Originally posted on 09/08/2017:

Maybe he's been listening to Rush Limbaugh, who blamed all the hurricane hype on Big Water, Big Battery, Big Building Supply and the media. It turns out he fell for the hype and fake news as he just evacuated his Florida home.

Limbaugh, who stressed he is not a meteorologist, told his national audience on Tuesday that he believed the press was hyping coverage of Hurricane Irma to “advance this climate change agenda.”

The conservative talk radio king additionally floated another baseless theory, suggesting local news outlets were showering its audiences in storm coverage to scare them into purchasing bottles of water and other supplies from local retailers. Limbaugh said there was a “symbiotic relationship between retailers and local media, and it’s related to money.”

“The local media … reports in such a way as to create the panic way far out, which sends people into these stores to fill up with water and to fill up with batteries, and it becomes a never-ending repeated cycle,” he said. “And the two coexist. So the media benefits with the panic with increased eyeballs, and the retailers benefit from the panic with increased sales, and the TV companies benefit because they’re getting advertising dollars from the businesses that are seeing all this attention from customers.”

http://fox2now.com/2017/09/08/rush-l...urricane-irma/