Limbaugh misleads on obesity numbers

For the umpteenth time since he became a shock-show host, Rush Limbaugh is blaming liberals for something that most people would consider to be only slightly related to politics.  Yesterday, during his nationally syndicated radio show, while discussing a recent study on the growing obesity problem in America, Limbaugh suggested that liberals were partly to blame for the national epidemic.

Media Matters has the transcript:

LIMBAUGH: I think you might then say that the obesity crisis could be the fault of government, liberal government.Food stamps, all those -- you know, I'm gonnatell you people a story. I -- just, well, the government, you could say, is killing these peoplebecause we know obesity kills, and the government's killing the poor. The Bushadministration is killing the poor with too much food.

What Limbaugh chose not to mention was the fact that the study ranked each state.  The locations where obesity numbers were the worst are red states.  In Mississippi, the fattest city, 29% of all adults are obese.  This is obviously not a laughing matter.  The point is that Rush Limbaugh would never blame Republican politicians or registered Republican voters for anything -- so this was completely expected.