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KSFO's Rodgers baselessly claimed Pritzker is "throwing a fancy reception" for Ahmadinejad

Summary: Lee Rodgers baselessly claimed that Penny Pritzker, the national finance chair of Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign, is "throwing a fancy reception" for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "at one of the Hyatt hotels in New York," owned by Pritzker's family. Rodgers offered no evidence for the claim, and Rush Limbaugh has said, "I'm told there's no evidence that Penny Pritzker knew about" the dinner.
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Posted by wzwriter

Just like there's no evidence that Jeff Christie was arrested in the company of a male prostitite in Pittsburgh back in the Early '70s, but we all know that the story is true.

Posted by therick in reply to wzwriter

Hey!  Isn't Jeff Christie a radio name once used by a draft dodging, 3 times divorced, drug addicted, self loathing, homosexual, and suspected pedophile, college dropout (in his first term) who calls himself Rush Limbaugh?

Just wondering. . .

Posted by therick in reply to therick

If it weren't so tragic, it would be funny, that right wingers will follow anyone as long as they have that bigotry thing down.

Posted by IRONY 101

"sponsored by Mennonite Central Committee, the Quaker United Nations Office, the World Council of Churches, Religions for Peace and the American Friends Service Committee."

All terrorist organizations, no doubt...  ;>)

BTW, do you think Rodgers would ever issue a retraction or correction? Ha! Yea, right...

Posted by worrierking in reply to IRONY 101

I've always been suspicious of those Mennonites. They're just Amish with drivers licenses.

And don't get me started on those damned Quakers. They think they're so great with that oatmeal and all.

Posted by IRONY 101 in reply to worrierking

Worrie, I think you could take any Quaker in a fight...  ;>)

Posted by therick in reply to IRONY 101

Worrie, I think you could take any Quaker in a fight...  ;>)--Irony

Wait!  Is the oatmeal cooked, or made into no-bake cookies?

Posted by Easy to refute wingnuts in reply to therick

Those Quakers are scary. They even put Barbara Bush on the oatmeal box.

Posted by BillJ-MN in reply to IRONY 101

Worrie, I think you could take any Quaker in a fight...  ;>)IRONY 101

I don't know about that.  Do you remembe the Grace Kelly character at the end of High Noon?

Posted by worrierking in reply to BillJ-MN

Or maybe one of our war mongering ex-presidents, Richard Milhous Nixon who was born to Quaker parents and was a Quaker as a kid.

Posted by pithaughn

All this bozo had to do was spend 3 minutes googl'n Ms. Pritzker on the tubes and he would not have to lie at all. She was involved in a bank that went under, not exactly stellar credentials for this economic climate. But no, he's a callous right wing shill, so habituated to lying that the lies just pour out of his pie hole, like vomit out of Mr. Creosote.

Posted by tommy

This is most definitely uncharacteristically un-Limbaugh, to not repeat a baseless claim.  I bet he is a friend of this Pritzker family, why else would he not push this narrative? 

Posted by IRONY 101 in reply to tommy

Yes, in fact, Rush Limbaugh has numerous interests with the Pritzker family...including their recent attempt to buy an interest in the NFL Pittsburgh Steelers.

<BTW, I just made all that shet up...just like Limbaugh does.>

Posted by mary59 in reply to IRONY 101

Irony, you had me there for a second.  I was just going to say, anyone who made Limbaugh look sort of honest in comparison must be really out there.  Sounds like Rodgers is the latest contender for worst person in the world.

Posted by pete592

The right-wing professional liars are having trouble keeping their lies synchronized? 

Normally, it's a well-oiled slime machine chanting in unison over a thousand radio stations.

Obama must be throwing them off their game because they're having trouble finding any $*** that will stick to the wall.

Posted by captfoster2 in reply to pete592

"Obama must be throwing them off their game because they're having trouble finding any $*** that will stick to the wall."

Actually....... I think that they are off their well snake-oiled game because they all want to say the 'N' word so bad that they can taste it..... but they can't because of the poop storm it would bring??

Seriously....... just listening to these rightwing phycho's for 30 seconds is enough to realize that that likely is what they are dying to get away with.

Posted by captfoster2

Is it me or does Lee Rodgers look like the Prostitute Toe-Sucker Dick Morris only a bit older??

Seems to have the same kind of mentality as well......

Posted by pbg

The definitions have changed a great deal if the Pritzkers are 'ultra-left.' 

If these hotel-chain-owning, Medical-school-building, Architecture-prize-awarding society types are 'ultra-left'--then what must the people  be who actually don't like big corporations? What must the people be who go on strike against Hyatt Hotels?

Ultra-super-duper-times-infinity leftists?

Of course, to Rodgers, they look like ultra-leftists. So does most of America.

Posted by historygeek001

Every time I read a lie like this, I wonder about slander laws.