Limbaugh Claims Obama Faked Books And Life

Rush Limbaugh has become the global center for spreading lies and smears about Barack Obama, but yesterday (September 16) he sunk to a new low, declaring that Obama did not write his own books. According to Limbaugh today, "Obama has two autobiographies which I refuse to believe he wrote." He of course has absolutely no evidence to support this crazy idea.

Limbaugh went on a long diatribe exposing the shocking, shocking possibility that Obama as a small child may not have witnessed the Apollo mission pilots in person as he remembered. But finally, Limbaugh got back to his original lunacy, claiming that Obama "hasn't lived a life long enough to write two chapters," let alone two books. Since the books are all about his life, which numerous press accounts confirm that Obama lived, the notion that "he hasn't lived a life long enough" to write two books is insane. Yet Limbaugh claims that the books were "written to hide and disguise who Obama is." As anyone who has read Dreams From My Father knows, it's not the sort of book someone would write to "hide" their past. In fact, Obama has gotten more media scrutiny about his past than any other politician in American history, precisely because he wrote about it in so much detail. But Limbaugh thinks that randomly throwing out smears against Obama, even when they can't possibly be true and don't make any sense, is acceptable to try to win an election for his side.

That's not the only lie Limbaugh is telling. On September 13, Limbaugh declared about Obama, "He organized to keep the ROTC out of school." There's not the slightest evidence to support this. There's not even one of those fake email rumors about Obama. I've never even heard that ROTC at Columbia University was even an issue when Obama was there, let alone that Obama had any role in it.

And earlier yesterday, Limbaugh referred to "Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, the mentors of Barack Obama." This is just silly. Even the worst of the "guilt by association" critics of Obama don't imagine that Ayers and Dohrn were his "mentors."

It's tempting to dismiss the lies of the far right because they're so crazy. But we need to document and refute all of these lies, which is what I'm working on right now. Please email me via ObamaPolitics or post a comment about lies and smears against Obama which you've received or read or heard on talk radio.

Comments

[espalmer]

Wow, this guy's even slimier than I thought. Dittoheads who want to believe him, will and there's nothing we can do about that. I think whoever becomes president should, after the economy and Iraq, focus on EDUCATION so that more kids will learn tolerance at an early age and will learn to recognize this type of person for what they really are.

[XME]

I know this goes without saying, but sometimes I just need to let it out. Limbaugh is a vile, hateful excuse for a human being.

[krisinfl]

Rush Limbagh, scion of a wealthy family, has just a high school education (he flunked every class in the 3 semesters of college he took), no formal training in journalism, reporting, economics, psychology, government, or any of the other things he claims to be an expert on. He was a top 40's DJ, who was fired from his first 6 jobs because he used the airwaves to voice his opinions rather than spin the records on the play list. He got his big break on talk radio after the FCC repealed the Fairness Doctrine, which required equal time for opposing viewpoints. He is an ignorant, arrogant, self-admitted drug addict who is paid to entertain people with his pompous blather. It continues to amaze me that listeners take the nonsense he spouts as fact-based.

[mommadona]

This is a man who's spent his whole adult life holed up in a small studio smelling of himself for decades.

BIG fish in LITTLE pond.

He's no different today than he was as a high school student who used to hide away so he wouldn't get a wedgie for being such an ass.