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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rush "This hurricane is a liberal hoax" Limbaugh has fled Florida for safer ground.
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He was forced out. Mandatory evacuation.[/quote]

Even worse! Why should Rush listen to Big Government trying to protect him from being killed in a Liberal Hoax Storm!  He should have defied government orders and stayed put in his house to prove that it's all fake.[/quote]

I guess I missed him saying that this hurricane was a liberal hoax. Don't tell me, more fake news? Gosh are libs gullible! [/quote]
“These storms, once they actually hit, are never as strong as they're reported,” Limbaugh claimed on his syndicated radio show. He added that “the graphics have been created to make it look like the ocean's having an exorcism, just getting rid of the devil here in the form of this hurricane, this bright red stuff.”

Why would the media exaggerate the threat of a hurricane? Here's Limbaugh's theory:

There is symbiotic relationship between retailers and local media, and it’s related to money. It revolves around money. You have major, major industries and businesses which prosper during times of crisis and panic, such as a hurricane, which could destroy or greatly damage people’s homes, and it could interrupt the flow of water and electricity. So what happens?

Well, the TV stations begin reporting this and the panic begins to increase. And then people end up going to various stores to stock up on water and whatever they might need for home repairs and batteries and all this that they’re advised to get, and a vicious circle is created. You have these various retail outlets who spend a lot of advertising dollars with the local media.

The local media, in turn, reports in such a way as to create the panic way far out, which sends people into these stores to fill up with water and to fill up with batteries, and it becomes a never-ending repeated cycle. And the two coexist. So the media benefits with the panic with increased eyeballs, and the retailers benefit from the panic with increased sales, and the TV companies benefit because they’re getting advertising dollars from the businesses that are seeing all this attention from customers.

To state the obvious, these are potentially dangerous comments from Limbaugh, who is based in Palm Beach, Fla. He is encouraging listeners who might be in Irma's path not to take seriously the official guidance disseminated through the media.

“I wish that not everything that involved news had become corrupted and politicized, but it just has,” he said.[/quote]

So he believes that "tv companies," along with companies like Home Depot and Dasani, are manufacturing crises in order to bankroll the public.

Thats interesting because Big Oil is the clear winner when evacuation is issued (gasoline). Batteries and water can be stored anyway for the next storm (Jose or Katia or...) So why didn't he mention those companies?[/quote]

Did Rush actually say "companies like Home Depot and Dasani"? Because calling Dasani a company is really dumb.[/quote]

That's what you get out of this? LOL.[/quote]

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