Rush Making Things Up Out of Whole Cloth

Sometimes one of the headlines on Rush's site doesn't match what the actual talk was about, and I wonder if Rush's website person is to blame for the misleading headline.

But this time, it's definitely on Rush.

The headline of the transcript says, "Carville Calls for More Stimulus."

Rush then plays one soundbyte from Carville, who was on the Imus radio show yesterday:

CARVILLE: If 54,000 new jobs is the new standard it's gonna be a very, very rough 2012 for President Obama. I can't tell you what's gonna happen but, yes, if this last jobs number is an indication of future jobs number, it's gonna be very, very rough. People -- if it continues we're gonna see some civil unrest in this country. I hate to say that, but I think it's eminently possible.

Where in this is Carville calling for stimulus. I would've thought the headline would have been, "Carville says Americans may riot over lack of jobs". But instead, Rush chooses to pluck a fiction out of the air.

Rush continued:

RUSH: Eminently possible if we continue, gonna see some civil unrest in this country, riots, if it continues. Now, using intelligence guided by experience, how would it not continue in their minds? We know that Obama's policies are not gonna correct it. They've created the problem. So we're not gonna have a fix. We're not gonna have a great turnaround in unemployment trending downward. So this is Carville pushing for another stimulus.

From Money.com, a CNN subsidiary: "Don't look to state and local governments to prop up the job market," which, of course, is the entire premise of Obama's stimulus. "To the contrary, this cash-strapped sector is set to go on a record-breaking layoff binge when the new fiscal year starts on July 1. State and local governments are forecast to shed up to 110,000 jobs in the third quarter, the first time the blood-letting has risen into the triple digits, according to IHS Global Insight. 'We're on a downward path,' said Greg Daco, principal U.S. economist at IHS. 'It's not looking good.'"

Now, this, too, is just a blatant cry for another round of stimulus, and once again they're trotting out this old need to keep teachers for the children, and we gotta keep the cops working and we gotta keep the firemen working, and, of course, the article studiously ignores the fact that teachers are laid off every summer anyway. The article also ignores the fact that reducing government spending helps the economy which you would think is a concept that the writers at money.com might be able to figure out. But, look, don't look to state and local governments to prop up the job market.

Rush has a bee in his bonnet about the stimulus, and is just making this up out of whole cloth. To double check, I tried to find the entire Carville transcript (the bit I shared above is the only bit Rush shared on his show today) and there was very little to it. Again, no calls for more stimulus. What it did show, to me, anyway, is that Carville sure isn't a very articulate person. How in the world does he even have a job as a talking head? He sounds as incoherent as Sarah Palin!