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mediamatters.org - 3/10/2009
Boehlert: Why don't we just pretend Rush Limbaugh has 50 million listeners?
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Call it The Washington Post 's 766-word non-correction correction. It ran Saturday in the form of a Paul Farhi article about the dubious nature of trying to measure the size of Rush Limbaugh's radio audience. Farhi stressed that trying to determine the total number of weekly listeners ...
huffingtonpost.com - 3/8/2009
Gingrich Takes On Rush: Hoping For Prez's Failure Is "Irrational"
— huffingtonpost.com — Newt Gingrich became the highest profile Republican yet to push back against Rush Limbaugh, saying on "Meet... the Press" that it's "irrational" to hope for the President of the United States to fail. "You've got to want the president to succeed," ... (more) Gingrich Takes On Rush: Hoping For Prez's Failure Is ...

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thenextright.com - 3/9/2009
Defending Rush, Steele, and Jindal
— thenextright.com — These haven't been the best couple of weeks for Rush Limbaugh, Michael Steele, or Bobby Jindal. (OK,... let's carve out a possible exception for Limbaugh.) What these three people have in common is that they're all significant figures who have taken ... (more) Defending Rush, Steele, and Jindal

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sundriesshack.com - 3/8/2009
Rush’s Critics Need to Read What He Actually Said.
— sundriesshack.com — I’ve not written much about the Rush Limbaugh controversy that the White House has cooked up but,... given the direction the argument has been moving among conservatives, it’s probably time... (more) Rush’s Critics Need to Read What He Actually Said.

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US Political News Blog — Must Read Eric Boehlert discusses radio ratings.

What are Rush's ratings?
Michael Calderone's Blog — ... Media Matters'Eric Boehlert dubbed Farhi’s follow-up a “766-word non-correction correction,” and wrote that “the thin sourcing that Kurtz used for his claim was little more than a hunch, and the person who made the hunch didn't think the guesstimate of Limbaugh's size growth was scientific or that it represented a true ratings estimate.” ...

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