Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh reacted to news that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) might have been detained by the Transportation and Security Administration (TSA) by saying that it would have made more sense if they detained his father, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX). “Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has been detained by…
On Friday’s episode of “The Ed Show,” host Ed Schultz revealed that the winner of his “Psycho Talker of the Year” award for 2011 is none other than Republican radio host Rush Limbaugh — but it was still a close race. “You know, this was pretty tough,” he said. “We…
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney had some kind words for the influential conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh on Thursday during an interview with Time‘s Mark Halperin. During the interview, Romney was asked if he thought the often controversial radio host had too much influence on the Republican Party. “You…
Another day, another unfortunate statement made by Republican radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh. On his radio show Monday afternoon, the controversial conservative firebrand supported some NASCAR fans booing Michelle Obama this past weekend, labeling the first lady a racial tinged adjective. “We don’t like paying million of dollars for…
by Jen Ortiz The just-released Arbitron report reveals that a lot less people are listening to right-wing talk radio. With a lull in ratings since November, Rush Limbaugh had a 3.0 share of listeners for his radio time slot, which is a 33% slide from October and from last April,…
WASHINGTON – Right-wing US radio host Rush Limbaugh said on his show Wednesday that the media is overplaying the nuclear crisis in Japan after last week’s 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami. “We have all these people on the media who we’ve never heard of, never heard from ever before, making calls…
The company responsible for syndicating big conservative radio names like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity has been using paid actors to call in to their radio shows. According to a recent report in Tablet Magazine, Premiere Radio Networks, a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications, hired actors to call…
Rush Limbaugh has joined the anti-contraception campaign by bashing Planned Parenthood at length, further mainstreaming it: Once again, I don’t enjoy being a Cassandra, but I have to point out that for years I and many others have been saying that the anti-contraception faction had taken over the anti-abortion movement,…
There’s something kind of awesome about listening to Rush Limbaugh kick and scream like a 4-year-old child being told to eat his spinach instead of shovel cookies into his face. This entire bit is hilarious, listening to him whine and cry about how terrible and disgusting it is to put…