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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen: The Messiah, Lord Barack Obama, the Most Merciful, was painting a wall today at a homeless shelter in the outer sectors of the nation\u2019s capital. While painting the wall he took time-out to talk to the assembled multitudes.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Given the crisis that we\u2019re in and hardships that so many people are goin\u2019 through, we can\u2019t allow any idle hands. Everybody\u2019s gotta be involved. Everybody\u2019s going to have to — everybody\u2019s going to have to pitch in. And I think [the] American people are ready to do that. We\u2019ve got 5,000, uh, volunteer organizations and service projects across the country today. Uh, the Internet is a[n] amazing tool for us to be able to organize people. We saw that in our campaign, but we don\u2019t want to just use it for winning elections. We want to use it to rebuild America.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) Man, I\u2019m sorry. I\u2019m sorry. This is… Folks, this is so bogus. Everybody\u2019s going to have to pitch in? If everybody\u2019s going to have to pitch, let the homeless kids paint their own walls. What\u2019s wrong with that? You know, we want our kids to suffer so little these days that we have to do everything for them. Everybody\u2019s going to have to pitch in? The American people are ready to do that? The people that have been pitching in are today\u2019s targets. The people that have been pitching in, the people that make this country work are now the targets of the incoming Obama administration, and those who have not displayed any kind of pitching in or sharing in the responsibility are to be the recipients of this. Obama then continued.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: If everybody did their job — whatever that job was — as well as that pilot did his job, we\u2019d be in pretty good shape. So doing your job well, finishing your job, cooperating as a team, all that stuff\u2019s important. I think I got this wall covered.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s talking about painting there. ‘I think got this wall covered.\u2019 Now, here\u2019s the interesting point about this. Theoretically and philosophically, Obama is right on the money. If everybody did their job, whatever it was, as well as the pilot did (don\u2019t forget the pilot for a moment). Doing your job well, finishing your job, cooperating — that\u2019s exactly right! Finish what you start. If everybody did their job well… We\u2019re back to this whole notion of responsibility. He\u2019s saying it to the wrong people. When he says, ‘If everybody did their job well,\u2019 he\u2019s aiming this at the affluent, he\u2019s aiming it at the achievers. By definition, they are doing their job well. But he\u2019s not calling on those who aren\u2019t doing their job well to do it well. What he\u2019s going to do is placate them. He\u2019s going to turn them into wards of the state. He is going to see to it that they forever look to him to come paint their wall — euphemistically, symbolically.<\/p>\n

Make no mistake about this. By the way, responsibility? We must all exhibit responsibility. Ladies and gentlemen, the country is in the middle of ‘the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression,\u2019 supposedly. I don\u2019t necessarily… I don\u2019t believe that yet. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s the case. It may get there, but it isn\u2019t now. We haven\u2019t approached the malaise of the Jimmy Carter seventies yet. However, let\u2019s just go with the premise here of the Drive-By Media that this is ‘the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.\u2019 That\u2019s not stopping rich donors and the government from spending $170 million or more on the immaculation. The actual swearing-in ceremony will cost $1-1\/4 million, according to Carole Floorman, spokeswoman for the joint congressional committee on immaculation ceremonies. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s the security. It\u2019s the parties. It\u2019s the countless Port-A-Potty rentals that really run up the bill. I mean, folks, this is indeed ‘the largest temporary bathroom event in the history of the United States.\u2019 The federal government estimates it\u2019s going to spend roughly $49 million on immaculation weekend. Washington, Virginia, and Maryland have requested another $75 million from the feds to help pay for their share of police, fire, and medical services. Then there\u2019s the party bill. ‘We have budget of roughly $45 million, maybe a little more,\u2019 said Linda Douglass, former Drive-By Mediaette and spokesbabe for the inaugural committee. One hundred seventy million? Is that responsible? One hundred seventy million! It\u2019s the most expensive immaculation in the history of the country, in the midst of ‘the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Now, the Obama apologists are saying, ‘Well, this is necessary to raise people\u2019s spirits, to lift their hearts.\u2019 Wait a second. I thought that had already been done with the election of The Messiah. The Bush inauguration in 2004 cost less than half this, maybe one-third of what this cost; and back then, the Drive-Bys were running stories… There she is. There she is. Look, Snerdley. Look! What did I just say? Look at PMSNBC. What did I just say during the break? God, do I know these people? Sometimes it\u2019s scary. Speaking of the parties here, I read during show prep today that Barack and Michelle Obama have told their social secretaries, don\u2019t book \u2019em at home at night. They\u2019re not going to be sitting at home most of the time helping the kids with the homework; they are out there socializing. They\u2019re going to be partying. They come from a new generation. They\u2019re going to be booked. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re going to be out dancing. They\u2019re going to be rock ‘n\u2019 rolling. They\u2019re going to be jazzing. They\u2019re going to be doing poetry and all that, and I said, ‘You know what? I doubt Sally Quinn\u2019s had an orgasm in the last eight years, but she probably had ten of them since she read that Obama is going to start throwing parties,\u2019 because she\u2019s a social doyenne. Her dinner parties back during the glory days of the… Well, not the Kennedys, certainly the Clintons and so forth, even part in the Reagan administration were legendary and people would do anything to get an invitation to them. Now, ladies and gentlemen, people are caught up in this, and as I said at the top of the program, I\u2019m about to make a mess. I\u2019m about to step in a big mess here by not following, as Newt Gingrich did, the template. <\/p>\n

