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Source: Daily Beast
Rush Limbaugh on Tuesday lambasted the drive-by media for covering Hurricane Irmas potential devastation as a means to further its climate-change panic.
His theory, which he shared at length this afternoon on The Rush Limbaugh Show, is that media and retailers are in cahoots to increase viewership and profits. And to hammer home to people that climate change exists.
There is a desire to advance this climate-change agenda, Limbaugh said, and hurricanes are one of the fastest [ways] to do it.
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Limbaugh repeatedly clarified that he is not an actual meteorologist, but he does have his own system of analysis. He has been exactly right since last Friday in his predictions, he claimed.
Read more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/limbaugh-hurricane-irma-coverage-is-liberal-media-plot-to-advance-climate-change-agenda
So, Rush, give us live coverage of Irma from Florida -- we'll see who's the bigger blowhard. And we'll see if you think the warnings and media coverage were really just for the reasons you claimed.
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Editing to add Charles Pierce's reaction:
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