{"id":134561,"date":"2017-09-06T10:49:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T16:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=134561"},"modified":"2017-09-06T11:05:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T17:05:47","slug":"rush-limbaugh-dolt-great-big-wind-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/06\/rush-limbaugh-dolt-great-big-wind-edition.html","title":{"rendered":"Rush Limbaugh is a Dolt (Great Big Wind Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What, me worry?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Anyway, in this bit of blather<\/a>, Rush manages to convey all of the following points viz the impending Hurricane Irma:<\/p>\n

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  1. 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.<\/li>\n
  2. 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.<\/li>\n
  3. Evacuations and states of emergency shouldn’t be announced until right before<\/i> a hurricane hits, because why panic people?<\/li>\n
  4. The next hurricane after Irma is Jose! Isn’t that funny? Insert Hispanic joke here!<\/li>\n
  5. 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?<\/li>\n
  6. 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.<\/li>\n
  7. 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!<\/li>\n
  8. 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.<\/li>\n
  9. Remember, he’s not a meteorologist and therefore can’t predict anything, but he can so<\/i> predict all of this stuff.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I mean, honestly, as an example of Poe’s Law<\/a> [1], it’s hard to tell whether this is really Rush Limbaugh or if The Onion<\/i> has somehow stolen his web domain.<\/p>\n

    Yeesh.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    \nMy Analysis of the Hurricane Irma Panic<\/a><\/span>
    \nRUSH: 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    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 … Continue reading “Rush Limbaugh is a Dolt (Great Big Wind Edition)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,748,381,100,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-weather-and-climate-change","category-conspiracy-nuts","category-dolts","category-media-performers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Rush-Hurricane-Irma.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29986,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/27\/everybody-talks-about-the-weather-and-how-its-a-democratic-conspiracy.html","url_meta":{"origin":134561,"position":0},"title":"Everybody Talks About The Weather (And How It's A Democratic Conspiracy)","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 27-Aug-12 5:57pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Everybody Talks About The Weather (And How It's A Democratic Conspiracy)I actually listed to the 8-odd minutes of Rush below. \u00a0He can't seem to decide whether the Evil Crime was not changing the storm track from Tampa (to damage the GOP convention) or changing it to New Orleans (to conjure\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":31148,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/05\/hurricane-sandy-climate-change-and-wikipedia.html","url_meta":{"origin":134561,"position":1},"title":"Hurricane Sandy, Climate Change, and Wikipedia","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 5-Nov-12 6:12pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Wikipedia is an amazing thing, both as a resource and as a sociological phenomenon. \u00a0Where it tends to have problems is where the latter bumps heads with the former.(Note: as of this writing, there is a small area of the Hurricane Sandy entry that discusses its relationship with global warming.)\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":24990,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/01\/once-again-rush-rules-the-gop.html","url_meta":{"origin":134561,"position":2},"title":"Once again, Rush rules the GOP","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 1-Jan-12 10:31am","format":false,"excerpt":"After a \"concerned\" citizen raised to Newt Gingrich how Rush Limbaugh had criticized an upcoming chapter in Newt's new book that asserted climate change is real, Newt immediately made it clear that the chapter would be scrapped. 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