blogs.abcnews.com - 1/27/2009
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In his meeting with the bipartisan collection of congressional leaders Friday, President Obama cited conservative talk radio giant Rush Limbaugh as a symbol of partisan politics. "You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done," President Obama said,...
dccc.org - 1/27/2009
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Rush to Judgment: Share Your Thoughts with Rush
Last week, Rush Limbaugh actually said that he "hopes"...
President Obama fails to meet America's challenges. Jobs, health care, our place in the world the stakes for our nation are high and every American ...
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cnsnews.com - 1/28/2009
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(Updates with Limbaugh's response; more from DCCC.) (CNSNews.com)
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has launched an online...
petition for readers to express their outrage at conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh for saying last week ...
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Democrats Launch Petition Against Rush Limbaugh
thinkprogress.org - 1/26/2009
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thinkprogress.org —
On Friday, when President Obama met with congressional
leaders from both parties to discuss his economic recovery...
and reinvestment program, he told GOP leaders, “ You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done.” Asked for a ...
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Limbaugh against stimulus because its success could hurt ...
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Fools Rush In
Jules Crittenden —
... called it a political blunder of “epic proportions,” noting the story was picked up worldwide. “Obama has now basically said that ‘my key political opposition is Rush Limbaugh,’ ” said Maloney, who said Limbaugh’s ratings were probably five times higher than normal yesterday. “He must have been popping champagne corks over the weekend.” Limbaugh couldn’t have been happier … Washington Post : Week One, Obama declares war. LA Times : Last laugh is whose? ABC’s Tapper: POTUS vs. Limbaugh . Sounds like a fundamental, strategic clash of ideologues and ideologies. ...
What Stimulus Messaging Lessons Portend for the Health Care Debate
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right —
... him around the country every single week, campaign-style, hammering the message home at townhalls and small businesses where poignant, human moments are a given. A dash of trademark Obama “I am my brother’s keeper” in the form of “no country this blessed should allow its citizens to go sick,” and even use of the “shameful” stick when necessary, and there you have your message. That, my friends, is called cooking with gas. Run against that, Rush Limbaugh party of “I want (Obama) to fail.” SNL is already lampooning – specifically – Republican tone-deaf ...
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I've been hunting around for polling data to explain why Democrats are so eager to make Rush Limbaugh the face of the Republican Party, and lo, Mark Blumenthal finds some .
The numbers are pretty clear. When this poll was taken last fall, Rush ...
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newsbusters.org 2/1/2009 — Comedy is not pretty, especially if it is wielded as a clumsy hatchet by the Left to do their dirty work for them. Such is the case with the suggestion on the Daily Kos that satire could be used as a weapon to "take Limbaugh down." This is ...
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patterico.com 3/9/2009 — Lee Stranahan recently wrote a piece which contained the provocative line: “You’re damn right I wanted the Iraq war to fail.” I think there’s a good parallel between that piece and Rush Limbaugh’s statements that he wants Obama to fail.
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andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 3/2/2009 — I'm struck by the dissonance between the speeches today given by the president and by the leader of the opposition. Here's Obama, shrewdly observed by Al Giordano : I know that the insurance industry won't like the idea that they'll have to bid ...
Obama-Limbaugh stimulus plan? —
CNN Political Ticker 1/29/2009
(CNN) – An Obama-Limbaugh stimulus plan?
That's at least what the conservative talk radio host is proposing this week, first on his radio show Monday, and today in an Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal.
Limbaugh, who has sharply rebuked the ...
Limbaugh challenging notion of new politics —
msnbc.com: Politics 1/30/2009
For all the talk of new politics and a new start with a new administration, the media person who has emerged as the chief voice of opposition during the first week of Barack Obama's presidency — Rush Limbaugh — has been doing this for 20 years.
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