CNN's Jim Acosta Misrepresents Limbaugh's Swastika/ObamaCare Logo Comparison

NewsBusters.org ^ | 08/11/2009 | Matthew Balan

[Pyro7480]

CNN’s Jim Acosta claimed that Rush Limbaugh’s website “compares the [ObamaCare] reform supporters to Nazis” during a report on Tuesday’s American Morning. The website actually draws a comparison between the DNC’s “Organizing for Health Care” logo and the Nazis’ Parteiadler (Party Eagle) symbol. Acosta also claimed that conservatives “falsely compared” ObamaCare to the Canadian health system.

...[T]he CNN correspondent made his claim about Limbaugh’s website: “Democrats charge the people shouting health care questions at members of Congress these days are being encouraged by the likes of Rush Limbaugh, whose website compares the reform supporters to Nazis.” As Acosta read this claim, a screen capture from Limbaugh’s website flashed on the screen, showing the health care logo of the DNC’s Organizing for America operation, superimposed with the Nazi Perteiadler symbol.

Acosta’s claim is a misrepresentation of what the Limbaugh website actually says. The link that has the “Organizing for Health Care” logo/Parteiadler superimposition has a transcript of a segment from Limbaugh’s August 6 program. During this segment, the talk show host pointed out how House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused the anti-ObamaCare protesters of being “AstroTurf...carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town hall meeting on health care” (the page includes a YouTube video of the San Francisco Democrat’s remark). Limbaugh retorted in part by pointing out the peculiar similarities between the DNC health care logo and the Nazi symbol:

[Pyro7480]

More diversionary reporting from the Drive-By Media.

[mikelets456]

These guys ain’t reporters they are simply an extension of the obama administration....pathetic!

[Da Coyote]

CNN?

And they are?

Oh yea, forgot - that’s the irritating station played at airports.

[Dallas59]

Was it CNN that fired that other woman reporter for confronting “nazithughooliganreligiousguntotingastroturfKKK” criminals this year?

[ANGGAPO]

To repeat. Our health system has evolved over 230 years until it became the best in the world. For evidence of this check out the number of the Europeans that come here with medical problems. They don't go to Canada, please note.
Our system does have problems but this is no call to trash the whole thing and start over. Until someone explains differently to me, Obama-care does just that. To this point many of the things that the President says usually turn out to be presidential misspeak, and fosters distrust. What does he expect?

[dangus]

Lol. I think from now on, I’m going to call CNN “Airport News.” Just like USAToday is “The Hotel Gazette.”

[a fool in paradise]

President Obama's personal propagandist compared Bush to Hitler on posted materials and the media turns a blind eye:

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