Rush Limbaugh ....Hurricane Denier

[Cellblock2429]

I hope the hurricane hits Rush's place hard enough to knock all the pictures of himself off the walls.

/----/ When you were mowing Rush's lawn did you peek in the window and see those photos hanging on the wall or was it when you were delivering the pizza?

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

I realize that we now exist in a time in which we can't even agree on facts, but I'll ask anyway.

Cognitive dissonance is hard to reason with.

Rush is quoted on this thread as saying about the hurricane: "The danger is overblown". Um, no pun intended, I'm sure.

Now, did he, or did he not, say that?

Not how you "took" it. No, not what you think he "inferred". Did he say that or not?
.

Considering the source, I wouldn't expect too much honesty from his listeners.

It's not his listeners who are saying he claimed that the hurricane is a liberal hoax.

So we agree that the piece linked in the OP is a lie?
.

I'd say the headline for this thread is click bait. We fell for it. As far as the piece being a lie, I think it's more Rush being Rush. Rush says stupid shit. Also, water is found to be wet. More at 11....

 

[Mac1958]

I realize that we now exist in a time in which we can't even agree on facts, but I'll ask anyway.

Cognitive dissonance is hard to reason with.

Rush is quoted on this thread as saying about the hurricane: "The danger is overblown". Um, no pun intended, I'm sure.

Now, did he, or did he not, say that?

Not how you "took" it. No, not what you think he "inferred". Did he say that or not?
.

Considering the source, I wouldn't expect too much honesty from his listeners.

It's not his listeners who are saying he claimed that the hurricane is a liberal hoax.

So we agree that the piece linked in the OP is a lie?
.

I'd say the headline for this thread is click bait. We fell for it. As far as the piece being a lie, I think it's more Rush being Rush. Rush says stupid shit. Also, water is found to be wet. More at 11....

The title of the linked piece is intellectual dishonesty at least, and just another example of why neither end of the spectrum has or deserves any credibility.
.

 

[Pumpkin Row]

Limbaugh's dismissal of Irma 'panic' riles forecasters

Rush Limbaugh has created a storm of his own by suggesting that the "panic" caused by Hurricane Irma benefits retailers, the media and politicians seeking action on climate change.


The conservative radio personality's swerve into meteorology had Al Roker, the "Today" show weatherman, saying Wednesday that Limbaugh was putting people's lives at risk.

Limbaugh's lengthy soliloquy on his radio show the day before was apparently set off by seeing a rush on supplies of bottled water in south Florida, where he lives. The powerful Hurricane Irma is still in the Atlantic Ocean, but forecasters warn it could affect Florida by the weekend.

"There is a desire to advance this climate change agenda, and hurricanes are one of the fastest and best ways to do it," Limbaugh said. "You can accomplish a lot just by creating fear and panic. You don't need a hurricane to hit anywhere. All you need is to create the fear and panic accompanied by talk that climate change is causing hurricanes to become more frequent and bigger and dangerous."


Hey....Rush sets the Conservative agenda on science, economics, education....why not the weather?

So, where exactly in that quote does he deny the hurricane exists?

He claims the danger is overblown and is being exaggerated to push climate change

He is an a-hole....don't you agree?

Actually, he's claiming that the Climate Change myth is being used in conjunction with this hurricane to create fear and panic regarding future hurricanes, and he's right.

On the topic of the thread title, and your OP, though, even assuming you, hypothetically, were correct, how would that make him a "Hurricane Denier" if he never denied that the hurricane exists, considering you practically just admitted it in the post I quoted?

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

I realize that we now exist in a time in which we can't even agree on facts, but I'll ask anyway.

Cognitive dissonance is hard to reason with.

Rush is quoted on this thread as saying about the hurricane: "The danger is overblown". Um, no pun intended, I'm sure.

Now, did he, or did he not, say that?

Not how you "took" it. No, not what you think he "inferred". Did he say that or not?
.

Considering the source, I wouldn't expect too much honesty from his listeners.

It's not his listeners who are saying he claimed that the hurricane is a liberal hoax.

So we agree that the piece linked in the OP is a lie?
.

I'd say the headline for this thread is click bait. We fell for it. As far as the piece being a lie, I think it's more Rush being Rush. Rush says stupid shit. Also, water is found to be wet. More at 11....

The title of the linked piece is intellectual dishonesty at least, and just another example of why neither end of the spectrum has or deserves any credibility.
.

