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RUSH: There aren\u2019t words for this. Well, there are, but it just&hellip; Can you imagine, folks, how big Obama\u2019s head is today? I didn\u2019t think it could get any bigger. But I think his head is now growing so big that his ears actually fit.<\/p>\n

JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny South Florida, it\u2019s Open Line Friday!<\/p>\n

RUSH: What a week. What a week. It\u2019s great to be with you. Rush Limbaugh, Open Line Friday. Telephone number, 800-282-2882 if you want to call. E-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com. My volume is not loud enough. I don\u2019t hear myself well enough. <\/p>\n

A shocking announcement today from the National Football League, an announcement that has shocked the football world. Commissioner Roger Goodell and the board at the National Football League have named the Kansas City Chiefs the winners of this season\u2019s Super Bowl, which will be played in February. The NFL decided to reward the Chiefs for their good intentions at rebuilding a lackluster franchise. Despite their 0-4 record they have been proclaimed the winners of the Super Bowl yet to be played in 2010. In a related story, Barack Obama has won the Nobel prize for economics now as well as peace, this for his job stimulus plan, amid record and continuing massive job losses, which the rest of the elites in the Western world love to see, and he is going to be rewarded for a second economics prize from the Nobel people next year for returning the nation\u2019s wealth to its rightful owners. Folks, I think the people who used to run the election board for Saddam Hussein\u2019s government were hired by the Nobel committee here to tally the votes. <\/p>\n

Reuters went out there and asked the Taliban and Hamas what they think of Obama getting the Peace Prize. (laughing) I don\u2019t believe this! He\u2019s not only the first post-racial president; he\u2019s also the nation\u2019s first post-accomplishment president. He has risen above incompetence. He\u2019s now judged on wishful thinking. Gore, Carter, Obama. Can you imagine how ticked off Bill Clinton had to be today? The first gut reaction, when he found out that this little man-child in Chicago has not done diddly-squat got the Peace Prize, and Clinton\u2019s out there, (doing Clinton impression) ‘My God, I got my Library and Massage Parlor. I even scored $2 million stimulus money for that thing. Did you see that yesterday, Limbaugh? I got it. I got my global initiative. I\u2019ve fleeced people for billions and billions of dollars under the premise of world peace and, what? I get slapped again all because semen on a dress. They just have no respect.\u2019 Don\u2019t worry about it, Mr. President, your day is coming. Gore, Carter, Obama, soon Bill Clinton, you see a pattern here, folks? Liberal sellouts get this prize. <\/p>\n

George Bush liberates 50 million Muslims. Ronald Reagan liberates hundreds of millions of Europeans, saves parts of Latin America. Any awards? No. Just derision. Obama gives speeches trashing his own country and he gets a prize for it. This actually makes total sense when you look at who these Nobel people are, these elite Norwegians, Europeans. They love what Obama is doing. And this fully exposes, folks, the illusion that is Obama. This is a greater embarrassment than losing the Olympics bid was, and Obama got it right. He knows exactly why he was given this award. The elites of the world are urging him, a man of peace to not do the surge in Afghanistan, they are urging him not to take on Iran. If you want to get serious about this for a minute that is what this is really all about. How can he now send 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan after that cotton candy speech he just gave this morning, of which we have sickening sound bites that I am going to make you listen to. Because I have to listen to them, you do, too. None of you will be allowed to turn off the radio. None of you will be allowed to change stations. I am going to play excerpts of it, and everybody is going to damn well listen to it right along with me. You didn\u2019t do anything, I\u2019m just not doing this alone anymore. <\/p>\n

We\u2019re in this together, we\u2019re in this together. But the Nobel Peace Prize just told Obama, ‘Look, we love what you\u2019re doing, you are destroying your country as a superpower. Keep it up, Bud. This is what we expected, and you\u2019re doing a damn good job.\u2019 Those are accomplishments, folks, and in the eyes of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, these are the accomplishments they\u2019re looking for. He\u2019s basically emasculating this country and they applauded today with this award. They love a weakened, neutered United States. This is their way of promoting the concept and it\u2019s a slam dunk. I\u2019m surprised that anybody in Norway still alive there because Oprah ate it last week after losing the Olympic bid. Maybe she vomited them back. Obviously. Here\u2019s the announcement this morning.<\/p>\n

