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campaignspot.nationalreview.com - 3/5/2009
Do Obama's Fans Really Want to Make an Issue of Op...
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Joan Walsh of Salon rips Rush Limbaugh as "a thrice-divorced, drug-abusing, Parkinson's-mocking, cigar-sucking egomaniac, a poster boy for meanness, o... . . .
Fears of a Clown
egan.blogs.nytimes.com - 3/5/2009
Fears of a Clown
— egan.blogs.nytimes.com — Joy among Democrats as Rush Limbaugh emerges as the face of the Republican Party.... (more) Fears of a Clown

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patterico.com - 3/6/2009
I Hope Rush Limbaugh Fails
— patterico.com — So Rush Limbaugh has challenged Obama to a debate . It’s smart for Rush. If Obama is... going to anoint him as the leader of the Republican Party, he may as well respond in kind. And hey, he articulates conservative principles very well. But ... (more) I Hope Rush Limbaugh Fails

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Leftist double standards, part 8,277,993
Sister Toldjah — ... Jim Geraghty points to another example of lefty hypocrisy in terms of how several popular Dem columnists, comedians, and strategists - like one of the orchestrators of the latest Rush smears Paul Begala - refer to Rush Limbaugh as a “drug addict,” using it in the present tense in spite of the fact that he is now drug-free. Sometimes the descriptions, as you’ll see from Geraghty’s post, are worse than that. ...

Jim Geraghty And The Latest In Moral Equivalence
Oliver Willis — ... This example is National Review’s Jim Geraghty who takes issue with characterizations of Leader Limbaugh as a pill-popping oaf. Geraghty says, wouldn’t that justify calling President Obama a “cokehead” for his previous drug use? ...

Weekend Opinionator: The Party of Limbaugh? A Conservative Debate
Opinionator — ... Limbaugh exactly 51 minutes (according to “Hardball”) after Limbaugh attacked him on his radio show yesterday, and say he hadn’t meant to call Limbaugh’s behavior “incendiary” or “ugly”? Is Harry Reid the reason it’s impossible to find one, even one, Republican to criticize Limbaugh on the record — without then racing to kiss his ring and apologize? It’s Tom DeLay, not President Obama, who is now designating Limbaugh as his party’s “role model.” Jim Geraghty at the National Review takes umbrage over the repeated references of Begala and others to ...

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