The gist from the Morning Shows: Obama is laying a devious trap for Republicans by embracing a raft of policies the public widely supports.
Video of Rubio’s ‘Slurp Heard Round the World‘.
Maher laughs off Trump lawsuit: He’s not even a real person. Watch.
Benjy Sarlin, our reporter on the immigration reform beat, watched the State of the Union address with a group of undocumented immigrants. Here’s his report.
In my post, I linked to this video of the now-famous Rubio slurp heard round the world. But my favorite moment was on CNN where Blitzer, on mic, does a semi-aghast ‘oh my’ as Rubio makes the water lunge. The actual words are ‘uh oh’. Video after the jump, but only for true slurp aficionados. It comes at 14 seconds in. Read More
And here it is: video of the slurp heard round the world.
I don’t know who heard it but during the Rubio speech on CNN, as Rubio awkwardly reached for the water bottle, you could hear Wolf Blitzer let out this vaguely aghast “uh oh”. It was classic Wolf, just the intonation. Read More
10:30 PM: Okay, probably better than Jindal.
10:32 PM: Housing crisis created by reckless government policies.
10:34 PM: I’m not sure this Obama is mean to us segment is strong.
10:35 PM: “When we point out that no matter how many job-killing laws we pass, our government can’t control the weather – he accuses us of wanting dirty water and dirty air.”
10:39 PM: Sound like a funny comment but Rubio seems to be having some sort of dry mouth problem.
10:44 PM: Xerostomia.
Obama presses gun violence victims “deserve a vote.”
Obama use SOTU as weapon in sequester fight.
And of course the SOTU word cloud.
10:13 PM: People of all parties can agree that this picture is epic.
10:16 PM: Here’s that last passage …
We are citizens. It’s a word that doesn’t just describe our nationality or legal status. It describes the way we’re made. It describes what we believe. It captures the enduring idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations; that our rights are wrapped up in the rights of others; and that well into our third century as a nation, it remains the task of us all, as citizens of these United States, to be the authors of the next great chapter in our American story.
10:17 PM: Took CNN about 9 seconds from President’s speech to cut to Dorner house fire.