THORBJORN JAGLAND: The Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama (audience gasp) for his extraordinary efforts.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is a hand grenade that\u2019s just been lobbed into US domestic and foreign policy, domestic policy, foreign policy. They\u2019ve just blown us up here, folks. So here\u2019s Obama, admitting he\u2019s not worthy, but he\u2019s going to keep trying.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I am both surprised and deeply humbled —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re not humbled.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: — by the decision of the Nobel committee. Let me be clear, I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Uh-huh.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: — but rather as an affirmation of American leadership on behalf of aspirations held by people in all nations.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Except this one.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: To be honest, I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who have been honored by this prize.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Then why did you accept it? He gets $1.4 million. He should put it in his stash for Detroit because they\u2019re not going to have enough there. All right. He\u2019s going to accept the award because it will give momentum for his cause.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Throughout history, the Nobel Peace Prize has not just been used to honor specific achievement, it\u2019s also been used as a means to give momentum to a set of causes, and that is why I will accept this award as a call to action, a call for all nations to confront the common challenges of the twenty-first century. These challenges can\u2019t be met by any one leader or any one nation. That\u2019s why my administration\u2019s worked to establish a new era of engagement in which all nations must take responsibility for the world we seek.<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, they got hold of Obama\u2019s family over there in the hut village somewhere in Kenya, and one of the family members was coming back with the day\u2019s water supply from the lake, it\u2019s three miles away. And they asked him, ‘What do you think of ol\u2019 Barack winning the Peace Prize?\u2019 Obama\u2019s uncle told Reuters by telephone — a reporter took a satellite phone in there because there\u2019s no phone service in the actual Obama homeland village of Kogelo, western Kenya. They said, ‘It\u2019s humbling for us as a family and we share in Barack\u2019s honor, we congratulate him.\u2019 I think Obama is the second Kenyan to win the prize.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I am the commander-in-chief of a country that\u2019s responsible for ending a war and working in another theater to confront a ruthless adversary that directly threatens the American people and our allies.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. He\u2019s talking about Afghanistan there. Working in another theater to confront a ruthless adversary — how can he confront a ruthless adversary as the winner of the Peace Prize? He has been given the Peace Prize precisely so that he doesn\u2019t surge in Afghanistan, so that he doesn\u2019t take on Iran. His ego is so huge he doesn\u2019t understand why this has happened. He says that he does, ‘This is to give momentum to my agenda.\u2019 Yeah, but his agenda is to weaken this country, to remake it, and that\u2019s what he\u2019s been rewarded for. How can he now protect us from a ruthless enemy? And I don\u2019t believe I\u2019ve ever heard him say before that a ruthless enemy directly threatens the American people and our allies. Do you recall him ever talking about the ‘Tal-ee-bahn,\u2019 in that way? Who was he talking about? Al-Qaeda? Well, Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, they\u2019re brothers and sisters. I know, he said that the Taliban has a future in the rebuilding of Afghanistan. <\/p>\n

