Everybody Lies

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_021710/content/01125106.guest.html

There is nothing wrong with disagreeing with the President. Being able to do so is the beauty of democracy. Unfortunately, there are those who seem to take this too far making insane comparisons that completely undermine the arguments they are trying to make. For example, I tried to find evidence that there have been tax cuts for small businesses alas, I could not. I feel inclined to *gasp* agree with Rush on this one that Obama isn’t being all that truthful. Rush it seems however, is not content with simply going after Obama’s idea but, his personal appearance referring to him as Dumbo because of the size of his ears. This comparison is not what we should expect from people who are supposed to be offering professional political opinion. It gets worse, Rush goes on to make comparisons to Hitler. Comparing your opponent to Hitler is a tactic over used by both sides of the political spectrum. It is evidence that you’ve run out of intelligent arguments and must now resort to issues that simply invoke rage in your readers/listeners. By all means, disagree with the President, it is not our duty to blindly follow our leaders but, for the sake of civilized debate, drop the childish act.

Rush unsurprisingly comes off has somewhat hypocritical for calling Obama a liar when he says, “I can't handle it. Nobody is calling it The Lost Decade but you, Dumbo. Nobody is calling it The Lost Decade. Who besides him is calling it The Lost Decade?” I believe I can answer that question.

“As the Washington Post reported in January, “The past decade was the worst for the U.S. economy in modern times … It was, according to a wide range of data, a lost decade for American workers … There has been zero net job creation since December 1999 … Middle-income households made less in 2008, when adjusted for inflation, than they did in 1999—and the number is sure to have declined further during a difficult 2009.” http://inthesetimes.com/article/5543/the_senates_reconcilable_differences/

I don’t have enough familiarity with the Post to say whether or not it’s pro-Obama but, it’s still proof that Obama isn’t the only one calling this the “lost decade”. If someone is lying you call them out on it, Obama dose seem to be lying on the tax cut issue, where’s the proof of these tax cuts? Rush is lying when he says Obama is the only one calling it “the lost decade”.

Rush states that “He (Bush) took the unemployment rate down to 4.7%” let’s examine that claim shall we. When Bush entered office in January 2001 the unemployment rate was at 4.2%. From 2001-2004 it reached a peak of 6.3% in June 2003 and sat at 5.4% in November 2004. Rush says that the unemployment rate began to sky rocket when the Democrats took control of the House in 2007 despite the fact that throughout 2007 the unemployment rate never goes higher than 5%. I want to know where this 4.7% comes from. It’s odd that Rush doesn’t mention that at some points during the 2001-2007 period that the unemployment rate goes as low as 4.3% during Bush’s early years. Rush isn’t exactly lying about Bush’s record but, he is being misleading by claiming that the unemployment rate began to sky rocket out of control in 2007. Things didn’t start going bad until the recession hit. Remember though, from 2001-2007 the unemployment rate reached a peak of 6.3%. Correct me if I’m wrong but, there was no recession going on then. http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet?series_id=LNS14000000

Let’s continue with Rush’s odd lies, “state-controlled ABC News.” He can’t be serious can he? ABC is owned by Walt Disney (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company). Walt Disney, the company that left wingers consider to be the face of evil out of control-capitalism is state-owned? Well if that’s the case then I want to see Obama and Mickey playing basketball at the White House.

I’ll say it again, there’s nothing wrong with calling out the President when he’s distorting the
truth or telling a lie. Keep in mind however, that you can’t fill your own rant against the President with lies when the main topic of the rant is about lying. It really undermines your argument.