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Baltimore
Baltimore (
/ˈbɒltɨmɔr/, colloquially /ˈbɔl.mɔr/) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland. It is located in the central area of the state along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. The independent city is often referred to as Baltimore City to distinguish it from surrounding Baltimore County.
Founded in 1729, Baltimore is the largest seaport in the Mid-Atlantic United States and is situated closer to Midwestern markets than any other major seaport on the East Coast. Baltimore's Inner Harbor was once the second leading port of entry for immigrants to the United States and a major manufacturing center. After a decline in manufacturing, Baltimore shifted to a service-oriented economy.
At 620,961 residents in 2010, Baltimore's population has decreased by one-third since its peak in 1950. The Baltimore Metropolitan Area has grown steadily to approximately 2.7 million residents in 2010; the 20th largest in the country. Baltimore is also a principal city in the larger Baltimore–Washington combined statistical area of approximately 8.4 million residents.
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Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic (
i/dəˌmɪnɨkən rɨˈpʌblɪk/; Spanish: República Dominicana [reˈpuβlika ðominiˈkana]) is a nation on the island of Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries. Both by area and population, the Dominican Republic is the second largest Caribbean nation (after Cuba), with 48,442 square kilometres (18,704 sq mi) and an estimated 10 million people.
Taínos inhabited what is now the Dominican Republic since the 7th century. Christopher Columbus landed on it in 1492, and it became the site of the first permanent European settlement in the Americas, namely Santo Domingo, the country's capital and Spain's first capital in the New World. Santo Domingo can boast of many firsts in the Americas, including the first cathedral, and castle, both in the Ciudad Colonial area, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Florida
Florida (i/ˈflɒrɪdə/) is a state in the southeastern United States, bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. Florida is the 22nd most extensive, the 4th most populous, and the 8th most densely populated of the 50 United States. The state capital is Tallahassee, its largest city is Jacksonville, and the South Florida metropolitan area is the largest metropolitan area in the southeastern U.S.
Much of Florida is situated on a peninsula between the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Straits of Florida. Its geography is marked by a coastline, by the omnipresence of water and the threat of hurricanes. Florida has the longest coastline in the contiguous United States, encompassing approximately 1,350 miles (2,170 km), and is the only state to border both the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Much of the state is at or near sea level and its terrain is characterized by sedimentary soils. The climate varies from subtropical in the north to tropical in the south. Its symbolic animals like the American alligator, Florida panther and the manatee, can be found in the Everglades, one of the most famous national parks in the world.
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Hawaii
Coordinates: 21°18′41″N 157°47′47″W / 21.31139°N 157.79639°W / 21.31139; -157.79639
Hawaii (i/həˈwaɪ.iː/ or /həˈwaɪʔiː/; Hawaiian: Hawaiʻi Hawaiian pronunciation: [hɐˈvɐiʔi]) is the most recent of the 50 U.S. states (August 21, 1959), and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean.
Hawaii’s diverse natural scenery, warm tropical climate, abundance of public beaches and oceanic surrounding, and active volcanoes make it a popular destination for tourists, surfers, biologists, and volcanologists alike. Due to its mid-Pacific location, Hawaii has many North American and Asian influences along with its own vibrant native culture. Hawaii has over a million permanent residents along with many visitors and U.S. military personnel. Its capital is Honolulu on the island of Oʻahu.
The state encompasses nearly the entire volcanic Hawaiian Island chain, which comprises hundreds of islands spread over 1,500 miles (2,400 km). At the southeastern end of the archipelago, the eight "main islands" are (from the northwest to southeast) Niʻihau, Kauaʻi, Oʻahu, Molokaʻi, Lānaʻi, Kahoʻolawe, Maui, and the island of Hawaiʻi. The last is by far the largest and is often called "The Big Island" to avoid confusion with the state as a whole. The archipelago is physiographically and ethnologically part of the Polynesian subregion of Oceania.
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Honolulu
Honolulu /hoʊnoʊˈluːluː/ is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Hawaii. Honolulu is the southernmost major U.S. city. Although the name "Honolulu" refers to the urban area on the southeastern shore of the island of Oahu, the city and county government are consolidated as Honolulu County which covers the entire island. For statistical purposes, the U.S. Census Bureau recognizes the urban part of Honolulu as a census-designated place. Honolulu is a major financial center of the islands of the Pacific Ocean. The population of the census-designated place was 337,256 at the 2010 census, while the population of the city and county was 953,207. Honolulu is the most populous state capital relative to state population.
In the Hawaiian language, Honolulu means "sheltered bay" or "place of shelter". The old name is said to be Kou, a district roughly encompassing the area from Nuuanu Avenue to Alakea Street and from Hotel Street to Queen Street which is the heart of the present downtown district. The city has been the capital of the Hawaiian islands since 1845 and gained historical recognition following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor near the city on December 7, 1941, and as the birthplace of Barack Obama, the 44th and current President of the United States.
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KQV
KQV is a radio station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The station, which is the only broadcast station owned by Calvary, Inc., broadcasts at 1410 kHz, with 5000 watts of power day and night. KQV's call letters reportedly stand for King of the Quaker Valley. The station is one of two in the market that use call letters starting with K, a type of callsign not normally found east of the Mississippi River. KQV also carries Penn State University men's basketball.
KQV was one of Pittsburgh's five original AM stations, signing on as amateur station "8ZAE" on November 19, 1919, predating KDKA which was granted the distinction of being the world's first commercially licensed station on November 2, 1920. KQV did not receive a commercial license until January 9, 1922, despite having started transmitting three years earlier.
Only four radio stations east of the Mississippi River have call letters which start with K: KQV and KDKA in Pittsburgh, KYW in Philadelphia (though the KYW callsign has in the past been used in Chicago and Cleveland), and KFIZ in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. KQV is the only such station that has never had an associated TV station.
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Los Angeles (
i/lɒs ˈændʒələs/ loss-AN-jə-ləs; Spanish: [los ˈaŋxeles], which is written Los Ángeles; British pronounciation /lɒs ˈændʒəliːz/ loss-AN-jə-leez) with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in the state of California, and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of 468.67 square miles (1,213.8 km2), and is located in Southern California. Often known by its initials L.A., the city is the focal point of the larger Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana metropolitan statistical area and Greater Los Angeles Area region, which contain 12,828,837 and nearly 18 million people respectively as of 2010, making it one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world and the second largest in the United States. Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated and one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the United States, while the entire Los Angeles area itself has been recognized as the most diverse of the nation's largest cities. The city's inhabitants are referred to as "Angelenos".
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New York
New York (/njuː ˈjɔrk/; locally IPA: [nɪu ˈjɔək] or [nuː ˈjɔɹk] (
listen)) is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. New York is the 27th most extensive, the 3rd most populous, and the 7th most densely populated of the 50 United States. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east. The state has a maritime border with Rhode Island east of Long Island, as well as an international border with the Canadian provinces of Ontario to the west and north, and Quebec to the north. The state of New York is often referred to as New York State to distinguish it from New York City.
New York City, with a population of over 8.1 million, is the most populous city in the United States. Alone, it makes up over 40 percent of the population of New York state. It is known for its status as a center for finance and culture and for its status as the largest gateway for immigration to the United States. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, New York City is also a destination of choice for many foreign visitors. Both the state and city were named for the 17th century Duke of York, James Stuart, future James II and VII of England and Scotland.
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New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. The city is referred to as New York City or The City of New York to distinguish it from the State of New York, of which it is a part. As a global power city, New York exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment. The home of the United Nations Headquarters, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural capital of the world.
Located on one of the world's largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, each of which comprises a state county. The five boroughs—The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island—were consolidated into a single city in 1898. With a Census-estimated 2011 population of 8,244,910 distributed over a land area of just 305 square miles (790 km2), New York is the most densely populated major city in the United States. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world. The New York City Metropolitan Area's population is the United States' largest, with 18.9 million people distributed over 6,720 square miles (17,400 km2), and is also part of the most populous combined statistical area in the United States, containing 22.1 million people as of the 2010 Census.
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Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States.
It is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution. Princeton provides undergraduate and graduate instruction in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering. Princeton does not have schools of medicine, law, divinity, or business, but it does offer professional degrees through the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science and the School of Architecture.
Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, as the College of New Jersey, the university moved to Newark in 1747, then to Princeton in 1756 and was renamed Princeton University in 1896. The present-day College of New Jersey in nearby Ewing, New Jersey, is an unrelated institution. Princeton was the fourth chartered institution of higher education in the American colonies. Princeton had close ties to the Presbyterian Church, but has never been affiliated with any denomination and today imposes no religious requirements on its students.
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Skull and Bones
Skull and Bones is an undergraduate senior or secret society at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. It is a traditional peer society to Scroll and Key and Wolf's Head, as the three senior class "landed societies" at Yale.
The society's alumni organization, which owns the society's real property and oversees the organization, is the Russell Trust Association, named for William Huntington Russell, who co-founded Skull and Bones with classmate Alphonso Taft. The Russell Trust was founded by Russell and Daniel Coit Gilman, member of Skull and Bones and later president of the University of California, first president of Johns Hopkins University, and the founding president of the Carnegie Institution.
The society is known informally as "Bones", and members are known as "Bonesmen".
Skull and Bones was founded in 1832 after a dispute among Yale's debating societies, Linonia, Brothers in Unity, and the Calliopean Society, over that season's Phi Beta Kappa awards; its original name was "the Order of Skull and Bones."
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The Miami Herald
The Miami Herald is a daily newspaper owned by The McClatchy Company headquartered on Biscayne Bay in the Omni district of Downtown Miami, Florida, United States. Founded in 1903, it is the largest newspaper in South Florida, serving Miami-Dade, Broward County and Monroe County, and circulates throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
The newspaper employs over 800 people in Miami and across several bureaus, including Bogotá, Managua, Tallahassee, Vero Beach, Key West, and shared space in McClatchy's Washington bureau. Its newsroom staff of about 450 includes 144 reporters, 69 editors, 69 copy editors, 29 photographers, five graphic artists (not including page designers), 11 columnists, six critics, 48 editorial specialists, and 18 news assistants. In June 2009, The Miami Herald announced widespread layoffs in June 2008, with plans to cut 250 full-time jobs—17 percent of the newspaper's workforce.
The newspaper has been awarded 20 Pulitzer Prizes since beginning publication in 1903. Well-known columnists are Pulitzer-winning political commentator Leonard Pitts, Jr., humorist Dave Barry and novelist Carl Hiaasen. Other columnists include Fred Grimm and Edwin Pope. David Landsberg is the publisher, and Aminda Marqués Gonzalez is the executive editor.
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United States
The United States of America (commonly abbreviated to the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west, across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Pacific and Caribbean.
At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km2) and with over 312 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and the third largest by both land area and population. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the world's largest national economy, with an estimated 2011 GDP of $15.1 trillion (22% of nominal global GDP and over 19% of global GDP at purchasing-power parity). Per capita income is the world's sixth-highest.
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WMNY
WMNY (1360) is a business talk radio station that serves the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania market. Owned by Renda Broadcasting, the station operates at 1360 kHz with a power of 5,000 watts daytime, 1,000 watts nighttime, and is licensed to McKeesport, Pennsylvania.
The station began with the call letters WMCK, and was a Top 40 station with the call letters WIXZ ("Wick-zee 1360") beginning in 1969. Among its disc jockeys during the Top 40 era was Jeff Christie, better known today by his real name, Rush Limbaugh. Hampered as a suburban station with a limited nighttime signal, it would later go through different formats and owners before switching to a talk format in 1999, at which time it took the WPTT call letters (formerly on channel 22 in Pittsburgh). On August 19, 2008, Renda Broadcasting announced that WPTT would be switching formats from talk to financial advice; this was accompanied by a call change to WMNY. In all of its incarnations since WMCK, the radio station has positioned itself as a Pittsburgh outlet, rather than directly addressing the suburb of McKeesport.
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Al Franken
Alan Stuart "Al" Franken (born May 21, 1951) is the junior United States Senator from Minnesota. He is a member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party, which affiliates with the national Democratic Party.
Franken achieved note as a writer and performer for the television show Saturday Night Live from its conception in 1975 before moving to writing and acting in films and television shows. He then became a political commentator, author of five books and host of a nationally syndicated radio show on the Air America Radio network.
In 2008, Franken narrowly defeated incumbent Republican Senator Norm Coleman, by 312 votes, after a mandatory statewide manual recount. Coleman contested the outcome in court, but the Minnesota Supreme Court unanimously upheld Franken's victory on June 30, 2009. Franken was sworn in to the Senate on July 7, 2009.
Franken was born in New York City. His mother, Phoebe G. (née Kunst), was a homemaker and real estate agent, and his father, Joseph P. Franken, was a printing salesman. The family later moved to St. Louis Park, a suburb near Minneapolis. Franken had a Jewish upbringing. His paternal grandparents were immigrants from Germany, and his mother's family was from Russia. His older brother Owen is a photojournalist; MSNBC's Bob Franken is his cousin. Franken graduated in 1969 from The Blake School, where he was on the wrestling team. He attended Harvard College and graduated with an A.B. cum laude in 1973 in political science.
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Ann Coulter
Ann Hart Coulter (born December 8, 1961) is an American lawyer,conservative social and political commentator, author, and syndicated columnist. She frequently appears on television, radio, and as a speaker at public events and private events. Well-known for her conservative political opinions and the controversial ways in which she presents and defends them, Coulter has described herself as a polemicist who likes to "stir up the pot" and does not "pretend to be impartial or balanced, as broadcasters do."
