Fri Oct 7, 2016, 12:44 PM
workinclasszero (28,270 posts)
Why are Matt Drudge and Rush Limbaugh pushing Hurricane Matthew conspiracy theories?
Mother Nature’s myth: Why are Matt Drudge and Rush Limbaugh pushing Hurricane Matthew conspiracy theories?
Listening to science? No way JEREMY BINCKES FRIDAY, OCT 7, 2016 07:24 AM CDT Florida is hunkering down as a Category 3 hurricane charges up the Atlantic Coast. As of Friday morning, the storm’s eyewall — boasting winds over 100 mph — sat just over a dozen miles from land. The storm battered Haiti, where death toll estimates have been as high as 300, and could deliver strong winds and massive storm surges to much of the state’s east coast. Florida’s Republican governor didn’t mince words Thursday when he told reporters, “this is going to kill people.” And yet, Matt Drudge thinks this is all a big conspiracy. Rush Limbaugh joined in the conspiracy train Thursday, noting that people shouldn’t trust the government’s warnings because the government is likely biased. He said that the government was inflating the fears of the storm’s damage. He said people shouldn’t worry, because his house was hit by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 and was just fine. http://www.salon.com/2016/10/07/mother-natures-myth-why-are-matt-drudge-and-rush-limbaugh-pushing-hurricane-matthew-conspiracy-theories/
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workinclasszero | Oct 2016 | OP |
katmondoo | Oct 2016 | #1 | |
workinclasszero | Oct 2016 | #5 | |
apcalc | Oct 2016 | #2 | |
workinclasszero | Oct 2016 | #4 | |
apcalc | Oct 2016 | #23 | |
bluesbassman | Oct 2016 | #3 | |
Rex | Oct 2016 | #6 | |
workinclasszero | Oct 2016 | #11 | |
Blue_Tires | Oct 2016 | #7 | |
canetoad | Oct 2016 | #10 | |
Mariana | Oct 2016 | #29 | |
FrodosPet | Oct 2016 | #8 | |
get the red out | Oct 2016 | #9 | |
MrScorpio | Oct 2016 | #12 | |
Blue_Adept | Oct 2016 | #13 | |
Glassunion | Oct 2016 | #14 | |
workinclasszero | Oct 2016 | #15 | |
SwankyXomb | Oct 2016 | #19 | |
closeupready | Oct 2016 | #16 | |
mnhtnbb | Oct 2016 | #17 | |
kwolf68 | Oct 2016 | #22 | |
tavernier | Oct 2016 | #18 | |
spanone | Oct 2016 | #20 | |
Eleanors38 | Oct 2016 | #21 | |
workinclasszero | Oct 2016 | #25 | |
jmowreader | Oct 2016 | #24 | |
Thinkingabout | Oct 2016 | #26 | |
maryellen99 | Oct 2016 | #27 | |
Initech | Oct 2016 | #28 |
Response to workinclasszero (Original post)
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 12:45 PM
katmondoo (6,368 posts)
1. Because they are nuts
Response to katmondoo (Reply #1)
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 12:50 PM
workinclasszero (28,270 posts)
5. Well paid nuts too
Big coal and Big oil loves them some reich wing nuts no doubt.
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Response to workinclasszero (Original post)
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 12:45 PM
apcalc (4,370 posts)
2. No appreciation of science?
Response to apcalc (Reply #2)
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 12:48 PM
workinclasszero (28,270 posts)
4. Science is a leftist plot
Who knew?
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Response to workinclasszero (Original post)
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 12:46 PM
bluesbassman (18,615 posts)
3. Mental defects and zero accountability.
And they get PAID for it.
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Response to workinclasszero (Original post)
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 12:52 PM
Rex (65,616 posts)
6. Well they both do attract the Stormfront types.
And those folks lost their soul and sanity or never had it to begin with. Stupid people will listen to other stupid people and get themselves hurt or killed.
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Response to Rex (Reply #6)
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 01:05 PM
workinclasszero (28,270 posts)
11. Yup Limpballs and Deplorable Drudge are the first
Storm Truthers!
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Response to workinclasszero (Original post)
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 12:52 PM
Blue_Tires (55,445 posts)
7. Because their audiences lap it up like catnip?
Response to Blue_Tires (Reply #7)
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 12:59 PM
canetoad (15,547 posts)
10. Bingo
They have seen the depths of ignorance demonstrated by the number of people who support Trump and they are gagging to get rich on the backs of the deplorables.
