I happened to hear his spiel on this point the other day – and he does this particularly weird thing where, in an effort to make a controversy of something, he will just try to redefine some word and that decide that his new definition, which no one (mainstream Republicans (“RINOs”), liberals, feminists, scientists, whatever) uses, and then explain why his opponent d’jour is wrong.
In this instance, he decided that Irma was NOT a Category 5 because, apparently, the highest windspeeds were only right there by the eye-wall. “So the rest of it isn’t really a Category 5 and anyone therefore who calls it a Cat 5 is wrong, because only part of it is.” And I mean, if the conspiracy afoot is that the rest of the world is not using Limbaugh’s definition of a Cat 5 then, to a certain point, he’s right. It is a vast conspiracy between everyone else in the world who knows what the f they are talking about v. him.
Well he has a point that 1) weather predictions are often wrong (either being much worse or much milder than predicted) and that 2) hurricanes can be tricky to predict where they land, where they go, and how severe, and 3) news orgs do use weather events for hype on their channels (I think the last deadly winter storm we had, over a foot predicted, fizzled out at only 2 in).
BUT, I don’t think it would be his job to down play the severity or second guess these people, especially when it as a cat 5 at one point. This isn’t a cat 2 or something being called a doom bringer. Over hyped or not, the danger is real.
Though I am betting few people here care if Rush Limbaugh listeners are taken out by acts of God.
Rush Limbaugh gets rushed from one compound to another, surrounded by minders, and the public never gets to see him. All they get is these rambling hate-filled broadcasts. He is likely on drugs…
Does this remind you of the ‘Patterns of Force’ Star Trek episode? A federation historian recreates the Nazi party on a planet to enable it to recover from chaos and financial disaster, but is then controlled and kept drugged by the force he created.
Sadly, I suspect Rush Limbaugh is Rush Limbaugh to the core. But maybe we can work this the other way around. If no-one sees him, maybe we can get someone to dub his random lip movements, and replace his text with something less toxic.
These aren’t hurricanes, these are the Angles of the Rapture. All true believes should rush, forthwith, to reach the eye of the storms and be taken up to Heaven. I’m no theologianist, but i feel in my gut that this is the TRUTH!!! IT’S RIGHT THERE IN THE BIBLE, PEOPLE!!! The Book of Gullibility Ch1, Vs1.
