{"id":284407,"date":"2018-09-13T15:45:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T19:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=284407"},"modified":"2018-09-14T16:14:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T20:14:06","slug":"houston-eyeball-news-thinks-i-told-you-it-would-rain-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/09\/13\/houston-eyeball-news-thinks-i-told-you-it-would-rain-sharks\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Eyeball News Thinks I Told You It Would Rain Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Grab audio sound bite No. 23. This is from KHOU-TV, KHOU eyeball 11 news in Houston. This was this morning. The anchors are Russ Lewis, Lisa Hernandez, correspondent Brandi Smith with an “i” on there; so I\u2019m guessing she is a woman, though you never know anymore. And they are talking about reports that Hurricane Florence is picking up sharks (laughing) out of the ocean.<\/p>\n

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RUSS LEWIS: Is Hurricane Florence so strong that it\u2019s picking up sharks and then will drop them into neighborhoods?<\/p>\n

LISA HERNANDEZ: AKA Sharknado.<\/p>\n

BRANDI SMITH: Of course it\u2019s not true! But this photo is made to look like a breaking news graphic that you might see on TV. It\u2019s definitely fake. I don\u2019t know who was buying into this but it was created on a website called BreakYourOwnNews.com.\u00a0So this got a signal boost when Rush Limbaugh talked about it on his radio show Tuesday. He made it sound like it was real. We can absolutely verify this one is false. But we do want to emphasize there\u2019s plenty of real danger from Hurricane Florence so it\u2019s definitely something people in the Carolinas are taking seriously.<\/p>\n

LEWIS: Sure. And I want to hear that Rush Limbaugh clip (laughs) and see if it was tongue-in-cheek.<\/p>\n

HERNANDEZ: Yeah.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: That poor guy, that was Lewis there, Russ Lewis, I hope he doesn\u2019t get canned for getting it right. This was during the period of time I was discussing the fact that there was also gonna be pig manure, which is also another old wives\u2019 tale that comes from Hurricane Katrina. I even pointed out — and I had that website and I showed it here — I pointed out there\u2019s no way it could rain sharks. Because sharks are never gonna be sucked out of the ocean. It\u2019s not possible. The only way that sharks could end up on land is if they are part of any storm surge. Storm surge and rainfall are two completely different things. But let\u2019s listen. This is audio sound bite number 24. Here it is.<\/p>\n

BEGIN ARCHIVE CLIP<\/p>\n

RUSH: The latest Hurricane Florence update: \u201cNew Reports from NOAA Aircraft Show Sharks Have Been Lifted into the Hurricane.\u201d So those of you in the target path in North Carolina, South Carolina? In addition to the pig manure, in addition to the slop, in addition to the floods, in addition to the cars rolling around on the waters in front of your house \u2014 in addition to the mudslides and the landslides \u2014 now you might end up with a shark in your front yard.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m telling you right now\u2026 (interruption) You think I\u2019m making this up? This appeared somewhere. \u201cFlorence Now Contains Sharks.\u201d I\u2019m telling you. You want to tell me this story is not true, that this is the one thing I cite\u2026? Let me find the headline at the bottom of The Stack<\/a>. \u201cHurricane Risks Including Toxic Sludge and Lagoons of Pig Manure.\u201d I\u2019m telling you, they\u2019re getting ready to call this Donald Trump\u2019s Katrina! How many times did they\u2026? You know, after George Bush had seen Katrina, how many other Katrinas did Bush have for the remainder of his term?<\/p>\n

They\u2019re setting this up. Now, there was a story about pig manure and slop during Katrina, and the state of Louisiana had to debunk it. There were not oozes and gobs of pig manure floating around in floodwaters in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina. They had to debunk the myth. These are predictable things that the media has in their Nexis database. A hurricane hits, you go to the Nexis database and you look for stories that might look good to run and you run them. You just repeat them. \u201cFlorence Now Contains Sharks!\u201d<\/p>\n

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So sharks are being lifted out of the Atlantic Ocean and dumped into the storm because it\u2019s so strong, it\u2019s sucking \u2019em in there \u2014 and then they\u2019re gonna be in the waters. Of course, the only water that might contain sharks would be storm surge \u2014 it isn\u2019t gonna be raining sharks \u2014 and that\u2019s the predominant water source in a hurricane is rainfall.<\/p>\n

END ARCHIVE CLIP<\/p>\n

RUSH: I debunk the rumor. Now, I don\u2019t blame these people in Houston because what happened is Media Matters for America got hold of it along with the fact that I supposedly was saying the hurricane\u2019s nothing, that they\u2019re lying about it just to advance climate change, and all these media people — what\u2019s amazing about this, they read these things, they\u2019re outlandish, they\u2019re crazy, they never call here for clarification. “Did you really say that it\u2019s gonna be raining sharks?”<\/p>\n

They never call here. They just rely on a bunch of leftist radical lying sacks of manure over at Media Matters and they run whatever they say there throughout the Drive-By Media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: They never call here. 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