Sestak and Limbaugh tussle over 9/11 trials

Congressman Joe Sestak (D-7) and radio host Rush Limbaugh had a little tussle over the weekend, after Limbaugh called Sestak a “dangerous, left-wing, radical ideologue” for supporting the Obama administration’s decision to try Guantanamo detainees in the United States.

Airing comments Sestak made in a television interview, Limbaugh said the decision to try the detainees in the U.S. was being done “precisely to appease the left” (audio above).

Sestak’s Senate campaign shot back in a…

November 16, 2009 at 8:55 am | Comments (8)

Rush’s rant

Predictably, after being jettisoned as a minority partner by the group hoping to buy the St. Louis Rams, Rush Limbaugh, along with his many minions, is lashing out and, as is so typical of today’s conservatives, painting himself as a victim and blaming everyone for his predicament but himself.

As expected, both he and his listeners are following what has become the well-trod path of conservative victimization and denial. First, Rush never said any of…

October 17, 2009 at 11:09 pm | Comments (2)

It takes two to be civil

Nice post by Philadelphia’s Camille Paglia in Salon on the decline of civility in American politics, focusing on various right-wing radio outrages. The most recent was a joke about violence against Nancy Pelosi told by a substitute host on the Rush Limbaugh show. Other have cited comments by Texas Gov. Rick Perry about secession, and similar excesses.

OK, but doesn’t civility go both ways? Do lefty blogs regularly referring to social-issues…

May 14, 2009 at 9:12 am | Comments (0)

Are you listening Rush?

I have a story up now about how long-shot GOP Senate candidate Larry Murphy isn’t a fan of Rush Limbaugh.

As I wrote, I don’t think Murphy is a big enough fish for Limbaugh to fry like he’s been doing to people like RNC Chairman Michael Steele.

That being said, are you listening Rush?

UPDATE: It looks like sayitaintsoalready.com is keeping an eye on this.

April 23, 2009 at 11:02 am | Comments (0)

A Republican who’s not afraid of Limbaugh

Larry Murphy has strong feelings about Rush Limbaugh.

“Rush Limbaugh is a racist, he’s a cancer to the Republican Party and he should be excised,” Murphy said recently.

Those aren’t unusual sentiments. But what is unusual is hearing them from a Republican candidate for office. Republicans far and wide have been prostrating themselves before Limbaugh in recent months, who has been effective at leveraging…

April 23, 2009 at 10:02 am | Comments (41)