How can he now add troops? How can he ramp up military activity after getting the Peace Prize, which, you know, Alfred Nobel was a dynamite maker, that\u2019s what\u2019s hilarious. He invented dynamite. And Nobel, if you read his original intent for the Peace Prize, it was to go to people who actually pursued the elimination of standing armies. Nobel was a kook. Everybody thinks he\u2019s rolling over in his grave. Nobel, this could actually bring him back to life, folks. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: My friends, look at the bright side here: The Nobel committee today just suicide-bombed itself. They destroyed themselves far more than we ever could with this award — and it gets hilarious. ‘A top Democratic National Committee official reacted furiously to a statement from Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele mocking — and describing as ‘unfortunate\u2019 — President Obama\u2019s Nobel Peace Prize.\u2019 This is the statement from the DNC: ‘The Republican Party has thrown in its lot with the terrorists — the Taliban and Hamas this morning — in criticizing the President for receiving the Nobel Peace prize,\u2019 (laughing) DNC communications director Brad Woodhouse told Politico. So maybe the ‘ruthless enemies\u2019 that Obama talked about that we are facing is the Republican Party and conservatives. Maybe he wasn\u2019t even talking about Afghanistan. Because the DNC now says Republicans have thrown in their lot with terrorists, Hamas and who? Hamas and the ‘Tal-ee-bahn,\u2019 as Obama says it. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: I don\u2019t have enough time to be fair with another caller. I fully expect by the way… You know, there\u2019s Obama Kool-Aid and the kids in school are running drinking it, you may not have seen it in the stores but there is Obama Kool-Aid, and Obama Kool-Aid drinkers soon are going to be able to buy a new drink from the legendary Kool-Aid drink-maker: Barack Obama\u2019s Ego Juice. Upon hearing the Nobel Peace Prize Committee\u2019s decision Kool-Aid accelerated the introduction of a product already in the works: Barack Obama\u2019s Ego Juice. It\u2019ll be available in stores everywhere this December in time for the president\u2019s trip to Oslo to accept it. Schoolkids have already been test-marketing the products. Forced feedings of Obama\u2019s Ego Juice are going exceptionally well and so the rollout timetable will be moved up to December.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Folks, the Nobel Peace Prize, we owe \u2019em. Our president has become a laughingstock. They are telling jokes about Barack Obama even in State-Controlled Media. ABC is assembling what they think are the funniest jokes that they\u2019re finding anywhere, from blogs to State-Controlled Media sources and so forth and it\u2019s hilarious. Everybody in the world is laughing except the Norwegians, everybody is laughing at our president. You know, I\u2019m a former nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize. I was nominated this year, the year that Gore got the Peace Prize, official nominee. I\u2019m especially qualified to comment on this. I\u2019m much closer to having won a Nobel Peace Prize than any of you people are because I\u2019ve actually been nominated. (laughing) And, by the way, when I was nominated there wasn\u2019t any laughter. No, there was no laughter. There was anger and rage from certain sectors of this country, but there was no laughter. Our president has won the Peace Prize, and he is a standing joke. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, his ego is so big his ears are starting to fit the head now. You gotta think, this guy, he\u2019s in the White House, he\u2019s in his cocoon, he\u2019s surrounded by Rahm Emanuel, the ballerina, he\u2019s surrounded by that drip, Gibbs, the press secretary. And I\u2019m sure they\u2019re telling themselves, ‘Oh, way to go, baby, we are bigger than ever, who would have ever believed!\u2019 Meanwhile, outside the Oval Office everybody\u2019s laughing at this guy while he thinks he is the biggest human being to ever walk the planet. In nine months, he is a post-racial, post-partisan, now post-accomplishment. You don\u2019t even have to accomplish anything to get the Nobel Peace Prize. All you have to do is get good intentions and, you know, the libs are always regarded on their good intentions, aren\u2019t they? That\u2019s how they want to be judged, never on the results of those intentions which are always disastrous. <\/p>\n

