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talk radio stories: 44 news summaries

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Interview

 Rush: I'm Not a 
 Right-Wing 
 Monster 

Limbaugh says he's mostly kidding, screwing with media

Oct 12, 09 11:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh insists he’s not controversial. “I say nothing that’s shocking or surprising,” he said during a three-hour interview with MSNBC. That's a caricature by detractors who want to portray him as far-right fringe. What he is, he added, is entertaining: "I turn people on.... More »

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Barack Obama • talk radio • Rush Limbaugh • right wingers • right-wing media • conservative media • Rush Limbaugh racist quotes

There He Is: Miss America Judge Rush Limbaugh

Glenn Beck needs something really great to upstage this

Oct 9, 09 5:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - The perennially publicity-hungry Miss America Pageant will shake up the judges' panel for the January event by adding a lightning rod: Rush Limbaugh. The right-wing titan isn't the first political blowhard to serve as a judge—MSNBC's Chris Matthews did a stint in 2007—but the pageant "has... More »

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Republican • talk radio • Rush Limbaugh • conservative • Republican Party • conservative media • Miss America Pageant


 Imus Psyched to Join Fox 

He cracks at Fox, 'we’re better people' with 'a much closer relationship with our Lord'

Oct 5, 09 9:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Don Imus is returning to TV today, and it doesn’t bother him at all that it’s on Fox Business Network. “The perception is that even their news is skewed toward opinion—not when I watch it. It's a fair news organization,” he tells Howard Kurtz of... More »

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Don Imus • talk radio • Fox Business Network • Fox News

(Newser) - Once again the right-wing radio guys have managed to convince everyone that they are a great and powerful force to be reckoned with. David Brooks revisits the 2007 Republican primaries, when Rush, Hannity, Beck and company were all weak-kneed over Fred Thompson and Mitt Romney, but bashed “unreliable deviationists”... More »

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talk radio • Rush Limbaugh • Republican Party • Glenn Beck • Sean Hannity • pundits • right-wing media • David Brooks • conservative media

 Thin Limbaugh Spars 
 With Jay, Flattens Gore 

Shock jock hits the track—and a picture of the ex-VP

Sep 25, 09 11:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - A thinner Rush Limbaugh—he's dropped 82 pounds—showed up on Jay Leno's show last night to talk politics ("I'm not polarizing," Obama is) and flatten Al Gore. While taking Leno's "green car" challenge, Limbaugh ran over a cardboard cutout of Gore, then drew big laughs by... More »

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talk radio • Rush Limbaugh • Jay Leno • late night talk show • talk show • The Jay Leno Show

 Where Glenn Beck Came From 

Talk-show host developed style from 26 years in radio

Sep 21, 09 6:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - One could be forgiven for thinking that Glenn Beck emerged, fully formed, from some radio talk-show host birthing chamber. But the Beck of today was once a pot-smoking teen from a broken home in Washington who considered suicide, a Salon profile reveals. Beck would later clash with Mormons at an... More »

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radio • talk radio • conservative • Fox News • Glenn Beck

 Beck Is the Next Limbaugh 

Health care protests and Van Jones ousting may have made him king

Sep 18, 09 10:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Two people ought to be scared of Glenn Beck, one GOP media strategist tells Politico: Barack Obama and ... Rush Limbaugh. The Fox host’s success in drumming up health care protests and taking down Van Jones have many wondering whether he’s captured Limbaugh’s crown. “Beck is the... More »

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talk radio • Rush Limbaugh • Glenn Beck • conservative media

Limbaugh
on Kennedy:
I Told You So

Shock jock crows over his prediction of the senator's death, fallout

Aug 27, 09 9:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh gave himself a big pat on the back yesterday for predicting that Ted Kennedy would kick the bucket—and that it would be used as an “inspirational technique” to boost health care reform efforts. “Before it’s all over it’ll be called the Ted Kennedy... More »

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talk radio • Rush Limbaugh • conservative • Ted Kennedy • health care reform

Beck Pushes 'Racist' Obama Charge Further

President believes whites are 'typically unfair,' says shock jock

Jul 30, 09 5:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Glenn Beck refused to back away from his claim that President Obama is a "racist" on his radio show yesterday, telling detractors that "you are never going to shut me up." Beck mounted an angry defense of his comments on Fox News that the president has "... More »

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Barack Obama • talk radio • racism • talk show • Glenn Beck • Henry Louis Gates Jr

Righty Radio Host Savage Off 'Banned in Britain' List

Conservative talk-show still suing former UK home secretary for libel

Jul 20, 09 4:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Radio talk-show host Michael Savage can again enter the UK after Britain’s new home secretary decided to take him off the country’s “banned in Britain” list, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The conservative pundit is still suing the former home secretary, Jacqui Smith, for libel after putting... More »

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talk radio • United Kingdom • terrorist • Britain • Michael Savage • hate speech

