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RUSH: Say, folks, you remember when the Pope came to America last summer? That's what the TV coverage all weekend of Obama's pre-inaugural immaculation looked like. It looked like the Wellstone memorial on steroids out there. You watch any of it, Wendy? And then this morning there's President-select Obama the day before his immaculation painting a wall inside a homeless shelter, they're kicking the homeless out. They're moving the homeless to the outer sectors of the nation's capital. I guess they'll have clean walls when they move them back in there. I said, "What is this? To inspire national service?" Why not have the homeless kids paint the walls? How many walls actually got painted with Obama and his paint brushes in there and his paint roller and all the media?
 Anyway, greetings, my friends. Great to have you here. It's Rush Limbaugh behind the Golden EIB Microphone at the prestigious and distinguished Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. Here's the phone number if you want to be on the program. 800-282-2882. The e-mail address is ElRushbo@eibnet.com.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have a dilemma today and I would like to explain it to you. This is a national holiday. This is Martin Luther King Day, and I think that it's fair to say that in our current political climate, those Americans working today probably don't have the time or the inclination to celebrate Martin Luther King day with the same reverence and the same amount of time devoted to it as those paying tribute by not working. It's a national holiday for Martin Luther King, and a lot of people are not working. It's a national holiday. It's the day before the immaculation. Now, I could be in a real mess here today. I've got audio sound bites from the weekend in which the Drive-Bys are already angry at me for calling myself the last man standing. The BBC has singled me out as the lone obstacle to national health care and how I could stop it. On Friday there was a Drive-By Media orgy over how I'm just not getting with the program here, and it's not good. I need to get with the program.
Now, here's my thinking. If I were to engage in the standard rip-roaring, no-holds-barred Pittsburgh Steelers kind of show today, there is no question that I would be the result, I'd be the target of scorn by elitists, superior observers who are not working on Martin Luther King Day. Well, it makes it different than any other day, because if you notice, this is a continuation of what happened over the weekend. This is a day of religious-like reverence, and this would be like somebody going to church, and when the preacher stands up to give the sermon saying, "No, no, no, no, I want to talk football today." It's a real dilemma here for me, your host. So I'm thinking since those who are not working are those people who are paying more attention and giving more reverence to Martin Luther King Day, and obviously the immaculation tomorrow, maybe I should do my show today by not talking politics and not talking news so as to not to incur the wrath and the scorn of the elite.
Perhaps I should devote much of the program today to reviewing the NFL playoff games -- I was in Pittsburgh yesterday -- and maybe taking calls on the upcoming Super Bowl. Take the day off, in essence. Take the day off to show that I got my mind right here, that I'm down with the struggle, take the day off but still be here. I mean take the day off, but don't take the day off. Many rank amateurs have suggested this to me, folks. I could be stepping into a real mess today, because the nation, it appears, by watching television over the weekend, the nation's been swept up in the certain miracle of the Obama presidency, and this might be a somewhat sensitive, particularly sensitive holiday to simply go about business as usual. The real tribute, in other words, to Martin Luther King will be just to shut down the shop, just to go home and watch a tape of the Eagles and the Cardinals which I missed yesterday. I got spurts of it, didn't see the whole game, didn't see the nuances. So maybe talking football is the next best thing. What would Martin Luther King want us to do today? Would he want us not working and being in reverence? |
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 Anyway, I've thought about this and to hell with it, I'm going to do the normal thing here. I know a lot of people will show scorn and a lot of people will show concern, but as Snerdley just pointed out, what's new about the Drive-By Media and the liberal left in this country showing scorn for me? I had to laugh. All through the weekend -- and, by the way, HBO screwed up. HBO, they have the exclusive rights to -- it's just so much out there. I mean we're supposed to be reverent, we're supposed to bow down, we're supposed to shut up, we're supposed to bend over backwards, we're supposed to avoid criticizing Obama at all even while Bush is leaving and they can't stop stomping on him, dumping on him, ripping him to shreds as Bruce Springsteen did yesterday. We're not supposed to be critical of Obama but there are stories today about how the left is angry that Bush is not going to be arrested tomorrow for war crimes. Pelosi has signaled that she's all for that, by the way. But we're supposed to sit here and be all reverential and basically shut up about The Messiah.
