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Media Matters, July 10, 2007

On the July 9 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, host Rush Limbaugh read aloud the following passage from a Dallas Morning News op-ed by Melinda Henneberger: “The most appealing thing about Hillary Rodham Clinton has always been her enemies, who often seem not in their right mind, screaming that she is a murderer and calling her names like ‘Her Thighness.’ They make you want to like her.” Limbaugh responded, “Have you ever heard of that? ‘Her thighness’? I’ve never heard of that term for Hillary, and I don’t know who’s accusing her of murdering anybody.” In fact, Limbaugh himself has suggested on several occasions that Sen. Clinton (D-NY) was responsible for the 1993 death of then-White House counsel Vincent Foster.

In 1994, Limbaugh reportedly cited a forthcoming “report” which he said claimed that Foster, who committed suicide in Northern Virginia’s Fort Marcy Park on July 20, 1993, “was murdered in an apartment owned by Hillary Clinton, and the body was then taken to Fort Marcy Park.” From a 1994 report by the national media watch group Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR):

On his March 10 radio broadcast, Limbaugh had announced the following in urgent tones:

“OK, folks, I think I got enough information here to tell you about the contents of this fax that I got. Brace yourselves. This fax contains information that I have just been told will appear in a newsletter to Morgan Stanley sales personnel this afternoon. … What it is is a bit of news which says … there’s a Washington consulting firm that has scheduled the release of a report that will appear, it will be published, that claims that Vince Foster was murdered in an apartment owned by Hillary Clinton, and the body was then taken to Fort Marcy Park.”

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