We couldn\u2019t have done this ourselves. We could not have made the world laugh at our president, but the Nobel Peace Prize Committee and their award pulled it off. We owe \u2019em a debt of gratitude. I mean this guy is going to be joked about all over the media for this weekend. They\u2019ve set up the Sunday shows for this, and he goes out there and admits he\u2019s not he\u2019s not qualified. Grab that sound bite again. Yeah, he admits it.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I am both surprised and deeply humbled by the decision of the Nobel committee.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Could you speed this up? This is 34 seconds; it seems like an hour. Speed it up.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: — recognition of my own accomplishments, but rather as an affirmation of American leadership on behalf of aspirations held by people in all nations. To be honest, I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who have been honored by this prize.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, but you do, Mr. President, you are totally at home with the likes of Jimmy Carter and Algore and anybody else who\u2019s been running around — I mean he\u2019s in a club, people who have received Peace Prizes, people like Yasser Arafat. Ha! What a club. Wouldn\u2019t you want to be a member of that club? I would have refused, by the way, had I won the award, because I wouldn\u2019t want to be in that club of thugs. Nah, that\u2019s true, I would have accepted it. I was up late last night. I was up till like four. Oh, yeah. I\u2019m in one of these giddy moods here today, folks, so we usually throw caution to the wind. We\u2019ve expanded the delay to a full 90 seconds today, by the way, to accommodate something I might say that could be regretful. <\/p>\n

To the phones. Suzanne in Los Angeles. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Open Line Friday. You\u2019re up first. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good morning, Rush. If the president actually opened his fat mouth and said he does not deserve to be in the company these figures, why is he accepting it and why doesn\u2019t he donate the money to charity? Because he\u2019s a jackass, that\u2019s why.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) I don\u2019t even —<\/p>\n

CALLER: He doesn\u2019t deserve it. He hasn\u2019t done anything!<\/p>\n

RUSH: He has. This is what you don\u2019t understand.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, explain it to me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The guy who has said this best today is John Podhoretz in a blog at Commentary, Contentions. I\u2019m going to read it to you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: ‘I can\u2019t agree with my colleagues here on Contentions that a) Barack Obama should reject the Nobel Peace Prize or b) be embarrassed by it. The Nobel committee chose him wisely because he does, in fact, represent the organization\u2019s highest ideals. He is an American president queasy about the projection of American power. He is an American president who rejects the notion of American exceptionalism. He is an American president eagerly in pursuit of legitimacy to be granted him not by those who voted for him but by those who do not cast a vote and who chafe at American leadership. It is his devout wish that America become one of many nations, influencing the world indirectly or not influencing it at all, rather than ‘the indispensable nation,\u2019 as Madeleine Albright characterized it. He is the encapsulation, the representative, the wish fulfillment, the very embodiment, of the multilateralist impulse. He is, almost literally, a dream come true for the sorts of people who treasure and value the Nobel Peace Prize. It\u2019s the most obvious choice, once you think about it, since Michael Moore won an Oscar for Bowling for Columbine.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, you made me queasy just hearing you read all of that garbage. <\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing)<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019d rather see them give this prize to Michael Jackson for his work with children. The president doesn\u2019t deserve this. He actually doesn\u2019t deserve to be president, but I get tired of him apologizing and the goals he set for the United States is exactly what? Driving us to poverty, selling us off one dollar at a time to China —<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s precisely why he\u2019s qualified for the prize! This is what the Nobel people want; this is what European leftist elites want; this is what our enemies want; this is what the United Nations want.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Is he going to give this money to Reverend Wright to start a new church?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, no, here\u2019s the thing about the money. We looked it up. What is it, ten million Swedish kronors —<\/p>\n

CALLER: What is that, a buck 50?<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re on a roll here today. <\/p>\n

