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Brainstormy

(2,543 posts)
Mon Jan 6, 2014, 07:28 PM Jan 2014

Rush Limbaugh slams polar vortex ‘hoax’ [View all]

Here we go again:

Rush Limbaugh on Monday accused the media and liberals of creating the polar vortex to “lie” to the public about the “hoax” of climate change and global warming.

The conservative radio host told his listeners that “the left, the media, everybody” came up with “this phrase called the ‘polar vortex’” to connect the current cold weather conditions around the country to “the global warming agenda.”
“We are having a record-breaking cold snap in many parts of the country,” he said, according to a transcript. “And right on schedule the media have to come up with a way to make it sound like it’s completely unprecedented. Because they’ve got to find a way to attach this to the global warming agenda, and they have. It’s called the ‘polar vortex.’ The dreaded polar vortex.”

Limbaugh said liberals are “in the middle of a hoax, they’re perpetrating a hoax, but they’re relying on their total dominance of the media to lie to you each and every day about climate change and global warming.”

“So they created the polar vortex, and the polar vortex, something’s happened, and that cold air which normally stays is in the North Pole, something’s happening, something deeply mysterious and perhaps tragic is happening,” Limbaugh said.

The weather system “actually sounds like a crappy science fiction movie to me,” according to the radio host.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/rush-limbaugh-global-warming-polar-vortex-hoax-101792.html#ixzz2pfEIpCaY





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Limbaugh then went on to call Mother Nature a "slut" later in the broadcast. Vinnie From Indy Jan 2014 #1
and as everyone knows..... whistler162 Jan 2014 #24
Rush slams some more oxy. n/t PowerToThePeople Jan 2014 #2
What a crappy science fiction movie. SolutionisSolidarity Jan 2014 #3
What an idiot. "Polar vortex" is an established meteorological term. The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2014 #4
What I want to understand is what is the difference/connection between the vortex Common Sense Party Jan 2014 #7
Some info here: The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2014 #8
Thanks. There's some good info. Common Sense Party Jan 2014 #11
A nice youtube explaining the jet stream.... Viking12 Jan 2014 #19
Remember how it was a liberal conspiracy that a Batman villain was named "Bane"? JHB Jan 2014 #18
Ah, anti-intellectualism at its 'finest'... PCIntern Jan 2014 #5
+ this pscot Jan 2014 #59
A guy who makes shit up will often accuse others of doing the same. Morning Dew Jan 2014 #6
He described himself: babylonsister Jan 2014 #9
i can't wait for this asshole to be swept away by a tsunami as he screams into his unplugged mic spanone Jan 2014 #16
Same reversal technique as McCain is using on Iraq: freshwest Jan 2014 #22
Hey, Rush!! Get your fat ass up her to Minnesota and we can teach you about your "Hoax" Thor_MN Jan 2014 #10
I'll give the triple dog dare sarisataka Jan 2014 #26
That is a slight breach of etiquette by skipping the triple dare and going right for the throat! Thor_MN Jan 2014 #36
Here is what this polar vortex looks like on a temperature anomaly map Quixote1818 Jan 2014 #12
Thanks, this is a keeper nadinbrzezinski Jan 2014 #13
And here's what it looks like here on Lake Michigan frazzled Jan 2014 #20
are you a little paranoid ru$h? maybe just a little? spanone Jan 2014 #14
Three days before the day after tomorrow? Initech Jan 2014 #15
So let him do an outside broadcast malaise Jan 2014 #17
he'd never feel the cold NightWatcher Jan 2014 #21
ROFL malaise Jan 2014 #23
He can shovel my driveway, we're at a balmy -14 right now. Barack_America Jan 2014 #37
It seems like your polar vortex Blue_In_AK Jan 2014 #25
confused... politicman Jan 2014 #27
So Obvious, It's Comical ProfessorGAC Jan 2014 #57
Ya ever seen blubber instantly flash-frozen, Ru$h? Blue Owl Jan 2014 #28
He can come to Johnstown, Pennsylvania.... PennsylvaniaMatt Jan 2014 #29
Would someone please 2naSalit Jan 2014 #30
Well, Limbaugh promised to leave the country at some point this year, so there is that; A HERETIC I AM Jan 2014 #31
What a stupid madokie Jan 2014 #32
Somehow, some people actually believe LiberalElite Jan 2014 #33
The only hoax he needs to slam is himself SummerSnow Jan 2014 #34
Pigboy just made that up knowing his enraged followers Kingofalldems Jan 2014 #35
And if the shit ever really hits the fan he will cry "hey I'm just an entertainer" Drew Richards Jan 2014 #38
Well, he is. Mariana Jan 2014 #47
What a fucking asswipe. AverageJoe90 Jan 2014 #39
The dumbass doesn't know you can have a blizzard Mariana Jan 2014 #49
How in the Hell could we liberals do all this when we're too busy arguing about woo? icymist Jan 2014 #40
Rediculous tlw3 Jan 2014 #41
I was just thinking "I wonder what a college dropout disc jockey thinks about climate change?" DefenseLawyer Jan 2014 #42
In the right wing vortex tortie Jan 2014 #54
Ever the moron, Limbaugh fails once again MineralMan Jan 2014 #43
Not one report I've heard MissMillie Jan 2014 #44
He's got shit for brains. City Lights Jan 2014 #45
If it's a hoax it's a pretty persistent one -- since 1853. Kablooie Jan 2014 #46
More proof that the media is LIBERAL, right Rush? B Calm Jan 2014 #48
We can all see why he doesn't seem to care, BobUp Jan 2014 #50
Al Roker just told rush to STFU!! tavernier Jan 2014 #51
Al Roker on the Today Show quoted 1959 textbook on this type of weather Gothmog Jan 2014 #52
sounds like limpballs is running out of material... madrchsod Jan 2014 #53
That's why a lot of ditto heads have quit listening to him. B Calm Jan 2014 #55
It is amazing how that piece of shit still has any type of audience! Rex Jan 2014 #56
You know, sometimes things are true even when you don't believe them. nyquil_man Jan 2014 #58
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