http://mediamatters.org/items/200909290035 By Greg Lewis Rush explains how the "media guys" "want" Obama to succeed in destroying the U.S. as founded Rush got Tuesday going by reading a "state-controlled" Associated Press headline: "Consumer Confidence Unexpectedly Falls in Sept." Rush, as usual, mocked the use of the word "unexpected," implying that it shouldn't be labeled as such. Then Rush said something was going on -- yesterday, Howard Fineman was asking Obama to get off television, and today, Richard Cohen was asking Obama to "cool it" with TV. Rush explained that Obama is bothering the "media guys" because they want Obama to succeed in destroying the U.S. "as founded." Rush went on to refer to the media as Obama's "enablers," and said that these "enablers" are admitting they can't help Obama if he's undermining them. Continuing, Rush read excerpt's from Cohen's column, and expressed his surprise that somebody in the "state-controlled" media was writing a column like this. Next, Rush read from a Politico article about "outcry" by Republicans to get Gen. Stanley McChrystal's to testify before Congress about the need for more troops in Afghanistan. Rush complained about how the drive-bys report on important issues like Afghanistan as a horse race, and accused the media and Democrats of having always "politicized" war. Rush "reminded" us that Democrats wanted Gen. David Petraeus to testify so that they could call him a liar, and claimed that Obama's commitment to Afghanistan was political. Rush says Wash. Post's Ceci Connolly is "in the tank" for the Obama administration Then Rush read from the Ceci Connolly's latest article in The Washington Post, calling Connolly one of the more "blatant" cases of someone being in the tank for the Obama administration (really?). Anyway, Connolly made the case in her article that more health care isn't always better. Rush rebutted Connolly by arguing that the history of the world has shown us the opposite. Rush mischaracterized Connolly's argument even further, by saying her article means that African health care was the new model. Rush concluded that this article was to set up the case that we're going to cut health care while having more health care for more people for less money. After the break, Rush talked about the Canadian National Post article he discussed yesterday, which reported how "irritated" French President Nicolas Sarkozy was with Obama in dealing with Iran. To add to this, Rush read a Wall Street Journal report citing a Le Monde editorial which stated that France and Britain wanted to confront Iran about their secret nuclear facility a day earlier at the U.N., but the Obama administration didn't want to spoil Obama's image, and wanted to wait for the G-20 summit the next day. Rush went on to bemoan the lack of coverage of Le Monde's editorial, despite the fact that he was reading about it from the country's most widely circulated newspaper. Rush also took this opportunity to mock the French and their "surrender" national anthem. However, Rush added that the French, in this case, have "bigger gonads" than we do on Iran, and praised Sarkozy. Rush went on to discuss Sarah Palin's upcoming book, and hoped that it would sell 5 million copies. He also complained about the media's unfair coverage of her, which he explained means that the media and Democrats are afraid of her. Limbaugh came back from the next break discussing Sen. Kennedy -- err, Sen. Kerry -- introducing cap and trade legislation into the Senate: LIMBAUGH: And now cap-and-trade's in trouble. Boxer, Kerry set to introduce climate bill in the Senate, but they wanna change the name. John Kerry said that "It's not cap and trade, it's a pollution reduction bill." Kerry said, "I don't know what cap-and-trade means. I don't think the average American does." The average American does, Senator Kennedy, and it -- that's why the average American is calling it cap and tax, and that is why you have to change it, because the American people do understand it. U.S. Northeast may have coldest winter in a decade, from Bloomberg News, details coming up. Rush asks: "Why do we let [Democrats] set the agenda?" Rush also mentioned that the Senate Finance Committee was discussing a public option amendment today. Rush warned that the "whole thing" is a public option, otherwise there's "no reason" to do health care reform. The next caller said that Rush is helping people take the argument back, to which Rush responded: LIMBAUGH: I wanted to thank you because you have -- you have -- you've made an excellent point here that I have often -- another thing that I have lamented for years. And that is, why in the world do we accept the premise for every issue that the left puts forth? Why are we even debating a health care bill? I mean, it's a bad bill. Now, the Republicans are doing the right thing here by staying away from it. He continued: LIMBAUGH: Why do we let them set the agenda? "Well, Rush, they won the election." So? So what? Their agenda's damaging to