Rush dedicated most of his opening monologue to promoting his own upcoming television appearances on The Haney Project and Family Guy. Long stretches of the remainder of the show consisted of Rush and his callers grousing over how much flak he would receive for appearing on the latter program, and comparing the negative reaction to the controversy surrounding his 1993 interview with Playboy. Rush later read aloud from the opening of the Playboy interview, and joked that either Fox News' Megyn Kelly or Sen. Kirstin Gillibrand was the centerfold in that issue.

Rush spent most of his opening monologue complaining about Stephen Colbert's testimony before Congress. Moving on to more serious matters, he attacked conservatives and Republicans who were not enthusiastically supporting GOP Senate candidates Joe Miller from Alaska and Christine O'Donnell from Deleware. Rush stated that we don't need any more RINOs cutting deals with "Imam Obama." He also said that he'd vote for Mickey Mouse or a rat if it would vote against Obama. Rush closed out the first hour by singling out Charles Krauthammer and Jonah Goldberg as people who need to call for Sen. Lisa Murkowski to get out of the Alaska senate race.

Rush later moved on to attacking President Obama for his United Nations speech. Rush claimed that Obama was bashing Israel by talking about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, however, praised Obama's speech. Rush also discussed Obama's statement in his UN speech that Wall Street caused the financial crisis. Limbaugh said that in some parts of the world, " 'Wall Street' is shorthand for the Jews," and let his listeners draw their own conclusions about what Obama was doing. Turning to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's 9/11 truther comments before the UN, Rush claimed that some of Ahmadinejad's speech sounded a lot like Democrats' "talking points."  

It was open-line Friday, and because of a question from a caller, Rush spent a large part of the third hour talking about what type of private jet he liked best. But he did have one new political thing to say: Rush speculated that the stock markets were doing well, in part, because the Federal Reserve is trying to help Obama. Rush said that they did the same thing in causing the financial crisis in 2008 and passing the TARP.

Here are some highlights from today's show:

Limbaugh: "We don't need RINOs cutting deals with Imam Obama"

Limbaugh: "I should have won" Nobel Peace Prize "given that a hoax and a hoax master won the thing"

Limbaugh: Democrats' "talking points" are "similar" to those of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Limbaugh: Obama blamed Wall Street for global recession; "in some parts of the world ... Wall Street is shorthand for the Jews"

Limbaugh repeats false claims about FDA's reason to revisit Avastin approval, invokes "death panels"

Limbaugh: "If Mickey Mouse could get on the ballot and would vote against the Obama agenda, I would support" him

Rush Limbaugh was in full campaign mode today, using the majority of his three hours to stump for the Republicans and their newly released "Pledge to America." He gleefully announced, "I just love listening to all these Democrats react in panic to it," using "worn-out" talking points, he said, to rail against it. But it wasn't just Democrats who reacted negatively to the "pledge" -- some conservatives have also derided the plan, with David Frum calling it "a pledge to nowhere." But Rush enthusiastically promoted it time and again as a "basic, common-sense" plan that will put a halt to the Democrats' "wrecking ball of destruction."

He repeatedly referenced the "pledge" as an alternative to the Democrats, that "bankrupt bunch of people" who "don't want to give the keys back," who are "not through stripping the car -- the car being the country." Channeling the "average American," Rush claimed that the "pledge" is "what people are clamoring for" and said that "people want an end to what is happening now. They want the breaks applied to the Obama agenda."

Rush also continued to take up the cause of the wealthy, attacking those Obama voters who find themselves unemployed but believe extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy would increase the debt. Rush railed: "Now if you think -- if you are a college student and you've got a degree and you're out there and you can't find a job ... if you agree with Obama that the Bush tax cuts ought to sunset, if you think $700 billion ought to be taken out of the private sector and sent to Obama, then you deserve to be out of work for the rest of your life, because that $700 billion taken out of the private sector could be used to grow businesses and hire people. ... If you voted for Obama, you deserve to be unemployed. If you voted for Obama, you deserve to be in misery because that's what he has in mind for every one of us."

Rush also spent time telling his listeners to "vote against" "[a]nybody with a 'D' next to their name." He practically screamed at one point, "You want four more years of Obama and Biden and all the rest of them? You want four more years of assaults on the United States?" He would later vouch for Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell, whom he referred to as "bright" and "smart," saying he didn't see what the problem was for those who hesitate to support her. Exasperated, he continued: "I don't think this is complicated at all." Capping off his keen political analysis of O'Donnell, he cracked: "I'd rather look at her than Mike Castle. I think she's kind of cute."

