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Michael Savage: Obama Gave Me The Flu!

On Tuesday(link is external), conservative radio host Michael Savage told his listeners that he recently got “wiped out” by the flu, an illness he promptly blamed on President Obama.

Last year, during a summer spike in undocumented immigrant youths coming to the U.S., Savage warned listeners that the largely Central American immigrants were spreading Enterovirus D-68 to the U.S.(link is external), which he referred to as “the Honduran flu(link is external).”

Savage lamented that “my body really got wasted by the Honduran flu brought in by Obama’s children last summer on those trains.”

Of course, experts(link is external) report(link is external) that there is no connection between immigrants and the enterovirus(link is external), and the law that blocked immediate deportation of the Central American minors was signed into law by President Bush(link is external), not Obama.