It appears that Rush Limbaugh has truly gone off the deep end (I know some people might argue that he went off the deep end a long time ago, but hear me out). Rush is now accusing President Obama of trying to get the Republican National Convention canceled. The method that he is accusing President Obama of using to get the convention canceled isn't some sort of legal tactic or use of intimidation, but a hurricane.
Yep, that's right, Rush Limbaugh is accusing President Obama of sending Hurricane Issac towards the Republican Nation Convention in Tampa Bay, Florida.
Well, not exactly sending it, but he is accusing the National Hurricane Center of faking Hurricane Issac's projected path so\ to make it look like it's going towards Tampa Bay, and that President Obama will send in FEMA ahead of time to basically make the convention look like a bunch of tents and RVs...
http://www.politicususa.com/rush-limbaugh-claims-hurricane-obama-conspiracy-cancel-gop-convention.html
While Rush is certainly a hardcore conservative, and has promoted conspiracy theories in the past, most of the conspiracy theories tended to be nothing more then political propaganda, which is not uncommon when it comes to politics, but now it seems that the conspiracy theories that he is promoting is moving away from political propaganda, to nutcase conspiracy theories.
Case in point, when the movie The Dark Knight Rises came out, Rush accused the movie's creators of basically creating the movie as anti Romney propaganda because the main villain was called Bane, and Mitt Romney use to be an executive for Bain Capital...
And that's not all...
Rush has accused President Obama of having governing style similar to that of Hitler's, and that he created the recession to get back at the United States for racism...
Rush has also accused environmentalists of causing the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
And these are only a few examples of some of the insane and completely wrong statements (sometimes out right lies) that Rush has made over the years, which has only increased since President Obama took office.
Over the years Rush Limbaugh has moved away from right wing political commentator, to right wing nut job and conspiracy theorist, much like how Alex Jones is.
It shocks me that anyone takes Rush seriously anymore...
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Sunday, August 26, 2012
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Embarrassing Conspiracy Theories: BP Oil Spill
As everyone knows, in 2010 a BP oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico blew up, causing one of the worst environmental disasters in history. While almost everyone admits, including BP it self, that BP is solely responsible for this disaster, there are some people who believe that this wasn't an accident caused by BP's unwillingness improve safety. They believe that this was intentional.
One of the claims is that the oil rig was bombed by environmentalist, or by the government itself. The reason behind these claims is that it is believed that the disaster was caused in order to become a catalysis for enacting much more broad and harsher environmental laws.
The problem with this is that besides the fact that this would be more counter-productive, since the oil spill caused huge amounts of environmental harm to the region, it also ignores the fact that BP has had one of the worst safety records of any oil companies out there.
BP has paid tens of millions of dollars for safety violations, sometimes even multiple times for the same safety violation. Also, no environmental terrorist groups, or any other terrorist groups, has ever claimed responsibly, as terrorist groups tend to do. Plus, there has never been any evidence that a bomb even caused the explosion.
Other theories claim that foreign governments, usually either Russia or North Korea, destroyed the oil rig as a way to cause economic and environmental turmoil to the US. Besides the fact that again, there is no evidence that the explosion was caused by anything other then an accident, if evidence turned up that any nation intentionally caused this, we would have gone to war with that nation.
Some other theories speculate that BP intentionally cause the oil spill in order to reap in the profits from the clean up. Besides the fact that there is no evidence of this, no company would ever have done such a thing, because there is no profit in it what so ever. BP didn't make any money from this, they lost huge amounts.
Still other theories also include that the spill was caused by both the government and BP, and that it is part of a secret depopulation program, and that the chemicals that were sprayed on the oil caused some of the people working in the clean up area to get sick.
It is true that people who were working in the clean-up efforts did sometimes get sick, but it's much more likely that the crude oil caused them to get sick, and not the stuff that was used to try to break the oil up.
The fact is that there is just no proof that anything other then poor safety caused this disaster, and most people who claim this was caused by the government, or environmentalist, also tend to be global warming denialist, who believe that global warming is a hoax intended to bilk people out of money, and to kill certain industries, or as some people believe, to enact laws and kill off people so that this will help bring about a so called "New World Order".
The fact is, is that this is nothing more then an accident.
One of the claims is that the oil rig was bombed by environmentalist, or by the government itself. The reason behind these claims is that it is believed that the disaster was caused in order to become a catalysis for enacting much more broad and harsher environmental laws.
The problem with this is that besides the fact that this would be more counter-productive, since the oil spill caused huge amounts of environmental harm to the region, it also ignores the fact that BP has had one of the worst safety records of any oil companies out there.
BP has paid tens of millions of dollars for safety violations, sometimes even multiple times for the same safety violation. Also, no environmental terrorist groups, or any other terrorist groups, has ever claimed responsibly, as terrorist groups tend to do. Plus, there has never been any evidence that a bomb even caused the explosion.
Other theories claim that foreign governments, usually either Russia or North Korea, destroyed the oil rig as a way to cause economic and environmental turmoil to the US. Besides the fact that again, there is no evidence that the explosion was caused by anything other then an accident, if evidence turned up that any nation intentionally caused this, we would have gone to war with that nation.
Some other theories speculate that BP intentionally cause the oil spill in order to reap in the profits from the clean up. Besides the fact that there is no evidence of this, no company would ever have done such a thing, because there is no profit in it what so ever. BP didn't make any money from this, they lost huge amounts.
Still other theories also include that the spill was caused by both the government and BP, and that it is part of a secret depopulation program, and that the chemicals that were sprayed on the oil caused some of the people working in the clean up area to get sick.
It is true that people who were working in the clean-up efforts did sometimes get sick, but it's much more likely that the crude oil caused them to get sick, and not the stuff that was used to try to break the oil up.
The fact is that there is just no proof that anything other then poor safety caused this disaster, and most people who claim this was caused by the government, or environmentalist, also tend to be global warming denialist, who believe that global warming is a hoax intended to bilk people out of money, and to kill certain industries, or as some people believe, to enact laws and kill off people so that this will help bring about a so called "New World Order".
The fact is, is that this is nothing more then an accident.
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