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Limbaugh on hurricane hype: a ‘media desire for chaos’
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Posted on 08/29/2011 10:47:02 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Limbaugh on hurricane hype: a ‘media desire for chaos’ Jeff Poor - The Daily Caller 42 mins ago

Although it has claimed 29 lives to date and flooded countless square miles of the northeastern United States, Hurricane Irene didn’t quite live up to some breathless predictions. Was this a case of “better safe than sorry,” or media opportunism?

On his Monday radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh accused the news media of building up Irene out of their “desire for chaos.”

“It was a rainstorm and there was a lot of flooding and there were deaths associated with it,” Limbaugh said. “But they hype — folks, I’ll tell you what this was, was a lesson. (RELATED: Damage from Irene appears to be less than feared)

“If you pay any attention to this, they hype — the desire for chaos, I mean, literally — the media desire for chaos was a great learning tool. This is a great illustration of how all of the rest of the media in news, in sports, has templates and narratives and exaggerates beyond reality creating fear, so as to create interest.”

Limbaugh also said this “national embarrassment” had political implications.

(Excerpt) Read more at old.news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hurricaneirene; rushlimbaugh; rushlive
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1 posted on 08/29/2011 10:47:03 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Well..that didn’t take long...lol.


2 posted on 08/29/2011 10:49:54 AM PDT by penelopesire (Let The Congressional Hearings Begin!)
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To: Sub-Driver

The media only want to serve up another excuse for Obama’s (bad) economy.


3 posted on 08/29/2011 10:51:38 AM PDT by Natural Law (For God so loved the world He did not send a book.)
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To: Sub-Driver

The earthquake and hurricane were a stroke of luck for Obama.

After the Darth Vader bus tour and jetting off to the Vineyard for a frolic we were all set up for ten days of unanswered bashing of his cluelessness and uselessness.

The disasters, such as they were, changed the topic of conversation away from the economy and the void that is Obama’s Presidency.

He got lucky.


4 posted on 08/29/2011 10:53:20 AM PDT by rogue yam
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they didn’t desire chaos as much as they relished the thought of obama capably managing the disaster so they might compare that with Bush’s supposed mis-handling of Katrina.....
By the way, Katrina was as much a failure of the governed as it was a failure of the government....


5 posted on 08/29/2011 10:55:03 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: Sub-Driver

We have Obama in the Oval Office and Harry Reid running the Senate. Any more chaos from here will be a rounding error.


6 posted on 08/29/2011 10:56:22 AM PDT by icanhasbailout (Draft Napolitano 2012)
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To: Sub-Driver

I, for one, would say that with a hurricane it is better to err on the side of caution. As long as people don’t get a “cried wolf” too many times mentality I have not problem with the media’s “hype” as Irene approached.


7 posted on 08/29/2011 10:57:22 AM PDT by the_devils_advocate_666
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To: Sub-Driver

I’m with ‘media opportunism’.


8 posted on 08/29/2011 10:59:11 AM PDT by SMARTY (A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.)
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To: Sub-Driver

The media is just practicing it’s wag-the-dog in preparation for Fool Sucka’s takeover as dictator.


9 posted on 08/29/2011 11:00:12 AM PDT by Free Vulcan (Obama/Biden '12: No hope and chump change.)
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To: penelopesire

Rush got ‘em GOOD!

“Folks, it’s a national embarrassment, the hype over this hurricane. What we have with the media — I’m going to tell you something else — Obama comes off of vacation to lead his nation to the response of Hurricane Irene, to draw contrast with Bush and Katrina. [It’s] part of the re-election effort.”

WHACK!


10 posted on 08/29/2011 11:01:26 AM PDT by onyx (If you enjoy FR, support it! If you support Sarah Palin & want on her Busy Ping List, let me know.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I kept my TV off of the news channels all weekend, that’s all there was was hurricane coverage. I’m not even close to the east coast so my interest was non-existent in this event.


11 posted on 08/29/2011 11:03:45 AM PDT by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: Maverick68

BINGO! We have a winner!!!


12 posted on 08/29/2011 11:05:55 AM PDT by newfreep (I am a "terrorist". I am Sarah Palin!)
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To: the_devils_advocate_666

Wait until next week, we may have a rerun, lets face it the weather fear mongers have been in the doldrums for years.


13 posted on 08/29/2011 11:05:55 AM PDT by boomop1
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To: Sub-Driver

I think they were hoping for another Katrina, not because they really wanted people to die, but they want Obama to be shown as a great leader and doing great things.

They are tired of giving him an ‘A’ for pointing at a cat and saying, “bird”.


14 posted on 08/29/2011 11:06:05 AM PDT by Jonty30
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To: onyx

LOL...they were all waiting with baited breath for something to smear him with and he hit them over the head with the truth!

I knew it was gonna happen...but boy..this was a record turn-around for the presstitutes!


15 posted on 08/29/2011 11:08:33 AM PDT by penelopesire (Let The Congressional Hearings Begin!)
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To: Sub-Driver
No, the only reason the MSM (including Fox) got interested in Irene was because it was heading for THEM. Period.

There was little to nothing about this storm when it was ravaging the Bahamas. Only when it threatened to smear Shep's makeup did you start hearing screeches from news anchors.

16 posted on 08/29/2011 11:11:18 AM PDT by FReepaholic (I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok.)
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To: penelopesire

Too funny! These libtards just can’t enough of Rush and Rush knows it.

DELIGHTFUL!


17 posted on 08/29/2011 11:12:26 AM PDT by onyx (If you enjoy FR, support it! If you support Sarah Palin & want on her Busy Ping List, let me know.)
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To: the_devils_advocate_666

Wait until next week, we may have a rerun, lets face it the weather fear mongers have been in the doldrums for years.


18 posted on 08/29/2011 11:13:16 AM PDT by boomop1
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To: onyx

We have another one:

Limbaugh: Cost Of Irene “Pales In Comparison” To Hurricane Obama (Video)
Real Clear Politics ^ | 8/29/11

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2770466/posts


19 posted on 08/29/2011 11:17:48 AM PDT by penelopesire (Let The Congressional Hearings Begin!)
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To: penelopesire

ROTFL. I just spotted that one too.

WTG Rush!


20 posted on 08/29/2011 11:19:12 AM PDT by onyx (If you enjoy FR, support it! If you support Sarah Palin & want on her Busy Ping List, let me know.)
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