Right Wing Radio

Jason Linkins

Michael Savage Dropped From "Flagship" Radio Station

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.11.2009 | Media


Via ThinkProgress comes the news that San Francisco radio station 910 KNEW has dropped conservative talk-show host Michael Savage from its lineup. KN...

School Daze: That Speech Was Controversial?!

Rick Horowitz | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics


Rick Horowitz

Take heart, my friends. Our national leaders and media titans aren't nearly as spineless, as clueless, as paranoid as they appear to be. It's all an act.

Conservative Argument for Healthcare Reform: Part 3: St. Matthew is on our side.

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 10.16.2009 | Home


Joe The Nerd Ferraro

The Gospel reading at Kennedy's funeral was a sharp stick in the eye of the Congresspeople sitting in the pews.

I Want You to Sell Your Body!

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics


Joe The Nerd Ferraro

We grouse about Congress people prostituting themselves all the time. If we believe in health care, we may have to do the same, as it were.

The Current Reforms Need People, Not Money

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics


Joe The Nerd Ferraro

If you want healthcare you may have to take grief from the party-insiders in the area. Tough noogies. Guess what -- the Congresspeople need political cover to get this done. Make their knees stronger.

Murder Threats and the First Amendment

Martin Garbus | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics


Martin Garbus

The increasing number of threats that emanate from right-wing media present important First Amendment issues anew. Whichever case goes to the Supreme Court will undoubtedly create new law.

Jason Linkins

Obama FCC Nominee Comes Out Against Fairness Doctrine (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.17.2009 | Media


The paranoia that Obama would be getting all up in the radio tubes and force talk radio to start presenting an equal array of opposing viewpoints, thus destroying America, has persisted.

The GOP Program: Complain, Complain, Complain

Rick Horowitz | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics


Rick Horowitz

They don't like his Broadway shows. They don't like his standing Os. They don't like his condiments.They don't like his elegance.

Supreme Cynics: Slamming Sotomayor

Rick Horowitz | Posted 06.28.2009 | Comedy


Rick Horowitz

A behind-the-scenes look at a secret meeting of the conservative opposition to Sonia Sotomayor

Political Cartoonist Calls Fox News "Cartoonist Food"

Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 06.07.2009 | Media


Marlene H. Phillips

David Fitzsimmons compares looking at political cartooning through the years to "looking at freeze-frames, windows into another time; they capture the sentiments of a period, the atmosphere of a time."

Right-Wing Radio Spreads Flu Lies

Rep. Steve Israel | Posted 05.31.2009 | Media


Rep. Steve Israel

Michael Savage, Jay Severin and Neal Boortz are targeting America's immigrant community and trying to turn a possible pandemic into politics.

The Dick and Dubya Show

Mike Papantonio | Posted 02.15.2009 | Media


Mike Papantonio

An interesting narrative coming from the Right is that some day in the future historians are going to uncover presidential memoirs that will finally expose the true genius of the Cheney/Bush duo.

Jason Linkins

Air America Founder: Rush Limbaugh Is Right

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.22.2009 | Media


As we've been documenting, the latest paranoid delusion among media purveyors on the right is that a revival of the "Fairness Doctrine" -- a mid-20th ...

Jason Linkins

'Fairness Doctrine' Advocate Identified

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.17.2009 | Media


As I've mentioned before, one of the singular concerns of the Right since the election of Barack Obama is the paranoid fear that the "Fairness Doctrin...

"The Obama Recession": Their Kingdom for a Scapegoat

Rick Horowitz | Posted 12.31.2008 | Politics


Rick Horowitz

The mere prospect of a Barack Obama victory, the Fulminators want you to believe, was enough to spook the markets and send them into the current tailspin.

Jason Linkins

O'Reilly, Ingraham Stoke Fairness Doctrine Paranoia

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.21.2008 | Media


Yesterday, we talked about how conservatives were all a-leap with terror over the wholly hallucinatory notion that President-elect Barack Obama and th...

Jason Linkins

Fairness Doctrine Fears: A Fake Right Wing Firestorm

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.21.2008 | Media


When things are looking up for them, it's no big bother to tune in to some radio talk at the lunatic fringe end of the right wing radio dial and hear ...

Jason Linkins

Former News Director Spills 'Secrets Of Talk Radio'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.15.2008 | Media


As a follow-up to yesterday's post on the state of right-wing radio, an emailer points me in the direction of an article in Milwaukee Magazine by Dan ...

Jason Linkins

Media Matters Casts Net For America's Next Top Limbaugh

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics


"Are you paying attention to what's being said on your radio?" asks Media Matters. And the answer, for me anyway, is: "No! I thought that's what all...