fixed is to return the nation's wealth to its rightful owners via high taxes, redistribution, nationalization of industries. And he has brought an anger to the White House about this.” Rush concluded of Obama: “He's got his racial problem -- but his problem, the racial problem in his mind, is white supremacy.”

After one more break, Rush explained that people are still asking what he means when he says -- at least six times every program -- that Obama intends to return the nation's wealth to its rightful owners. Rush said the “rightful owners” are people Obama would put in the middle and lower classes -- union members and “any minority.” We guess that includes Republicans, too. Anyway, Rush said that Obama has a personal animus against people who have succeeded. His objective is to make the country fair -- it's not fair that the people who have prospered have prospered, so he's going to punish them and give everything to the unions, because they're really responsible for the wealth of these corporations. So, Rush said, Obama's going to return that wealth to them, even if it means destroying the industries in which they work. Therefore, the rightful owners, the little guys, are going to get shafted. Meanwhile, the “big guys” -- like the AIG executives -- are getting bailed out. All of the recipients of this grand compassion are the ones getting screwed, Rush said, so the wealth of the nation, wherever it's headed, is not headed back to its rightful owners.

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LIMBAUGH: Well, shazam -- you know, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad sounds like Robert Gibbs. Robert Gibbs: “Be very careful about what you say about this nomination.” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: “The West dare not threaten us.” Just wanted to point out similarities.

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LIMBAUGH: See, now, this is fascinating, because from his perspective, he was not lying when he said, “We've got to get this under control.” But what you didn't know was that from his perspective, Jeremiah Wright is right -- that this country is racist, and the way to get this country fixed is to return the nation's wealth to its rightful owners via high taxes, redistribution, nationalization of industries. And he has brought an anger to the White House about this.

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LIMBAUGH: He's got his racial problem -- but his problem, the racial problem in his mind, is white supremacy.