Pretty much.

 

[rightwinger]

Limbaugh's dismissal of Irma 'panic' riles forecasters

Rush Limbaugh has created a storm of his own by suggesting that the "panic" caused by Hurricane Irma benefits retailers, the media and politicians seeking action on climate change.


The conservative radio personality's swerve into meteorology had Al Roker, the "Today" show weatherman, saying Wednesday that Limbaugh was putting people's lives at risk.

Limbaugh's lengthy soliloquy on his radio show the day before was apparently set off by seeing a rush on supplies of bottled water in south Florida, where he lives. The powerful Hurricane Irma is still in the Atlantic Ocean, but forecasters warn it could affect Florida by the weekend.

"There is a desire to advance this climate change agenda, and hurricanes are one of the fastest and best ways to do it," Limbaugh said. "You can accomplish a lot just by creating fear and panic. You don't need a hurricane to hit anywhere. All you need is to create the fear and panic accompanied by talk that climate change is causing hurricanes to become more frequent and bigger and dangerous."


Hey....Rush sets the Conservative agenda on science, economics, education....why not the weather?

So, where exactly in that quote does he deny the hurricane exists?

He claims the danger is overblown and is being exaggerated to push climate change

He is an a-hole....don't you agree?

Actually, he's claiming that the Climate Change myth is being used in conjunction with this hurricane to create fear and panic regarding future hurricanes, and he's right.

On the topic of the thread title, and your OP, though, even assuming you, hypothetically, were correct, how would that make him a "Hurricane Denier" if he never denied that the hurricane exists, considering you practically just admitted it in the post I quoted?

Limbaugh is denying the threat of the hurricane and telling his listeners that these things are always overblown to create unnecessary fear

Irresponsible

 

[edthecynic]

Already a thread on this and he never denied Irma was a hurricane.

Yeah, the pathological liar just denied it was anything serious, only hype.

 

[rightwinger]

Does anyone have a recording of these comments?

My Analysis of the Hurricane Irma Panic
Sep 5, 2017

Rush:The hurricane is what I want to lead off with, folks. And I’ve gotta be very careful here because I am not a meteorologist, and nothing I say today should be considered to be a forecast or a prediction. I am not the National Hurricane Center. I am not a climatologist or meteorologist. All I do is analyze the data that they publish. Just as I am the go-to tech guy in my family and here on the staff, when it comes to a hurricane bearing down on south Florida, I’m the go-to guy.
[...]

The reason that I am leery of forecasts this far out, folks, is because I see how the system works. Now, I don’t mean this to be a personal attack on anybody, but the one thing that’s undeniable throughout our culture is that everything has been politicized. And in that sense much of our public information system, including from the government, from the Drive-By Media, has been corrupted. It has been corrupted by the individual biases and whatever present bigotry of the people who hold these positions.

You can see it in the way the Deep State deals with Trump. You can see it with the way the intelligence community and the Washington establishment deal with Trump. So in the case of a hurricane, what happens? Well, there are many levels here. When a hurricane pops up — and we can’t forget Hurricane Harvey because Hurricane Harvey and the TV pictures that accompany that go a long way to helping further and create the panic.

Now, in the official meteorological circles, you have an abundance of people who believe that man-made climate change is real. And they believe that Algore is correct when he has written — and he couldn’t be more wrong — that climate change is creating more hurricanes and stronger hurricanes. And, of course, when Harvey hit, it was the first hurricane that had hit in 12 years. There haven’t been more hurricanes and no more dangerous than any others in previous years.

But it doesn’t matter because the bias is built in. So there is a desire to advance this climate change agenda, and hurricanes are one of the fastest and best ways to do it. You can accomplish a lot just by creating fear and panic. You don’t need a hurricane to hit anywhere. All you need is to create the fear and panic accompanied by talk that climate change is causing hurricanes to become more frequent and bigger and more dangerous, and you create the panic, and it’s mission accomplished, agenda advanced.

Now, how do you do this? Well, any number of ways. Let’s take south Florida television, for example. 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.

And in that sense, folks, I mean, look, it’s the way the world works. I’m not accusing anybody of anything illegal here, it’s just the way the world works. I don’t want mention brand names because that’s not the point. Let’s call it Basement Depot. Basement Depot huge, huge business, Basement Depot spends gazillions of dollars every year in local advertising in hurricane forced areas.

