You didn't build that

[smc]

The lack of seriousness underlying the initial post and the entire right-wing "talking point" about Obama's speech is an embarrassment. We can have a serious discussion about whether government should be reduced to the size where it can be drowned in a bathtub (to use the illustrious Grover Norquist's formulation), and we can have a serious discussion about whether we should leave the creation of shared public infrastructure completely to the private sector to create, but why anyone would engage beyond an initial post to point out how asinine this manipulation of a speech really is boggles the mind. It is just so much mental masturbation.

Anyone can make anything sound however they want. Politicians do it all the time, both Democrats and Republicans. It doesn't make it correct. And the bullshit smears the person who manipulates the speech more than anyone else.

I'm glad we can't smell you, TracyCoxx.