{"id":264129,"date":"2018-02-12T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=264129"},"modified":"2018-02-13T15:45:53","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T20:45:53","slug":"the-obama-paintings-speak-for-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/02\/12\/the-obama-paintings-speak-for-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"The Obama Paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Folks, I don\u2019t know how I\u2019m gonna do this. They had the official portrait unveiling today of Barack Hussein O and Michelle (My Belle) O, and I said, &#8220;Oh. My.&#8221; And so did the audience, when one of these portraits was unveiled. They did it at the Smithsonian. Now, I remember when the official portrait of Bill and the witch &#8212; ah, sorry &#8212; Hillary Clinton were unveiled. They did it at the White House. They had it in one of the rooms in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>George Bush welcomed the Clintons in and all of their buddies and smack-dab right there in the front row was Harvey Weinstein. I\u2019ll never forget it. Weinstein was sitting there looking all proud and smug that he had made it in that high, that far. But the ceremony was in the White House. This ceremony today was over at the Smithsonian. And they took a break. I was watching on both Fox and CNN. CNN took a little break \u2019cause of course they had to have their four analysts &#8212; I\u2019m sorry &#8212; anchor and three analysts weigh in on it. And what do you think we got? Some guy named Fallon. I don\u2019t remember his first name. He\u2019s a supposed CNN contributor, analyst. Well, he didn\u2019t cry, but it was (imitating Fallon), &#8220;Oh, my God, this is so wonderful, to have braininess back, to have intelligence, to have people we can be proud of, the people that can unite us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-264123\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021218-The-Obamas-Portraits.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021218-The-Obamas-Portraits.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021218-The-Obamas-Portraits-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>I knew it was gonna happen. So I was steeled for it. I was ready for it. But you people in the Drive-Bys are so predictable. Barack was sitting there with his head in the air like he always did, just above everything, while Michelle was going on and on and on about this artist that she found, who is a social justice artist, whatever that means. They unveiled a portrait and, you know, Brian, I wasn\u2019t &#8212; you got it in there? All right. Flash it. All right. Here you go, folks. This is it. Untouched, undoctored. If you\u2019re watching the Dittocam, there it is, that is the official portrait of Michelle Obama.<\/p>\n<p>This is hard. I feel sorry. I mean, you zoom in on that, and you know what? I\u2019m gonna let it speak for itself. I don\u2019t need to characterize this. I really don\u2019t. There\u2019s not a thing I could add once you get a look at this. Well, I know the people that can\u2019t see it are gonna have to find a way to see it, either become a subscriber at RushLimbaugh.com &#8212; that\u2019s not a cheesy sales pitch &#8212; or find it some other way. We\u2019ll link to it at RushLimbaugh.com, we\u2019ll do that.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t sit here and say the only way you can see this is become a member of the website. (interruption) That\u2019s what I\u2019m saying. I\u2019m not gonna describe her, Mr. Snerdley. You\u2019re trying to lure me into a trap here. You want me to set the media off. You want me blow them up so that I\u2019ll be the lead story for next hour or two after I do it. I\u2019m not going there. This thing speaks for itself.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll just tell you, I\u2019ve seen presidential portraits \u2019cause I have been in the White House. I\u2019ve walked the hallways, and there\u2019s a bunch of them there, and this don\u2019t even get close to any of the &#8212; I mean, in style, I\u2019m talking about. Forget artistic talent, just in style. I don\u2019t know, what would you call that? To me, I\u2019m not an artiste, and I\u2019m not therefore a credentialed, qualified reviewer of art. Art, to me, is if I like it, fine. If I don\u2019t, you know, I don\u2019t see a whole lot of things that aren\u2019t there.<\/p>\n<p>Just like I\u2019m not into poetry. Poetry is symbolism. Just tell me the way it is. You know, I don\u2019t want to have to weed through a bunch of &#8211;. That\u2019s why Shakespeare never really appealed. Shakespeare is philosophy in prose and I\u2019d rather go read the translation of it, \u2019cause I\u2019m just get in, get it, and get out. There\u2019s some things I like the process of, but this to me looks &#8212; I don\u2019t know, faded watercolors. It doesn\u2019t look like &#8212; that\u2019s it. I\u2019m going no further. Other than to say I\u2019m sorry.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dmG8F2cT9oM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now, I haven\u2019t lost my place. I\u2019m gonna get to the Olympics and so forth. These guys talk about how wonderful it is to have Obama back, so wonderful, Barack and Michelle, so smart and they\u2019re so sensitive, and they\u2019re so nuanced. It didn\u2019t matter what they said, didn\u2019t matter what they did, it was the way they looked and the way they spoke and everybody healed.