Because Obama has just released the list of Medal of Freedom recipients.
Obama Medal of Freedom Honorees
The list includes:
Billie Jean King,
Chita Rivera,
Desmond Tutu,
Harvey Milk,
Jack Kemp,
Janet Davison Rowley,
Joseph Lowery,
Joseph Medicine Crow,
Mary Robinson,
Muhammed Yunus,
Nancy Goodman Brinker,
Pedro Jose Greer,
Sandra Day O'Connor,
Sidney Poitier,
Stephen Hawking,
Ted Kennedy.
I can almost hear Rush Limbaugh howling now. The only honorees who will possibly escape his rants are Jack Kemp and Sandra Day O'Connor and they're probably even too "LIBral" for him. As for me, I think it's a pretty good list.