On Monday, Shuster revealed the supposed source of the false quote: “Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Farrior says Limbaugh should be denied the privilege of owning an NFL franchise for comments like ‘slavery had its merits.’” Speaking with columnist Stephen A. Smith later that afternoon, Shuster’s co-host Tamron Hall wondered: “Should a person who says there are merits with slavery be able to have this privilege of owning a team?”
As result of the ensuing controversy raised by the false quotes reported by MSNBC, CNN, and other media outlets, Limbaugh was removed from an investment group that was considering purchasing the St. Louis Rams football team.
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During Wednesday's Morning Joe program on MSNBC, host Joe Scarborough warned of false Limbaugh quotes being touted by his own network: "And a lot of those comments were actually not true. The quotes that we heard the most of, the people we interviewed on our shows came with articles, waving articles with quotes – completely made up. And Mike Barnicle, the dangerous thing is, that the media just flew right into it."
On Tuesday, Media Research Center President and NewsBusters Publisher Brent Bozell called on CNN and MSNBC to “immediately and publicly source when Limbaugh uttered this phrase....They can prove their innocence by documenting this accusation. If they can’t, then they are 100% guilty of character assassination.” Shuster failed to provide any such documentation, instead waiting days to acknowledge his false reporting.
Shuster’s full Friday statement:
3:40PM
DAVID SHUSTER: And Tamron, speaking of influence, we do have an update involving talk show host Rush Limbaugh and the controversy over his effort to help buy an NFL football team. Limbaugh denies he said quote, ‘slavery has its merits,’ it was a quote that appeared on MSNBC this past Monday and Tuesday. MSNBC attributed that quote to a football player who was opposed to Limbaugh’s NFL bid. However, we have been unable to verify that quote independently. So, just to clarify.
—Kyle Drennen is a news analyst at the Media Research Center.
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Rush's lawyers must be on
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 15:37 ET by samhermanmdRush's lawyers must be on the case, because this is the second lame attempt at avoiding responsibility in lieu of a full retraction.
It must have killed Shuster to even have to do that. MSNBC must be feeling some heat from its legal staff.
It would be a pleasure to
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 15:37 ET by Scuba DudeIt would be a pleasure to witness Rush sue these slanderous pieces of fecal matter to bankruptcy. Their ethics and morals are already bankrupt, why not their finances?
The Obama Administration: THE most fiscally irresponsible Administration EVER
Somethings afoot me
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 15:38 ET by BuffNBoneSomethings afoot me hardies. Doubtful they'd being speaking these words on their own volition.
"Fighters are fun but bombers make policy"
Guy Smiley never says anything of his own volition :)
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 15:40 ET by katainkent____________________________________________
The Emperor, he has no clothes
Limbaugh in control
Sat, 10/17/2009 - 12:52 ET by Jerry MackAs Yogi said: " It ain't over, till it's over. " Rush is now in complete control of this situation. Sanchez, Shuster, Cnn and Msndc are obviously aware that they have been exposed as too what they are. The sound that they hear is the small amount of credibility that they had leaving them.
That
Sat, 10/17/2009 - 20:55 ET by doug1950and the sound of their collective behinds puckering and slamming shut.
Source of Fake Limbaugh Quotes
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 15:48 ET by RonReaganThe first phony quote of Rush with the slavery comments were posted on Wikiquotes.org 20 July 2005 at 1:53 am EDT by someone at the law firm of PATTERSON, BELKNAPP, WEBB & TYLER
Now who is at work at a law firm at 1:53am? (Timestamps on Wikipedia and Wikiquote are UTC time. Which is 4 hours ahead of New York in Daylight time and 5 hours ahead during Standard time.)
Here is that wikiquote post made at that time: http://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Rush_Limbaugh&diff=next&oldid=... (Just click on the truncated link)
The post was made from IP number 69.64.213.14, which is the gateway address for the office of that law firm. This is not the same IP as the law firm website http://www.pbwt.com which is hosted on a different IP. The IP number 69.64.213.146 is provided by ISP rcn.net /rcn.com for the law firm office.
This is the same person as wikipedia user Eleemosynary.
The following page lists names & email addresses of those from the law firm PATTERSON, BELKNAPP, WEBB & TYLER that visited the lsinews.com webiste. http://www.lsinews.com/cpreport/web_bug.dat Quite a number of people.
This is the same person as wikipedia user Eleemosynary.
The history of wikipedia.org and wikiquote.orgposts for user 69.64.213.14 and user Eleemosynary:
(Just click on the truncated links)
http://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&limit=50...
http://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?...=69.64.213.146
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&limit=50...
