Limbaugh Launches Dishonest Attack Campaign On An Elementary School

Posted by Steven Reynolds, The All Spin Zone at 12:13 PM on November 11, 2007.

This post, written by Steven Reynolds, originally appeared on The All Spin Zone

Rush Limbaugh went on a rant against Bay Haven School of Basics Plus (an odd name for a school) based on some bad information from a caller. Yes, more little victims for Rush! The claim was that the school was going to honor Veterans Day by honoring conscientious objectors. During the rant, Limbaugh had his listeners call the school, and of course they became inundated with callers accusing the school of doing something it never intended to do. From Tampa Bay Online:

While office workers took up to 15 phone calls every 10 minutes from Limbaugh listeners and people who had heard about the controversy, Asheim-Dean emphasized that students at the school will gather tomorrow for a color guard.

"We will be honoring our veterans tomorrow in a very traditional way," Asheim-Dean said. "That was the plan from the beginning, and that is the plan now."

It seems Mr. Limbaugh owes this school an apology, and maybe monetary damages. They would not have gotten those calls if Mr. Limbaugh hadn't gotten his panties in a twist about a nonexistent issue. Actually, this is a matter of further Republican incompetency. Limbaugh, like George Bush, will take just about any anonymous woman online for a valued informant, and he doesn't even bat an eye when his source says she got her information from a 4th grader.

Hmm. Could we all pretend to be Dittoheads and feed this guy false information? Actually, it would be tough to do. Nobody can pretend to be that stupid.

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