Lying Liar

In a chapter entitled THE REAGAN YEARS: RUSH LIMBAUGH IS A BIG FAT LIAR Franken accuses Limbaugh of propping up a supposed big lie (that Reaganomics worked) with three legs–each leg a lie in its own right. The first question we should ask is “why three?” Rush uses multiple lines of evidence to argue Reaganomics worked, (read more...)

On page 15, Franken quotes from Rush to show just how lacking in compassion he supposedly is. The date of Limbaugh’s quote, which Franken does not mention, is April 1, 1992. We all know the significance of April 1. Here is the quote: The poor in the Country are the biggest piglets at the mother pig (read more...)

A study conducted at the University of Pennsylvania [Call-In Political Talk Radio: Background, Content, Audiences, Portrayal in Mainstream Media, "A Report from the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania"] showed that people who listened to Rush Limbaugh and/or other political talk radio programs, “have higher levels of knowledge and correctly think they (read more...)

As an example of Rush Limbaugh supposedly trying to deceive his audience, Franken, points to Limbaugh showing a New York Times headline to his audience: BUSH ASSAILS CLINTON’S PATRIOTISM DURING VIETNAM WAR PROTEST ERA. (Definition of “assail”: To attack violently) Rush cited the headline as an example of media bias, explaining the article mischaracterized what Bush had said. He then (read more...)

To those familiar with Limbaugh, what Franken writes is transparently false. For instance, Franken uses the Limbaugh word “feminazi” interchangeably with the word “feminist,” but Limbaugh’s loyal fans understand “feminazi” as Limbaugh’s tag for only the most obnoxious feminists. We know this because Limbaugh said, “I prefer to call the most obnoxious feminists what they are: feminazis.” (read more...)