Here are some highlights from today's show:

Limbaugh: Obama doesn't "want any part" of Afghanistan war and said "screw you" to the generals

Limbaugh: Obama voters engaged in drug-induced "hook-up" in a bar, while tea partiers are "married to a cause"

Limbaugh in full campaign mode: GOP Pledge to America is "what people are clamoring for"

Limbaugh: Obama administration is "not through stripping the car -- the car being the country"

Limbaugh: "Anybody with a 'D' next to their name -- you vote against them"

Rush's political analysis: "I'd rather look at [O'Donnell] than Mike Castle. I think she's kind of cute"

Rush falsely claims that FDA might rescind approval of Avastin for breast cancer "because its too expensive"

Limbaugh: "If you voted for Obama, you deserve to be unemployed" and "in misery"

Rush also took issue with Obama's statement at last week's Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Gala that before America existed, the land was home "to British and French, Dutch and Spanish, Mexican and countless Indian tribes" that were eventually "bound" together by "shared values." Rush took this opportunity to join Glenn Beck and Newt Gingrich in embracing Dinesh D'Souza's  widely-panned and error-ridden psycho-political analysis of Obama. Rush said D'Souza's theory that Obama's policies are a manifestation of his African father's anti-colonialist hatred of the West is "very consistent with how I've analyzed this guy from the get go." According to Rush's reading, Obama's remarks at the gala showed that he believes the Founding Fathers were "oppressors" and that he resents "the white European settlers."

Rush spent the remainder of the show denouncing the President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, of which he became aware after Hines Ward of the Pittsburgh Steelers was named to the commission. Taking pains to note that he loves Ward, Rush said that the commission is a "shame" and "insults" him because it embodies the principle that Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are worthless and incompetent without Obama taking care of them. While saying that the commission represents "the mindset of liberalism," Rush did not note that George W. Bush had the same commission during his administration. Filling in for the third hour, Mark Davis agreed with Rush, asserting that any groups designed for specific ethnicities "perpetuate separatism" and that "if the Congressional Black Caucus were to dismantle itself tomorrow ... that would do more to unite America than maybe any other single thing."

Here are some other highlights from today's show:

Mark Davis: "The only group of people that America systemically gladly discriminates against now is white people"

Limbaugh: Chinese communists "love their country" while the American "leftists hate us"

Rush: Obama "doesn't like the British" because his father was "overrun by the Brits" in the Mau Mau rebellion

But Rush was particularly interested in a woman who told Obama that "I'm exhausted of defending you, defending your administration, defending the mantle of change that I voted for." Rush said that the reason that people haven't attacked this woman is because she is black. If she "had been white ... they would be all over [her] like white on a Klansman." Rush also claimed that, because she later said on CNN that she still supported Obama, someone must have gotten to her. Rush speculated that it was probably her family, not the government or Colin Powell that told her to do some "damage control."

Rush briefly touched on a number of other subjects during the show. He attacked Michelle Obama for promoting breastfeeding to fight obesity. Rush said that breastfeeding isn't tied to obesity, although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says otherwise. Rush also touted Republican plans to unveil a new Contract with America, saying that this would give Republicans a mandate once people voted for them.

Rush later claimed that the National Bureau of Economic Research -- which recently declared that the recession that began in 2007 ended in June 2009 -- was a government agency. However, after a short commercial break, Rush corrected himself, noting that it was not a government agency. He then attacked the NBER as a bunch of Harvard professors.

Here are some highlights from today's show:

Limbaugh: "Everything about this administration is an utter fraud"

Limbaugh "explains" Obama: "an angry, selfish, arrogant, know-it-all teenager" who blames failures on others

Limbaugh on Obama town hall questioner: If she "had been white ... they would be all over [her] like white on a Klansman"

Limbaugh: Obama "has succeeded" in pushing agenda through and "it's destroying the country"

Rush Limbaugh came back from a three-day weekend only to jump on the newest manufactured right-wing controversy -- that President Obama may have intentionally omitted the words, "the Creator," while paraphrasing from the Declaration of Independence during a recent speech at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. "This is not a miscue," Rush intoned, adding that it's things like this that lead people to question his faith. But in the same breath, Rush speculated that this could be a "media tweak": Obama had intentionally omitted the phrase from his speech so he could get a private laugh while watching "the values voters go nuts" at their convention this past weekend. Indeed, Rush said, he does the same thing all the time. He then suggested that there was probably a pool inside the White House to see who "goes nuts over this first." He added: "And I'm trying to win the pool."