You would have thought Newt Gingrich was John McCain on steroids today, listening to him praise Barack Obama. But I think what\u2019s going on here is really, really very dangerous. Just between us, folks. Don\u2019t tell anybody about this. We\u2019ll just keep it between us. I think it\u2019s very dangerous. What the Obama people are doing — look at me now. Listen to this. The Obama people are orchestrating as much doom and gloom as possible. It is all about creating Obama as the great savior. This is all-purposeful. This is being done on purpose: the comparisons to great American leaders, the constant claim of starting anew. And, of course, all you have to do is look at this ABC story on the inauguration: ‘Worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.\u2019 Axelrod saying, ‘Hey, it\u2019s going to take years, not months, to get this fixed.\u2019 ‘It\u2019s going to get worse,\u2019 Obama says. We don\u2019t know how bad it\u2019s going to get. It\u2019s gonna get really bad out there. It\u2019s going to get so bad; I may run out of paint necessary to paint all the homeless shelters. I mean, it may take \u2019til his first term is over to turn this around. Now, this is all done to just orchestrate as much doom and gloom as possible. Obama is like any other politician. He\u2019s a politician. And what\u2019s happening here is politics disguised as the Pope\u2019s arrival. It\u2019s disguised as something reverential here. One man cannot save anything as large as our country. We don\u2019t need saving anyway! This is the thing that really bothers me. We don\u2019t need saving. But one man can do enormous damage.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: The last man standing. I, El Rushbo, Sunday morning, C-SPAN\u2019s Washington Journal. The host, Steve Scully, interview Mike Allen of The Politico. Steve Scully said to Mike Allen of The Politico, ‘What is the role of people like Rush Limbaugh in the next four years?\u2019<\/p>\n

ALLEN: We thought that they were going to have fantastic success. Rush Limbaugh built his amazing success as the most listened to person in America during the Clinton years, and typically it\u2019s been better for these more partisan groups to be on the outside. But they have a needled thread in that they are very much, at least in public opinion polls, a minority view at the moment. Their trick is to find a way to keep their audience, to be entertaining and engaging, and yet not be out of step with the vast majority of Americans, who are rooting for this president. Uh, the question is whether they will be able to thread the needle, uh, of standing up for their principles, of holding this White House to account — which both the press and the commentary needs to do, uh — and remain in step with a country that wants changes, wants to give Barack Obama a chance.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, he\u2019s a nice guy, but he just doesn\u2019t understand the nature of my success, how it happened, when it happened. He doesn\u2019t understand when it happened. It didn\u2019t happen under Clinton, it happened before that. But he certainly doesn\u2019t understand his own role. Near the end of the sound bite here, he says, speaking of people like me, ladies and gentlemen, ‘The question is whether they will be able to thread the needle of standing up for their principles of holding this White House to account which both press and the commentary needs to do and remain in step with a country that wants changes.\u2019 Mr. Allen, your side has not exhibited one bit of energy aimed at holding the White House to account. Quite the contrary. I\u2019ve seen a couple of Drive-By journalists actually lament on the air that they might be ‘pressured\u2019 into being critical. <\/p>\n

