Limbaugh Calls 12-Year-Old a Liar, Then Claims He Never Attacked Him

This post, written by Faiz Shakir, originally appeared on Think Progress

On his radio show earlier this month, Rush Limbaugh participated in the smearing of 12-year old SCHIP recipient Graeme Frost. Limbaugh introduced the segment, saying: "I had some rudimentary information on this two weeks ago, and it wasn't enough for me to trust going with. But since then, it has been verified, and most of it has been verified by a 'Freeper' at Free Republic."

Limbaugh propagated the now-debunked claim that Graeme Frost was actually a well-off kid being pampered by the government. He then explicitly called Graeme a liar who had been corrupted by the Senate Democratic Leadership:

So the bottom line for me is: They can't rely on truth to make their case for their cause. They have to lie. [...] They send the kid out to lie. They filled this kid's head with lies just as they have some of these soldiers about me.

I never once attacked this family. I attacked the Democrats for exploiting them. I attacked the Democrats for putting lies into the head of a 12-year-old. [...] The Democrats are amazingly brazen in this at using kids, using season citizens. I never attacked this family. I simply reported what their financial circumstances are.