According to Rush Limbaugh, the mail bombs sent to Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and CNN yesterday could not have come from a right wing terrorist because "Republicans just don't do this kind of thing." Now that new bombs have been sent to Joe Biden and Robert DeNiro, it is ...read more
Rush Limbaugh took to the air on AM Hate Radio to warn his listeners that Hurricane Florence is being overly hyped. In fact, the reason the media is sounding the alarm is, I kid you not, for political reasons. Rush Limbaugh has claimed that forecaster’s predictions that ...read more
You really couldn't make this up (via The Daily Beast): Rush Limbaugh will evacuate his South Florida residence in advance of Hurricane Irma, despite his previous claims that the news media had intentionally overhyped the storm to boost ratings and gin up fear about climate ...read more
My epiphany wasn’t the baseball practice shooting in Alexandria, Virginia. Two weeks ago I had an epiphany of my own. When you have to brake that fast on the Garden State Parkway during evening rush hour, you know it's not going to be good. My Subaru Impreza missed hitting the ...read more
Jonathan Chait has some fun with Rush Limbaugh's truly special theory that the federal government's plan to raise awareness about LGBT issues in rural areas is in fact a thinly disguised effort by President Obama to "attack rural states" by populating farms with lesbians: It’s ...read more
In response to the criticism Donald Trump has been facing over his revoltingly sexist comments about Hillary Clinton using the "women card" to gain popularity, fellow idiot white male conservative Rush Limbaugh put forward what has to be the most idiotic defense of his best ...read more
If you want to understand the science behind climate change, don't waste your time listening to actual scientist who almost unanimously agree that rising CO2 emissions are a direct result of human activity. Instead, listen to an obese, pill popping loudmouth who makes his living ...read more
Well, that didn't take long. Days after nine African Americans were murdered in cold blood by a psychopathic racist, and literally hours after the debate began to focus on getting rid of the Confederate flag, Rush Limbaugh has leapt to the defense of persecuted white people ...read more
During a commencement speech at Tuskegee University on Saturday, Michelle Obama spoke openly about what is was like being a black woman during the 2008 presidential campaign, and empathized with the black students in the audience who have no doubt been subjected to ...read more
In spite of the "Thanks, Obama" meme's dwindling efficacy, the far-right continues to go there. Last week, they blamed President Obama for the rioting and looting in Baltimore following the tragic death of Freddie Gray. And this week, the non-fatal shooting in Garland, TX ...read more
Remember when Sarah Palin ran for vice president and even though she was given multiple chances she couldn't describe the constitutional role of the vice president? That was awesome. You might also remember when Palin said the Constitution states that "our unalienable rights ...read more
Conservative radio icon and honorary Hutt Rush Limbaugh really, really hates it when people call him "racist." Just ask him. He hates it so much that, two weeks ago, he went off on a rant against the very idea of a black actor portraying fictional character James Bond, not ...read more
Sometimes they tell the truth. It's rare, but they do. Sometimes in their phony-baloney careerist outrage, the far-right screechers on talk radio and Fox News Channel accidentally let the truth slip out. This time it was Rush Limbaugh who inadvertantly revealed why his ...read more
Rush Limbaugh's lawyer insists the radio giant was taken "out of context" when the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee quoted his remarks on sexual assault, but even with a big assist from Sean Hannity, context is not Limbaugh's friend. Limbaugh attorney, Patricia ...read more
Sounds like a certain someone is back on the baby blues. Either Limbaugh is high as a kite, or he's just so desperate to find a reason why the unemployment numbers have reached the lowest point since 2008 that he's resurrected one of the most ludicrous conspiracy theories in ...read more
The biggest news of the week: President Obama launched the first sorties into Syria, targeting ISIS terrorists. Within 24 hours, however, Republicans everywhere decided to turn an awkward salute into a near-impeachable crime against humanity, thus violating one of their most ...read more
Correction: I initially wrote that Limbaugh was married three times. That is incorrect. He's been married four times. If you're one of Rush Limbaugh's dittoheads and you're getting your sexual advice from a guy who's been married four times and who mysteriously had a bottle of ...read more
That took longer that I thought. After nearly two weeks of tensions in Ferguson, MO, far-right radio has finally shoehorned the crisis into its ongoing Benghazi and IRS narratives. I'm seriously shocked that it didn't happen sooner, a sign that perhaps the screechers are feeling ...read more
On Tuesday, Rush Limbaugh pathetically tried to claim that Robin Williams killed himself because of liberal guilt, saying, "What is the left’s world view in general? If you had to attach, not a philosophy, but an attitude to a leftist world view. It’s one of pessimism, and ...read more
If you've blocked a lot of cold-blooded bastards on social media in the last 24 hours or so, you're not alone. Considering how the untimely death of Robin Williams has touched so many of us in a way not experienced since perhaps the deaths of John Lennon or President Kennedy, ...read more
Oh, Rush Limbaugh. In your feeble old age, you're making it way to easy for people like me. Today on the Rush Limbaugh Program, our favorite radio troll circled back to the Obamacare contraception issue, which, unless we're mistaken, was resolved by the Supreme Court last week. ...read more
Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) won a hotly contested primary run-off election Tuesday against tea party challenger State Sen. Chris McDaniel, and the conservative entertainment complex is pissed. Glenn Beck actually fired a rifle on his show to illustrate his disgust. Sarah Palin ...read more
There are many ways to describe Rush Limbaugh - conservative radio behemoth, Viagra smuggler, Warrior on Women, Apologizer to Tommy Christopher - but Award-Winning Children's Book Author was never one of them, until now. Limbaugh's Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims has netted ...read more
"This is a farewell kiss from the Iraqi people, you dog!" That's what a journalist named Muntadhar al-Zaidi shouted when he hurled his shoes at President Bush's head during a press conference back in 2008. You don't have to dig very deeply into my archives to discover that I ...read more
It's getting more than a little deep in here. No one should be surprised that Newt Gingrich called the ouster of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich a product of "new fascism" (same great taste?), joining other right-wing luminaries like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck in Hitlerian ...read more
Subtitle: "FEAR OF A BLACK POTUS." Yes, Rush Limbaugh thinks everything that's wrong in the D.C. establishment is all the president's fault for being, you know, African-American. And because there's an African-American president, everyone in D.C. is scared shitless to do or ...read more
Not only did Limbaugh complain that "not one conservative name was mentioned" during last night's Academy Awards telecast -- which took place in Hollywood, duh -- but he went on to say that the only reason "12 Years A Slave" won Best Picture was because it had the word "slave" ...read more
Initially, my reaction was to question the veracity of the Times of London, which conducted a poll of the most admired people throughout 13 nations and determined that, among Americans, Rush Limbaugh is the ninth most admired human being -- in the entire world. I thought, how ...read more
"The pope seems to prefer common ownership of the means of production, which is Marxist, or private ownership and government control, which is fascist, or government ownership and government control, which is socialist. All of those failed systems lead to ashes, not wealth... ...read more
Following Wednesday's Medal of Freedom ceremony at the White House, Rush Limbaugh took a call on his show from a guy who began the conversation by insisting that Limbaugh could very well qualify for a Medal of Freedom due to other past accolades. The caller totally pumped up ...read more
Like any liberal arts-educated freelance writer and activist from San Francisco who values his progressive culture and identity, I'm a very strong supporter of Salon.com. The site has always featured some of the most thought-provoking and necessary advocacy journalism anywhere ...read more
Another work week is just about over but before you sneak out early to start the weekend drinking, here's a little reading material. 1. Heart of Darkness I've never really stopped to consider what the person was like who died only to have his heart go to Dick Cheney. This is ...read more
You just can't make this crap up. Today on his radio show, Rush Limbaugh, who's been married four times and remains childless, insisted that the Democratic Party is turning women into "abortion machines." The discussion circulated around how, specifically, the GOP can pull an ...read more
Remember a year-and-a-half or so ago when it looked like the Tea Party had been sufficiently cowed, driven back to their trailers and rest homes by the very melting pot electorate they so feared? Remember when it looked like we'd never have to see Sarah Palin again, that like ...read more
Marco Rubio isn't thinking about what's good for the country at a time like this, nor is he even thinking as far as the 2016 general election for president that he hopes to win -- all he's thinking about is securing the 2016 Republican nomination. And that's why he's taking ...read more
"You know, you’re always talking about how history is being mistaught. You’re right. You’re always talking about what kids are learning these days, and they’re not learning about the greatness of America. They’re not learning about the founding days. They’re not learning the ...read more
On his show last Friday, while the NSA story was blazing its way through the tubes, Rush Limbaugh said, "So there is clearly -- somewhere, somehow, in some form or another -- a coup taking place, and there is an assault on privacy, and there are assaults on people because of ...read more
When I was in high school, I was an insufferable young Republican. I've talked about this on my podcast and on the blog, so it's not any sort of revelation. Like a lot of kids who self-identify as conservative, as soon as I left home and began to learn about the real world, ...read more
I'm old enough to remember when country singer Natalie Maines said during a Dixie Chicks concert, "We're ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas." She wasn't broadcasting a political demand for impeachment or a half-baked conspiracy theory to anyone outside ...read more
By Ben Cohen: It's fairly clear that the Republican Party is in a state of serious disarray after getting hammered in the general election. The once unified party has begun to crack at the seams, fracturing over issues that were once untouchable cornerstones of Republican ...read more
By Ben Cohen: Listening to the Right wing fallout after President Obama was re-elected has been absolutely fascinating to say the least. From Karl Rove's extraordinary meltdown live on election night to Sean Hannity's one-eighty on immigration, it's fair to say that the GOP is ...read more
By Chez Pazienza: I never thought I'd hear myself say this, but Rush is right. Yesterday in my regular column here, I mentioned how the right-wing media isn't simply circling the wagons to defend Mitt Romney's secretly recorded comments regarding 47% of the country, they're ...read more
