In a recent broadcast, Rush Limbaugh actively sought to downplay the potential impact of Hurricane Irma saying:
“These storms, once they actually hit, are never as strong as they're reported. The graphics have been created to make it look like the ocean's having an exorcism, just getting rid of the devil here in the form of this hurricane, this bright red stuff.”
Limbaugh justifies his assertion using the following conspiracy theory:
There is symbiotic relationship between retailers and local media, and it’s related to money. It revolves around money. You have major, major industries and businesses which prosper during times of crisis and panic, such as a hurricane, which could destroy or greatly damage people’s homes, and it could interrupt the flow of water and electricity. So what happens?
Well, the TV stations begin reporting this and the panic begins to increase. And then people end up going to various stores to stock up on water and whatever they might need for home repairs and batteries and all this that they’re advised to get, and a vicious circle is created. You have these various retail outlets who spend a lot of advertising dollars with the local media.
The local media, in turn, reports in such a way as to create the panic way far out, which sends people into these stores to fill up with water and to fill up with batteries, and it becomes a never-ending repeated cycle. And the two coexist. So the media benefits with the panic with increased eyeballs, and the retailers benefit from the panic with increased sales, and the TV companies benefit because they’re getting advertising dollars from the businesses that are seeing all this attention from customers.
WTH? Has Rush been having an affair with Kellyanne "Alternative Facts" Conway? Just how absurd can one be? Let me ask you:
- If you lived in Key West or another "mainland" U.S. locale and the authorities instruct you to evacuate, why do you need batteries, and water, and so on? Does your idea of "evacuate" mean leaving the locale where you are and that the hurricane will strike, and going to a different locale where it will hit?
- Do you truly believe that anyone buys advertising expressly to boost sales in anticipation/expectation of a disaster's arrival? What business have you seen advertise itself or its offerings with a message themed around the idea of "hurry to our store to buy 'this and that' because 'such and such' a natural disaster is coming our way?"
Seriously? Do people actually ascribe to madness like what Rush put forth about the hurricane? If so, how have those people managed to avoid being committed to insane asylums?
Well isn't that the right wing down to a tee. Anything that's inconvenient they pass off as "fake news"
No...We don't live in your hall of mirrors and parrots where you are constantly told, how and what to think. We realize there are other points of view....You should try it sometime instead of repeating stupid lefty-liberal memes 24/7.
Nice deflection, but you're wrong.
Let's try again. Many people on the right shout "fake news" when things are inconvenient. This guy is a perfect example.
“These storms, once they actually hit, are never as strong as they're reported."
Let's try this one. True or false?
Well Hurricane Harvey is the most recent example.
Hurricane Harvey could be major storm, threatening one-third of US refining capacity
Here's NBC, one of the hated media outlest on the 23rd August 2017.
"Hurricane Harvey is heading toward the Gulf Coast and could become a major Category 3 hurricane by Friday."
Could be a Category 3 hurricane. Oh, did their prediction become less strong than they reported? No.
Harvey Sends Gasoline Surging as Texas Refineries Shut Down
Bloomberg said: "Hurricane Harvey, set to become the worst storm to strike Texas in more than a decade, wreaking havoc upon the heart of America’s energy sector,", well that's just what happened
"If Harvey makes landfall as a Category 3 -- with winds of at least 111 miles -- it’ll be the strongest storm to hit the U.S. since Wilma in 2005."
And predicting a Category 3 Hurricane. Less than it actually was.
So, Rush Limbaugh was wrong about that one.
He said "The graphics have been created to make it look like the ocean's having an exorcism, just getting rid of the devil here in the form of this hurricane, this bright red stuff.”
Well, you can't really argue against something that is just emotional.
But I can try.
Was this image created to make it look like the oceans are having an exorcism? No. Then again they're not graphics. This is an actual shot of the hurricane.
Soon-To-Be Tropical Storm Could Bring 15 Inches of Rain to Parts of Texas Coast
Oh, so they use colors, does this therefore make it look like an exorcism? No idea. Again, it's emotional religious claptrap that he's talking, to me it just looks like they use colors for rainfall.
He said: "Well, the TV stations begin reporting this and the panic begins to increase.", should there not be panic about a hurrican that killed 71 people? How many people might have died had there not been any reporting about how bad the hurricane could be?
Now, seeing as his claim that they report it worse than it actually is, is complete bullshit, therefore his next claim is based on bullshit too.
So, you think I'm just accepting what I've been told. Whereas you are enlightened and you look at all the facts first before coming to a conclusion. Only, I'm the one that knew they reported it would be a Category 3 storm, and it became a Category 4 storm, and you're the one telling me that I'm some kind of sheep for seeing the reality.
