(Oh, by the way, check out this faux post by Kathryn Rogers, Rush’s fourth wife. My most recent thoughts on Rush — a “fat, gutless, pill-popping loser,” according to Don Imus — are here.) George Will expressed it well on This Week the other day to George Stephanopoulos: Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh has been inundated with criticism after calling Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown...

I’m a Leo — I should love all this attention being lavished on Ohio because of its Super Tuesday swing state status. Where to begin? In this post, I boil it down to the polls, the women, the weather and the independents. What do you think will make the difference in Ohio and who do you think will win?

WASHINGTON — How’s this for political cowardice? Right-wing bloviator Rush Limbaugh launches a vile attack, full of sexual insults and smarmy innuendo, against a young woman whose only offense was to speak her mind. Asked to comment, the leading Republican presidential candidates — who bray constantly about “courage” and “leadership” — run from the bully and hide. ...

Almost a week after the SS Rush Limbaugh sailed into sexist seas, @ClearChannel, which owns Premier Networks, finally made a statement. An absurd one, if I can borrow their language. AdAge reports (emphasis added): “Premiere Networks is committed to providing its listeners with access to a broad range of opinion and commentary without condoning or agreeing with the opinions, comments or attempts at humor...

Before dying suddenly at 43 last week, right-wing activist Andrew Breitbart promised a “bombshell” to dethrone the President and has now posthumously exploded it: Barack Obama saw a play about Saul Alinsky in Chicago 14 years ago. Since politically deceased Newt Gingrich has also been hammering the President with Alinsky during GOP debates, herewith a word-for-word reprint of a post from March 27, 2007...

There is no official public list of Rush Limbaugh advertisers. The Atlantic listened and posted on Monday. As did AmericaBlog. And here’s an online form you can use to listen and report. Here are the biggies: ADT Security || Capitol One || Geico (continues to say it’s an accident) || JC Penny || John Deere || O’Reilly Auto Parts || Winning Our Future [Gingrich SuperPAC] And three that really...

Today Rush Limbaugh continued his apology (almost), taking full responsibility for his comments (weelllllll….), and moved on and didn’t take any more swipes at Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke (OK so he talked about her being at a lot of demonstrations and being an activist during some years at college). No matter. Limbaugh’s listeners are loyal. And in the past 24 hours we met some of...

Back in May of last year, liberal talk show host Ed Schultz called conservative talk show host a “right wing slut.” Reaction was rather fierce, and Ed Schultz offered what a real apology should look like. Rush Limbaugh and fans, take note: Laura Ingraham herself was initially a bit snippy about it, tweeting “MSNBC suspends Schultz. Oh great, now his ratings will go up,” but later got...

Conspiracy theory: Is Rush Limbaugh trying to take the heat off Rick Santorum in the Off-the-Wall Olympics? The mouthiest presidential candidate in memory was getting attention last week for his “snob” and “throw up” criticism of the President and JFK until El Rushbo took after a Jesuit university law student with his “slut” and “prostitute” aria over her backing of contraception. Now, as Santorum...

In my previous post, “Please Comment Before Reading,” I asked readers to post random comments that I would incorporate into a future blog post. The following is my failed attempt to fulfill my side of that assignment. I have a feeling this post will not satisfy anyone who is participating in this experiment. With this in mind, I’m hoping the comment section is soon hijacked by a topic that...

So there it is. A prominent Republican has finally said what everyone knows: Republican leaders are afraid of Rush Limbaugh. The speaker: conservative columnist George Will on ABC: Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh has been inundated with criticism after calling Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown University student who testified before a House committee about contraception, a “slut” and a “prostitute.” But...

There are incidents in life that are so heinous that it takes more than just a vanilla-flavored “how can you be so despicable” story to illustrate it and condemn such. When such craven acts are committed by a celebrity — a hero to more than 20 million folks — it takes more than just a little blogger to make any kind of an impact. When the dastardly, hurtful words are hurled against a young,...

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Is the U.S. more concerned with placating kings and despots than giving support to fledgling pro-democracy movements? For Algeria’s Le Quotidien d’Oran, columnist Kharroubi Habib criticizes Secretary of State Clinton for placating the Moroccan king while on an official visit by failing to meet members of that country’s February 20 movement, and then while visiting Algeria, for meeting with members...

by WALTER BRASCH In 1973, some friends and I went to the rooftop of our apartment building to watch Comet Kahoutek, touted by astronomers and the media as the comet of all comets. We were sure we’d see it since we had the requisite equipment—binoculars and beer. But we didn’t see the comet. Not that night nor the next night. What we did see was a lot of universe. And while we talked about the ungrateful...

First published March 3, 2012 @ 3:21 pm Pacific. Updated: 4 March @ 2:45 pm Pacific as Seven Advertisers Have Dropped Limbaugh I asked Friday if there were a line that, if crossed, would cause Rush Limbaugh’s sponsors to leave. As a result of the Sandra Fluke fallout, the answer seems to be a qualified yes. It’s a start. Of course, several companies have been falsely pegged as advertisers on anonymous...

Unlike a film about the past that won the Oscar without words, the new biopic of a historical figure named Sarah Palin is full of them, even before it hits the screen. Has it been less than four years ago that an unknown governor of Alaska wowed the GOP convention with a speech about hockey moms and pit bulls with lipstick? Now, after losing in 2008, quitting her day job and starring on Fox News, Facebook and...

John Cole, The Scranton Times-Tribune Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has finally addressed the controversy swirling about conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh’s three day dissing of Georgetown University Sandra Fluke for her advocacy of insurance covering birth control with the same bold, decisive, courageous assertiveness as the trees that he so loves in Michigan: Mitt Romney steered clear...

Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum on Rush Limbaugh’s “slut” comments: Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum labeled Rush Limbaugh “absurd” over disparaging remarks from the radio talk show host directed at a law student who testified before a House panel in support of access to contraceptives. “He’s being absurd, but that’s you know, an entertainer can...

Our political Quote of the Day comes from political maven Craig Crawford, on Rush Limbaugh’s increasingly insulting polemics surrounding Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown University student who has defended birth control: You almost have to wonder whether the Republican Party has forgotten women have the right to vote. As Senate GOPers tried in vain to let employers deny insurance coverage for contraceptives...