Posted on 01/21/2015 2:23:28 PM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: I never thought, I mean, I thought I might get close to it. I never thought the day would come where I did what I did last night. I did not watch. I did not turn it on. I didn't have the State of the Union on with the sound down. I didn't have a channel on where you could see the State of the Union. I today am a proud member of the low-information crowd. I didn't watch it.
And don't get worried now, folks, because I know what some of you are probably thinking, some of you lifers. As I've said, over the course of the many years of the busy broadcast people have asked, "How long are you going to do this, Rush?" And the last five years people have said, "You've got nothing else to prove, why do you keep doing this?"
Well, A, I love it. And, B, it's just what I do; C, unfinished mission and all that. But I have always said over the course of the years that I'll know when it's time to hang up the microphone and that will be the day when I get up and don't care what's in the news. Fear not, that day has not happened by a long shot and I can't frankly ever imagine it happening.
But stop and think of something for a second here. Television ratings for the State of Union address have been plummeting in this country, and precipitously, over the past four years. Stop and think of that for a second. Stop and think how far Barack Hussein O. has actually fallen as measured by how many people really have no interest in listening to what he has to say.
Of all people, a man who arrives on the scene in 2008 as unique, unlike anyone who's ever been in politics, soaring speeches. I mean, rhetoric and speeches that cause people to be glued to their TV sets. No matter where he went he was hailed as a great orator, and he was said to captivate people and hold a crowd and have them mesmerized in the palm of his hand.
And now look. Look at how far Obama has actually fallen, just in that measure alone, how many people have no interest in listening to what he has to say. And that was it for me. I literally had no interest, because I knew what was gonna be said, and more than that, I knew how it was going to be said. I knew that I was gonna be insulted. I knew the things I believe in are gonna be insulted, with a gloating air about it, and I just didn't want to put up with it.
I've got enough other things going on in life now that are far more deserving of my attention than that, particularly when I knew there wasn't gonna be any real news in this thing last night. There wasn't gonna be anything unexpected. There wasn't gonna be anything brand-new. There wasn't gonna be anything real meaningful as far as that concerned, other than continued obfuscation.
May I illustrate. I have here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers a little blurb from our buddies at NewsBusters. This is Brent Bozell's site which monitors the Drive-By Media and reports on media bias. The headline: "Chuck Todd on NBC Nightly News: Obama 'Got the Post-Election Honeymoon, Not the Republicans.'" Now, folks, that's flat-out absurd. That's just flat-out ridiculous.
Now, here's the story. "While previewing President Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night, NBC Nightly News had on Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd, who told viewers that the president will set out to 'do a little victory lap about the state of the economy' and opined how Obama 'got the post-election honeymoon, not the Republicans' thanks to his moves on illegal immigration and Cuba."
I’m glad Rush took a break from such foolishness as a “State of the Union” address. All one had to say is “Sorry folks, but we are $17 trillion in debt, and it’s growing. And we continue to murder our offspring in the woman’s womb, often with the encouragement of the “significant other”. What else is there to say?
Leaving rumors as your own form of information
The only other thing to say is, it’s $18.1 trillion and growing Oh and we are turning against Christianity and American culture because they pressure us to NOT murder our offspring, and are, in reaction, running to the Muslims pretending they won’t murder US once they hit critical mass
But that’s about it
I change the channel whenever I hear him speak. Can’t stand to listen to a word he says.
“rumors”
There are plenty of places where you can find the TRUTH; and you don’t have to suffer through a SOTU speech.
Since 1990 the only thing this man has changed in America for the better is his bank balance. We are more deeply divided than ever before as a society, there are more rules and regulations than ever before, there is a uni-party in Congress, there is NO WAY to get a bona fide conservative reformer elected to high public office, the US border is a sieve, we are on the brink of amnestizing millions upon millions of illegals, our media warriors on the right are summarily murdered in cold blood, we are constantly ruled by liberals and socialists at every turn, our women have been given the license to kill by the judiciary, all 50 states have been suborned by federal mandates and dollars from Washington, our foreign policy is a pile of sh*t, our enemies love us because we send them millions and billions of dollars, our friends now hate and distrust us, we are eighteen trillion dollars in debt as a nation, and our leaders refuse to see the link between Islam and terrorism, and continue to make visa deals to enable more and more Muslims to emigrate to the US from the most violently fundamentalist countries in the Middle East. And this joker thinks he is doing good things????? Tell me, what would have been different today had Rush Limbaugh never been heard of?
I thought we at least had a facade of being Christian, and that would include not unproven accusations about what Barack has or has not done sexually. Maybe he did; the biblical standard for accusations is closer to certitude than maybe.
That is another reason why I boldly call out the rumor listeners.
Same here and it really ticked me off when Fox and Friends, Cavuto and The Five repeated snips of his speech. I grabbed the remote control and hit the mute button
Because SOTUs are boring. Of course it’s kind of his job to watch that stuff so he can talk about it.
And... I don’t have a problem with people who want to read the text rather than watch the drama. It’s still good to know what Big Ears actually uttered.
I didn’t watch it because it was the same bull shi! feeding the lazy useless Americans that love the freebies crap. Why bother because this communists black Muslim will never stop buying votes for his communists community of Democrats. And he is using my money to steal to feed these freeloaders and I just can’t afford it.
I hit the mute button on my remote
I’m the new proud owner of a rearranged sock drawer!
I like your short version better.
“I change the channel whenever I hear him speak. Can’t stand to listen to a word he says.”
+1
I didn’t watch because I detest the lying, jug-eared SOB, and I can’t stand to look at him or listen to him.
When he doesn't have the teleprompter he stutters and grunts like a chimpanzee.
Oops, that was insulting to chimpanzees.
I guess no one understands: This article was never about Obama. It’s all about Limbaugh. That’s part of his charm.
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