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Rush Limbaugh Calls Obama a 'Jackass' -- Sound Familiar?
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Oct. 6) -- Rush Limbaugh felt he was being "charitable" when he called President Barack Obama a "jackass." And for good measure, the conservative radio host also threw in "economic ignoramus" and "idiot" during a monologue on Tuesday, just in case listeners missed the point. Limbaugh's choice words for the president emerged during a segment about George W. Bush's tax cuts, which Limbaugh believes should be extended to all Americans, including the wealthiest 2 percent of wage earners. Although he probably won't meet a fate similar to former CNN anchor Rick Sanchez (note to self: calling the ...
New York's John Hall: A Rocky Reelection Road for a Rock Legend
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyTHIELLS, N.Y. -- John Hall -- once the bare-chested guitarist for the 1970s band Orleans and the only rock musician ever elected to Congress as a Democrat -- was asked whether his entertainment background helped inoculate him from the anti-incumbent frenzy sweeping the nation. "Somewhat," he said, pausing to contemplate my question. "But now that I've been in Congress for three-and-a-half years, some people say that I've gone Washington." Talk about political heresy: a Democrat in a tough reelection race in 2010 actually volunteering that maybe he has changed because of his service in ...
Chaos Theory - Rush Limbaugh's Bus to Nowhere
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By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyGood morning, Capitolists! It's the 99th day of the Obama administration, the second day of "Politics Daily" and the first day of your lives as full-fledged Capitolists. That thud you just heard is the news of the day on your virtual doorstep. Enjoy....Top Domestic Story: Swine Flu: It's an emergency! Nobody panic... **The Swine Flu outbreak presents the Obama administration staff with their first-ever public heath crisis, forcing them to activate a never-tested response process with dozens of key health posts vacant, including the Health and Human Services secretary. Great. Look for HHS ...
Rush Limbaugh Owes Success to Giving His Show Away
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyRush Limbaugh has only one thing in common with Savoir Faire: He is everywhere. When Boss Limbaugh brags of sixty jillion listeners nationwide, it's not because they were attracted to him like moths to a brilliant flame, it's because, well, he was there.Bill Mann reports, at HuffPo, that Rush spread the seeds of his current roots long ago, and with a sales scheme that would make Crazy Eddie, um, crazy: This shocker is because of a little-known practice in broadcast syndication called a "barter deal." (Barter deals were briefly mentioned in Michael Wolff's first-rate recent piece on Rush in ...
Rush Limbaugh Ratings Surge
By Dave - Politics DailyEarlier this month, Mark and Tommy posted stories about an article on Rush's ratings and whether they doubled. At the time I had to agree with Tommy that it was highly suspect that Rush's ratings actually doubled. I thought they had gone up, but when you have twenty million listeners, the law of diminishing returns kicks in.Let's get the claim accurate. According to Talkers magazine earlier this month, Rush's ratings nearly doubled from 14 to 25 million. And now we have some hard numbers rolling in to check the claim. According to The Radio Equalizer, most markets saw a significant increase. ...
When Conservatives Go Bad: Bashing Limbaugh to Sell Books
By Dave - Politics DailyWe've seen this before. A neo-conservative luminary says something critical about conservatism, is showered by adulation by the liberal press, finds that he likes it and tries to springboard the criticism to launch a bigger career. In David Frum's case, this was started with his criticism of Sarah Palin, but Copious Dissent has his number and reports the sad trajectory from there.Personally, I wish I could generate an audience simply by people hating my guts. But, that is David Frum's entire shtick. He writes a book about how Conservatives "can win again" by abandoning Conservatism, and it is ...
Obama vs. Rush
By Dave - Politics DailyObama (via Daily Telegraph): The president responded with a clear signal that he is prepared to ram the bill through without the bipartisan consensus he promised to construct, telling Republican leaders from the House of Representatives: "I won. I'm the president." He then told them to break free of the confrontational mindset epitomised by Mr Limbaugh, the highest paid talk show host in America. "You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done," Mr Obama said. His comments followed a blunt attack on him by Mr Limbaugh, who declared on air that he hoped Mr Obama would fail as ...
Rush Limbaugh Safe
By Dave - Politics DailyI never doubted it, but now I have a little more backup, via the Columbus Dispatch: "We have no intention of prosecuting Rush Limbaugh because lying through your teeth and being stupid isn't a crime," said Leo Jennings, a spokesman for Democratic Attorney General Marc Dann. When asked whether she has concerns about what Limbaugh did, Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat, replied, "I think it's very bad form, but I think most voters are intelligent enough to make their own decisions." I wonder what Mr. Jennings thinks about lefty blogger Markos of DailyKos, who was running his ...
Huck vs. Rush
By Dave - Politics DailyOne of the items on Huckabees Christmas list is to repair the damage done by an apparent staffer on his campaign Friday. As reported by Marc Abinder, an anonymous staffer told Marc that Rush was primarily an entertainer and part of the establishment crowd. If, and that's a big if, this was a official position of the Huckabee campaign, it was remarkably stupid, for on Friday, Rush took to his last live broadcast of the year, and spent most of his three hours telling his twenty million listeners why Huckabee was wrong and that he was engaging in identity politics. So that was dumb. Over the ...
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