Was this a lie?

Question

I was asked to find one lie Rush told.
It wasn't hard. The first one I found was about a study by PEW. I thought this was good because someone referred to the PEW group doing research that showed Rush was so truthful. It isn't hard to find Rush "distortions"
Limbaugh wrong on Pew report, said "80 percent of them [journalists] will admit" to being liberals
One day after FOX News Channel host John Gibson falsely claimed that "80-some percent of reporters are self-described liberals," radio host Rush Limbaugh repeated the same falsehood on the July 13 broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show, specifically citing the poll that proves him wrong: "[M]ost of them [journalists] are liberals. Eighty percent of them will admit it in the latest press poll -- it was a -- that was a -- a Pew poll."

According to a report by The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press released on May 23, Limbaugh, like Gibson, was off by 46 percent for national journalists, and 57 percent for local journalists. The Pew report found that 34 percent of national journalists identified themselves as liberal; 54 percent identified themselves as moderate; and 7 percent identified themselves as conservative. Twenty-three percent of local journalists identified themselves as liberal; 61 percent identified themselves as moderate; and 12 percent identified themselves as conservative.

Even if Limbaugh had correctly stated the Pew report's numbers and said that 34 -- not 80 -- percent of national reporters "will admit" to being liberals, he would still have been disregarding commentary that accompanied the Pew report, which, as Media Matters for America has previously noted, specifically warned against drawing such conclusions.

—A.S.

The old trick is to search a database to find a storry to support your argument. It doesn't matter if the storry is true or distorted. It is not your lie.
I know - someone else is worse... I must be a Liberal.... Liberal media....
Blah blah blah...
This is what we have become.

I give up on this one. I say everytime DON'T JUST SAY "SOMEONE DOES IT WORSE"

Answer 1

If that isn't slanted enough, PEW is a republican funded reaserch group-
So the numbers the produce are already slanted!

Answer 2

It appears that Rush Limbaugh was trying to manipulate the poll numbers to favor his point. I believe that polls themselves are manipulated to produce a statistic that is favorable to the pollster or the group paying for the opinion poll. Read what journalists are writing and the slant the story itself produces, and then you will know for sure. Being a moderate is in essence being a liberal, of course, that is my slant, I mean my opinion.

Answer 3

I didn't hear the Limbaugh piece, but the report to which he referred is correct. The context was that more than 80% of those who identified themselves as either liberal or conservative (34%:7% = 82.9%).

Answer 4

Now I am asking you to find me ONE (just one) liberal public official who does not lie on a daily basis as a natural course of events.Come on....JUST ONE !! Clinton? Kennedy? Pelosi? Gore? Give me a break,if I recorded every word YOU ever said,would I have a hard time finding a discrepancy ??? Not likely..."he who is without sin...let him cast the first stone" Good luck with that one...

Answer 5

So you don't think most reporters are liberals? 54% self-identified as "moderate." What is that supposed to mean? I bet you self-identify as moderate.

Answer 6

There's a whole bunch more out there. You were just picking the low hanging "truth" fruit.

hey oldschool, you can't prove a double negative. moron.