Limbaugh: Why Did Hurricane Center Keep Isaac on Path to Tampa Until Day 1 of RNC?
- Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:00pm by
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Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh thinks there may be something fishy about the National Hurricane Center’s forecasting of Tropical Storm Isaac.
After initially predicting the storm would hit Tampa, the location of the National Republican Convention, the forecast changed, putting the tropical storm on a collision course with the city of New Orleans. This was only roughly an hour an a half after Republicans cancelled Monday’s events, Limbaugh pointed out during his radio show on Monday.
To be clear, the host said a number of times that he was not peddling a “conspiracy” theory.
“I’m alleging no conspiracy,” said Limbaugh. “I don’t want anybody thinking I’m going somewhere with this. I’m just telling you what happened. I’m telling you my thought process”
However, he said that the coincidences that occurred leading up to the first day of the RNC were just “unbelievable.” Here’s what Rush had to say on the subject:
Okay, 6:45 p.m. Saturday night the Republicans announce that they’re canceling Monday. At 6:45 p.m. Saturday night, everybody is still under the impression that Isaac is making a beeline for very close to Tampa. It was an hour and 15 minutes later that the 8 p.m. model runs showed New Orleans. I’m alleging no conspiracy. I’m just telling you, folks, when you put this all together in this timeline, I’m telling you, it’s unbelievable.
Limbaugh pondered whether or not the scientists were working on the new model, seemingly implying that they may have been able to warn the RNC not to cancel:
An hour and 15 minutes before the eight o’clock — now, the eight o’clock model runs, that‘s when they’re published. I don‘t know when they’re actually run. Eight o‘clock is when they’re released. They could run ‘em at 7:30, could run ‘em at six. Hell, I don’t know. That‘s one thing I don’t know.
Limbaugh then went on to play a clip of The National Journal’s Ron Brownstein who appeared on CNN Monday morning:
“We’re now in a split screen mode. Our top story is understandably, justifiably is a hurricane perhaps hitting the gulf. This convention already has been affected enormously by the storm and will be the rest of the week. Test for the President too, if hits New Orleans seven years…” Brownstein said.
“Right, right,” host Soledad O’Brien replied.
“…after President Bush failed that test,” Brownstein added.
“A test where we’ve seen a track record before. Much to compare and contrast to,” the host interjected.
And at this, Limbaugh argued that Democrats are going to force Republicans to “relive” Katrina and the perceived shortcomings of the Bush administration:
So you’ve got the Florida Republican guy talking about the convention, and he says, “Yeah, we want to get going here. We want to be able to spend the money we’ve raised. We want to get going explaining Romney and our agenda and our policies.” And these guys all respond to it, “Oh, no, look, pal, you may not get it yet, but the rest of this week we‘ve just guaranteed it’s gonna be about Hurricane Katrina and Bush and how you Republicans didn’t care about anybody, and FEMA didn’t get there on time. We’re gonna relive this whole thing…
What I spent the first hour trying to tell you was how it was being reported in a way that resulted in the Republicans canceling their convention today when it’s nowhere near there. And that there were model runs Saturday night that showed Tampa was not gonna be hit at all, massive shift of models that was not reflected by the hurricane center for 12 hours. That‘s all I’m saying. And now we got the media jazzed like I haven‘t seen ’em in a while because now Hurricane Isaac is casting a pall. How dare the Republicans even do a convention with a hurricane bearing down on the Gulf coast. How do they even do that?
Listen to the entire Rush segment via the Daily Rushbo:
(H/T: The Atlantic Wire)
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grayling646
Posted on August 28, 2012 at 12:13amOK. Serious question kids. What do you think I think the F in F. Scott stands for?
Report Post »Deb C
Posted on August 28, 2012 at 7:53amThe RNC grabbed a seemingly legitimate reason to disrupt the disrupters
Report Post »JRook
Posted on August 28, 2012 at 9:56amThe only thing stupider than Rush talking about something this ridiculous is someone including it in a report here.
