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Limbaugh invents new Katrina facts, claims Gov. Blanco and “state and local people told [government] to get out”

Written by Media Matters Staff

Published 05/26/10 4:16 PM EDT

From the May 26 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:

Video file

Previously:

Limbaugh: “We still don't know what Obama's done” on oil spill besides “making speeches”

Limbaugh: “Hurricane Katrina illustrated exactly what happens when you have a community totally run by leftists”

Limbaugh: Oil spill is “Obama's Katrina”

Limbaugh advances numerous falsehoods while discussing Hurricane Katrina

Lowry smear: Blanco blocked Red Cross relief efforts to “starve out evacuees”

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