the country. Their agenda is dangerous. Their agenda will wreck the opportunity for prosperity on the parts of millions and millions and millions of Americans. Why accept that premise and start nibbling at it around the edges? Why let them set the agenda? And I don't. Now, I'm not a Republican, and I'm not -- in terms of -- I'm a conservative first, and I'm certainly not elected to anything, but I just -- not only should we not let them set the agenda, we should -- because that constantly puts us on the defensive. And of course it's offense, offense, offense, offense. Rush baseless claim: "By the time this guy gets through, the taxes and the wealth of 70 percent of the American people will be redistributed to the bottom 30 percent" This led Rush into another extended rant about the media, and how they are trying to destroy Sarah Palin. He also ranted about calls for "civility," still claiming that the Democrats are the ones who send "union thugs" to beat people up. Rush concluded: LIMBAUGH: I'm a commentator, just like our president. A president's a commentator, that's all he is. Well, actually, the public impersonation of Obama, or impression, is he's commentators, he's actually doing dastardly stuff behind the scenes while everybody's distracted by this health care debate, probably so we ought to be focusing on it. But I mean, he's taken over the student loan program; it's been nationalized. Mortgage industry has been nationalized. By the time this guy gets through, the taxes and the wealth of 70 percent of the American people will be redistributed to the bottom 30 percent. That's what he's aiming for. Wait, what? "By the time this guy gets through, the taxes and the wealth of 70 percent of the American people will be redistributed to the bottom 30 percent, that's what he's aiming for." We're going to go out on a limb here and say that Rush has gotten to the point where he's clearly just making things up. Then Rush briefly got back to the aforementioned story that the northeast U.S. may have its coldest winter in a decade. Predictably, Rush tried to make it about global warming by tying it into John Kerry introducing the climate change bill to the Senate. Except the story really had nothing to do with global warming -- it was about El Niño (which Rush mentioned, but his tying the story into climate change was egregious nonetheless). On the flip side of another commercial break, Rush took a caller who asked what Rush would do about Afghanistan if he were president. Rush said he would listen to his generals, and he would win. After a quick sound bite of Obama talking about the importance of NATO's mission in Afghanistan, Rush picked on Obama for saying this isn't an "American battle," but NATO's. Rush bemoans the AP's use of the Marxist word "worker"; decries "leftist lingo trickling into our lexicon" Hour two began with some personal anecdotes, with Rush getting to actual content when he read an AP report about the US income gap widening "as poor take a hit in the recession." Rush picked apart the article, criticizing some of the experts cited and claiming that Obama was going to take from the rich and give to the poor so we'd all be "equally mediocre." Rush talked about Obama destroying the private sector, and took issue with the article's word choice: LIMBAUGH: I've been mentioning this since I started this show. "Workers" is a communist word. "Workers" is a socialist, a Karl Marx word. Workers of the world unite, workers -- we don't have workers; we have citizens, we have employees. We have associates. When I worked at the Kansas City Royals, the team was owned by Ewing Kauffman, who also owned Marion Labs. He never called one person a worker or an employee. Everybody was an associate, from the custodial staff on up. Workers? All this little leftist lingo trickling into our lexicon. Then Rush went on for a while about being asked to judge the Miss America pageant, and was asking his audience whether it was worth taking a week off from his show to do it. Then Rush read about Andy Williams' latest criticism of Obama's Marxism. After the break, Rush read a few responses from his audience about whether or not he should judge the pageant. One response said Rush was "not gay or irrelevant enough" to be a judge, and another response said the invitation was a White House plot to keep him off the air for a week. Rush plays Shanklin skit comparing Obama-themed sing-a-longs to Nazi indoctrination Moving on, Rush played sound bites of all the recent examples of Obama "indoctrination" -- i.e., kids singing songs about their president. Then he introduced a new Paul Shanklin "comedy" skit, a fake advertisement for a "kid songs of the revolution" album. The skit featured Shanklin as Obama talking about the album, which included audio bites of German children singing songs. Shanklin as the announcer concluded the "ad" by saying: "Indoctrination hasn't been this much fun since 1933." After the next break, Rush commented on the idea that kids should attend