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Response to canetoad (Reply #10)
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 04:26 PM
Mariana (14,378 posts)
29. How better to rack up ad sales
than to deliver up an audience of the most ignorant and gullible people in the nation?
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Response to workinclasszero (Original post)
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 12:54 PM
FrodosPet (5,169 posts)
8. The most important thing to remember about Rush Limbaugh is...
Response to workinclasszero (Original post)
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 12:59 PM
get the red out (13,436 posts)
9. Idiots! They must want people killed!
I saw the REPUBLICAN Governors of Fl and SC telling people to evacuate in no uncertain terms! This is insanity.
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Response to workinclasszero (Original post)
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 01:07 PM
MrScorpio (73,501 posts)
12. Drudge, Rush and their fans should have gone to Florida just to prove a point
Put their money where their slobbering pie holes are.
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Response to workinclasszero (Original post)
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 01:11 PM
Blue_Adept (6,348 posts)
13. Further attempts to delegitimize government
That's all it is and has been since Reagan. They'll take on anything to try and paint with that brush, no matter how ridiculous.
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Response to workinclasszero (Original post)
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 01:23 PM
Glassunion (10,201 posts)
14. You mean their listeners may not take the danger seriously?
Could this be Darwinism working at an accelerated pace?
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Response to Glassunion (Reply #14)
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 01:25 PM
workinclasszero (28,270 posts)
15. Hey you may be onto something there!
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Response to Glassunion (Reply #14)
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 02:03 PM
SwankyXomb (2,030 posts)
19. It's a convoluted real estate swindle
The listeners stay home and get killed, and then Rush and Drudge buy up their property on the cheap.
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Response to workinclasszero (Original post)
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 01:36 PM
closeupready (29,503 posts)
16. I care about them as much I do for Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, or the NY Post.
Their opinions are not even worthy of discussion - not even in general, but even MORE so on a liberal discussion board (or one that purports to be) like DU.
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Response to workinclasszero (Original post)
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 01:38 PM
mnhtnbb (30,327 posts)
17. Death toll in Haiti now being reported as >800 by Reuters
Response to mnhtnbb (Reply #17)
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 03:57 PM
kwolf68 (7,113 posts)
22. Mabye
Maybe those are "Fake" deaths caused by the "fake" hurricane. Drudge, Limbaugh are bordering on criminal with their spew. |
Response to workinclasszero (Original post)
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 01:41 PM
tavernier (11,168 posts)
18. In 1935, 408 people died ten miles from where I live.
The town has a service and we lay flowers at their memorial in Islamorada every single year. Very elderly residents still recall the day like it was yesterday. Some of the men helped to find bodies lodged in the trees and mangrove bushes.
These are the people I honor. Rush and Drudge: Please don't come here, ever. This is hallowed ground, and your feet don't belong on it. |
Response to workinclasszero (Original post)
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 02:19 PM
spanone (132,843 posts)
20. because they are defective humanoid-like beings
Response to workinclasszero (Original post)
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 03:48 PM
Eleanors38 (18,318 posts)
21. Lush Rambaugh is on his meds.
Response to Eleanors38 (Reply #21)
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 04:07 PM
workinclasszero (28,270 posts)
25. Yeah Hillbilly Heroin
AKA oxycontin abuse.
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Response to workinclasszero (Original post)
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 04:04 PM
jmowreader (48,635 posts)
24. It saves them from having to promote the trumpster fire
Response to workinclasszero (Original post)
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 04:11 PM
Thinkingabout (30,058 posts)
26. How fo they get conspiracy out of a weather condition? Here is dumb and dumber.
Response to workinclasszero (Original post)
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 04:16 PM
maryellen99 (3,723 posts)
27. They want NWS and NHC funding cut and want them privatized
I'm sure Trump does too.
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Response to workinclasszero (Original post)
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 04:24 PM
Initech (95,389 posts)
28. Conspiracy theories are what sells now.
Nobody gives a shit about what Rush Limabugh thinks anymore, and Infowars has changed things for the worse, so the only way they can generate an audience is to stoop to Alex Jones' level and just make shit up.
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