Limbaugh Taken In: The Judge Was Not Loaded for Bear

[groovedaddy]

PENSACOLA, Fla. — Anyone listening to Rush Limbaugh’s radio show Tuesday could be forgiven for thinking that Judge Roger Vinson has the federal government dead in his sights.

Mr. Limbaugh spent some time profiling Judge Vinson, a senior judge on the Federal District Court in Pensacola, who had just announced he would allow a legal challenge to the new health care law to advance to a full hearing. The conservative radio host informed his listeners that the judge was an avid hunter and amateur taxidermist who once killed three brown bears and mounted their heads over his courtroom door to “instill the fear of God into the accused.”

“This,” Limbaugh said, “would not be good news” for liberal supporters of the health law.

But, in fact, Judge Vinson has never shot anything other than a water moccasin (last Saturday, at his weekend cabin), is not a taxidermist and, as president of the American Camellia Society, is far more familiar with Camellia reticulata than with Ursus arctos.

Apparently, Limbaugh had fallen prey to an Internet hoax.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/16/us/16judge.html?th&emc=th

[cleanhippie]

1. BUWAHAHAHAHA!

Priceless

[lillypaddle]

2. Love it! nt

[izquierdista]

3. All right, who did it?

I know it was one of you here. Who switched the tanks of gas that the great windbag draws from to create his gusts?

[theothersnippywshrub]

4. Limbaugh loves to repeat lies almost as much as he loves to originate lies. n/t

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. But..but it was on the INTERNETS! It HAD to be true! nt

[louis-t]

6. "Limbaugh had fallen prey to an Internet hoax".

They forgot the word 'again'. And, he will shrug it off by saying "it doesn't have to be true, cuz we know he thinks like that." Idiot.

[groovedaddy]

7. Vetting process? He don't need no stink'n vetting process! n.t

[louis-t]

8. So let me get this straight...

his staff gets their information from a website that declard him dead last year?