The Way Things Aren't: Rush Limbaugh Debates Reality

[Sandpiper]

This is an oldie but a goody from FAIR. I thought I'd dust it off since El Fascistbo is saying Fahrenheit 9/11 is full of lies.

When it comes to lies, it's hard to beat OxyRush.

Extra!, July/August, 1994
The Way Things Aren't:
Rush Limbaugh Debates Reality

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BOGUS ECONOMICS

LIMBAUGH: "Don't let the liberals deceive you into believing that a decade of sustained growth without inflation in America (in the '80s) resulted in a bigger gap between the haves and the have-nots. Figures compiled by the Congressional Budget Office dispel that myth." (Ought to Be, p. 70)

REALITY: CBO figures do nothing of the sort. Its numbers for after-tax incomes show that in 1980, the richest fifth of our country had eight times the income of the poorest fifth. By 1989, the ratio was more than 20 to one.

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WEIRD SCIENCE

LIMBAUGH: "If you have any doubts about the status of American health care, just compare it with that in other industrialized nations." (Told You So, p. 153)

REALITY: The United States ranks 19th in life expectancy and 20th in infant mortality among 23 industrialized nations, according to the CIA's 1993 World Fact Book. The U.S. also has the lowest health care satisfaction rate (11 percent) of the 10 largest industrialized nations (Health Affairs, vol. 9, no. 2).

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BROTHERHOOD...and SISTERHOOD

LIMBAUGH: "Women were doing quite well in this country before feminism came along." (Radio show, quoted in FRQ, Summer/93)

REALITY: Before feminism, women couldn't even vote.


http://www.fair.org/press-releases/limbaugh-debates-reality.html

[jayfish]

1. How About His 1million Dollar.

Bet that Clinton would leave office with higher inflation, interest rates, un-employment and whatever then when he took office. I think the person who actually took the bet tried to collect and El-Dumbo reneged. That's a pretty good lie.

Jay

[Eagle_Eye]

2. Limbaugh logic says:

Today the richest fifth of the population has alot more people in it than the poorest fifth does.

[MichiganVote]

3. HEADLINE: Women in America have discovered possible

Women In America Have Discovered Possible Hell On Earth

Following the assertion of Rush the Lush Limburger,
"LIMBAUGH: "Women were doing quite well in this country before feminism came along." (Radio show, quoted in FRQ, Summer/93)---

women in America had a half second horrifying contemplation of sex with Rush Limbaugh. Cries of OMG! Holy Shit!and Uck! were heard in the offices of women in America followed by ongoing discussion of a poll in which it was learned that 3/3 Limbaugh wives have left the sucker for the same reason.

At last report, even hard up gay men voiced dismay at the suggestion that Rush may decide to change his gender and convert to a transvestite with the intention of buying his own nighties and panties. Rush has been a self sufficent thumb sucker all his life and rejects any notion that he wets his pants on purpose.

Rush's feminism has been an object of derision among other well known girlie-men such as BunnypantsHannity and OrgasmnotO'Really but to date none of these commentators has offered to sex up Rush. Reports indicate that they are satisfied to masturbate privately and are saving themselves for the church. A relief to healthy american women everywhere.

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