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Limbaugh: Obama Sees Conservatives as ‘Number One Enemy,’ Not ISIS

By Kyle Drennen | November 22, 2015, 11:18 AM EST

Appearing on Fox News Sunday, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh blasted President Obama for treating Republicans as a greater enemy than ISIS terrorists: “Barack Obama's number one enemy is the Republican Party and the conservative movement. ...

CBS Democratic Debate Moderator John Dickerson’s Most Liberal Outbursts

By Geoffrey Dickens | November 13, 2015, 3:26 PM EST

Viewers of Saturday night’s Democratic debate probably shouldn’t expect any tough questions, at least from the right, coming from debate moderator John Dickerson. It's bad enough that he met privately with the candidate campaign teams before the deba ...

NYT's Calmes Again Hits 'Far Right' Talk Radio and Steve Deace, Who 'Speaks for Angry Republicans'

By Clay Waters | November 9, 2015, 8:57 AM EST

Jackie Calmes, a Washington-based correspondent for the New York Times, "studied" conservative media at Harvard's Kennedy School and produced a 16,000-word screed this summer, "'They Don't Give a Damn About Governing,'&q ...

Joan Walsh: Conservative Moderators For a Republican Debate Would Turn Voters Against GOP In 2016

By Tom Johnson | November 2, 2015, 9:38 PM EST

Those who hope that Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and Mark Levin get to moderate a Republican presidential debate include Hannity himself, Ted Cruz, and Joan Walsh. As they (almost) used to put it on Sesame Street, one of these persons is not like the othe ...

Gloria Steinem Blames Rush Limbaugh for Ruining Word Feminism

By Jeffrey Meyer | October 23, 2015, 9:23 AM EDT

During an appearance on Friday’s CBS This Morning to promote her latest book, far-left feminist Gloria Steinem eagerly blamed Rush Limbaugh for making the word feminism a “bad word” because he “talks about feminazis everyday.”  Co-host Norah O’Donnell tee ...

Cokie Roberts: Hillary 'Knows Everything About Every Issue'

By Mark Finkelstein | October 13, 2015, 11:59 AM EDT

Rush Limbaugh likes to facetiously refer to Hillary Clinton as "the smartest woman in the world." Today's Morning Joe brought us three people who might actually believe it. Previewing tonight's Dem debate, Mike Barnicle led off the lov ...

Liberal Rush Caller: Planned Parenthood ‘Does a Lot of Good Things’ Besides ‘Baby Killing’

By Curtis Houck | August 5, 2015, 7:52 AM EDT

On Tuesday’s installment of The Rush Limbaugh Show, a caller seemed to stun the eponymous conservative radio host when he explained that his wife “works the operating room at Planned Parenthood” in St. Paul, Minnesota and argued that while it’s “rather ha ...

Atlantic Writer: Republicans Are Attracted to ‘Demagogues’ Like Trump and ‘Huckster Entertainers’ Like Limbaugh

By Tom Johnson | July 22, 2015, 12:46 PM EDT

NewsBusters readers likely are familiar with the saying “It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.” Conor Friedersdorf of The Atlantic thinks Republicans have a propensity ...

Networks Yawn at Farrakhan's 'Put the American Flag Down' Diatribe

By Matthew Balan | June 26, 2015, 1:37 AM EDT

As of Thursday morning, ABC, CBS, and NBC's morning and evening newscasts had yet to report on Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan's Wednesday rant against the American flag at Metropolitan AME Church in Washington, D.C. Conservative talk rad ...

Networks Omit How Democratic Governor in South Carolina Raised Confederate Flag in 1962

By Curtis Houck | August 4, 2015, 5:35 PM EDT

In their coverage on Monday night of the calls by South Carolina officials to remove the Confederate flag from the State Capitol’s grounds, the major broadcast networks failed to note the full context of the flag’s history in the Palmetto State and how it ...

Blogger: Conservatives ‘Stole Civility, Decency, Rationality and Democracy…While Limbaugh Distracted the Masses’

By Tom Johnson | May 31, 2015, 1:16 PM EDT

When did Ronald Reagan’s tenure as president of the United States end? Officially, on January 20, 1989, but Washington Monthly blogger D. R. Tucker posits that in a sense Reagan stayed in office well after that. In a Saturday post, Tucker asserted that in ...

WashPost Writer Worries: 'How Many Votes' Has Higher Black Mortality Cost Dems?

By Tom Blumer | May 11, 2015, 5:10 PM EDT

Well, this takes the well-founded belief that the left only cares about blacks because of their votes to a new level. At the Washington Post's "Monkey Cage" blog yesterday (seriously, that's it's name), Dean Robinson, an "ass ...

Rush Limbaugh On The Media, Trapped: Are They Islamophobic or Homophobic?

By Jeffrey Lord | May 9, 2015, 7:43 PM EDT

So which is it? Is the liberal media Islamophobic? Or homophobic? If drawing cartoons of The Prophet is- as the New York Times insists- an “exercise in bigotry and hatred posing as a blow for freedom”? And- again from the Times- a “blatantly Islamophobic ...

Rush Limbaugh Wonders How CNN and MSNBC Can Still Be on the Air; Here's How

By Tom Blumer | April 24, 2015, 7:09 PM EDT

Rush Limbaugh posted an interesting pair of questions at his web site yesterday: "How can CNN still be on the air with no audience? How can MSNBC have been on the air with no audience? In the old days, they're gone, kaput. Something else is trie ...

MSM Incurious About Harry Reid's Gym Equipment Accident Story

By P.J. Gladnick | March 30, 2015, 11:40 AM EDT

  It has been three months since Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid's exercise equipment accident story and he remains blind in his injured eye. So when will Reid sue the exercise equipment company or even mention the brand name? So far nothing solid ...