US-China experts are calling it the most important US visit by a Chinese leader since Deng Xiaoping’s groundbreaking 1979 tour. Who said the standard of political discourse in the US was slipping?
Rush Limbaugh
Political snippets: Ken Henry’s taxing waste of time
Ken Henry’s review of the taxation system will join countless others before it in the too hard basket. Plus, ignore the suggestion that tax changes will curb housing prices, blame the greens and other political tidbits.
Rush Limbaugh loves socialised medicine?
Conservative political commentator Rush Limbaugh has been outspoken in his repulsion of recent US health care reforms. But following a recent hospital visit of his own, did he enjoy the benefits of socialised medicine and unions without realising?
Limbaugh hospitalised and internet explodes
Rush Limbaugh, the notorious conservative US shock jock, is recovering after an emergency hospital visit in Hawaii hospital. The Atlantic Wire reports on the bitter internet battle between Limbaugh’s supporters and detractors.
Not yet Palin into insignificance
Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue slick publicity tour is getting her back in the media and the voters’ faces again, even if her political career is uncertain. Can she steal the conservative spotlight back from Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck?
Just like the Libs, the Republicans face the conundrum of courting crazies
The Republicans in the US understand too well the conundrum now facing the Liberals: You can’t run your party if you don’t heed the crazies — but you can’t run the country if you do.
Dowd: Rush Limbaugh is immature and narcissistic
Shock jock Rush Limbaugh is one of the key media mouths of the Republican Party and he loves to insult at Obama. Too bad he forgets the actions of his good mate Dubya, because it wasn’t Obama who stuffed the economy or brought about the war in Iraq, notes Maureen Dowd.
Limbaugh: The elites of the world love a weakened US
America’s favourite conservatives rushed to comment on Barack Obama’s Nobel win, with Rush Limbaugh calling it a “greater embarrassment” than Chicago losing the 2016 Olympics.
Rush Limbaugh: “We need segregated buses”
Controversial US commentator Rush Limbaugh has given his own special take on the hot issue of race in America: “We need segregated buses … This is Obama’s America.”
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s American bites: Sixty and out … Climate bill cut-up … Justice Denied? … Sanford and Sin
Guy Rundle observations from the land of the free.
VIDEO: Limbaugh thinks Obama will try to rig a third term
Rush Limbaugh sees parallels between Obama and power-hungry ousted Honduran President Mel Zelaya: “Anybody who thinks [Obama] intends to just constitutionally go away in 2016 is nuts … These are people who seek power for reasons other than to serve. They seek to rule.”
Rush and Newt are winning the media culture wars
If you doubt that there is a conservative inclination in the media, consider how much noise is created when Rush Limbaugh sneezes or Newt Gingrich tweets, says E.J. Dionne Jr
The butt of Rush Limbaugh’s jokes
Conservative political commentator Rush Limbaugh remains fixated on political humiliation — his, and other people’s — and it’s amazing how frequently such humiliation focuses on the hind quarters…
Rush Limbaugh: Obama wants unemployment
It would be funny if shock jock Rush Limbaugh didn’t have the ears of the right-wing part of the US. Now, he’s busy endorsing the grassy knoll theory that Obama’s trying to lose jobs.
Super Tuesday so far: the GOP
Mac is back, again, the South hearts Huckabee and Mitt’s got no mates.
US08 media wrap: McCain’s SC victory, Hillary holds Nevada
McCain defies the conservatives in South Carolina, and Hillary holds on in Nevada, but not without an ugly fight.
New York Magazine / Tuesday, 22 September 2009
Birthers, teabaggers, town hallers, speech-to-schools scaremongers… the certifiably insane have officially taken over America’s political discourse. How did things get so crazy, so quickly? Is it fear driven by the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, or is Obama himself to blame?