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: We\u2019re gonna switch to the official portrait of Barack Hussein O.\u00a0 Go ahead and switch over there, Brian. (interruption) Look at that.\u00a0 I\u2019m sorry.\u00a0 I don\u2019t mean to be teasing or tempting those of you who do not have Dittocam service.\u00a0 But what in the world is that?\u00a0 Okay, I\u2019ve gotta describe this.\u00a0 It\u2019s Barack Obama sitting on what looks like a wooden throne without a high back, and he\u2019s sitting on that throne as you might sit on yours.\u00a0 Except that this throne looks like it\u2019s up against the ivy outfield wall at Wrigley Field.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like he\u2019s out there in the weeds.\u00a0 He\u2019s in a forest, and the look on his&#8230; In my very unartistic estimation, it\u2019s a better facial reproduction of Barack, but he doesn\u2019t look happy.\u00a0 Is that right? (interruption) He looks kind of grim in the&#8230; (interruption)\u00a0 Is that right? Trying to look serious, studious and so forth.\u00a0 Michelle (My Belle) Obama doesn\u2019t look happy, either, but that doesn\u2019t mean much.\u00a0 These portraits people trying to look serious and very serious.\u00a0 But this&#8230; I\u2019ll tell you one thing: These two portraits are gonna stand out in the White House.\u00a0 You\u2019re not gonna be able to miss these on portrait row.\u00a0 I cannot&#8230; I just can\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-264162\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PORTRAIT-Barack-Obama.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PORTRAIT-Barack-Obama.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PORTRAIT-Barack-Obama-205x300.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Folks, we have some people that to want weigh in on the official Obama portraits, and normally I would keep going with the stuff I\u2019ve got here that interest me, then go to the phones. Who knows how long it\u2019d be from now, and I don\u2019t want to take these two calls or three, however many it\u2019s gonna be, an hour after I\u2019ve talked about it. That just stops time and moves backwards. So let me get these calls, people who\u2019ve seen these portraits and want to weigh in. We\u2019ll start first in Springfield, New Jersey, with Janice. What are your thoughts on these?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, I usually listen to you on my little Radio Shack radio as I walk through the park \u2019cause I can\u2019t get you on my cell phone. But when I saw those &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, the wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Why can\u2019t you get me on your cell phone?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, would you believe I still have one of those clam phones?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You mean a flip phone?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah, a lot of people do. They still use \u2019em on TV shows and, you know, detectives and people that try to stay hidden use those things.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: That\u2019s my cell phone.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I see. Well, that would explain it. Okay. So you have to take your radio with you as you\u2019re walking in the park?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah. I just can\u2019t afford, you know, what you call it, iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: An iPhone. Right.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: But I just want to say, with Michelle, it looked like she was wearing an old car cover I used to have with that dress of hers, and she did not look very happy.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, a car cover?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, look at the size of her dress.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Oh, you\u2019re talking about the size of it?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I think the dress she wore to give her little speech would have been a lot better than what she was wearing. And then Obama, he didn\u2019t look very happy, either, and besides being on a throne, he looked like he was in the middle of some pot plants, the leaves on those &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-264158\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/00-EIB-Callers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/00-EIB-Callers.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/00-EIB-Callers-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>RUSH: Yeah. You\u2019re not the first to reference that, have that observation, that Obama appears to be out there among the doobies. (laughing) It\u2019s weird, folks, we could describe them and we of course have and there\u2019s no one better at that than I am, but still you have to see these. The Michelle portrait, I don\u2019t know how to describe it. It doesn\u2019t look like any official portrait of anything I\u2019ve ever seen. Maybe that was the objective. Maybe that was the purpose here. I mean, when I first saw it I thought this doesn\u2019t even look like her, really. Until you study it a little bit. Janice, thanks follow call.<\/p>\n<p>Dan in Carmel, Indiana. Great to have you with us. How are you, sir?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I am doing great today. How are you, Rush?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Good, good, good. Happy to have you with us.