Ruch Limbaugh Got Fooled Again
On Friday, it seemed for a moment -- at least to Rush Limbaugh's listeners -- that the right had finally found the smoking gun to prove that President Obama secretly hates the U.S., its founders and even the Constitution.
Limbaugh read his radio audience an excerpt from what he said was Obama's senior thesis, which he wrote while at Columbia University. After more than a year shrouded in secrecy by the Obama campaign and a compliant media, the thesis had finally emerged, and it was even worse than some had feared.
The excerpt read by Limbaugh:
[T]he Constitution allows for many things, but what it does not allow is the most revealing. The so-called Founders did not allow for economic freedom. While political freedom is supposedly a cornerstone of the document, the distribution of wealth is not even mentioned. While many believed that the new Constitution gave them liberty, it instead fitted them with the shackles of hypocrisy.
Limbaugh was, naturally, up in arms about this, calling the college-aged Obama a "little boy," and saying, "he still shares those same feelings."
Only not so much. As a bit of basic research would have shown Limbaugh, Obama didn't technically write a thesis at Columbia -- at the time, Columbia didn't really have senior theses -- though he did write a thesis-length paper. But it was on Soviet nuclear disarmament, not the Constitution.
Limbaugh and many others -- including Fox News' FoxNation.com -- fell for a hoax, believing that a post put up by a conservative blogger in August as satire was the truth. Apparently, Pajamas Media's Michael Ledeen was the conduit, as he dug it up and posted it earlier this week, apparently believing it to be true. (Not the first time Ledeen and Pajamas Media have been embarrassed by something he posted -- back in January of 2007, he reported that Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had died. Khamenei remains alive to this day.) Again, a bit of basic research would have prevented all this, as this isn't the first time conservatives have treated this particular blogger's satire as if it were true.
Limbaugh noted later on in his show that it seemed the excerpts were fake, though he said he didn't care, both because of a series of quotes falsely attributed to him recently and because, "I know Obama thinks it."
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2009/10/23/obama_thesis/index.html
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Rush fell for a farce
and was spoofed.
Thanks for writing about my guy !!
This is so typical of these
This is so typical of these extreme right wing nuts. They go for anything that even remotely sounds bad or may make our president look bad. They are so anxious to harm this man that they don’t even check things out to see if they are true or not. He was elated to have such a “gift” from above that he couldn’t wait to rant about it. Then even after he was told that it was a ruse, he still couldn’t bring himself to say he was sorry for spreading false information. He went ahead and tried to justify it. Now that’s a class act.
I have always tried to understand why there are people who are “Ditto heads”. How could anyone allow someone else to think and speak for them? Are they incapable of thinking for themselves? Are they not able to state their own opinion and need to have a drug addict do their talking for them?
It seems to me if I were ever going to let someone else speak for me, which has never been the case and never will be the case, it would not be some drug addict, that’s for sure.
Charlie Lockett
Unlike Dan Rather, Rush apologised the same hour that he found
IDPNC, I have been awake for
IDPNC, I have been awake for a long time. I don’t know if you are a “Ditto head” or not, and I did not say you were, are you drawing conclusions that aren’t there? If you would listen to Boss Limbaugh you would notice that he did not apologize for what he said, he spent a great deal of time justifying how even if it was false “we know how he thinks”.
Charlie Lockett
Thanks Charlie, But I always hear everything Rush is saying
IDPNC
I did listen to that broadcast. I do listen to those guys every once in a while, I like to see how that drug fried brain of his is thinking up crazy things to say and wha they are.
Charlie Lockett