Rush Limbaugh’s hurricane diatribe highlights just how dangerous right-wing news has become

Rush Limbaugh isn’t a meteorologist—which he made clear right off the bat when he advised people not to believe warnings about Hurricane Irma. 

Of course, that doesn’t stop him. 

“I am not a climatologist or meteorologist. All I do is analyze the data that they publish. Just as I am the go-to tech guy in my family and here on the staff, when it comes to a hurricane bearing down on south Florida, I’m the go-to guy,” he recently said on his radio show on Tuesday.

There, in one sweet nugget, is the explicit explanation of what has become implicit in right-wing media. Experts are wrong. They’re either lying to you or stupid or probably both, as Limbaugh goes on to say. Only Limbaugh, the “go-to guy” is going to tell it to you straight. Read more…

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