Rush Limbaugh didn't say the magic words, but on Tuesday he basically accused the media of creating fake news about Hurricane Irma, which is threatening Florida after hitting Barbuda and Antigua. The storm's 185-mile-per-hour winds tied the record high for any Atlantic hurricane making landfall.
“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.
Rush Limbaugh didn't say the magic words, but on Tuesday he basically accused the media of creating fake news about Hurricane Irma, which is threatening Florida after hitting Barbuda and Antigua. The storm's 185-mile-per-hour winds tied the record high for any Atlantic hurricane making landfall.
“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.
Sounds like Rush was listening to George Noory's Conspiracy Radio last night.
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Reckon Rush might be saying to not listen to all the hype, and think for yourselves, and protect yourselves using your own brains, instead of following the rest of the sheep?
If the Super Storm Sandy is any example, the hype worked rather well....
That storm was supposed to wipe out all life on the Eastern seaboard.
That's the problem with crying wolf. Nobody believes you when the wolf is actually there.
I happened to catch part of this in my car at lunch yesterday. I thought it strange, but Rush often does satire. Sometimes comedy falls flat. Perhaps he believes that the media is in cahoots with retail. He does 250 shows a year. Hard to make them all winners. People forget that.
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Rush clarified several time after the Media lied about what he said.
He said that the Media and the weather people are reporting the severity of this storm is directly related to Climate Change and they are trying to scare the public into believing CC is the cause.
He did not say they were hyping the severity of the storm for ratings, he said they were saying this storm is the direct result of CC.
Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Give a man a welfare check, a forty ounce malt liquor, a crack pipe, an Obama phone, free health insurance. and some Air Jordan's and he votes Democrat for a lifetime.
I didn't catch the show but he's right that doom porn gets great ratings so the MSM way over emphasis the worst case scenario and flat out makes some of it up. If Irma does hit South Florida as a strong cat 4 storm it will be devastating.
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Conspiracy theorists are the ones who see it all coming…
They try and hype an inch of snow in the northeast anymore.
The snowfall forecast is almost always for twice what we actually get........ They call for 2 to 4 inches and nine times out of ten we get 1 to 2 inches.
He's right... The weather-people, even around here, hype some storm like it's "YER ALL GONNA DIE"....and then it hits more like a purring kitty...
Well, in fairness, them weather-people gotta do whatever they can to protect their jobs...
Meteorology is hardly an exact science. They gather what info they can and attempt to put them together. Then things change unexpectedly. They don't know enough about how these storms work to make totally accurate predictions. They try to figure out a worse case scenario and go with that. It gets bad when they calculate low and it comes in way higher. Protect their jobs? They do a darn good job of if considering how unpredictable the weather can be.
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