CALLER: I get my inspiration from you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We looked it up. Ten million Swedish kronors in December when he gets the money, depending on how badly he continues to trash his own currency, the dollar, could be worth anywhere between $1.2 and $1.5 million. That will not even cover one of the 747s that will take him and his fleet of fellow egoists over there to accept the award.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I thought it might have covered the money he wasted going to Copenhagen.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Maybe he should give that to Daley in Chicago as an ‘I\u2019m sorry you didn\u2019t get the Olympics.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: Daley is sitting there in Chicago saying, ‘What the hell happened to me? I go over there to Copenhagen, I bring Barack along, he\u2019s my ace-in-the-hole, we\u2019re going to get the Olympics, I\u2019m going to be able to have some of my buds get rid of the slums, like Valerie Jarrett, I\u2019m gonna have all kinds of people getting rich because of me, I\u2019m going to be in power forever here.\u2019 And they get shut out with 18 votes in the first round, totally embarrassed. Obama was a hindrance. And then the very next week — in fact, exactly one week — do you realize it was just last Friday that that debacle in Copenhagen happened. Today, Obama gets the Peace Prize. He gets the money, he gets the accolades, and Daley is sitting there in Chicago, saying, ‘What the hell?\u2019<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I keep thinking about this speech Obama gave today in the Rose Garden, saying he was surprised and ‘humbled.\u2019 He had no idea anyone nominated him. I don\u2019t believe that, by the way, this story they put out. I don\u2019t believe anything here. Apparently what happened is reporters first called Gibbs six o\u2019clock and apparently woke him up and said, ‘Hey, Gibbs, what\u2019s the reaction to the president winning the Nobel Peace Prize?\u2019 And Gibbs said, ‘What, is this April Fool\u2019s? What happened?\u2019 Then Gibbs wakes up the president, and the president tells us that his two girls came in and they brought the dog in. It\u2019s Bo\u2019s birthday. This is the same dog that dropped a load on Air Force One. We learned about this yesterday. And the two girls came in, ‘Hey, Daddy, you won the Nobel Peace Prize. It\u2019s really cool. It\u2019s a three-day weekend, Daddy. Let\u2019s get up and let\u2019s go.\u2019 <\/p>\n

And Obama said, ‘Yeah, it\u2019s great to have kids to help you keep things in perspective.\u2019 I\u2019m on the verge of retching right there. Then Obama gets to the meat of the matter says he doesn\u2019t deserve the award. So Obama… (laughing) I mean, he\u2019s agreeing with the Taliban and us, because we don\u2019t think he deserves the award, neither does the Taliban! The Iranians are upset. (laughing) Al-Qaeda hadn\u2019t weighed in yet, Osama bin Laden, but there should be a tape before the weekend is out. Now, here\u2019s the New York Times: ‘Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize,\u2019 by Walter Gibbs and Alan Cowell. Listen to this paragraph: ‘As to whether the prize was given too early in Mr. Obama\u2019s presidency,\u2019 peace be upon him, by the way, ‘we are not awarding the prize for what may happen in the future but for what he has done in the previous year. <\/p>\n

‘We would hope this will enhance what he\u2019s trying to do. The prize committee said it wanted to enhance Obama\u2019s diplomatic efforts so far rather than anticipate events in the future.\u2019 Do you understand? You probably heard this. ‘We are not awarding the prize for what may happen in the future, but for what he\u2019s done in the previous year.\u2019 Now, the voting began on February 1st. That\u2019s when the votes were over, nominations were over. The voting was February. He had been in office something like 11 days. He\u2019d been in office 11 days when the voting took place. They just announced it today. The voting takes place in February. <\/p>\n

So, anyway, the point here is that they awarded him this on the basis of 11 days of work. The stimulus bill hadn\u2019t even been passed. So they were giving him an award for the campaign, Gitmo. But he\u2019s out there saying that this will add to the momentum of his agenda. And they\u2019re saying, ‘No, no, no. We are not awarding the prize for what may happen in the future, but for what he\u2019s done in the previous year. We would hope this will enhance what he\u2019s trying to do.\u2019 ‘Barack Hussein Obama! Mmm, mmm, mmm.\u2019 Peace be upon him. We have a swine flu epidemic. At least the Drive-Bys tell us we do. We\u2019re bombing the hell out of the moon. The US dollar is worth nothing, unemployment skyrocketing, now near 10%. <\/p>\n

We\u2019re in debt. Our dollar is worthless taxes are going up everywhere. They\u2019re about to let Obama become our universal doctor, banker, and employer. Some of our kids are dying in foreign countries while Obama goes out for ice cream. Our other kids are killing each other in the streets because they have no education and no hope for a future other than killing each other in the street. We are about to move worldwide progress back to the cave era with the crap-and-tax plan. The whole world would like to put a nuclear missile up our rectum and apparently getting the means to do so — and this guy goes out and wins the Peace Prize! Peace be upon him. It\u2019s just a joke! (laughing) It is a joke. Everybody in the world laughing at our little president, peace be upon him.<\/p>\n

