Editing Rush Limbaugh (section)

===Alleging false flag attacks===

Limbaugh claimed that the [[October 2018 United States mail bombing attempts]] were perpetuated as a [[False flag|false flag operation]] to draw public attention away from [[Central American migrant caravans]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/24/us/politics/bombs-sent-cnn-obama-clinton-soros.html|title=Explosive Devices Add to Climate of Overheated Partisan Rancor|last=Peters|first=Jeremy W.|date=October 24, 2018|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=February 1, 2019|issn=0362-4331|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181217203219/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/24/us/politics/bombs-sent-cnn-obama-clinton-soros.html|archive-date=December 17, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/10/mail-bomb-history-political-terrorism.html|title=The Far Right Is Claiming That Letter Bombs Are a "Liberal Tactic" But History Shows Equal-Opportunity Terrorism |last=Onion|first=Rebecca|date=October 25, 2018|website=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]|access-date=February 1, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190116134006/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/10/mail-bomb-history-political-terrorism.html|archive-date=January 16, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> He reiterated these claims two weeks after the arrest of the primary suspect [[Cesar Sayoc]], a registered [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2018/10/26/the-attempt-to-destroy-donald-trump-has-made-us-suspicious-of-everything/|title=The Attempt to Destroy Donald Trump Has Made Us Suspicious of Everything|website=The Rush Limbaugh Show|access-date=February 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181027033241/https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2018/10/26/the-attempt-to-destroy-donald-trump-has-made-us-suspicious-of-everything/|archive-date=October 27, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/27/ann-coulter-didnt-ditch-conspiracy-theories-after-bombers-arrest-most-false-flaggers-didnt/|title=Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh and others stick with conspiracy theories after mail-bomb suspect's arrest|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=February 2, 2019|url-status=live|archive-date=February 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190202095829/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/27/ann-coulter-didnt-ditch-conspiracy-theories-after-bombers-arrest-most-false-flaggers-didnt/}}</ref>

On his show, Limbaugh said that the [[Christchurch mosque shootings]] of March 2019 may have been a false-flag operation. Limbaugh described "an ongoing theory" that the shooter was actually "a leftist" trying to smear the right. Despite providing no source or evidence, Limbaugh continued: "you can't immediately discount this. The left is this insane, they are this crazy."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Concha |first1=Joe |title=Limbaugh suggests without evidence that New Zealand attacker is 'a leftist' |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/media/434351-limbaugh-suggests-without-evidence-that-new-zealand-attacker-is-a-leftist |work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] |date=March 15, 2019 |access-date=March 16, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.newsweek.com/rush-limbaugh-claims-mosque-attacks-false-flag-1365260|title=Rush Limbaugh Claims New Zealand Mosque Shootings Were False Flag Operation, Offers No Evidence|magazine=[[Newsweek]]|first1=Daniel|last1=Moritz-Rabson|access-date=March 16, 2019|archive-date=March 16, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190316032749/https://www.newsweek.com/rush-limbaugh-claims-mosque-attacks-false-flag-1365260|url-status=live}}</ref>