Ann Hart Coulter was born in New York City on December 8, 1961, to Nell Husbands (née Martin; a native of Paducah, Kentucky) and John Vincent Coulter (a native of Albany, New York). The family later moved to New Canaan, Connecticut, where Coulter and her two older brothers, James and John, were raised. She graduated from New Canaan High School in 1980. Coulter's age was disputed in 2002 while she was arguing that she was not yet 40, yet Washington Post columnist Lloyd Grove cited that she provided a birthdate of December 8, 1961, when registering to vote in New Canaan, Connecticut prior to the 1980 Presidential election. Meanwhile, a driver's license issued several years later allegedly listed her birthdate as December 8, 1963. Coulter will not confirm either date, citing privacy concerns.
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Arlen Specter
Arlen Specter (born February 12, 1930) is a former United States Senator from Pennsylvania. Specter is a Democrat, but was a Republican from 1965 until switching to the Democratic Party in 2009. First elected in 1980, he represented his state for thirty years in the Senate. Specter is a moderate who staked out a spot in the political center.
Specter was born in Wichita, Kansas to an American mother and a father who immigrated from Russia. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and served with the United States Air Force during the Korean War. Specter later graduated from Yale Law School and opened a law firm with Marvin Katz, who would later become a federal judge. Specter served as assistant counsel for the Warren Commission investigating the assassination of John F. Kennedy and helped devise the "single bullet theory." In 1965, Specter was elected District Attorney of Philadelphia, a position that he would hold until he lost his re-election bid in 1973.
On April 28, 2009, Specter announced that, after 44 years as an elected Republican, he was switching membership to the Democratic Party, On May 18, 2010, Specter was defeated in the Democratic primary by Joe Sestak, who then was defeated by current Senator Pat Toomey in the general election. Toomey replaced Specter on January 3, 2011.
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Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II (i/bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. In January 2005, Obama was sworn in as a U.S. Senator in the state of Illinois. He would hold this office until November 2008, when he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.
Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. He served three terms representing the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004.
Following an unsuccessful bid against the Democratic incumbent for a seat in the United States House of Representatives in 2000, Obama ran for the United States Senate in 2004. Several events brought him to national attention during the campaign, including his victory in the March 2004 Illinois Democratic primary for the Senate election and his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He won election to the U.S. Senate in Illinois in November 2004. His presidential campaign began in February 2007, and after a close campaign in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries against Hillary Rodham Clinton, he won his party's nomination. In the 2008 presidential election, he defeated Republican nominee John McCain, and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009. Nine months later, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. In April 2011, he announced that he would be running for re-election in 2012.
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Barbara Walters
Barbara Jill Walters (born September 25, 1929) is an American broadcast journalist, author, and television personality. She has hosted morning television shows (Today and The View), the television news magazine (20/20), former co-anchor of the ABC World News, and current contributor to ABC News.
Walters was first known as a popular TV morning news anchor for over 10 years on NBC's Today, where she worked with Hugh Downs and later hosts Frank McGee and Jim Hartz. Walters later spent 25 years as co-host of ABC's news magazine 20/20. She was the first female co-anchor of network evening news, working with Harry Reasoner on the ABC Evening News, and continuing as a contributor to the network news division and its flagship program, ABC World News.
In 1996, Walters was ranked #34 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time.
Walters was born in 1929 in Boston, the daughter of Dena (née Seletsky) and Louis "Lou" Walters (born Louis Warmwater). Her parents were both Jewish and descendants of refugees from the former Russian Empire, now Eastern Europe. Walters' paternal grandfather, Abraham Isaac, was from what is now Łódź, Poland, and first immigrated to England, changing his name first to Warmwater and later to Abraham Walters (the original family surname was Waremwasser). Walters' father was born there c. 1894, and moved to the United States with his family in 1900. In 1937, her father opened the New York version of the Latin Quarter; he also worked as a Broadway producer (he produced the Ziegfeld Follies of 1943). He also was the Entertainment Director for the Tropicana Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he imported the "Folies Bergere" stage show from Paris to the resort's main showroom. Walters' brother, Burton, died in 1932 of pneumonia. Walters' elder sister, Jacqueline, was born mentally disabled and died of ovarian cancer in 1985. She has another half sister, Walda Walters Anderson, born to a different mother.[citation needed]
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Barry Goldwater
Barry Morris Goldwater (January 2, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was a five-term United States Senator from Arizona (1953–1965, 1969–1987) and the Republican Party's nominee for President in the 1964 election. An articulate and charismatic figure during the first half of the 1960s, he was known as "Mr. Conservative".
Goldwater is the politician most often credited for sparking the resurgence of the American conservative political movement in the 1960s. He also had a substantial impact on the libertarian movement.
Goldwater rejected the legacy of the New Deal and fought through the conservative coalition to defeat the New Deal coalition. He mobilized a large conservative constituency to win the hard-fought Republican primaries. Goldwater's right-wing campaign platform ultimately failed to gain the support of the electorate and he lost the 1964 presidential election to incumbent Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson by one of the largest landslides in history, bringing down many Republican candidates as well. The Johnson campaign and other critics painted him as a reactionary, while supporters praised his crusades against the Soviet Union, labor unions, and the welfare state. His defeat allowed Johnson and the Democrats in Congress to pass the Great Society programs, but the defeat of so many older Republicans in 1964 also cleared the way for a younger generation of American conservatives to mobilize. Goldwater was much less active as a national leader of conservatives after 1964; his supporters mostly rallied behind Ronald Reagan, who became governor of California in 1967 and the 40th President of the United States in 1981.
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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705] – April 17, 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. He invented the lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, a carriage odometer, and the glass 'armonica'. He formed both the first public lending library in America and the first fire department in Pennsylvania.
Franklin earned the title of "The First American" for his early and indefatigable campaigning for colonial unity; as an author and spokesman in London for several colonies, then as the first United States Ambassador to France, he exemplified the emerging American nation. Franklin was foundational in defining the American ethos as a marriage of the practical and democratic values of thrift, hard work, education, community spirit, self-governing institutions, and opposition to authoritarianism both political and religious, with the scientific and tolerant values of the Enlightenment. In the words of historian Henry Steele Commager, "In a Franklin could be merged the virtues of Puritanism without its defects, the illumination of the Enlightenment without its heat." To Walter Isaacson, this makes Franklin "the most accomplished American of his age and the most influential in inventing the type of society America would become."
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Bill Ayers
William Charles "Bill" Ayers (born December 26, 1944) is an American elementary education theorist and a former leader in the movement that opposed U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. He is known for his 1960s activism as well as his current work in education reform, curriculum, and instruction. In 1969 he co-founded the Weather Underground, a self-described communist revolutionary group that conducted a campaign of bombing public buildings during the 1960s and 1970s, in response to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
He is a retired professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, formerly holding the titles of Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar. During the 2008 US presidential campaign, a controversy arose over his contacts with then-candidate Barack Obama. He is married to Bernardine Dohrn, who was also a leader in the Weather organization.
Ayers grew up in Glen Ellyn, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. He attended public schools there until his second year in high school, when he transferred to Lake Forest Academy, a small prep school. Ayers earned a B.A. from the University of Michigan in American Studies in 1968 (his father, mother and older brother had preceded him there). His parents are Mary (née Andrew) and Thomas G. Ayers, who was later Chairman and CEO of Commonwealth Edison (1973 to 1980), and for whom Northwestern's Thomas G. Ayers College of Commerce and Industry was named.
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Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III; August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation. Clinton has been described as a New Democrat. Many of his policies have been attributed to a centrist Third Way philosophy of governance.
Born and raised in Arkansas, Clinton became both a student leader and a skilled musician. He is an alumnus of Georgetown University where he was Phi Beta Kappa and earned a Rhodes Scholarship to attend the University of Oxford. He is married to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has served as the United States Secretary of State since 2009 and was a Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009. Both Clintons received law degrees from Yale Law School, where they met and began dating. As Governor of Arkansas, Clinton overhauled the state's education system, and served as Chair of the National Governors Association.
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Billy Crystal
William Edward "Billy" Crystal (born March 14, 1948) is an American actor, writer, producer, comedian, and film director. He gained prominence in the 1970s for playing Jodie Dallas on the ABC sitcom Soap and became a Hollywood film star during the late 1980s and 1990s, appearing in the critical and box office successes When Harry Met Sally... and City Slickers. He has hosted the Academy Awards nine times, including the 84th Academy Awards in 2012.
Crystal was born in the Doctor's Hospital in Manhattan and raised on Long Island in Long Beach, the son of Helen (née Gabler), a housewife, and Jack Crystal, a record company executive and jazz producer who also owned and operated the Commodore Record store. His babysitter was occasionally Billie Holiday. His uncle was musician and songwriter Milt Gabler, and his brother, Richard "Rip" Crystal, is a television producer. Crystal grew up in a Jewish family that he has described as "large" and "loving".
After graduation from Long Beach High School, Crystal attended Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia on a baseball scholarship, having learned the game from his father, who pitched for St. John's University. Crystal never played a game at Marshall because the program was suspended during his freshman year, and because he was too busy being the Editor in Chief of The BG News from 1969–70. He did not return to Marshall as a sophomore, staying back in New York with his future wife. He instead attended Nassau Community College and later New York University, where he graduated in 1970 with a BFA from its Tisch School of the Arts.
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Calvin Coolidge
John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. (July 4, 1872 – January 5, 1933) was the 30th President of the United States (1923–1929). A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state. His conduct during the Boston Police Strike of 1919 thrust him into the national spotlight and gave him a reputation as a man of decisive action. Soon after, he was elected as the 29th Vice President in 1920 and succeeded to the Presidency upon the sudden death of Warren G. Harding in 1923. Elected in his own right in 1924, he gained a reputation as a small-government conservative, and also as a man who said very little.
Coolidge restored public confidence in the White House after the scandals of his predecessor's administration, and left office with considerable popularity. As a Coolidge biographer put it, "He embodied the spirit and hopes of the middle class, could interpret their longings and express their opinions. That he did represent the genius of the average is the most convincing proof of his strength." Coolidge praised the achievement of widespread prosperity in 1928, saying: "The requirements of existence have passed beyond the standard of necessity into the region of luxury." Some later criticized Coolidge as part of a general criticism of laissez-faire government. His reputation underwent a renaissance during the Ronald Reagan Administration, but the ultimate assessment of his presidency is still divided between those who approve of his reduction of the size of government programs and those who believe the federal government should be more involved in regulating and controlling the economy.
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Chelsea Clinton
Chelsea Victoria Clinton (born February 27, 1980) is the only child of former U.S. President William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton and current U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. She is a Special Correspondent for NBC News, and works with the Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative.
Clinton was born in Little Rock, Arkansas during her father's first term as Governor of Arkansas. She attended public schools there until her father's election to the Presidency of the United States at which time she attended and graduated from the private Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. She pursued her undergraduate education at Stanford University and also earned master's degrees from University College, Oxford, and Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. She is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at University of Oxford. She has worked for McKinsey & Company, Avenue Capital Group, New York University and serves on the board of the School of American Ballet, Clinton Health Access Initiative, Clinton Foundation, Clinton Global Initiative, Common Sense Media, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Weill Cornell Medical College and IAC/InterActiveCorp.
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Clarence Thomas
Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Succeeding Thurgood Marshall, Thomas is the second African American to serve on the Court.
Thomas grew up in Savannah, Georgia and was educated at the College of the Holy Cross and at Yale Law School. In 1974, he was appointed an Assistant Attorney General in Missouri and subsequently practiced law there in the private sector. In 1979, he became a legislative assistant to Missouri United States Senator John Danforth and in 1981 was appointed Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education. In 1982, President Ronald Reagan appointed Thomas Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC); he served in that position until 1990, when President George H. W. Bush nominated him for a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
On July 1, 1991, after 16 months of service as a judge, Thomas was nominated by Bush to fill Marshall's seat on the United States Supreme Court. Thomas's confirmation hearings were bitter and intensely fought, centering on an accusation that he had made unwelcome sexual comments to attorney Anita Hill, a subordinate at the Department of Education and subsequently at the EEOC. The U.S. Senate ultimately confirmed Thomas by a vote of 52–48.
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Daryn Kagan
Daryn A. Kagan (born January 26, 1963) is creator and host of the award-winning DarynKagan.com, a media company specializing in inspirational and motivational news content. Martha Stewart's Body + Soul magazine calls Kagan the "Good News Guru", and her brand of inspiring news stories and newspaper columns are available across numerous platforms.
From 1994 to 2006, Kagan served as a CNN main anchor and correspondent based in CNN's world headquarters of Atlanta, Georgia. For eight years Kagan served as the network's mid-morning news anchor of CNN Live Today shown from 10am-12pm Eastern Time. She also served as host of the CNN/People magazine news entertainment program, People in the News, and earlier served as a CNN sports reporter and anchor. Kagan has been described by the Los Angeles Times as a "CNN mainstay."
A 2008 New York Times profile of Kagan that discussed her career reinvention as well as the launch of DarynKagan.com, offered, "Ms. Kagan had a few things in her favor . . . plenty of skills after 12 years at one of the world's best news organizations."
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David Limbaugh
David Limbaugh (born December 11, 1952) is a conservative American political commentator and author.
Limbaugh was born on December 11, 1952 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. He is the younger brother of talk radio host Rush Limbaugh. His father and his grandfather (Rush Hudson Limbaugh, Sr.) were lawyers.
David Limbaugh has a bachelor's degree, cum laude, in political science and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of Missouri. He also served in the National Guard for six years. He has written columns which are carried by Creator's Syndicate, Townhall.com, WorldNetDaily, Jewish World Review, and The Washington Times.[citation needed]
After his admission to the bar in 1978, Limbaugh taught business law at Southeast Missouri State University. Currently, Limbaugh practices law as a partner at the firm of Limbaugh, Russell, Payne and Howard where he specializes in entertainment law.
Limbaugh was chosen by Christian apologists Norman Geisler and Frank Turek to write the foreword to their book I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist (Crossway, 2004). In the book, Limbaugh states that he came to Christ after years as a skeptic and is now passionate about Christian apologetics.
