Limbaugh Miffed Media Distracted From Border Crisis By Malaysian Plane

FILE - This May 14, 2012 file photo shows conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh speaking during a ceremony inducting him into the Hall of Famous Missourians in the state Capitol in Jefferson City, Mo. On Wednesday,... FILE - This May 14, 2012 file photo shows conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh speaking during a ceremony inducting him into the Hall of Famous Missourians in the state Capitol in Jefferson City, Mo. On Wednesday, May 14, 2014, Limbaugh won the Children’s Choice Book Award for author of the year for his best-selling “Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims." (AP Photo/Julie Smith, File) MORE LESS
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Rush Limbaugh is always quick to label news a convenient distraction from the real issue at hand, and the Malaysian Airlines passenger jet crash on Thursday was no exception.

“I don’t want appear to be callous here, folks, but you talk about an opportunity to abandon the Obama news at the border?” Limbaugh said on his radio show Thursday. “And, no, I’m not suggesting anything other than how the media operates.”

Limbaugh was careful not to link the plane crash to President Obama, as conservatives often do when they are distracted from their pet scandal with breaking news.

He also made a comment about CNN, alluding to the network’s breathless coverage of the Malaysian Airlines flight that disappeared in March.

“I haven’t had CNN on all day,” Limbaugh said. “What do you bet they have broomed everything and are covering wall-to-wall the Malaysian Airlines flight shot down by a missile?”

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  1. Who knew, earlier today, how prescient we all were when we posted that the ReichWing would link this to Obama.

  2. Because when you are Rush Limbaugh, STFU on the day of a tragedy is not an option.

  3. But isn’t the border crisis a distraction from Benghazi? Right wingers are so hard to keep up with.

  4. Avatar for jsfox jsfox says:

    What’s really got Limpballs miffed is that his heart throb, Putin, is going to take some heat for this event

  5. By tomorrow, thrush will be claiming that the plane carried a courier with the Real Birf Certificate in their briefcase.

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