Almost every left wing freak out about Rush Limbaugh follows the same pattern. A lefty who doesn’t listen to Limbaugh falsely reports that Limbaugh said something objectionable and then a bunch of lefty drones who also don’t listen to Limbaugh go into outrage mode without ever verifying if what they’re outraged about actually, you know, happened.
Today, Rush Limbaugh answered a caller’s question about whether there were any political aspects to the way in which the media is covering the death of comedian Robin Williams. Rush gave an answer about how he thought the media’s (predominantly left wing) political worldview was influencing the coverage of the story.
So naturally the highly nuanced intellectual elites on the left are reporting that Limbaugh said that Williams committed suicide because of his left leaning political views. They even appear to have some conservatives believing the fabricated story.
Some weapons grade idiocy here http://t.co/CvE45XjdIH
— olliander (@ollieblog) August 12, 2014
https://twitter.com/Matthops82/status/499301875674382336
https://twitter.com/FilmLadd/status/499301101385285632
https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/499300558856265730
But the left is never slow to engage in full throated idiocy when they see an opportunity to score some points against a conservative.
Rush Limbaugh Links Robin Williams' Death To 'Leftist Worldview' @TPM http://t.co/3bQaIF4yYe
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) August 12, 2014
Rush Limbaugh Blames 'Never Happy Political Leftist' Attitude For Robin Williams Suicide http://t.co/kvYmqeOzU9 #p2 #topprog #DEM #noh8 #GOP
— David Badash (@davidbadash) August 12, 2014
https://twitter.com/michaeloharas18/status/499294371964268544
Good Lord. Rush Limbaugh, the angriest guy in radio, links Robin Williams' death to liberals' "angry" worldview. http://t.co/r8wgBwD4oJ
— Eric Deggans at NPR (@Deggans) August 12, 2014
Angriest? Clearly not a listener. (Have you ever heard of Ed Schultz?)
As always it’s not a left wing propaganda operation unless Media Matters chimes in.
Rush Limbaugh exploits Robin Williams' death to attack "political leftists" http://t.co/6KqClpLaHP pic.twitter.com/hBcyOECoba
— Media Matters (@mmfa) August 12, 2014
Remember. “Nuanced.”
https://twitter.com/BenHowe/status/499308586393419776
@BenHowe Rush is always taken out of context. When is the left ever truthful.
— Itsallgood, man (@recoveringlibrl) August 12, 2014
https://twitter.com/rodeoamy/status/499309582926090240
In the case of the people who spread this stuff on social media, it’s probably the former. It may not be a lack of capacity so much as an unwillingness to exercise that capacity. With the bloggers who write this nonsense, it is almost definitely the latter.
https://twitter.com/BenHowe/status/499307082571841536
Read the Rush Limbaugh transcript and not the link-bait. http://t.co/i7sLhizPbV
— Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) August 12, 2014
So I just went back & read @rushlimbaugh's transcript from today. Thought I missed something. Turns out no…MM is just lying per usual.
— Princess Consuela Banana-Hammock (@kimmie_c_) August 12, 2014
https://twitter.com/nochiefs/status/499324869427732480
Same stuff, different day.
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