 Beck Melts Down, 
 Screams at 'Pinhead' Caller

Radio host infuriated over health care

Jul 16, 09 10:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Conservative radio host Glenn Beck had an on-air fit yesterday when a caller questioned him about health care and wouldn’t back down, the Daily Kos reports. The caller, “Kathy,” started by talking about the high cost of care. Beck countered that he doesn’t believe there are... More »

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health care • talk radio • Fox News • Glenn Beck • pundits • conservative media

(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh spilled his first thoughts on Sarah Palin’s resignation—"I don't think this precludes her running for office down the road, the presidency in 2012, at all"—to the Radio Equalizer, and Time shares the transcript. To Limbaugh, “the predictions here rival some of... More »

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Alaska • talk radio • Rush Limbaugh • resignation • talk show • governor • Sarah Palin

Rush: Blame Obama for AWOL Sanford

Gov bolted because country's 'going to hell in a handbasket'

Jun 26, 09 1:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh has a novel theory about why Mark Sanford left the US: He was sick of the way the country’s being run. The South Carolina governor's disappearance, it seems, was President Obama’s fault, the Huffington Post reports. “This is almost like: I don't give a damn!... More »

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entertainment • Democrats • Republican • talk radio • South Carolina • Rush Limbaugh • affair • infidelity • governor • political scandal • political criticism • Mark Sanford • President Obama • blame • Republican governor

(Newser) - A Chicago radio host submitted himself to a waterboarding demonstration to prove it isn’t torture, but it didn’t work out that way, NBC affiliate WMAQ-TV reports. “Way worse than I thought it would be, and that’s no joke,” Erich “Mancow” Muller said. “I... More »

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entertainment • torture • Chicago • talk radio • shock jocks • waterboarding • Erich "Mancow" Muller • NBC Local

(Newser) - Trouble in the land of right-wing radio. Michael Savage blasted Rush Limbaugh today as "the biggest phony of them all," reports Media Matters. Savage was speaking about the people who have supported him since Britain branded him a hate-monger and told him to stay away. Limbaugh, however, did... More »

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talk radio • Rush Limbaugh • conservative • Michael Savage • right-wing media

 Right-Wing Radio Host 
 Calls Maddow 'Little Boy' 

Andrew Wilkow also attacks Perez Hilton

May 15, 09 9:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - A right-wing radio host's rant on Tuesday got nasty—even for talk radio. Andrew Wilkow of Sirius/XM, filling in on the syndicated "Mark Levin Show," called MSNBC's Rachel Maddow a "nice little boy" and Perez Hilton a "vile sodomite," Salon reports. "It just sounds... More »

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satellite radio • Democrats • Sirius • talk radio • conservative • Rahm Emanuel • Perez Hilton • Rachel Maddow • Republicans • Andrew Wilkow • Mark Levin

 Rush: Obama Caused Swine Flu 

President's poisonous presence apparently started pandemic

Apr 28, 09 9:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Newspapers failing? Blame it on Obama. CNN in trouble? Obama’s fault. Swine flu? Yep, the president caused that, too, Rush Limbaugh said yesterday on his radio show, the Huffington Post reports. “Everywhere Obama is spreading Obamaism, there is a deadly disease taking place, either in the TARP community... More »

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radio • Mexico • talk radio • Rush Limbaugh • CNN • earthquake • President Obama • newspaper industry • swine flu

Limbaugh Slaps Himself to Mock Torture Debate

Meanwhile, Texas lawmaker calls Rush 'just an entertainer'

Apr 17, 09 6:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh slapped himself silly, groaned, and sighed on-air today to make a comment about the newly released Bush torture memos, the Huffington Post reports. Trying to demonstrate that torture techniques approved by the Bush administration—and revealed by President Obama this week—are less painful than terrorist strikes, Limbaugh... More »

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talk radio • Rush Limbaugh • torture memo

OPINION

'Post-Partisan' Prez Can't Get Traction Across Aisle

Dems and Independents approve of the Prez, but the GOP still doesn't

Apr 12, 09 11:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama's ratings are sky-high among Democrats but have reached a Bush-esque low among Republicans, making for a 61-point gap for the president who campaigned on a "post-partisan" platform. What's causing this problem? It starts with the fact that the public is more polarized than ever, writes Clarence Page... More »

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cable TV • talk radio • partisanship • polarized • bipartisanship • approval ratings • President Obama • post-partisan

column

 Why the 
 Limbaugh 
 Schtick  
 Still Sells 

Incendiary host hangs onto huge audience in dying medium

Mar 31, 09 1:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - Radio is a dying format, listeners are aging out, and Americans aren’t in the mood for “hands-off government.” So why is Rush Limbaugh's audience, not to speak of his prominence in the GOP, soaring, Michael Wolff asks in Vanity Fair. It's not his politics. "Showmanship,... More »

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talk radio • Rush Limbaugh • Republican Party • conservative media

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