Tag Archives: Rush Limbaugh

Missouri Moves To Create Annual “Rush Limbaugh Day”

The Associated Press reports: The Missouri House on Thursday voted in favor of creating “Rush Limbaugh Day.” The GOP-led House tacked the provision on another bill, which then passed the chamber. The bill still needs Senate approval. The proposal is one of several pitched by Republican state lawmakers to honor the late Limbaugh every Jan. 12, his birthday. “Rush demonstrated …

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How Owning The Libs Became GOP’s Mission Statement

Politico reports: For a political party whose membership skews older, it might be surprising that the spirit that most animates Republican politics today is best described with a phrase from the world of video games: “Owning the libs.” Gamers borrowed the term from the nascent world of 1990s computer hacking, using it to describe their conquered opponents: “owned.” To “own …

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Rush Limbaugh’s Radio Slot Goes To Dan Bongino

Via press release from Westwood One: Cumulus Media’s Westwood One today announced The Dan Bongino Show, a new three-hour radio program airing Monday-Friday from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. ET. The news and opinion show will launch May 24 in markets nationwide, including CUMULUS news stations in top-ten markets New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, and Washington, DC. …

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WI GOP Honors Limbaugh, Rejects Black History Month

Madison’s ABC News affiliate reports: Wisconsin Senate Republicans voted 18-12 Tuesday to pass a resolution honoring Rush Limbaugh, the divisive conservative commentator and radio host who died February 17. Two Republicans, Sen. Dale Kooyenga and Eric Wimberger, did not vote. In the same Senate session, Republicans turned down Democratic efforts to include slavery and Black history in a bill requiring …

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Mike Pence To Attempt To Win Back MAGA Cultists By Narrating Rush Limbaugh Documentary For Fox Nation

The Hollywood Reporter reports: Former Vice President Mike Pence is coming to TV, or at least streaming. Pence will narrate a four-part limited series for Fox News Media’s streaming service Fox Nation. The series, Age of Rush, will look at the career of radio host Rush Limbaugh, who died last month at age 70. The series will include interviews with …

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Palm Beach County Won’t Lower Flags For Limbaugh

The South Florida Sun Sentinel reports: Palm Beach County won’t follow Gov. Ron DeSantis’ order to lower flags at the county courthouse to honor the late conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh, officials said late Tuesday. The governor ordered the U.S. and Florida state flags to be flown at half-staff Wednesday at Florida’s Capitol, the Palm Beach County courthouse in …

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Florida Official Refuses To Lower Flags For Limbaugh

The Washington Post reports: Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried said Monday that she will direct her department not to lower its flags in honor of conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, who died of complications from lung cancer last week. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said last week that he would order the state’s flags to be flown at half-staff on …

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Florida To Lower Flags For Dead Bigot Rush Limbaugh

Fox News reports: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, R., plans to lower the state’s flags to half-mast in honor of radio icon Rush Limbaugh, who died Wednesday at age 70 and called the state home for decades. DeSantis, who had been pressed to honor the revered conservative figure, confirmed Friday he would do it once Limbaugh’s burial date was announced. Lowering …

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#AIDS Trends On Twitter As People Recall Limbaugh’s Vicious Mockery Of Dead Gay Men During The 1980s

Snopes reports: Radio host Rush Limbaugh has died at the age of 70 after a year-long battle with lung cancer. As conservative fans mourned the death of the radio pioneer, many on social media pointed to Limbaugh’s history of making sexist, homophobic, and bigoted remarks. Author Jessica Valenti, for example, posted a message on Twitter stating that Limbaugh once had …

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Trump Phones Fox News To Eulogize Rush Limbaugh, Fox Lets Him Rant And Rage About “Stolen Election”

Media Matters has the transcript: Rush thought we won — and so do I, by the way, I think we won by — substantially. And Rush thought we won, and he thought it was over at 10:00, 10:30, it was over, and a lot of other people feel that way, too. But Rush felt that way strongly. Many people do. …

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BREAKING: Rush Limbaugh Dead Of Cancer At Age 70

Fox News reports: Rush Limbaugh, the monumentally influential media icon who transformed talk radio and politics in his decades behind the microphone, helping shape the modern-day Republican Party, died Wednesday at the age of 70 after a battle with lung cancer, his family announced. Limbaugh’s wife, Kathryn, made the announcement on his radio show. The radio icon learned he had …

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Rush Limbaugh Quits Twitter After Trump’s Banning

USA Today reports: Radio host Rush Limbaugh’s Twitter account has been deactivated. Twitter confirmed to USA TODAY that the account wasn’t suspended but “deactivated by the owner.” Limbaugh is considered the leading conservative talk radio host and has been on the airwaves for more than three decades. He has been an adamant supporter of President Donald Trump and his Twitter …

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Rush Limbaugh: Stop “Calling For The End Of Violence”

“As recently as this time last year, anti-Trump protests were held in the Capitol during the impeachment. All of the sudden protesting Congress is being called the end of the world. Can’t have this. The worst crime against democracy in our nation’s history. “And yet, all kinds of anti-presidential protest were held in the Capitol during the impeachment and nobody …

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Dominion Targets Multiple Major Trump Cultist Hosts

Business Insider reports: Dominion has sent letters to individual hosts and right-wing media figures, including Fox News’s Sean Hannity, Lou Dobbs, and Maria Bartiromo, as well as Rush Limbaugh. The letters, dated December 22, warn the recipients to preserve documents and copies of correspondence related to Dominion. The company is at the center of a conspiracy theory that it has …

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Limbaugh: I Think We’re “Trending Toward Secession”

“I actually think that we’re trending toward secession. I see more and more people asking what in the world do we have in common with the people who live in, say, New York? What is there that makes us believe that there is enough of us there to even have a chance at winning New York? Especially if you’re talking …

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Limbaugh: “It’s Getting Hard Not To Look Like A Kook”

“As a conservative, it’s getting harder and harder to not look like a kook. All of this stuff that’s floating around out there that is — it’s impossible to keep up. “Because there’s a lot of it, there are so many theories, and all of them have a trace of validity to them. “And the left is doing everything it …

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Limbaugh: The Kraken Didn’t Deliver On Her Promises

“There’s a bunch of different theories going around that she really is not going to stop working, she’s just disassembling herself from the Trump team. I mean, it’s a tough thing to deny that she was ever a part of it, because they introduced her as part of it. “I mean, she was at that press conference last week. “You …

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Limbaugh Ridicules Biden’s Call For Wearing Masks

“So there’s Biden, and I’m watching this, and his overall demeanor is one of great sadness. He’s very down in the dumps. Very, very disappointed. And it’s all an act, of course. “It’s designed to convey the seriousness and the sadness that is associated with the COVID-19. And the sum total of the Biden COVID plan is you will wear …

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Pastor Bad Wig Cures Limbaugh’s Terminal Cancer

Hemant Mehta reports at The Friendly Atheist: MAGA cultist and right-wing preacher Lance Wallnau, who recently claimed Kamala Harris was a tool of Satan, has just cured cancer. Or at least the cancer that just worsened for the cancer that is Rush Limbaugh. During a livestream on Thursday, Wallnau said a prayer for Limbaugh… before going even further and declaring …

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Rush Limbaugh Rages Over Debate Microphone Rule: Imagine If They Muted Abraham Lincoln’s Microphone

“Who do these people think they are? Debate commission will mute the mics? Can you imagine if they’d-a told Abraham Lincoln we’re gonna mute the microphone if you don’t shut up, sir? “Abe Lincoln would say, why do you think people are gonna be there? To watch you hit the mute button? Who do these people think they are? “You …

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