{"id":354229,"date":"2020-06-29T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=354229"},"modified":"2020-07-06T14:30:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T18:30:20","slug":"wapo-blames-conservative-media-for-coronavirus-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/06\/29\/wapo-blames-conservative-media-for-coronavirus-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"The Washington Post Lies to Blame Me for Coronavirus Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Now, let me give you another example of totally fake, lying news. I hold here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers the media column by the latest media columnistette at the Washington Post.<\/p>\n

Her name is Margaret Sullivan, I believe. Let\u2019s see. (sigh) Margaret Sullivan. Try this headline. I realize not many of you may have seen this because you don\u2019t read, on my advice, the Washington Post. “The Data Is in: Fox News May Have Kept Millions From Taking the Coronavirus Threat Seriously.”<\/a> This story is all about how conservative media is responsible for coronavirus case increases and deaths, because conservative media has told its audience that there\u2019s nothing to see here.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>That the coronavirus is not serious, that it\u2019s this massive conspiracy, that it\u2019s overblown; you don\u2019t need to worry about it. This is in the Washington Post. This is one of the most egregious examples of fake news that you\u2019ll find. “It\u2019s another one of those Trump Era realities best described as unsurprising but nevertheless shocking. Three serious research efforts have put numerical weight — yes, data-driven evidence — behind what many suspected all along:<\/p>\n

“Americans who relied on Fox News, or similar right-wing sources, were duped as the coronavirus began its deadly spread. The studies ‘paint a picture of a media ecosystem that amplifies misinformation, entertains conspiracy theories and discourages audiences from taking concrete steps to protect themselves…'” Now, this, again, is classic.<\/p>\n

If there\u2019s anybody literally guilty of amplifying misinformation, it is the Washington Post and the New York Times and CNN. They have lied. They have amplified lies. They have made things up about the 2016 election for four years and counting. They won Pulitzer Prizes on the basis of lies. I mean, there wasn\u2019t one thing they wrote… Folks, do you realize this?<\/p>\n

In three years or four, there isn\u2019t one thing they wrote that was true about the 2016 election being meddled with, stolen by Trump, Trump working with China, Trump working with Russia, Trump stealing it from Hillary. Not a word of any of that has been true. It is all fake news or lies or misinformation. And you talk about a conspiracy theory?<\/p>\n

What better conspiracy theory could you adopt than Donald Trump secretly working with Vladimir Putin to outsmart the smartest and brightest and bestest Democrats the country has to offer? Hillary Clinton, John Podesta, John Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey, Nancy Pelosi, this rube Trump outsmarted all of them. He successfully stole an election that literally could not be stolen, and he did it as a Russian agent.<\/p>\n

And these people have the audacity write now — w-r-i-t-e, to report now — that Fox News (and they mention my name here in a minute) as being responsible for you not taking coronavirus seriously. (sniveling) “Those who relied on mainstream sources — the network evening news or national newspapers — they got an accurate assessment of the pandemic\u2019s risks.<\/p>\n

“Those were the news consumers who were more likely to respond accordingly, protecting themselves and others against the disease that has now killed more than 123,000… Those who relied on Fox or, say, radio personality Rush Limbaugh, came to believe that vitamin C was a possible remedy…”<\/p>\n

Now, folks, I have never mentioned vitamin C as a remedy to any damn thing in American health ever on this program because I don\u2019t believe it. I don\u2019t believe it. You can swallow vitamin C until you can\u2019t swallow anymore, and it\u2019s not gonna keep you from getting a cold. That\u2019s what I think. I never talk about it. I have yet to mention vitamin C as it relates to anything with the coronavirus.<\/p>\n

I have never downplayed the seriousness of it.<\/p>\n

I have never downplayed the severity of it.<\/p>\n

Quite the opposite.<\/p>\n

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I have lamented that I didn\u2019t think a shutdown — nationwide shutdown or lockdown — was necessary because the way it was being done, there was no way it was going to stop the spread of the virus anyway. All it was gonna do was delay it. But, if they\u2019re willing to publish such a blatant lie — and, by the way, with Nexis and Lexis or Google, they could have easily researched this.<\/p>\n

Margaret Sullivan, her fact-checkers could have found out I have never mentioned vitamin C in relation to coronavirus or anything else. I don\u2019t take vitamins! Well, I take that back. I\u2019m being forced to take \u2019em now, but in my whole life I believe that I get all the vitamins I need by living. And even now, I\u2019ll make sure I\u2019m outside 20 minutes a day just to get some vitamin D.<\/p>\n

But I have to lather up out there to do that. I\u2019m very susceptible to the sun, but I make sure I get 20 minutes of vitamin D \u2019cause you can\u2019t go get a pill for it. In case you didn\u2019t know, during the Spanish flu 1917-\u201988 that\u2019s what people were advised, “Go outside, get fresh air, get some sun. That\u2019s the best thing you can do.” There weren\u2019t some therapies for the Spanish flu back then. People just lived through it.<\/p>\n

You know, we didn\u2019t even shut the country down. Woodrow Wilson never even made a single statement about the Spanish flu \u2019cause it was World War I time. That was his focus. At any rate, if they are willing to construct a lie as blatant as this, then as far as I\u2019m concerned, everything else in this story is… You have here the entire… CNN did a story on this; now you got the Washington Post.<\/p>\n

The entire Drive-By Media is doing long-form stories on how Fox News and conservative media are the reason the virus is spreading because our audiences are a bunch of mind-numbed robot idiots who don\u2019t know what to do unless we tell them. “‘That\u2019s the real evil of this type of programming,\u2019 Arthur West of the Washington League for Increased Transparency and Ethics [said]. ‘We believe it delayed and interfered with a prompt and adequate response…”<\/p>\n

(summarized) I think the Fox News and the conservative media… I don\u2019t think they care, and I think that they are wrong. It goes on to talk about how the devotees of right-wing news decided they didn\u2019t need to stay at home, they didn\u2019t need to wear masks, they didn\u2019t need to take precautions. I\u2019m telling you, don\u2019t believe a thing these damnable people say or write, folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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