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David Paterson
David Alexander Paterson (born May 20, 1954) is an American politician who served as the 55th Governor of New York, from 2008 to 2010. During his tenure he was the first governor of New York of non Euro American heritage and also the second legally blind governor of any U.S. state after Bob C. Riley, who was Acting Governor of Arkansas for 11 days in January 1975. Patterson is the third African American to serve as governor of any U.S. state. Since leaving office, Paterson has been a radio talk show host on station WOR in New York City.
After graduating from Hofstra Law School, Paterson worked in the District Attorney's office of Queens County, New York, and on the staff of Manhattan Borough President David Dinkins. In 1985, he was elected to the New York State Senate to a seat that was once held by his father, former New York Secretary of State Basil Paterson. In 2003, he rose to the position of Senate Minority Leader. Paterson was selected as running mate by then-New York Attorney General and Democratic Party gubernatorial nominee Eliot Spitzer in the 2006 New York gubernatorial election. Spitzer and Paterson were elected in November 2006 with 69 percent of the vote, and Paterson took office as Lieutenant Governor on January 1, 2007.
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Dionne Warwick
Dionne Warwick (born Marie Dionne Warrick; December 12, 1940) is an American singer, actress and TV show host, who became a United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, and a United States Ambassador of Health.
Having been in a partnership with Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Warwick ranks among the 40 biggest hit makers of the entire rock era (1955–1999), based on the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles Charts. Warwick ranks second only to Aretha Franklin as the most-charted female vocalist with 56 singles making the Billboard Hot 100 between 1962 and 1998. She is also a cousin of Whitney Houston.
Warwick was born in East Orange, New Jersey, to Mancel Warwick (1911–1977), who began his career as a Pullman porter and subsequently became a chef, a gospel record promoter for Chess Records and later a Certified Public Accountant; and Lee Drinkard Warwick (1920–2005), manager of The Drinkard Singers (see below). Warwick had a sister Delia "Dee Dee" and a brother, Mancel Jr., who was killed in an accident in 1968 at the age of 21.[citation needed]. She has African American, Native American, Brazilian and Dutch ancestry.
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Donovan McNabb
Donovan Jamal McNabb (born November 25, 1976) is an American football quarterback who is currently a Free Agent. He was the Philadelphia Eagles' quarterback from 1999 to 2009 and spent the 2010 season with the Washington Redskins and a portion of the 2011 season with the Minnesota Vikings. In college, McNabb played football and basketball for Syracuse University. The Eagles selected him as the second overall pick of the 1999 NFL Draft.
McNabb led the Eagles to four consecutive NFC East division championships (2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004), five NFC Championship Games (2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2008), and one Super Bowl (Super Bowl XXXIX, in which the Eagles were defeated by the New England Patriots). Perhaps his most memorable play has become known as "4th and 26", which took place against the Green Bay Packers in the final minutes of a 2003 NFC Divisional playoff game.
He is the Eagles' all-time leader in career wins, pass attempts, pass completions, passing yards, and passing touchdowns.
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Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947) is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor. He has worked with lyricist Bernie Taupin as his songwriter partner since 1967; they have collaborated on more than 30 albums to date.
In his four-decade career John has sold more than 250 million records, making him one of the most successful artists of all time. His single "Candle in the Wind 1997" has sold over 33 million copies worldwide, and is the best selling single in Billboard history. He has more than 50 Top 40 hits, including seven consecutive No. 1 US albums, 56 Top 40 singles, 16 Top 10, four No. 2 hits, and nine No. 1 hits. He has won six Grammy Awards, four Brit Awards, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Tony Award. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him Number 49 on its list of the 100 greatest artists of all time.
John was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. Having been named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1996, John received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for "services to music and charitable services" in 1998.
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Eric Massa
Eric James Joseph Massa (born 16 September 1959) is former U.S. Representative for the 29th Congressional District of New York, who served in Congress from January 2009 until his resignation in March 2010. A Democrat, Massa resigned under the cloud of a pending House Ethics Committee investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct. He also said he was pressured to step down because he had opposed the health care reform bill due to its lack of a public option.
Born in Charleston, South Carolina, the son of a career naval officer, Massa grew up in various locations, including Argentina and New Orleans. Massa graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1981 and went on to serve in the Navy for 24 years. He qualified as a Surface Warfare Officer on the USS New Jersey (BB-62), and eventually served as aide to former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, General Wesley Clark. Near the end of his Navy career he was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, from which he later recovered. A former Republican, he left his party over the issue of the Iraq War, among other issues, and campaigned in New Hampshire during the unsuccessful 2004 presidential bid of his former boss, Wesley Clark. Thereafter, he was identified by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee as an ideal candidate in 2006 because of his military background, which it was hoped would appeal to veterans and to independents who favor a strong defense policy.
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Feminazi
Feminazi is a term popularized by ultra conservative radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh. In 2004, Limbaugh named feminist activists Gloria Steinem, Susan Sarandon, Christine Lati, and Camryn Manheim as "famous feminazis."Feminazi is a portmanteau of the nouns feminist and Nazi. The term is used pejoratively by some U.S. conservatives to criticize feminists.
In his 1992 book The Way Things Ought to Be, Limbaugh credited his friend Tom Hazlett, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, with coining the term. In the book, Limbaugh also stated that the word refers to unspecified women whose goal is to allow as many abortions as possible, saying at one point that there were fewer than 25 "true feminazis" in the U.S. Limbaugh has used the term to refer to members of the National Center for Women and Policing, the Feminist Majority Foundation, the National Organization for Women, and other organizations at the March for Women's Lives, a large pro-choice demonstration.
There were times when Limbaugh almost stopped using the term. According to Slate.com, in 2000:
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Gerald Ford
Gerald Rudolph "Jerry" Ford, Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King, Jr.; July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974. As the first person appointed to the vice-presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment (after Spiro Agnew had resigned), when he became President upon Richard Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974, he became the only President of the United States who was never elected President nor Vice-President by the Electoral College. Before ascending to the vice-presidency, Ford served nearly 25 years as the Representative from Michigan's 5th congressional district, eight of them as the Republican Minority Leader.
As President, Ford signed the Helsinki Accords, marking a move toward détente in the Cold War. With the conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam nine months into his presidency, U.S. involvement in Vietnam essentially ended. Domestically, Ford presided over arguably the weakest economy since the Great Depression, with growing inflation and a recession during his tenure. One of his more controversial acts was to grant a presidential pardon to President Richard Nixon for his role in the Watergate scandal. During Ford's incumbency, foreign policy was characterized in procedural terms by the increased role Congress began to play, and by the corresponding curb on the powers of the President. In 1976, Ford narrowly defeated Ronald Reagan for the Republican nomination, but lost the presidential election to Democrat Jimmy Carter.
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Glenn Beck
Glenn Edward Lee Beck (born February 10, 1964) is an American conservative radio host, vlogger, author, entrepreneur, political commentator and former television host. He hosts the Glenn Beck Program, a nationally syndicated talk-radio show that airs throughout the United States on Premiere Radio Networks. He formerly hosted the Glenn Beck television program, which ran from January 2006 to October 2008 on HLN and from January 2009 to June 2011 on the Fox News Channel. Beck has authored six New York Times–bestselling books. Beck is the founder and CEO of Mercury Radio Arts, a multimedia production company through which he produces content for radio, television, publishing, the stage, and the Internet. It was announced on April 6, 2011, that Beck would "transition off of his daily program" on Fox News later in the year but would team with Fox to "produce a slate of projects for FOX News Channel and FOX News' digital properties". Beck's last daily show on the network was June 30, 2011. In 2012, The Hollywood Reporter named Beck on its Digital Power Fifty list.
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Hank Haney
Hank Haney (born August 24, 1955) is an American professional golf instructor best known for coaching Tiger Woods and two-time major championship winner Mark O'Meara. A graduate of the University of Tulsa, Haney owns and operates four teaching facilities in the Dallas, Texas area.
Haney says, "My philosophy as a teacher is to teach my students to become their own best teacher by getting them to understand the flight of the golf ball and how it relates to the swing, with emphasis on swinging the golf club on their own correct swing plane".
Haney has changed Tiger Woods' swing from an upright to a flatter golf swing. His wrist cock is much less obvious than it was with his old coach Butch Harmon. Woods' swing is much more around his body, Haney tries to get his students to swing on the same plane angle which the golf club is on at address.
In 2008, Haney started working with former NBA star and current NBA analyst Charles Barkley on the Golf Channel's The Haney Project: Charles Barkley, in an attempt to fix Barkley's infamously bad swing. Haney was quoted as saying that "Charles' swing looked worse than Helen Keller trying to read." Haney's show continued in 2010, this time with comedian Ray Romano. The third season, in 2011, featured talk radio host Rush Limbaugh.
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Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was the 31st President of the United States (1929–1933). Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business under the rubric "economic modernization". In the presidential election of 1928, Hoover easily won the Republican nomination, despite having no previous elected-office experience. Hoover is the most recent cabinet secretary to be elected President of the United States, as well as one of only two Presidents (along with William Howard Taft) to have been elected without previous electoral experience or high military rank. America was prosperous and optimistic at the time, leading to a landslide victory for Hoover over Democrat Al Smith.
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Irving Babbitt
Irving Babbitt (August 2, 1865 – July 15, 1933) was an American academic and literary critic, noted for his founding role in a movement that became known as the New Humanism, a significant influence on literary discussion and conservative thought in the period between 1910 to 1930. He was a cultural critic in the tradition of Matthew Arnold, and a consistent opponent of romanticism, as represented by the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Politically he can, without serious distortion, be called a follower of Aristotle and Edmund Burke. He was an advocate of classical humanism but also offered an ecumenical defense of religion. His humanism implied a broad knowledge of various moral and religious traditions.
He was born in Dayton, Ohio, and moved with his family over much of the USA while a young child. He was brought up from age 11 in Madisonville, a neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio. He entered Harvard College in 1885. On graduation in 1889 he took a post teaching classics at the College of Montana. After two years, he went to study in France, at the École Pratique des Hautes-études linked to the Sorbonne. There he studied Pali literature and Buddhism, for a year. Then he took a master's degree at Harvard, including Sanskrit.
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Irving Kristol
Irving Kristol (January 22, 1920 – September 18, 2009) was an American columnist, journalist, and writer who was dubbed the "godfather of neoconservatism". As the founder, editor, and contributor to various magazines, he played an influential role in the intellectual and political culture of the last half-century; after his death he was described by The Daily Telegraph as being "perhaps the most consequential public intellectual of the latter half of the 20th century".
Kristol was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of non-observant Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. He received his B.A. from the City College of New York in 1940, where he majored in history and was part of a small but vocal Trotskyist anti-Soviet group who eventually became the New York Intellectuals. During World War II, he served in Europe in the 12th Armored Division as a combat infantryman.
Kristol was affiliated with the Congress for Cultural Freedom; he wrote in Commentary magazine from 1947 to 1952, under the editor Elliot Cohen (not to be confused with Elliot A. Cohen the writer of today's magazine); co-founder (with Stephen Spender) of the British-based Encounter from 1953 to 1958; editor of The Reporter from 1959 to 1960; executive vice-president of the publishing house Basic Books from 1961 to 1969; Henry Luce Professor of Urban Values at New York University from 1969 to 1987; and co-founder and co-editor (first with Daniel Bell and then Nathan Glazer) of The Public Interest from 1965 to 2002. He was the founder and publisher of The National Interest from 1985 to 2002. Following Ramparts' publication of information showing Central Intelligence Agency funding of the Congress, which was widely reported elsewhere, Kristol left in the late 1960s and became affiliated with the American Enterprise Institute.
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Jeremiah Wright
Jeremiah Alvesta Wright, Jr., (born September 22, 1941) is Pastor Emeritus of Trinity United Church of Christ (TUCC), in Chicago with a congregation exceeding 6,000. In early 2008, Wright retired after 36 years as the Senior Pastor and no longer has daily responsibilities at the church.
Following retirement, Wright's beliefs and preaching were scrutinized when segments of his sermons were publicized in connection with the presidential campaign of Barack Obama, including his contention that the [[attacks of September 11, 2001, were proof that "America's chickens are coming home to roost" and such statements as "...not God Bless America. God damn America." Obama responded to the Wright controversy in a speech entitled "A More Perfect Union."
On April 27, 2008, Wright defended his record in a speech before the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), saying he was not "divisive" but "descriptive" and that the black church experience, like black culture, was "different" but not "deficient".
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Jerry Falwell
Jerry Lamon Falwell, Sr. (August 11, 1933 – May 15, 2007) was an evangelical fundamentalist Southern Baptist pastor, televangelist, and a conservative commentator from the United States. He was the founding pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church, a megachurch in Lynchburg, Virginia. He founded Lynchburg Christian Academy (now Liberty Christian Academy) in 1967, Liberty University in 1971, and cofounded the Moral Majority in 1979.
Falwell and twin brother Gene were born in the Farview Heights region of Lynchburg, Virginia, the son of Helen and Carey Hezekiah Falwell. His father was an entrepreneur and onetime bootlegger who was agnostic. His grandfather was a staunch atheist. Jerry Falwell married the former Macel Pate on April 12, 1958. The couple had two sons and a daughter (Jerry Falwell, Jr., a lawyer; Jonathan Falwell, a pastor; Jeannie, a surgeon).
He graduated from Brookville High School in Lynchburg, Va., and from Baptist Bible College in Springfield, Missouri in 1956. This Bible college was unaccredited until 2001. Falwell was eventually awarded three honorary doctoral degrees, and he sometimes used the title "doctor". The honorary doctorates were Doctor of Divinity from Tennessee Temple Theological Seminary, Doctor of Letters from California Graduate School of Theology, and Doctor of Laws from Central University in Seoul, South Korea.
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Jesse Jackson
Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. (born October 8, 1941) is an African-American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as shadow senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997. He was the founder of both entities that merged to form Rainbow/PUSH. Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. is his eldest son. In an AP-AOL "Black Voices" poll in February 2006, Jackson was voted "the most important black leader".