Here comes a hurricane, local media goes on the air, “Big hurricane coming, oh, my God! Make sure you got batteries. Make sure you got water. It could be the worst ever. Have you seen the size of this baby? It’s already a Cat 5. Oh, my God, oh, my God, it’s bigger than the island of Haiti. Oh, my God.” People run to the stores, they stock up everything, and they hoard. And they end up with vacant stores, nothing there. And it’s a big success. TV stations got eyeballs, the advertising businesses have sold out of business, gotta restock, and the cycle repeats.

This is exactly what’s happening. You cannot find a case of bottled water here in Palm Beach. You can’t. Miami, probably even worse. Now, a hurricane center. How does this work? Well, there are a lot of things involved in this. The models for computer hurricanes come from meteorology departments all over the world. The U.K. meteorology office has a bunch of computer models. There’s whole bunch of people. Universities have them. And these model runs happen four to five hours apart, six hours apart multiple times a day.

The models are publicly available. Anybody who knows how to log on to hurricane websites can see the models. And you can track which way the hurricane center, which models they believe and which ones they don’t believe.

Now, my theory — and it’s only a theory — is that because of the biases, because of the politicization of everything, because you have people in all of these government areas who believe man is causing climate change, and they’re hell-bent on proving it, they’re hell-bent on demonstrating it, they’re hell-bent on persuading people of it. So here comes a hurricane that’s 10 to 12 days out and here come the initial model runs, and if it’s close — sometimes it’s not close, sometimes the hurricane will turn to the north out in the mid-Atlantic and there’s no way you can fake that. But if, if they are going to approach a hit on the U.S., you will note that early tracks always have them impacting a major population center.

Unlike UFOs which only land in trailer parks, hurricanes are always forecast to hit major population centers. Because, after all, major population centers is where the major damage will take place and where we can demonstrate that these things are getting bigger and they’re getting more frequent and they’re getting worse. All because of climate change. I’ve got the audio sound bites to support. I can’t tell you the number of media people and elected officials all talking about this hurricane, Hurricane Irma, it’s no doubt due to climate change. And it never ends, it just never ends

[...]

My Analysis of the Hurricane Irma Panic.

Great, thanks.

Now, what part annoys you?
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that he can't relent about anything that could possibly be scientific fact.

So he's not actually saying that the hurricane is a "liberal hoax" as claimed, is that correct?
.

Analysis | Rush Limbaugh’s dangerous suggestion that Hurricane Irma is fake news

 

[edthecynic]

Limbaugh's dismissal of Irma 'panic' riles forecasters

Rush Limbaugh has created a storm of his own by suggesting that the "panic" caused by Hurricane Irma benefits retailers, the media and politicians seeking action on climate change.


The conservative radio personality's swerve into meteorology had Al Roker, the "Today" show weatherman, saying Wednesday that Limbaugh was putting people's lives at risk.

Limbaugh's lengthy soliloquy on his radio show the day before was apparently set off by seeing a rush on supplies of bottled water in south Florida, where he lives. The powerful Hurricane Irma is still in the Atlantic Ocean, but forecasters warn it could affect Florida by the weekend.

"There is a desire to advance this climate change agenda, and hurricanes are one of the fastest and best ways to do it," Limbaugh said. "You can accomplish a lot just by creating fear and panic. You don't need a hurricane to hit anywhere. All you need is to create the fear and panic accompanied by talk that climate change is causing hurricanes to become more frequent and bigger and dangerous."


Hey....Rush sets the Conservative agenda on science, economics, education....why not the weather?

So, where exactly in that quote does he deny the hurricane exists?

Your MessiahRushie is denying that hurricanes are as serious as the media portrays them, which puts lives in danger for anyone STUPID enough to believe him.
Pay attention!

 

[edthecynic]

He said it and its true.

If your MessiahRushie said it, it is NEVER true!!!

 

[Pumpkin Row]

Limbaugh's dismissal of Irma 'panic' riles forecasters

Rush Limbaugh has created a storm of his own by suggesting that the "panic" caused by Hurricane Irma benefits retailers, the media and politicians seeking action on climate change.


The conservative radio personality's swerve into meteorology had Al Roker, the "Today" show weatherman, saying Wednesday that Limbaugh was putting people's lives at risk.

