{"id":7303,"date":"2015-01-19T18:48:01","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T18:48:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-01-19T18:48:01","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T18:48:01","slug":"the_new_state_of_the_union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/01\/19\/the_new_state_of_the_union\/","title":{"rendered":"The New State of the Union"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Here\u2019s Al in Boise, Idaho. Hey, Al, great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. My one football thing<\/a> is to say, “Way to go Broncos.” <\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing)<\/p>\n

CALLER: But my thing is, I\u2019m an employee at the airport, and we heard that Obama\u2019s coming Wednesday and I\u2019m wondering why in the world is he coming here. I mean, right now I\u2019m sitting here in a store and I just saw two guys with guns at their side and everybody here has concealed weapons and they have flags flying on their cars and, you know, why is he coming to Boise, Idaho? He\u2019s gonna speak at Boise State, but what\u2019s he gonna say?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I\u2019ll tell you, it\u2019s a good question, actually, even though, Al, you\u2019re trying to be funny with the Broncos comment and some of your other side comments about concealed weapons, you actually, whether you know it or not, asked a good question. And so I\u2019m gonna endeavor to honor your call by actually answering your question: Why is Obama going to Boise? It\u2019s not why is he going to Boise, \u2019cause Al means, “This is a conservative place, why would Obama be coming here?” Obama\u2019s going a lot of places. The state of the union timeline is being totally reversed this year. <\/line><\/p>\n

Normally what happens, the president does the State of the Union show, and there are a couple of leaks in the days leading up to it about what he\u2019s gonna say, but not all. And then after the State of the Union, which, by the way, the State of the Union is not the State of the Union anymore. The State of the Union is Santa Claus announcing who\u2019s been good and who\u2019s been bad and what who\u2019s been good is gonna get. That\u2019s all State of the Union is. Santa Claus actually speaking. <\/p>\n

The State of the Union is not about the state of the union. It\u2019s not a report to Congress. It\u2019s not a report to us about the state of the country. Obama, if he had to be honest about that, he wouldn\u2019t even want to tell us. What this is is Santa Claus announcing who is on the good list and the bad list and who on the good list is gonna get what. And normally you do the speech and then you travel for a week to various parts of the country, explaining, detailing, giving examples of what you meant, who\u2019s gonna get what. <\/p>\n

What Obama\u2019s doing this year, they\u2019re doing that before the speech. He\u2019s announcing what Santa Claus is gonna give to who before the speech, and then at the speech, and then there will be another series of travel events after the speech. But what\u2019s new this time is before the speech, going out and setting it all up, one of the reasons for that is the ratings for the State of the Union speech are way down. Just, as a matter of course, in the past number of years, not just Obama, but during Bush, because the State of the Union speech is not the state of the union. It\u2019s an announcement of a bunch of, “Gee, I really want to do these — it\u2019s how I\u2019m gonna buy your vote.” <\/p>\n

Ninety percent of it\u2019s never gonna happen. Ninety percent of it never has a chance to happen, that\u2019s not the point. The point is he wants you to think he\u2019s gonna give you the moon. Well, since the numbers are down, the ratings are down and fewer and fewer people are watching, Obama is making the State of the Union a multiple day event rather than a one-night speech. <\/line><\/p>\n

So each place he goes to make an appearance about the upcoming State of the Union, it\u2019s gonna be covered, it\u2019s gonna be talked about, it\u2019s gonna be reported on. And he\u2019s gonna go to places like Boise, which are not particularly favorable. He\u2019s gonna go to big Democrat areas, too. But this is all about getting the message out, outside of the night itself with the Republican response. Actually, instead of the State of the Union being a one-night affair, Obama\u2019s turning it into a 10-day affair. That\u2019s really what it is. And you can think it\u2019s good politics or not, but that\u2019s the answer to the question.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, just a little side light. This is gonna be Obama\u2019s first ever visit to Idaho. He\u2019s never been there before. Never been up in there, gonna be up in Boise. There are three other states he\u2019s never visited. They\u2019re all red states: South Dakota, Utah, South Carolina. And the State of the Union ratings last year, Obama\u2019s TV ratings, State of the Union, were the lowest since Clinton in 2000. So that\u2019s why all of these pre-State of the Union show appearances. He\u2019s basically announcing what\u2019s in the speech before the night of the speech. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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