Yesterday, ABC News’ Jake Tapper misrepresented a quote by Bill Clinton to suggest that the former president believes “we have to slow down the economy” to address global warming. In fact, Clinton said just the opposite. On Fox News today, when asked about the ABC piece, conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer correctly noted that Clinton had been quoted out of context. But while Krauthammer was speaking, Fox ran a chyron falsely claiming that Clinton said we “must slow economy” to “cut greenhouse gas emissions.” Watch it:
UPDATE: This morning, Rush Limbaugh peddled the false ABC story, insisting that Clinton “suggested we deliberately hamper our economic standing in the world and cripple our economy for the sake of appeasing an unproven, scientifically flawed theory that has no basis in fact.”
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