Rush spent much of the show, however, lamenting the lack of Republican "party unity," complaining about how conservatives have teamed up to bash Republican candidate Christine O'Donnell, though the goal should be 51 Senate seats. At one point, Rush asked. He later listed several things Obama has dabbled in, including "infanticide," "cocaine," and "economic destruction."

Rush also took immense pleasure in repeatedly relaying Colin Powell's recent statement that undocumented immigrants are "all over my house, doing things whenever I call for repairs, and I'm sure you've seen them at your house. We've got to find a way to bring these people out of the darkness and give them some kind of status." Rush asked: "How many of you describe anything as being 'all over your house' unless it's vermin or roaches?" Rush later Limbaugh back to attacking Colin Powell: "Powell is exactly why we have a tea party movement"

Limbaugh reliving Bush era fantasies: Powell hung Libby -- who "hadn't done anything" -- out to dry

Limbaugh: The "challenge of the tea party is to get rid of" Obama and the Democrats

Limbaugh defends O'Donnell's witchcraft comments: Obama has "dabbled" in "infanticide," "cocaine" and "economic destruction"

Limbaugh: Federal gov't is "the single largest repository of greed in the world ... including even all the tyrannical dictators"

Limbaugh: " 'Fraud' is the best way, I think, to describe this entire administration"

Limbaugh: "It's open season on attractive conservative women ... if you're a liberal Democrat"

Limbaugh: "Feminazis" have a "double standard" and attack conservative women

Davis's argument boiled down to the idea that "holding your nose" and voting for a more moderate candidate like Mike Castle is "so 2007" and that in 2010, conservatives need to back fellow conservatives like O'Donnell to stop what he described as the "neo-socialist" slide in the country under Obama.

Davis said that it pained him to disagree with someone he "love[s]" like columnist Charles Krauthammer, but he indicated that Krauthammer may need to be "psychoanalyze[d]" to understand his opposition to O'Donnell. He described Krauthammer's position as that of a "hero" who is "dead wrong." Davis argued that in order to defeat President Obama in 2012, it would be necessary to deliver a "blow" to his presidency in 2010 by voting in the midterms. Davis argued that ultimately O'Donnell's win was a lesson to Karl Rove and other elites "who dare" to dictate what sort of Republicans can be candidates.

Davis explained to a caller that he isn't interested in common ground with the left, but wants to beat them. In a later exchange with another caller, Davis said that conservatives shouldn't get in the mud like Democrats and should take the high road in campaigns.

Highlights from today's show:

Limbaugh fill-in Davis: O'Donnell win taught lesson to Rove, "elites ... who dare to tell us what kind of Republican we can have"

Limbaugh fill-in Davis: "No chance to get rid of the Obama presidency" in 2012 "if we don't deliver it a blow in 2010"

Limbaugh fill-in Davis: "I don't want common ground with the left, I want to beat them"

Limbaugh fill-in Davis laments that "hero" Krauthammer is "dead wrong" about O'Donnell

Limbaugh, calling himself a "defensive coordinator" for conservatives, predicted that the media would paint the GOP as "a party full of Christine O'Donnells, and there's no room for moderates anymore in the Republican Party." Limbaugh said that the media would point to the Politico article about Scott Brown as evidence the GOP had little room for moderates. Limbaugh protested the discussion of soon-to-expire Bush tax cuts, saying that allowing the cuts to expire amounts to an increase in taxes from their current rate. Limbaugh noted that in any case, taxes will not be cut below current rates. Summing up the tax cut discussion, Limbaugh said, "We've lost the language."

Limbaugh said of the Obamas, "I think the White House, to them, is not a positive historical place. I think they look at the White House where a lot of really bad stuff was decided and bad stuff happened. And I don't think they like being there." Limbaugh went on to speculate that French first lady Carla Bruni released Michelle Obama's purported statement as payback for a dinner invitation the Obamas declined last year. Responding to a caller who suggested that being the first lady is Michelle Obama's first experience of being held accountable, Limbaugh said, "They've never had to be accountable before. They've had non-show-up jobs, no-show jobs." Limbaugh added, "It could well be that this is the first time in their lives they've had to work."