Jackson was born Jesse Louis Burns in Greenville, South Carolina, to Helen Burns, a 16-year-old single mother. His biological father, Noah Louis Robinson, a former professional boxer and a prominent figure in the community, was married to another woman when Jesse was born. He was not involved in his son's life, and died January 28, 1997 in Greenville, S.C. In 1943, two years after Jesse's birth, his mother married Charles Henry Jackson, who would adopt Jesse 14 years later. Jesse went on to take the surname of his stepfather.
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Jesse MacBeth
Jesse Adam Macbeth (b. Jesse Adam Al-Zaid, in 1984) is an anti-war protester who falsely claimed to be an Army Ranger and veteran of the Iraq War. He lied in alternative media interviews that he and his unit routinely committed war crimes in Iraq. Transcripts of the video were made in English and Arabic. According to the U.S. Army, there is no record of Macbeth being a Ranger, or serving in a combat unit. He was discharged from the service after having been declared unfit or unsuitable for the Army, or both, before he could complete basic training.
After his release from the Army in 2004, Macbeth presented himself as a veteran, telling war stories and garnering attention from mainstream, alternative and student media outlets. He joined Iraq Veterans Against the War in January 2006, and represented, or was scheduled to represent them, publicly at various events throughout the country before the organization required proof of service. The organization has since said it does not endorse Macbeth or his accounts of military service. Accounts in Macbeth's name appear on Military.com and Myspace.com, and both were used to post claims about military service in Iraq. On September 21, 2007 Macbeth admitted in federal court that he had faked his war record. U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Sullivan declared that Macbeth had been in the Army for just 44 days and had been dismissed as unfit. In 2008 after being released from prison, a statement by a person appearing to be Macbeth explained that he had grown up as a Muslim in Saudi Arabia and felt that he could be an asset who could communicate in Arabic, but he encountered harassment on the basis of his religion.
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Jim Naureckas
Jim Naureckas (born 1964 in Libertyville, Illinois) is the editor of Extra!, the magazine of FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting).
He graduated from Stanford University in 1985 with a bachelor's degree in political science. He covered the Iran-Contra scandal for the magazine In These Times, and was managing editor of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs' newsletter.
Naureckas became the editor of Extra! in 1990. He is the co-author of The Way Things Aren't: Rush Limbaugh's Reign of Error (New Press). He co-edited The FAIR Reader: An Extra! Review of Press and Politics in the '90s (Westview Press).
In 1997, he married Janine Jackson, the program director of FAIR. They have one daughter.
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Jim Quinn
Jim Quinn (born February 26, 1943) is an American radio talk show host based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His program, The War Room with Quinn and Rose, is aired on 12 stations across the U.S. and is also heard on XM Satellite Radio Channel 166 from 6–9 a.m. Eastern Time, Monday through Friday.
Before beginning his political morning show, Quinn spent a number of years doing voiceover work for WPGH-TV 53 and as a disc jockey at KQV in the 1960s and 1970s, where he would befriend his eventual political mentor Rush Limbaugh. Limbaugh worked at KQV and WIXZ/McKeesport, PA as a disc jockey under the name Jeff Christie.
Quinn is best remembered in the Pittsburgh area as the nighttime screamer on KQV radio in the 1960s, during the station's peak as a Top 40 power. Quinn was hired from WING/Dayton in 1967 and had an immediate impact on the market. In 1968, he jumped at an opportunity to take a job in Philadelphia, but was back at KQV in less than a year. He stayed until 1972, then spent time in New York City at WPIX-FM.
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John Boehner
John Andrew Boehner ( /ˈbeɪnər/ BAY-nər; born November 17, 1949) is the 61st and current Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. A member of the Republican Party, he is the U.S. Representative from Ohio's 8th congressional district, serving since 1991. The district includes several rural and suburban areas near Cincinnati and Dayton, and a small portion of Dayton itself.
Boehner previously served as the House Minority Leader from 2007 until 2011, and House Majority Leader from 2006 until 2007. As Speaker of the House, Boehner is second in line to the presidency of the United States following the Vice President in accordance with the Presidential Succession Act.
Boehner was born in Reading, Ohio, the son of Mary Anne (née Hall) and Earl Henry Boehner, the second of twelve children. His father was of German descent and his mother had German and Irish ancestry. He grew up in modest circumstances, having shared one bathroom with his eleven siblings in a two-bedroom house in Cincinnati. His parents slept on a pull-out couch. He started working at his family's bar at age 8, a business founded by their grandfather Andy Boehner in 1938. He has lived in Southwest Ohio his entire life. All but two of his siblings still live within a few miles of each other; two are unemployed and most of the others have blue-collar jobs.
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John Fund
John H. Fund (born April 8, 1957) is an American political journalist and conservative columnist. Currently a senior editor of The American Spectator, he was previously a columnist for The Wall Street Journal, where he wrote a weekly column named "On the Trail" and contributed to the Journal's newsletter, Political Diary.
Fund was born in Tucson, Arizona. He later attended California State University where he studied journalism and economics. He joined The Wall Street Journal as a deputy editorial features editor in 1984 and was a member of the editorial board from 1995 through 2001. The articles he has written have appeared in Esquire, Reader's Digest, Reason, The New Republic, and National Review.
Fund cowrote a 1992 book, Cleaning House: America's Campaign for Term Limits (ISBN 0-89526-516-8) with James Coyne. He also collaborated with Rush Limbaugh on another 1992 book, The Way Things Ought to Be (ISBN 067175145X), transcribing it from tape and editing it.
In 2004, Fund wrote Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy (ISBN 1-59403-061-8), in which he strongly criticizes the American election system, describing it as "befitting an emerging Third World country rather than the world's leading democracy".
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John McCain
John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936) is the senior United States Senator from Arizona. He was the Republican presidential nominee in the 2008 United States election.
McCain followed his father and grandfather, both four-star admirals, into the United States Navy, graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1958. He became a naval aviator, flying ground-attack aircraft from aircraft carriers. During the Vietnam War, he was almost killed in the 1967 USS Forrestal fire. In October 1967, while on a bombing mission over Hanoi, he was shot down, seriously injured, and captured by the North Vietnamese. He was a prisoner of war until 1973. McCain experienced episodes of torture, and refused an out-of-sequence early repatriation offer. His war wounds left him with lifelong physical limitations.
He retired from the Navy as a captain in 1981 and moved to Arizona, where he entered politics. Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1982, he served two terms, and was then elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986, winning re-election easily four times, most recently in 2010. While generally adhering to conservative principles, McCain at times has had a media reputation as a "maverick" for his willingness to disagree with his party on certain issues. After being investigated and largely exonerated in a political influence scandal of the 1980s as a member of the Keating Five, he made campaign finance reform one of his signature concerns, which eventually led to the passage of the McCain-Feingold Act in 2002. He is also known for his work towards restoring diplomatic relations with Vietnam in the 1990s, and for his belief that the war in Iraq should be fought to a successful conclusion. McCain has chaired the Senate Commerce Committee, opposed spending that he considered to be pork barrel, and played a key role in alleviating a crisis over judicial nominations.
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Joseph Farah
Joseph Farah (born July 6, 1954) is an American author, journalist and editor-in-chief of the conservative website WorldNetDaily (WND).
Farah was born in Paterson, New Jersey, on July 6, 1954, to parents of Syrian and Lebanese ancestry. His father was a schoolteacher. He graduated from William Paterson University, in Wayne, New Jersey with a B.A. in Communications. He is married to Elizabeth Farah and is a highly conservative evangelical Christian.
Farah worked for six years as executive news editor at the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. On July 22, 1990, Farah became editor of the Sacramento Union. The paper had been losing up to $3 million annually, and in early 1990 it was purchased from Richard Mellon Scaife by Daniel Benvenuti Jr. and David Kassis. Farah and the paper's owners envisioned the paper as a conservative alternative to the Sacramento Bee. "We just thought the way to go was to be unabashedly conservative in our approach," explained Farah to the Washington Post. Among other things, Farah convinced Rush Limbaugh to write a daily column, which ran on "Page 1."
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Joseph Kony
Joseph Rao Kony (pronounced IPA: [koɲ]; born sometime between July and September of 1961) is the head of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a Ugandan guerrilla group. While initially enjoying strong public support, the LRA allegedly turned on its own supporters, supposedly to "purify" the Acholi people and turn Uganda into a theocracy. Kony proclaims himself the spokesperson of God and a spirit medium, has nurtured a cult of personality, and claims he is visited by a multinational host of 13 spirits, including a Chinese phantom. Ideologically, the group is a syncretic mix of mysticism, Acholi nationalism, Islam, and Christian fundamentalism, and claims to be establishing a theocratic state based on the Ten Commandments and local Acholi tradition.
Kony has been accused by government entities of ordering the abduction of children to become child-sex slaves and child soldiers. An estimated 66,000 children became soldiers and two million people have been internally displaced since 1986. Kony was indicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, in 2005 but has evaded capture. The LRA operates in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic and South Sudan.
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Lando Calrissian
Lando Calrissian is a fictional character in the Star Wars universe. He is portrayed by Billy Dee Williams in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. He also appears frequently in the Star Wars "Expanded Universe" of novels, comic books and video games, including a series of novels in which he is the primary protagonist.
Lando Calrissian first appears in The Empire Strikes Back as the administrator of Cloud City, concerned primarily with keeping the Empire out of his affairs. One day, Darth Vader arrives and threatens Calrissian to take over the city unless he gives his old friend Han Solo over to the bounty hunter Boba Fett. Unwilling to leave the city in the hands of the Empire, Calrissian reluctantly betrays Han, but his conscience gets the better of him when Vader goes back on his word and takes Princess Leia Organa and Chewbacca as prisoners. In the ensuing evacuation of Cloud City, he helps Leia, Chewbacca, R2-D2 and C-3PO escape. He then assists Leia in rescuing the maimed Luke Skywalker from the underside of Cloud City. Afterwards, he joins the Rebel Alliance and promises Leia he will find Han.
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Limbaugh family
The Limbaugh family is a prominent family from Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Its members have served prominently as attorneys, judges and political commentators both in the Missouri area and on a national scale.
George Frederick Limbaugh, the first Limbaugh family member in America, was born in Germany circa 1737 to Johannes Michael Limbach and Marie Listerer and arrived at Berks County, Pennsylvania as a child in 1753 and settled in Missouri Territory in 1800 with his youngest son Michael and 19 other families. In 1758, George married Anna Catharine Ritter and had six sons: Johannes Limbaugh, George Frederick Limbaugh II, Peter Limbaugh, Henry Limbaugh, Christian Limbaugh, and Michael Limbaugh.
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Matt Drudge
Matthew Nathan "Matt" Drudge (born October 27, 1966) is the American creator and editor of the Drudge Report, a news aggregation website that also breaks major news stories. Drudge is self-described as being conservative and populist. Drudge has also authored a book and hosted a radio show and a television show.
Matthew Drudge was raised in Takoma Park, Maryland, near Washington, DC. His parents are Reform Jewish Democrats who both worked for the federal government, and he is their only child. His father, Robert Drudge, a former social worker who owns the reference site www.refdesk.com, and his mother, a former staff attorney for U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy, divorced when he was six. Drudge went to live with his mother. He had few friends and was an avid news reader and radio talk show fan. In his book Drudge Manifesto, Drudge says that he "failed his Bar Mitzvah", and graduated 341st out of a class of 355 from Northwood High School in 1984, giving himself, in his words, a "more than adequate curriculum vitae for a post at 7-Eleven".
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Michael Oppenheimer
Michael Oppenheimer is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University. He is the Director of the Program in Science,Technology and Envirionmental Policy (STEP) at the Woodrow Wilson School and Faculty Associate of the Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences Program, Princeton Environmental Institute, and The Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.
Oppenheimer joined the Princeton faculty after more than two decades with The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), a non-governmental, environmental organization, where he served as chief scientist and manager of the Climate and Air Program. He continues to serve as a science advisor to EDF
Oppenheimer is a long-time participant in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, serving recently as a lead author of the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report and now as a coordinating lead author of the Fifth Assessment Report as well as a Special Report on climate extremes and disasters. Oppenheimer has been a member of several panels of the National Academy of Sciences and is now a member of the National Academies’ Board on Energy and Environmental Studies. He is also a winner of the 2010 Heinz Award and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Newt Gingrich
Newton Leroy "Newt" Gingrich ( /ˈnjuːt ˈɡɪŋɡrɪtʃ/; born Newton Leroy McPherson; June 17, 1943) is an American politician, author, and political consultant. He represented Georgia's 6th congressional district as a Republican from 1979 until his resignation in 1999, and served as the 58th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. Gingrich was a candidate for the 2012 Republican Party presidential nomination.
In the 1970s, Gingrich taught history and geography at the University of West Georgia. During this period he ran twice (1974 and 1976) for the United States House of Representatives before winning in November 1978. He served as House Minority Whip from 1989 to 1995.
A co-author and architect of the "Contract with America", Gingrich was a major leader in the Republican victory in the 1994 congressional election. In 1995, Time named him "Man of the Year" for "his role in ending the four-decades-long Democratic majority in the House". While he was House speaker, the House enacted welfare reform, passed a capital gains tax cut in 1997, and in 1998 passed the first balanced budget since 1969. The poor showing by Republicans in the 1998 Congressional election and pressure from Republican colleagues caused Gingrich's resignation from the speakership on November 5, 1998, and then the House on January 3, 1999.
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Pat Sajak
Pat Sajak ( /ˈseɪdʒæk/ SAY-jak, born Patrick Leonard Sajdak; October 26, 1946) is a television personality, former weatherman, actor and talk show host, best known as the host of the American television game show Wheel of Fortune.
Sajak, the son of a Polish American trucking foreman, was born and raised in Chicago. His mother, Joyce, remarried Walter Backal. He graduated from Farragut High School in 1964 and then went on to Columbia College Chicago while working as a desk clerk at the Palmer House hotel.