Limbaugh's lengthy soliloquy on his radio show the day before was apparently set off by seeing a rush on supplies of bottled water in south Florida, where he lives. The powerful Hurricane Irma is still in the Atlantic Ocean, but forecasters warn it could affect Florida by the weekend.

"There is a desire to advance this climate change agenda, and hurricanes are one of the fastest and best ways to do it," Limbaugh said. "You can accomplish a lot just by creating fear and panic. You don't need a hurricane to hit anywhere. All you need is to create the fear and panic accompanied by talk that climate change is causing hurricanes to become more frequent and bigger and dangerous."


Hey....Rush sets the Conservative agenda on science, economics, education....why not the weather?

So, where exactly in that quote does he deny the hurricane exists?

He claims the danger is overblown and is being exaggerated to push climate change

He is an a-hole....don't you agree?

Actually, he's claiming that the Climate Change myth is being used in conjunction with this hurricane to create fear and panic regarding future hurricanes, and he's right.

On the topic of the thread title, and your OP, though, even assuming you, hypothetically, were correct, how would that make him a "Hurricane Denier" if he never denied that the hurricane exists, considering you practically just admitted it in the post I quoted?

Limbaugh is denying the threat of the hurricane and telling his listeners that these things are always overblown to create unnecessary fear

Irresponsible

He didn't deny that it was a threat, either. He told people to store some water at home. Saying something is overblown and saying that something doesn't exist are completely different.

I think what's irresponsible is creating a false premise with your thread OP, but I suppose in your mind, something is only wrong if it's done by someone you disagree with.

 

[edthecynic]

His show is the most listened to show in America with 26,000,000+ listeners...

How gullible do you have to be to believe his lies about his audience size????

 

[Pumpkin Row]

Limbaugh's dismissal of Irma 'panic' riles forecasters

Rush Limbaugh has created a storm of his own by suggesting that the "panic" caused by Hurricane Irma benefits retailers, the media and politicians seeking action on climate change.


The conservative radio personality's swerve into meteorology had Al Roker, the "Today" show weatherman, saying Wednesday that Limbaugh was putting people's lives at risk.

Limbaugh's lengthy soliloquy on his radio show the day before was apparently set off by seeing a rush on supplies of bottled water in south Florida, where he lives. The powerful Hurricane Irma is still in the Atlantic Ocean, but forecasters warn it could affect Florida by the weekend.

"There is a desire to advance this climate change agenda, and hurricanes are one of the fastest and best ways to do it," Limbaugh said. "You can accomplish a lot just by creating fear and panic. You don't need a hurricane to hit anywhere. All you need is to create the fear and panic accompanied by talk that climate change is causing hurricanes to become more frequent and bigger and dangerous."


Hey....Rush sets the Conservative agenda on science, economics, education....why not the weather?

So, where exactly in that quote does he deny the hurricane exists?

Your MessiahRushie is denying that hurricanes are as serious as the media portrays them, which puts lives in danger for anyone STUPID enough to believe him.
Pay attention!

Says the guy that accepted an article as fact without listening to the radio show.

He's denying that they have a connection to the Climate Change myth.

 

[edthecynic]

I agree with him. All of he hurricane hype is money. Nothing more.

And therefore his complaining about it shows that in his fat gut he hates Capitalism!!!!
And YOU too for agreeing with him!

 

[edthecynic]

Limbaugh's dismissal of Irma 'panic' riles forecasters

Rush Limbaugh has created a storm of his own by suggesting that the "panic" caused by Hurricane Irma benefits retailers, the media and politicians seeking action on climate change.


The conservative radio personality's swerve into meteorology had Al Roker, the "Today" show weatherman, saying Wednesday that Limbaugh was putting people's lives at risk.

Limbaugh's lengthy soliloquy on his radio show the day before was apparently set off by seeing a rush on supplies of bottled water in south Florida, where he lives. The powerful Hurricane Irma is still in the Atlantic Ocean, but forecasters warn it could affect Florida by the weekend.

"There is a desire to advance this climate change agenda, and hurricanes are one of the fastest and best ways to do it," Limbaugh said. "You can accomplish a lot just by creating fear and panic. You don't need a hurricane to hit anywhere. All you need is to create the fear and panic accompanied by talk that climate change is causing hurricanes to become more frequent and bigger and dangerous."


Hey....Rush sets the Conservative agenda on science, economics, education....why not the weather?

So, where exactly in that quote does he deny the hurricane exists?

