{"id":15876,"date":"2012-04-25T17:41:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T17:41:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-25T17:41:44","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T17:41:44","slug":"did_obama_jump_the_shark_on_fallon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/04\/25\/did_obama_jump_the_shark_on_fallon\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Obama Jump the Shark on Fallon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Fortuna, California. Hi, Denise. Tell me your last name is not <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=15879\">Ilitch<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: (laughing) No, it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: It\u2019s not. (laughing) You want to know my last name? I don\u2019t think you do.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: No, no, no, no, no. You don\u2019t want to give it.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: It\u2019s not Ilitch.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I would love to know your last name but for your own privacy, safety, security&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: For my own protection, no. We\u2019re in Humboldt County, which I know is a liberal bastion and all that. But we\u2019re in a little enclave here that\u2019s very, very conservative.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Let me tell you something, Denise. I have been to Humboldt County.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I have made two speeches in Humboldt County &#8212; two Rush to Excellence appearances in Humboldt County &#8212; one at Humboldt State.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Oh! Where they had hairy armpits?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: (chuckling) Well, yeah, in the airport there was a woman &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: (laughing) Oh yes! You can always tell if they go to Humboldt State.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8212; with her German shepherd guarding her that had hairy armpits. You\u2019re exactly right.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: The girls have hairy armpits. The closer you get to us, the more southern you get, the more conservative they are &#8212; and in Fortuna, we don\u2019t allow that.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: What do you mean the more southern you get? What do you mean southern in Humboldt County? What did I miss?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, Fortuna is about 50 miles from the (garbled) and then the farther north you get &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Oh! Oh! Oh! The more southern you get, oh. I thought you meant the more southern you get in attitude. I\u2019m sorry. More southern part of the county.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: The more southern part of the county.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah, yeah.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: No telling about the real southern part of the county.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: No, I\u2019m not kidding you. When I was in the airport at Humboldt County, when I was leaving there was an obviously militant feminist. She had this German Sheppard. You could spot this a mile away. I knew what was going on the moment I walked into the waiting room, hairy armpits and all. You\u2019re exactly right.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah, see? Oh, yeah. It\u2019s just wonderful. But in Fortuna, the sun shines.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: This woman was waiting to be attacked, and there was no chance.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: What?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Never mind.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Oh, okay.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: What is it that you called about?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: (crosstalk)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You can\u2019t hear me because of our state-of-the-art phone system.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I don\u2019t watch Jimmy Fallon but I saw excerpts on one of the programs that we do watch, and my skin started to crawl. And all I could equate that with was the Bill Clinton moment when they asked him, &#8220;Boxers or briefs?&#8221; And I thought, &#8220;Oh, my God this president has jumped the shark!&#8221; This may very well have been his moment, his low moment.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_61715\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObamaFallonShark.jpg\"\/><BR\/>RUSH: I don\u2019t know.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I wanted to throw up or take a shower or both.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I\u2019ve had a lot of people, Denise, who have written me about <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=15881\">Obama doing the slow-jamming of the news <\/a>on the show. They had similar reactions to yours.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Ugh!<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I didn\u2019t see it. Like you, I\u2019ve just seen excerpts, video clips of it. But I really have received a lot of e-mail from people who thought it was beneath the office, beneath the dignity of the office.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Oh, yeah. I just can\u2019t believe it. I truly can\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"NBC Video Widget\" width=\"585\" height=\"347\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/assets\/video\/widget\/widget.html?vid=1398195\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah. I don\u2019t know if the Jimmy Fallon Show, I don\u2019t know if there are enough people watching that for Obama to have jumped the shark on it.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes. Yeah. No. Unbelievable. There\u2019s enough people that know what &#8220;jump the shark&#8221; means, I hope. But, no, it was truly a unbelievable moment for me. My mouth dropped.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, speaking of which, do you know what &#8220;jump the shark&#8221; means?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes, I do.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Tell me.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: (laughing) In Happy Days, when the Fonz&#8230; (snorts) Oh, Lord!<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: The Fonz.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: When the Fonz, who always used to wear a leather jacket &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Henry Winkler.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: &#8212; an awesome leather jacket which worked.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Henry Winkler.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: It didn\u2019t make any difference because it was cool. (crosstalk)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: This is so frustrating. Henry Winkler, the Fonz.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Right. In one of the episodes, when I think they made a trip from whatever state they were in &#8212; it may have been Wisconsin; I\u2019m not sure. They came to California, and he was going to jump over a shark on skis. But he had swimming trunks on and his leather jacket, and that was the moment that people refer to &#8220;jumping the shark,&#8221; and that was pretty much it. (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah, but what does it really mean?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: It means that was the end of Happy Days.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: That\u2019s right! That\u2019s exactly right.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: That episode, okay, jump the shark? They just went beyond. It was no longer was it believable. They went outside their formula too much.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: And when Obama did that last night, the only thing &#8212; or whenever it was. That\u2019s when I saw the excerpts. When the president did that, the only thing I could think of&#8230; The picture that I saw with Fallon in the foreground and the president in the middle, and then I guess the band was behind him and it was all dark and everything, would have been better if there had been a billowing of smoke and a big cigarette hanging out of his mouth. It was truly, truly nauseating.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, we\u2019ll see. As I say, I have a lot of e-mails from people who have that reaction. But I don\u2019t want to make too much of the e-mails in terms of anecdotal analysis. I never do that, but I would never assume the whole country is having the same reaction that people e-mailing me are having, but people on&#8230; (interruption) Yeah. On TV, people remember what they see. There\u2019s no question. But again, we have to look at where our culture is, and to a lot of people, Obama is not even &#8220;the president.&#8221; He just the biggest celebrity in the country, and that\u2019s cool.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, the whole concept of the presidency for a lot of young people is not some august, serious, highly respected, most-respected office. It\u2019s the most powerful, but he\u2019s the biggest celebrity of the United States, even more so than he is president of the United States. I mean, you can go all over Twitter today and read the people out there who thought the slow-jamming was great, because it\u2019s new. &#8220;We\u2019ve never seen a president do it before! It\u2019s hip. He\u2019s like us! He can relate to us.&#8221; There are people that have that reaction to it, too. I mean that\u2019s where we are culturally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Fortuna, California. Hi, Denise. Tell me your last name is not Ilitch! CALLER: (laughing) No, it\u2019s not. 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