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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Sep 11, 2017, 04:29 PM Sep 2017

Limbaugh slams media 'lies and misstatements' over Irma

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

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Limbaugh slams media 'lies and misstatements' over Irma (Original Post) DonViejo Sep 2017 OP
He's such a MontanaMama Sep 2017 #1
Bwahahahaaaa ....you are wrong everyday of your life you fuckwad spanone Sep 2017 #2
pigboy is squealing again Angry Dragon Sep 2017 #3
I'll never forgive Elton John for performing at Limbaugh's wedding left-of-center2012 Sep 2017 #4
If Cuba had not been savaged for so long... kentuck Sep 2017 #5
Boo Hoo Gothmog Sep 2017 #6
Snowflake. ismnotwasm Sep 2017 #7
Seems like just this morning (West Coast) I heard him telling a lie... oh yeah, it was. Shrike47 Sep 2017 #8
I knew this was going to happen JonLP24 Sep 2017 #9
He probably recorded it last week eleny Sep 2017 #10
He said it was being hyped to advance a Climate Change Agenda maxsolomon Sep 2017 #11
Hurricane Irma wrecks Sir Richard Branson's Necker Island home hunter Sep 2017 #12

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
4. I'll never forgive Elton John for performing at Limbaugh's wedding
Mon Sep 11, 2017, 05:28 PM
Sep 2017

Did he really need that million dollars Limbaugh paid him?

Shrike47

(6,913 posts)
8. Seems like just this morning (West Coast) I heard him telling a lie... oh yeah, it was.
Mon Sep 11, 2017, 06:27 PM
Sep 2017

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?

maxsolomon

(33,338 posts)
11. He said it was being hyped to advance a Climate Change Agenda
Mon Sep 11, 2017, 06:34 PM
Sep 2017

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)
12. Hurricane Irma wrecks Sir Richard Branson's Necker Island home
Mon Sep 11, 2017, 06:44 PM
Sep 2017

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.

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