Limbaugh ranted today that the “notion that these clowns” in the Obama administration “are the experts on everything ... offends the hell” out of him. And he singled out Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, claiming that “what he knows about the Interior could be encapsulated in how to create a barbecue fire when you're out camping in the woods.”

From the May 4 broadcast of his show:

LIMBAUGH: This notion that these clowns are the experts on everything from health care to retail to oil to drugs -- you name it. Man, it offends the hell out of me. They're not elected as the experts on all things in the private sector. If they were, they'd be in the private sector doing those things. You got a couple: [Sen.] Herb Kohl owns the Milwaukee Bucks and he's got a department store chain or some such thing, and [Sen. Frank] Lautenberg started automatic data processing, which is the paycheck unit that does all payroll processing for all the companies that sign up for it. It's one of the many companies that do. Paychex is one.

But most of these clowns -- I mean, Ken Salazar his experience -- what he knows about the Interior could be encapsulated in how to create a barbecue fire when you're out camping in the woods, and yet, he's making decisions here on where we're going to have our windmill farm. And his decision -- just ramming it right down the throat of the Kennedy family, which did not want the windmill farm where they live.

Of course, as usual, Limbaugh has no idea what he's talking about. One need only look at Salazar's Interior biography to see the depth of Salazar's experience on Interior-related issues. Not only has Salazar been a “farmer for more than thirty years,” “worked for eleven years as a water and environmental lawyer with some of the top firms in the West,” and "[d]uring his time in the private sector and as Colorado's Attorney General, Salazar worked on cases from the trial courts to the Colorado and United States Supreme Courts."

In addition:

From 1987 to 1994 Salazar served in the Cabinet of Governor Roy Romer as chief legal counsel and executive director of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources, where he crafted reforms for oil, mining, and gas operations to better protect the environment and the public. He fought to uphold Colorado's interstate water compacts, created the Youth in Natural Resources program to educate thousands of young people about Colorado's natural resources, and authored the Colorado constitutional amendment creating Great Outdoors Colorado. He served as the first chairman of that movement, helping make it one of the most successful land conservation efforts in the United States.