Darnell in Houston. Darnell, thanks for waiting. You\u2019re next on Open Line Friday. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey. How you doing, Rush?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, peachy keen.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you for continuing to shine the light on what\u2019s going on out there.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Somebody has to do it, sir, and I\u2019m up to the task.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And everybody else out there knows it as well. I got a question for you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Sure. Fire away.<\/p>\n

CALLER: All right, now that basically The Messiah has been lifted to godhood, many of the Democrats who were kind of mealy-mouthed and sort of sitting on the sideline now for the longest time, now that Obama\u2019s received in acclamation from the world, just how much damage do you think this is going to do as far as pushing an agenda, an agenda he hasn\u2019t even let people know about now?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, as I said at the top of the program, I think what\u2019s happened here is that the committee has thrown a hand grenade right in the middle of our politics. And they do this now and then, but this one is particularly insidious because the message here is: ‘Don\u2019t do the surge in Afghanistan. Don\u2019t do anything in Iran. Don\u2019t do anything that would make it look like you\u2019re not a man of peace.\u2019 The Nobel Peace Prize here is almost a straitjacket for Obama. Not that he would see it that way. But for the rest of the world threatened by evildoers, bad guys, and just plain old rotten creeps, there\u2019s nobody to come to their aid anymore. If Obama follows the tenets of the Peace Prize — he\u2019s going to accept it; he did accept it — that means he\u2019s gotta be a ‘man of peace,\u2019 and the way the left defines man of peace is: ‘Everybody else can have guns, but we can\u2019t. Everybody else can go to war, but we won\u2019t — and even if we\u2019re attacked, we\u2019re going to first try to find out why they don\u2019t like us, and then we might respond, depending on whether the enemy holes up in civilian homes.\u2019 It really is insidious, all humor aside, is really is insidious. The intent of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee is to neuter the United States of America, and they\u2019ve done it in their minds by rewarding a pacifist, inexperienced young man with a five-and-a-half-minute career now. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, look, folks, here\u2019s the real issue. The bigger issue here is how the left-wing global elite is manipulating Obama from the United Nations to the Nobel committee to capitals in Europe, and that\u2019s exactly what this award is. It\u2019s an attempt to manipulate Obama to the detriment of the United States. They know that they have a kindred spirit, a leftist radical — and they are using invitations for speeches and praise, and now the Peace Prize to help motivate him, to keep him on the path he\u2019s on toward destroying the United States of America as a world superpower.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: You know, folks, Obama got his Nobel Peace Prize based on 11 days of work. I looked at the official timeline of how this all happens. February closes the nomination process. Then they start going through the people that have been nominated and weeding them out and so forth. So Obama got the Peace Prize based on 11 days of work. Let me ask you a question. What was the most talked-about event in Obama\u2019s first 11 days? Wrong, Snerdley. The most talked-about event in Obama\u2019s first 11 days was me saying I wanted him to fail. This man owes me. I am as much a part of his getting this Peace Prize as he is. (laughing) <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Gibbs. He was at the White House press briefing this afternoon. Chip Reid, CBS: ‘I think the point, a lot of your favorite people, pundits have been making is that a response to this has been like this, I mean most Democrats have praised it, most Republicans have said, ‘You gotta be kidding me! Reagan didn\u2019t get one but Obama nominated 12 days after he\u2019s sworn in gets a Peace Prize?\u2019 And the fear among some, even some Democrats, is this going to widen the partisan divide and make things even more difficult to accomplish on every front?<\/p>\n

