WaPo: Rush Limbaughs dangerous suggestion that Hurricane Irma is fake news

[TomCADem]

Rush Limbaugh is suggesting that Hurricane Irma is fake news, and Alex Jones is claiming that Hurricane Harvey was caused by the same "deep state" that is out torpedo Trump based on his Russia ties. How long before we start getting Hurricane truthers arguing that the hurricanes are an elaborate false flag operation?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/09/06/rush-limbaughs-dangerous-suggestion-that-hurricane-irma-is-fake-news/?utm_term=.4a520511eedc

More broadly, Limbaugh's bad advice reveals the metastasizing nature of “fake news” attacks on the press, which have been led by President Trump. How did we get from Trump's claim that he has “never seen more dishonest media than, frankly, the political media” to the idea that weather reports are phony, too?

Alex Jones might have something to do with it. The Infowars founder — who has an “amazing” reputation, according to Trump — has for years promoted the notion that the U.S. government possesses the power to conjure and control weather events. Just last week, as Hurricane Harvey battered Texas, Jones devoted part of his show to questioning why the government didn't “use the technologies to kill [the storm] out in the gulf.”

“It is weird how these storms go,” he said, suggesting Harvey might have been manufactured or manipulated. “They just sit over a city.”

Jones's contention is that the government — or, more precisely, the “deep state,” now that Trump is president — uses its “weather weapon” to stoke fear of climate change and promote a liberal agenda.

[dalton99a]

1. All that flooding in Houston that was Photoshopped and all the people who pretended to be dead

[TomCADem]

4. Next thing you know, a gun-toting Alex Jones Listener Will Arrive In Houston...

...determined to expose this deep state conspiracy just like the guy who showed up at the DC pizza parlor. Crazy.

This should be funny, but sadly, there are people really believe what Alex Jones and Limbaugh spout on about.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Why is America slipping into Dark Ages II?

[Ghost Dog]

17. Because (corrupted) Christianity,

just like Dark Age I (in NW Europe only, please note).

[Hieronymus]

3. My God, talk about fake news ..

Well Trump and his followers believe the stuff those sources give them.

[world wide wally]

5. Anybody that believes the Oxy moron and gets killed because of that is...

Let's just say, "well, no great loss"

[BannonsLiver]

6. I would include Rush in that as well.

Cue Alanis Morisette.

[world wide wally]

7. That's who I meant

[SunSeeker]

8. "Oxy moron" is a great name for Limbaugh.

But not everyone knows he went through oxycodone like Pez. Most people understand "Limpballs" though.

[sheshe2]

9. "Oxy Moran"

[SunSeeker]

13. Perfect.

[MiniMe]

10. I know he is based somewhere if Florida

Is it Palm Beach? I may have to listen to his radio show Monday or Tuesday, whenever the hurricane is hitting

[Solly Mack]

11. Oh, no! Someone has the Ice Princess!!!

We're all doomed!

Quick! Call Luke and Laura!

Idiot and idiots.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

12. I call him Gush Limburger...

The smell comes right through your radio speaker.

Like me, he's also a big fan of Al Franken!

[Warren DeMontague]

14. George Soros is busing in people with giant fans to simulate 200 mph wind gusts

[jmowreader]

15. They started a week ago

I don't recommend you watch this, but here's one:

Let me tell you about "Dr. Druanna Johnston." (AKA Druanna Wails, Fawn Cheri Mercado, Raven Shadow Moonstone - yes, really!) First, she's no doctor, at least not officially. She is a sovereign citizen who promotes total bullshit like redemption theory. Redemption theory is a scam invented by white supremacist Roger Elvick in the 1980s. It claims the government created a secret account when you were born, the account has a lot of money in it (Elvick claimed it had $630,000; some of these charlatans are claiming hundreds of millions and others billions) and if you use just the right combination of forms in exactly the right sequence and time between them, you can have all that money for your very own. Well...Druanna's use of this nonexistent account has caused no end of trouble; she's currently on the run from the authorities because not only does the IRS want her ass, everyone who ever loaned her money is looking for her. Anyway, she has a few thousand people who worship the ground she walks on, and she's convinced all of them these hurricanes are artificially generated as a way to put the country under martial law.

[malaise]

16. What about the reality from the islands - massive destruction and death

Is he that fucking stupid? Don't answer

[TheBlackAdder]

19. They faked the moon landing. Has anyone seen the islands? If they confirm, they're "deep state." ;-)

[malaise]

21. ROFL

You know the worst part of their shtick is that they enrich themselves while promoting ignorance and superstition

[Trumpocalypse]

18. Damn, he found out about Al Gore's weather control machine nt

[Mr. Ected]

20. My Lord, both FOX and Alex Jones have ADMITTED in court to being "entertainment", not news

And yet their audiences continue to accept their cruel fantasies as veritable truths?

When people have to defy logic to support their beliefs, they are sick. Literally sick. Mentally ill.

[Javaman]

22. if only we had real mental health treatment and programs in this nation. nt

[spanone]

23. do we need anymore proof that these assholes are completely out of their minds?

and dangerous as hell?