Sajak won a contest on WLS radio's Dick Biondi Show to be a guest teen deejay. While at Columbia College Chicago, his broadcasting instructor Al Parker told him that a local radio station (WEDC) was looking for a newsman. Sajak applied for the job and was hired to work from midnight to 6:00 AM. In 1968, Sajak joined the U.S. Army, and was sent to Vietnam, where he served as a disk jockey on Armed Forces Radio. On The Military Channel's program, An Officer and a Movie, Sajak admitted to botching President Nixon's 1969 Christmas broadcast to the troops; he accidentally cut the feed off prematurely. Upon realizing the error, he decided it would be best not to resume the feed. In the early 1970s, Sajak began DJ'ing at 50,000-watt WSM in Nashville; at the time WSM was playing pop music during the day, and he was the 3:00–5:00pm afternoon personality. The radio station's television sister, WSM-TV (now WSMV), brought Sajak on screen, first as a voiceover artist doing station identifications and anchoring the five-minute newscasts during NBC's Today Show, then as a weekend and substitute weatherman, where he became acquainted with anchor Dan Miller. In 1977, KNBC-TV in Los Angeles was looking for a weatherman, and spotted Sajak working in Nashville. Sajak accepted KNBC's request for him to be a full-time weatherman for the station.
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Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961.
Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, California. After completing his undergraduate work at Whittier College, he graduated from Duke University School of Law in 1937, and returned to California to practice law. He and his wife, Pat Nixon, moved to Washington to work for the federal government in 1942. He subsequently served in the United States Navy during World War II. Nixon was elected to the House of Representatives in 1946 and to the Senate in 1950. His pursuit of the Hiss Case established his reputation as a leading anti-communist, and elevated him to national prominence. He was the running mate of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Republican Party presidential nominee in the 1952 election. Nixon served for eight years as vice president. He waged an unsuccessful presidential campaign in 1960, narrowly losing to John F. Kennedy, and lost a race for Governor of California in 1962. In 1968, he ran again for the presidency and was elected.
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Rod Blagojevich
Milorad Blagojevichi/bləˈɡɔɪ.əvɪtʃ/ (better known by the alias Rod R. Blagojevich (born December 10, 1956)) is a convicted felon and former American politician who served as the 40th Governor of Illinois from 2003 to 2009. A Democrat, Blagojevich was a State Representative before being elected to the United States House of Representatives representing parts of Chicago. He was elected governor in 2002, the first Democrat to win the office since Daniel Walker's victory 30 years earlier.
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Roger Ailes
Roger Eugene Ailes (born May 15, 1940) is president of Fox News Channel, chairman of the Fox Television Stations Group. Ailes was a media consultant for Republican presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush, as well as Rudy Giuliani’s first mayoral campaign in 1989.
Ailes was born and grew up in the factory town of Warren, Ohio, the son of Donna Marie (née Cunningham) and Robert Eugene Ailes, a factory maintenance foreman. Ailes suffers from hemophilia and was often hospitalized as a youth. Ailes attended the Warren city schools. Later, he was inducted into Warren High School's Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame. Ailes received a bachelor's degree in 1962 from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.
Ailes' career in television began in Cleveland and Philadelphia, where he started as property assistant (1962) producer (1965) and executive producer (1967–1968) for KYW-TV, for a then-locally produced talk-variety show, The Mike Douglas Show. He later became executive producer for the show, which was syndicated nationally. He was nominated for, but failed to win a Daytime Emmy Awards for it in 1968. It was in this position, in 1967, that he had a spirited discussion about television in politics with one of the show's guests, Richard Nixon, who took the view that television was a gimmick. Later, Nixon called on Ailes to serve as his executive producer of TV. Nixon's election victory was only Ailes's first venture into the political spotlight. His pioneering work in framing national campaign issues and making the stiff Nixon more likeable and accessible to voters was chronicled in The Selling of the President 1968 by Joe McGinniss.
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Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan (
/ˈrɒnəld ˈwɪlsən ˈreɪɡən/; February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States, serving from 1981 to 1989. Prior to that, he was the 33rd Governor of California from 1967 to 1975 and a radio, film and television actor.
Born in Tampico, Illinois and raised in Dixon, Reagan was educated at Eureka College, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and sociology. After his graduation, Reagan moved first to Iowa to work as a radio broadcaster and then in to Los Angeles in 1937 where he began a career as an actor, first in films and later television. Some of his most notable films include Knute Rockne, All American, Kings Row, and Bedtime for Bonzo. Reagan served as president of the Screen Actors Guild, and later as a spokesman for General Electric (GE); his start in politics occurred during his work for GE. Originally a member of the Democratic Party, his positions began shifting rightward in the late 1950s, and he switched to the Republican Party in 1962. After delivering a rousing speech in support of Barry Goldwater's presidential candidacy in 1964, he was persuaded to seek the California governorship, winning two years later and again in 1970. He was defeated in his run for the Republican presidential nomination in 1968 as well as 1976, but won both the nomination and general election in 1980, defeating incumbent Jimmy Carter.
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Rush Limbaugh
Rush Hudson Limbaugh III ( /ˈlɪmbɔː/; born January 12, 1951) is an American radio talk show host and political commentator. Since he was 16 Limbaugh has worked a series of disc jockey jobs. His talk show began in 1984 at Sacramento radio station KFBK, featuring his ongoing format of political commentary and listener calls. In 1988 Limbaugh began broadcasting his show nationally from radio station WABC in New York, New York. He currently lives in West Palm Beach, Florida, from where he broadcasts the The Rush Limbaugh Show, the highest-rated talk-radio program in the United States.
In the 1990s Limbaugh's books The Way Things Ought to Be (1992) and See, I Told You So (1993) made The New York Times Best Seller list. Limbaugh frequently criticizes, in his books and on his show, what he regards as liberal policies and politicians, as well as what he perceives as a pervasive liberal bias in major U.S. media.
Rush Hudson Limbaugh III was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, the son of Mildred Carolyn "Millie" (née Armstrong) and Rush Hudson Limbaugh, Jr. His father was a lawyer and a U.S. fighter pilot who served in the China Burma India Theater of World War II. His mother was a native of Searcy, Arkansas. The name "Rush" was originally chosen for his grandfather to honor the maiden name of family member Edna Rush.
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Russell Kirk
Russell Kirk (October 19, 1918 – April 29, 1994) was an American political theorist, moralist, historian, social critic, literary critic, and fiction author known for his influence on 20th century American conservatism. His 1953 book, The Conservative Mind, gave shape to the amorphous post–World War II conservative movement. It traced the development of conservative thought in the Anglo-American tradition, giving special importance to the ideas of Edmund Burke. Kirk was also considered the chief proponent of traditionalist conservatism.
Russell Kirk was born in Plymouth, Michigan. He was the son of Russell Andrew Kirk, a railroad engineer, and Marjorie Pierce Kirk. Kirk obtained his B.A. at Michigan State University and a M.A. at Duke University. During World War II, he served in the American armed forces and corresponded with libertarian writer, Isabel Paterson, who helped to shape his early political thought. After the war, he attended the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. In 1953, he became the only American to be awarded the degree of Doctor of Letters by that university.
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Sarah Palin
Sarah Louise Palini/ˈpeɪlɨn/ (née Heath; born February 11, 1964) is an American politician, commentator and author. As the Republican Party nominee for Vice President in the 2008 presidential election, she was the first Alaskan on the national ticket of a major party and first Republican woman nominated for the vice presidency. Her book Going Rogue has sold more than two million copies. Since January 2010, she has provided political commentary for Fox News, and hosted a television show, Sarah Palin's Alaska. Five million viewers tuned in for the first episode, a record for The Learning Channel.
She was elected to Wasilla City Council in 1992 and became mayor of Wasilla in 1996. In 2003, after an unsuccessful run for lieutenant governor, she was appointed Chairman of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, responsible for overseeing the state's oil and gas fields for safety and efficiency. The youngest person and first woman to be elected Governor of Alaska, Palin held the office from December 2006 until her resignation in July 2009. She has since endorsed and campaigned for the Tea Party movement, as well as several candidates in the 2010 midterm elections. From the time of her Vice Presidential nomination in 2008, Palin was considered a potential candidate for the 2012 presidential election until she announced in October 2011 that she would not run.
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Zev Chafets
Zev Chafets (born 1947) is an American-Israeli author and columnist who was born and raised in Pontiac, Michigan.
After graduating from the University of Michigan, he moved to Israel. He spent a decade in the army, government service and politics. In 1977, he was appointed director of the Government Press Office, a post he held for five years during the administration of Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Chafets was an active participant in the Egyptian-Israeli peace process and a delegate to the first Israeli-Egyptian peace negotiations.
He was the founding managing editor of the Jerusalem Report magazine and is the author of twelve books of fiction, media criticism, and social and political commentary, three of which have been named Notable Books of the Year (by The New York Times). He is also the recipient of the 2008 Wilbur Award for his book A Match Made In Heaven.
He was a regular columnist for the New York Daily News from 2000 until 2004. Today his columns appear frequently in major newspapers around the world, including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and the New York Post. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Sunday Magazine. In 2008, his NYT Magazine cover story on Mike Huckabee was a finalist for the National Magazine Award.
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Limbaugh, Rush Filmography
- Miss America (2010)
- Family Guy Presents: It's a Trap (2010)
- Troopathon 2010: Remember Their Sacrifice (2010)
- Troopathon 2009: Honor Their Service (2009)
- Do As I Say (2009)
- The Haney Project (2009)
- Dr. Drew's Celebrity Addiction Special (2008)
- Fabled Enemies (2008)
- Zoo (2007)
- War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)
- Forbes Celebrity 100: Who Made Bank? (2006)
- Al Franken: God Spoke (2006)
- 101 Biggest Celebrity Oops (2004)
- My Feminism (1997)
- Forget Paris (1995)
- Kathie Lee Gifford's Celebration of Motherhood (1993)
- Rush Limbaugh (1992)
Famous quotes by Rush Limbaugh:
"We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first."
"There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not."
"The most beautiful thing about a tree is what you do with it after you cut it down"
"Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government."
"No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity."
"Compassion is no substitute for justice."
"Liberals attempt through judicial activism what they cannot win at the ballot box"
"Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream."
"Character matters; leadership descends from character."
"You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one."
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Rush Limbaugh Calls a Female Georgetown Student, Sandra Fluke, a 'Slut'
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- Duration: 2:39
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
The social issues debate re-ignited on Capitol Hill today when senators killed a proposal to throw out President Obama's contraception mandate. Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh was thrust into the center of the debate after he called the woman who was denied the right to speak on the controversial all-male conception panel at a hearing last month a "slut" on his show Wednesday. The issue heated up more today when Limbaugh took his comments even further. For more on this story, click here: abcnews.go.com
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The social issues debate re-ignited on Capitol Hill today when senators killed a proposal to throw out President Obama's contraception mandate. Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh was thrust into the center of the debate after he called the woman who was denied the right to speak on the controversial all-male conception panel at a hearing last month a "slut" on his show Wednesday. The issue heated up more today when Limbaugh took his comments even further. For more on this story, click here: abcnews.go.com
Rush Limbaugh Reaction To Obama Re-Election: "In A Nation Of Children, Santa Claus Wins"
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- Duration: 16:06
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
RUSH LIMBAUGH: Now, everybody is jumping on Romney's chain today, getting in his chili. Look, he may have not been the most optimal candidate, but he's a fine man. He would have been great for this country. Mitt Romney and his family would have been the essence of exactly what this country needs. But what was Romney's recipe? Romney's recipe was the old standby: American route to success, hard work. That gets sneered at. I'm sorry. In a country of children where the option is Santa Claus or work, what wins? And say what you want, but Romney did offer a vision of traditional America. In his way, he put forth a great vision of traditional America, and it was rejected. It was rejected in favor of a guy who thinks that those who are working aren't doing enough to help those who aren't. And that resonated. The Obama campaign was about small stuff. War on Women, binders, Big Bird, this kind of stuff. The Romney campaign was about big things, was about America. It's mind-boggling to go through these exit polls. You want to hear a statistic that is somewhat surprising? Romney received two and a half million fewer votes than McCain did. Now, who would have called that? Who in the world would have? I think Obama's vote tally was down ten million from 2008, and we still lost. We lost 50 to 48 nationally. We were not able to build a turnout model that looked like 2004. Very puzzling. Something else. Just stream of consciousness here. The usual suspects are out, and they're saying ...
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RUSH LIMBAUGH: Now, everybody is jumping on Romney's chain today, getting in his chili. Look, he may have not been the most optimal candidate, but he's a fine man. He would have been great for this country. Mitt Romney and his family would have been the essence of exactly what this country needs. But what was Romney's recipe? Romney's recipe was the old standby: American route to success, hard work. That gets sneered at. I'm sorry. In a country of children where the option is Santa Claus or work, what wins? And say what you want, but Romney did offer a vision of traditional America. In his way, he put forth a great vision of traditional America, and it was rejected. It was rejected in favor of a guy who thinks that those who are working aren't doing enough to help those who aren't. And that resonated. The Obama campaign was about small stuff. War on Women, binders, Big Bird, this kind of stuff. The Romney campaign was about big things, was about America. It's mind-boggling to go through these exit polls. You want to hear a statistic that is somewhat surprising? Romney received two and a half million fewer votes than McCain did. Now, who would have called that? Who in the world would have? I think Obama's vote tally was down ten million from 2008, and we still lost. We lost 50 to 48 nationally. We were not able to build a turnout model that looked like 2004. Very puzzling. Something else. Just stream of consciousness here. The usual suspects are out, and they're saying ...
