{"id":10182,"date":"2014-02-12T17:14:36","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T17:14:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-02-12T17:14:36","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T17:14:36","slug":"after_extravagant_state_dinner_obama_to_speak_on_horrors_of_income_inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/02\/12\/after_extravagant_state_dinner_obama_to_speak_on_horrors_of_income_inequality\/","title":{"rendered":"After Extravagant State Dinner, Obama to Speak on Horrors of Income Inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Last night the president of France, Francois Hollande, and the Obamas and 350 of their closest friends dined on caviar and quail eggs, dry-aged rib-eye steak served with blue cheese, charred shallots, oyster mushrooms, and braised chard. They dined in the gigantic tent lavishly decorated to replicate a Monet painting of spring in sunny France. Outside the tent, 17 degrees. <\/p>\n

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For dessert, they enjoyed cake made with chocolate from Hawaii, Florida tangerines, and cotton candy dusted with orange zest. Michelle Obama wore a designer dress estimated to have cost $12,000, designed by Carolina Herrera. Today, President Obama will give another speech about the horrors of income inequality. Well, that\u2019s a transition after all of that excess. By the way… (interruption) Yeah, $12,000 for a dress. (interruption)<\/p>\n

Well, they didn\u2019t say. That $12,000 is a guesstimate from the social doyenne of Washington, DC, Sally Quinn. I mean, no, they didn\u2019t announce it\u2019s $12,000. Sally Quinn\u2019s out there guessing, and being that she\u2019s the social doyenne, if she says it\u2019s 12 grand, that\u2019s what it\u2019s gonna be. It\u2019s designed by Carolina Herrera. I\u2019ve got a picture of it here. In fact, I want to show you this. Let just turn the Dittocam off. I\u2019m gonna zoom in on this.<\/p>\n

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For those of you that are members of Rush 24\/7<\/a>, you\u2019ll be able to see this. For those of you who are not, please bear with me \u2019cause it\u2019s worth it for those who are. Let me get a little closer here. All right, here we go. I\u2019m turning the Dittocam on. There you have it. There is Michelle Obama and the $12,000 gown by Carolina Herrera, and the French president Hollande is in the middle, and there\u2019s Obama.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll notice that this dress is bigger than the president of France. Here, let me make one more adjustment here and I\u2019ll show you this again. Take a look at that picture. The little guy in the middle is the socialist dictator — well, not dictator. He\u2019s the socialist president of France. On the left, that\u2019s not Oprah. Don\u2019t confuse that. That\u2019s Michelle Obama. I saw a picture of this from the rear. That\u2019s why I thought it was Oprah. <\/p>\n

I did. People looking at this, imagine that from… Anyway, you see that dress is bigger than the president of France. (interruption) Marie Antoinette dress. Exactly right. Anyway, that\u2019s how it looked last night as they headed into the tent for the exciting state dinner. In the meantime, President Obama today is going to give another speech about the horrors of income inequality. Just amazing. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: I reported it to you, and you can trust me, but let\u2019s do the sound bites. In fact, let\u2019s start with Sally Quinn. We opened the program talking about Moochelle Obama\u2019s dress that was the talk of the state dinner last night for Francois Hollande. <\/p>\n

Of course, the only observation worth making is that dress — honestly, folks — is bigger than Francois Hollande. The dress is bigger than the president of France, and of course the female members of the press corps were abuzz trying to figure out how much it cost. So they went to the social doyenne in Washington, Sally Quinn. Last night she was on Erin Burnett OutFront on CNN. Burnett said, “What about the cost of the overall dinner? They said the first dinner with India could be $600,000. Where do you think tonight\u2019s dinner will rank?”<\/p>\n