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right-wing media stories: 22 news summaries

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 ADL: Beck Is Top 
 Hate Monger 

He's offering 'platform to extremists,' report charges

Nov 18, 09 2:09 AM CST
(Newser) - Right-wing Fox mouth Glenn Beck is the most toxic media hate monger operating in the US today, according to a report by the Anti-Defamation League. "Beck has made a habit of demonizing President Obama and promoting conspiracy theories about his administration," the r eport states. He "has... More »

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Rush Limbaugh • extremists • Fox News • Glenn Beck • Sean Hannity • right-wing media • right-wing attacks • Anti-Defamation League • right-wing extremism • conspiracy theorists

Beck, Limbaugh & Co. Scare
GOP Brass

Top Republicans complain talkers are pushing party to fringe

Oct 22, 09 6:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Top Republicans are fed up with Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh—off the record at least. Without naming names, Politico says that “congressional leaders” privately complain that the conservative commentariat is hurting their chances in 2010 by pushing the party too far to the fringe. Operatives close to top... More »

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Mitt Romney • Rush Limbaugh • conservative • Republican Party • Tim Pawlenty • Glenn Beck • right-wing media • conservative base

Limbaugh Compares NYT Reporter to 'Jihad Guys'

Tells Times' Revkin to 'go kill yourself'

Oct 21, 09 9:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh really outdid himself yesterday, comparing New York Times environmental reporter Andy Revkin to a terrorist and urging him to commit suicide. Well, that’s not entirely fair. Actually, Limbaugh compared all “militant environmentalists” to “the jihad guys,” who, in Limbaugh’s telling, “... More »

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contraception • global warming • environmentalism • Rush Limbaugh • contraceptive • right-wing media • environmentalists • Andrew Revkin

WATCH THE VIDEO

 Beck: Progressives 
 Are Like Slave Owners 

Plus, Fox News host is now traveling with an armed guard

Oct 21, 09 7:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Glenn Beck’s latest metaphor: Progressives are like slave owners. He came up with this one last night while bemoaning the thousands of people in Detroit who lined up to apply for, as he called it, “free government money that we don’t know where it came from,”... More »

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conservative • Fox News • Glenn Beck • right-wing media • stimulus funds • progressives

OPINION

Glenn Beck's Paranoia
Is a Gold Mine

Gold to guns, scribe says there's profit to be made off right wingers

Oct 20, 09 11:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - Move over Jim Cramer. When it comes to possibly unhinged investment gurus, Mike Madden of Salon says he’s going with Glenn Beck and G. Gordon Liddy. Ever since advertisers began boycotting Beck, gold sellers have been grabbing space. The weirdest ad features G. Gordon Liddy mocking Fed policies that... More »

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investment • Glenn Beck • gold • commodities • right-wing media • paranoia • G. Gordon Liddy

 'Race Hammers' 
 Crushed Rush 
 Deal: O'Reilly 

Limbaugh 'should sue' NBC, CNN for '1984 attack'

Oct 15, 09 5:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - "Thought police" in the media who have unfairly skewered Rush Limbaugh as a racist spoiled his bid to become an owner of the Rams, charged right-wing media maven Bill O'Reilly. Now that he's been dumped from the buyers' group after the controversy over his participation, Limbaugh should sue media... More »

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NFL • St. Louis Rams • Bill O'Reilly • Rush Limbaugh • right-wing media • Rush Limbaugh racist quotes

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

analysis

 Right 
 Suddenly 
 Embraces 
 Truther King 

Alex Jones is like Glenn Beck, only moreso

Oct 8, 09 1:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - It wasn’t long ago that the right wing hated Alex Jones. A top voice in the 9/11 Truth movement, he was repeatedly ridiculed on Fox News, and Michelle Malkin said Ron Paul’s association with him should disqualify him from the GOP primary debates. But Jones is a non-partisan... More »

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libertarian • Glenn Beck • right-wing media • tea parties • right-wing extremism • truther • Alex Jones

(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

 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

 Beck's Latest Rant: 
 Obama Like 
 Hussein, 
 Hitler 

Host isn't suggesting Americorps plan makes him a fascist, but...

