“There are more acres of forest land in America today than when Columbus discovered the continent in 1492.”

— Rush Limbaugh

See, I Told You So
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1993-11-01
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Later version of his claim: Do you know we have more acreage of forest land in the United States today than we did at the time the Constitution was written?
The Rush Limbaugh Show
1994-02-18
Radio, quoted in [The Way Things Aren't: Rush Limbaugh's Reign of Error, Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, New Press, 1995-05-01, 18, 156584260X, 31782620]

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