John McCain has finally had enough of his Republican teabagging cohorts, Rand Paul and Ted Cruz.
In the latest expression of Republican frustration with conservative GOP colleagues, Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) ...
Our friend, John Liming, wonders how God might deal with two conflicting prayers of a political nature.
I have been reading an article on the website, Raw Story, where it is ...
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The Oklahoma tornado disaster has killed at least 24 people, left hundreds injured and caused millions of dollars in damage. But that has not stopped a senator from that ...
If you're new to right-wing think, here's an easy to remember rule of thumb to help you along; any and all evil in the world can be attributed directly to ...
From a political party overflowing with sociopaths and creeps, none other than Dick Cheney encapsulates to a greater degree what it is the Republican party has become. The blood of ...
It can be debated as to whether the filibuster came about as a political accident or was created to give minority parties a stronger say in opposing specific legislation they ...
While gun nuts sink a little deeper into madness with each passing day, Seattle is turning guns into bricks.
The Seattle Police Department collected more than 700 guns during a buyback ...
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The opportunity to travel to Mars ...
Here's the full quote from Charles P. Pierce.
If your "way of life" involves handing deadly weapons to five-year olds, your way of life is completely screwed up and you should ...
A guest post from James Fidlerten.
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After September 11, 2011, America became united, as it grieved the loss of so many lives on American soil. The tragic event also changed so ...
I'm not sure that 'crazy' is strong enough an adjective to describe the many (or few) who go to the absurd lengths they do in defending America's out-of-control gun culture. ...
When an enabler of sexual abuse directed at children sits on the threshold of sainthood, you know you're living in a world of screwed-up priorities.
The canonisation of Wojtyla is getting ...
Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, ponders Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court case that decided the 2000 presidential election.
Looking back, O'Connor said, she isn't sure the high court should have ...
Barbara Bush on a Jeb run in 2016.
"We've had enough Bushes."
An entire planet concurs.
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The 19-year-old suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has told interrogators that the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan motivated him and his brother to carry out the ...
The above is in response to Maureen Dowd's ridiculous assertion that President Obama is incompetent for failing to get the 60 votes the Senate required to move the gun background ...
In desperate need of an excuse for voting against background checks, here's the one an unnamed Democratic senator is using.
“Guns, gays and immigration — it’s too much. I can be ...
The vote came in at 55 to 45 in favor of expanding background checks for gun sales. In most institutes of democracy, that would have been more than enough to ...
“And con men, like Rush and Beck, are one reason the Republicans are in such dire straits today because they don’t care about winning elections, they care about separating rubes from their money. They’ve discovered there is a fortune to be made by keeping a small portion of America under the illusion that they are always under attack from Mexicans, ACORN, or Planned Parenthood, or gays, or takers, global warming hoaxers. It doesn’t matter. They don’t want a majority, they want a mailing list. A list of the kind of gullible Honey Boo Boos out there who think there is a war on Christmas and that the socialist policies of our Kenyan president have been so disastrous that the end of the world is coming.”
If you missed Maher’s New Rules last week, take a listen. This one is a classic.
How bad has it become for Limbaugh? Very. Limbaugh is having a hard time giving away ad spots on his three hour hate-fest. Most of the ads running on his show last week (which included a substantial amount of dead air) were public service announcements which are freebies in the industry. One of those unpaid PSAs, the American Heart Association, has asked that its ads not run on Limbaugh’s shows. Nice…and another reason to contribute a dollar or two to the AHA.
Radio-Info.com reports that Premiere Networks, which syndicates the Rush Limbaugh show, told its affiliate radio stations that they are suspending national advertising for two weeks. Rush Limbaugh is normally provided to affiliates in exchange for running several minutes of national advertisements provided by Premiere each hour. These ads are called “barter spots.” These spots are how Premiere makes its money off of Rush Limbaugh and other shows it syndicates.
Prediction: Limbaugh leaves commercial AM radio and moves on to satellite radio where he’ll be free to call anyone he wishes a slut, feminazi or nigger without having to worry about corporate sponsorship. I’m sure his many followers will happily fork over a monthly fee to SiriusXM for the privilege of having their guru tell them what to think. They don’t call them ditto heads for nothing.
Best ‘ditto head’ definition: voluntarily willing to have one’s head filled with bullshit. Applies equally well to Fox News devotees sheeple.
Last count on the free market’s exodus from Limbaugh: 140 companies and counting.
This is getting sweeter by the day. Limbaugh has now lost 50 advertisers and counting. Here’s how it looked on Thursday in the largest media market, specifically – WABC 770 AM in New York City.
A total of 86 ads aired during WABC’s broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show today.
77 of those ads were public service announcements donated free of charge by the Ad Council.
Of the nine paid spots that ran, seven were from companies that have said they have taken steps to ensure their ads no longer air during the program.
That means that on Thursday’s three hour show, only 2 sponsors paid for advertising with the intent of sponsoring Limbaugh. How does the buffoon spin that one? And most wonderful was the 5 minutes and 33 seconds of dead air during the broadcast.
There were four separate instances during this afternoon’s broadcast on WABC 770 AM in New York City where the network fell silent. During the lead in to the show, two and a half minutes of silence was broken up by a single, solitary ad before Limbaugh hit the air. Then, towards the end of the first hour of Limbaugh’s three hour program, a public service announcement was followed by an additional minute of silence before Limbaugh returned. Another minute of dead air came in hour two, and a fifth minute in hour three followed that. A spokesperson for WABC wouldn’t say whether the silence was caused due to a technical glitch or Limbaugh’s fleeing sponsors.
Mike Huckabee starts his new radio gig April 9 in the same 12 -3 time slot as Limbaugh. Promising a less confrontational approach (same bullshit though, I’m sure), Huckabee’s show might be an alternative for radio stations wanting to drop Limbaugh but still satisfy their conservative audience.
Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, has joined the ranks of those asking that Armed Forces Network drop Limbaugh from their broadcast lineup.
Peter Gabriel and the band Rush have demanded that their music be pulled from Limbaugh’s show.
Bill Maher tweeted that liberals should accept Limbaugh’s ‘apology’ and move on. I’m a fan of Maher but he’s full of it on this one. To describe Limbaugh’s ‘apology’ as sentiment from a man truly sorry for his actions is to ignore Limbaugh’s complete history. What’s really at play here is Maher’s own past at having used rough language to describe Palin and Bachmann. Lingering guilt had you send that tweet out, Bill? See video at end of post.
Limbaugh’s plea to his audience to ignore all that’s happened and know that he is well and happy with his “18,000″ other sponsors.
In the sad slice of America he represents, an America driven by fear of diversity, impatience with facts and an unwillingness to see things in anything but the starkest black-and-white terms, women come in two categories: dirty sluts and pushy feminazis.
“…sad slice of America he represents” I like that. I once asked in a previous post who these people were – the ones who tune in and adore Limbaugh, Levin, Savage and the other liars and hate mongers that dominate right-wing talk radio. A “sad slice of America” answers my query perfectly.
A ThinkProgress compilation of the scumbag’s three day rant.
“The problem is, and dare I say this, it doesn’t look like Michelle Obama follows her own nutritionary, dietary advice…I’m trying to say that our First Lady does not project the image of women that you might see on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue or of a woman Alex Rodriguez might date every six months or what have you.”
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