Rush Limbaugh Tells His Ugliest Lie Ever With Speculation That Obama Waterboards Reporters

Last updated on April 14th, 2018 at 11:20 am

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Rush Limbaugh told his most deplorable lie yet when he speculated that President Obama threatened the family of, and waterboarded a local reporter who inaccurately reported that White House reporters give their questions to Jay Carney before press conferences.

Limbaugh picked up on local TV reporter in Catherina Anaya’s claim that White House reporters give their press conference questions to Press Secretary Jay Carney in advance, “One of the things I found interesting is reporters and correspondents, unless it is breaking news, they provide questions to him in advance so he is already preparing for the answer.”

Video of Anaya:

Her claim sparked a quick rebuke from Carney, liberal and conservative White House journalists. Anaya apologized last night for her bad reporting:

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None of this stopped Rush Limbaugh from running with the inaccurate and untrue claim.

Audio clip of Limbaugh:

Transcript:

LIMBAUGH: Man, did they make her walk it back! Wow. They made her basically say she is the most unqualified, incompetent reporter ever to set foot in the White House. She had to walk the plank! I mean, if I didn’t know better, there would be two Al-Qaeda guys standing next to her holding long knives. Man! So her excuse now is, she admits she submitted her question in advance ’cause she wanted Carney’s approval.

The mistake she made was thinking that that’s how everybody in the White House press corps does it. That’s right. She just assumed that’s what everybody did. So she retracted, and she apologized, and she admitted to being a horrible journalist. “The White House never asked for my questions in advance and never instructed me on what to ask. I did not attribute or report factually last night, and for that I deeply apologize.”

Man!

Oh, this is worse than what I thought they were gonna make her do. It’s just… I haven’t seen the video. All I have is the audio. I would love to get a body-language expert, watch it, and try to find the signals about her being tortured. (interruption) “Was there any torture used to secure this confession?” That’s a legitimate question. These people have seen torture, like at Abu Ghraib. Did they make her do anything? (interruption) Was she waterboarded?

Yeah, that’s a good question: Did they waterboard? Did they threatened her family? Anaya, did they threaten deportation? What did they do to get this confession?

Limbaugh built on the already disproven, and apologized for, report by claiming that the White House made her apologize. Rush didn’t just stop there. He speculation that Obama tortured her, and threatened her family. Rush Limbaugh spreads lies and misinformation on a daily basis, but this may have been his ugliest Obama lie yet.

Some people on the left wish that the world could ignore Rush Limbaugh and his daily venomous spew, but the right wing talker, along with Fox News, is one of the primary sources of misinformation in this country. Limbaugh’s comments highlight the fact that Republicans can’t decide who their Barack Obama is.

Days after Limbaugh claimed that Obama was weak for filling out an NCAA tourney bracket, he pushed the idea that the president is now George W. Bush on steroids.

Limbaugh knew that the story wasn’t true, but it played into the conservative myth that media is liberal and in the bag for the Democratic president. Rush Limbaugh spends his days intentionally misinforming his listeners, who then take their incorrect beliefs and spread them around as fact to everyone that they come into contact with. Limbaugh’s serial lies are one of the main ways that he and radio show are harming the country.

Jason Easley

Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.

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