Tag Archives: talk radio

Rush Limbaugh Blames Women for Advertiser Boycott Success

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Santi Tafarella

This is at Salon this week: Limbaugh, in case you’d forgotten, called Fluke a “slut” and a “prostitute” after the Georgetown University student spoke out in support of insurance mandates for contraceptives. He later apologized – profusely so – but the damage was done. … Continue reading →

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President Obama in Tuscon

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Santi Tafarella

President Obama in Tuscon. In turns moving, sad, and life affirming. If you don’t have much time, at least catch the last ten minutes where the President reflects on the life of the nine-year-old girl who was killed.

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The One Party State vs. The Emerging Democratic Majority, Ctd

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Santi Tafarella

I agree that both the left and right threaten to take freedom hostage—but in different ways—and that’s why America works: the left generally holds the right in check and the right generally holds the left in check. To my mind, this is … Continue reading →

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A Poem for the Fourth of July

Posted on July 4, 2010 by Santi Tafarella

Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s “Pity the Nation”:

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Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, and Glenn Beck: Theodor Adorno knew the type

Posted on April 19, 2010 by Santi Tafarella

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          . Andrew Sullivan pairs this quote of Theodor Adorno to an image of Sarah Palin, but the quote works for Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck as well: The leader can guess the psychological wants and needs of those susceptible to his … Continue reading →

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Health Care Reform’s Victory: David Frum Blames Rush Limbaugh

Posted on March 21, 2010 by Santi Tafarella

This today at conservative David Frum’s website: Talk radio thrives on confrontation and recrimination. When Rush Limbaugh said that he wanted President Obama to fail, he was intelligently explaining his own interests. What he omitted to say – but what … Continue reading →

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Identity Politics: Is It Only a Problem When Non-White People Do It?

Posted on June 2, 2009 by Santi Tafarella

Matthew Yglesias today notes the hypocritical—and ultimately racist—undercurrent just beneath Shout Radio Republicans’ objections to Sonia Sotomayor: Qualifications like time at Princeton, Yale Law, and on the Circuit Court that work well for guys with Italian names suddenly don’t work if you … Continue reading →

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With Sonia Sotomayor, Will Conservative Talk Radio Drive the Republican Party over a Cliff?

Posted on May 26, 2009 by Santi Tafarella

The New York Times reports that Mark McKinnon thinks the Republican Party is in serious long term electoral danger if conservatives loudly and obnoxiously oppose or hinder the nomination of the first Hispanic female to the Supreme Court: “If Republicans make a big deal … Continue reading →

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Let My People Go?

Posted on May 26, 2009 by Santi Tafarella

Andrew Sullivan today deconstructs conservatism’s noxious captivity to talk radio: What strikes me is that talk radio, even more than the blogosphere, can promote ugly and inflammatory discourse in ways that even its purveyors find hard to control. The medium rewards certainty … Continue reading →

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Obamageddon Cancelled: Rush Limbaugh’s and Sean Hannity’s Chicken Little Hysteria Act Over What an Obama Cabinet Would Look Like Proves Utterly Divorced from Reality

Posted on November 22, 2008 by Santi Tafarella

All through 2008, the far-right cried like Chicken Little about Obama being a secret Muslim, communist, and terrorist, and in their racism insinuated that he’d appoint a cabinet full of scary names (to conservatives) like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. … Continue reading →

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