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BY JOE CONCHA - 09/11/17 01:49 PM EDT
Nationally syndicated radio host Rush Limbaugh slammed the media for what he called its "lies and misstatements" over his comments about there being "no reason to panic" in Florida over Hurricane Irma last week.
"I'm going through one of the greatest smears of my career," said Limbaugh to kick off his program on Monday. "This is all over the place that I told people there's no storm. That I told people you don't have to run away from Florida. You don't have to evacuate because I said the storm wasn't coming. I did not say that. I didn't say the storm is not big. I didn't say the storm was going somewhere else. (The media) did.
"There isn't a thing I said about this that anybody can prove that I was wrong about," the best-selling author added.
Limbaugh showed long-range forecasts from 7-10 days ago that showed some possible storm tracks putting Irma further out in the Atlantic before hitting South Carolina or North Carolina and not Florida.
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http://thehill.com/homenews/media/350089-limbaugh-slams-media-lies-and-misstatements-over-irma
MontanaMama
(23,314 posts)fucking man-baby.
spanone
(135,831 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Did he really need that million dollars Limbaugh paid him?
kentuck
(111,094 posts)it could have been much, much worse for Mr Limbaugh.
Gothmog
(145,218 posts)limbaugh was accurately quoted and is upset that he is being called out for his quotes
ismnotwasm
(41,978 posts)Shrike47
(6,913 posts)He informed us most electricity is generated by coal power so using an electric car is not environmentally friendly. Wrong. Coal power generates 30 percent of our electricity and the percentage is steadily dropping.
Then he observed that due to power outages in Florida, electric usage for the state will naturally be reduced. He said that Florida can be used as a test of whether cutting emissions curtails global warming by seeing if hurricane Jose doesn't hit the state due to the reduced energy use.
Do his fans really think global climate change works like that? Is he, are they, really that stupid?
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)Fuck Limbaugh.
eleny
(46,166 posts)maxsolomon
(33,338 posts)which is a smear in itself, but it wasn't saying "don't evacuate".
remember, the Left must be 100% accurate, 100% non-hyperbolic, and 100% non-violent, or it's 100% illegitimate.
hunter
(38,311 posts)Sir Richard Branson says please don't pay any attention to me, there are so many people who have lost everything...
He said the "story is about the tens of thousands of people who have lost their homes and their livelihoods".
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-41224243
Then there's boils on ass... like Trump, it's always about himself.