Posted on 02/08/2021 11:28:11 AM PST by libh8er
Social media users have been sharing a letter online attributed to conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh that thanks former President Donald J. Trump for the past four years.
Examples can be seen here and here .
The letter begins with: “My days on earth are numbered but before I fade away, there is something important I need to say. It may not be important to anyone else; but it’s important to me. Win, lose or fraud...President Trump, I just want to say thank you for the last four years.”
It continues by thanking President Trump for a strong economy, a decrease in the unemployment rate, supporting the nation’s flag, bringing troops home, and more.
Limbaugh has been a nemesis of the American left since the launch of his pioneering show in 1985 during the Republican revolution of President Ronald Reagan. For years Limbaugh has helped to shape the party’s agenda in the media. Much of Limbaugh’s appeal has been ascribed to his brash, colorful style and his delight in baiting liberals (here).
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
I tried clicking the link but it tried to load so much garbage onto my Mac that I killed the connection.
Lol, I bet next show he’s on, he approves it as his, verbatim just to make them pop a critical vessel.
If it’s a forged letter, how is this “news”?
Just because something is posted on the internet does not make it newsworthy.
More fake news from the corrupt social media?
Probably another bogus “email from a friend” that made the rounds.
Wow.
Well, most news now is merely quoting random people on twitter and noting how many views a post has and whether it was deemed to have gone “viral.” Veracity is irrelevant.
god bless Rush Hudson Limbaugh iii
The good news is he didn’t say his days were numbered. That had me very worried.
No trouble on my iMac 19,1
from the article:
“A Google search of the quote brings up the letter on multiple websites and blogs, often not directly attributed to Limbaugh. It was published by the Florida Times-Union as a guest column here on Jan. 17, 2021 and The Bakersfield Californian as a letter to the editor here on Jan. 13, 2021. Both were attributed to different residents, but not Limbaugh.
“According to CrowdTangle, a social media monitoring and research tool, the letter first appeared on Facebook here on Dec. 24, 2020 with no attribution and on Jan. 22, 2021 with attribution to Limbaugh here
A spokesperson for Premiere Networks, which syndicates The Rush Limbaugh Show, told Reuters via email that “These are not Rush Limbaugh’s words.””
LImbaugh never claimed credit for the letter anyway so you are right...this isn’t news at all.
Everything in the letter is true and deserved to be spread around no matter who was the author.
I’m surprised Rush didn’t come out and say that it wasn’t him then on his website.
Something about that phrase “before I fade away” did not sound right to me when I first heard it. Rush has been dominating the airwaves for 30+ years and he would never ever refer to himself as “fading away” - in any context. Sounded very odd and defeatist to me. It’s not in his nature.
The fact that Reuters felt the need to “fact check” this is pretty interesting...
I can’t belive anything posted on the internet is not true. How can this be???????
When Fact Checkers can’t dispute the facts in the letter they choose to dispute the author so they can claim “FALSE” as in “Limbaugh letter lists the accomplishmnts of Donald Trump’s term as President”
Turns out this letter was written by Mark Twain.
Rush should just responds to this saying “I did not write this but DITTOES!”
Fact checkers also said “FALSE” to the quote “It doesn’t matter who casts the votes, it matters who COUNTS the votes” because “it wasn’t said by Lennin”.
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