Your MessiahRushie is denying that hurricanes are as serious as the media portrays them, which puts lives in danger for anyone STUPID enough to believe him.
Pay attention!

Says the guy that accepted an article as fact without listening to the radio show.

He's denying that they have a connection to the Climate Change myth.

Now you are just mindlessly parroting his lie, anyone who disagrees with him doesn't listen to his show.

Even the queen of deniers Judith Curry says your MessiahRushie is full of shit in his denial of the connection to Climate Change!!!

The number of hurricanes that reach Category Four and Five has doubled since 1970, according to a report by Judith Curry, an earth and atmospheric scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.

Her team links the increasing storm intensity to a 1-degree Fahrenheit (0.5-degree Celsius) rise in global sea surface temperature in the same period.

Curry is the co-author of two of the papers linking global warming to increasing storm intensity

"For the time being," Curry said, "this is what the data says and what analysis we have, and it says we are at elevated risk for increasing hurricanes and increasing intensity in hurricanes."

 

[SassyIrishLass]

I agree with him. All of he hurricane hype is money. Nothing more.

And therefore his complaining about it shows that in his fat gut he hates Capitalism!!!!
And YOU too for agreeing with him!

Oh boy....you're grasping and gasping

 

[edthecynic]

Rush is right about the Left Wingers making hurricanes about climate change and retailers exploiting customers.

Your MessiahRushie hates Capitalism, the fat commie!

 

[edthecynic]

I agree with him. All of he hurricane hype is money. Nothing more.

And therefore his complaining about it shows that in his fat gut he hates Capitalism!!!!
And YOU too for agreeing with him!

Oh boy....you're grasping and gasping

What the pathological liar is bitching about is pure Capitalism at its finest, sell for whatever the market will bare.

 

[edthecynic]

Going to the OP, 24 hour news coverage of a disaster, all the advertising is for certapro, Home Depot and Walmart , plywood go's up 2 bucks an hour water in bottles dries up, ice cost 3 bucks for an20 pound bag and every politician from county judge to the school board is on TV? Rush is dead on. Hurricanes are nothing more then blank checks to polititions and insurance companies.

And now we see how much the lying scum COMMIE Right hates Capitalism no matter how much the liars pretend to support it!!!
Free Market Capitalism says sell for whatever the MARKET will bare!!!!

 

[rightwinger]

Limbaugh's dismissal of Irma 'panic' riles forecasters

Rush Limbaugh has created a storm of his own by suggesting that the "panic" caused by Hurricane Irma benefits retailers, the media and politicians seeking action on climate change.


The conservative radio personality's swerve into meteorology had Al Roker, the "Today" show weatherman, saying Wednesday that Limbaugh was putting people's lives at risk.

Limbaugh's lengthy soliloquy on his radio show the day before was apparently set off by seeing a rush on supplies of bottled water in south Florida, where he lives. The powerful Hurricane Irma is still in the Atlantic Ocean, but forecasters warn it could affect Florida by the weekend.

"There is a desire to advance this climate change agenda, and hurricanes are one of the fastest and best ways to do it," Limbaugh said. "You can accomplish a lot just by creating fear and panic. You don't need a hurricane to hit anywhere. All you need is to create the fear and panic accompanied by talk that climate change is causing hurricanes to become more frequent and bigger and dangerous."


Hey....Rush sets the Conservative agenda on science, economics, education....why not the weather?

So, where exactly in that quote does he deny the hurricane exists?

He claims the danger is overblown and is being exaggerated to push climate change

He is an a-hole....don't you agree?

Actually, he's claiming that the Climate Change myth is being used in conjunction with this hurricane to create fear and panic regarding future hurricanes, and he's right.

On the topic of the thread title, and your OP, though, even assuming you, hypothetically, were correct, how would that make him a "Hurricane Denier" if he never denied that the hurricane exists, considering you practically just admitted it in the post I quoted?

Limbaugh is denying the threat of the hurricane and telling his listeners that these things are always overblown to create unnecessary fear

Irresponsible

He didn't deny that it was a threat, either. He told people to store some water at home. Saying something is overblown and saying that something doesn't exist are completely different.

I think what's irresponsible is creating a false premise with your thread OP, but I suppose in your mind, something is only wrong if it's done by someone you disagree with.

“These storms, once they actually hit, are never as strong as they're reported,” Limbaugh claimed on his syndicated radio show. He added that “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.”