So, Rush Limbaugh, the “all-seeing, all-knowing” Maha Rushdi – to use his own words – doesn’t know the United States Constitution as well as he thinks he does. On Saturday afternoon, Rush gave his first nationally broadcast speech, to throngs of the Republican elite at the party’s annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington D.C.
During his speech, which was met with thunderous applause from the adoring crowd, he said while attempting to describe who the GOP was, “We want every American to be the best he or she chooses to be. We recognize that we are all individuals. We love and revere our founding documents, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. We believe that the preamble of the Constitution contains an inarguable truth, that we are all endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, among them life, liberty, freedom. And the pursuit of happiness.” Unfortunately, the Constitution doesn’t say that in its preamble. That “inarguable truth” is contained in the preamble of the Declaration of Independence. Maybe Rush should have paid more attention when he was in “screwool” back in Missouri.
But maybe he was just nervous, and made a mistake? Rush speaks allegedly to millions each day on his nationally syndicated talk show. Rush nervous? Parish the thought. I suspect Rush was simply his usual bombastic, overconfident and condescending self when he screwed up. It’s a pretty funny mistake coming from a man who claims to be 99.9 % accurate on his facts.
Maybe Rush, and his pals Hannity, O’Reilly, et al should read the documents they profess to love so much a little more often.
Of course Rush used most of his 80 minute address (80 minutes? He was scheduled for 20) to criticize and harangue President Barack Obama, claiming, as he does everyday, that the President is inspiring fear in Americans in order to push his liberal agenda of “big government.”
“He wants people in fear, angst and crisis, fearing the worst each and every day because that clears the decks for President Obama and his pals to come in with the answers which are abject failures, historically shown and demonstrated. Doesn’t matter. They’ll have control of it when it’s all over. And that’s what they want,” he said. “They see these inequalities, these inequities that capitalism produces. How do they try to fix it? Do they try to elevate those at the bottom? No, they try to tear down the people at the top.”
Rush did manage to complement the President, actually appearing to praise him as one of the most gifted politicians he has seen, but said, “It just breaks my heart that he does not use these extraordinary talents and gifts to motivate and inspire the American people to be the best they can be. He’s doing just the opposite.”
I find it so ironic the very men who carried the Bush administration’s message of fear for eight long years are now trying to claim Obama is using the tactic. Rush, and his buddies, acted as the Bush Propaganda Ministry, and scared Americans into believing that “Islamic Fascists” would march down our streets unless we supported Bush’s war in Iraq, and now they claim President Obama is using fear over the financial crisis in our country? Of course if the President did nothing, then they’d attack him for doing nothing, probably claiming he was too scared, or too ignorant to know what to do.
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