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, thank you. I\u2019m a retired art teacher, and looking at those portraits, I\u2019ve had kids in ninth grade do a better job of shading and adding highlights. The pictures are so flat, there\u2019s just no definition. And the portraits &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You know, that\u2019s a great way to describe the Michelle Obama one. With Barack\u2019s there is some depth to it, at least attempted. But you\u2019re right. Flat is exactly the way to describe hers.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah. And there\u2019s more colors in the shading of a face than just the one color.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, are you saying Michelle is multicolored?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I\u2019m saying that if you shade a face, you don\u2019t just see one color.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Oh. So you got shadowing and got that kind of thing, you mean?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah. There\u2019s depth of color, and you &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You know, if you look at some of the impressionist artists, they\u2019ll use complementary colors to get a shadow, and it adds depth and life to the portrait.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-264164\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PORTRAIT-Michelle-Obama.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PORTRAIT-Michelle-Obama.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PORTRAIT-Michelle-Obama-250x300.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>RUSH: Right. I\u2019ve always asked art experts if they can define art for me, and if somebody asked you to define, what is art, what determines whether something\u2019s art and something\u2019s not art?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, you know, I took a class in college about that, and I don\u2019t know that we actually defined it. As you said, I think if it\u2019s something that you like, that\u2019s art. You know?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I\u2019ve heard people, you know, people that spend millions buying an old impressionist master, whatever, and they say it just makes them feel great looking at it. They just &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8212; love the way it makes \u2019em feel. I\u2019ve never had that reaction looking at art.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: To any art whatsoever?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, that gets back to what we call art. I guess I\u2019m an artist. I\u2019m a performance artist. Although I\u2019ve never thought of myself that way. I\u2019ve thought of myself as a radio guy. But in our current iteration of things, I would be considered a performance artist by some. But this goes back to defining what is art. There are plenty of things I look at that make me feel great, but none of them have been painted.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Okay. Well, it might be like a fine wine. It doesn\u2019t always depend on the price, but it depends on the taste.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, a work of art, yeah, in terms of the process. But looking at the bottle and looking at a glass of it, the anticipation of it, the feeling is derived from consuming it.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: That\u2019s true.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: And I can\u2019t eat a painting. I\u2019m being a little facetious here. I\u2019m not trying to confound you or anything. And I\u2019m not trying to put down what you do. I mean, I think art is a talent. Look at Jackson Pollock, how he accidentally discovered in a rage just throwing paint up on a wall and people pay millions for it. How do you explain that?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, there was a new movement, a new way of approaching art. Actually one of my professors was an abstract expressionist like him. It was funny to watch him paint. And then he told us to, as we\u2019re doing those paintings, we\u2019re supposed to rotate the canvas every once in a while and then try to bring out things you might see, like you might see in a cloud, you might see &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I got you.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: &#8212; forms or things pull out of a cloud.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Was it determined in the art world that Jackson Pollock throwing paint on a canvas was unique and different than anybody else who would throw paint on a canvas?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: He was the first one that really came up with that whole idea, kind of like Georges Seurat with the dots, pointillism. He was the first one that did that, too. So that\u2019s kind of a new way of looking at things. And the same thing with the impressionists, the way they were using light. At first their paintings were vilified as just sketches.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Exactly. Those guys, back in their day, it was good, but it wasn\u2019t anything spectacular like it is today, so it depends on standards applied to it. But before you go, I\u2019ve always thought of art, painting and that kind of thing, I\u2019ve always thought it was a talent that you have or you don\u2019t. And yet you\u2019re an art teacher. Does that mean you\u2019re actually teaching people the various techniques of painting or you\u2019re teaching art history?