Media Matters:

Rush continues to provide radio host Alex Jones with some competition peddling fringe conspiracies. Today Limbaugh theorized that environmentalists may have been behind the explosion of an oil rig that is currently dumping thousands of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Because the rig exploded one day before Earth Day. And Al Gore told an audience to engage in civil disobedience to show support for environmental protection. And Earth Day was inspired by a river in Cleveland catching fire. And cap and trade was strongly criticized by "hardcore environmentalist whackos," and what better way to "head off more oil drilling" than by blowing up an oil rig? His logic is airtight.