From time to time I listen to Rush
Limbaugh and humiliate and embarrass him here. But to do it on a
regular basis would be a full time job and, frankly, it gets boring.
It is fun to watch him react when I call him out, though.
Recently I crushed one of his tea
drinkers on a public website when he mimicked Rush and claimed that
Congress makes the budget and the President only says “yes” or
“no”. The stooge went on to berate “low information
voters”. I destroyed him when I pointed out that President is
required by law to present a budget to Congress. That, I
pointed out, is his job. One of the very important aspect of
his job. Congress approves the budget. They're the ones saying “yes”
or “no”.
Apparently this moron was a very
important associate of Rush's since Limbaugh is now trying to once
again weasel his way out of his lying and has been trying to inform
his brain dead followers. Now he finally has his facts straight. Now
he's doing his usual backpedaling and complaining that Obama isn't
doing his job...submitting a budget. Just...like...I...said.
And Rush still won't admit that he reads this. At least his listeners
are finally getting some truth.
But that's not why I'm writing this. If
I referenced every time I sliced Rush or one of his stooges to
pieces...well, like I said, it would be a full time job. But today
Rush told such a big lie, such a blatant lie, such a whooper of a lie
that I just had to flog him in public yet again.
After referencing some interview
between Anderson Cooper and John (I have no idea who he is, either)
King, Rush was livid that they would dare compare Barack Obama to
Ronald Reagan! Of course he got that 100% wrong. Or, to be more
accurate, he once again blatantly lied about it. (BTW, listen to Rush
in the coming days and count the number of times he says 'blatant
lie”. Hi Rush!)
I won't go in to the absurdity that he
stumbled through. Eventually the whole point of his rambling was to
make the unfounded claim that Democrats were desperately trying to
compare Obama to Reagan...for some reason. He ended his rant by
saying (quoted directly from his website) “But
just so you know, by his fourth year in office, if you want a
comparison, by his fourth year in office, after Reagan's policies of
cutting taxes, reducing regulations, we were in the midst of massive
economic growth.”
Unless
he is indeed a blatant liar, Rush seems to think that “massive
economic growth” is an unemployment rate of 7.3%. It seems that
during Reagan's first four years that unemployment went from 7.5% to
(drum roll, please) 7.3%, after peaking at 10.8% (taken directly from
the Bureau of Labor Statistics' website). So let's compare. Obama
came in to office with a 7.8% unemployment rate and at the end of his
first term had a rate of 7.8% with a peak of 10%. Hmmmm. Does that
difference of ½ of a per cent make the difference between a crashing
economy and massive economic growth? Rush seems to think so. He may
be right but that would be a first.
The
indisputable fact is, they
are pretty much the same by any reasonable comparison. Not
that anyone should care. The point is Limbaugh is praising Reagan for
having a dazzling economy that isn't any different then the one we
have now. Can you say “major hypocrite”?
