There is no question of rights here. Media Matters is fully within its rights to run ad campaigns against Limbaugh. They are exercising their right to free speech.
In the rare instances when Rush Limbaugh is forced to produce evidence to support his broadcast diatribes and vile personal attacks -- evidence that he does not have -- Limbaugh shifts gears and professes he was merely engaging in satiric humor to make his point.
Rush Limbaugh's words were disgusting, vile, mean spirited, misogynistic, and inane. Yet I am opposed to the organized efforts of several organizations to urge advertisers to boycott Limbaugh's show, and to demand that his show be cancelled.
Character is not necessarily limited to extraordinary feats of daring or selflessness. Rather, character is also reflected in the everyday choices we make about how we live our lives.
Rush is simply too entrenched in too many radio lineups across the country to ever disappear completely, but if nothing else, this whole kerfuffle signals the first substantial chink in his once-impenetrable armor.
The entire planet has spent the last two hundred years coming to terms with the implications of race and class on society. Now some people are having the dawning realization that gender is salient, too.
WASHINGTON -- Already facing the loss of numerous advertisers over his derogatory remarks about Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke, Rush Limbaugh may...
WASHINGTON -- AOL, the parent company of The Huffington Post, has become the eighth advertiser to pull its money from Rush Limbaugh's syndicated radio...
Rush doesn't care if his "slut" accusations were true. No, Rush saw Fluke as an attention grabber for his vitriol-filled show. And then when politicos of every stripe weighed in on his comments he got even more attention.
As the controversy grew over Rush Limbaugh's latest incendiary comments -- he called law student and birth control advocate Sandra Fluke a "slut" on W...
After a media and political firestorm, Rush Limbaugh issued an apology on Saturday for calling student Sandra Fluke a "slut" on his radio show this we...