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Congrats to Rush Limbaugh for being the king of untrustworthiness!

No, he may not claim to be a "news" source, however, Rush Limbaugh does spout his views on the air throughout the course of the week and many of his listeners consider his opinions to be facts - so the man does influence a great number of people, whom treat his show like actual news. Sadly for Rush (not really), according to a new Pew Research poll, he is the least trusted name in all of "news."

According to this survey, while 12% of respondents trust Rush Limbaugh, 39% do not. Fox News came in second at 37%. Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity came in 3rd and 5th at 24% and 21%, respectively. The only non-conservative leaning network or show to make the top 5 was MSNBC, which came in at 22% untrustworthiness.

Fact-checking site Politifact.com probably couldn't blame the public for not trusting Limbaugh very much. Here's the breakdown of the 28 statements of his they've researched:

True: 0 (0%)

Mostly True: 2 (7%)

Half True: 3 (11%)

Mostly False: 7 (25%)

False: 9 (32%)

Pants on Fire: 7 (25%)

So, out of his 28 statements, just 5 are at least half true (18%), while 23 are at least mostly false (82%), and 0% are completely true. Yes, that's quite the credible record right there!

Here are the 7 statements by Limbaugh which resulted in a "Pants on Fire" grade:

1) "Obama regime planned the influx of illegal alien children at the border."

2) "Says the media created the term 'polar vortex' and the cold air proves 'the ice isn't melting.'"

3) "Says it's not 'accidental' that the villain in the Batman movie is named Bane."

4) "Obamacare is ... the largest tax increase in the history of the world."

5) "People 'can't go fishing anymore because of Obama.'"

6) "There are 'high administrative costs' when you donate to Haiti relief through the White House Web site."

7) "President Obama ... wants to mandate circumcision."

Ah, yes, it's still a wonder how 12% of the respondents trust him...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/10/21/rush-limbaugh-is-americas-least-trusted-news-source/

http://www.politifact.com/personalities/rush-limbaugh/
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