JUST ANOTHER LIE, BUT....

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”?