Yes, I know. We all thought Rush was gone. Yet he keeps bobbing back up like a bad penny. Or … something large and fatty that keeps bobbing back up.
Anyway, in this bit of blather, Rush manages to convey all of the following points viz the impending Hurricane Irma:
- Hurricane warnings are a conspiracy of ratings-hungry media, hardware and grocery store owners, and liberal climate change conspirators. You can’t trust them because they are always changing.
- He is not a meteorologist / climatologist, but they’re all goofballs anyway, but he has a special model that he personally uses to predict hurricane tracks, but he won’t tell you what it is.
- Evacuations and states of emergency shouldn’t be announced until right before a hurricane hits, because why panic people?
- The next hurricane after Irma is Jose! Isn’t that funny? Insert Hispanic joke here!
- You can’t trust anyone but him, and all this hurricane stuff is just a conspiracy against Trump by the Deep State and the Fake Media and Big Climate. Did he already mention that a few times?
- Sure, Harvey was bad, but it wasn’t as bad as it could have been, and probably the media is exaggerating just to push climate change and an anti-Trump policy. Make sure you remember that this time.
- Oh, sure, they keep talking about “Category 4” and “Category 5,” but you know there are parts of the hurricane that aren’t that powerful. See! Fake meteorology designed to panic you! Nothing to worry about!
- He would ride out Irma at home in Florida, but they expect to lose electricity, which would stop him broadcasting, even though he has a backup power source, though he can’t tell you what it is because of security, so he’ll be somewhere else when the fake hurricane hits.
- Remember, he’s not a meteorologist and therefore can’t predict anything, but he can so predict all of this stuff.
I mean, honestly, as an example of Poe’s Law [1], it’s hard to tell whether this is really Rush Limbaugh or if The Onion has somehow stolen his web domain.
Yeesh.
My Analysis of the Hurricane Irma Panic
RUSH: I am not a meteorologist, and nothing I say today should be considered to be a forecast or a prediction. I am not the National Hurricane Center. 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.
Please, someone set Limbaugh down wherever Irma makes landfall, so that he can put his money where his shit is.
I listened to him on the way home. Amazingly idiotic.
There's no arguing with someone this intentionally stupid. I mean, all you can do is point at the incredible, awesome, stupidity and mock it.
+John Wehrle Honestly, though, I think I've done him an injustice. It's not that he really believes this. He just has followers who do (or will when he proclaims it). For him, I'm convinced, it's just a (highly profitable) gig.
+Dave Hill After watching his "act" since the 90's I am convinced this is exactly what he does, which makes him even more of a sociopath.
+Cindy Brown exactly. He's not dumb he just feeds off of ignorance and so must fertilize the pastures before he grazes.
On the plus side his house and Mar-A-Largo are in the current path.
+Stan Pedzick Guess who will be first and second in line requesting taxpayer support to rebuild …
Dave, bad pennies don’t ‘Bob up’, being metal. You’re right with the second attempt… The thing that bobs up is far nastier.
Stopped clock moment- much of US bottled water isn’t anything different to tap water. However – and this is where the minute hand ticks on – when your infrastructure is vulnerable, bottling water is a good idea, though filling empty bottles should be fine.
I sort of lost interest after that.
Unrelated point, does he know he looks like a sitcom used car salesman?
Big Climate? That's a beauty.
However, the phrase he uses is 'Big Water'. Which is still.pretty good.
+Travis Bird Yes, I was trying to figure out who Big Water was at first, before I realized it was the water bottling people. Though I guarantee that they have more "costs" than just sticking a hose in a lake and pumping stuff into cheap plastic bottles.
Oh, Limbaugh has doubled down, saying that criticism of his "hurricane truther" broadcast is proof that hurricanes are being used to "advance the climate change agenda".
https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/09/06/rush-limbaugh-doubles-down-his-hurricane-conspiracy-theories/217854
+Dave Hill This character is mostly known by reputation in Australia. I've only ever seen part of one of his television shows as a clip in a documentary. He was engaging in what is known here as 'poofter-bashing' when gay activists who had infiltrated the audience started dishing it up to him.
Eventually the whole studio was cleared to remove them and he was left sulking at his desk about their terrible assault on his liberties.
+Dave Hill I didn't get the 'Big Water' correctly. I thought he was referring to sea-level rise 'alarmists'. Now I can see that there must be Big Plywood, Big First Aid, Big Batteries, etc.
+Travis Bird The funny thing is that, honestly, that bottled water companies sell purified water (often from city tap systems) for such extortionate prices is something I actually agree with Limbaugh is scandalous.
Stopped clocks and all. Pretty sure most of us hate that type of greed anyway.
+Dave Hill Purified water (filtration, reverse osmosis, de-ionisation) sells for about A$1 per litre here. How does that compare to those prices?
+Travis Bird Well, aside from not using liters (don't get me started) …
… (except we do, since individual bottled waters are 16.9 fl oz = 0.5L, but, for God's sake, don't tell Rush) …
are 24 bottles for USD 5.50 at the local supermarket, or USD 0.23 per bottle, or USD 0.46 / L.
That's the equivalent of AUD 0.57 / L, so I guess it's a lot cheaper here.
(As a comparison gasoline/petrol here is … well, let's say USD 2.50 / gal., which is USD 0.66 / L, or AUD 0.75 / L — so the bottled water isn't quite as expensive as gasoline, but our gasoline is cheaper than your bottled water, it sounds like. Unless I've messed up my math again.)
+Dave Hill Unfortunately, you're absolutely right.
The standard fuel here is unleaded petrol, the price of which fluctuates in response to the world market (promptly when it rises, tardily when it falls). Right now the price in my vicinity is around A$1.16 per litre.