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&limit=50... (4,126 contributions listed, just keep clicking "older 500" to view all of them)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Eleemosynary
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:69.64.213.146
Other ID's and IP's of Eleemosynary:
http://wikiwatcher.com/pmcu/all.html (List of Wiki users. Takes a few minutes to download, but look for Eleemosynary)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Suspected_Wikipedia_sockpuppets_of...
Other contributions to wikipedia and wikiquote by Eleemosynary (annonymously or with another name)
http://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&limit=50...
http://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&limit=50...
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&limit=50...
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&limit=50...
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&limit=50...
Also see: http://proteinwisdom.com/pub/?p=2963#comment-124229
http://24ahead.com/wikiquotes-bogus-circular-smear-rush-limbaugh-jack-hu...
Thanks
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 17:22 ET by richb313Thanks for the links and update. You should be a reporter.
David Shuster has said that
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 15:51 ET by Chris NormanDavid Shuster has said that he regularly cavorts with midgets and dogs in the nude. I haven't been able to verify this quote independently, but there you go.
The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.
CYA
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 15:53 ET by Brad90956MSNBC is just trying to cover their ass. They have such a deep hatred for the right that they will not even admit they were wrong and apologize...I guess "character" is not a qualification at MSNBC...along with integrity, fact-checking, unbiased, facts, truth or just plain common sense.
More on Source of Fake Limbaugh Quotes
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 15:57 ET by RonReaganJust to back up what I found...
From another blogger at http://proteinwisdom.com/pub/?p=2963#comment-124275
Checking WikiWatcher, http://wikiwatcher.com/pmcu/all.html,
on 69.64.213.146 it shows Eleemosynary as being the Wiki user. It also
shows that user using the following IPs on the associated dates.
24.215.254.166 2006-10-28 00:34:24
69.64.213.146 2006-08-13 20:28:20
12.145.108.11 2005-08-22 02:28:15
213.86.213.196 2006-05-25 19:22:51
Using Maxmind.com you get the following for those IPs
From MaxMin.com
24.215.254.166 Location: New York ISP: Earthlink Organization: Earthlink
69.64.213.146 Location: New York ISP: RCN Organization: PATTERSON, BELKNAPP, WEBB & TYLER
12.145.108.11 Location: New York ISP: AT&T Organization: LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae
213.86.213.196 Location: London, UK ISP: COLT Organization: Ernst and Young
So we know that person was at “LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae”’s
office (a law firm) on August 22 2005, at the “Ernst and Young” office
in London on May 25th 2006, at the “PATTERSON, BELKNAPP, WEBB &
TYLER” office on August 13th 2006 then we can assume they were at home
on October 28 2006.
Why am I not surprised.
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 16:02 ET by AtTheWaterCoolerReferanced "quoted" your post with a hat tip from Exposing Bias and Deception at NBC They have a history of deceptive "journalism" they should change their name to TVOL "The Voice of Liberalism"
Other IP's used by the Person making the Fake Limbaugh quote
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 16:03 ET by RonReaganAccording to Wikipedia.... Other ID's and IP's used by Eleemosynary:
69.64.213.146 (the IP used for the fake Limbaugh quote)
69.86.147.248
69.86.228.70
98.14.221.68
BobMifune
Tanstaffl
Umlautist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Suspected_Wikipedia_sockpuppets_of...
That's the closest thing to an "apology" ...
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 16:04 ET by PrairieSkyRush is going to see from these spineless idiots. They'll all die first before the words, "we were wrong" and "we are sorry" come out of any of their mouths.
"The problem is not that people are taxed too little...the problem is that government spends too much." ~President Ronald Reagan
I'm unable to verify that
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 16:14 ET by RR GOPI'm unable to verify that Max Headroom isn't really a hermaphrodite.
One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 86% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.
What A Shock!!!!
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 16:19 ET by BourbeauConsidering Schuster's track record there's nothing surprising here. Apparently, for MSNBC, it's okay to slur a Conservative, but when it comes to Clinton's daughter that's grounds for a suspension. Schuster is a punk, and expecting any punk to admit he's wrong is just subjection one's self to a very long wait.
Which is just further proof
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 16:51 ET by Willis_Leon_Johnsonthat schuster has schultz for brains.
http://gjresult.com
him and others
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 16:57 ET by jon_torlinHard to believe that he worked at Fox News for a short time. Him and Kiran Chetry and a couple I can't think of right off hand. I wonder what drove them off or lured them away?
-Jon
They can be bought. They
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 17:01 ET by bigtimerThey can be bought.
They were always leftist loons in sheeps clothes.
Shuster was let go anyway.
Souless devils as far as I am concerned...I don't care their reasons.
