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Rush Limbaugh: Don't Touch the Oil Spill

'Ocean will take care of this on its own'

(Newser) - Seems Rush Limbaugh likes to chime in about how best to handle natural disasters: He's already speculated that the oil rig explosion in the Gulf was the work of devious environmentalists. But on True/Slant , Justin Gardner notes Limbaugh didn't stop there: "The ocean will take care of this on... More »

Limbaugh Hits New Low With Oil-Spill Conspiracy

He suggests the rig's explosion is an inside job

(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh thinks the timing of the oil rig explosion is a little fishy: "What better way to head off more oil drilling, nuclear plants, than by blowing up a rig?" he asked on his last show. Which prompts Ezra Klein to dub him an "oil-spill truther" and... More »

Rush: Maybe Obama's an Illegal Alien Himself

Talk show host makes offhand birther quip

(Newser) - Is Rush Limbaugh a birther? It sure sounded that way to Mediaite during his rant yesterday about illegal immigration. Rush was obsessing over a recent Obama statement condemning Arizona's new illegal immigration law, in which the president worried that “if you don't have your papers...you're gonna be harassed.... More »

New, Fightin' Obama Calls Out Foes

No more Mr. Nice President

(Newser) - It's hard to imagine that critics once complained that Barack Obama wasn't tough enough. Lately, he's been savaging his opponents by name, Politico notes, tossing verbal jabs directly at Mitch McConnell, Sarah Palin , Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh and more. It's a deliberate effort to get back the “spunk... More »

Left Plays 'Violence Card' to Demonize Us: Limbaugh

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... More »

Left Lacks Wackos Like Limbaugh, Beck

Joan Walsh of Salon defends her answer on 'Morning Joe'

(Newser) - Righty bloggers are teeing off on Joan Walsh of Salon because of her appearance on Morning Joe yesterday, in which she maintained that liberals have no voices as extreme as Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck. (NewsBusters weighs in with a list here , with Keith Olbermann's name in capital letters.)... More »

Limbaugh Rips Obama Over 'Character Assassination'

Obama refuses to debate in 'Arena of Ideas'

(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh is accusing President Obama of trying to trick him into talking about himself because Obama prefers "character assassination" to debate. "I think the president is trying to distract me to get me talking about me on my show instead of talking about him and the regime's... More »

100 Unsexiest Men of 2010

What a shocker: Tiger Woods made the list

(Newser) - Some guys are unsexy just because they’re not sexy; others are unsexy because they cheat on their Oscar-winning wives with tattooed strippers (hello, No. 6). Whatever the reason, the Boston Phoenix lists the 100 unsexiest men of 2010. Some highlights:
  • No. 100, Justin Bieber: “Twenty-something mall skanks: It
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Rush Limbaugh Fires Back at Obama

People 'literally fear' for the country, he says

(Newser) - After President Obama called out Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck for dispensing "vitriol," Limbaugh is returning fire. (Summary of Obama interview with CBS here .) In an email to Politico , Limbaugh says his popularity isn't dependent on the economy—"I have yet to have a down year... More »

Obama: 'I Can Go To My Right'

President shoots hoops, talks talk radio

(Newser) - Barack Obama’s opponents should know that he is an adaptable foe. “I can go to my right,” the lefthanded Obama said while shooting hoops with Harry Smith on CBS’ Early Show , “but I prefer my left.” Obama admitted his basketball form isn’t perfect these... More »

Website Tests Rush's Pledge to Flee Obamacare

Limbaugh vowed to move to Costa Rica if health reform passed

(Newser) - The final stages of the battle for health care reform have been dramatic, so you could be forgiven for forgetting about Rush Limbaugh. He recently said he'd to move to Costa Rica if "Obamacare" passed. Now that it has, one website is soliciting donations to make sure he keeps... More »

Rush Jams White House Phones: It's 'Ballgame'

He urges listeners to call about health care reform

(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh helped snarl the White House switchboard today when he gave listeners the toll-free numbers and urged them to call to chat about health care reform. “The system is being overwhelmed by calls,” one employee told Roll Call this afternoon. It's only the second time Limbaugh has... More »

Rush Endorses Socialized Medicine (Accidentally)

Limbaugh's pledge on Costa Rica raises eyebrows

(Newser) - Remember when Rush Limbaugh promised to go to Costa Rica if the Democrats’ health care reform bill passes? Well, good move Rush, because Costa Rica’s health coverage is rated as “excellent” by the American Journal of Public Health, and its life expectancy is second only to Canada in... More »

Latest Limbaugh Racist Quip: Paterson as New 'Massa'

He uses slave term about black governor, Massa controversy

(Newser) - The resignation of New York congressman Eric Massa has given Rush Limbaugh fodder for a new racist comment: Yesterday, he said David Paterson will be playing "massa" if he appoints Massa's replacement—a reference to slavemasters and the governor's African-American heritage. "So, David Paterson will become the massa... More »

Limbaugh: I'll Move to Costa Rica if Health Reform Passes

Rush will 'go to Costa Rica' rather than face Obamacare

(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh vowed to leave the US if Obama's health care reforms come into effect. Limbaugh told a caller to his radio show today that if "this passes and it’s five years from now and all that stuff gets implemented—I am leaving the country. I'll go to... More »

Rush Limbaugh: I'm No 'Champion' of Eric Massa

He pulls back as Steny Hoyer and Robert Gibbs blast ex-congressman

(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh says the mainstream media has it all wrong about his opinion of former Democratic congressman Eric Massa. “They think I'm a big supporter,” the talk show host said today, perhaps because yesterday he promised to make Massa’s ordeal “a national story,” reports Politico... More »

Limbaugh, Beck Rally Around Massa

Congressman claims he was forced out on health care opposition

(Newser) - Talk about strange bedfellows: Conservative pundits have rushed to support Eric Massa, the New York Democrat who resigned Monday amid allegations sexual harassment. Massa says he's being pushed out over health care—a claim some pundits seem happy to support. Rush Limbaugh promoted the charge at length on his show... More »

Suicide Pilot Joe Stack Sounds Like Tea Partier to Me

.. says one blogger; that's 'reprehensible,' says another

(Newser) - Joseph Stack’s anger at big government in general and the Internal Revenue Service in particular sounds very much like another of the day’s big noise-makers to Jonathan Capehart. “After reading his 34-paragraph screed,” Capehart writes in a Washington Post blog of the Austin suicide pilot, “... More »

Meghan McCain Rips Palin's 'Retarded' Double Standard

'Exactly what's wrong with politics today'

(Newser) - Meghan McCain had some harsh words for Sarah Palin, Tom Tancredo, and the whole Tea Party movement on The View yesterday. McCain, who says she avoided the Tea Party convention because of "ideological differences," said Palin's double standard about the use of the word "retarded" is "... More »

Limbaugh 'Retard' Rant 'Crude And Demeaning': Palin

... but doesn't call for firing, as with Rahm Emanuel

(Newser) - Sarah Palin proved today to be a defender of political correctness no matter which side of aisle the assault comes from, ripping Rush Limbaugh for his use of “ retard .” However, while the former Alaska governor, and mother of a special-needs child, “believes crude and demeaning name calling... More »

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