Archive for the ‘Rush Limbaugh’ Category

The Limbaugh Victory

In case you missed it, the New York Times had a great op-ed yesterday praising of all people Rush Limbaugh for the significant positive influence he has had on the conservative movement.
THERE are many theories for why very conservative Republicans seem to be doing so well lately, taking their party’s Senate nominations in [...]

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Beck responds to charges that he is seditious

As part of the left’s over the top rhetoric, Joe Klein of Time Magazine claimed on the Chris Matthews’ Show that Glenn Beck’s remarks could somehow be considered sedition.

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Dittoheads Overwhelm House Phone System

This morning the Hill – the Capitol Hill newspaper — is reporting that the House of Representatives has been overwhelmed by thousands of callers opposed to Obamacare unleashed by Rush Limbaugh.
House phone lines were nearing capacity on Tuesday as conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh encouraged fans to call in their objections on healthcare legislation.
The [...]

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Democrat Whisteblower or Hoaxer – you decide

Former Congressman Eric Massa resigned from Congress yesterday.  But he doesn’t plan to go quietly in the night.  He’s giving what he claims to be an insiders view into the inner workings of the White House and Democrats in congressional leadership as they push for Obamacare.
Here’s the Daily Beast’s take:
The Eric Massa show is quickly [...]

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Glenn Beck Stakes Out a More Activist Role in Politics

Today’s New York Times outlines Glenn Beck’s plans for 2010.
Glenn Beck, the popular and outspoken Fox News host, says he wants to go beyond broadcasting his opinions and start rallying his political base — formerly known as his audience — to take action.
To do so, Mr. Beck is styling himself as a political organizer. In [...]

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The Beck Bash has Worked Wonders….For Beck

Proving that even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in a while prominent progressive Earl Ofari Hutchinson provides with great insight in his column this morning in the Huffington Post the unexpected consequences of the leftwing attack on Glenn Beck.
Glenn Beck loves every minute of the Beck bash. In recent days he’s gotten a [...]

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Gingrich Credits Beck, Armey With Hoffman’s Prominence

Declaring “”The age of party leaders picking people is over,” former Speaker Newt Gingrich announced his support for Conservative party candidate Dough Hoffman (reversing his endorsement of Dede Scozzafava) in the NY 23 special today’s Washington Times reports.
Instead of holding a primary election, Republican contenders interviewed with the 23rd District’s Republican county chairmen, who picked [...]

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The Fight Between Fox and the White House Continues

According to the Kansas City Star there is little sign that the dispute between Fox and the White H0use is going away soon and now some on the right are starting to question the motives of the White House.
The bicker-fest between the White House and Fox News is angering the cable TV organization’s conservative defenders [...]

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Some Things are Best Left Unsaid, Right?

Columnist Mark Steyn scores a direct hit in comparing the consequences of the actual comments of White House Communications Director Anita Dunn with the falsely attributed comments of talk radio broadcaster Rush Limbaugh.
Here is a tale of two sound bites…
The first quotation was attributed to Rush Limbaugh. He never said it. There is no tape [...]

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Glenn Beck Against the Establishment

Hat tip to the Cable Game for linking Nate Silver’s analyis of the public’s assessment of Glenn Beck.
As the Cable Game explains,
Beck clearly does walk his own walk: He recently told Katie Couric that the country would have been worse off with John McCain than it would have been under Hillary Clinton, or is under [...]

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