Irony alert: Limbaugh spreads fabricated quotes. Or, paging Newsbusters

Mr. Graham, if you had bothered to read the newspaper article containing the slavery quote, you would have noticed that Mr. Burwell did indeed have a good point, and had you followed the link, that he had indeed written a fair article.

One quote, referencing a book that was apparently not properly sourced, more or less does not detract from the point that Mr. Limbaugh is guilty of race-baiting. This was not even the quote most often heard from those who objected to Mr. Limbaugh's potential stake in an NFL franchise, so your point is off topic and moot.

MMfA did not claim Mr. Limbaugh made the comment currently called 'the slavery quote'. They did post an article from a media source that contained, along with updates from that paper's editorial staff. They posted it because, at that time, the media were falling all over themselves trying to deny that Mr. Limbaugh had any history of bringing race into it, and this was clearly very much not true. He is a race-baiter. Period. The NFL rejected him, mostly for his history of vitriol and lies. Period. The Burwell article pointed out, accurately, that having Mr. Limbaugh among their ranks would likely only work to their detriment.

The real question now, as is so appropriately pointed out in the blog post above, is will you call out Mr. Limbaugh, demanding he apologize? You really have just the two choices: Demand he apologize, and exhibit some shred of ethics. Or, let Mr. Limbaugh's lies stand, and shout to the world that you have chosen a side, and no longer practice journalism, but propaganda.

In fact, even after Limbaugh found out the quotes were likely bogus, he kept repeating them on the air.

This was something I pointed out yesterday. I think the reason the story got brought up, then continued to be mentioned, is to cover for Limbaugh's own issues here. He is trying to portray himself as just as much of a victim of inaccurate quotes as Obama is.

Of course, that's a gross distortion of the facts. Obama never wrote this thesis, or has ever said anything like this. There may have been a couple of quotes inaccurately tied to Rush, but there was plenty more that were documented to be his.

Yet another false equivalency argument from someone on the right.

So Lush is supposed to be above those that used "fabricated" quotes against him a couple of weeks back? MMFA now holding him to a higher standard? Curious.

You cover Limbaugh for a living and you still don't get him. He's poking fun at all the people who justified spreading the fabricated quotes about him by saying that the quotes by might false but that they "know Rush thinks it."

Also, people that cited the quotes -- Burwell, CNN's Rick Sanchez, and the Washington Post's Michael Wilbon -- all later followed up by noting that Rush said they were inaccurate and that they would take him at his word. Even that wasn't good enough for the bozos on the right.

I don't know why people bother. Rush says whatever he wants whenever he wants mostly untrue and his worshipers spew it to the world. Those that follow Rush will never change and it is futile to even talk to them.

My sister got mad as Hades when I was talking about Rush and all the drugs (way back when it first came out)...It wasn't true -- the liburls were making it up.... Well when Rush getting caught made the news she has yet to apologize to me for the ruckus she raised and the fit she threw at me.

And she used to be a good Democrat....Rush turned her over.

The mindless minions that listen to Limbaugh are the real problem. Anything that he says becomes gospel to them and is repeated over and over. Most of these people are the simpletons in our society and never learned to think for themselves!

tim graham is a know-nothing square... literally.

look at that box shaped head he's got.

I didn't see that the quote was clearly fabricated. It seemed to go along with many things the president has already stated and the fact that is was from a partially released thesis and given to time magazine it didn't send up any flags. I thought it was about time he released his writings and that the rest of it would expand on that statement. You have to admit we've only been getting piecemeal as far as the direction he wants to take us

The good people at Newsbusters, coincidentally, have deleted an entire post where members had been railing against Obama and cheering Rush for his reading and subsequent comments regarding the false thesis.

Understandably, they'd rather pretend it never happened rather than acknowledge THEY'D jumped the gun, while failing to do their research. Irony indeed.