GIBBS: I\u2019ll leave the pundicizing to the pundits. The notion that somehow this is going to more greatly divide America, you know, I — I think it should be mandatory that pundits spend a certain amount of their days each year outside of the friendly confines of the viewership of the Washington, DC, media market. I think people believe that again what this represents renewed American leadership in order to make our country safer and to live up to our own ideals and the ideals that many in the world want it to live up to, it\u2019s a good thing, it\u2019s an important thing. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a partisan thing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They are doubling down on the press yesterday. This guy sounds like he hasn\u2019t gotten out of bed yet, by the way, in that statement. Probably still in bed. Did you get that impression, too? Sounded dead tired, no enthusiasm, no excitement whatsoever, total frustration here. It should be a day of immeasurable joy at the White House. And they\u2019re doubling down. They\u2019ve started a campaign, they think the press has turned on them in the White House and they\u2019re getting real tough on the press out there now. You can hear this a bit in Gibbs\u2019 snarky comment here that the pundits need to get out of the friendly confines of the viewership of the Washington, DC, media market. I would also say that there\u2019s always been a partisan divide but there is not one now. The Republicans can\u2019t stop anything. This is another one of these silly illusions. The Republicans are standing in the way of health care reform. The Republicans standing in the way of cap and tax. Republicans can\u2019t stop any of this. It\u2019s the Democrats who are not unified here. But what Gibbs doesn\u2019t get — you know, and Chip Reid may not fully understand. Everybody\u2019s laughing about this on both sides of the aisle. <\/p>\n

John Danforth, a well-known moderate, he hasn\u2019t uttered a partisan word in 20 years. John Danforth has come out and said this is ridiculous. He hasn\u2019t done anything! Now, for John Danforth, who would love to own the title, America\u2019s most moderate Republican, for him to come out and say this is an indication — and I totally support him saying it, don\u2019t misunderstand here, not being critical by any stretch of the imagination. I think that everybody is laughing. Our president is a worldwide joke. Folks, do you realize something has happened here that we all agree with the Taliban and Iran about, and that is he doesn\u2019t deserve the award! Now, that\u2019s hilarious. I\u2019m on the same side of something with the Taliban. And that we all are on the same side as the Taliban. But, see, the problem here is not the Nobel Peace Prize. The problem is how we look at the Peace Prize. We legitimatize it by saying, well, it\u2019s a ‘peace prize.\u2019 It\u2019s not a peace prize. It has nothing to do with peace. The Nobel Peace Prize is just an extension of the United Nations objective to destroy the United States. The Nobel Peace Prize is an instrument that is used to influence negatively domestic policy in this country. <\/p>\n

This is a giant manipulation of Obama. The Peace Prize is making him a puppet. They know they\u2019ve got a kindred spirit. They\u2019re using invitations for speeches and praise and now this award to help motivate this guy to keep doing what he\u2019s doing. Saturday Night Live is now making fun of him, even before this. Can you imagine what they do with this on Saturday Night? Now, Gibbs wants us to look outside the Beltway, except, of course, when the people outside the Beltway go to town hall meetings and tea parties protesting against the people inside the Beltway, then we should just pay attention to people inside the Beltway and ignore the people outside the Beltway. Now we gotta go pay attention to people outside the Beltway because people inside the Beltway are starting to aggravate Gibbs and Obama. Hard to keep up with this crowd. That\u2019s why you need me. So look at the last winners. Gore equals kook; Carter, anti-Semite; Obama\u2019s a Marxist. These are the new standards for the Nobel Peace Prize, and that\u2019s how we have to start looking at it, not as something that has anything to do with peace. Chip Reid, another question for Gibbs: ‘A lot of people think it\u2019s a partisan thing, Gibbs, because Algore, Jimmy Carter, and now President Obama have all received the thing.\u2019<\/p>\n

GIBBS: Teddy Roosevelt was in, but I — I don\u2019t think he was Democrat. I\u2019m not a member of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee. The notion that this somehow widens the partisan divide I think demonstrates what\u2019s wrong with pundits and instant analysis of what goes on in our society.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The partisan divide, these people cannot get off of this. This man has so polarized this country. We\u2019re actually all unified. Do you realize we\u2019ve had a few precious hours of unity today while everybody in the country laughs at this? <\/p>\n