They might be pressured into being suspicious, as they normally are, of anybody else with this kind of power. That they are uncomfortable having to hold this White House to account. The reason why this program\u2019s audience is going to skyrocket is because we\u2019re going to be the only ones doing this. We\u2019re going to be the only ones not in the tank. We\u2019re going to be the only ones that have not throw in the towel of responsibility and objectivity. We\u2019re the ones that have not joined the comet, the cult, the ones not heading to the Hale-Bopp comet! Because I guarantee you, if Obama tells you he\u2019s going there, Mr. Allen, you\u2019ll probably try to find the next ship on the way out. I think it\u2019s time to introduce a word to describe Obama, and that word is ‘arrogant.\u2019 I know I have to be careful here. I know I\u2019m well on the way to making a mess for myself, or stepping into one. <\/p>\n

But I have noticed that the white news anchors and commentators, who are most of them, have become incoherent in how they\u2019re reporting all of this. They\u2019re incoherent. There\u2019s nothing objective. There\u2019s nothing mature. It is pure psychobabble hero cult worship. They\u2019re trying to outdo each other to see who can be the most loyal, celebratory, wax the most eloquent about the lofty descriptions of the personality and personage of Barack Obama. On the one hand, they speak of how historic this occasion is because the American people elected a black man as president. But they won\u2019t come out and say that they\u2019re amazed by this because they believe the American people are racist. They\u2019re ecstatic that they have caused (in their own minds) this historic election to take place and this historic immaculation to take place. Believe me, the Drive-Bys think they made this happen. That\u2019s why they\u2019re totally invested in this, which is why Obama is too big to fail, Mr. Allen — and I love you. I love the work you do. <\/p>\n

Politico does some good stuff. But you guys are so in the tank, he\u2019s too big to fail. You will not allow him to fail because you\u2019d have to take yourselves down with him since you have put him on this pedestal that is 50 miles above everybody else. You cannot allow anything to take that pedestal down with him on it, and you won\u2019t. But there will be those out there who will, who are not personality-affected by this. We\u2019re not groupies. That\u2019s the best way to describe it. The Drive-By Media have become groupies for Obama and all of the things that they have made up that attach themselves to them. The American people were not racist before the election. The American people are not racist now. I\u2019m not sure how many Americans are caught up in this whole notion. Fifty-five million people voted against Obama. I don\u2019t know where the notion got started that 80% of the country is excited and can\u2019t wait and doesn\u2019t want the president to fail, wishes him success and all this sort of stuff. <\/p>\n

There are so many assumptions — like three million homeless way back when, so many assumptions — that they are simply unquantifiable. You know, anybody can point to anecdote, ladies and gentlemen, to claim whatever they want. But the fact is, this country is the most tolerant society on the face of the earth, which explains one reason why people flee here from every corner of the earth. But the Drive-By Media, the American left have it in their heads that this is still the antebellum slavery days that, that it may as well be the 1860s or it may as well be the 1960s with Bull Connor still running around out there. They have lost all perspective. They have lost all responsibility. These white anchors and commentators are now fully revealing their political agendas, which for decades they denied when the insist… This is their agenda. When they insist that we all get behind Obama, only for one reason, \u2019cause he\u2019s black? Well, maybe there\u2019s another reason, because he\u2019s not George W. Bush? <\/p>\n

Like I said numerous times, Obama\u2019s historic election is behind me now. I\u2019m speaking to you personally, from the heart. I don\u2019t see black people when I look at people. I don\u2019t see women. I don\u2019t see groups of people. I see Americans. When I look at Obama, I see my president. I see a man who\u2019s in charge of this country for the next four years. I care very deeply what he intends to do. I care what his policies are. I\u2019m not going to give him a pass because he represents some sordid past of our country and as such he gets free rein to do what he wants while we say nothing because we ‘owe\u2019 this to him, based on our original sin of slavery. Sorry, it doesn\u2019t work that way here behind the Golden EIB Microphone or in a lot of other places. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s the president. He has policies. I know what they are. I\u2019ve studied \u2019em. I have every bit of understanding I can on where he wants to take this country. I don\u2019t want to go there! I don\u2019t want this to become a western European socialist country, and it\u2019s going to. If we get socialized medicine, if we get national health care — as my friend Pete Wehner wrote last week in the Wall Street Journal with Paul Ryan — it\u2019s over. That\u2019s the end of the country as we know it. Do you realize…? Here\u2019s the point they made. We get national health care. From that point on, there\u2019s no reversing it. You create that kind of dependency in people, and there will be no reversing that. There will be calls for adding more to the whole concept of the government should do everything. Why should we get behind Obama, especially if he urges policies that we reject? Why should we do this? What is the point? <\/p>\n

