Follow BeltwayBlips on Twitter
LAT fact-checks Limbaugh, hits him for peddling ’shameless’ lies.
Think Progress —
... The Los Angeles Times’ media journalist James Rainey take a look at how right-wing pundits Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are dealing with Barack Obama’s victory. “[W]hen he is demonizing Barack Obama, fabricating Obama policies, blaming Obama for single-handedly causing the recession and the stock market crash,” Rainey writes of Limbaugh, “he doesn’t pretend to be fair.” The LAT then offers this fact-check: ...
Dem Sweep Energizes Conservative Movement, Talk Radio, Blogs
The Radio Equalizer: Brian Maloney —
... And just in case it does somehow survive, America's mainstream media enemies have launched a disgusting smear campaign aimed at undermining the very effectiveness they now dispute. ...
Right Wing Media Uses Dull Knives on Obama
Politics Daily —
Filed under: Democrats, Barack Obama, Breaking News, MediaThe LA Times' James Rainey is reporting on the new post-election trend in the right-wing media, and to paraphrase The Who, it's the same as the old trend: "The Obama recession is in full swing, ladies and gentlemen," Limbaugh told his radio audience of 15 million to 20 million on Thursday. "Stocks are dying, which is a precursor of things to come. This is an Obama recession. Might turn into a depression." Apparently the tanking of the real estate market, ...
Early Morning Swim
Firedoglake —
... Obama and W. meet at the White House today.
Palin: "It's amazing that we did as well as we did."A new New Deal?
Reid comes to Short Ride's defense.
More socialism from the Bush administration.
Will Obama save us from the scary left?
Wingnut radio: if you thought it was angry before...
George Will feeling fragile on "This Week."
Stunner: LA Times Attacks Conservatives
JammieWearingFool —
The L.A. Times has begun an all out assault on conservative opinion. You have to give Rush Limbaugh a perverse kind of credit. At least when he is demonizing Barack Obama, fabricating Obama policies, blaming Obama for single-handedly causing the recession and the stock market crash, he doesn't pretend to be fair. Opening his first post-election rant against the president-elect, Limbaugh launched in with a certain relish. "The game," he told his radio listeners, "has begun." Notice the use of the word "anger", "fair" and "rant". What we are going to see is an all out assault on ...
Fair and Balanced
Matthew Yglesias —
... an LA Times inquiry into the massive dishonesty of Rush Limbaugh. The piece, by James Rainey, is quite strong but I didn’t like the lede: ...
Progressives Have Leverage NOW: Use It Or Lose It
American Politics Journal RSS Feed —
... last week, Republicans already are declaring that Obama won "no mandate," and that the election results are evidence that the country is in a "middle-right" mode. Therefore, they loudly assert, Obama should not push liberal programs but should govern from the "center" (by which they mean right-center). The HardRight extremists, the Limbaugh/Drudge/Savage wing out there on the far edges, certainly are not going to agree to any "honeymoon" period for the new President and already are attacking fiercely, based on their claim that the Republicans lost because they "weren't ...
Taking Your 401(k): A Nobel Idea Supported by Many Noble Prize-Winning Economists
Patterico's Pontifications —
... On a serious note: James Rainey recently mocked Rush Limbaugh for warning that Democrats have been talking about taking away your 401(k): ...
