[mnehring]

Actually, Rush first started out reading it that it was ‘unverified’ and he was checking the source, then, before the show was over, he had already corrected the record that it wasn’t real.

The NY Daily News is playing fast and loose with the facts on this.

[b4its2late]

I guess then all the news outlets that smeared Rush on the NFL Rams deal would apologize for lying too, huh?

[Blueflag]

Personally, I like the idea of a professional admitting to and correcting an error over someone saying they are sorry.

Emotion v. substance.

No worries.

[Enterprise]

As I recall, Rush talked about the story, but he did mention that it was not sourced so he was suspicious of it.

[Right Cal Gal]

They can expect their apology the minute they apologize to Rush for slandering him with unsourced quotes.

Not so funny when the shoe’s on the other food, is it, MSM? Barry?

Of coure, Barry, we’re heard the other crap you’ve spewed about the Constitution — we had no problem believing it.

Psst — by the way, I believe Rush already SAID it was satire on his show - of course, you’re only looking at the one minute clip from Media Matters.

[dirtboy]

"A report is circulating among the wingnuts that I had a peek at Barack Obama's senior thesis. It is completely false," he wrote. "I've never seen Obama's thesis..."

Lost in this contrived fit of liberal finger-pointing is the fact that no journalist has seen Obama's thesis. Or college transcripts. Or other critical aspects of Obama's life history. Yet they are more inclinded to get after Rush...

[SpaceBar]

But the left kept saying that it was the seriousness of the allegation that was important.

[a fool in paradise]

Rush Limbaugh is not on the air Saturday or Sunday and is off today.

When the Left makes up facts, they are “fake but accurate” (National Guard memos, Rush “wikiquotes”...) but when they Left trolls hoaxes to the right, it is THEIR OWN FAULT for not fully vetting the story.

The MSM routinely buries retractions within the paper rather than putting them on the front page.

[marron]

He got spoofed, and as soon as he knew it, he said so.

Thats more than the frauds on the left have done. They invent quotes that he never said and they don’t even retract them, much less apologize.

[Servant of the Cross]

I don't think Rush was duped. Here was Rush on Friday:

Rush himself on Friday: "However, I have had this happen to me recently. I have had quotes attributed to me that were made up, and when it was pointed out to the media that the quotes were made up, they said, “It doesn’t matter! We know Limbaugh thinks it anyway.”

Money quote. Fake but accurate. What's the frequency Kenneth?

[colorado tanker]

Rush should hang out more at FR and develop a FReeper’s sense how to sniff out Onion-like material.

[bray]

If media matters/soros or moveon.soros says it it must be true.

Pray for America’s Freedom

[mudblood]

Actually, I was listening that day, and Rush started with the “I know he thinks it” stuff after referencing Dan Rather’s “well I know the story is true, even though the evidence was false”. He’s just throwing back at the libs what the libs are throwing at him. I love it.

[jpl]

The real-life thesis which nobody has seen is probably scarier than any satire someone could come up with.

[Just mythoughts]

Hey Michael Saul how about you publishing, if there is such a thing, as BamaKennedy’s thesis, and then we can discuss the possibility of an apology being required.

[gaijin]

I think this crap was cooked up for no other hope than that Rush might read it. And I think it’s because the left knew they got burned on all that WikiFootballGate stuff and they wanted to counter it.

They did a good job, I have to say. I also did believe it.

[IMissPresidentReagan]

Actual Rush quotes from Friday's show:

So we have to hold out the possibility that this is not accurate. However, I have had this happen to me recently. I have had quotes attributed to me that were made up, and when it was pointed out to the media that the quotes were made up, they said, "It doesn't matter! We know Limbaugh thinks it anyway." Sort of like Dan Rather said, "I don't care if these documents are forged. I know that Bush did what he did at the National Guard. I don't care if the documents are forged." I don't care if the Limbaugh quotes are made up. So, I can say, "I don't care if these quotes are made up. I know Obama thinks it. You know why I know Obama thinks it? Because I've heard him say it." Not about the Constitution, but about the Supreme Court. Again, 2001, FM radio station interview in Chicago when he was a state senator in Illinois.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: I'm also told that the blog containing the passage on Obama's thesis is a satire blog. So it's one of these sites like ScrappleFace or The Onion or some such thing. So I shout from the mountaintops: "It was satire!" But we know he thinks it. Good comedy, to be comedy, must contain an element of truth, and we know how he feels about distribution of wealth. He's mad at the courts for not going far enough on it. So we stand by the fabricated quote because we know Obama thinks it anyway. That's how it works in the media today.

[El Cid]

How can he apologize for his having read a falsified thesis - when the current 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue occupant has never released his thesis?
For all we know the version Mr. Limbaugh read is correct. Or not.

Easy solution - release the documents.

Amazing, nearly 10 months into this fellow's administration, and his past is still shrouded in a haze, and his Birth Certificate, passport information, College records, etc, are all under lock and key...
And nary a peep from our vaunted watchdog media.

[usurper]

We know that this was satire to begin with but why is this reporter focused on Rush. It seems to me the real story is what is in Obama’s actual transcript and why he has chosen not to release it. We would have answers to these questions but for the simple fact that the MSM is terrified of knowing the answers.

[a fool in paradise]

I don’t see any references to the Obama thesis on Rush’s page today.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/today.guest.html

but the media doesn’t write about Rush to take him to task for any abuses or to correct any mistakes. They write to slur him to an audience that never listens to him to ensure that they never DO give him any audience time.