Limbaugh fooled by college prank.

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Rush Was Punked: “Obama Thesis” Hoax
by Claudine Zap

It must have seemed so perfect. An obscure blogger unearths some pages of President Obama's college thesis. The report supposedly comes from big-time journalist Joe Klein of Time magazine. And the thesis has some real gems: like Obama's disdain for the Constitution.

The whole thing was nothing more than a satirical post on a humor blog. But Rush Limbaugh, who quoted from the supposed thesis on his radio show, sure wasn't laughing. Here's how it went down.

An unknown blogger picked up on a made-up post meant as a joke, which claimed that Joe Klein had gotten his hands on 10 pages of student Obama's college thesis. Rush Limbaugh jumped on it, which immediately sparked Web searches on "obama thesis."

Supposedly titled "Aristocracy Revisited," the excerpt revealed the president had "doubts" about the "so-called founders." Juicy. Except not true. Limbaugh discovered halfway through his show that he'd been had, but defended himself by saying basically the thesis felt true. Listen in to Rush's mea sorta culpa.

Joe Klein finally jumped in, and called the report "nonsense" on his Swampland blog, and the blogger who thought the hoax was real also apologized.

Let's hope someone kept their sense of humor in all this. Still, for a humble post to go from humor blog to major media outlet sure seems impressive. Someone ought to write their thesis on it. For real.

For anyone who still had any ANY doubt the Rush actually cares about his sources, this should clear things up.

[Mayabird]

Alright, time to take some bets. In two weeks, will this hoax be
1) totally forgotten and/or pretended that it never happened,
2) bandied about as truth, them having intentionally forgotten about the hoax part, or
3) both (forwarded around in those "OMG Communist Nazi secret Muslim atheist liebortionist" emails as truth, not mentioned in the press - at least until enough time has passed that it's acceptable to 'discuss' it again).