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Ann Coulter Winks at the Birthers

By | 02.24.10 | 8:01 pm

The conservative author who makes a living offending liberals takes a tiny step into the land of Obama birth certificate theories with a throwaway line in her new column.

If they could, Americans would cut the power to the Capitol, throw everyone out and try to deport them. (Whereas

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Limbaugh at Birther Ground Zero

By | 12.31.09 | 10:16 am

Nice catch by Andrea Nill — Queen’s Medical Center, where Rush Limbaugh is being treated after experiencing chest pains yesterday, happens to be a crucial location in the birther mythos. A UPI article mistakenly identified that hospital, not the Kapi’olani Medical Center, as the birthplace of Barack Obama. And More…

Poll: Sarah Palin, Choice of the Limbaugh Listener

By | 11.30.09 | 8:51 am

Mark this Washington Post poll as one of the less surprising surveys of the Republican Party this year. Only 18 percent of self-identified Republicans call Sarah Palin the national figure who most represents their values.

Among those who regularly listen to Limbaugh, however, Palin was cited by 48 percent,

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Sarah Palin Thanks Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh

By | 11.17.09 | 2:03 pm

In the acknowledgments of “Going Rogue,” Sarah Palin gives a hearty and extended thanks to conservative media figures, using only their first names.

To some media professionals whom I admire because you don’t let anyone tell you to sit down and shut up, please keep making the idiots’ heads spin.

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Limbaugh and Palin: The Exclusive Interview

By | 11.13.09 | 3:58 pm

Lisa De Pasquale breaks the news of Rush Limbaugh’s interview with Sarah Palin, to be conducted in the second hour of his Nov. 17 show.

Since the 2008 election, with the exception of Oprah Winfrey, it’s really just conservative talkers and stars who’ve gotten sit-downs with Palin. And even More…

Listen to Rush Limbaugh Compare the President of the United States to Ft. Hood Murderer

By | 11.09.09 | 3:31 pm

“If we’re going to ask why did he do it, knowing full well that he’s in the same mosque in 2001 with the radical preacher going nuts, we’re going to also [laughter] have to believe that the guy was just like Obama, and didn’t hear Rev. Wright’s words when he More…

NY-23: Biden Backs Owens, Slams Limbaugh and Palin

By | 11.02.09 | 11:26 am

WATERTOWN, N.Y. – Rallying support for Democratic congressional candidate Bill Owens before Tuesday’s special election in NY-23, Vice President Joe Biden today told a mostly full room at the North Side Improvement League to “teach a lesson” to right-wing activists. Ideological activists, said Biden, forced Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava out More…

Steve King to NFL Commissioner: Apologize to Rush!

By | 10.28.09 | 4:59 pm

Here’s an interesting confrontation from a hearing on the Hill today between Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. King said he’d “scoured” Rush Limbaugh’s infamous comment that the media was giving Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb too much credit because he was black and found no More…

The Obama ‘Thesis’ Hoax

By | 10.23.09 | 4:03 pm

If you didn’t listen to Rush Limbaugh’s radio show today, you missed the news that an obscure blogger had gotten his hands on ten pages of Barack Obama’s college thesis, thanks to Joe Klein of Time magazine. Michael Ledeen had jumped on the news, publishing an excerpt that More…

Pawlenty: Talk Radio ‘Part of the Coalition, Not the Whole Coalition’

By | 10.22.09 | 9:24 am

Politico’s report on whether Republicans “are being wounded by the flamboyant rhetoric and angry tone of conservative activists and media personalities” is worth reading for the quotes from top Republicans, most of whom amble around the question. Of the currently relevant figures (sorry, Bob Michel), More…