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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, when the Mark Sanford news broke, I lamented he could have been our JFK. And over at the garbage network, MSNBC, they didn\u2019t get it. They actually thought I was comparing JFK and Sanford\u2019s policies, not their philandering. Yesterday I knew they\u2019d get it but they wouldn\u2019t understand it, and I was right. I know these people. Yesterday I went through the timeline of the Michael Jackson career, and I pointed out that Michael Jackson flourished, I mean, Michael Jackson epitomized the individual. He was weird, you know, screwball. But he wasn\u2019t part of a group. And you don\u2019t hear anybody covering Michael Jackson songs. Who else has recorded Billie Jean? I mean not even the Hollyridge Strings, which covered the Beatles. Nobody covers a Michael Jackson song, that\u2019s how unique it is. He flourished when? Thriller, Bad, Dangerous, the big sellers all during the eighties during the Reagan administration. Then we get to the nineties and Michael Jackson languished under Clinton and Bush. And, sadly, Michael Jackson died under Obama. This was commented on MSNBC twice yesterday. Here\u2019s the first.<\/p>\n

SHUSTER: Rush Limbaugh said on his radio show today about the death of Michael Jackson and his successes. Watch.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: He reached a level of success that may never be equaled. He flourished under Reagan, he languished under-Clinton-Bush and died under Obama.<\/p>\n

SHUSTER: That is wrong on so many levels.<\/p>\n

HALL: So many levels, that is wrong, but, you know what? <\/p>\n

SHUSTER: Poor Rush.<\/p>\n

HALL: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That was David Shuster and Tamron Hall trying to figure out what to say about it. All they could do is say, ‘It\u2019s just wrong on so many levels, but you know what? Poor Rush.\u2019 Later, F. Chuck Todd got in on this during Hardball and F. Chuck Todd was filling in for Chris Matthews.<\/p>\n

TODD: Leave it to Rush Limbaugh. Check out how the conservative radio entertainer is spinning the death of pop star Michael Jackson.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: Michael Jackson\u2019s biggest successes, and as it turns out his final successes, real successes, took place in the eighties. He flourished under Reagan, languished under Clinton and Bush, and died under Obama. I mean, the facts are facts. The timeline\u2019s the timeline. Let\u2019s hope the parallel doesn\u2019t continue.<\/p>\n

TODD: It\u2019s always Reagan, right? It always is.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) And then, and then not so much about that, but over on NPR at PBS, the Fresh Air host Terry Gross spoke to Dan Balz, B-a-l-z, for those of you in Rio Linda, he\u2019s at the Washington Post and Gross said, ‘Do you think the Republican Party, a lot of people in the Republican Party see Limbaugh and other right-wing talk hosts who say extreme things as being helpful to them or harmful to them?\u2019<\/p>\n

BALZ: Most Republican officeholders see them as they are, which is that they speak to a part of the base. They do it sometimes in ways that are outrageous, that elected officials can\u2019t get away with. But, again, they\u2019re not prepared to take them on. They\u2019ve got to work around them. Most of the people who want to be leaders of the Republican Party don\u2019t want to get into an argument with somebody who has an audience as big as Rush Limbaugh\u2019s, and we\u2019ve seen numerous examples of that. On the other hand, most smart Republicans don\u2019t think you can get elected president of the United States by speaking the way Rush Limbaugh does. But Rush Limbaugh gives demoralized Republicans, you know, some energy.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So a psychoanalysis of the Republican Party and me by Dan Balz, B-a-l-z, the Washington Post. (interruption) What are you saying in there, Snerdley? That wasn\u2019t a bad analysis. For Drive-By and State-Run Media, not a bad analysis. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I need to correct myself, ladies and gentlemen. <\/p>\n

What is it, Oxford? Is that the name of the town, Oxford, Florida? Find it on a map. Google it! I want to find out how close it is to Port St. Lucie. I need to be corrected. Apparently Michael Jackson songs have been covered. I said they hadn\u2019t. The song Smooth Criminal was covered by the group Alien Ant Farm. You ever heard of them? Apparently they shot to number one. It was the first song off their album and they shot to number one in Australia with it, the Billboard chart. (interruption) Miles Davis covered Human Nature? Okay. And Chris Cornell covered Billie Jean. And then some people are telling me that, ‘Hey, Rush, come on. Weird Al Yankovic.\u2019 Now, come on, don\u2019t… (laughing) He covered Beat It with a song called Eat It.\u2019 You gotta leave Weird Al out of this. I remember Beat It, though. We almost lost our Kansas City affiliate over this. You remember the Pee-wee Herman story? Pee-wee Herman was caught in the back of a darkened theater having fun with himself. So I thought it would be appropriate to use Beat It as the theme song for the continuing legal update news on that and we almost lost our Kansas City station over that. It took real diplomacy to hold on. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCIRPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I asked for the Michael Jackson bump. I admit, only ten seconds of preparation time for the broadcast engineer. He said he had put it away. Put it away? It\u2019s a computer file, right? You closed it. Well, then, do you have our Pee-wee Herman update? People to want hear this, and I think we\u2019re safe. Okay, while we\u2019re playing just a little bit of this, some people listening today didn\u2019t hear the Pee-wee Herman Update back then. Go find Blood on the Dance Floor. <\/p>\n

(playing of Pee-wee Herman spoof) <\/p>\n

RUSH: Just a little bit of it. I know it\u2019s going to bug people. I think we\u2019ll survive. I\u2019m sure it\u2019s going to bug people. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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