Rush Limbaugh, Scientist

By erika on 8/27/10 12:01pm
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It's true!  Limbaugh has proclaimed himself to be "a scientist."  In a recent show, Limbaugh pontificated on the fact that he was right, because oil-eating microbes have been discovered in the Gulf.

A few things about this story:


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It's Not Just About Climate Change

By erika on 8/16/10 9:43am
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Have you ever noticed that Rush only talks about environmental issues with regards to climate change, which he of course dismisses as bunk?  (Actually that's not entirely true: he also talks about the Gulf oil spill, the environmental consequences of which he dismisses as bunk.)

This is interesting because everyone else in the world understands that there is a vast and varied collection of environmental issues.  Species depletion, wasting natural resources, plastic pollution in the oceans, Peak Oil, chemical contamination of our ground water… the list goes on and on.

I always thought that Republicans were against waste.  Isn't that a major plank in their platform?  No wasteful spending?  


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"Pamela In Baltimore" Gets Rush Running Scared

By erika on 8/4/10 3:24pm
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This two minute call, archived here on the Media Matters website, is a real treasure.  Pamela in Baltimore, we salute you!  

The greatness starts just a few seconds in, when Rush is audibly startled to discover that his current caller is a black woman.  She prepares to read Rush the riot act, in as calm and sensible a manner as you could ever hope to hear.  So many anti-Rush callers allow him to bait them into flipping out, stuttering and stammering through their spluttering screeds.  Not Pamela!

Pamela starts by taking Rush to task for his comments about Obama spending his birthday night alone.  You can hear a really unpleasant whine in Rush's voice as he backpedals, pointing the finger at the AP for having used the word "bachelor" in their story about Obama spending his birthday alone.  


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Rush Limbaugh In Favor of Childhood Obesity

By erika on 7/11/10 1:28pm
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This week Rush had a typically off-base collection of rants regarding the lawsuit which the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) brought against McDonalds regarding the toys in their Happy Meals.  

For one thing, Rush calls this a "kook leftist attack," but saying that McDonalds makes you fat is not exactly fringe science.  Nor is it a political question.  I think most right wing conservatives would quietly agree that McDonalds food is bad for you.  I mean, it's McDonalds, for pity's sake!

Anyway.  CSPI wants McDonalds to stop including toys, because they only encourage kids to buy unhealthy foods, and firm up that link between "McDonalds food" and "super happy fun time."  Which of course then makes kids fat.


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Oh Elton, Really?

By erika on 6/7/10 3:09pm
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You may have heard the reports that Elton John played at Rush Limbaugh's wedding over the weekend. Limbaugh was wed to his girlfriend, Kathryn Rogers, his fourth wife.  The wedding featured "giant bouquets of white roses," as well as all the conservative stars you would expect, from Karl Rove (shudder) to Sean Hannity.


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Rush Limbaugh: An Army of Blecch

By erika on 5/27/10 4:00pm
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I haven't read the newest biography of Rush Limbaugh yet, but I have read a lot about it.  Since "Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One" has been all the talk lately, I decided to finally sit down and read Zev Chafets' eight part article in the New York Times which served as the basis for the biography.


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Rush Tries To Distract Attention From The Oil Spill

By erika on 5/20/10 11:29am
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You may have heard yesterday that tar balls were found on the beach in Key West.  This unsurprisingly caused a media frenzy.  By the time I heard about it, scientists had already identified them as being from a completely different oil spill.  End of story I would have thought, but I'm not Rush Limbaugh, am I?


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Rush Says Environmentalists Did It; PEOPLE ACTUALLY BELIEVE HIM

By erika on 5/13/10 5:41pm
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The dismaying news just in from a public poll is that nine percent of Americans polled "buy into Rush Limbaugh's conspiracy theory that environmentalists may have been responsible for the spill in an effort to build support for their agenda."


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How Does Rush Limbaugh Feel About Child Labor?

By erika on 5/6/10 4:34pm
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I recently watched a documentary about the child labor, and child slave labor, which goes into harvesting cocoa plantations for the chocolate industry.  One of the odd side effects of writing these articles is that when I see something I often wonder, "What would Rush Limbaugh think?"

Children being stolen from their families and sold into slave labor is pretty bad.  But I'm not so sure that Rush would agree.  Nor am I certain that he thinks we should do anything to stop it.


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There's Nothing I Can't Blame on Obama

By Anonymous on 5/6/10 10:54am
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Obama did it!Obama did it!Mini-RushMini-RushRush implies that Obama has some responsibility for the death of three bankers in Greece:


I listened to this one and couldn't believe Rush's ability to blame Obama for XYZ and whatever else happens tomorrow, last year, ...


copied without permission from RushLimbaugh.com May 5th 2010

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