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NEWS ABOUT: Rush Limbaugh

Rush Limbaugh stories: 161 news summaries

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 Gangs, Race, and 
 More Limbaugh 
 NFL Slams 

Talk show host has repeatedly bashed players and culture of football league

Oct 12, 09 2:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - Al Sharpton has urged the NFL to block Rush Limbaugh's purchase of the St. Louis Rams, calling him “anti-NFL.” Sharpton was particularly disturbed, Politico reports, by a “recent statement that the NFL was beginning to look like a fight between the Crips and the Bloods without the... More »

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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

 NFL Union 
 Boss Rips 
 Rush 'Hatred' 

Exec director urges players to speak up about Limbaugh's potential Rams purchase

Oct 12, 09 3:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - An email from the head of the NFL players union has blasted a potential purchase of the Rams by Rush Limbaugh, complaining that the right-winger's brand of "hatred and discrimination" have no place in sports. "Sport in America is at its best when it unifies, gives all of... More »

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NFL • St. Louis Rams • Rush Limbaugh • football • team • football player

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

Limbaugh: Obama Nobel
a Bid to 'Emasculate' US

Rush, fellow conservatives jump all over award

Oct 9, 09 11:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh doesn’t think the Nobel committee members were trying to honor President Obama—he thinks they’re trying to “emasculate" the United States. “With this ‘award’ the elites of the world are urging Obama, THE MAN OF PEACE, to not do the surge in Afghanistan,... More »

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Barack Obama • Rush Limbaugh • Mike Huckabee • Nobel Prize • Nobel Peace Prize • Election 2012 • President Obama • Michael Steele

 Limbaugh Bids 
 to Buy Lowly Rams 

Along with NHL/MLS owner Dave Checketts

Oct 6, 09 11:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh is teaming with Dave Checketts, owner of the NHL’s St. Louis Blues, in a bid to buy the St. Louis Rams. Limbaugh confirmed the bid but refused to elaborate. “The Rams would be a great team to have,” he previously told the St. Louis ... More »

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NFL • St. Louis Rams • Rush Limbaugh • football • St. Louis Blues • Dave Checketts

(Newser) - It's a big disappointment for Chicago, but how big a hit was yesterday's Olympic Committee put-down of the US's 2016 bid for the president, who stuck his neck out to go to bat for it? Of course Rush Limbaugh said it was huge, the "worst day" of Obama's presidency,... More »

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Barack Obama • Chicago • Michelle Obama • Richard Daley • Rush Limbaugh • Copenhagen • 2016 Olympics

(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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OPINION

 Think Clinton's 
 Impeachment 
 Was Messy? 
 Wait for Obama's 

GOP will bow to Beck or Limbaugh if they take back Congress

Sep 24, 09 8:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - The GOP will try and impeach President Obama on some ridiculous charge if they're ever able to get Congress back, and it's not going to be pretty, writes Bob Cesca for the Huffington Post. Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh will come up with a reason for impeachment and a way... More »

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(Newser) - Glenn Beck’s popularity as compared to the more “traditional American conservatism” of, say, Rush Limbaugh heralds the advent of a new archetype, Nate Silver writes on FiveThirtyEight: “Beck is a PoMoCon—a postmodern conservative.” A recent poll shows Beck and Limbaugh equally popular while Limbaugh’s... More »

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Rush Limbaugh • Glenn Beck • conservatism • opinion polls • Nate Silver • conservative movement • big government • post-modern • skepticism

 How the Crazies Took Over 

Birthers, Limbaugh, Beck fill vacuum as Obama tries to stay above the fray

Sep 21, 09 3:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - As recently as this spring, the Tea Party movement seemed anemic and wonky. But in the months that followed, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and others whipped the right-wing fringe into such a frenzy that a “separate reality grew like a second head on the American polity,” Philip Weiss... More »

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Barack Obama • RNC • Rush Limbaugh • conservative • Republican Party • Glenn Beck • right-wing media • conservative base • right-wing attacks • Obama administration • Republicans • right-wing extremism • birther • World Net Daily

What Jay-Z and Glenn Beck Have in Common

Rap and right-wing talk radio are more similar than you might think

Sep 20, 09 2:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - After listening to hours of Michael Savage, Rush Limbaugh, and Mark Levin on the radio while driving the Nebraska countryside, a peculiar thought occurred to David Segal: conservative talk-show hosts are surprisingly similar to gangsta rappers, he writes for the New York Times. Consider the parallels:
  • Huge egos.
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Rush Limbaugh • conservative • hip-hop • Glenn Beck • rap music • Michael Savage • right wingers • talk-show host • Jay-Z

 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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 Maybe Obama's 'Half-White 
 Side' Is Racist: Limbaugh 

Also, president's media 'lust' is Castroesque

Sep 16, 09 12:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh yesterday capped off a free-wheeling show on the scourge of racism in America by suggesting that Obama’s white half is racist because he hasn’t thrown a bone to his Kenyan relatives, Media Matters reports. “I'm just going on Newsweek, that we're all born racists, and... More »

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Kenya • radio • Fidel Castro • Rush Limbaugh • conservative • Kanye West • Serena Williams • racism • homosexuality • talk show • President Obama • Rush Limbaugh racist quotes

OPINION

Obama Should Have Put Wall Street on Trial

But he didn't, and now GOP fat cats can somehow play populist

Sep 8, 09 8:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - How can rich fat cats like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh pretend to be populists, while tarring Barack Obama as the establishment? Because Barack Obama missed his chance to strike a blow for the little guy and prosecute Wall Street, writes communications professor Jon Taplin. Instead, he listened to Wall... More »

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Barack Obama • Wall Street • Rush Limbaugh • Glenn Beck • populism • Larry Summers • financial crisis • Timothy Geithner • executive bonuses

Rush to Obama: Hands Off
My Private Parts

Limbaugh makes leap from CDC advisory to mandatory circumcision

Aug 28, 09 7:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh says President Obama is out to get his foreskin. Seriously. Or at least semi-seriously. It all started when the the Centers for Disease Control reported that it's thinking of issuing an advisory touting the health beneifits of male circumcision in infancy, writes Gabriel Winant for Salon. Conservative blogger... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • parenting • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • Rush Limbaugh • circumcision • President Obama • death panel

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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(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh says he’s finally an A-lister, the Huffington Post reports, after being name-checked by Jay-Z in a track leaked recently off the rapper’s forthcoming The Blueprint 3 album. “Tell Rush Limbaugh to get off my balls, it’s 2010 not 1864,” goes the lyric from... More »

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entertainment • Rush Limbaugh • race relations • circumcision • rap music • Jay-Z • President Obama • Jay-ZTV • Blueprint 3

OPINION

 Klein: 'Nihilists' Leading 
 Republicans Off Deep End 

What should be a faction is in charge of the party

Aug 20, 09 4:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Raising legitimate, fact-based opposition to political issues is one thing—but today’s Republican party seems "overwhelmed by nihilists and hypocrites" more concerned about returning to power than the public good, writes Joe Klein in Time. Where's the leadership? When Sarah Palin raised the ridiculous “death panel” specter—... More »

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