To finish the show, Limbaugh returned to the idea of "losing the language." Limbaugh quoted White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director John Holdren's call to replace the term "global warming" with "global climate disruption," the responded, "Means 'global warming' ain't selling anymore."

Some highlights from today's show:

Limbaugh: "I'm the defensive coordinator here for our side"

Limbaugh takes credit for O'Donnell's fundraising, brags "we crashed" her website

Limbaugh: Obamas have only had "no-show jobs," never "had to work" before

Limbaugh: Advertiser on his show is growing quickly "because more and more of you trust me"

Limbaugh: Democrats intentionally creating a "permanent underclass," Obama "seems to enjoy" American decline

Today's edition of The Rush Limbaugh Show focused primarily on yesterday's Republican primary in Delaware. Throughout the program Limbaugh and callers extolled Christine O'Donnell, Delaware Republicans' newly minted candidate for Senate, for her ideological purity and lambasted her defeated opponent, Rep. Mike Castle (R-DE), for his apostasy, as well as the national Republican establishment for their unflinching support of the "RINO" Castle. In particular, many callers asked why Fox News commentator and former Bush adviser Karl Rove so strongly advocated for Castle and attacked the more conservative O'Donnell. Limbaugh, for his part, wondered why Rove attacked a fellow Republican so strongly and why Rove, according to Limbaugh, never attacks Democrats like that.

This discussion of Castle vs. O'Donnell and the role played by the national Republican establishment took place within the larger context of a great struggle for the future of the nation. This election, Limbaugh said, wasn't about Democrats vs. Republicans, but about the country vs. Washington. Limbaugh repeatedly attacked national Republicans, saying they only cared about the money, power and prestige that come with being moderate and having a Senate majority, rather than about implementing conservative policies. Limbaugh said that it was better to have a liberal Democrat than a moderate Republican in office, because moderate Republicans vote like Democrats while diluting the Republican brand.

Beyond the Delaware primary and its implications for the future of the republic, Limbaugh again, as he has over the past few editions of his program, discussed Ines Sainz, the female reporter who was allegedly harassed in the locker room of the New York Jets football team. Limbaugh criticized "pansy sportswriters" for their criticism of the team, claiming that there is "no difference" between their comments and "what... Gloria Steinem would say twenty years ago."  He also lauded New Jersey Governor Chris Christie for attempting to cut teacher's compensation and suggested that a caller would be "reported to Michelle Obama" because of the caller's dietary choices.

Highlights from today's show:

Limbaugh: Caller "will be reported to Michelle Obama" because she'll be "considered to be part of the obesity problem"

Limbaugh downplays possible NY Jets locker room harassment, attacks NFL response

Limbaugh on NY Jets controversy: Compares "pansy sportswriters" and "what...Gloria Steinem would say twenty years ago"

Limbaugh: "We already are living in a soft tyranny"

Limbaugh: "The government is the enemy here to a lot of people"

Limbaugh joins right wing media in turning on Rove over O'Donnell commentary

Limbaugh: "Looks like a lot of voters in Delaware employed the Limbaugh rule"

Limbaugh said that critics have never criticized O'Donnell on the basis of policy, saying that criticisms were solely on the basis of her tax trouble and a lawsuit against her former employer, a conservative non-profit organization based in Delaware.

Limbaugh speculated that the harassment inquiry into the New York Jets was prompted not by reporter Ines Sainz, but by another female reporter. Limbaugh noted that the media has yet to report how physically attractive said reporter is. Limbaugh also said that Sainz knows how to attract attention, and was using her physical attractiveness as an asset to gain access "for her job," which he pronounced "yob."

Here are some highlights from today's show:

Limbaugh hypes claim that Rep. Castle voted "to investigate George W. Bush for impeachment"

Limbaugh: "Bootylicious" NFL reporter "is making no attempt" to hide it "because she wants access for her job"

Fox Business "reporter" Byrnes: "Everyone's hoping we get a Republican sweep in November" so Obama governs from the center

Limbaugh: Bipartisanship won't "fix what's wrong," it "means compromising what we believe to go along with Democrats"

Rush rallying against liberalism: Why are we "willingly, knowingly going down the path of our own self-destruction?"

