"Craven squish."
Here's Mark Steyn on Michael Steele: Yes. And Steyn's assessment is doubly reinformced by Steele's failure -- then and now -- to rebut D.L. Hughley's "Nazi Germany" slur against GOP conventioneers.
Scroll for updates...Steele non-apologizes to Limbaugh...No word on the "Nazi Germany"/GOP convention slur... I said positive things about RNC chairman Michael Steele this weekend on Washington Journal (link here) and have covered his rise extensively. Now, a word of friendly advice: There's nothing wrong with criticizing Rush Limbaugh. But if you are going to go...
Read More"I am effective and thus have to be marginalized as an extremist, fringe figure."
I interviewed Rush Limbaugh for a special Sunday piece for the New York Post about President Obama's attack on him (and, by extension of course, talk radio and grass-roots conservatism). The Post titled the piece, "The Rush Revival." But it's more accurately the anti-Rush revival and the Rush Survival. As you'll see, one of my...
Read MoreMoveOn.org hasn't moved on yet from demonizing Rush Limbaugh. He responded to their latest attack ad last night on Mark Levin's show. Radio Equalizer Brian Maloney's got the scoop.
Know-nothings.
Here is something I've found to be invariably true of the loudest Rush Limbaugh-bashers in Washington and Manhattan: They don't actually listen to him and have no idea what he talks about day to day. They criticize a figment of Rush in their heads, which is echoed and amplified by liberal media elites who share...
Read MoreQuestion: How does a RINO secure a position in the Obama administration? Answer: Bash Rush Limbaugh.
Amen to this. Here's a helpful list of the Republicans who don't deserve any thanks or praise: The 65 who took a dive. As the bailout water-carriers try and drum up support for a do-over, watch their language. The same people who tried to tell you that amnesty was not amnesty are now trying to...
Read MoreGreat communicator.
Today marks the 20th anniversary of Rush Limbaugh's talk radio career. Huzzahs, hooahs, and congrats! Be sure to tune it at high noon and check out the festivities at RL's website, including a special message from Vice President Cheney. (Update - Nice: President Bush and Gov. Jeb Bush, along with former President George H.W. Bush,...
Read MoreMake some noise.
The most anti-conservative rhetoric against conservative talk radio these days is coming from supposedly free-market conservatives. It's disgusting. Author Mark Helprin's grenade in The Wall Street Journal stands out. Yesterday, he launched an attack on conservative radio hosts who oppose presumptive GOP presidential nominee John McCain. Helprin sneered that their "major talent is that, like...
Read MoreElectile dysfunction.
Update: The McCain camp goes after Romney for razzing Bob Dole--by hauling out the Absolute Moral Authority card. Geez. *** A long, long time ago, I worked in the political videotape library at NBC News in Washington. We logged field tapes, input rough transcriptions with time codes, and helped compile clip reels. The liberal producers...
Read MoreFight the stifling of anti-McCain dissent.
Your lunchtime read. Discuss amongst yourselves.
Here are two things the liberal media desperately want to be true: 1) John McCain's inevitable GOP presidential victory. 2) Rush Limbaugh's demise. Wrong on both counts, as usual. Despite a nasty-sounding bug, a gravelly-voiced Limbaugh took to the airwaves this afternoon to rightly mock the Washington Post's premature obituary of conservatives who've gone after...
Read MoreCollector's item.
Time's running out on Rush Limbaugh's fantastic eBay auction of Harry Reid's bully letter to Clear Channel. Proceeds will benefit the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation. For those who can't compete on the bids, you can download your own copy of the letter. Heh!
"I've been man enough to apologize."
Geraldo Rivera should really learn to keep his mouth shut. Here he is, via Johnny Dollar, demanding that Rush Limbaugh be "man enough" to apologize for his incontrovertibly true statements about phony soldiers propped up by the moonbat movement. (Forward the audio to 2:30 in.) Yup, more chutzpit from the Rosie O'Donnell of Fox News....
Read MoreShutUp.org Democrats.
Democrat Rep. Mark Udall is spearheading the resolution condemning Rush Limbaugh. It apparently has 19 co-sponsors now. Meantime, Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar has started a censure bandwagon: Guess he's trying to get back into the nutroots' good graces after signing onto the resolution condemning MoveOn. The Daily Sentinel also points out that Salazar's brother is...
Read MoreGeese and ganders.
Just like you can't be a little bit pregnant, you can't be a little bit nutroots. If you are going to throw your lot in with the MoveOn/MediaMatters mob, you do it all the way. Democrat House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer appears to have some misgivings about the Crush Rush Express. First, he talks the...
Read MoreCrushing of dissent.
Update Midnight: Poor Daily Kos is feeling left out of the Rush-bashing action. Kos promotes VoteVets.org diatribe to the front page. Lonewacko has advice on how to fight back. Another target. Update 8:35pm Eastern. Backdoor restoration of the Fairness Doctrine, take two: Wesley Clark ramps up the nutroots' campaign to kick Rush Limbaugh off of...
Read MoreStolen Valor.
Update 2:40pm Eastern. Remember Josh Lansdale? The left doesn't want you to... Full background here. Update 12:30pm Eastern 10/2. Crikey. The moonbats launch an anti-Rush attack ad campaign. Update 12:06pm Eastern 10/2. Rush comments on Harkin, top of his radio show: "I feel like apologizing to his family" for his behavior on the Senate floor....
Read MoreShooting the messenger.
Update: Rush vs. Dingy Harry. Update: Moonbats continue to push to kick Rush off the Armed Forces Network. More here. *** So, word is that the Democrats will introduce a House resolution Monday condemning Rush Limbaugh for his remarks about phony soldiers. Brian Maloney points out that ABC News aired a report on phony soldiers...
Read MoreThe Center for American Progress, a left-wing think tank seeded with Soros money and possessing a vested interest in a...
Bumped 10:20am Eastern update: The Left wants increased regulation to address the lack of ideological diversity in talk radio. What do they have to say about the lack of ideological diversity in America's newsrooms? "Appears" to confirm? Snort. 10:00am Eastern 6/21 update: Mark Levin strikes back. Update: More on the Center for American Progress below...
Read MoreUpdate: MSNBC buys time...two-week suspension for Imus...It's a civility offset! Update: Here's vid of my discussion with O'Reilly and Kirsten Powers tonight. I'm really tired of people likening Rush Limbaugh's criticism of Donovan McNabb to Imus's racial epithets. Rush spoke the truth. Sports writer Allen Barra weighed in and his piece in Slate in 2003...
Read MoreThe Jacksonville Times-Union comes to the defense of soldiers who want to listen to Rush Limbaugh. U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, has offered an amendment to the fiscal 2005 Defense Authorization bill, requiring that the armed forces drop Limbaugh's show or also add a liberal for balance. Excerpt: There are plenty of liberal viewpoints on...
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