- published: 08 Nov 2012
- views: 119410
- author: FirstLeaks
Rush Limbaugh's Epic Post Election Meltdown
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- Duration: 4:39
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
It's time for Random Rush! Sam tunes into Rush Limabaugh's show, completely randomly, and takes apart what he Limbaugh has to say. This time, we've hit post election day gold... This clip from the Majority Report, live MF at 12 noon EST and via daily podcast at Majority.FM
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It's time for Random Rush! Sam tunes into Rush Limabaugh's show, completely randomly, and takes apart what he Limbaugh has to say. This time, we've hit post election day gold... This clip from the Majority Report, live MF at 12 noon EST and via daily podcast at Majority.FM
- published: 07 Nov 2012
- views: 156329
- author: SamSeder
The Last Word - Rush rewrites Rush's election prediction
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- Duration: 6:12
- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
Nov 7, 2012
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Rush Limbaugh Attacks "Over-Educated" Women
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- Duration: 4:41
- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
Rush Limbaugh went on the attack again on his radio show. This time Rush went after Tracie McMillion, and "over-educated" women. Tell us in the comment section below if you think Rush should lose his show. thinkprogress.org Subscribe to The Young Turks: bit.ly Find out how to watch The Young Turks on Current by clicking here: www.current.com The Largest Online New Show in the World. Google+: www.gplus.to Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: twitter.com
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Rush Limbaugh went on the attack again on his radio show. This time Rush went after Tracie McMillion, and "over-educated" women. Tell us in the comment section below if you think Rush should lose his show. thinkprogress.org Subscribe to The Young Turks: bit.ly Find out how to watch The Young Turks on Current by clicking here: www.current.com The Largest Online New Show in the World. Google+: www.gplus.to Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: twitter.com
- published: 08 Mar 2012
- views: 57123
- author: TheYoungTurks
Correcting Rush Limbaugh: Democracy Doesn't Legitimize Theft
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- Duration: 4:17
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
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- published: 12 Dec 2012
- views: 17534
- author: SchiffReport
Brian Williams Rips Rush Limbaugh and Michael Brown over Hurricane Sandy
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- Duration: 3:28
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
Brian Williams ripped Rush Limbaugh and former FEMA director Michael Brown for their comments in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
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Brian Williams ripped Rush Limbaugh and former FEMA director Michael Brown for their comments in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
- published: 02 Nov 2012
- views: 134567
- author: NewsPoliticsInfo
Rush Limbaugh with William Shatner
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- Duration: 8:12
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
Rush Limbaugh was interviewed on William Shatner's "Raw Nerve" on A&E.; In this clip of the show, Shatner asked Rush what is a conservative? Rush said that conservatives believe in the principles that founded this country, individual liberty and the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Conservatives believe the individual is best left with the freedom to pursue the aspects of daily life. Shatner and Rush discussed the current healthcare debate in that context. If you're like me, you may have been wondering why William Shatner would be interested in interviewing Rush and why Rush would agree to appear on his show. Shatner and Rush have something in common - tinnitus - a ringing, hissing, or buzzing in the ear that replaces normal sound. Rush discussed how quickly he was going deaf and how scared he was that he would lose his radio career. For a month before his operation he could literally not hear himself speak while he was broadcasting.
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Rush Limbaugh was interviewed on William Shatner's "Raw Nerve" on A&E.; In this clip of the show, Shatner asked Rush what is a conservative? Rush said that conservatives believe in the principles that founded this country, individual liberty and the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Conservatives believe the individual is best left with the freedom to pursue the aspects of daily life. Shatner and Rush discussed the current healthcare debate in that context. If you're like me, you may have been wondering why William Shatner would be interested in interviewing Rush and why Rush would agree to appear on his show. Shatner and Rush have something in common - tinnitus - a ringing, hissing, or buzzing in the ear that replaces normal sound. Rush discussed how quickly he was going deaf and how scared he was that he would lose his radio career. For a month before his operation he could literally not hear himself speak while he was broadcasting.
- published: 07 Dec 2009
- views: 217547
- author: LandofDaFree
Part 1 Rush Limbaugh: Obama is Destroying the Economy
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- Duration: 9:59
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
Rush Limbaugh monologue from his June 8, 2009 show.
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Rush Limbaugh monologue from his June 8, 2009 show.
- published: 09 Jun 2009
- views: 368682
- author: EIBNetRocks
Rush Limbaugh Gets...Factual?
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- Duration: 3:27
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
It's time for Random Rush! And perhaps Limbaugh should take a vacation more often? Coming back from his Thanksgiving break, Rush Limbaugh accurately(!) describes the alternative minimum tax, shocking Sam. However, Rush still manages to say something unbelievably stupid... This clip from the Majority Report, live MF at 12 noon EST and via daily podcast at Majority.FM
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It's time for Random Rush! And perhaps Limbaugh should take a vacation more often? Coming back from his Thanksgiving break, Rush Limbaugh accurately(!) describes the alternative minimum tax, shocking Sam. However, Rush still manages to say something unbelievably stupid... This clip from the Majority Report, live MF at 12 noon EST and via daily podcast at Majority.FM
- published: 30 Nov 2012
- views: 2588
- author: SamSeder
Dark Knight Rises Conspiracy Theory From Rush Limbaugh
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- Duration: 5:17
- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
Cenk Uygur and Michael Shure discuss the latest conspiracy theory from Rush Limbaugh about the villian in Dark Knight Rises. Rush's comments below: "Have you heard this new movie, the Batman movie, what is it, The Dark Knight Lights Up or whatever the name is. That's right, Dark Knight Rises. Lights Up, same thing. Do you know the name of the villain in this movie? Bane. The villain in The Dark Knight Rises is named Bane, Bane. What is the name of the venture capital firm that Romney ran and around which there's now this make-believe controversy? Bain. The movie has been in the works for a long time. The release date's been known, summer 2012 for a long time. Do you think that it is accidental that the name of the really vicious fire breathing four eyed whatever it is villain in this movie is named Bane? So, anyway, this evil villain in the new Batman movie is named Bane. And there's now a discussion out there as to whether or not this is purposeful and whether or not it will influence voters. It's gonna have a lot of people. This movie, the audience is gonna be huge. A lot of people are gonna see the movie, and it's a lot of brain-dead people, entertainment, the pop culture crowd, and they're gonna hear Bane in the movie and they're gonna associate Bain. The thought is that when they start paying attention to the campaign later in the year, and Obama and the Democrats keep talking about Bain, Romney and Bain, that these people will think back to the Batman movie, "Oh ...
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Cenk Uygur and Michael Shure discuss the latest conspiracy theory from Rush Limbaugh about the villian in Dark Knight Rises. Rush's comments below: "Have you heard this new movie, the Batman movie, what is it, The Dark Knight Lights Up or whatever the name is. That's right, Dark Knight Rises. Lights Up, same thing. Do you know the name of the villain in this movie? Bane. The villain in The Dark Knight Rises is named Bane, Bane. What is the name of the venture capital firm that Romney ran and around which there's now this make-believe controversy? Bain. The movie has been in the works for a long time. The release date's been known, summer 2012 for a long time. Do you think that it is accidental that the name of the really vicious fire breathing four eyed whatever it is villain in this movie is named Bane? So, anyway, this evil villain in the new Batman movie is named Bane. And there's now a discussion out there as to whether or not this is purposeful and whether or not it will influence voters. It's gonna have a lot of people. This movie, the audience is gonna be huge. A lot of people are gonna see the movie, and it's a lot of brain-dead people, entertainment, the pop culture crowd, and they're gonna hear Bane in the movie and they're gonna associate Bain. The thought is that when they start paying attention to the campaign later in the year, and Obama and the Democrats keep talking about Bain, Romney and Bain, that these people will think back to the Batman movie, "Oh ...
- published: 19 Jul 2012
- views: 114106
- author: TheYoungTurks
Rush military caller says that Obama ordered no response to Benghazi attack
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- Duration: 12:21
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
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300+ Electoral Landslide Lying Rush Limbaugh's 'Intellectual Prediction' Goes Bust!
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- Duration: 6:12
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
Nov 7, 2012
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Gay Romney Supporter calls the Rush Limbaugh Show
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- Duration: 5:25
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
Gay Mitt Romney supporter, Robert from Atlanta, calls the Rush Limbaugh Show. (Audio courtesy of the Rush Limbaugh Show)
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Gay Mitt Romney supporter, Robert from Atlanta, calls the Rush Limbaugh Show. (Audio courtesy of the Rush Limbaugh Show)
- published: 30 Oct 2012
- views: 20656
- author: GOProud
Rush Limbaugh Questions Obama's Social Security Number Reserved for Connecticut Applicants
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- Duration: 7:37
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
Rush Limbaugh Questions Obama's Social Security Number Reserved for Connecticut Applicants and Obama's Forged Birth Certificate - www.BirtherReport.com
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Rush Limbaugh Questions Obama's Social Security Number Reserved for Connecticut Applicants and Obama's Forged Birth Certificate - www.BirtherReport.com
- published: 07 May 2012
- views: 27827
- author: BirtherReportDotCom
Rush Limbaugh Christmas Parody: "Barackaclaus"
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- Duration: 8:59
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
"You better not work, you better not try, get your hand out I'm telling you why: Barackaclause is coming to town..." Broadcast Rush Limbaugh Show 12-21-12
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"You better not work, you better not try, get your hand out I'm telling you why: Barackaclause is coming to town..." Broadcast Rush Limbaugh Show 12-21-12
- published: 21 Dec 2012
- views: 526
- author: madihah hadeen
Rush Limbaugh: John Boehner is trying to trick conservatives
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- Duration: 3:48
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
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Rush Limbaugh Calls Republican Chris Christie "Fat" & a "Fool"
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- Duration: 2:57
- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
--Rush Limbaugh, reacting to Chris Christie touring Hurricane Sandy damage with President Obama, calls the New Jersey Governor "fat" and "a fool." --On the Bonus Show: Sweden pays jobless to move to Norway, should NJ not rebuild its shore, how parenting shapes political views, more... How do you get the Bonus Show? Become a member: www.davidpakman.com If you liked this clip of The David Pakman Show, please do us a big favor and share it with your friends... and hit that "like" button! www.davidpakman.com Become a Member www.davidpakman.com Like Us on Facebook: www.facebook.com Follow Us on Twitter: www.twitter.com Get TDPS Gear: www.davidpakman.com 24/7 Voicemail Line: (219)-2DAVIDP Subscribe to The David Pakman Show for more: www.youtube.com Broadcast on November 1, 2012
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--Rush Limbaugh, reacting to Chris Christie touring Hurricane Sandy damage with President Obama, calls the New Jersey Governor "fat" and "a fool." --On the Bonus Show: Sweden pays jobless to move to Norway, should NJ not rebuild its shore, how parenting shapes political views, more... How do you get the Bonus Show? Become a member: www.davidpakman.com If you liked this clip of The David Pakman Show, please do us a big favor and share it with your friends... and hit that "like" button! www.davidpakman.com Become a Member www.davidpakman.com Like Us on Facebook: www.facebook.com Follow Us on Twitter: www.twitter.com Get TDPS Gear: www.davidpakman.com 24/7 Voicemail Line: (219)-2DAVIDP Subscribe to The David Pakman Show for more: www.youtube.com Broadcast on November 1, 2012
- published: 01 Nov 2012
- views: 38040
- author: MidweekPolitics
Rush Limbaugh Blames 'Feminazis' For His Small Penis
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- Duration: 4:21
- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
"Rush Limbaugh on Thursday lashed out at feminists — who he called "feminazis" — over the news that male genitalia are shrinking. The conservative radio host pointed to an Italian study which found that the average male penis was 10 percent smaller than 50 years ago. Researchers cited weight gain around the waist, smoking, stress and environmental pollutants as factors..."*. Why is Rush blaming feminists? Ana Kasparian, Cenk Uygur, and comedian Jimmy Dore break it down on The Young Turks. *Read more here from David Edwards in Raw Story (s.tt Support The Young Turks by Subscribing bit.ly Like Us on Facebook: www.fb.com Follow Us on Twitter: bit.ly Buy TYT Merch: theyoungturks.spreadshirt.com Find out how to watch The Young Turks on Current by clicking here: www.current.com
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"Rush Limbaugh on Thursday lashed out at feminists — who he called "feminazis" — over the news that male genitalia are shrinking. The conservative radio host pointed to an Italian study which found that the average male penis was 10 percent smaller than 50 years ago. Researchers cited weight gain around the waist, smoking, stress and environmental pollutants as factors..."*. Why is Rush blaming feminists? Ana Kasparian, Cenk Uygur, and comedian Jimmy Dore break it down on The Young Turks. *Read more here from David Edwards in Raw Story (s.tt Support The Young Turks by Subscribing bit.ly Like Us on Facebook: www.fb.com Follow Us on Twitter: bit.ly Buy TYT Merch: theyoungturks.spreadshirt.com Find out how to watch The Young Turks on Current by clicking here: www.current.com
- published: 22 Sep 2012
- views: 56135
- author: TheYoungTurks
Rush Limbaugh 'A Racist Piece Of Shit' Says Ice-T
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- Duration: 5:05
- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
"Ice-T has some major beef with Rush Limbaugh, after the radio host marveled that he knew the meaning of the word "tyranny" on Tuesday. Ice-T recently defended gun ownership in an interview on London news, calling the right to bear arms "the last form of defense against tyranny." Limbaugh praised his stance on the issue, but found his use of the word "tyranny" with a British "sophisticate" especially remarkable...".* The rapper struck back via Twitter to call Limabaugh 'a racist piece of shit". The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down. *Read more here from The Huffington Post: www.huffingtonpost.com Support The Young Turks by Subscribing bit.ly Like Us on Facebook: www.fb.com Follow Us on Twitter: twitter.com Find out how to watch The Young Turks on Current by clicking here: www.current.com
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"Ice-T has some major beef with Rush Limbaugh, after the radio host marveled that he knew the meaning of the word "tyranny" on Tuesday. Ice-T recently defended gun ownership in an interview on London news, calling the right to bear arms "the last form of defense against tyranny." Limbaugh praised his stance on the issue, but found his use of the word "tyranny" with a British "sophisticate" especially remarkable...".* The rapper struck back via Twitter to call Limabaugh 'a racist piece of shit". The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down. *Read more here from The Huffington Post: www.huffingtonpost.com Support The Young Turks by Subscribing bit.ly Like Us on Facebook: www.fb.com Follow Us on Twitter: twitter.com Find out how to watch The Young Turks on Current by clicking here: www.current.com
- published: 27 Jul 2012
- views: 64007
- author: TheYoungTurks
Rush Limbaugh: Taking shock one step too far
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- Duration: 25:06
- Updated: 10 Oct 2012
This week we look at US politics, the Republican media machine and the US jock who took shock one step too far. How will the Limbaugh controversy impact the US presidential elections? Plus, making mischief: the resurgence of Russian political satire.