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, I did both. We taught techniques and how to shade and actually a big part of it was how to see, how to see how light reflects off objects.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-264115\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-AAAA-RUSH-MASTERS-019-BW.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-AAAA-RUSH-MASTERS-019-BW.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-AAAA-RUSH-MASTERS-019-BW-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>CALLER: If you paint a brick wall you should see more than just a pink brick. You should see all the different colors that are in there.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: With the Michelle painting, there\u2019s none of that that you\u2019re talking about here. It\u2019s just flat. You\u2019re exactly right. I would have never described it that way because I\u2019m not the art expert, but when you say that, when you describe it as flat, it\u2019s exactly what it is. And how do you explain so little color in this work?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I don\u2019t. Like I said, in a ninth grade drawing class you would hand it back to them and say, &#8220;You didn\u2019t put anything in there. There\u2019s no shadows, there\u2019s no highlights. Where\u2019s the light striking the face?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s what\u2019s gonna happen. This artist, I remember her first name is Amy. Because she was chosen and because her portrait\u2019s gonna be hanging in the White House, we\u2019re looking potentially here at a brand-new genre, are we not?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Eh. I guess.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, don\u2019t be surprised. That\u2019s the way these things work. And for Barack\u2019s, I can\u2019t tell you the number of people &#8212; well, I can\u2019t tell you what they told me it looks like he\u2019s doing. I\u2019m gonna stop right there.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 I just got an email from a friend, subject line:\u00a0 &#8220;Some Believe the Moon Landing was Staged; I\u2019m Wondering if Michelle Obama Is Real &#8212; If this is a portrait of the real Michelle Obama, who was that other woman we saw with the president?&#8221;\u00a0 Ha!\u00a0 (laughing) Note from a friend.\u00a0 Look.\u00a0 We got other things coming up here, folks.\u00a0 In fact, we\u2019re really loaded but some more people want to weigh in on the artwork here for just a minute.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to limit this to this hour.\u00a0 We\u2019ll continue here with Joan in Sonoma, California.\u00a0 Great to have you.\u00a0 How are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: (garbled cell) Well, thank you, Rush.\u00a0 I\u2019m pleased to speak with you.\u00a0 When I saw the name Kehinde Wiley was going to be the artist chosen for the presidential portrait, I was stunned.\u00a0 I had seen his work in a museum in Kansas City.\u00a0 What he does is he takes historical works, famous paintings (garbled) black people aren\u2019t represented so he puts a black person in where the white person is in the historical painting.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 Wait a minute.\u00a0 But that\u2019s not what this is.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 Well, I don\u2019t know. I just know the one &#8212; the style from the Kansas City Museum &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 What is his name, Kehinde what?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 Kehinde Wiley.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 Kehinde Wiley.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 W-i-l-e-y.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-264168\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021218-Obamas-portraits.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021218-Obamas-portraits.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021218-Obamas-portraits-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>RUSH:\u00a0 Well, what he has said about this work, and I shall&#8230; Brian, switch to it for people watching here on the Dittocam.\u00a0 Put it back here to the switcher.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 Uh-huh.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 It is Obama sitting on a wooden throne. Uh, chair.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Uh huh.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: But it\u2019s four legs. It\u2019s shaped like a throne but it\u2019s not a high back.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: He\u2019s sitting leaning forward, legs are spread like&#8230; This is manspreading here. He\u2019s leaning forward, no tie, jacket on, gigantic hands.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I mean, gigantic hands, and the background is ivy &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8212; and flowers.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 Right.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 What the artist has said here is that the back has captured Obama\u2019s heritage. You\u2019ve got Hawaii and Kenya and Chicago &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 Right.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 &#8212; that made up in the background.