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Following  Limbaugh, conservative media push baseless charge that Obama administration  helped kill his Rams bid
Following Limbaugh, conservative media push baseless charge that Obama administration helped kill his Rams bid
Following Rush Limbaugh's failed bid to purchase the St. Louis Rams football team, the right-wing media have echoed Limbaugh's baseless claim that the Obama administration was involved in torpedoing his NFL ambitions. Limbaugh has claimed that the Obama administration "corrupted" the NFL ...
Right falls for 'thesis' hoax
washingtonmonthly.com — RIGHT FALLS FOR 'THESIS' HOAX.... Right-wing pundit Michael Ledeen published an item this week on Barack Obama's... "college thesis," which Obama allegedly wrote as a student at Columbia 25 years ago. Leeden cited some website, which ran a piece in... (more) Right falls for 'thesis' hoax
The Obama ‘Thesis’ Hoax « The Washington Independent
washingtonindependent.com — If you didn’t listen to Rush Limbaugh’s radio show today, you missed the news that an obscure... blogger had gotten his hands on ten pages of Barack Obama’s college thesis, thanks to Joe Klein of Time magazine. Michael Ledeen had jumped on the news, ... (more) The Obama ‘Thesis’ Hoax « The ...
Right Wing Caught Attributing Views in Fake Thesis to Obama
liberalvaluesblog.com — The conservative movement has become so intellectually and morally bankrupt that they they only way they can... get followers is to invent facts and lie about the views of others. Fortunately for conservative pundits, fact checking is a very rare thing among conservatives, allowing them to  ... (more) Right Wing Caught Attributing Views in Fake Thesis to Obama
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Greg Lewis: The Friday Rush: His dream deferred, Limbaugh takes a takes a backseat to Glenn Beck
The Hollywood Liberal — ... that ensued on the radio for days afterward. But in the days since, the letters N,F, and L have mostly faded from the airwaves (minus a pity party rehash on today’s show), and Rush’s status as the most prominent and reliably conspiratorial conservative voice in the media has begun to wane, replaced by none other than the even-more ...

Wallace hosts Limbaugh on Fox News Sunday for half-hour deluge of misinformation
The Hollywood Liberal — ... seasonally adjusted payroll employment data through September: [image] Rush repeats baseless theory on Obama administration blocking NFL bid. Limbaugh also repeated his baseless claim that the Obama administration played a role killing his bid to purchase a stake in the St. Louis Rams. After asserting that NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith “is Obama,” Limbaugh claimed that the controversy surrounding the bid was due to upcoming contract negotiations between the league and the players association, saying that Smith “has suggested that the Congress, ...

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