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Limbaugh Falls for Obama Thesis Hoax - But Is In No Rush to Apologize
New York Daily News ^ | Sunday, October 25th 2009 | Michael Saul

Posted on 10/26/2009 12:37:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: mnehring

I figured as much.

And notice no one on the left asks where’s the thesis?

Just as they don’t ask where’s the $12.50 longform birth certificate?

But we have some person of no substance calling others “wingnuts”.

Lots of name-calling and no search for the facts is what characterizes the leftist media.


41 posted on 10/26/2009 1:08:26 PM PDT by Hostage
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To: italianquaker

What about that thesis from Mrs 0 that was making the rounds of the web? I sure hope that was a fake because it sounded like it was written by a grade school student!


42 posted on 10/26/2009 1:11:39 PM PDT by TNCMAXQ
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To: Sloth; Elvina
Planned from the start, IMO.

One must listen to Rush very carefully. The MSM does not! To those who do pay attention, the MSM looks very foolish and hypocritical. Rush's playing with the MSM gets him a lot of notoriety, but it seems like it take years to set the record straight about what actually happened when he does stuff like this. The issue of the phoney soldier remark was resolved rather quickly, but the McNabb thing still has some legs.

43 posted on 10/26/2009 1:13:44 PM PDT by stayathomemom (Beware of cat attacks while typing!)
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To: nickcarraway

The idiotic Left is falling yet again for Rush’s giant setup. Rush knew all along the story was false, yet he went along pretending it was true. Only to “discover” later that it wasn’t but still maintaining his original point because we know Obama thinks those thoughts in his head anyway. Actual facts do not matter. What matters is what we KNOW to be true.

Illustrating absurdity by being absurd. Fantastically done, Rush ! :)


44 posted on 10/26/2009 1:15:02 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: nickcarraway

I don’t exactly see what the problem is... He REPORTED it as un-verified...and when it was found out to be a hoax he reported that immediately...

it SOUNDS so much like Obama it could be true...

Screw your ‘apology’

I have a feeling if he DOES offer an ‘apology’ it will be scathing and worse than any perceived injury they already see...


45 posted on 10/26/2009 1:17:19 PM PDT by Mr. K (My biggest fear is that one of my typos becomes a freeper catchphrase...I'm series!)
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To: nickcarraway

Ironic ... In his own words Obama admitted his father was a British citizen. Therefore Obama lacks the pure allegiance and jurisdiction required at birth to be a natural born citizen. Yet, Limbaugh only touched that topic casually with a bit of tongue in cheek. The university thesis, on the other hand, warranted broader commentary with less supporting evidence? Huh? I love Rush ... I just don't always understand his logic. He'd have been less ridiculed going out on a limb for the natural born citizenship issue than for this one.


46 posted on 10/26/2009 1:22:43 PM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: nickcarraway

Michael Saul, New York Daily News is so gay/metrosexual

47 posted on 10/26/2009 1:25:58 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: nickcarraway

Rush played a clip of Obama saying those things about the constitution and redsitributing wealth.

He also said there was not a source for the “news” article so he couldn’t say it was real but we all know that Obama wants to do those things


48 posted on 10/26/2009 1:27:52 PM PDT by Rightly Biased (If Clinton was the first black president then Obama is the first black Jesus.)
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To: nickcarraway

The story was fake but accurate.


49 posted on 10/26/2009 1:28:49 PM PDT by FReepaholic (Jump You F**kers!)
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To: nickcarraway
Limbaugh, who seizes on every opportunity to blast Obama, ended up with egg on his face when he read an Internet satire piece that claimed President Obama dissed the Constitution in his college thesis at Columbia University.

As has already been posted, Rush had first said he wasn't sure about it and then, on the same show announced that it wasn't true.

However, the best way to prove it's false is to produce Obama's real thesis at Columbia University.

Still waiting...

50 posted on 10/26/2009 1:29:07 PM PDT by RJL
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To: nickcarraway

It’s the old Dan Rather “we know it’s true even though there is no proof” bit. Sucks to be on the other side of that, doesn’t it Barry?


51 posted on 10/26/2009 1:31:03 PM PDT by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: nickcarraway
Michael Saul falls for Rush Limbaugh quotes that Rush never made!

I suggest that Michael Saul and the rest of the OLD MEDIA compare their accuracy rate to Rush Limbaugh's! They should sweep around their own door before trying to clean up around someone elses!

52 posted on 10/26/2009 1:31:10 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: nickcarraway
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53 posted on 10/26/2009 1:31:58 PM PDT by Jackknife (Chuck Norris grinds his coffee with his teeth, and boils his water with his rage)
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To: nickcarraway
...he doesn't apologize for the error...

Perhaps the leftist-extremist should appologize to Sarah Palin first and maybe even GWB first.

54 posted on 10/26/2009 1:36:19 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: nickcarraway

The reporter just copied and pasted from Media Matters again, what crap.


55 posted on 10/26/2009 1:56:02 PM PDT by GeronL (http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com .... I am a rogue nobody. One of millions.)
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To: nickcarraway

Ledeen, BTW, is no “blogger” but a respected foreign policy analyst.


56 posted on 10/26/2009 1:57:37 PM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: nickcarraway

Rush was playing the media. The mainstream media, paragons of fact-checking, ran with false quotes which they used to libel and smear Rush; most of them never apologized, and instead said things like that the quotes are what Rush was thinking.

Rush took this satire opportunity to demonstrate their hypocrisy. Every word he said about this piece is right out of the words the mainstream media used talking about Rush and racism. But they don’t recognize that, because they are too stupid.


57 posted on 10/26/2009 1:58:46 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: nickcarraway

BTW< this also pokes fun at the MSM because they all have to admit that they never saw Obama’s thesis, and that they don’t care that they never saw it.


58 posted on 10/26/2009 1:59:36 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: mnehring

Let me get this straight, There saying that “The NY Daily News is playing fast and loose with the facts on this.” in their claim that Rush “is playing fast and loose with the facts” on something else because other reportors have have “played fast and loose with the facts” on other reports about him?

What is Rush accuracy rate? 98.7 last I remember.


59 posted on 10/26/2009 2:08:16 PM PDT by ThomasThomas (I don't have time to Procrastinate)
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To: mnehring
Yeah, I was really impressed by that. I'm curious why Ledeen, who is well established to say the least, didn't contact Joe Klein first and ask him to comment on or corroborate the story. I'm also surprised that Ledeen or his assistants didn't notice the satire tag on the post, but sometimes people skip over the fine print.
60 posted on 10/26/2009 2:09:52 PM PDT by kittykat77
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