Olbermann: ‘Orly Taitz Limbaugh’ stands behind fabricated quote

By David Edwards and Daniel Tencer
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 -- 9:10 am
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rushlimbaugh20080702 Olbermann: Orly Taitz Limbaugh stands behind fabricated quoteMSNBC's Keith Olbermann named Rush Limbaugh "Worst Person in the World" on Monday for standing by claims the radio host made about President Barack Obama, even though the talk-radio personality knew the claims were based on a satirical Web site.

For promoting claims that had been proven false, Olbermann compared Limbaugh to Orly Taitz, the "birther" lawyer leading the charge to prove that Obama is not a US citizen.

As various news sources have reported, Limbaugh recently cited Obama's "college thesis" to allege the president has an agenda to redistribute Americans' wealth. But the college thesis was a spoof hosted on the satire blog Jumping in Pools.

Limbaugh cited an excerpt from Obama's purported thesis that stated, "The Constitution allows for many things, but what it does not allow is the most revealing. The so-called Founders did not allow for economic freedom. While political freedom is supposedly a cornerstone of the document, the distribution of wealth is not even mentioned."

"Ladies and gentlemen, Barack Obama is seriously dangerous. To say that distribution of wealth is economic freedom is insane," Limbaugh told his audience.

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"Nothing -- not even the age-old maxim that if it's too good to be true, it probably isn't -- caused Limbaugh to think even for a second," Olbermann said on MSNBC's Countdown Monday night. "Jumping in Pools is a spoof blog, a satire Web site. It posted its spoof in August. It's now October and nobody has reported the shattering the details."

Added Olbermann: "Thus Limbaugh proved he has neither honesty nor common sense."

But what prompted Olbermann's criticism was that Limbaugh continued to defend the fake college thesis even after he was informed it was fake.

It may have been fake but "we know he thinks it," Limbaugh said on his radio program. "Good comedy, if it's comedy, must contain an element of truth. ... So we stand by the fabricated quote, because we know Obama thinks it anyway."

"Back-pedaling like a bear on a unicycle," Olbermann retorted. "The others who bit on this whopper -- like the National Review, even Lou Dobbs -- rushed quickly away from their embarrassment. But not Rush Limbaugh, or as he might now best be renamed, Orly Taitz."

"Orly Taitz Limbaugh -- today's worst person in the world," Obermann quipped.

This video is from MSNBC's Countdown, broadcast Oct. 26, 2009.

Download video via RawReplay.com

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  • Hooker
    Rush doesn't care about whether something is true or not. Only, if it's meat red enough for the morons who listen to him. This whole outrage over the veracity of what he claims is silly and naive. He is out for ratings...period. Read what HItler wrote in Mein Kampf about the effectiveness of the "big lie," told over and over. Lies, big and small are in the air Rush breathes. He is a lying bigot, who if there is any justice, will one day get what he deserves.
  • jimco
    Limbaugh knows that most of the morons that listen to his show don't listen to anything else but his and other far right shows anyway . So the odds any of them will even hear the truth is very small , plus , most of his knuckle dragging fans won't believe anything that's not on faux news and I doubt they've corrected the misinformation . I am quite aware of this phenomenon , both my brother and nephew are right wing nut cases who get all their information from Limbaugh , Beck and faux . Attempting to correct anything they've been spoon fed by the aforementioned is pretty much a waste of time , you might as well just beat your head against a wall . So Limbaugh understands his audience and knows that 1. his imbecilic listeners probably won't hear the correction 2. if they do they either won't believe it or just dismiss it and go on to the next right wing nonsense .
  • dave
    the BIZZARO world of limbaugh spirals yet further into ludicrousity. fat man, look at yourself.
  • allenallen
    NAYAR: Never Admit You Are Wrong. You will have followers. You will have at least a few followers and admirers even if you spout completely crazy stuff like "the world is flat." But generally to get a large following, it does not matter what nonsense you spout as long as you follow NAYAR. People (a segment of the populous) will always respect you if you NAYAR.

    Speak without a pause, piling conjecture upon conjecture until the audience forgets that you've never established the first premises that it all hinges on. Speak in a voice with a tone that you know exactly what you are talking about.

    And... NAYAR.

    Am I right, or am I right! That's not a question!
  • OldAtlantic
    Its still what Obama believes in. He still hasn't revealed a doctor signed b.c.
  • jimco
    I rest my case .
  • GunTotinLiberal
    OldAtlantic is a racist neo nazi that post on numerous as well as running their own white supremacist website. People like Old Atlantic are typically seen as white trash losers and for good reason. Old Atlantic represents a tiny insignificant minority with no relevancy. People with Down Syndrome have more political clout than someone like Old Atlantic
  • lousgirl84
    Great post. Couldn't agree more.
  • OldAtlantic
    Remember no one has a moral right to take humanity backwards. Race mixing with early stages of evolution may be possible but it takes humanity backwards and creates problems.
  • cheryl2
    You have taken humanity backwards and are a problem. I guess you are right.
  • lousgirl84
    Speak of the morons like OldAtlantic and they appear!!!
  • Savantster
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    Hey, OldAtlantic.. I'm going to quote you as saying "We should kill all non-whites, suffering optional but preferred", hmmmkay? I'll tell everyone you made that quote while attending a Klan rally.. When people say "it's not true, he never said that", I'll say "well, we'll just say he did since we know that's what he believes in.".

    douchebag
    .
  • OldAtlantic
    Within this environment that counts as above average wit.
  • philedrifter
    "Good comedy, if it's comedy, must contain an element of truth. ... So we stand by the fabricated quote, because we know Obama thinks it anyway."

    You don't know shit. Just because you said that (the line directly above this one) doesn't make it so. And you certainly don't know what Obama thinks any more than I do.
  • Ummm, HELLOOOO...

    Obama has said it himself. And who's to say, that THAT thesis, is FAKE? Maybe the college agreed, that it never released it to anyone, but maybe someone from the inside, leaked it. If Obama has said it, straight from his own mouth, then it IS possible that he wrote about it, ALSO.

    Listen here, straight from his own mouth:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck
  • lousgirl84
    Yeah it was such a bombshell that no one picked up on it since 2001. Go get a life.
  • Ohhhh, but it's a bombshell NOW. He meant nothing back in those days, but NOW! This is BIG news NOW!

    BUSTED AGAINNNNNNN!
  • shrapnel
    What nonsense. Since when has it been popular on Wall Street to talk about equitable distribution. Obama is no more than a mouthpiece for the evil scum robbing the country blind. Limpbough and his ilk deliberately spread the "socialism" lie to obscure the fact that the new boss is the same as the old boss.
  • godistwaddle
    Obama is a right-wing tool, dedicated to government by the predatory capitalists, for the predatory capitalists, and of the predatory capitalists.

    Oily Taint is a bad person.
  • godistwaddle
    Obama is a right-wing tool: government for the rich, of the rich, by the rich.

    Oily Taint is a nasty piece of work, eh?
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