What do we gain by this? All we gain is what the left has been trying to do to us for years and that\u2019s silence ourselves. Okay, so we shut ourselves up. Do you think we\u2019re going to get praised for this? Do you think we\u2019re going to be credited, you think we\u2019re going to be brought into the tent, you think we\u2019re going to be brought into the, quote, unquote, ‘big clique\u2019? Hell no. If they can\u2019t shut us up, the best thing they can do is intimidate us into shutting ourselves up, and I, frankly, am not interested. They say everybody wants him to succeed. Why\u2019s that? Did everybody want Bush or Clinton or Reagan to succeed? Can somebody go back in American history and tell me when we had a president that everybody wanted to succeed? I\u2019m not even sure every American wanted George Washington to succeed. There are a lot of people that were not quite happy about the way that was all going down. <\/p>\n

The idea that all of a sudden just from… What reason? You tell me. What reason must we all shut up and hope Obama succeeds, especially when he has policy ideas that I reject? He\u2019s not a ‘black\u2019 president. He\u2019s not ‘the first black president\u2019 to me. That\u2019s done. That\u2019s the past. Well, it will be after tomorrow. That\u2019s no justification for engaging in errors and making mistakes and doing the wrong things while people shut up simply because of the historic nature here. We want him to succeed because he\u2019s the first black president? If that\u2019s the case, then who\u2019s suspending reason and acting out their own racism? The racism here is on the left! (Man, am I making a mess today.) But it is. Everything we\u2019re doing here, we\u2019re supposed to do because of race. He\u2019s the first black president, so we\u2019re to shut up and we\u2019re to root for him? We\u2019re going to say we hope he has a successful presidency. <\/p>\n

‘Well, everybody wants him to succeed.\u2019 Well, no. And it isn\u2019t based on race! As it always is, the racial element or component in all of this is being injected by the Drive-By Media. A president is to be supported or opposed, whichever is the case, based on what he stands for, what his policies are and so forth. Not his race. Why should anyone want a president to succeed if his positions are considered damaging to the economy and national security? And, by the way, who are the true classical liberals now? Who is it that\u2019s obsessed with race, as opposed to being colorblind and addressing issues based on their substance? We\u2019re not getting any substance in terms of reporting about Barack Obama at all because the left and the media are obsessed with the racial component, while they claim they\u2019re the ones who are colorblind. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, another point of hypocrisy that I wish to add here as a means of illustrating what\u2019s going on. Remember when Justice Thomas, Clarence Thomas, was nominated as only the second black man to the Supreme Court, he was trashed. They tried to kill him. They tried to destroy him simply because his views did not comport with those of the liberals. Did you ever hear the media say, ‘We need to get behind Clarence Thomas; we all want Clarence Thomas to succeed because of the symbolism behind his appointment?\u2019 No. You heard that he was unqualified, that he was over his head, that he hadn\u2019t accomplished much in his life, and then they sent out the character assassins to try and derail his nomination, and this guy had a record of performance. But now we\u2019re supposed to set all this aside and just blindly say, ‘Oh, yes, I hope he succeeds.\u2019 So it clearly is only historic when the minority is a liberal, and we should only unite behind the person if it advances the liberal agenda. <\/p>\n

Now, as an aside, ladies and gentlemen, I think it\u2019s worth underscoring Obama\u2019s constant attempt to persuade you that he\u2019s somebody else, that he\u2019s not himself. Even if I say so myself, this is a profundity, Wendy, this is a profound point. I think you need to pay special attention to Obama\u2019s constant attempt to persuade you that he\u2019s somebody else, not who he is. It\u2019s one thing for a candidate, or a president, to draw on past great presidents to advance a point or an agenda, but it\u2019s something weird, it\u2019s just creepy — and by the way, Newsweek magazine, two guys described Obama as ‘creepy,\u2019 remember? It was creepy. You know when it was, Snerdley? It was at his acceptance speech in Grant Park in Chicago, there was something creepy about Obama. He ascends to look over us after he speaks, was the way these Newsweek guys described Obama, as creepy. Well, I\u2019m telling you, I have to agree with the Newsweek guys. It is creepy when that candidate, or the president, tries to persuade you that he actually is that past great president, which is what yesterday was all about. <\/p>\n