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 Right.\u00a0 So I\u2019m reading from the Kansas City Museum. &#8220;His works reimagine famous paintings, substituting a contemporary African-American man or woman for the traditional white figure.\u00a0 Such images challenge the viewer to think about the dynamics of status, race, and representation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 Well &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 Interesting.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 Okay, so you mean he would take a Teddy Roosevelt portrait and put an African-American in the same scene &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 Correct.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 &#8212; as an example?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 Right.\u00a0 And the one in Kansas City is, uh, (unintelligible) Saint Adrian, and he puts the black person in, only he\u2019s in a Yankees baseball uniform (sic), and he\u2019s&#8230; I can\u2019t remember. He\u2019s holding a sword and anvil to show power and heroism, and they\u2019re all flowers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-264169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021218-Michelle-painting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021218-Michelle-painting.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021218-Michelle-painting-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>RUSH:\u00a0 Holding an anvil to show power and heroism wearing a Yankee baseball uniform?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 Yes. No. 88.<br \/>\nRUSH: As Saint Adrian.\u00a0 That\u2019s deep.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 Uh-huh.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 That\u2019s really deep.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 So it\u2019s a black woman artist who did Michelle.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 Her name is Amy Sherald, and she\u2019s from Baltimore.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 Okay.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 And she\u2019s known as a &#8220;social justice artist,&#8221; whatever that means.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, the story I have here&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/02\/12\/michelle-obama-official-portrait-reaction\/\">It\u2019s from The Daily Caller<\/a>.\u00a0 It says Amy Sherald &#8220;who is known for her social justice painting style.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You sound like you are in the art community.\u00a0 What is the &#8220;social justice painting style&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 I don\u2019t really know.\u00a0 I had a video store for 30 years, so I could tell you the amount of social justice conversation coming through my business &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: &#8212; in a very small liberal town.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 All right.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 Is that it?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 Yes, that\u2019s it.\u00a0 I just thought that you might be interested, and as I said, when I &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 Oh.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know how I would have finished this day &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Ah!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-264172\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021218-Obamas-potrait-press.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021218-Obamas-potrait-press.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021218-Obamas-potrait-press-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>RUSH: &#8212; without knowing all of that. Yeah, you\u2019ve done a great service here.\u00a0 I appreciate it.\u00a0 Who\u2019s next?\u00a0 We have&#8230; Da-da-da. We got time for a couple more, maybe.\u00a0 That\u2019d be Obi in Sanger, California.\u00a0 Obi, how are you?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 Well, hey, Rush. Thanks a lot for taking my call.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 Yes, sir.\u00a0 Any time.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 I\u2019ve got a comment on the paintings and I\u2019ve got a comment on the wall.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 All right.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 First, I want to say the last time I talked with you was during the elections.\u00a0 I\u2019m the fella out in loony California here that had the Trump sticker in the back of my Porsche.\u00a0 I\u2019m glad we won. (chuckles)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 You\u2019re the guy in California that had the Trump sticker on the back of his Porsche.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 Anyway, my comment on the painting, understand I don\u2019t &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 Hang on just a second. Folks, we got the guy who had the Porsche in California with the Trump bumper sticker!<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: We\u2019ve got the guy!<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 What a get for us!<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 Okay.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 All right.