{"id":7282,"date":"2015-01-21T17:07:34","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T17:07:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-01-21T17:07:34","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T17:07:34","slug":"why_i_didn_t_watch_the_obama_state_of_the_union_show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/01\/21\/why_i_didn_t_watch_the_obama_state_of_the_union_show\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Didn\u2019t Watch the Obama State of the Union Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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\u2019t have the State of the Union on with the sound down. I didn\u2019t 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\u2019t watch it. <\/p>\n

And don\u2019t get worried now, folks, because I know what some of you are probably thinking, some of you lifers. As I\u2019ve 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\u2019ve got nothing else to prove, why do you keep doing this?”<\/p>\n

Well, A, I love it. And, B, it\u2019s just what I do; C, unfinished mission and all that. But I have always said over the course of the years that I\u2019ll know when it\u2019s time to hang up the microphone and that will be the day when I get up and don\u2019t care what\u2019s in the news. Fear not, that day has not happened by a long shot and I can\u2019t frankly ever imagine it happening.<\/line><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Of all people, a man who arrives on the scene in 2008 as unique, unlike anyone who\u2019s 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. <\/p>\n

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\u2019t want to put up with it. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve 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\u2019t gonna be any real news in this thing last night. There wasn\u2019t gonna be anything unexpected. There wasn\u2019t gonna be anything brand-new. There wasn\u2019t gonna be anything real meaningful as far as that concerned, other than continued obfuscation. <\/p>\n

May I illustrate. I have here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers a little blurb from our buddies at NewsBusters<\/a>. This is Brent Bozell\u2019s 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\u2019s flat-out absurd. That\u2019s just flat-out ridiculous. <\/p>\n