Rush Limbaugh falls for Wikipedia hoax

[bushisanidiot]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100916/cm_yblog_upshot/rush-limbaugh-falls-for-wikipedia-hoax

" 2 hrs 4 mins ago
Rush Limbaugh falls for Wikipedia hoax

By Michael Calderone michael Calderone – 2 hrs 4 mins ago

Limbaugh falls for Wikipedia hoaxJudge Roger Vinson is expected to allow a Florida lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of health care legislation to proceed. Rush Limbaugh got that part correct.

However, the New York Times reports that the conservative talk-radio host (and health care reform critic) wasn't right on a few personal details about Vinson, who is a senior judge on the Federal District Court in Pensacola. Contrary to what Limbaugh said on air, the paper notes that Vinson isn't an "avid hunter and amateur taxidermist who once killed three brown bears and mounted their heads over his courtroom door to 'instill the fear of God into the accused.' "

Those were a few of the details added to — and since removed from — Vinson's Wikipedia page. The Wikipedia user "Pensacolian" included the bear-killing anecdote earlier this week and attributed the bogus information to the Pensacola News Journal.

"I've never killed a bear, and I'm not Davy Crockett," Vinson said Wednesday.

It's true that Vinson's interested in nature. But as president of the American Camellia Society, he's more likely to be looking closely at flowers than shooting wild animals and using their heads as a means of courtroom intimidation.

Ellen Vinson, the judge's wife, said she was "offended" by the broadcast, adding that she doesn't "think you should be able to broadcast something nationally if you can't verify it."

A Limbaugh spokesman claims that a staff researcher found the Vinson information on the Pensacola paper's website. And yet the Pensacola paper's managing editor says they never printed any such details.

Still, this isn't Limbaugh's worst run-in with the collaborative, online encyclopedia. Limbaugh was pronounced dead on Wikipedia last year after being hospitalized."

[Drale]

1. Lol

this reminds me of the Pedobear hoax

[azurnoir]

2. Nothing like an audience of the willing lol n/t

[Scuba]

3. Limbaugh dead? Par-tay!!

[MineralMan]

4. Con men make the best con victims.

Case in point.

[G_j]

5. doesn't "think you should be able to broadcast something nationally if you can't verify it."

Rush would have been out of business years ago...

[zipplewrath]

7. 24 cable news would be silent

Or broadcasting last weeks news. One of the reasons that "if it bleeds it leads" was so true at the local level was that the entire story was self contained. Pretty pictures of cars with lights flashing, and victims screaming, and police standing around collecting things. There was usually some sort of "spokes person" who could "verify" all of the claims to be made. It could all be filmed and done before dinner for the 6 o'clock news. A story about a developer trying to get permits for a new strip mall took trips to various government agencies, and trying to interview people who didn't want to talk could take days. And none of it made great video.

[Fumesucker]

6. I hope no one was hurt during the ensuing earthquake..

;)

[Vickers]

8. "A Limbaugh spokesman claims that a staff researcher found the Vinson information..."

"...on the Pensacola paper's website."

Even when they get caught lying, they lie.

[theothersnippywshrub]

9. Limbaugh loves to repeat lies almost as much as he loves to originate lies.

I see in the OP that he has originated a new lie concerning the lie he repeated. The Great Hate Monger is floundering about a bit on this story.

[DainBramaged]

10. Limbaugh was pronounced dead on Wikipedia last year

if there is a God...............

[HopeHoops]

11. Yeah, like tricking Rush would be difficult. I could get him to think Cap'n Crunch was gold.

Nah, that's too easy.

[bushisanidiot]

14. +1

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[Bravo Zulu]

12. Limbaugh was pronounced dead on Wikipedia last year !

He's a zombie?

[DirkGently]

13. Blahahaha

[cordelia]

15. Ha! Stupid prick. n/t

[onethatcares]

16. since his last marriage, Has he taken any trips to the

Dominican Republic alone except for someone elses' viagra?

[underpants]

17. June 31st!!! - I guess Rush doesn't BELIEVE in calendars

Saw this on KO's Worst Persons

too damned funny

[peekaloo]

18. Reminds me of the time I purchased Al Franken's book

"Rush Limbaugh Is A Big, Fat Idiot" and the cashier looked at me and said, "Gee that's not a very nice title even if it is accurate". :-)