The Limbaugh Wire for 04/22/2009

After cavorting with the enemy(he told right wing Terrorists he got their back!) My faverot Junky/punchbag spewed for earth day....


Happy Earth Day, everyone. We've been eagerly anticipating all the anti-environmentalist shenanigans Rush is sure to have in store for today, but still we find ourselves skeptical that he'll be able to top this. Also, as a coda to Rush's rant yesterday about how "liberals" like Obama think the Bill of Rights is "horrible," we'd like to point to the recent remarks of one of America's more influential jurists as he discussed the Bill of Rights: "Today there is much focus on our rights. Indeed, I think there is a proliferation of rights. I am often surprised by the virtual nobility that seems to be accorded those with grievances." And who was the radical left-liberal fanatic who said those words? Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

Rush kicked off the show by announcing that it's "Open Line Friday!" on Wednesday, because Rush will be away tomorrow and Friday. Then he dubbed the culmination of Obama's "mythical" first 100 days as "finals week," adding that you have to say Obama is "failing" because Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinjad and Fidel Castro are "ripping Obama" despite his "worldwide tours" to get them on our side.

Then Rush had to tell us something -- he's heard a lot of people say that Obama's "flip-flop" on investigations of Bush officials sanctioning torture tactics was a result of pressure from the left wing of the Democratic Party. Rush said Obama wasn't buckling to anything, he's orchestrating all of this. Then Rush let Matt Drudge take over the program for a moment, asking if we'd heard that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano had claimed that the 9-11 terrorists had entered the U.S through Canada, or if we'd read a piece in Canada's National Post asking "how U. S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano got her job."

Rush then moved on to Obama's "flip-flop" regarding investigations into former Bush administration officials, claiming that if Attorney General Eric Holder does pursue investigations, then the goal won't be to secure convictions but, rather, to "destroy" the Bush officials and "criminalize" policy decisions that the administration disagrees with. Rush said this could be the overreach everyone is waiting for. Rush went into the break seamlessly weaving together Obama's meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs' "incompetence," the resignation of the White House communications director, the apparent suicide of Freddie Mac's CFO, and the Miss America pageant. Despite linking all those things together, he didn't really explain what they had in common. But he did promise that on the other side of the break he'd go through his "finals week" list of examples of Obama's "incompetent buffoonery."

After the break Rush finally acknowledged that it is Earth Day, and said he was celebrating by having all his cars driven, having his plane flown to Los Angeles and back, cranking up his air conditioning, eating "all kinds of beef," and will "personally" oversee the destruction of two acres of rainforest. Sorry, Rush. You'll have to do better than that to beat out Glenn Beck.

Then it was time for "finals week," which was simply a lengthy recitation of a "list" Rush put together "off the top of his head" of the many aspects of the nascent Obama administration that have stuck out to him. We're not going to bother repeating the whole list, because if you've listened to his show (or, better yet, read the Limbaugh Wire) for the past few weeks, you already know what was in there. We'll just give you a few phrases as a cross section of the whole rant: bowing to the Saudi king, apologizing for the U.S., tax cheats, b