When Big Fat Idiots Attack

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Mon, 10-06-2008 - 8:09pm
El Rushbo:


Limbaugh monologue contains numerous Obama falsehoods


Summary: On his radio show, Rush Limbaugh made numerous false statements about Obama's health-care plan, his employment history, his legislative record, his work on behalf of veterans, and whether he puts his hand over his heart during the national anthem.









During a monologue in his October 2 broadcast, radio host Rush Limbaugh repeated
numerous falsehoods about Sen. Barack Obama, including false statements about
Obama's health-care
plan, his legislative record, and other issues:



  • Echoing a false attack on Obama's
    health-care plan by Sen.
    John McCain and others, Limbaugh stated, "Obama wants to change the
    American system for another system." He later added: "If
    somebody tells you, for example, they want the federal government to take
    over the health-care system lock, stock, and barrel, what do you call
    that?" In fact, Obama has not proposed having the federal government
    "take over the health-care system"; Obama's plan calls
    for individuals to choose their own insurance. As The New York Times reported in a
    May 3 article, the suggestion that Obama is "proposing a
    single-payer, or even nationalized health care system along the lines of
    those in countries like Canada
    and Britain
    ... is incorrect."



  • Limbaugh asserted that Obama
    "has never held a real job in this country," defining "real
    job" as "one that requires you to get up every morning, go to
    work, make a profit for yourself or for your employer." Limbaugh
    then added: "He has been paid by foundations and the taxpayer most
    of his life to promote a socialist agenda that'll destroy everything
    that you have worked for." In fact, Obama held positions as associate and
    of counsel at the law firm of Miner, Barnhill & Galland
    (known as Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland when Obama joined) from 1993 to 2002.



  • Limbaugh falsely stated that
    Obama "has authored a bill ... that would require you, the
    hardworking people of this country, to pony up $85 billion per year to
    give to other countries to fight global poverty through the United
    Nations," a false claim Limbaugh has made in the past. Limbaugh was
    referring to the Global Poverty Act of 2007,
    a bill sponsored by Obama. However, Limbaugh's assertion that it
    would require Americans to "pony up $85 billion per year" is
    false. As Media Matters for America
    has documented, the bill would
    establish no specific funding sources and would not commit the United States
    to any targeted level of spending.



  • Limbaugh stated: "I would ask those of you who
    have served in the military or are serving in the military, can you name
    anything -- anything Obama has done prior to running for president to show
    his support for you?" He added: "Did he speak to veterans
    groups? Did he do interviews with veteran- and military-related media? Did
    he visit military hospitals and shake hands with the wounded? No."
    In fact, in addition to serving on the Senate Committee on Veterans
    Affairs
    since 2005, as Media Matters has documented, Obama
    has also spoken to veterans groups and visited military bases overseas
    before the start of his presidential campaign. According to an article in
    the Chicago Sun-Times on
    January 22, 2005, Obama visited a group of 500 veterans at the American
    Legion Hall
    in Evergreen Park,
    Illinois. He also visited
    Iraq in January 2006 as part of a congressional delegation, during which
    time a January 8, 2006, Sun-Times
    article reported that "Obama played basketball with soldiers and
    dined with members of the military from Illinois."



  • Limbaugh falsely claimed that
    Obama "didn't start putting his hand over his heart during the
    national anthem until a few months ago." As Media Matters has documented, on October 23,
    2007, Inside Edition
    featured a segment on the
    national anthem "controversy." The segment included two
    photographs of Obama placing his hand over his heart during the national
    anthem, which Inside Edition
    said it received from an Obama spokesman.



  • Limbaugh falsely claimed that
    Obama has not voted to fund troops "on the battlefield,"
    stating: "Did vote to fund the troops? To send them the
    armor and the bullets and the reinforcement they needed while they were on
    the battlefield? No." He added: "He spoke out against it. All
    of it." In fact, as Media Matters
    has documented,
    Obama has
    repeatedly voted to
    provide funds for fighting in Iraq
    and Afghanistan.
    As Washington Post media
    critic Howard Kurtz wrote,
    "Obama has frequently voted to finance the war but was one of 14
    Senate Democrats to oppose a war-funding bill last year -- after
    Republicans removed troop withdrawal deadlines -- saying he did not want
    to be 'validating the same failed policy in Iraq.' "


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Registered: 07-05-2006
Mon, 10-06-2008 - 8:12pm

Does it really surprise you?

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iVillage Member
Registered: 07-03-2008
Mon, 10-06-2008 - 8:15pm
I know I'll catch grief, but I'll say it anyway. If this lard butt blundering liar drops over I won't shed a tear. He is a baffoon and a sick fat cigar smoking worthless (all the names Chevy Chase called his boss in Christmas Vacation) excuse for a human being!
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Registered: 09-25-2008
Mon, 10-06-2008 - 8:46pm

Actually, I caught a bit of ol' Sean Insanity's radio program this afternoon, as well. It was the segment where he had both Scott Rasmussen and John Zogby on....and Hannity sounded positively DEFLATED.

It was most enjoyable. ;o)


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Registered: 07-15-2008
Mon, 10-06-2008 - 8:59pm

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Registered: 07-05-2006
Mon, 10-06-2008 - 9:54pm

I wish that was the part I listened to.

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Registered: 01-28-2004
Mon, 10-06-2008 - 10:35pm

Know what else is watching the polls?? The stock market, Obama numbers go up, more people sell.

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Registered: 09-26-2008
Mon, 10-06-2008 - 10:41pm
Wow -
iVillage Member
Registered: 01-28-2004
Mon, 10-06-2008 - 10:54pm
Going to hell would scare the beejeezus out of me, too!!
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Registered: 02-10-2008
Mon, 10-06-2008 - 10:55pm

I knew that it would be "howl at the moon day" on rightie radio and tuned in. Usually I just get annoyed. Today Hannity had me cracking up, and Limbaugh

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Registered: 09-26-2008
Mon, 10-06-2008 - 10:59pm
I'm not afraid of going to hell for not supporting the rapture candidates McCain/Palin....

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