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Limbaugh to caller: When you turn 65, “hello death panels”

Written by Media Matters Staff

Published 10/27/09 4:25 PM EDT

From the October 27 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' Rush Limbaugh Show:

Video file

Previously:

Limbaugh: Senior citizens “know...what they face” with health care reform, “the guillotine”

Limbaugh continues pushing alleged “death panel,” compares Obama to Fidel Castro

Limbaugh again cites discredited McCaughey for proof that “death panels” exist

Limbaugh calls Obama an “authoritarian”'; says if his speech works as intended, Congress will enact “death panels”

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

MYTH: Health care reform provides for euthanasia, “death panel”

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