Rush: Not Even Close, Therefore, No Cigar

By Baxter

Since Rush Limbaugh has been in the news so much of late, we cats thought we'd take a little trip down Memory Lane and check out his broadcast from November 4, 2008.

What fun! Yes, we know that good folk like Keith Olbermann have resurrected many egregious Rush remarks from days past — but just knowing that, on Election Day, Limbaugh was blabbing total nonsense while the Obama freight train was bearing down on him and his hapless dittoheads made this exercise particularly amusing.

Allow us to share some of the Fat One's most ridiculous prognostications with you. We've put them in quotes. Actual events follow in parentheses.

RUSH: "Now, ladies and gentlemen, I want to tell you what to look for.... In the first place I'm getting all kinds of reports from all over the country about turnout, and in some places it's low. For example, the Upper West Side of Manhattan, no lines whatsoever, which is unusual. My spy for the Upper West Side of Manhattan... you would figure there would be lines out the wazoo up there to vote for Obama, but my spy [says], 'There were long lines in 2004, there weren't any lines today.'" (FACT: The Obama campaign won several states by turning out their supporters to vote early. And President Obama won the state of New York, 62.2 percent to 36.7 percent.)

RUSH: "What I tried to say at the beginning of the program is I am not worried about Virginia and Pennsylvania." (FACT: President Obama won Virginia, 52.7 percent to 46.4 percent. He won Pennsylvania, 54.7 percent to 44.3 percent.)

RUSH: "Let me give you another state that's going to be close. Colorado is going to be close. The early voting polling numbers are very, very close. Ignore the polls out of Colorado today if you live there." (FACT: President Obama won Colorado, 53.5 percent to 44.8 percent.)

RUSH: "We've got a lot of people, the PUMAs, these are the women that are angry.... And these are the woman that are mad that Hillary got screwed by Barry [sic] and the gang in the Democrat [sic] Party, and they're out there, and they're urging people to lie to the exit pollsters and say they voted for Obama." (FACT: Eight million more women than men voted for President Obama.)

RUSH: "The networks are going to call the election before some of you have voted. That's in the template. They cannot wait." (FACT: The networks called the election for President Obama at 11 p.m., when the polls on the West Coast closed and the states of California and Washington put Obama-Biden over 270 electoral votes.)

RUSH: "For what it is worth, here is why John McCain just might pull it out today: 1) The new Battleground Poll has him down by 1.9 percentage points, as I said, 2) internal McCain polls show him gaining fast or leading in key states, and that's been the case for the past couple days, 3) the stock market is up today." (FACT: President Obama beat John McCain by 7 percent, the largest popular-vote margin ever for a non-incumbent.)

Keep flapping your yap, Rush Limbaugh! We cats love you, because you're such an incredible idiot!