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on August 28, 2012 at 10:29amNo, the crazy thing is someone betting paid to post lies here making fun of someone who made 59 million dollars last year reporting the truth.
Report Post »BeckIgnoresConstitution
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:48pmNational disgrace! Glenn, Sean, Rush, RNC, etc., aiding and abetting national security threat and vote fraud by colluding in historic cover-up of Obama ineligibility.
“Obama is ineligible for multiple reasons:
1. Not a ‘natural born citizen’ as required by Article 2, Section 1.
2. Born a British citizen pursuant to British Nationality Act of 1948.
3. Law enforcement has concluded his birth certificate is fraudulent.”[1]
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, … that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, … Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” – Declaration of Independence
Obama routinely omits ‘Creator’ when speaking of these rights. No ‘Creator’ = no ‘unalienable’ rights! He loathes liberty and our Constitution!
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Report Post »Bob_R_OathKeeper
Posted on August 28, 2012 at 12:13amIf you can’t get rid of Obama because of what he is doing to this country, you sure as he!! aren’t going to get rid of him with this, that‘s why it’s a waste of time. It does not matter where he was born as he is already in the position, he hates this country.
Report Post »BeckIgnoresConstitution
Posted on August 28, 2012 at 1:31am@ Bob – thank you for your service.
“In questions of power…let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” –Thomas Jefferson
Report Post »captdeadeye
Posted on August 28, 2012 at 5:32amI’ve been listening to the “thinker” since he was in Florida and every time Glenn and his stooges (Stu and Pat) minimize all birthers (even the ones that believe he was born in Hawaii) is selective reporting that we accuse MSM and a disingenuous towards the Constitution and our found fathers. I am a member of GBTV (annual) but I rarely watch because Glenn and gang and offended me. Stu claiming he has researched the birther movement consistently misreports the facts. This frosts this predominately 10th generation American who 95% of his ancestors arrived during the Great Migration of the 1600′s and has Pocahontas and many of the founding fathers peppered throughout his tree.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:16pmIt’s called wishful thinking.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:02pmSorry, Rush is wrong. Blame me. I’ve been sending requests for torrential rains to wipe the protesters and Black Bloc out of the RNC in downtown Tampa for over a month. It’s all my fault. Then I changed my mind and sent it (Isaac) off in another direction. It’s all my fault so blame me.
Isaac will be cut down by high winds that sheer off it’s capacity to reach Hurricane 2 or 3 status. It will bring some relief to some drought ridden States. So blame me. The RNC has nothing to do with it. BTW, I’ll be walking around the people in downtown Tampa tomorrow. Will you see me? And if you do… will you even notice me?
Report Post »pissantno.10
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:19pmget a grip rush was having fun
Report Post »Diane TX
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:43pm@ The Monk
Do you look much like your avatar??
Report Post »Gavinwcaf
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:57pmAnd the nation weather service lied and helped you perpetrate a false track for a hurricane .
Report Post »Gavinwcaf
Posted on August 28, 2012 at 12:01amDid you ask the national weather service to lie for you
Report Post »mmmmarilyn
Posted on August 28, 2012 at 12:53amI’d be more afraid of Chris Christie farting.
Report Post »lefty5005
Posted on August 28, 2012 at 9:48amI think someone is thinking, well; I didn’t quite get them the first time, let’s try to get them with this one. New Orleans is second only to San Francisco and Los Angeles in decadence, filth and immorality. I am not a Bible thumper but those cities are like the guy holding up the 1 iron in the black sky cursing God. Something bad is gonna happen.
Report Post »awrocksu
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:47pm“Right, right,” host Soledad O’Brien replied.
“…after President Bush failed that test,” Brownstein added.
Bush did just fine. He was president, not the neighborhood watchman. besides, what about school bus negan?
Report Post »nowonuno
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:11pmDon’t the Chinese have weather manipulation technology left over from the Olympics? Maybe Obama called in a favor from a fellow Commie to direct the storm toward Florida and then Louisiana. RNC Convention, Republican governors, hmm… What did he know and when did he know it? It’s not the facts, but the seriousness of the charges. BTW…it was a fart in the wind in FL.