Aug 28, 09 9:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Glenn Beck may have reached a new low last night when he implied President Obama’s plans to use AmeriCorps make him the equivalent of a fascist dictator, Gawker reports. One guest, Vets for Freedom vice chairman David Bellavia, fanned the flames by saying, “I’m not comparing my... More »

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Saddam Hussein • television • Barack Obama • Adolf Hitler • Fox News • Glenn Beck • right wingers • right-wing media • Obama administration • President Obama • AmeriCorps • David Bellavia • Vets for Freedom

OPINION

 Beck to Audience: 
 Nobody Flip Out, 
 Kill a Bunch 
 of People 

Gawker wonders what prompted this bizarre request

Aug 4, 09 7:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Glenn Beck took it down a notch last night, adopting an “unusually subdued” manner to close his show by “imploring his audience not to murder innocent people,” writes the Cajun Boy for Gawker. Beck’s thoughts included, among other things, the warning that “Just one lunatic... More »

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Fox News • Glenn Beck • right-wing media • conservative media • right-wing extremism • Timothy McVeigh

Lou Dobbs Calls Maddow a 'Tea- Bagging Queen'

Insists he's no birther... but wants to see the birth certificate

Jul 29, 09 6:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - Lou Dobbs is being cruelly oppressed. He says the left is trying to “silence” him for demanding that Barack Obama produce a birth certificate. “My god, you’re talking about the third rail of American journalism, baby!” he said on his radio show yesterday. Among these scary... More »

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Barack Obama • Lou Dobbs • right-wing media • Rachel Maddow • birth certificate • birther

 Reader's Digest 
 Shifts to the Right 

Struggling magazine aims for new niche market

Jun 19, 09 8:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Reader's Digest is no longer going after Middle America, reports the New York Times. Instead, the slimmed-down magazine will be "aiming a little more to the right," hoping to carve out a niche among conservatives, writes Stephanie Clifford. “It’s traditional, conservative values: I love my family,... More »

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media • conservative • American media • right-wing media • magazine industry • Reader's Digest • conservative media

(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

(Newser) - This apparently isn't going away anytime soon. Rush Limbaugh today challenged Barack Obama to a debate on his radio show, Politico reports. “If these guys are so impressed with themselves, and if they are so sure of their correctness, why doesn't President Obama come on my show?" he asked.... More »

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radio • talk radio • Rush Limbaugh • conservative • debate • Bill Maher • right-wing media • President Obama • Bill Maher Grid

ANALYSIS

'Rightosphere' Hopes to Reshape GOP

Bloggers hope to catch GOP up to Democrats on harnessing the internet

Nov 18, 08 1:26 PM CST
(Newser) - The election of Barack Obama has energized conservative bloggers, who see a spell in opposition as an opportunity ideal for reshaping the party, writes Walter Alarkon for the Hill. Conservatives in the “rightosphere” are eying the progress the left’s “netroots” made during the Bush years, when sites... More »

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blogosphere • Internet • Republican • GOP • conservative • lefties • Daily Kos • right wingers • right-wing media • Huffington Post • rightosphere

OPINION

 Blame Rush
 and Co. for
 GOP's Fall 

Divisiveness makes for good ratings, bad political movement

Nov 17, 08 12:40 PM CST
(Newser) - Blame has been flying in Republican circles, but not enough has stuck where it belongs: on conservative talk radio. Rush Limbaugh and his imitators skyrocketed to prominence by being "rabble-rousers—high intensity, 'hot' performers whose appeal is based on energizing their base," writes Steven Stark in the More »

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talk radio • Rush Limbaugh • Mike Huckabee • Ronald Reagan • right-wing media • conservative base • Sarah Palin • conservative movement

OPINION

Limbaugh Lashes Out at Anti-Palin Pundit

'Wimp' columnist climbs into the mud with 'pig' radio host

Oct 10, 08 5:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - Going so far as to call him a “pig,” Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell has launched a full-on war of words with Rush Limbaugh. Limbaugh called Mitchell a "racist nutball" and ridiculed her and other “drive-by journalists” for saying Sarah Palin and John McCain should... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • radio • talk radio • Rush Limbaugh • racism • politically incorrect • pundits • right-wing media • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin

Comedy Legend Skewers Left in Slapstick Carol

Naked Gun director lampoons Michael Moore in new flick

Jul 23, 08 2:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - They're calling it  “a spoof of A Christmas Carol and contemporary American culture,” from the director that brought you Naked Gun and Airplane! But what the press release doesn't say is that the director is David Zucker, a self-proclaimed “9/11 Republican,” and that... More »

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comedy • Michael Moore • Dennis Hopper • Jon Voight • right-wing media • Kelsey Grammer • David Zucker • American Carol

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