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-264173\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021218-Obamas-0000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021218-Obamas-0000.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021218-Obamas-0000-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>CALLER:\u00a0 My comment on the paintings: I looked at \u2019em on the internet here.\u00a0 I don\u2019t like the Obamas.\u00a0 I\u2019m definitely a big Trump guy. But I\u2019ll tell you I thought the paintings looked good, I thought both of them were creative and they looked good.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want to go to that deeper.\u00a0 Let me just move to my second comment on the wall.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 You just said what you just said so that your comments on the wall will be taken seriously.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 Well, I hope they are.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 See?\u00a0 I knew it.\u00a0 I knew it.\u00a0 You don\u2019t really think it.\u00a0 You\u2019re just saying that so people will think that you\u2019re reasonable, tolerant, understanding, compassionate, and all those things. So now when you load up and fire on the wall, people are gonna listen.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 Well, it\u2019s just a creative idea &#8212; I don\u2019t know if it\u2019d work &#8212; and that is this.\u00a0 You know, Trump is having such a hard time getting this approved, getting any cooperation from the Democrats or Congress.\u00a0 I\u2019m thinking that in his capacity as commander-in-chief, why can\u2019t he order the Army Corps of Engineers to build the wall and pay for it out of the Pentagon budget and justify it as necessary for the national defense?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 I don\u2019t think that he wants to do it that way because I think he wants there to be a consensus behind the building of the wall.\u00a0 I think he wants to do this in the, quote-unquote, &#8220;right way.&#8221;\u00a0 And I think he\u2019s confident he\u2019s gonna get it done.\u00a0 And I think he\u2019s confident he\u2019s gonna get it done within the immigration fight that is taking place.\u00a0 To go that route&#8230; And I technically don\u2019t know if the way you\u2019ve laid it out here could actually be done.\u00a0 Commander-in-chief, granting him powers to order the wall built by who?\u00a0 The Army Corps of Engineers, perhaps, but I don\u2019t know what the legalities are.\u00a0 I just don\u2019t think that that\u2019s the way he\u2019s gonna choose to go about it.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 Hey.\u00a0 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/12\/arts\/design\/obama-portrait.html\">New York Times has weighed in on the two portraits<\/a>, and the New York Times says that Barack Obama\u2019s portrait shows him &#8220;not as a self-assured, standard-issue bureaucrat, but as an alert and troubled thinker.&#8221;\u00a0 An alert and troubled thinker.\u00a0 Not self-assured, standard-issue bureaucrat.\u00a0 Michelle (My Belle) Obama\u2019s portrait, according to the New York Times, &#8220;overemphasizes an element of couturial spectacle.&#8221; That\u2019s their way of saying the dress (laughing) is too damn big.\u00a0 Her dress.\u00a0 Couturial spectacle.\u00a0 &#8220;[B]ut [her portrait] also projects a rock-solid cool.&#8221;\u00a0 So there you have it, the official weighing in for the New York Times on both portraits.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-228384\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-013.jpg 325w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-013-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-013-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Charleston, South Carolina, and Reece.\u00a0 I\u2019m glad you waited, sir.\u00a0 How are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 How are you doing, sir?\u00a0 Thanks for taking my call.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 You bet!\u00a0 Happy to.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 I was gonna say, I love the artist\u2019s rendering of President Obama, and I think he\u2019s actually a closet conservative, because he accurately captured what Obama did to our Constitution, our military, and Americans throughout the world in his portrait.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 Wait a minute.\u00a0 The artist &#8220;captured what Obama did to our Constitution, our military, and Americans throughout the world in his portrait&#8221;?\u00a0 How?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 Well, considering the position that he\u2019s sitting in and what it\u2019s implied that he\u2019s doing, that is exactly what he did to America and our Constitution, our military &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 Okay, I just had to hear it.\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t quite sure. I didn\u2019t know if you were talking about the ivy, the weeds in the background, or the short-backed throne on which he sits.\u00a0 It is curious, folks.\u00a0 It is real curious.\u00a0 The portrait of Moochelle (My Belle), that\u2019s&#8230; See, I thought we\u2019d put the subject behind us.\u00a0 I\u2019m dangerously close. I\u2019m taking another break here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I&#039;m not gonna describe her, Mr. Snerdley. You&#039;re trying to lure me into a trap here. 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