Rush Limbaugh

The Anti-Defamation League is out with a statement shaming Rush Limbaugh and other conservatives for bringing Nazi and Hitler comparisons into the debate on health care. ADL’s national director Abe Foxman takes direct aim at the radio talk show host for his extended comparison, on yesterday’s show, between the modern Democrats and the Nazis, like [...]

Glenn Greenwald is doing some good work right now, following up on a post about the 2004 frenzy over MoveOn.org’s “Bush in 30 Seconds” contest — when a few anonymous people submitted videos comparing Bush to Hitler, and a media firestorm erupted — by asking some of the people who attacked MoveOn about Rush [...]

It would seem to be a community of one. Rev. James David Manning, a New York preacher who gained fleeting Web meme status for a 2008 video (now at 2.5 million views) in which he called Barack Obama a “long-legged mack daddy,” is now hawking signs that ask the president to release his long-form certificate. [...]

The radio host, on vacation, throws up his hands: “I don’t know what this means.” In a free-form statement, he mostly just takes shots at the “elites” who doubt her:
If anything this woman, her m.o. is outside-the-box and not formulaic. So until we know what this is all about, I think it’s just everybody trying [...]

The National Organization for Women nominates David Letterman for a slot in its “Hall of Shame” for his joke about the governor of Alaska’s daughter getting “knocked up” at a Yankees game.
After two nights of “jokes” at the expense of Palin and her family, Letterman tried to explain himself and offer something of an apology. [...]

Yesterday, Rush Limbaugh joked that President Obama might be a deity because “God does not have a birth certificate, either.” Joseph Farah, the editor of WorldNetDaily.com — the site that’s been buying up billboards asking for Obama’s birth certificate — couldn’t contain his excitement, so he tweeted about it.

The conservative GOP leader from Arizona blurts out that “Rush Limbaugh is a television personality.” The journalistic ballet, of switching on Limbaugh’s show at noon and seeing whether he reacts, goes on.
It would still be a surprise if Limbaugh takes this bait. While he brought numerous members of Congress to their knees in the first [...]

Responding to that McClatchy-Ipsos poll, Rush Limbaugh cracks wise:
They have done a national poll, and they have found that about a third of the American people have a highly favorable opinion of me.  Ladies and gentlemen, that makes me one of the most popular Americans in the country.  Yeah, they’re the ones that found [...]

Conservative Political Action Conference Director Lisa de Pasquale brings the news:
Rush will broadcast his entire CPAC speech on his radio show this Friday!
As stupid as Camille Paglia’s column on Limbaugh is,* she makes one correct point: Limbaugh is a really talented radio performer. His CPAC speech, freed from the constraints of radio, was a [...]

The news service gives a heads-up on its coming voter survey:
About one of three Americans has a favorable opinion of radio talker Rush Limbaugh, while nearly half have an unfavorable opinion … the poll, which also measured approval ratings for President Obama and sentiment about the direction of the country, was conducted as the Obama White [...]