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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Rush Limbaugh

Rush Limbaugh stories: 161 news summaries

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 Limbaugh: 
 Obama is 'Little 
 Black Man-Child' 

Conservative talk-show host says Dems, media afraid to pick on 'victim' candidate

Aug 21, 08 3:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh struck out yesterday at the national media, for pitying “little black man-child” Barack Obama beset by attack ads he termed “benign,” Media Matters reports. “Even the Britney Spears/Paris Hilton ad was funny,” said the conservative radio host, who’d previously excoriated “girl”... More »

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Barack Obama • Rush Limbaugh • personality • attack ad • campaign advertising • Election 2008

 Limbaugh Signs $400M Deal 

He renews Clear Channel contract for 8 years

Jul 2, 08 4:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh has signed an eight-year contract renewing his syndication with Clear Channel for more than $400 million. This makes for the second-most-lucrative deal in radio history, ranking only behind Howard Stern's $500 million deal with Sirius in 2004, the Washington Post reports. "I'm having more fun than a... More »

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radio • Rush Limbaugh • Clear Channel

 What Comes Around: 
 Limbaugh ‘Hurt’ by 
 Obama's Words 

Radio host doesn't like being called xenophobe

May 23, 08 5:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh's “feelings are hurt” by comments Barack Obama made linking the radio host’s rhetoric to a rise in hate crimes against Hispanics. Speaking in Florida last night, Obama said, “There's a reason why hate crimes against Hispanic people doubled last year. If you have people like... More »

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Barack Obama • Rush Limbaugh • hate crime • Hispanic • Lou Dobbs

 Did Rush's
 Dittoheads
 Tilt Indiana
 for Hillary? 

Limbaugh's 'Operation Chaos' may have had a tangible effect

May 8, 08 1:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Despite what has been hailed as a strong showing by Barack Obama in Indiana, his campaign claims he would’ve done better but for the sabotage of Rush Limbaugh, the Washington Post reports. Under his “Operation Chaos,” the conservative radio host urged Indiana Republicans to vote for Clinton... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • primary • Rush Limbaugh • GOP • Indiana • Indiana primary • Democratic candidates

 Rush Calls Off 'Chaos,'
Says GOP Can Beat Obama

Limbaugh calls him 'weakest' of the Democrats

May 7, 08 10:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - Now that Barack Obama has all but knocked out Hillary Clinton, Rush Limbaugh is calling off "Operation Chaos" and relishing the notion that Obama will be the nominee, CNN notes. Limbaugh has for months urged Republicans to vote for Clinton to prolong the race. Today, he urged superdelegates to... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John Kerry • Rush Limbaugh • Democratic nomination • superdelegates • Indiana primary • Operation Chaos

GOP Spoilers Are Fueling Clinton Surge

Conservative campaign to keep Democratic fight alive is working

Mar 17, 08 1:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - Republicans for Clinton are turning up in surprising numbers, and not because they've stopped being Hillary haters, the Boston Globe reports. About 100,000 voted for her in Ohio, 119,0000 in Texas, and 38,000 in MIssissippi. Egged on by Rush Limbaugh, they're strategically voting in open primaries for... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Rush Limbaugh • Mississippi • Texas primary • crossover voters

Vote for Hillary, Limbaugh
Urges Listeners

Right-wing mouth wants to keep Dems at
each other's throats

Mar 4, 08 4:49 AM CST
(Newser) - Even right-wing standard bearer Rush Limbaugh's most loyal dittoheads might balk at their latest orders from the radio host: he's urging his listeners to vote for Hillary Clinton in today's Texas primary, CNN reports. "I want Hillary to stay in this," Limbaugh told listeners. "This is too... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Rush Limbaugh

OPINION

Buckley Leaves Conservatism Up the Creek

No clear inheritor to his thoughtful movement, says Newsweek writer

Mar 2, 08 5:45 PM CST
(Newser) - William F. Buckley may have been the architect of the modern conservative movement, but what will it do without him? Evan Thomas even wonders, in Newsweek, if what he created still exists at all. Buckley was “a man who could spar intensely with the late liberal icons…and then... More »

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Iraq • Rush Limbaugh • obituary • Ronald Reagan • Arthur Schlesinger Jr. • National Review • conservatism • Iraq war • William F. Buckley Jr. • John Kenneth Galbraith • Firing Line • Christopher Buckley

OPINION

Fey's 'SNL'
Spot May
Boost Clinton

'Bitch is the new black!' bit should help counter the Obama video blitz

Feb 26, 08 4:00 PM CST
(Newser) - She didn't rap over a stump speech, but Tina Fey's rousing defense of Hillary Clinton on "Saturday Night Live" may help the underdog candidate challenge Barack Obama's domination of viral videos, writes Time TV blogger James Poniewozik. Fey's lampooning of the arguments against Hillary, including that she's a... More »

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Saturday Night Live • Hillary Clinton • Rush Limbaugh • Oprah Winfrey • Tina Fey

Right Rallies to McCain's Defense Against NYT

But Limbaugh, others say that's what you get for wooing Dems, press

Feb 21, 08 6:12 PM CST
(Newser) - Conservative media figures who previously shunned John McCain stood up for him today—but also said he had it coming to him for wooing the mainstream press, ABC reports. Sean Hannity called the New York Times story on McCain's relationship with a lobbyist “beyond disgraceful." Rush Limbaugh, lumping... More »

