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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTo dispel any lingering doubt that Rush is completely unhinged, today he claimed this...
On his radio show today, Rush Limbaugh suggested that the government manipulated hurricane forecasts in order to force Republicans to cancel a day of their national convention, saying the model allows them to do it.
The hurricane center is the regime; the hurricane center is the Commerce Department. Its the government. Its Obama, Limbaugh said.
~snip~
Limbaugh communicated his absurd theory on this imaginary scheme while simultaneously claiming Im not alleging conspiracy.
His latest conspiracy theory matches the absurdity of his claim from last July, when he said the heat index was manufactured by the government in order to convince the American people that its hotter outside.
http://grist.org/politics/rush-limbaugh-says-obama-manipulated-hurricane-forecasts-to-delay-gop-convention/
Lex
(34,108 posts)He's really got some mental health issues. I'm not kidding.
Care Acutely
(1,370 posts)Good people, liberal people, battle mental health challenges every day. We cheapen and demonize their struggles when we explain away the antics of malfecient charlatans as mental health issues.
Lex
(34,108 posts)And be careful not to fall off your high horse.
Care Acutely
(1,370 posts)But I'm actually much more concerned about the stigma dumped upon what is perhaps the most marginalized and vulnerable population among us.
Lex
(34,108 posts)But please don't pretend to have a corner on the market for being "concerned."
Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)Remember, not even once.
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)Seriously, it makes me wonder how anyone can say they regularly
listen to his program without feeling a sense of embarrassment.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)Booster
(10,021 posts)JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)Showed him to be the clueless, classless asshole he really is. Anyone who listens to that shit should be horse whipped. Metaphorically that is
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)I'll bet that they are trying really really hard but there just aren't enough of them left to string together a coherent, rational thought.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)it would have just been even worse than it was
pacalo
(24,721 posts)such an act of mercy.
aletier_v
(1,773 posts)Tigress DEM
(7,887 posts)nolabear
(41,991 posts)There's nothing so interesting as a punk who thinks he's the one running the show. He might be making a lot of money, but that does not mean he's anything more than the main attraction in PT Barnum's show. Who's Barnum? Whomever hired him and keeps him going and makes money off of him. And as far as I can tell that is an ever dwindling crop of money men.
Rush is gone. He just doesn't know it yet.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)He has to continually come up with ever more outrageous statements to keep his audience.
Beartracks
(12,821 posts)Just askin'.
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ToxMarz
(2,169 posts)Can't you imagine she is appalled he hasn't just dropped dead yet. Interesting to see how long she will hang in for a BIG payday or cut her losses and run.
Suji to Seoul
(2,035 posts)DiverDave
(4,886 posts)thanks for the laugh.
left on green only
(1,484 posts)After a while, he runs out of ideas and must regress from the sublime to the ridicules.
For all I know he could even be a closet democrat on the sly.
sorefeet
(1,241 posts)He is done. They won't offer 50 million a year again and he won't take less. Bain owns clear channel and they will go under just like all the other Romney/Bain ventures. We are almost done with Limbaugh.
ThomThom
(1,486 posts)no you can't
flyguyjake
(492 posts)racist bigot is still on the air. I don't think there's a more disgusting American than cRush Limpbrow.
johnlucas
(1,250 posts)Somebody who listens to his show who thinks or says out loud "OK man let's bring it down a notch. This is silly."
Somebody? Anybody?
I hope somebody doesn't really buy into all this bull this man says.
At least one sign of resistance I hope.
John Lucas
Blue Owl
(50,489 posts)get the red out
(13,468 posts)They'd never be on air again.
rurallib
(62,444 posts)Initech
(100,099 posts)If I were Clear Channel I would be looking for the cop out in that ridiculous contract they signed with him.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)tribute to P. T. Barnum sans imagination, was tired and done a decade ago. He sheds sponsors like a leper sloughs body parts, hasn't been right since most of his audience started collecting their Social Security checks, and now performs daily as a parody of himself.
Why bother?
bluesbassman
(19,379 posts)(well schooling actually ) and his talking ponts are straight out of Rush and Beck's playbook. The weird thing is how he takes himself so serious and how SURE he is of his info. When I call him on the lies with a fact, his only response is; "where'd you get that, on Google?" Uh, yeah as a matter of fact I did.
Ms. Toad
(34,086 posts)The date is to the left of the article near the top (Aug 27).
He's still living in a fantasy world, it is the world 2 weeks ago (when they didn't yet know where the hurricane was going to go).