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Rush and Wiki - 9/19/2010 8:14:56 AM   
flcouple2009


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After his references to Wiki as unprofessional and his thoughts on Wiki in no way being a credible source, why would Rush suddenly decide quoting Wiki was a good thing?

http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/09/16/5121889-wikipedia-whammy-rush-limbaugh-forgets-to-follow-his-own-advice

Judge Clyde Roger Vinson is an avid hunter. He's an amateur taxidermist. Do you know what a taxidermist is? That's right. For our liberal caller today, this would not be good news. A taxidermist stuffs dead game...After a 2002 hunting trip during which he killed three brown bears, Vinson had their heads mounted over the door through which defendants must pass to enter the courtroom. At the time Vinson said the sight of the severed bear heads would 'instill the fear of God' into the accused."

Sadly not a word of it was true.  Someone logged into Wiki and made it all up.  One would think since Rush had his own death inserted into Wiki he knows better.

It appears neither Rush or his well trained staff noticed the date listed for the newspaper article referenced as the source, June 31, 2003.  I guess in 2003 on the right wing calendar June actually had 31 days. 

Are Rush and his staff to dumb to pick up the phone and actually check a fact or just lazy?  Why do so many of the right wing talkers seem to have issues with simple task such as fact checking? 

Here is another link for Sanity before he starts screaming how this one was from MSNBC.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100916/cm_yblog_upshot/rush-limbaugh-falls-for-wikipedia-hoax
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RE: Rush and Wiki - 9/19/2010 8:19:28 AM   
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Status: offline 		To be fair, I do not think fact checking was ever a high priority for Mr Limbaugh or his staff.... you have listened to his lies and misrepresentations over the years, right?

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RE: Rush and Wiki - 9/19/2010 8:33:16 AM   
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before the last election over here, somebody was replacing the bios for BNP candidates with cut and pasted entries for gay porno actors. Childish, but very funny...

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RE: Rush and Wiki - 9/19/2010 8:50:50 AM   
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Status: offline 		Rush is a viewpoint.  Facts optional.  As long as his listeners don't hold him to a standard of truth, he won't care.

Just think of him as an entertainer.


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RE: Rush and Wiki - 9/19/2010 8:53:24 AM   
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Rush is a viewpoint.  Facts optional.  As long as his listeners don't hold him to a standard of truth, he won't care.

Just think of him as an entertainer.



Umm, Steven, he is just an entertainer. Now I personally have never found him entertaining, but I do enjoy watching the ones on the left foam at the mouth every time he speaks.


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RE: Rush and Wiki - 9/19/2010 9:02:50 AM   
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I understand perfectly.  Rush is about making Rush money.  If the facts get in the way they're not needed.

My problem is that this sloppy fact checking and in some cases just making up what you wish  happens over and over with many of the right wing "entertainers".  The problem being that their audiences take everything they say as gospel. Then they run around spreading the misinformation and using it to base their choices on.



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RE: Rush and Wiki - 9/19/2010 9:04:58 AM   
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RE: Rush and Wiki - 9/19/2010 9:20:12 AM   
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Yeah, I am surprised he even bothered to use wiki as a source.. he usually doesn't bother with things like "sources"
Far-right wingnuts don't need sources - they have opinions.


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RE: Rush and Wiki - 9/19/2010 2:49:24 PM   
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RE: Rush and Wiki - 9/19/2010 3:19:55 PM   
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that's just sad.

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RE: Rush and Wiki - 9/19/2010 3:26:23 PM   
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RE: Rush and Wiki - 9/19/2010 3:28:30 PM   
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57 states!!!!




I don't get this post... perhaps I am a little slow today

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RE: Rush and Wiki - 9/19/2010 3:35:02 PM   
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Status: offline 		Well, an important democrat Politician once refered to there being 57 states.

I mean what could be stupider than that. Not noticing 31 days in June, compared to 57 states.

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RE: Rush and Wiki - 9/19/2010 3:42:05 PM   
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Status: offline 		I do not know the context under which that was said, and I could see the analogy working if you were posting about it on a Bushism thread... but comparing someone misspeaking to doing lousy research is not really a good analogy. It might be if the politician read that there were 57 states on wikipedia and parroted that, then it would be relevant

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RE: Rush and Wiki - 9/19/2010 3:43:59 PM   
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57 states!!!!


Well since eventually Puerto Rico will make 51 and Iraq an Afghanistan are virtually 52 and 53 we're almost there.

I am sure on the map Dick left at the White House Iran and North Korea make up 54 and 55.  Since everyone said Blair was a bitch of Bush we can assume the British make number 56.

Want to guess what might be number 57?  I am sure Obama had just looked at Dick's old map and was confused for awhile.

Now what does any of this have to do with the talking heads on the right refusing to check any facts?

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RE: Rush and Wiki - 9/19/2010 3:44:02 PM   
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You can pretend that if you like


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RE: Rush and Wiki - 9/19/2010 3:47:15 PM   
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Status: offline 		I think it is very telling that so much of the "democrat Response" is to act stupid and make up stuff.

Jon Stewart is the main source of "ideas" for the left. They all seem to wish they were Jon Stewart

Sarcasm is about the only tool they have.

sad fat pasty white folks.

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RE: Rush and Wiki - 9/19/2010 3:49:31 PM   
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Sarcasm is about the only tool they have.


You are the one that posted some irrelevant blurb about "57 states" and then you chastise us on sarcasm....omg, too fucking funny

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RE: Rush and Wiki - 9/19/2010 4:02:52 PM   
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Why advertise it?

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RE: Rush and Wiki - 9/19/2010 4:05:08 PM   
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I think it is very telling that so much of the "democrat Response" is to act stupid and make up stuff.

Jon Stewart is the main source of "ideas" for the left. They all seem to wish they were Jon Stewart

Sarcasm is about the only tool they have.

sad fat pasty white folks.


Yes insults, the realm of those who actually have no answer for anything.

We have hours of the stupid things Bush said so forgive me for groaning a little, rolling my eyes and moving on from the Obama stumble.

Now what has any of this have to do with the "entertainers" on the right and the inability to check facts or just plain make things up. 

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