Limbaugh & Co. make fools of themselves again
October 26th, 2009 by John Grooms in Boomer with an Attitude
Conservative extremists of the Fox/Limbaugh persuasion hate Barack Obama so much, they’ll apparently believe anything, and everything, negative about the President that’s thrown their way. If it’s not supposed connections with terrorists, it’s a missing birth certificate, and so on. On Friday, Mighty Rush himself, along with the FoxNation Web site and all its little imitator rightwing Web sites, made fools of themselves – there’s no other way to say it – by pushing another anti-Obama fairy tale. The story was about a supposed thesis Obama wrote while at Harvard, in which he praised “the distribution of wealth” and other conservative bugaboos. Limbaugh and ultra-conservative bloggers pounced on the story, which originated at the Jumping in Pools blog, written by one Matthew Avitabile. Here’s the priceless part: at the bottom of the Jumping in Pools blog post, is a clearly marked “satire” tag. As the author of the satire, Avitabile told Media Matters, “Out of the 50,000 people who looked at it, only three had the good sense to contact me and see if it was true.” Needless to say, FoxNation and Limbaugh were not among those three. Also needless to say, neither Fox nor Rush have apologized for reporting the satire as truth. Does anyone else remember when conservatives were champions of “responsibility”?
October 26th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
If this is what I am thinking it is, all of this is nothing new. From what I heard was in the paper has already been mostly said by Obama in real life on NPR.
I guess this is why Grooms does not repeat what was in the paper since it is all true but from sources other than the so called satire paper.
This could also be why there was no need for an apology. How do you apologize for something that is true but was gleaned from an invalid source.
October 27th, 2009 at 4:35 am
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October 27th, 2009 at 9:17 am
“This could also be why there was no need for an apology. How do you apologize for something that is true but was gleaned from an invalid source?”
Limbaugh won’t even retract his story. He now says it’s true because “I know Obama thinks it.”
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200910230019
Compare this to some unsourced Limbaugh quotes (Lumbaugh has denied making them) that turned up in Media Matters report. MM corrected and updated their stories, but that isn’t enough for Limbaugh and his media allies.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/200910240002
October 27th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
So Rusky gets punked because he does not fact check? Wow, what a surprised.
Oh, and when contronted that he was punked, he defended himself by saying “we stand by the fabricated quote because we know Obama thinks it anyway”
After so many years of mis-labeling and mis-characterizing others he gets smacked down by the NFL “Not For Limbaugh”. Way to go NFL, Great job!
October 28th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
DUDES! you guys are the ones that have been PUNKED hehe.
“Limbaugh won’t even retract his story. He now says it’s true because “I know Obama thinks it.””
Rush made that comment and then said because that is what Dan Rather would do so why couldnt he. You guys really need a non-biased source for your news or you will continue to get punked by Rush. He said Media Matters and other such organizations would probably take what he was saying out of context and of course they did and of course people like Tharri and Montana followed like the little lemmings.