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Limbaugh links Cleveland kidnappers to Obama and welfare benefits

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh on Tuesday found a convoluted way to use the CBS drama Hawaii Five-0 to link the story of three kidnapped women in Cleveland to President Barack Obama and welfare benefits. Limbaugh admitted that he had “no idea” about why Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michele…

Limbaugh feuds with host company over ad revenues lost to ‘slut’ boycott

Republican shock jock Rush Limbaugh could soon find himself without a distribution company thanks to an internal feud over ad revenues lost amid a boycott of his show, triggered when he called a Democratic activist a “slut” and a “prostitute” for speaking in favor of birth control coverage. It’s not…

Limbaugh agrees with listeners: Liberals kill in ‘mass numbers’ like jihadis

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh on Monday said that his listeners “have a point” that liberalism does in fact kill people in “mass numbers.” In a Monday radio segment, the conservative talker asserted that “some Muslim clerics have said that you can be gay as long as you do jihad.”…

Harris-Perry to Beck and Limbaugh: ‘Allow me to double down’

Melissa Harris-Perry responded Tuesday to charges by right-wing commentators like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh who say that her recently released 30-second MSNBC promo is part of a United Nations plot to collectivise U.S. children and remove them from their parents’ custody. In an essay published Tuesday called “Why caring…

Limbaugh freaks: Melissa Harris-Perry a ‘foreign’ Marxist who wants to steal children

The conservative pundit class is outraged over MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry’s recent ad spot about public education, and Rush Limbaugh, not wanting to be left behind by the likes of Glenn Beck, took his best swing at the university professor on Monday, describing her with the words “foreign,” “Marxist” and…

Limbaugh freaks out: ‘Vladimir Putin is saying things I agree with’ on LGBT rights

Republican shock jock Rush Limbaugh said Monday that the tide of opinion on LGBT rights has turned so sharply that he’s getting seriously freaked out “that Vladimir Putin is saying things I agree with” these days. Limbaugh was specifically talking about Putin’s move to ban the adoption of Russian orphans…

Limbaugh: Student petition against conservative commencement speaker means ‘we’ve lost the country’

Rush Limbaugh was apopleptic on Friday over Johns Hopkins University medical students petitioning against new conservative favorite Ben Carson. “Medical students! Not social workers, medical students,” Limbaugh said, in a clip posted by Media Matters. “To me that’s evidence that … I don’t know what it is. We’re losing the…

Limbaugh on marriage equality: ‘Who’s to say you cannot have sex with a child?’

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh on Tuesday concluded that permitting same sex marriage would effectively legalize pedophilia. In a clip posted by Media Matters, Limbaugh expanded on a caller’s argument against the Supreme Court coming down on the side of LGBT rights. “She was talking about contracts, folks, just so…

Limbaugh: Scalia’s ‘well-endowed intellect’ should be ‘honored’ to be compared to me

Rush Limbaugh says that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia should be “honored” to be compared to be compared to him over the justice’s recent suggestion that voting rights were a “racial entitlement.” During oral arguments about the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act last week, Scalia had pointed out that…

Limbaugh: Obama ‘will send your women to combat’ but won’t let son ‘Trayvon’ play football

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh on Monday blasted President Barack Obama for wanting to “send your women and children to combat” while recently expressing concern about head injuries in college and professional football. “I’m a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I’d…

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