'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart
Re Chetry
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 17:29 ET by slickwillie2001Keiran Chetry's contract was up in 2007 and she demanded a big raise from Fox News, from $200k to $300 or $400k, can't remember which. There was also bad blood between her and Gretchen Carlsen. Fox turned down her demands and refused to renew; CNN hired her. Good riddance, she's as dumb as a post.
I suspect
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 17:48 ET by doug1950Fox News found out who they really were and were glad to get rid of them when the time came. Fox, for all the comments to the contrary from the left is pretty balanced. Sometimes they overload the left side just to make sure they do not appear to be balanced too far to the right. Hannity is bad about loading up his panels with liberals, often the same ones over and over. Schuster is a lightweight, wannabe and I think a lot of his routine is just him trying to make a name for himself, but he is such a wormy little s**t no one take him seriously. In a crowd he blends in like wallpaper, nothing outstanding to set him apart from the background. I bet in a few years he will be selling GM cars in Podunk wearing a Herb Tarleck suit. Chetry is another lightweight and if she wasn't cute she would be in a the secretary pool at the Dept. of Motor Vehicles. What ever happened to Alan Combs? On the grand scale of journalists none of these are even an Honorable Mention. Like pulling your finger out of a bucket of water, it (or they) does not leave a hole.
Hey Doug:
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 20:33 ET by SickofLibs"Shuster blends in like wallpaper?"
How many people you know that could swallow a card table, drunk or not?
The O/Soros network have a
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 16:58 ET by bigtimerThe O/Soros network have a retraction or apologize....
When pigs fly.
'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart
"DAVID SHUSTER IS A CONVICTED CHILD MOLESTER"
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 17:56 ET by SickofLibsOf course I can't "verify" that it's a lie.
→ Not true, SOL
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 17:58 ET by Cool ArrowIf you'll remember, the evidence wouldn't stand up in court.
"Two Urns Up", Cool!
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 18:06 ET by SickofLibsAnd speaking of urns, where's Encino Johnny been lately?
→ Don't know, SOL
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 18:38 ET by Cool ArrowMaybe he got one of those Stimulus "shovel ready" jobs.
Obama said today that Nancy Pelosi is mopping up somebody else's mess. Maybe Encino man is helping out.
Hey cool
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 18:46 ET by cajun2If Pelosi was black, would that have been a racist remark?
→ Yes cajun
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 18:48 ET by Cool ArrowBut since the comment was only sexist, and NOW totally wants to bed Obama more than they ever wanted Clinton, don't expect any backlash.
Backlash?
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 18:53 ET by cajun2I'm still trying to deal with the vision of Pelosi with a mop.
Cool...
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 20:37 ET by SickofLibsUnless it's shoveling chlorine into his pool, I would doubt it.
I'm sure he's made many road trips to support Mrs. Speeker*, tho.
(* that's Kenglish for Speaker)
→ Kenglish
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 20:43 ET by Cool ArrowJar-Jar and Kenny G, a pair of cabana boys San Fran Nan could get really close to.
Slander from a law firm
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 18:24 ET by Jersey DaveOn his show today Rush said the false quotes were published from the IP address of a New York City law firm.
So NBC and the Lawyers posting it knew it was lies and slander under the legal definition when they posted it. Which of course was the reason that they did.
I want to know how much of this was set up in advance, and who in the media knew what the lie part was, in advance of them reporting it as the truth.
Who knew what when? This is like the false documents (Typed on MS Word in the early 70s) 60 Minutes II Propaganda Fever Swamp hit job on Bush.
Table turned on Liberals
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 18:32 ET by chesterarThe Left sure does love to try and extract apologies from conservatives when none are clearly needed. However, when an apology from the Left *IS* clearly needed they sluff off.
How delicious.
chesterar... ...and so
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 18:34 ET by bigtimerchesterar...
...and so typical.
'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart
Twits R Us
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 20:18 ET by Pilgrim1949Speaking of which....
"... co-host Tamron Hall wondered: “Should a person who says there are merits with slavery be able to have this privilege of owning a team?” "
Should a twit such as she and all the other twattling twits all a twitter lately "have this privilege" of ever again being allowed to call themselves journalists or be permitted to speak/write their empty-headed parroting of what passes for bathroom scrawled attempts at "original" sourcing?
Hmmm???
The cricket chorus is just warming up in response.....
"Ye canne change the laws of physics....." but some politicians believe that with the right legislation you can pretend they don't really apply to your own pet projects...
Too bad Tamron joined with
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 20:23 ET by bigtimerToo bad Tamron joined with msnbc...she could have had potential...same as Norah O'Donnell....they really started out good...then went all the way with the Soros network...must not have needed their arms twisted much either.
'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart
Who cares what MSNBC does,
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 22:29 ET by bse5150Who cares what MSNBC does, you guys are one of like, 19 people in the world who watch their worthless Lefty shows. And you do it for research.