Reading Rush: Obama's Pitiful Speech Full of Lies

When attempting to listen to Rush Limbaugh on the radio do you find yourself slamming your head into the steering wheel repeatedly until blood is streaming down your face while the other drivers in traffic look on in horror? Well, he's worse when you can actually read a transcript of what he's saying.

From the official transcript of the 1/25/12 Rush Limbaugh Show:

Apparently Rush Limbaugh did not enjoy the State of the Union last night:

I had to shut down my e-mail because I'm listening to the most vacuous, empty, filled-with-lies speech. It was boring. It was actually boring. I watched some of the post-debate analysis, and I was actually surprised to hear some of the Fox people say that. I thought the Fox people were gonna be praising this speech to the hilt, as Obama's back, 'cause that's all I had gotten from my friends. I was pulling what little hair I have left out last night, "Jesus, for crying out loud, why are people such pessimists?" 'Cause this is not what that speech was. This was not a, "It's over, we can't beat this guy," kinda speech. This speech was recycled. In fact, the GOP, the RNC, somebody's put together a short video to show he uses exact phrases from State of the Union show to State of the Union show to State of the Union show.

You see, in Republican world, it is for some reason unfair to repeat campaign promises more than once.  But what really got Rush wasn't the repetition, it was the lies:

It was chock-full of lies. It was fantasyland. No, it didn't soar. It was boring. It was an hour-and-a-half long. There was nothing to set it apart, nothing about it that's going to be memorable in a positive way. General Motors, the number one car company in the world again? It just isn't true. None of the economic news is true. He did two things. He lied. He tried to paint the economy as back. We are back, except where we're not back, and that's Bush's fault. But we are back.

 Now it just so happens that GM is in fact the number one car company in the world again, and since that's the only lie Rush ever actually mentions directly, I guess we'll just have to move on to his next objection to the speech:

In fact, there are a lot of facts that were omitted in the State of the Union speech. He didn't talk about the 13.1 million unemployed Americans. He didn't talk about the 5.6 million unemployed Americans who have been on unemployment longer than 27 weeks. He didn't talk about 8.1 million involuntary part-time workers. He didn't talk about the falling civilian labor force participation rate was 64%. The number of jobs, the universe of jobs shrinking, didn't bring that up. Didn't talk about the national debt, $15.2 trillion, five trillion of which is his! Do you realize one-third of our entire national debt as a nation over 200 years, one-third of it is his, his alone. Of course he didn't bring it up. He didn't talk about the Keystone pipeline.

Now I guess to be fair to Mr. Limbaugh, Obama did not technically say any of those words verbatim.  However since the single most used word in the speech after "American" was "jobs" I'm again having trouble with this criticism, but don't worry El Rushbo isn't done yet:

This speech was so filled with contradictions. He talked about teamwork is what made America great? Teamwork? Do you know, ladies and gentlemen, how wrong that is? Do you know what our founding documents are about? The rights and freedom of the individual versus government. There's nothing about teamwork. There's nothing about compromise, getting along and working together. The whole point of this government, the whole point of this country, the whole point of this founding was to champion the power and the rights and the civil rights and the freedoms and the liberty of the individual over government. I'm gonna tell you, if anybody on our side running for office anywhere -- Senate, House, president -- is on their game, this is an immediate, I mean they have just, Obama unwittingly has tossed a softball with the bases loaded.

 Now I'm not a hillybilly heroin addict so it's sometimes difficult for me to perceive the world in the same way that Rush does, but really?  Attacking "teamwork"?  That should be the Republican strategy going forward?  Oh and not just teamwork:

Then there was this, whatever we do, we gotta have fairness. There must be fairness. That's a code word for class warfare. Fairness is in the liberal dictionary, and it gives them the opportunity, the right, the power to redistribute wealth. That's what fairness is.

 If Rush Limbaugh really wants to define the core value of the Republican Party as opposition to Teamwork and Fairness, I think I'm done with that.  Let's have that election.  Now for his next attack, you have to know that Rush Limbaugh can actually read mens minds, unlike mere mortals, he knows what secrets lie in the darkest hearts of men:

You know, I'll tell you what's also obvious here. This speech, it was a lie from front to back, and it was an attempt -- it was Obama's attempt -- to align himself with America's greatness. And, folks, it didn't work. Now, for those of us who know Obama. It mighta worked for some of you who don't. For those of us who know Obama, it was pitiful. We know he didn't mean it. He's talking about American greatness all night? He doesn't believe that. He doesn't believe what he said. What we learned last night is how much trouble he's in. We learned what he thinks he has to say in order to win reelection.

See what I mean, that whole paragraph wouldn't make any sense if Rush wasn't a telepath.  Otherwise it would just sound like he was making stuff up.  He rambles on about the car companies again for a while, but then we get to this wonderfully disjointed mess:

No, Warren Buffet's sec... Now I've stepped in it now. Well, I've almost stepped in it. Look, folks, I really want to beg your indulgence here today. I can't tell you how fast my brain's working. I can't physically mouth, articulate everything I'm thinking and I can't tell you how frustrated because I'm thinking some of the greatest stuff right now. I'm thinking some of the funniest stuff. It will eventually come outta here. You just gotta hang in with me. I mean, literally...This is one of those classic overload days, and I have become expert at overload at weeding out the unimportant, editing out the stuff that really doesn't matter. But today it's a veritable smorgasbord. It's a buffet. It's a gold mine out there. So just hang in there with me.

Now I'll confess, I was taking a cheap shot earlier when I brought up the fact that Rush Limbaugh is a self admitted drug addict.   But racing, scattered thoughts and an inability to handle the basic functions of his job?  I'm worried about the guy.  Well that's a lie.  I mostly wanted to remind you again that he's a drug addict who thinks that drug addicts deserve whatever they get in life.  But don't worry, he pulls it together enough to make one last attack on the State of the Union:

The championship game, NFC Championship Game aired on one network on Fox Sunday at 6:30, and it had twice the audience -- actually it wasn't a State of the Union; it was actually a Class Warfare Rally last night in the House chamber on every network. To put this in perspective. So the magic, The Messiah, the hope and change, all that, it's gone. The magic, all that stuff, it's gone. Last night was deadbeat city. It really was.

 Because sports events have never beat the State of the Union before.  All I've got to say is, if I hadn't watched the State of the Union, and all I knew about it was this rant, I'd think Obama must have been pretty good because Rush really didn't have anything.