school year-round: LIMBAUGH: Has anybody thought about -- we all know why he wants this done. This is just more indoctrination time. Plus, it's a way to get raises for the teachers, which is a big union supporter. More raises -- I mean, they gotta teach year-round? Oh, we need more money. Well, of course, that's the whole plan. And more time to be indoctrinated into Obamaism and so forth. Then Rush got to the next caller, who was a military veteran who served several tours in Afghanistan, and said that Obama should listen to his commanders and send more troops. Rush said that Obama has to satisfy his fringe lunatic base who are "anti-military" and "anti-victory." The next caller on the program didn't agree with Rush's assertion that the American people are uniformed because they're just not wired for politics. Rush denied that he made this assertion, and went on to explain how liberalism is an "emotional pursuit," and that he was heartened how every agenda item Obama is pushing is losing in the polls. Rush concluded that he will always have faith in the majority of the American people. Rush defends "Bury Obamacare with Kennedy" signs Then Rush aired a sound bite of comments Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) recently made about the health care debate. In the clip, Kennedy expressed concern over the "Bury Obamacare With Kennedy" signs that were prevalent at the 9-12 protests in Washington, adding: KENNEDY: My family's seen it up close too much with assassinations and violence in political life. It's a terrible thing when people think that in order to get their point across they have to go to the edge of violent rhetoric and attack people personally. Rush responded to "this dud" Kennedy by defending the signs in question: LIMBAUGH: "Bury Obamacare with Kennedy"? That's uncivil? I'm sorry, Kennedy had died, he was going to be buried. It was his signature issue. It's a bad plan, it's a bad policy. Rush continued: LIMBAUGH: They're focusing on it for a reason. It scares 'em! It's effective! The sign was effective. How many words is it? One, two -- four words! And this guy's doing a town hall meeting about it. Four words! Brevity is the soul of wit. The fewer number of words required to make a point, the more powerful the point. And he wasn't through. He said the debate here's dangerous to the fabric of our country. So, no debate. The debate is dangerous. The debate is dangerous to the fabric. And we're supposed to just shut up, sit down, get out of the way, so these Marxists can have their way with no opposition and do whatever they wanna do. And it doesn't work that way, Congressman Kennedy. After another bite of Kennedy elaborating on his point, Rush claimed that he's "not attacking any of you people personally -- that's what you do." We're not sure how Rush said that with a straight face -- just moments earlier, he referred to Patrick Kennedy as "this dud." Rush came back from the next break with a caller who said it was pathetically comical that we were being made fun of by the French. Rush said that what was really going on was that the French president is going public about what a "naïve little kid" Obama is because the French and British are scared about what Obama said in his UN speech. Rush then cited a recent David Broder column which noted that Obama's "comprehensive approach" to policy "fits uncomfortably with the Constitution." Rush explained -- poorly -- how Obama looks at the Constitution as an obstacle, and sees the Bill of Rights as "negative rights," but that he wants the Constitution to spell out what the government can do to people. Rush added that if all his czars are not unconstitutional, they are "certainly extra-constitutional." At the start of the third hour, Rush added that the "Bury Obamacare" signs were distributed by the anti-abortion group, the American Life League. Rush accused the media of covering up the organization's logo on the signs in all of their pictures of them. Anyway, Rush continued to deliberate whether or not he should judge the Miss America pageant. Rush cracked a few jokes as he read emails from his listeners: LIMBAUGH: Now, among the people who think I should do it are these reasons. "You can say that you're going to be a judge to do research into why women that age are so sad and depressed and unhappy." Well, you don't know this, Rachel, but we've had stories all last week about women are just unhappy. The Huffington Post has a new blog about why women are so unhappy. And I could probably fix that single-handedly. [...] LIMBAUGH: "Once you officially judge beautiful women, it makes you an expert on beautiful women and gives you the right to talk about beautiful women, as it relates to the women's movement." You know, which I've always said, I love the women's movement, especially walking behind it. Then Rush went back to yesterday's topic of Bill Clinton talking about the "vast right wing conspiracy." Rush reminded us that the VRWC was a creation by Hillary Clinton to distract from