Michael Saul, New York Daily News is so gay/metrosexual
And what’s there to apologize for? As this inane article points out, he DID correct the record — the same day that the error occurred!
He didn’t fall for this. He said it was not checked.
Y’all need to Freep the poll. 71% are saying Rush LIED, which honest people know he did not lie.
odumbo refused to release his records and also fails to apologize
RUSH: In the first hour of this program, I cited a statement that Michael Ledeen found on the blog Jumping in Pools reporting on Obama’s college thesis written when he was at Columbia. The paper was called “Aristocracy Reborn,” and in the first ten pages Obama wrote the following: “[T]he Constitution allows for many things but what it does not allow is the most revealing. The so-called Founders did not allow for economic freedom. While political freedom is supposedly a cornerstone of the document, the distribution of wealth is not even mentioned. While many believe the new Constitution gave them liberty, it instead fitted them with the shackles of hypocrisy.” Now, I got a note from a researcher who has been scouring the Internet, and the note says this:
“Rush Limbaugh: Mini-warning on these quotes.” Because the paper that Obama wrote, “Aristocracy Reborn,” the first ten pages were all that reporter Joe Klein was permitted to see; and it says here that Klein did write about it for TIME Magazine. A researcher has been scouring the Internet and can’t find any sources for the quote. “The blog that Ledeen cites doesn’t have supporting info,” supposedly. The source post that was from August, says it’s going to be in an upcoming report from Joe Klein, but the researcher can’t find anything that has come out since, and nothing in Klein’s blog. There have been no matches found on the Internet for any of the info or quotes other than the source posting. So I now say that the blog from which this came has no sourcing data other than Joe Klein upcoming report and Joe Klein hasn’t written his upcoming report.
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.
OBAMA 2001: If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to vest formal rights in previously dispossessed peoples so that, uh, I would now have the right to vote, I would now be able to sit at a lunch counter and — and order and as long as I could pay for it I’d be okay. But the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society.
RUSH: Now, he’s talking about the Warren Court “never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth.” So we’ve got a supposed piece from his college thesis at Columbia where he complains that the Constitution didn’t talk about the distribution of wealth. So we know that it’s on his mind. So even if he didn’t say it, I know he thinks it. That’s how it works now in the media. And I do know he thinks it because I just heard what I heard, and so did you. Let’s see.
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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.
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c’mon, he did it deliberately to tweak the media...it’s brilliant!
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 ! :)
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...
Michael Saul, New York Daily News is so gay/metrosexual
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
The story was fake but accurate.
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...
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?
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!
"Keep it up, Drive-By's ...."
Perhaps the leftist-extremist should appologize to Sarah Palin first and maybe even GWB first.
The reporter just copied and pasted from Media Matters again, what crap.
Ledeen, BTW, is no “blogger” but a respected foreign policy analyst.
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.