For Rush's Cousin, It's All Relative

People agree with me

(NEWSER) - Just as Democrats are gleefully strapping Rush Limbaugh to the Republican Party, President Bush’s team once hatched a plan to tie filmmaker Michael Moore to Democrats. But, Moore writes for the Huffington Post, there’s one crucial difference between him and Rush: “The American people agree with me, not Rush.” That’s why the majority voted for the same guy he did in November. More»

(NEWSER) - Rush Limbaugh today complained on his radio show that Democrats have morphed into "liberal socialists" and "must be stopped." That was the routine part. But he then "pushed the envelope," writes Sam Stein in the Huffington Post, with a rant that linked liberal ideas to murderers, rapists, and "this Muslim guy" who beheaded his wife near Buffalo. More»

9 companies, Hawaiian AM, Mass. FM stations Rush away

(NEWSER) - Rush Limbaugh is still hemorrhaging advertisers—and now beginning to lose radio stations as well—in the wake of his "slut' comment. Online tax advice operation Tax Resolution Services yesterday joined AOL in deserting the uber-conservative, bringing to at least nine the number of sponsors who have dumped his program, notes AP . A Massachusetts and Hawaiian radio station have also dropped Limbaugh's show, reports Mediaite . A spokesman for KPUA AM 670 in Hilo said Limbaugh "crossed a line" when he called Sandra Fluke a slut for supporting health insurance coverage for birth control. “We are strong believers in the First Amendment, but it has never been our goal to allow our station to be used for personal attacks and intolerance,” said general manager Chris Leonard. Had the dig been uttered by "one of my disc jockeys, he would have been terminated," he told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. More»

Or least different-sized parts, say scientists

(NEWSER) - Here's a study sure to stoke controversy—British researchers have found that political orientation correlates to the relative size of certain parts of the brain. Liberals can boast of thicker gray matter at the anterior cingulate, while conservatives can brag about their bigger amygdalas, reports the Sydney Morning Herald . How all this plays out in decision-making is unclear, but researchers thinks it's worth exploring. More»

Obama 'makes us look evil as he tightens iron grip'

(NEWSER) - When liberals aim to discredit right-wingers, they accuse them of plotting violence, complains Rush Limbaugh. The current "meme to equate skepticism of the Obama administration with a tendency toward violence" is just like former President Clinton blaming "loud and angry" conservative commentators for the Oklahoma bombing, he writes in the Wall Street Journal. "What self-serving nonsense." Liberals "are perfectly comfortable with anti-government protest when they're not in power," he adds. Anger is "in their DNA." More»