He is Abraham Lincoln. It is very, very creepy. And even on the way outta office, they just can\u2019t stop trashing Bush. We\u2019re supposed to get behind Obama even when we disagree with him, but they are free to continue to trash Bush when he was elected and when he is leaving office. And they call people Obama naysayers. Well, I think there\u2019s some Limbaugh naysayers out there, the people attacking me, and there will be even more Limbaugh naysayers out there. I\u2019m still waiting for Obama to tell us how the government is going to sacrifice, folks. Everybody else is supposed to sacrifice, but the government\u2019s not. It\u2019s employing more people, it\u2019s spending more money, it\u2019s printing more money. The government isn\u2019t going to sacrifice here at all. PMSNBC, they are wondering over there if — this is Saturday morning — they\u2019re wondering if Obama can win over the Last Man Standing.<\/p>\n

BUCHANAN: I\u2019ll tell you, I will really be impressed when I see Rush Limbaugh walking through a receiving line in Barack Obama\u2019s White House.<\/p>\n

HALL: Right. Right. Did you — did you take too much of Mika\u2019s Ambien last night, Pat? Because that\u2019s probably not going to happen, and I\u2019m just going to get that out there. He\u2019ll probably slam me, but I — I don\u2019t know. Let me ask you this, Pat, beyond Rush Limbaugh, Mr. Limbaugh, isn\u2019t it to the advantage of the conservatives also to reach out?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I didn\u2019t hear the answer, but this, again, you know, Buchanan, look, he\u2019s got a point, they\u2019re all sitting there laughing, and they know. We had this conservative dinner last week and I asked the pointed question, ‘Does anybody think that Barack Obama actually showed up at George Will\u2019s house to have his mind changed? Do you think that\u2019s why he went?\u2019 And what Buchanan is saying, ‘Look, I\u2019ll believe this conservative outreach if I see Rush Limbaugh walking in the White House.\u2019 And of course the Drive-By Mediaette here, Tamron Hall, ‘Oh, that will never happen.\u2019 Well, she\u2019s admitting there\u2019s no conservative outreach. There\u2019s establishment media with pseudo-conservative outreach. But there\u2019s no conservative outreach. We wouldn\u2019t expect there to be. I don\u2019t expect for Obama to come to me and give me a chance to change his mind. I\u2019m sure as hell don\u2019t think he — well, his arrogance, he might think he can change mine. But he\u2019s not going to try. He doesn\u2019t have to. He\u2019s going to have more problems with people on his side anyway, just mark my words. So they\u2019re admitting, the Drive-Bys are admitting that all this reaching out is just symbolism, pure phoniness, 100 percent. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Back to the audio sound bites. This morning on the BBC World Service, the host, Gavin Esler, spoke with Michael Goldfarb of Global Watch about health care and the Obama presidency, and the presenter at the BBC World Service said, ‘Health care, as you know, it\u2019s 15% of the American GDP. Obama is committed to reforming that.\u2019<\/p>\n

GOLDFARB: Obama\u2019s presidency isn\u2019t going to end the right-wing propaganda that comes over the radio, the Rush Limbaugh stuff. I mean this is quite hair-raising, ignorant stuff. So when he comes forward with the health care plan, there — there\u2019s a built-in attack machine that isn\u2019t going away that is outside of the political party of the Republicans.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) The last part\u2019s true, except it\u2019s the Republicans that have abandoned us. But this is all the theme of Last Man Standing. This guy from Britain, where they have a failed national health care system, and this program is on the air in Britain, when he comes forward, ‘Right-wing propaganda, the Rush Limbaugh stuff,\u2019 let\u2019s see, what did he say here? ‘Hair-raising, ignorant stuff, when he comes forward with a health care plan, there\u2019s a built-in attack machine that isn\u2019t going away, is quite hair-raising, ignorant stuff.\u2019 I am considered to be ignorant by GlobalWatch.com\u2019s Michael Goldfarb. So then, Gavin Esler says, ‘You can already write what they\u2019re going to say. This will take your health care away from you,\u2019 blah, blah, blah.<\/p>\n

GOLDFARB: What happened with Hillary Clinton, just going back, and — and one fears that — that it will get — become a legislative process rather than you and I, Adam, and — and everyone who said, you know, health care is a right. We should be able to get health care and not worry about whether we can pay for it, take it out my tax money, we\u2019ll have a health care system, force me to buy insurance to top it up, I don\u2019t care. In America, they don\u2019t think of it is a right, they think of it as an option. And it will allow Rush Limbaugh and the rest to think, okay, socialism is coming to America, and we\u2019re not a socialist country.<\/p>\n

RUSH: For that, I\u2019m ignorant. For that, the Brits look at me as ignorant. I\u2019m proud to be ignorant if I\u2019m that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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