Report Post »Choctaw25
Posted on August 28, 2012 at 7:19amBUSH didn’t fail at anything, he told the dumb butts for 2 wks. to get out of NO. But did they listen, no they didn’t. All of those buses, just sat there and were destroyed, because Democrat Mayor said they couldn’t find drivers. Yet a few short weeks later they found enough buses and drivers to transport huge numbers of black voters back into NO to re-elect his ignorant butt. And you say Bush failed, what a bunch of ignorant, uninformed, misinformed down on the plantation mentality idiots. If you don’t have enough sense to get out of harms way, on your own, you deserve to die. No tears here for the masses, that are again going to ignore the warning.
Report Post »v15
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:42pmIsaac is definitely a conservative hurricane that embodies the values held up by the GOP. Isaac is headed straight for New Orleans which shows how racist this tropical storm really is! Just another hurricane with a white name keeping the black man down.
Report Post »The Giver
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:00pmYou’re on to something here! Isaac is not only a white conservative hurricane but possibly Judeo/Christian!
watersRpeople
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:20pmNOAA is controlled by Commies that’s why.
Report Post »v15
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:21pmExactly. Isaac is very partisan. It passes by the RNC as mere tropical storm to give a “shout out” to rich white Christian conservatives and then has the nerve to make beeline to hit New Orleans as a full-on hurricane. Why is Isaac keeping the black man down while exploiting its war on women? It has an agenda. This hurricane, Isaac, plans to hit and destroy all of the Planned Parenthood clinics – why is it against abortion in cases of rape and incest? As a force to be reckoned with, which is seeking out to destroy businesses, jobs and hurting the middle class? New Orleans happens to have a high population of homosexuals that will be suffer negative effects so why the hate? Why hasn’t hurricane Isaac not released its tax returns or college transcripts? The word is out. I‘m not saying that hurricane Isaac is a felon but until it releases a decade of tax returns we just don’t know.
Report Post »watersRpeople
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:24pmI guess Rush Limbaugh is going to have to figure out that he‘s going to have to do more than run mouth if doesn’t want to lose every dime he owns.
Report Post »turbo
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:40pmRush, as usual you are correct. What is even more unbelievable, and downright terrifying, is why NOAA has its own police/military force and why they are so heavily armed. Our worst fears will soon be realized. Just remember, you reap what you sow, more than you sow, and LATER than you sow.
Report Post »scout n ambush
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:37pmIf you try to corner them on this trickery you will find out why NOAA purchased all the ammo
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on August 28, 2012 at 7:14amSad to say, but that was my thought, too.
Report Post »Deb C
Posted on August 28, 2012 at 8:00amMaybe it was to keep the ammo mfgs in biz….what ? it could happen…
Report Post »txannie
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:36pmNo conspiracy…just sneaky politics.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 28, 2012 at 7:37amYeah, could be. But, failing to warn New Orleans and surrounding area as soon as possible is a really bad play. Guess they would just blame Bush again if there was another disaster. Naturally, the media would never hold 0bama’s feet to the fire.
Report Post »squbafreak15
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:29pmI live about an hour south of Tampa and we have hardly had rain and just a little wind. The media hypes the s**t out of these storms so that they can get everyone watching and buying supplies.
Could maybe it be Obama playing with HARP using it to conjure up a storm aim it at Tampa to disrupt the RNC then turn it at New Orleans where the liberal media will try and make him look like our savior.
Report Post »Patrick Henry II
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:37pmI am sure Bobby Jindall will handle this much better than the last governor.
Report Post »Leadthemtothelight
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:40pmPerhaps I am crazy. But I truly believe that the american people in the majority are displeased with Obama. I think that the truth of the matter is that he has not moved this country forward in a positive way. Period end of story. It is not racism or a lack of understanding….we get it loud and clear. It’s just time for a new president with new ideas.
