Showing posts with label Limbaugh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Limbaugh. Show all posts

Thursday, February 10, 2022

How Threats Against Politicians Are Surging - The New York Times

…Patrick W. Carlineo Jr., who had been gorging himself on right-wing talk radio before making the call to threaten Ms. Omar, also expressed regret when he appeared before a judge in 2019. 
"I was listening to the Glenn Beck show, then I listened to Rush Limbaugh, and they were talking about her on both shows, and I get a little carried away with the coffee in the morning," Mr. Carlineo said. "I just got all fired up."…


Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Dan Bongino: The new Rush Limbaugh is even more inflammatory.

"It is pure, constant political talk of the most intense and angry and agitated kind. It's designed to be unifying of the believers and separating with the nonbelievers. It is about drawing boundaries of a tribe, of a community."…


Friday, April 23, 2021

Right Wing Media and the Dangerous Expansion of the Disinformation Universe

If Rush Limbaugh was the Big Bang, the expanding universe of disinformation has only become bigger, darker, and more dangerous. Think Anti Vaxxers. Think QAnon... Think Tucker Carlson!
https://youtu.be/jESlqp9Iubc

Friday, February 19, 2021

Rush Limbaugh Has Died. He Leaves a Legacy of Misinformation | Time

...Politifact, the fact-checking website, has analyzed about 50 of Limbaugh's higher profile controversial statements and labeled the majority of them "mostly false," "false" or "pants on fire." Recent examples include his assertions that House Democrats' impeachment inquiry of Donald Trump "doesn't feature the opposition party, it doesn't feature cross examination," that Joe Biden's Democratic Convention speech "had to be taped in segments, and the segments had to be edited together," and that "the coronavirus is the common cold."...


Tuesday, October 13, 2020

The Brainwashing of my Dad (with documentary filmmaker Jen Senko)

Jen Senko's father got hooked on radical, right-wing radio, and his transformation nearly tore his family apart. Jen joins Seth Andrews to talk about her dad...and the documentary about his brainwashing.
Interview: 

Thursday, February 6, 2020

Rush Limbaugh joins the likes of Mother Teresa and Rosa Parks as recipient of highest civilian honor - The Washington Post

The combative, often-profane and always accusatory talk-radio giant who helped mold a form of loud and brash conservatism for decades appeared surprised when President Trump announced the honor in the middle of his State of the Union address.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/02/05/limbaugh-trump-medal-criticism/

Thursday, July 25, 2019

Limbaugh Falsely Claims Kamala Harris, Barack Obama Not African American - Newsweek

Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh on Monday falsely claimed that 2020 candidate Kamala Harris and former President Barack Obama are not African Americans and that freshman Democratic congresswoman Rashida Tlaib is not a woman of color. ....
https://www.newsweek.com/rush-limbaugh-falsely-claims-kamala-harris-barack-obama-are-not-african-american-rashida-tlaib-1450601

Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Rush Limbaugh just admitted Republicans have totally abandoned a core party principle - CNN Politics

If you knew anything about the Republican Party in the decade leading up to the 2016 presidential election, it was this: They thought government spending was WAY out of control and believed we need to get the country's deficit spending and resultant soaring debt under control....
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/17/politics/rush-limbaugh-debt-trump/index.html


Thursday, July 18, 2019

Rush Limbaugh just admitted Republicans have totally abandoned a core party principle - CNN Politics

If you knew anything about the Republican Party in the decade leading up to the 2016 presidential election, it was this: They thought government spending was WAY out of control and believed we need to get the country's deficit spending and resultant soaring debt under control.....
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/17/politics/rush-limbaugh-debt-trump/index.html


Monday, February 18, 2019

Fox host calls out Rush Limbaugh’s national emergency hypocrisy to his face

BREAKING: Fox News’ Chris Wallace just called out Rush Limbaugh for supporting Trump’s national emergency while decrying it when Obama declared one.
Interview:
https://youtu.be/k03_Ot0IJdE

Monday, December 24, 2018

The end of Trump is drawing near - Raw Story

This morning I phoned my friend, the former Republican member of Congress. ME: So, what are you hearing? HE: Trump is in deep sh*t. ME: Tell me more. HE: When it looked like he was backing down on the wall, Rush and the crazies on Fox went ballistic. So he has to do the shutdown...
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/12/end-trump-drawing-near/

Thursday, September 7, 2017

Limbaugh: Hurricane Irma Coverage Is Liberal Media Plot to Advance ‘Climate-Change Agenda’ -- The Daily Beast

Rush Limbaugh on Tuesday lambasted the "drive-by media" for covering Hurricane Irma's potential devastation as a means to further its climate-change "panic." His theory, which he shared at length this afternoon on The Rush Limbaugh Show, is that media and retailers are in cahoots to increase viewership and profits. ...
http://www.thedailybeast.com/limbaugh-hurricane-irma-coverage-is-liberal-media-plot-to-advance-climate-change-agenda







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