“I’ll tell you something else,” he said. “We don’t like paying millions of dollars for Mrs. Obama’s vacations. The NASCAR crowd doesn’t quite understand why when the husband and the wife are going to the same place, the first lady has to take her own Boeing 757 with family and kids and hangers-on four hours earlier than her husband, who will be on his 747. NASCAR people understand that’s a little bit of a waste. They understand it’s a little bit of uppity-ism.”
“Back in 2009, I wrote a piece for Newsweek arguing that Republicans would regret conceding so much power to Rush Limbaugh. Until that point, I’d been a frequent guest on Fox News, but thenceforward some kind of fatwa was laid down upon me. Over the next few months, I’d occasionally receive morning calls from young TV bookers asking if I was available to appear that day. For sport, I’d always answer, “I’m available—but does your senior producer know you’ve called me?” An hour later, I’d receive an embarrassed second call: “We’ve decided to go in a different direction.”
David Frum, When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality?
Conservative Talk Radio Is Dead (Limbaugh, Beck Ratings Dive)
The Young Turks/MSNBC host Cenk Uygur explains how new (more accurate) radio ratings measurements show that right wing talk radio shows are not doing well.
I can’t say I’m sad that I keep hearing this from people who have been in the industry.
Go public radio!
Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh and Terry Jones (you know, the Gainesville, Fla., pastor who threatened to burn Korans on 9/11) graduated from the same high school in Cape Girardeau, Mo., in 1969.
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Watch this devastatingly effective rebuttal to Rush Limbaugh’s comments about non-profits
Rush Limbaugh verbally eviscerated - PeterDaqu
“Those remarks aren’t racist. He’s just saying that a program, that helps the poor, is actually a secret plot by African Americans to steal white people’s money. A racist would say, it’s a secret plot to steal white people’s women.” - Stephen Colbert
“That cracker made a lot of African-American millionaires.”
“I thought they’d take Rush Limbaugh.”
Joe Biden, on the spy swap
“We could do without him, can’t we?”
“Glee” star Jane Lynch on Rush Limbaugh during a word association game with Katie Couric
“Our political correct society is acting like some giant insult’s taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards. I mean these people, these liberal activists are kooks. They are looney tunes. And I’m not going to apologize for it, I’m just quoting Emanuel. It’s in the news. I think their big news is he’s out there calling Obama’s number one supporters f’ing retards. So now there’s going to be a meeting. There’s going to be a retard summit at the White House. Much like the beer summit between Obama and Gates and that cop in Cambridge.”
Rush Limbaugh via thinkprogress audio
Oh Sarah, gonna call out Rush?
“Ladies and gentleman 250,000 [per year] is not wealthy. Obama has always called those kind of people wealthy.”
Rush Limbaugh
Limbaugh Stands By His Haiti Remarks, Tells Critical Caller She’s a ‘Bigot’ With ‘Tampons in Her Ears’
RUSH: No, I’m not evading it at all. If I said it I meant to say it, and I do believe that everything is political to this president. Everything this president sees is a political opportunity, including Haiti, and he will use it to burnish his credentials with minorities in this country and around the world, and to accuse Republicans of having no compassion. […]
CALLER: [A]re you implying that the Huffington Post as the one and only resource that I [read]? I even watch Fox News once in a while.
RUSH: No, no, no, no, no. I’m not implying that. … What I’m illustrating here is that you’re a blockhead. What I’m illustrating here is that you’re a closed-minded bigot who is ill-informed. … And if you had listened to this program for a modicum of time you would know it. But instead you’re a blockhead. You’re mind is totally closed. You have tampons in your ears. Nothing is getting through other than the biased crap that you read.