the fact that her husband had "unzipped his pants" with an intern. Rush continued to imply that the VRWC only referred to the Lewinsky scandal -- ignoring his role in pushing conspiracies like the Vince Foster murder. Rush went on to air a few talking heads discussing Bill Clinton's recent remarks, most of whom noted Rush's role in the VRWC of today and the 1990s. One clip featured Donna Brazile on CNN, describing how Rush said he was working to make sure Obama failed. Rush responded: "Damn straight it is. Happily, proudly shout it and say it as often as necessary." After the break, Rush read transcript from Hillary Clinton's interview with Matt Lauer when she first talked about -- according to Rush -- the vast right wing conspiracy. Rush said the whole notion that the VRWC set in motion the Lewinsky scandal "is absurd." Rush: Only the women "who bought into militant feminism in the early '70s on, are miserable and unhappy and unfulfilled" The next caller on the program thought Rush should be a judge in the pageant, which got Rush talking about Maria Shriver's upcoming series about "the state of 21st-century U.S. women." LIMBAUGH: Well, last week we had these stories about how women are unhappy and miserable and unfulfilled, and of course the answer to that is only those who bought into militant feminism in the early '70s on, are miserable and unhappy and unfulfilled. After another break, Rush was still talking about the Shriver series, and read a U.K. Guardian article about a new book about why women have sex (Dear Limbaugh Wire readers: Sorry). Rush gracefully segued from here to his next topic, Hillary Clinton: LIMBAUGH: What better interval than to go back to a Hillary Clinton sound bite: Why do women have sex? Ask that question when looking at a picture of Hillary. And the question becomes not why do women have sex, but do women have sex? Sigh. Anyway, Rush aired a Hillary campaign ad from the primaries which criticized Obama for not holding any hearings in the Senate about the war in Afghanistan. Next, Rush aired a couple of soundbite montages of Larry King's interview with Muammar Gadhafi. Then, Rush took a caller who was concerned about the indoctrination of our children, and asked how long people should wait before they "take action" and take up arms? Rush side-stepped the violent implications of the caller's questions and retold a story of a local South Florida teacher who was really liberal and made her students and their parents watch An Inconvenient Truth. The final caller on the program was a former Miss America contestant (in 1960, apparently), who told Rush that he should judge the pageant. Zachary Aronow and Zachary Pleat contributed to this edition of the Limbaugh Wire. Highlights Outrageous comments LIMBAUGH: And now cap-and-trade's in trouble. Boxer, Kerry set to introduce climate bill in the Senate, but they wanna change the name. John Kerry said that "It's not cap and trade, it's a pollution reduction bill." Kerry said, "I don't know what cap-and-trade means. I don't think the average American does." The average American does, Senator Kennedy, and it -- that's why the average American is calling it cap and tax, and that is why you have to change it, because the American people do understand it. U.S. Northeast may have coldest winter in a decade, from Bloomberg News, details coming up. [...] LIMBAUGH: I wanted to thank you because you have -- you have -- you've made an excellent point here that I have often -- another thing that I have lamented for years. And that is, why in the world do we accept the premise for every issue that the left puts forth? Why are we even debating a health care bill? I mean, it's a bad bill. Now, the Republicans are doing the right thing here by staying away from it. But they put forth their legislation, they put forth their agenda items, and of course the policy wonks involved -- "Oh, a piece of legislation. Well, will there be a bill? Well, we've got to see the bill because we can't come here and not do bills. We can't come here and not pass a bill." So the Republicans generally say, "Well, when I get a hold that bill, then we'll change that bill." Why do we let them set the agenda? "Well, Rush, they won the election." So? So what? Their agenda's damaging to the country. Their agenda is dangerous. Their agenda will wreck the opportunity for prosperity on the parts of millions and millions and millions of Americans. Why accept that premise and start nibbling at it around the edges? Why let them set the agenda? And I don't. Now, I'm not a Republican, and I'm not -- in terms of -- I'm a conservative first, and I'm certainly not elected to anything, but I just -- not only should we not let them set the agenda, we should -- because that constantly puts us on the defensive. And of course it's offense, offense, offense, offense. [...] LIMBAUGH: I'm a commentator, just like our president. A president's a commentator, that's all he is. Well, actually, the public impersonation of Obama, or impression, is