There's a statistic that I keep harping on. The recent "mood of the nation" poll done by the New York Times indicates that a third of America believes that taxes for most people have gone up under President Obama, while only eight percent believe the truth: that President Obama has lowered taxes for most Americans. For those who prefer hard numbers, the stimulus package that is so vilified by Republicans provided a tax cut for 94.3% of working families in the United States. So why over four times as many people in America believe the lies about President Obama, as opposed to the truth? Probably because of conservative media hacks like Rush Limbaugh, who knowingly lie to their audiences about Obama's record on air for hours a day.

Well, an intrepid caller decided to do what our media establishment has so clearly failed to do: set the facts straight about Obama's actual record on taxes. Take a listen:

Rush's response?

I am not going to sit here and put up with this and pretend that it's logical.

Rush apparently believes that it's illogical because Democrats blame the Bush tax cuts for the deficit--which in his narrative means that there's no possible way that they, including President Obama, could believe that more tax cuts are a good thing.

And here, again, is the dividing line. Obama's tax cuts were a good thing. They provided a quick cash infusion to the middle-class workers that needed it most. The Bush tax cuts were not. They were a massive giveaway of our nation's wealth to the people who not only need it least, but will return the least to the American economy with it.

Rush understands this--and you'll notice that he never actually denied the figures about the Obama tax cut, or cited other competing figures (because there aren't any). Rush is, like so many of his fellows, a mendacious, dishonest, lying hack. Now if only we had a media that would bother to tell the truth every once in a while.