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Shatner Grills Limbaugh About Health Care On "Raw Nerve" (VIDEO)

Posted 12.01.2009 | Media


On an upcoming episode of William Shatner's "Raw Nerve" Shatner grills guest Rush Limbaugh on health care. The conversation is heated, and the settin...

A Dobbs Campaign? Battle-Scarred Radio Pro Dave Ross Reveals What Lou Can Expect

Bill Mann | Posted 11.24.2009 | Media


Bill Mann

Several polls have shown recently that even the most popular radio talk-show hosts who trade in politics on their shows would never get elected to public office. Take it from Dave Ross.

You Can't Say "Sorry" When Millions Die from Your Mistake

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics


Jeff Schweitzer

Cheney castigates President Obama for "dithering" because the president does not rush into sending young men and women to their deaths for no reason. Yet to dither on climate change is divine.

What Change?

Joe Peyronnin | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics


Joe Peyronnin

The young and minority voters were not motivated enough to come out and vote. Could the president have had a favorable impact had he delivered on his pledge to change Washington, even just a little?

Huh?

Dave Hackel | Posted 11.03.2009 | Media


Dave Hackel

Everyday the news is filled with statements that just don't make any sense. I write them down and then I study them later. Many still puzzle me. Maybe you can help me make sense of them.

What If Obama Had Turned Down The Nobel?

Dave Hackel | Posted 10.15.2009 | Media


Dave Hackel

When it was announced that President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, he gave the perfect "I'll say it so you don't have to" response. He said that h...

Limbaugh in the NFL Would Be Bad Business

Morris W. O'Kelly | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics


Morris W. O'Kelly

I'm not sure the NFL is ready to stomach the hatemail the next time Limbaugh compares the Democrats to Nazis, but like it or not...as an owner he would represent the NFL.

Rush Limbaugh's NFL Bid For Rams Attacked By Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson

AP | R.B. FALLSTROM, AP Sports Writer | Posted 10.13.2009 | Media


ST. LOUIS (AP)--The Revs. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson attacked the bid by Rush Limbaugh to buy the St. Louis Rams on Monday, saying the conservative...

Sam Stein

Limbaugh On Obama Nobel Prize: I Agree With Taliban In Bashing The President

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics


The conservative lament over Barack Obama being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize is quickly becoming a sight to behold. On his radio show just now, Rush ...

The Comedy Stylings of Mr. Rush Limbaugh

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 11.22.2009 | Media


Robert J. Elisberg

Taking this as a joke ... as satire ... as not what he means, but the opposite -- that means that Rush Limbaugh is actually for integration.

Rush Limbaugh: "Obama's America - White Kids Get Beat Up With The Black Kids Cheering" (AUDIO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics


Rush Limbaugh couldn't resist trying to connect the brutal beating of one student by another on a school bus to President Obama, using it as an exampl...

Mr. Limbaugh, You Need to Apologize to our President

Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media


Joan E. Dowlin

The President called on all Americans to be strong, firm, and united to serve the nation while remembering the events of 9/11/01. This all sounds very inspiring. But not to Rush Limbaugh.

Greatest Tribute to Kennedy: Pass Health Care for All

Robert Creamer | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics


Robert Creamer

It would be fitting if Sen. Kennedy's passing itself served to refocus the health care debate on the moral principle that lies at its center.

Punching the Tar Baby

Larry Gellman | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics


Larry Gellman

From the moment Judge Sotomayor was nominated to the court, the Right wing made it clear that they were going to play the only card left in the Republican deck -- the race card.

AP: After Palin, Ayotte Resigns to Explore NH Senate; Sotomayor Is the Bar: Welcome to the 24/7 Election Cycle of the Woman

Jennifer Donahue | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics


Jennifer Donahue

We live in the era of the seamless 24/7 campaign. You snooze, you lose. Could just be the change that allows a new slate of candidates, including women, to emerge in both parties.

Sam Stein

Powell Whacks Limbaugh And Republicans For Calling Sotomayor Racist

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.05.2009 | Politics


Colin Powell, who hails from the same Bronx neighborhood as Sonia Sotomayor, said on Sunday that the Supreme Court nominee was of a "liberal bent of m...

The Meaning of Treason

Ariel Gonzalez | Posted 07.29.2009 | Politics


Ariel Gonzalez

I first read Rebecca West's Meaning of Treason in the 1990s. At the time I was more interested in the looping grace of West's sentences than in h...

President Obama's FDR Problem

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 07.15.2009 | Politics


Stephen C. Rose

President Obama is the first president in my memory to have the FDR problem. That problem in a word is hate. The reason is the same.

Dr. Tiller, Murder, Domestic Terrorism and the Republican Right

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics


Frank Schaeffer

The leaderless Republican Party -- or should I say the dwindling rabble of know-nothing reactionaries who still identify themselves as Republicans -- is not just politically leaderless, they are also morally leaderless.

On Sotomayor, Fabled Conservative Media "Echo Chamber" Hampers G.O.P.

Ari Melber | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics


Ari Melber

Republican officials are learning that in the minority, their echo chamber still works, but it's working against them.

Sam Stein

Unlike Gingrich, Limbaugh Won't Back Down From Sotomayor "Racist" Remarks

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics


Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich backed down on Wednesday from his earlier remarks calling Judge Sonia Sotomayor a racist -- in large part, it seem...

That 'Latina Woman'

Michael Shaw | Posted 06.28.2009 | Media


Michael Shaw

2009-05-29-shaw_sotomayor.jpgPairing an almost eight-year-old quote with a photo fished from the file, you see how the media can suggest Sotomayor as someone angry, bitter -- even "racist."

Limbaugh Resigns "As The Titular Head Of The Republican Party"

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics


On his Wednesday radio show, Rush Limbaugh denied that he is the "titular head" of the Republican Party, yet at the same time he argued that the posit...

Roberta McCain: Limbaugh "Does Not Represent The Republican Party That I Belong To" (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Susan Crile | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics


John McCain's mother, Roberta McCain, lashed out at Rush Limbaugh on Wednesday night on "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno. The outspoken 97-year-old sa...

Cheney in 2012? It's Cheney in 2010

Matt Littman | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics


Matt Littman

There are those who write that Dick Cheney should have run for President in 2008. There are those, on this Web site in particular, who say he should ...