Ditto Heads Stunned!! Rush stumped by liberal on actual Ronald Reagan record. Listener exodus coming.

Having been a radio host for over 25 years, I can recognize one thing without equivocation; When a phony wind bag talker gets exposed as a empty prevaricator, ON THE AIR. When you hear a guy like Rush Limbaugh grasping at straws like he does in the video below, you can't help but think how stunned dittoheads across America must have fallen off their chairs, realizing their conservative authority just got his shorts handed to him.

Thanks to Crooks and Liars for catching this ultimate example of vacuous conservative banter about the mythical Reagan legacy, and how easy it is to expose these fakes.




Caller: "I want to know why an amnesty-giving, tax-raising, cut-and-running, negotiating-with-terrorists kind of guy is a hero to the conservative movement."

Rush has no answer other than to blame Media Matters and suggest that liberals "just wouldn't understand." Predictably, he turns it into proof that liberals just need to be destroyed:

So you, sir, a nice individual, I'm sure you're a fine guy (probably not too much fun at a ball game, unlike Bill Clinton), but still, you illustrate that people like you just have to be defeated, not met halfway and gotten along with. I mean politically.

Fact:
Think Progress: Reagan grew the size of the federal government tremendously.Reagan promised “to move boldly, decisively, and quickly to control therunaway growth of federal spending,” but federal spending “ballooned” under Reagan. He bailed out Social Security in 1983 after attempting to privatize it, and set up a progressive taxation system to keep it funded into the future. 


Salon has this The Real Reagan.