This hour of the Limbaugh Wire brought to you by the pirates of ACORN

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Hour 1: Limbaugh compares Somali pirates with ACORN

Published Fri, Apr 10, 2009 1:47pm ET

This hour of the Limbaugh Wire brought to you by the pirates of ACORN

By Simon Maloy

Happy Friday, everyone. Just three more hours of Limbaugh this week, then all of you can enjoy your weekend. We, however, have top-secret work to do. A certain community activist organization -- let's call it, WALNUT -- has recruited us to infiltrate certain beverage-themed protests next week. Let's call them "coffee klatches." It will require some extensive training, and we don't have a lot of time, but -- well, we've said too much already...

Speaking of community activists, Rush kicked off "Open-Line Friday!" in fine form, dubbing the Somali pirates "merchant marine organizers," because "hey are using the same techniques that community organizers like ACORN and others in this country use." According to Rush, the pirates are community organizers shaking down capitalists. Rush also attacked Time for describing Somalia as "{f}iercely conservative and suspicious of outsiders," and wanted to know why Time didn't just come right out and say that the pirates want Obama to fail. After reading a parody Obama speech posted at ExurbanLeague.com in which Obama "reaches out" to the "moderate" pirates, Rush attacked The New York Times for being "excited" and "enthralled" at the limits of U.S. power against the pirates. Rush said we are not "powerless" against the pirates because the destroyer on the scene could "wipe out" the lifeboat the pirates -- and the hostage captain -- are holed up in. The only sense in which the U.S. is powerless in this situation, according to Rush, is in our "will." The "will" to do what, we're not sure. But if it involves "wiping out" the boat, then we have to wonder how the captain figures into this.

Rush then moved on to White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, playing audio of Gibbs saying that Obama is keeping "apprised" of the pirate situation. According to Rush, this means everyone is "acting presidential" because everyone is staying "apprised" of the situation. Then he attacked David Gergen for saying on CNN that it isn't necessary for Obama to be woken up in the middle of the night over things like the North Korean missile test or the pirate hostage situation, and that he's "smart" not to get in the middle of the pirate situation because "he doesn't want to micromanage that situation. That's what he has a government for." Rush asked if that was the same government that George W. Bush had to handle Hurricane Katrina.

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1. OxyRush probably won't be in on Monday.

He's probably down in the Dominican Republic hanging out with the boys.

Having his own private Tea Bag Party, no doubt. :eyes:

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2. Drop me a line when his obit appears in the paper.

Otherwise I don't want to see this fat coward's name again.