I think HBO screwed up yesterday because they showed an aerial shot of the Mall with the concerts and all that. I've got so many thoughts firing on all cylinders inside my cranium here, folks. Obama is telling us that he's Lincoln. It's a great thing for presidents to invoke great presidents from the past. He's out there trying to be Lincoln. This is screwball. This is the Wellstone memorial on steroids. I don't know how many Americans put up with this. I think probably, folks, we're going to have to adjust to the fact that a lot of people are caught up in this. But, having said that, the aerial shot, HBO blew it, they had a blimp, something up there, and they did an aerial shot of the crowd, and the Mall was only half full. It was not teeming with people, and the same thing with the train ride from Philadelphia down to Washington, they did tight shots to give the impression of gazillions of people lined up, but it wasn't the case. "Oh, come on, Rush, can't you get in the spirit of things?" Folks, I'm in the spirit. I'm in the spirit.
I'm looking forward to the Super Bowl. My team's in it. The only disappointment I have is that the Eagles caved, again, 1-for-5 in NFC championship games. And the defense blew it. You know, I always thought defense should get most of the credit for that team and yesterday they blew it. They couldn't get the Cardinals off the field, kept running the ball right down their throats. Even my man, Donovan McNabb, whined about this in the postgame, whined about his defense not being able to get the Cardinals off the field to get him out there for one or two more chances. I don't know. I'm into it. I heard Obama say that we must ramp up responsibility, we must all be responsible. Folks, I'm sorry. I have to laugh. Those of us who have been responsible are about to have our pockets picked in order to compensate and pay for those that have been irresponsible. The irresponsible largely are those who elected Obama, and they elected Obama because they expect to be able to continue to be irresponsible, in other words, have people do things for them. We must all stand up and be responsible?
The Treasury secretary is one thing. He's got some environmental czar that is a genuine extremist. I'm going to get into all this as the program unfolds because I have thrown away the concept I shouldn't work today. We are going to do the normal program. By the way, Cindy Adams from the New York Post sent me a little note on Friday. She writes a gossip column in the New York Post, and she said, "What are you doing for the inauguration?" And I said, "I'm not doing anything. I'm going to pretend I'm there." She said, "How you going to do that?" I said, "Well, I'm going to put a Port-A-Potty here in the studio, I'm going to use it every few minutes." And I didn't hear back from her. Today she uses the quote in her column. (laughing) Wait 'til the Drive-Bys see that, the scorn that will be unfolded on me, targeted at me, will continue.
But then there's this. I called this. I called this, from an AP story: "To Conrad Harrell of Port-A-Potty toilet supplier Don's Johns, Tuesday's inauguration of Barack Obama will be historic, but not in the way you might think. 'This is the largest temporary restroom event in the history of the United States,' he said." I was in Washington a week ago, last Tuesday, and I drove around the Capitol. I was a little early to the White House, I drove around and there were Port-A-Potties everywhere: in front of the Washington Monument, around the Washington Monument, on the parade route, in front of the Capitol, behind the Capitol. Hell, they may as well put a couple on the Capitol, for what's going to be going on in there. "The largest temporary restroom event in the history of the United States." Started on Sunday. This is not about the presidency, folks. I'm sorry, this event is not about somebody taking the president. This is some deep collective validation going on here. There is something totally different than somebody being inaugurated and taking the presidency. All right, brief time-out. We'll come back, we'll get started with all the rest of the program today. Sit tight, you're gonna love it all. Got more than I can possibly squeeze in here, so listen fast. |
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