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John McCain • New York Times • talk radio • Rush Limbaugh • Glenn Beck • Sean Hannity • Vicki Iseman • Laura Ingraham

Limbaugh Defends His McCain-Bashing

Blasts candidate
for 'sitting
down with Dems'

Feb 14, 08 3:17 AM CST
(Newser) - Talk radio's right-wing mouth Rush Limbaugh has defended his sustained anti-McCain invective, panning the presumptive GOP nominee yet again for "walking across the aisle and sitting down with Democrats." Limbaugh bemoaned his party's lack of "genuine conservative leadership," but was at least optimistic that he'll have... More »

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John McCain • Rush Limbaugh • Republican nomination • McCain 2008 • Election 2008

McCain Tries
to Get Right
With the Right

Candidate seeks a truce with radio critics, faces key test today

Feb 7, 08 11:14 AM CST
(Newser) - John McCain is finally trying to assuage conservatives in the wake of his Super Tuesday triumphs, reaching out to radio hosts and other vocal critics, and readying to roll out new endorsements. Surrogates have begun working Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity; others are getting a two-phase courtship—a call from... More »

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John McCain • Rush Limbaugh • conservative • Sean Hannity • CPAC

Contests Underscore Hard-to-Heal Divisions

Democratic, GOP leaders must unite divided party before winning heart of the nation

Feb 6, 08 2:47 PM CST
(Newser) - Super Tuesday results highlighted the deep divides between voters on both the Democratic and Republican sides, Politico points out. Race and gender divided Dems, while the GOP is clearly splitting into hard-line conservatives versus the rest of the party. White women and Latinos went for Clinton, while white men... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • Democrats • Republican • Super Tuesday • Rush Limbaugh

Dole to Limbaugh: McCain's OK

Ex-senator defends Mac's record as  Republican stalwart

Feb 5, 08 5:51 AM CST
(Newser) - Bob Dole has taken up John McCain's defense in a letter written to Rush Limbaugh, the Chicago Tribune's Swamp blog reports. Answering Limbaugh's charge that McCain could "destroy" the GOP, Dole lists McCain's conservative stands when both were senators. "I cannot recall a single instance when he did... More »

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John McCain • Rush Limbaugh • conservative • Republican Party • Bob Dole • tax cuts • Republican nomination • Election 2008

Can the Right Grin and
Bear Him?

Some conservatives
forgive McCain's flaws, but haters hold out

Feb 1, 08 3:00 PM CST
(Newser) - As John McCain assumes the GOP frontrunner position, can right-wingers look past the maverick's previously unacceptable positions on immigration, gay marriage, campaign finance, tax cuts, and global warming?Some of them are warming up in a hurry, reports the New York Times. “He has moved in the right direction strongly... More »

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John McCain • Rush Limbaugh • James Dobson • conservative • Grover Norquist

Rush Limbaugh Rips McCain

GOP roasted for failure to find McCain rival

Jan 31, 08 7:07 AM CST
(Newser) - Right-wing pit bull Rush Limbaugh laid into newly anointed GOP frontrunner John McCain yesterday in a mock "non-concession" speech, in which he said McCain is not acceptable to conservatives and blamed the Republican party's "fractured" base for failing to produce a more palatable contender. "All the candidates... More »

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John McCain • Republican • talk radio • Rush Limbaugh • conservative

Sham Study Tricks Climate Skeptics

Warming blamed on bacteria; pundits trumpeted the news

Nov 12, 07 7:45 PM CST
(Newser) - Turns out undersea bacteria don’t cause global warming after all. But they were on trial for 70 minutes last week after a British prof's email chain linked to a sham study. Climate skeptics and conservatives—Rush Limbaugh included—trumpeted the study until a University of Colorado prof smelled something... More »

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climate change • carbon dioxide • Rush Limbaugh • hoax • skeptics

Limbaugh Letter Brings Record $2.1M on eBay

Critical letter from Dems auctioned to benefit charity

Oct 20, 07 7:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - A letter to conservative radio show host Rush Limbaugh from 41 Democratic Senators sold yesterday on eBay for $2.1M, a record for an eBay item sold to benefit charity. The Dems who wrote the letter objected to Limbaugh labeling Iraq veterans critical of the war as "phony soldiers,... More »

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Hillary Clinton • veterans • eBay • Harry Reid • Rush Limbaugh • Eugene B. Casey Foundation • Marine • Iraq war

Glenn Beck:
He's Just a
Regular Guy

For provocative CNN anchor, it's personal, not political

Sep 2, 07 4:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - Glenn Beck is always preparing to get fired for his comments, but that doesn’t curb this right-wing CNN anchor's wildest impulses. Beck has fueled a chorus of liberal calls for his ouster since he joined the network last year, but he’s less a partisan blowhard than Limbaugh and... More »

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Rush Limbaugh • reporter • CNN • Mormonism • Glenn Beck • Sean Hannity

How 1st-Year Students See the World

Annual list reveals mindset of this year's college freshmen

Aug 21, 07 8:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - Humvees are always a mere down payment away, and it's only natural to see stadiums named after big corporations. Your source of info on '60s icons is Oliver Stone movies and anything else you need to know comes right from "The Daily Show." Don't worry; you’re not... More »

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travel • bottled water • Humvees • General Motors • Rush Limbaugh • list • Michael Moore • Pete Rose • Berlin Wall • Beloit College • mindset • Tom McBride • Nelson Mandela • Mindset List

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