After spending much of this week telling his listeners that Hurricane Irma was fake news, Rush Limbaugh his fled his home base in Palm Beach, Florida, in anticipation of landfall.
On Thursday, Limbaugh announced he would not “be able” to host his nationally syndicated radio show on Friday due to “the security nature of things,” adding that he was heading to “parts unknown.
”After CNN’s Brian Stelter shared the news on Friday, noting that Mark Steyn was filling in for Limbaugh, Today meteorologist retorted, “Wait. What?”
Earlier in the week, Roker was one of those quick to admonish Limbaugh’s controversial comments that the media is purposefully creating “fear and panic” about Hurricane Irma to “advance this climate change agenda.”
“Do not listen to @rushlimbaugh when he says #Irma is not a dangerous #storm and is hype,” Roker wrote on Twitter. “He is putting people’s lives at risk.”
He added in a second tweet, “To have @rushlimbaugh suggest the warnings about #Irma are #fake or about profit and to ignore them borders on criminal. #ShameOnRush.”
President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club, also located in Palm Beach, is also being evacuated in advance of Irma’s landfall.
In Limbaugh’s Monday comments about the hurricane, he claimed, “There is a desire to advance this climate change agenda, and…
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