Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh have promoted the claim that Vice President Joe Biden referred to Tea Party activists as "terrorists." However, that anonymously sourced claim has been explicitly denied by Biden.
Limbaugh And Hannity Report Biden's Alleged Comments As Fact
Limbaugh: "Biden Did Call" The Tea Party "Terrorists." From The Rush Limbaugh Show:
LIMBAUGH: Tea party guy was off prompter. Anyway, I'm going to have to translate all this. Ryan Rhodes said I would like to understand why your vice president is calling us terrorists. Obama: OK, I'll explain it right now, he didn't call you guys terrorists. And of course, he definitely lied because Biden did. It would be great if CBS News would release Biden's own denial so that we can hear that. But Biden did call them terrorists. I mean, hell, the whole Democrat Party was calling them terrorists.
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But The Report Was Anonymously Sourced And Explicitly Denied By Biden
CBS: Biden Explicitly Denied Allegation, Calling It "Absolutely Not True." From CBS News:
Vice President Joe Biden tells CBS News that published reports that he compared Tea Party-linked lawmakers to "terrorists" during a closed-door meeting Monday are "absolutely not true."
"I did not use the terrorism word," Biden told CBS Evening News anchor and managing editor Scott Pelley.
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