he's commentators, he's actually doing dastardly stuff behind the scenes while everybody's distracted by this health care debate, probably so we ought to be focusing on it. But I mean, he's taken over the student loan program; it's been nationalized. Mortgage industry has been nationalized. By the time this guy gets through, the taxes and the wealth of 70 percent of the American people will be redistributed to the bottom 30 percent. That's what he's aiming for. [...] LIMBAUGH: I've been mentioning this since I started this show. "Workers" is a communist word. "Workers" is a socialist, a Karl Marx word. Workers of the world unite, workers -- we don't have workers; we have citizens, we have employees. We have associates. When I worked at the Kansas City Royals, the team was owned by Ewing Kauffman, who also owned Marion Labs. He never called one person a worker or an employee. Everybody was an associate, from the custodial staff on up. Workers? All this little leftist lingo trickling into our lexicon. [...] LIMBAUGH: So you had kids here singing the songs, and we meant to get to this yesterday and I didn't get to it -- Obama is among those making a case that American kids aren't spending enough time in school, wants to get rid of the summer vacation and have kids in school year-round. Has anybody thought about -- we all know why he wants this done. This is just more indoctrination time. Plus, it's a way to get raises for the teachers, which is a big union supporter. More raises -- I mean, they gotta teach year-round? Oh, we need more money. Well, of course, that's the whole plan. And more time to be indoctrinated into Obamaism and so forth. [...] LIMBAUGH: Now, this -- I mean, even for this dud, this is a bit beneath the pale. Invoking the Kennedy assassinations and linking them to opponents of socialized health care reform? "Bury Obamacare with Kennedy"? That's uncivil? I'm sorry, Kennedy had died, he was going to be buried. It was his signature issue. It's a bad plan, it's a bad policy. See, they will tell us what we're doing that's working. I know it was just one sign, one sign out of millions, but they'll still tell us what's working. This is my whole point. We all -- too many people look, "Oh no, look at that sign, it's destroying our cause, it's destroying it 'cause they're focusing on that." They're focusing on it for a reason. It scares 'em! It's effective! The sign was effective. How many words is it? One, two -- four words! And this guy's doing a town hall meeting about it. Four words! Brevity is the soul of wit. The fewer number of words required to make a point, the more powerful the point. And he wasn't through. He said the debate here's dangerous to the fabric of our country. So, no debate. The debate is dangerous. The debate is dangerous to the fabric. And we're supposed to just shut up, sit down, get out of the way, so these Marxists can have their way with no opposition and do whatever they wanna do. And it doesn't work that way, Congressman Kennedy. [...] LIMBAUGH: That's it. That's all we need to hear. He's just described his own side. Go to the edge of violent rhetoric, attack people personally, attack their motivations without attacking just the issue. We are attacking the issue. We're not attacking any of you people personally -- that's what you do. Simple case of projection. [...] LIMBAUGH: Damn straight it is. Happily, proudly shout it and say it as often as necessary. Ladies' man LIMBAUGH: Now, among the people who think I should do it are these reasons. "You can say that you're going to be a judge to do research into why women that age are so sad and depressed and unhappy." Well, you don't know this, Rachel, but we've had stories all last week about women are just unhappy. The Huffington Post has a new blog about why women are so unhappy. And I could probably fix that single-handedly. [...] LIMBAUGH: "Once you officially judge beautiful women, it makes you an expert on beautiful women and gives you the right to talk about beautiful women, as it relates to the women's movement." You know, which I've always said, I love the women's movement, especially walking behind it. [...] LIMBAUGH: You know, interesting -- I was just checking some media news during the break, and get this. Sometime in October, NBC News is gonna do a month-long series of reports -- here, let me call it up, I want to get this in -- Maria Shriver is doing it, a month-long series of reports on the state of women in America. Well, last week we had these stories about how women are unhappy and miserable and unfulfilled, and of course the answer to that is only those who bought into militant feminism in the early '70s on are miserable and unhappy and unfulfilled. [...] LIMBAUGH: What better interval than to go back to a Hillary Clinton sound bite: Why do women have sex? Ask that question when looking at a picture of Hillary. And the question becomes not why do women have sex, but do women have sex? | 
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