Posts tagged “Rush Limbaugh”
We Scam Gold
The problem with selling the apocalypse is that when it never happens, the sham is over. Such is the case of Goldline International, a company that has for the past few years stoked the fears of economic catastrophe in order to sell massive amounts of gold to everybody and their mothers. With a marketing strategy of [...]
Cordoba House, And The Families and Friends of 9/11 Victims
It’s really very simple. Feisal Abdul Rauf has a perfect right to build an Islamic community center 2 blocks from Ground Zero. He has a legal right, and he has a moral right. He has a fundamental constitutional right. Nobody has any right to stop him from building that community center. Not even the family [...]
The Retarded Rush Limbaugh Exception
Sarah P. teaches this to her children (and you teach it to your children and grandchildren, too, don’t you, dear reader?): “Name calling by anyone is just unnecessary.” And retard is a very bad name for one of Sarah P.’s key political props God’s own children, so Sarah Pee can take deep umbrage if someone [...]
Race To The Bottom
Remember when the unofficial leader of the Republican party used to be Rush Limbaugh? Now the DNC, perhaps with malice aforethought, seems to have passed the mantle to Glenn Beck. Here’s a press release the DNC came up with: With apologies to Tom DeLay, and despite the railing you’re hearing from the Republican cloakroom and [...]
Positive, Inspiring, Motivational…And Illuminating!
(1) Rush Limbaugh has shared the secret of his success with the world (via Fox News): I have shown you get ratings on radio being positive, respecting the audience, being inspiring and motivational at times, when it’s necessary. Here’s part of the inspiring and motivational message he bestowed upon us in the same interview: I [...]
Sanford Saga: The Pre-Game Coverage
Sanford and staff have clammed up for now, in preparation for a 2 p.m. press conference. While it wouldn’t surprise me at all if the press conference ends up getting postponed — my professional diagnosis: too many questions and loose ends, and not so much “too little time” as “no good answers” — there’s no [...]
Sound-bites, Context And A Rash Of Religious Conversions
On Wednesday night, in the first segment on MSNBC‘s Countdown, Keith Olbermann exposed the hypocrisy and dishonesty of the Republican attack machine’s smears of Sonia Sotomayor. He showed how the attacks were based on a) misrepresenting and twisting around out-of-context quotes which have a very different meaning when viewed in context, b) ignoring the fact [...]
1115 Does Its Bit To Advance Scientific Knowledge
Let’s welcome Charles Krauthammer to the Balls-You-Need-An-Electron-Microscope-To-See club: “What I want to say is — I don’t want to repeat his name — I don’t want Obama to fail,” he said, referring to radio host Rush Limbaugh. “I want our country to succeed. And when I criticize him, it’s because I think his ideas are [...]
Public Service Display Of The Badly Drug-Addled Brain
It’s a funny world when Premiere Radio Networks (a wholly owned subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications) is willing to pay $50 million a year to put on the air an extended public service message which demonstrates, by example, how badly drug addiction can addle the brain. Of course, it can afford to do so only [...]
It’s Funny Because It’s True
Wanda Sykes at the White House Correspondents Dinner: ”Rush Limbaugh said he hopes this administration fails. That’s like saying, ‘I hope America fails.’ Or that ‘I dont care if people are losing their homes, their jobs, our soldiers in Iraq.’ He just wants the country to fail. To me, that’s treason. He’s not saying anything differently [...]