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This week we look at US politics, the Republican media machine and the US jock who took shock one step too far. How will the Limbaugh controversy impact the US presidential elections? Plus, making mischief: the resurgence of Russian political satire.
- published: 10 Mar 2012
- views: 3858
- author: AlJazeeraEnglish
The Last Word - Rush Limbaugh vs Gov. Chris Christie
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- Duration: 8:03
- Updated: 22 Dec 2012
Nov 1, 2012
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Rush Limbaugh remembers Andrew Breitbart (1969-2012)
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- Duration: 13:50
- Updated: 27 Aug 2012
"The country needs a thousand more Andrew Breitbarts." - Rush Limbaugh www.therightscoop.com
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"The country needs a thousand more Andrew Breitbarts." - Rush Limbaugh www.therightscoop.com
- published: 01 Mar 2012
- views: 13164
- author: rightscoop
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Rush Limbaugh TV- Boy sent to principal for Reading Rush
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- Duration: 3:28
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The liberals love to tell us that schools are places of openness and diversity, and that they are where children should learn about sex because stupid parents can't teach them properly. But back in 1996 a fourth-grade student found out what happens when you open one See, I told You So open to Chapter called Condoms: the New Diploma in school the confiscation of the book in a style that could only make the great book burners of the past misty-eyed.
They embarrassed this kid. When the father went to the school to ask for the book, he was told, "Nein!" (At least, that's what it amounted to.) These are the same people who are open and tolerant and think that bigotry sits only on the other side of the political spectrum. They would surely think twice before taking away a book from a liberal perspective, such as "Heather Has Two Mommies." But conservatism? That has no place in schools.
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The liberals love to tell us that schools are places of openness and diversity, and that they are where children should learn about sex because stupid parents can't teach them properly. But back in 1996 a fourth-grade student found out what happens when you open one See, I told You So open to Chapter called Condoms: the New Diploma in school the confiscation of the book in a style that could only make the great book burners of the past misty-eyed.
They embarrassed this kid. When the father went to the school to ask for the book, he was told, "Nein!" (At least, that's what it amounted to.) These are the same people who are open and tolerant and think that bigotry sits only on the other side of the political spectrum. They would surely think twice before taking away a book from a liberal perspective, such as "Heather Has Two Mommies." But conservatism? That has no place in schools.
- published: 13 May 2009
- views: 1427
- author: ConservatismAlive
Rush Limbaugh TV- Katie Couric Cooks a Lobster
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- Duration: 4:27
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
Ten years ago, on June 13, 1994, we brought you clips from a Today Show cooking segment. In it the Perky One, Katie Couric, moaned and groaned and winced over the imagined pain of a lobster dropped into a pot of boiling water. I had to introduce some reality to the feelings people have about these "cockroaches of the sea." A lobster, like other invertebrate, does not feel pain. It's born to eat things then die so we can eat it.
Lobsters are a gift from God, folks and an excuse to eat butter. Everybody knows that they're brainless crustaceans, but that didn't matter to some of the kooks out there: The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. USA Today's story reported that PETA planned to sue the restaurant owners for cruelty! Talk about projecting your emotions onto others! It's a great example of liberal absurdity, and their belief that the government should tell you how to live right down to what you eat for dinner!
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(From rushlimbaugh.com):
Ten years ago, on June 13, 1994, we brought you clips from a Today Show cooking segment. In it the Perky One, Katie Couric, moaned and groaned and winced over the imagined pain of a lobster dropped into a pot of boiling water. I had to introduce some reality to the feelings people have about these "cockroaches of the sea." A lobster, like other invertebrate, does not feel pain. It's born to eat things then die so we can eat it.
Lobsters are a gift from God, folks and an excuse to eat butter. Everybody knows that they're brainless crustaceans, but that didn't matter to some of the kooks out there: The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. USA Today's story reported that PETA planned to sue the restaurant owners for cruelty! Talk about projecting your emotions onto others! It's a great example of liberal absurdity, and their belief that the government should tell you how to live right down to what you eat for dinner!
- published: 13 May 2009
- views: 3645
- author: ConservatismAlive
Rush Limbaugh TV- Rush's Ribbons Prove He Cares
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- Duration: 0:47
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
On the April 15, 1993 episode of my award-winning television show, I had a segment in which I showed up at the beginning of the show wearing multiple multicolored ribbons. I had the AIDS ribbon, the deficit spending reduction ribbon, and eight or nine others pinned to the upper left side of my jacket. As you can see in the screen grabs below, it looked quite colorful. It also looked quite absurd.
I did this to make the following brilliant, insightful point. All these people, at the time, kept showing up with ribbons proclaiming these causes, and what they were trying to do was say, "I'm better than you. I care more than you. I'm wearing a ribbon." So the more ribbons you wore, logically, the more you cared - and that lapel of fruit salad clearly made me the most caring man in America on that April night.
Liberals love and embrace symbolism over substance. No ribbon ever cured a disease or reduced the national debt or promoted gay tolerance or accomplished any of the other causes these ribbons professed. All they did was make those wearing them feel like they did their part - when what had they really done? They'd simply accessorized and showed their good intentions.
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(From rushlimbaugh.com):
On the April 15, 1993 episode of my award-winning television show, I had a segment in which I showed up at the beginning of the show wearing multiple multicolored ribbons. I had the AIDS ribbon, the deficit spending reduction ribbon, and eight or nine others pinned to the upper left side of my jacket. As you can see in the screen grabs below, it looked quite colorful. It also looked quite absurd.
I did this to make the following brilliant, insightful point. All these people, at the time, kept showing up with ribbons proclaiming these causes, and what they were trying to do was say, "I'm better than you. I care more than you. I'm wearing a ribbon." So the more ribbons you wore, logically, the more you cared - and that lapel of fruit salad clearly made me the most caring man in America on that April night.
Liberals love and embrace symbolism over substance. No ribbon ever cured a disease or reduced the national debt or promoted gay tolerance or accomplished any of the other causes these ribbons professed. All they did was make those wearing them feel like they did their part - when what had they really done? They'd simply accessorized and showed their good intentions.
- published: 13 May 2009
- views: 3820
- author: ConservatismAlive
Rush Limbaugh TV- Secret Daschle Memo Details Lies
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- Duration: 5:39
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
(From rushlimbaugh.com)
Correcting Tom Daschle's lies and distortions have taken up a lot of Rush's time lately, but we've had our eye on the Puffster since long before his days as illegitimate Senate Majority Leader. Yes, America's Truth Detector has been "doing the job the mainstream press used to do" when it comes to this most liberal son of South Dakota since the days of the Neil's Liquor Store memo.
We brought you that four-point memo on the June 26, 1995 edition of Rush Limbaugh the Television Show. A dim-witted DNC staffer accidentally left the super-secret communiqué behind at Neil's, and some EIB operatives faxed it to home base. The memo detailed Tom Daschle's plan to lie about Republicans, hurt the poor with class warfare, and moan about problems rather than solve them - in short, to do exactly what Daschle has been doing ever since.
"It is a rehash of the problems the Democrats think they have," Rush said of this memo, which included a Mark Mellman poll showing the nation clearly favoring the GOP approach to governing. He then went on to pick apart the memo point by point, just as Rush has picked apart Daschle's mean-spirited, partisan attacks ever since.
Now, you know this memo would've been splashed all over the New York Times front page had it come from a Republican staffer. But you never heard a word about Neil's Liquor Store until Rush broke the story. Is there any wonder Rush is the success he is with a mainstream press that refuses to report all the facts? Enjoy this clip, folks, and keep tuned to the EIB Network for the other side stories like this.
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(From rushlimbaugh.com)
Correcting Tom Daschle's lies and distortions have taken up a lot of Rush's time lately, but we've had our eye on the Puffster since long before his days as illegitimate Senate Majority Leader. Yes, America's Truth Detector has been "doing the job the mainstream press used to do" when it comes to this most liberal son of South Dakota since the days of the Neil's Liquor Store memo.
We brought you that four-point memo on the June 26, 1995 edition of Rush Limbaugh the Television Show. A dim-witted DNC staffer accidentally left the super-secret communiqué behind at Neil's, and some EIB operatives faxed it to home base. The memo detailed Tom Daschle's plan to lie about Republicans, hurt the poor with class warfare, and moan about problems rather than solve them - in short, to do exactly what Daschle has been doing ever since.
"It is a rehash of the problems the Democrats think they have," Rush said of this memo, which included a Mark Mellman poll showing the nation clearly favoring the GOP approach to governing. He then went on to pick apart the memo point by point, just as Rush has picked apart Daschle's mean-spirited, partisan attacks ever since.
Now, you know this memo would've been splashed all over the New York Times front page had it come from a Republican staffer. But you never heard a word about Neil's Liquor Store until Rush broke the story. Is there any wonder Rush is the success he is with a mainstream press that refuses to report all the facts? Enjoy this clip, folks, and keep tuned to the EIB Network for the other side stories like this.
- published: 13 May 2009
- views: 923
- author: ConservatismAlive
Rush Limbaugh TV- Bo Snerdly As Maya Angelou
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- Duration: 4:25
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
(From rushlimbaugh.com)
In an inaugural full of self-congratulation, record wasting of taxpayer money and childishness, perhaps nothing was more memorable that first day of Clinton than Maya Angelou's reading of a poem. This for the man she later called "the First Black President," which wasn't much of a compliment to black Americans like the EIB Network's own Bo Snerdly.
So on the January 21, 1993 episode of Rush Limbaugh the TV Show we had a little fun. Rush welcomed Bo "Angelou" Snerdly and let him read his own poem for Bill Clinton. The audience reaction to our own poet laureate? Thunderous applause! Endless cheering! Screams of passion and tears of joy! It's moving stuff, folks. Watch it now.
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(From rushlimbaugh.com)
In an inaugural full of self-congratulation, record wasting of taxpayer money and childishness, perhaps nothing was more memorable that first day of Clinton than Maya Angelou's reading of a poem. This for the man she later called "the First Black President," which wasn't much of a compliment to black Americans like the EIB Network's own Bo Snerdly.
So on the January 21, 1993 episode of Rush Limbaugh the TV Show we had a little fun. Rush welcomed Bo "Angelou" Snerdly and let him read his own poem for Bill Clinton. The audience reaction to our own poet laureate? Thunderous applause! Endless cheering! Screams of passion and tears of joy! It's moving stuff, folks. Watch it now.
- published: 13 May 2009
- views: 9834
- author: ConservatismAlive
Rush Limbaugh TV- Killer Condemned For Flip Off
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- Duration: 4:31
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
Back on the June 16, 1996 episode of Rush Limbaugh the Television Show, Rush rolled a very illustrative piece of video from that week's "trial of the century." Richard Allen Davis brutally killed a 12-year-old girl, and faced the death penalty for his crime. You'd think this would have outraged even those on the left coast, right? Wrong. The real outrage didn't come until Davis gave a double flip-off to the television cameras.
Amazingly, this is what upset us - not the murder, but the obscene gesture. In a world where we consider the merest show of remorse reason for acquittal, this monster took this chance to gain sympathy and "tell his side" and used it to offend the open-minded Californians. This act gave pause to those who would have campaigned all night for years to save this murderer from the electric chair. It was a truly surreal event.
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(From rushlimbaugh.com):
Back on the June 16, 1996 episode of Rush Limbaugh the Television Show, Rush rolled a very illustrative piece of video from that week's "trial of the century." Richard Allen Davis brutally killed a 12-year-old girl, and faced the death penalty for his crime. You'd think this would have outraged even those on the left coast, right? Wrong. The real outrage didn't come until Davis gave a double flip-off to the television cameras.
Amazingly, this is what upset us - not the murder, but the obscene gesture. In a world where we consider the merest show of remorse reason for acquittal, this monster took this chance to gain sympathy and "tell his side" and used it to offend the open-minded Californians. This act gave pause to those who would have campaigned all night for years to save this murderer from the electric chair. It was a truly surreal event.
- published: 13 May 2009
- views: 2856
- author: ConservatismAlive
Rush Limbaugh TV- Animals Don't Play "Fair"
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- Duration: 10:05
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
(From rushlimbaugh.com)
Rush has always had a huge, giant soft spot in his heart for animals, and our next TV clip proves it. Rush rolled video of his furry namesake a racing greyhound down in Phoenix. It was a great chance to talk about the hijacking of the animal welfare movement by radicals who use the name "animal rights" to further completely unrelated causes. Rush pointed out one of the unintended consequences of these extremist policies: predators that no longer fear humans.
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(From rushlimbaugh.com)
Rush has always had a huge, giant soft spot in his heart for animals, and our next TV clip proves it. Rush rolled video of his furry namesake a racing greyhound down in Phoenix. It was a great chance to talk about the hijacking of the animal welfare movement by radicals who use the name "animal rights" to further completely unrelated causes. Rush pointed out one of the unintended consequences of these extremist policies: predators that no longer fear humans.
