Define Sophistry

Rush Limbaugh had some insights on the Obama regime and their sophistry yesterday:

Well, what the media considers "smart" is what the ancient Greeks used to call "sophistry." You've heard me use that word: "Sophistry."

The "sophists" were just teachers of rhetoric, like George Lakoff (rhymes with) is a sophist. All they do is teach rhetoric -- and Biden isn't even good at that! You couldn't even put him up to the level of being a sophist. David Obey. David Obey. Not only, ladies and gentlemen, is David Obey the retiring now-chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. David Obey is the guy who brought the gavel down when health care reform passed on that awful Sunday in Washington -- and he used the same gavel as the one used to gavel Medicare -- and now, not even six months later, David Obey, "No mas! No mas!" Barack Hussein Obama! Mmm, mmm, mmm! What'd he say last week? At some point you don't need any more money? Something like that.

Okay, so he's the leading recipient of campaign cash from British Petroleum and Goldman Sachs. Could we say to President Obama: At some point you, do you think you've raised enough money? Do you think you have enough campaign cash, Mr. President? You're gonna sit there and tell Americans, 'At some point don't you think you have enough money? At some point you got enough?" Don't you think you've raised enough, Mr. President? It's astonishing to me, ladies and gentlemen, when we have a serious challenge as a nation -- we have two of them right now -- no one really thinks Obama's up to it or has anything to say to rally the people or can lead. Nobody! Nobody thinks Obama's up to it. That's why Karen Tumulty in the Washington Post today: It's a golden opportunity for Obama to "convey competence." If you gotta convey it, it must mean you're not doing it now. Her solution to that is: Yeah just start listing your successes! Except there aren't any that the American people support.

See also Newspeak, from the movie "1984", making thinking unthinkable.