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RUSH: By the way, it was Betty Williams who won the Nobel Peace Prize. She\u2019s a Nobel Peace Prize winner. This is a Dallas Morning News story from July 13th of 2007. So little over two years ago. ‘Nobel Peace Prize winner Betty Williams apologized Thursday for saying she could kill President Bush, remarks that drew scorn from Bush loyalists and shook up the International Women\u2019s Peace Conference in Dallas.\u2019 So at the International Women\u2019s Peace Conference the Nobel Peace Prize winner says that she could kill George Bush. She said it twice, and then she took it back.<\/line> <\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Pope Benedict has just crowned Obama the Holy Roman Emperor. ‘Barack Hussein Obama\u2019 has been declared the winner of the 2000 Florida recount, and the first Oscar has been given out, even prior to the telecast next March or February, whenever they do it. He has just been awarded the Oscar for the best child playing a man\u2019s role. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Albert in Miami, welcome to the EIB Network, Open Line Friday. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, mega dittos Rush. It\u2019s an honor to speak to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I was calling because I think that Obama is really highly qualified to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. First of all, he —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Just a second. It\u2019s Peace Prize.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Peace Prize, yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m a little nervous. Sorry. (chuckles) Well, he hates the United States —<\/p>\n

RUSH: An E in there, not an I. You gotta be real careful. When you say… It\u2019s okay. I\u2019ve covered it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. Well, he hates the United States. He makes policies to weaken the United States. And third, he is friends with and he allows the world\u2019s despots to do as they wish.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s right. I mean, he\u2019s perfectly qualified from the standpoint of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. Albert, I\u2019m glad you called.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I also wanted to mention something else regarding the ‘green\u2019 movement. I drive an H2 Hummer, and I go to the Citibank branch office that is near my office almost on a daily basis, and they have one of these designated hybrid high efficiency fuel-efficient cars parking space?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I always make it a point to park my green H2 Hummer right in that space.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) All right! (applauding) I love it! I\u2019ve seen those stupid parking places in parking lots: ‘Reserved for Hybrid,\u2019 reserved for whatever. And you parked your Hummer in it. Have you gotten a ticket?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I have not. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s an ordinance. I think it\u2019s just something that Citibank does on their own. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Albert?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t think there\u2019s kind of any ordinance for that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Albert, you just said something here that made me realize something. You\u2019re doing something here that not many Americans have the opportunity to do anymore. You said you go to the bank, and you\u2019re going to the bank every day. What are you doing that enables you go to the bank every day?<\/p>\n

CALLER: (chuckles) Well, I work a lot. That\u2019s first and foremost. I work at an architecture firm. The principle in charge of a Miami architectural firm, and I also have a separate business.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh! You are going to the bank to actually put money in it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: To put money in and to take money out, yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s called deposits — <\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — for those of you who are on the unemployment lines. Well, that\u2019s a great to hear. That\u2019s wonderful. Most people go to the bank (sigh) not wanting to but having to take it out of there. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And Albert\u2019s going in there putting it in. Oh, man, you have made a lot of people jealous, Albert. You really have. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: You know, folks, this Obama presidency, now, seriously is looking like some kind of idiot reality TV show. Ozzy Osbourne and his family had that reality TV show. This is what we\u2019re watching here. The whole country has to listen to this crap and watch this crap every day. Every Friday it\u2019s something, either the Olympics or it\u2019s the Peace Prize, every day. We have an amateur president stepping in it every day, day after day, and his crazy friends are out there praising him to the hilt. You know what I\u2019m going to do? Every year the EIB Peace Committee will issue a Screwup Award to the person or persons or group or groups that are the biggest screwups, and this year the award goes to Barack Obama. I am not going to be left out of the award business again. The EIB Peace Committee has spoken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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