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October 29, 2009 1:52 pm ET
From the October 29 edition of Premiere Radio Network's The Rush Limbaugh Show:
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And?????? What? As if we expect Rush to give a damn about reality? That certainly did not stop him last week claiming that Obama 'thinks' the Constitution is worthless based on an essay the president did not write!
Then again, Rush said it, so it must be true... right??
On Politifact.com recently, they reviewed three false statements from 3 pundits, Rachel Maddow, Bill O'Reilly and Mary Matalin.
But when you review the three false statements, you discover that Rachel was relying upon the statement of someone who said that the NY Times hadn't gotten an interview with President Bush. Her point was that Bush had blocked some access, and the facts are that he blocked access for most of his second term. He didn't block access for his full two terms, but he did block access, and Rachel was misled by another person's comments. When she was informed of that error, she made a correction and an apology on her TV show the very next night!
O'Reilly and Matalin, when contacted, denied that their false statements were false, and they have not corrected their lies (they became lies when they were informed that they weren't true statements but failed to issue corrections) nor will they even admit that they said something that was false and provably false!
This is just another example of how some organizations will correct themselves in order to give citizens of the USA a fair picture of the issues, and others won't. Limbaugh has nothing to crow about here.
What stupidity.
Have you ever been around a pathological liar? In their minds, their lies only become lies when they are caught . . . of course, when they are caught in a lie, the lie is actually the fault of the person who caught the lie, because otherwise it would have been true.
The stupidity is that people like you continue to believe the lies even when they are shown to be lies.
Finally, Rush admits his philosophy on stating what he states--distortions, lies, inuendos, and name-calling. Evidence, facts, good taste--none of these are important.