Report Post »freeberty
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:45pmRight on the first part, not so much on the second.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:02pm@SQUBAFREAK15
I am right near you .. yes . they clear out the groceries … the gas stations and Home Depot … all you have to do is have things on hand that you should normally have in Florida anyway (a thunderstorm a few weeks ago took out our electric for a day) water .. something you can eat (without opening the fridge) … batteries .. big deal. We put the braces on the garage (about 15 minute job) just in case it pulled a Charley .. but as it got closer you could tell it was too big to do that. I try not to let the gas go below a half tank and that way not a big deal .. just top off the tank. Easy .. I think they are still hyping it .. and I don’t think it is going to N.O. …. they are trying to shame the R’s into canceling more of the convention .. don’t do it … it isn’t strengthening and it is moving WEST.
Report Post »Jezreel
Posted on August 28, 2012 at 10:13amThe hurricane warnings worked in favor for the convention. There were supposed to be around 3000 protestors. Only 250 showed up because of the hurricane warnings.
Report Post »PurrrpleMtnMajesty
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:26pmThat was the 1st thought that crossed my mind when it was announced. At the time it had no indications of being any worse than the multitude of tropical storms this time of year.
Report Post »It really was no surprise that it missed FL. So they are either really devious or really stupid in
not properly forecasting…either way, quite untrustworthy.
Ben__Franklin
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:26pm“Right, right,” host Soledad O’Brien replied.
“…after President Bush failed that test,” Brownstein added.
Wasn’t there an Oil Spill down around there a short time ago that showed another complete failure in the Whitehouse?
Report Post »DarkJello
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:30pmI am pretty sure that was Bush’s fault too. It must have been, right?
Owebama cares so much, and it is “racist” to blame him in the slightest.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:31pmIndeed. Now I will agree with Limbaugh that there may not be a deliberate attempt on the part of the administrations NOAA group to alter the data of Hurricane Issac’s path. Given the Obama admins uttermost incompetence that alone may account for it – yet we can never fully be sure.
Report Post »fgbouman
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:23pmGod did it. Let‘s hope he’s just giving New Orleans a little warning to properly fix their wetlands and not drown the city again.
Report Post »mcgrawactor1
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:22pmRush is right, as usual. Media bias and the operatives at the NWC…they are desperate to win and will do ANYTHING, SAY ANYTHING and try to manipulate thought. We have to stand strong and see through the b.s. or we’re doomed, entering the most destructive time in American history. It may be our undoing. Please GOD, we’re on our knees!! Don’t let this befall this great nation. We need to boot Obama out and all of his minions, or we will be so very sorry when we finally lose our country to socialism.
Report Post »freeberty
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:18pmThis is flat out misinformation, as a person who lives in fl and follows the tracking of the tropical storm, (at no time was it declared a hurricane) it became obvious late last week that the storm was going to miss the west coast. (if you use the mind that God gave you to discern available information)
Of course All the news outlets and government emergency personnel like to beat the hurricane death knell drum.
It’s like everything else in life why would believe anything, anybody in power tells you?
Report Post »phrogdriver
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:28pmI live in NC, I’ve been checking the track every day and you are purely full of crap. I don’t put a whole lot of stock in what Limbaugh is saying, but I remember looking at the track saturday morning in the gym and it was still hugging the west coast of Florida.
Report Post »Celeste.Christi
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:32pmRight, right! We too live in Florida – right on the coast in Palm Beach County. After more than 30 years of tracking storms ourselves the info on Isaac seemed fishy – and it was.
Never trust the MSM on anything, and the Weather Channel is MSM, bought by NBC right after Obama was elected. Information coming from a company owned by a mainstream outlet, even the weather, is suspect.
Report Post »freeberty
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:44pmFRIDAY, Aug 24 Projected track
http://www.news-press.com/article/20120824/WEATHER01/120824002/Tropical-Storm-Isaac-Projections-downgraded-Southwest-Florida-remains-cone
Like I said Frogjumper, it all goes back to using the brain that God gave you, something that you obviously know nothing about.
