Rush Complains About Hoax News Reports Today...

A bunch of pranksters apparently sent out a message saying that GE was going to give its entire tax refund back to the government to help pay down the US debt.

Turns out it was a hoax.

Rush said:

RUSH: There was a hoax perpetrated on the media today about General Electric and Jeffrey Immelt. CNBC ran with the story but it was the AP. AP ran a story that Jeffrey Immelt and GE had decided because of all the bad PR they're getting to give the government the entirety of their $3.2 billion tax refund. It's a hoax. AP was totally taken by it. It's just a bunch of guys with a fax machine. It's like the Center for Science in the Public Interest. It's just a bunch of professional pranksters, and they're called the Yes Men. "The Yes Men often impersonate corporate executives in an attempt to embarrass companies and draw attention. Andrew Boyd, who founded the satirical group Billionaires for Bush and says he is a member of the Yes Men," and they just sent out a fake GE fax, and AP ran with it.

You know, I was talking to some people this morning, "Well, why did AP run it?" Because they wanted it to be true.

One could ask the same thing about Rush and the Boston University story he ran with yesterday. He knew it was a hoax - the link provided in the story said that it was a hoax, yet Rush read it like it was the truth.

Because he wanted it to be true...or he wanted the rest of the country to think it was true...

Tit for tat...