Cantor: Limbaugh's Hitler Rhetoric Not 'Helpful'

Alaska gov gets on board rebranding effort after Rush 'hate' jibe

(NEWSER) - Sarah Palin will join Congressional Republicans' high-profile rebranding committee, CNN reports, after days of confusion as to whether she was snubbing the group or it was snubbing her. Last week John McCain said that the Alaska governor would likely join the National Council for a New America, but there was no confirmation from her office. Yesterday Rush Limbaugh blasted Eric Cantor, the house minority whip, and other group members for "hating Palin"—and, hours later, Cantor announced she was joining. More»

Obama's campaign manager takes a swipe at Republicans

(NEWSER) - The 2008 election sent many signals, but chief among them was that America is sick of partisan pettiness, writes President Obama’s former campaign manager David Plouffe in the Washington Post today, He faults the GOP for somehow missing that memo, joining Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel in declaring that “Rush Limbaugh has become their leader.” For hurting Americans, Rush's bellowing that he hopes Obama fails to rescue the economy "sounded like fingernails on a chalkboard.” More»

Also, will Eric Cantor or Rand Paul be vice president nominee?

(NEWSER) - Today's talk show theme: Pile on Rush Limbaugh. The conservative talk show host took a bipartisan drubbing worthy of a gold-stuffed piñata, reports Politico , as both sides lambasted his slut comment and subsequent apology . A sampling:

• Debbie Wasserman Schultz: "I know he apologized, but forgive me if I doubt his sincerity, given that he lost at least six advertisers. Rush Limbaugh said he was trying to be humorous. I don’t know any woman in America … that thinks that being called a slut is funny.”
• Ron Paul : “I don’t think he’s very apologetic, I think he’s doing it because people were taking their advertisements off his program."
• Newt Gingrich: "He made a mistake, and I think he did the right thing," in apologizing.
• Eric Cantor: “I don’t condone that type of language in any arena, including the political arena. It was insulting, and Rush has said as much."

He accuses Romney of insulting conservative base

(NEWSER) - Mitt Romney has ticked off Rush Limbaugh by saying he's not willing to make outrageous accusations against President Obama just to excite the conservative "base," and win votes. "It’s very easy to excite the base with incendiary comments,” Romney told reporters ahead of the Arizona and Michigan primaries. "I’m not willing to light my hair on fire to try and get support. I am who I am." Limbaugh claims the remarks show Romney has a low opinion of the conservative base, reports the Huffington Post . More»

They cry racism, but they still don't know what it is: Michelle Goldberg

(NEWSER) - When did the right discover racism? Apparently, earlier this week, when Herman Cain was attacked for sex harassment accusations against him , notes Michelle Goldberg in the Daily Beast . Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh , and Donald Trump are all singing the same different tune now that, as Coulter calls Cain, one of "our blacks" has been attacked. Just last year Coulter was blasting "institutional racial hoaxism," writes Goldberg, who calls the cries of racism outlandish. "When a major presidential candidate has been accused of sexual harassment, that’s news. Indeed, that’s so obvious it seems absurd to have to write it," she notes. "Just imagine how much decorousness we could expect from Fox if such a scandal were discovered in Obama’s past." More»