On his radio show today, Rush Limbaugh mocked President Obama for meeting with George Clooney to discuss the situation in war-torn Sudan. Clooney, Limbaugh said, “apparently has given up on Darfur and is now all concerned about Sudan.”

Limbaugh's mockery is completely nonsensical: Darfur is a region within Sudan.

As Michael Muskal noted in an October 13 Los Angeles Times article, the leadership in Sudan has been accused of war crimes connected to the fighting in Darfur:

George Clooney on Tuesday did what only George Clooney can do -- use his status as a world-renowned celebrity to bring attention to the ongoing crisis in the African country of Sudan, located in a part of the world that most Americans simply ignore.

Depending on one's politics, there has been an ongoing civil war or rebellion in western Sudan's Darfur region since 2003 that has created one of the world's seemingly unsolvable humanitarian and diplomatic crisis. There is no agreement on the numbers, but most independent agencies put the death toll at around 300,000 people and 2.7 million people forced to flee their homes in the battle between Arab militias, backed by the central government, and black Christian and animist Africans.

Sudan's president, Omar Bashir, has been accused of war crimes in connection with the Darfur situation.

Later in his show, Limbaugh explained that he knew he was incorrect when he made this statement, but -- for reasons that remain a mystery -- he “decided to stick with it.” Rush proudly informed his audience that, contrary to the prediction of a staffer, he had not received a single email correcting his goof.

This is not the first time Limbaugh has had trouble keeping his facts straight in his rush to smear. On the August 16 edition of his show, he likened placing a proposed Islamic center in Manhattan to building a Hindu temple next to Pearl Harbor. He later corrected himself, saying that he meant to say Shinto shrine, rather than Hindu temple.