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Limbaugh adopts de facto death panel logic: “they sure as hell are not life panels”

Written by Media Matters Staff

Published 08/20/09 3:08 PM EDT

From the August 20 edition of Premiere Radio Network's The Rush Limbaugh Show:

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Previously:

After repeated debunkings of “death panels,” conservative media backtrack to “de facto death panels”

Limbaugh falsely claimed he has “not used the word 'death panels,' except in quoting Sarah Palin”

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