Rush made a mistake at CPAC which is getting covered on MSNBC...

[jenmito]

He said, "The Preamble to the Constitution contains an inarguable truth: That we're all endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights,among them life, liberty, freedom, and the pursuit of happiness." It's really from the Declaration of Independence. Tamron Hall and Ari Melber were just discussing it. Ari pointed out that Rush doesn't know what he's talking about. Tamron ended the segment by saying, "And I DID say over the weekend we talked a lot about the First Lady wearing short sleeves and if Rush was a man we'd be talking a lot about that unbuttoned shirt with the hair coming out the top. Contessa said, 'Ewww!'" :rofl: "If Rush was a man..." I think she meant "If Rush was a woman..." :rofl:

[treestar]

1. Good on them for calling out that gasbag on one of his errors

Fixed Noise and others would have let it go!

[zulchzulu]

2. Do you expect a college dropout to get his facts straight?

I bet Rush thinks the Declaration of Independence is IN the Constitution.

:rofl:

[mscuedawg]

6. ...one that has a book named for him "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot"....n/t

[damonm]

19. Hey -

Little lighter touch there, please.
My mother's a HS dropout, and she could likely teach you whatever you think you know about Native American culture & history. It's intellectual curiosity that does it - she's always been a voracious reader.
This is why Little Lord Pissypants was a dumbshit despite an MBA - he was intellectually lazy and incurious - as contrasted with the SMFITR we've now elected.
(SMFITR=Smartest MotherFucker In The Room)

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

24. I actually know plenty of college drop outs that could school both you and Jabba the Rush on

many things.

[damonm]

26. Thank you.

That backs my point up nicely.

[Cha]

31. Yes, but I don't expect

an oxycotin addled, blackmarket druggie to get anything right.

[SeaLyons]

3. I'm sure Keith will point out numerous mistakes on his show tonight n/t

[Inspired]

4. Keith's show will be delicious tonight.

[mscuedawg]

5. GOP neglects the Freedom of Religion half the time...

...those dusty old documents are only useful when they benefit their own agendas...

[damonm]

23. HALF?!?

According to many freepers, the separation of church & state isn't in the Constitution!

[DFW]

7. Like Palin saying "if the Pledge of Allegiance was good enough for the Founding Fathers.."

She was going on about how the "under God" phrase should be left it the Pledge, and let
go with that phrase about if the Pledge was good enough as is for the Founding Fathers
of our country, then it was good enough for her.

Just one problem: the Pledge was written in 1892 by a Baptist Minister who was also a socialist
(species now extinct), and he specifically wrote that he would tolerate no changes to his Pledge.
Ignoring this, during the McCarthy era of the early 1950s, the Knight of Columbus pushed through
the "under God" phrase, and at the same time had "E Pluribus Unum" eliminated as our national
motto in favor of "in God we trust," which first appeared on some of our money in 1864.

But Republicans have been very quick of late to use made-up "facts" to support their arguments,
figuring (often, unfortunately, correctly) that their lies would appear on Page One, and the
corrections on page 25, if at all. If it was National Hate Radio, no corrections necessary: God
forgives them automatically.

[jenmito]

8. Exactly.

Just more stupid misinformation.

[rasputin1952]

9. FWIW..."freedom" isn't mentioned ...

"Among these are Life, Liberty and The Pusuit of Happiness..."

Man shows his ignorance everyday...guess that 3 weeks in college he did had nothing to do w/American Government...;)

Come to think of it...I had learned about the DoI and The Constitution, as well as basic Civics in the 4th grade...guess he missed that year as well...:D

[jenmito]

10. I know. Nearly EVERY speaker mentioned "freedom" as part of their

objections to Obama, as if he wants to take away our freedom. (At first I didn't write that part, but those were HIS words. They should've pointed that out (as should've I in my OP). Thanks for pointing it out! :hi:

[rasputin1952]

13. I was not correcting you...just showing what a buffoon this gasbag is...

We've got people in this country that think a checkered flag at NASCAR is more important than the Stars and Stripes...Limbaugh feeds off these people...:hi:

[jenmito]

14. Thanks for that...

and he IS a buffoonish gasbag! :hi:

[rasputin1952]

15. My pleasure...

:hug:

[WinkyDink]

11. I think she meant "if Rush was a man." ;)

[jenmito]

17. Yeah...come to think of it. :)

[Ganja Ninja]

12. "If Rush was a man..." I think she meant "If Rush was a woman..."

I think she meant 'If Rush was a man instead of a festering boil on the ass of humanity.'

[jenmito]

18. Like I said to the poster above, come to think of it, I agree...

He's everything BUT a man.

[FormerDittoHead]

16. This is the point: What would he say if (insert liberal here) had made that same mistake? n/t

[jenmito]

20. Being a "FormerDittoHead," I bet YOU could tell ME, but I know it was a

rhetorical question (especially since your post began with, "This is the point:". :)

[tanyev]

21. Oh well, they don't give a rat's ass about what the constitution actually says.

Only about what they think it says. Or want it to say.

[DemocracyInaction]

22. Where did the "pursuit of happiness" part become part of it

At one point, the document did not say "pursuit of happiness" but "the right to own property". I've always been curious at what point when the boys were saying "hey, what the hell should we write to that gasbag king over there", that "property" got kicked out and "happiness" was in. Are we sure we have the right one on file in D.C.???? For some reason "happiness" seems so hippy for those dudes.

[jenmito]

25. Not to mention "freedom" is not part of it. n/t

[Critters2]

27. Thom pointed this out, too.

Repugs quoting the founding documents are like fundies quoting, err, misquoting the Bible. Like the fundie pastor who met my first beagle. I said, "This is Spartacus." He replied, "Oh, a biblical name!". :rofl:

[jenmito]

28. kick-Olbermann is covering this tonight

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

29. Limpballs has the IQ of a marshmellow.

[Bolo Boffin]

30. If Rush had notes or a teleprompter, he might not have made that mistake. n/t