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Mixed Blessings
N/A —
... Right wing radio sees what’s left them and is not happy. Sort of. Limbaugh and Hannity may say Obama is bad for the country even as he is good for their ratings. ...
LA Times Portrays Right Wing Media as Bitter and Angry
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... In what can only be described as delusional, Los Angeles Times writer James Rainey attempted to castigate the right wing media as a bitter and resentful group of shameless journalists - attributes that can only describe the liberal media's behavior for at least eight years now. ...
That Didn't Take Long... Liberal Media Begins Attack On Talk Radio
Gateway Pundit —
They're still counting votes from Tuesday's election but the liberal media is already attacking "angry" conservatives on talk radio. They're paving the way for the Fairness Doctrine. The Los Angeles Times-- the same news outfit that would not release video of Obama toasting a former PLO operative at a Chicago Jew-bash-- wrote about the angry conservative talk radio hosts today: You have to give Rush Limbaugh a perverse kind of credit. At least when he is ...
A Generation In The Wilderness?
Newshoggers.com —
... plans to leave it, because he agrees with their push to reduce restrictions on business and to remain strong on crime. Schwarzenegger said, however, that the GOP should support greater investment to build roads and fix schools and other “things that the American people want to have done.”
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They should not “always just say, ‘This is spending. We can’t do that.’ No, don’t get stuck with that. We have heard that dialogue. Let’s move on.” But the Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity Republicans have taken over the Republican Party and this is what ...
LA Times Calls Out Hannity On His Hypocrisy
News Hounds —
... Rainey writes: Sean Hannity... insisted on feigning a post-election detente, telling his Fox News television audience last week, "I want Barack Obama to succeed." Didn't he think anyone would notice that, just a moment later, he was back parroting the failed campaign argument that Obama is a "mystery"? ...
Conservative Talk Radio’s Non-Honeymoon For Barack Obama
The Moderate Voice —
... Be sure to read this Los Angeles Times story which goes into a lot more detail about what I heard last week as I monitored a variety of conservative talk shows. And the L.A. Times doesn’t really include what the local talkers said — which at times was worse. ...
alicublog — ... " I would also recommend James Rainey at the LA Times on more mainstream conservative commentators' post-election prattle, including Rush Limbaugh's announcement that "The Obama recession is in full swing." And they said Obama and his fans had a ...
What Does G.O.P. Stand For?
Politics Daily —
... In this light, we might think of Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh as pop psychologists, proffering a kind of primal scream therapy to their disgruntled fan base. From the LA Times: ...
Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute for November 10, 2008
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash —
... started -- it seems the Repuglican approach is to first praise Obama and then stick a knife in his back! "Sean Hannity ... insisted on feigning a post-election detente, telling his Fox News television audience last week, ‘I want Barack Obama to succeed.' Didn't he think anyone would notice that, just a moment later, he was back parroting the failed campaign argument that Obama is a ‘mystery'? ‘I fear [this] is the guy that has these radical associations 20 years ago,' Hannity added, an odd way of demonstrating support for the new commander in chief." These die hards will ...
"Now we are engaged in a great civil war..."
The Reaction —
... Curiously, while Kristol makes a good case (a rarity) for keeping some of the conservative planks of the Republican platform, he loses out to this kind of rhetoric: ...
Today on Doing Time, Monday, November 10, 2008
The Latest on Air America —
... . Hmm…how many billions of taxpayer dollars does it take to pay off AIG’s Caribbean vacay tab? HEY! GOP! Don’t you know the election’s over? So stop yer whining! Also, we’ll be taking your calls on the fallout from Proposition 8 in California, ...
Moments In GOP Hypocrisy: On Yer Marks, Git Set…Snow!
Firedoglake —
... is awaited with all the caterwauling the Right-wing Wurlitzer can bring to bear. With no acceptance of responsibility for their myriad failures -- it begins. ...
Rush’s New Lease on Life
The Moderate Voice —
Last week, the talk show radio circuit was ablaze with the beginning of the anti-Obama message before President-elect Barack Obama is even sworn in as the 44th President of the United States. Several months ago, I predicted that Obama’s win would be the best possible scenario for Rush, Sean Hannity and the other fire breathers on the right:
“If Obama is elected Limbaugh has a new target in the White House. Limbaugh will be relevant once again as he regains his status as the leader of the ‘vast right-wing conspiracy.’ On a side note, ...
Stop the Viral Pandemic
Preemptive Karma —
... preparing for the wrong kind of virus. There's another far more dangerous one that is spreading rapidly. If left unchecked, I think it just could lead to the end of the United States of America as we know it. That virus is the lethal combination of extremism and hatred, and it exists on both the left and the right. It spreads easily and turns its victims into mind-numbed zombies (a.k.a. "dittoheads"). The primary infectors on the right - Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity - are right now working feverishly to defeat the only cure for this virus. The only safety we have is to ...
‘Right-Wing Rage’ = Left-Wing Projection
Pajamas Media —
... to help Barack Obama in the name of unity, or shamelessly carped about “right wing rage .” The gloating is expected and the unity pleas are naive, but let’s talk about “right wing rage.” Among others, the Los Angeles Times has cited Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, neither of whom are particularly angry guys, as right-wing rage-holics for not laying down and dying after the election. CNN’s ...
LA Times Falsely Claims Dems Won't Shut Down Talk Radio
The Radio Equalizer: Brian Maloney —
AWAITING OBAMA'S ORDERS Sleazy LA Times Attacks Talkers Over Shutdown Fears The same publication that actively aided Barack Obama's campaign by suppressing a potentially incriminating video is now leading the charge against the Dear Leader's critics in talk radio. Far left attack dog James Rainey of the dying Los Angeles Times, who just last week falsely accused hosts of behaving "shamelessly" in the wake of Obama's victory, has ...
Why the Politics of Hate will go on Forever
Preemptive Karma —
... January 28, 2009 Why the Politics of Hate will go on Forever A little over two months ago, in response to an LA Times story about Right wingers like Limbaugh and Hannity working to undermine President Obama’s efforts to re-unify this country, I ...