Report Post »phrogdriver
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:24pmAnd you don’t think that track, which shows the median track of the storm about 50 miles off the coast, is anything that would impact Tampa? And the fact that Tampa was within the projected cone means that you knew last week that it would miss Florida?
Really?
Please. We aren’t stupid.
Report Post »ep8568
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:17pmThe Dem-rats are likely guilty on all charges here. I just like the false hope they have of affecting much. Really, just how much can you reinforce that you’re the party of sewage and putrifaction ?
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:16pmso that sammy l jackstoned could whine about those wascally weepublicans that steered the hurrycains tord the black folks
Report Post »DarkJello
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:24pmI, for one, am most curious to see how this plays out. When did they know what they knew?
Also, the RNC is gonna take names and kick donkey even with the loss of 1 day.
R&R FTW in 2012!! Out with Owebama!
Report Post »South Philly Boy
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:15pmBecause they are Liberal Communist DemonCrats
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:29pmcommunists! COMMUNIST I SAID!! Think of the children! You guys have so watered down the term that the boy who cried wolf sneers at you. COMMUNISTS!!!
Report Post »IAMMADDOG
Posted on August 28, 2012 at 3:23pmOh? You mean like the word racist? I can’t even find it in the dictionary anymore Ex.
Report Post »Wool-Free Vision
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:14pmThey had to do something to delay the start of the RNC, because they knew the OWS stoners would oversleep and show up a day late and a dollar short.
Report Post »Wool-Free Vision
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:20pmEither that, or Samuel L. Jackson threatened to “blow their motherfxing brains out if they didn’t make that fxking storm track over motherfxking Tampa, motherfxkers!”
Report Post »HotFixIt
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:14pmI was thinking that it was not going to stay east from the beginning… did ANYONE notice the abnormal LOW PRESSURE over TEXAS???? There has been a low pressure system over Texas for quite a while which is very, very unusual. It has been obvious from the beginning that it was going to pull to the west. If the usual high pressue system that is normally sitting here was in place it may have run up the coast but things are not normal right now… I am really appreciating the low here right now… we actually got rain last night!
Report Post »wordweaver
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:13pmIt’s not the least bit unbelievable, Rush. Stick to things you know about. I‘m thinking numerical weather prediction models isn’t one of them. Stop looking for boogie men where there ain’t none. Every new model model run refines the last one based on the latest data collected. Nothing sinister here.
Report Post »phrogdriver
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:45pmThat’s a lot of words to say nothing intelligent.
Report Post »RGFROMTEXAS
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:59pmWrong !! That is the most intellegent post so far !!!
Everything is a conspiracy with you guys !!! That whole concept
Report Post »is insane. Rush loves the attention !!!
progressiveslayer
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:11pmSo Rush thinks the maggot in chief is getting help from the fine folks at the hurricane center? I know he said he wasn’t pushing a conspiracy theory but it does seem a little odd with the timing of the update for the storm.
Report Post »cookcountypatriot
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:11pmand now its on track to the most demonic city in our country…ya know voodoo and mind readers and all kinds of ungodly stuff goes on down yonder…..and its the 7th anniversary of katrina…folks…7 is a very biblical number…just saying…maybe the prgressives can pray it out next friday during thier muslim prayers at thier convention…oh snap! it will be too late
Report Post »jeanr
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:28pmSo why do tornadoes, floods, and droughts pound the Bible Belt? Are they ungodly every year?
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:08pmAnything to attempt to distract from Os abysmal record……..Rush is always right – if only he really was the head of the GOP…..need more cajones – I have bigger ones than most of the establishmnet GOP and I am a tiny woman……..
Report Post »chips1
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:18pmGame! Set! Match!!!!!
Report Post »Tankertony
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:08pmWell, before the damn storm had even reached the lesser Antillies, they were predicting (with a touch of glee, and an ounce of hope) that the storm would wipe out the Republican Convention.
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