Limbaugh: "There's a soft tyranny in the country today," "the Constitution is being shredded in front of our very eyes"

by Fae Jencks

Highlights from today's show:

Rush Limbaugh watched the first hour of President Obama's "abomination of a press conference" today and clearly did not like what he saw. He began his show by mocking Obama's speaking style by punctuating. Every. Word. Of. His. Criticism. -- just as, Rush suggests, Obama did in his answers today. Rush alleged that had Presidents Reagan or Bush had the same "halting" speech pattern, the media would be asking "what is medically wrong with the president." Limbaugh later concluded that the real reason Obama sounded the way he did was because he "hasn't had a vacation in a while."

Limbaugh opened today's show by commenting on Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's decision not to seek re-election, saying, "I haven't seen anybody asking or questioning whether or not Rahm Emanuel's corrupt enough for that job. I don't think there's any question about it but people aren't asking that." Limbaugh attempted to explain an MSNBC survey in which 60% of respondents said they believed themselves to be more attractive than average, and said, "[P]eople who are below average are now obviously lying to themselves about how above average they are." Limbaugh read a report on the US Export-Import Bank loan of $1 billion to the Mexico state oil company in 2009, using the report as evidence that "we have a president who does not like this country the way it was founded."

Limbaugh claimed that Obama advisor David Axelrod misinterpreted a recent column by former OMB director Peter Orszag on tax cuts. Responding to Axelrod's comments about the middle class, Limbaugh said, "My God, you have savaged the middle class. The middle class is in the Obama administration's crosshairs." Limbaugh then cited "any of the formerly great cities of the United States" that have been run by Democratic mayors as examples of what "socialism does to the middle class." Limbaugh said of those cities, "You will see what liberalism does to the middle class. It destroys the middle class."

Discussing up and coming Republican candidates, Limbaugh criticized political establishment powers for shutting out potential elected citizen representatives, and said that most Americans don't want to enter politics because they don't want to deal with the media scrutiny. Limbaugh concluded his show with more criticism of Obama, claiming that he got a standing ovation at today's speech because "they just wanted him to shut up."

Highlights from today's show:

Limbaugh: "We have a president who does not like this country the way it was founded"

Limbaugh: "The middle class is in the Obama administration's crosshairs"

Limbaugh: "The country is in a fight for its life ... we're in a fight for our liberty"

Limbaugh: Obama got standing ovation because "they just wanted him to shut up"

Rush started the second hour by playing clips of what other people said about him while he was on vacation. He talked to a caller who praised the new book by Rush's brother; Rush added that if every American read this book, it would be the end of the Democrat [sic] Party. Rush later launched into an anti-Obama tirade, calling him a "dummkopf little imam-child president" who is a "blithering novice," an "academic theoretician," a "one-man wrecking crew" and "henpecked" by his wife, adding that the best thing that could happen to this economy "is to get him out of any position of power to run it." This was followed after a commercial break by another rant in which Rush declared that Obama had been around at the time of America's founding, his political philosophy "would have been considered tyranny."

Rush continued his Obama-bashing in the third hour, declaring Obama to be "the biggest presidential failure since James Buchanan." He then attacked outgoing Council of Economic Advisers chairman Christina Romer for being clueless about the economy, claiming that this is because Romer had never worked outside academia before joining the Obama White House, and adding that if he was able to spend 15 minutes with her, he could totally change her economic outlook. After saying that one must be a complete failure in order to appear on the Sunday talk shows, Rush criticized "the ferret-like Paul Krugman," claiming liberal talking heads like Krugman know that as Obama sinks, so do they.

Here are some highlights from today's show:

Limbaugh claims that proposed infrastructure spending is "just another union buyout, just another slush fund"

Limbaugh: Discovery Channel gunman is "not a wacko," it's "mainstream environmentalist belief" and "inspired by Al Gore"

Limbaugh attacks Obama: He's "an angry guy" with a "chip on his shoulder" who "does not understand American history"

Rush launches into rant about "hen-pecked," "imam-child," "wrecking ball," "agitator," "blithering novice" Obama

Limbaugh: Obama "might not have been born in Kenya, but he certainly is one of the best Keynesian economist believers"

Limbaugh: "Obama's philosophy would have been considered tyranny," "would have been rejected" by the Founding Fathers

Limbaugh: "Barack Obama is the biggest presidential failure since James Buchanan"