Rush Limbaugh: ‘The Media Wants A Disaster In Japan’

Rush Limbaugh wants you to know the real story from Japan is nowhere near as bad as “the media” has made it out to be. Why would they exaggerate the magnitude of the story, you ask? Because, Rush said today on his radio program, “the media wants a disaster in Japan.”

“These people are looking for disaster,” Limbaugh said. “They want disaster upon disaster. They want the nuclear meltdown. They want the Japanese syndrome, if you will. They want this stuff.”

If you look at media coverage of the earthquake, tsunami and the treat of a nuclear incident, he argues, “this is just the wanton spreading of fear.”

Limbaugh says the nuclear reactors in Japan are largely “behaving as designed,” and there is no widespread disaster.

Listen to it here, from The Rush Limbaugh Show:

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