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Limbaugh claims, "I have not used the word 'death panels,' except in quoting Sarah Palin"

August 17, 2009 3:20 pm ET

From the August 17 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:

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Previously:

Limbaugh defends Palin on "death panels"; Obama wants to control "determinations of who lives and who dies"

Limbaugh: Palin was "dead right" about "death panels"; proposes sending sick to Canada or Cuba for "socialized medicine"

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    • Author by snoopy (August 17, 2009 3:24 pm ET)
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      Wow, took all of 10 minutes from his claim about never telling lies to follow up with yet another lie!
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      • Author by Bronwyn (August 17, 2009 3:32 pm ET)
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        Rush, Beck, Hannity they all do it. Deni saying it when called on a lie and with in minutes defend the lie. Why do their listeners not hear it or care?
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        • Author by historygeek001 (August 17, 2009 3:40 pm ET)
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          Exactly.

          I read that some habitual liars can actually come to believe their own lies. I wonder how much they actually believe themselves when they talk. My own theory is that they stopped caring long ago whether they tell the truth and simply no longer care whether they are flagrantly lying or not. They keep raising the bar in their rhetoric, and to do that they have to like more and more, until now they're screaming that Obama will kill old people and their base actually believes them. They simply don't care whether they are accurate and pay no attention to the facts.
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          • Author by IRONY 101 (August 17, 2009 4:53 pm ET)
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            Limbaugh enjoys the kind of status in right wing loony-land that allows him to say whatever he wants, regardless how baseless and dishonest it may be...and he knows he'll never be held accountable. He and his dumb-head listeners don't care what liberals or the MSM say about him. Limbaugh is an evil man...
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          • Author by Limit Corp. Ownership (August 17, 2009 5:00 pm ET)
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            That's a good point history...

            I've never thought about it quite that way. Professional gasbags like El Fathead may be forced to tell more and more lies (and more incendiary lies) in order to continue to stir the outrage in the moron's who listen to him.

            It's the only way to keep his audience. There is no shortage of dumb-asses here in the good ole' USA.

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    • Author by creeksneakers2 (August 17, 2009 7:31 pm ET)
         
      I don't know if he used the exact words "death panels" but he's been spreading lies about the health care initiative since the start. I can remember him saying that the government would decide that some people should die to save money. He's been saying it for awhile.
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    • Author by JHaggs (August 18, 2009 1:38 am ET)
         
      I think you all missed the bigger point...there's some guy out there that didn't blindly take all the BS from Rush, Fox, etc, and figured out and learned the provision himself. There may be hope for us all yet.
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    • Author by staticnz (August 18, 2009 10:26 am ET)
         
      I had to laugh when I saw 'I have not used the word 'death panels' except in quoting Sarah Palin'...

      ...because if you really look at that statement...he's using the words 'death panels' in a context where it isn't a Sarah Palin quote, so he's directly contradicting himself IN the actual sentence.
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