- published: 13 May 2009
- views: 899
- author: ConservatismAlive
Rush Limbaugh TV- Senator Byrd So Boring He Cracks Rush Up
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- Duration: 3:22
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
Back during the first two years when Rush Limbaugh the Television Show graced the airwaves, Bill Clinton was in the White House and the Democrats controlled both houses of Congress. Conservatism seemed to be on the retreat in some places, leaving many in the GOP ranks feeling depressed, because they thought nobody agreed with their point of view - nobody except Rush, that is.
Rush never bought the notion that the Democrats were unbeatable or even competent. Rush brilliantly poked holes in this myth of Democratic invincibility by, among other methods, illustrating what a wacky and strange group of characters the other side had leading them. Senator Fritz Hollings became "Foghorn Leghorn," Bill Clinton became "the philanderer-in-chief," Ross Perot became "the little general," and so on.
One of our favorite targets was Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the Democrat called "the conscience of the Senate," despite having been a member of - and paid recruiter for - the Ku Klux Klan. Senator Byrd has given many longwinded, borderline cuckoo speeches on the Senate floor.
On the occasion of our February 18, 1994 program, Bobby Byrd pontificated on the Balanced Budget Amendment during a hearing at which he was questioning so-called "experts." This exchange could've put anyone to sleep, but it was also funny as all get out. Rush could barely control his laughter, and the studio audience couldn't believe this man was a United States Senator. Enjoy this clip, folks - and while you're watching it, remember: this is the man that, thanks to Jim Jeffords, is now third-in-line for the presidency. It's just these sorts of Washington scenes that you pay for, folks. Remember that as you watch.
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(From rushlimbaugh.com):
Back during the first two years when Rush Limbaugh the Television Show graced the airwaves, Bill Clinton was in the White House and the Democrats controlled both houses of Congress. Conservatism seemed to be on the retreat in some places, leaving many in the GOP ranks feeling depressed, because they thought nobody agreed with their point of view - nobody except Rush, that is.
Rush never bought the notion that the Democrats were unbeatable or even competent. Rush brilliantly poked holes in this myth of Democratic invincibility by, among other methods, illustrating what a wacky and strange group of characters the other side had leading them. Senator Fritz Hollings became "Foghorn Leghorn," Bill Clinton became "the philanderer-in-chief," Ross Perot became "the little general," and so on.
One of our favorite targets was Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the Democrat called "the conscience of the Senate," despite having been a member of - and paid recruiter for - the Ku Klux Klan. Senator Byrd has given many longwinded, borderline cuckoo speeches on the Senate floor.
On the occasion of our February 18, 1994 program, Bobby Byrd pontificated on the Balanced Budget Amendment during a hearing at which he was questioning so-called "experts." This exchange could've put anyone to sleep, but it was also funny as all get out. Rush could barely control his laughter, and the studio audience couldn't believe this man was a United States Senator. Enjoy this clip, folks - and while you're watching it, remember: this is the man that, thanks to Jim Jeffords, is now third-in-line for the presidency. It's just these sorts of Washington scenes that you pay for, folks. Remember that as you watch.
- published: 13 May 2009
- views: 3053
- author: ConservatismAlive
Rush Limbaugh TV- Robert B. Reichhh Fund
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:46
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
At the time of the March 15, 1993 episode of Rush Limbaugh the Television Show, we were just getting to know the hilarious cast of characters in the Clinton administration. We fell in love with Labor Secretary Robert B. Reichhhh right away. He had a sense of humor about everything - including his stature - and pushed honestly the whacky, extreme liberal ideas that most Democrats try to slip into law in the dead of night.
Our Man in Washington shot footage at a Children's Defense Fund event, and asked Secretary Reich what he thought of President Clinton accepting money from grade school bake sales to pay off the national debt. Reich stood by like a loyal soldier - and that simply drove Rush crazy! But he responded with good humor, illustrating the absurdity of this policy by doing a now-legendary impression of the diminutive Reich. You have to see this one.
http://wn.com/Rush_Limbaugh_TV_Robert_B_Reichhh_Fund
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
At the time of the March 15, 1993 episode of Rush Limbaugh the Television Show, we were just getting to know the hilarious cast of characters in the Clinton administration. We fell in love with Labor Secretary Robert B. Reichhhh right away. He had a sense of humor about everything - including his stature - and pushed honestly the whacky, extreme liberal ideas that most Democrats try to slip into law in the dead of night.
Our Man in Washington shot footage at a Children's Defense Fund event, and asked Secretary Reich what he thought of President Clinton accepting money from grade school bake sales to pay off the national debt. Reich stood by like a loyal soldier - and that simply drove Rush crazy! But he responded with good humor, illustrating the absurdity of this policy by doing a now-legendary impression of the diminutive Reich. You have to see this one.
- published: 13 May 2009
- views: 2645
- author: ConservatismAlive
Rush Limbaugh TV- Bubba Bails On Zoë Baird
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:34
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
Since he left office - and indeed while he was in office - Bill Clinton has feverishly tried to find a non-Monica legacy. In an effort to battle the tide of revisionist history, we went back to the archives of Rush Limbaugh the TV Show and focused on the early days of this most scandal-laden administration in history. Specifically, we took a look at the Zoë Baird nomination for attorney general.
Being a woman was Clinton's only qualification for AG. Zoë Baird was his first choice, but was quickly hung out to dry when it turned out she'd hired illegal aliens. Clinton then nominated and withdrew Kimba Wood before finally settling on Janet Reno - and we all know how she turned out. It's a first glimpse at an administration that would take "style over substance" to a new level.
http://wn.com/Rush_Limbaugh_TV_Bubba_Bails_On_Zoë_Baird
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
Since he left office - and indeed while he was in office - Bill Clinton has feverishly tried to find a non-Monica legacy. In an effort to battle the tide of revisionist history, we went back to the archives of Rush Limbaugh the TV Show and focused on the early days of this most scandal-laden administration in history. Specifically, we took a look at the Zoë Baird nomination for attorney general.
Being a woman was Clinton's only qualification for AG. Zoë Baird was his first choice, but was quickly hung out to dry when it turned out she'd hired illegal aliens. Clinton then nominated and withdrew Kimba Wood before finally settling on Janet Reno - and we all know how she turned out. It's a first glimpse at an administration that would take "style over substance" to a new level.
- published: 13 May 2009
- views: 1044
- author: ConservatismAlive
Rush Limbaugh TV- Ted Kennedy's Unintelligible Introduction
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:29
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
In response to the recent, nationwide clamor for more EIB on TV, I've decided to go back into the archives of my wildly popular series, Rush Limbaugh the Television Show. Every night for four years, our TV show made history and broke news, doing the job the mainstream press used to do before it sold its soul to liberalism.
http://wn.com/Rush_Limbaugh_TV_Ted_Kennedy's_Unintelligible_Introduction
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
In response to the recent, nationwide clamor for more EIB on TV, I've decided to go back into the archives of my wildly popular series, Rush Limbaugh the Television Show. Every night for four years, our TV show made history and broke news, doing the job the mainstream press used to do before it sold its soul to liberalism.
- published: 13 May 2009
- views: 11832
- author: ConservatismAlive
Rush Limbaugh TV- El Rushbo & Elvis Arouse Suspicious Minds
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:16
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
This next Rush Limbaugh the Television Show clip, from the January 13, 1993 episode, features a USA Today comparison of two giants of the 20th Century: El Rushbo and Elvis Presley. The comparison came at a time when Rush's book stood unchallenged at the top of the New York Times best seller list, and harkened back to The King's days at the top of Billboard's best seller list. But the comparisons didn't stop there.
The comparison was lighthearted, but it grew out of controversy. At the time, Bill Clinton had launched one of his flailing attempts to link himself to great men of the past to advance his legacy quest. At the time, Democrats called Clinton "the Comeback Kid," and likened him to Elvis. Receiving these marching orders, liberals in the media deafened themselves to the new president's awful saxophone playing enough to compare him to Elvis' sweet guitar.
Unfortunately for USA Today, the stunt fell flat. Readers took offense at the comparison - just as they later would when Clinton tried to cast himself as the new Teddy Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, JFK and Abraham Lincoln. But one reader had some fun with the absurdity of the comparison, writing, "If anyone should be compared to The King, it would be Rush Limbaugh."
The similarities are truly eerie, folks.
http://wn.com/Rush_Limbaugh_TV_El_Rushbo_Elvis_Arouse_Suspicious_Minds
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
This next Rush Limbaugh the Television Show clip, from the January 13, 1993 episode, features a USA Today comparison of two giants of the 20th Century: El Rushbo and Elvis Presley. The comparison came at a time when Rush's book stood unchallenged at the top of the New York Times best seller list, and harkened back to The King's days at the top of Billboard's best seller list. But the comparisons didn't stop there.
The comparison was lighthearted, but it grew out of controversy. At the time, Bill Clinton had launched one of his flailing attempts to link himself to great men of the past to advance his legacy quest. At the time, Democrats called Clinton "the Comeback Kid," and likened him to Elvis. Receiving these marching orders, liberals in the media deafened themselves to the new president's awful saxophone playing enough to compare him to Elvis' sweet guitar.
Unfortunately for USA Today, the stunt fell flat. Readers took offense at the comparison - just as they later would when Clinton tried to cast himself as the new Teddy Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, JFK and Abraham Lincoln. But one reader had some fun with the absurdity of the comparison, writing, "If anyone should be compared to The King, it would be Rush Limbaugh."
The similarities are truly eerie, folks.
- published: 13 May 2009
- views: 1246
- author: ConservatismAlive
Rush Limbaugh TV- Rush at NBA All-Star Game
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:15
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
As you know, Rush is a powerful influential member of the media. But did you know that while Rush scorns the usual D.C., inside-the-beltway crowd, he loves to attend sporting events? It's true. So we decided to bring you Rush's 1995 recap of the NBA All-Star Game. Rush attended the event as a guest of Phoenix Suns Coach Paul Westphal, and also had a chance to enjoy the high school players' rookie game.
One of the rookie events was a $1 million three-point shot. The kid who took the shot missed, and chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall - of all people - said later of watching the throw that she was glad the kid missed the shot because that was too much money for a boy of 16 to have. Class envy came up even at a sporting event! NBC also caught Rush delivering a pep talk! It's a side of Rush rarely seen, folks - and we bring it to you here.
http://wn.com/Rush_Limbaugh_TV_Rush_at_NBA_All-Star_Game
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
As you know, Rush is a powerful influential member of the media. But did you know that while Rush scorns the usual D.C., inside-the-beltway crowd, he loves to attend sporting events? It's true. So we decided to bring you Rush's 1995 recap of the NBA All-Star Game. Rush attended the event as a guest of Phoenix Suns Coach Paul Westphal, and also had a chance to enjoy the high school players' rookie game.
One of the rookie events was a $1 million three-point shot. The kid who took the shot missed, and chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall - of all people - said later of watching the throw that she was glad the kid missed the shot because that was too much money for a boy of 16 to have. Class envy came up even at a sporting event! NBC also caught Rush delivering a pep talk! It's a side of Rush rarely seen, folks - and we bring it to you here.
- published: 13 May 2009
- views: 790
- author: ConservatismAlive
Rush Limbaugh TV- Capital Gains Mania
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:40
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
"You can never, ever stop teaching." That's one thing that Rush understands but your average conservative doesn't. Take this clip from the March 22, 1995 episode of Rush Limbaugh the Television Show. While members of the first GOP Congress in decades were taking victory laps around the Beltway, Rush took to the airwaves to remind his viewers of the Democratic assault on the capital gains tax cut and to bring the issue home to them.
Rush rolled clips by some of the very liberal lions he's long outlasted: Senators Jim Sasser and George Mitchell, plus Congressman Tom Foley. Using CBO numbers, Rush nuked the lie that this tax cut is "only for the rich." And so what if it was? We reported recently that the top 1% of earners pay almost 40% of all income taxes collected. This, plus the fact that no poor person ever hired anyone, helps Rush drive his point home.
http://wn.com/Rush_Limbaugh_TV_Capital_Gains_Mania
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
"You can never, ever stop teaching." That's one thing that Rush understands but your average conservative doesn't. Take this clip from the March 22, 1995 episode of Rush Limbaugh the Television Show. While members of the first GOP Congress in decades were taking victory laps around the Beltway, Rush took to the airwaves to remind his viewers of the Democratic assault on the capital gains tax cut and to bring the issue home to them.
Rush rolled clips by some of the very liberal lions he's long outlasted: Senators Jim Sasser and George Mitchell, plus Congressman Tom Foley. Using CBO numbers, Rush nuked the lie that this tax cut is "only for the rich." And so what if it was? We reported recently that the top 1% of earners pay almost 40% of all income taxes collected. This, plus the fact that no poor person ever hired anyone, helps Rush drive his point home.
- published: 13 May 2009
- views: 912
- author: ConservatismAlive
Rush Limbaugh TV- Rush Recalls Israeli Visit
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:47
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
(From rushlimbaugh.com): In the summer of 1993, Rush took a five-day, whirlwind tour of Israel. With that nation in the throes of brutal terrorist attacks, we decided to bring you Rush's recap of the trip on Rush Limbaugh the Television Show's September 15th episode that year. The trip included a variety of sights, meetings with high-ranking officials in the Knesset, then-General Ariel Sharon, future Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and with then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
As has been true for thousands of years, almost ten years after Rush's trip the two sides remain locked in battle. From praying at the Wailing Wall to visiting the Holocaust Memorial and the Golan Heights, Rush brought his unique perspective to this troubled region. What conclusions did he draw? How did the trip shape Rush's conclusion that you will never have peace so long as we keep telling Israel to hold back? Find out right here, right now.
http://wn.com/Rush_Limbaugh_TV_Rush_Recalls_Israeli_Visit
(From rushlimbaugh.com): In the summer of 1993, Rush took a five-day, whirlwind tour of Israel. With that nation in the throes of brutal terrorist attacks, we decided to bring you Rush's recap of the trip on Rush Limbaugh the Television Show's September 15th episode that year. The trip included a variety of sights, meetings with high-ranking officials in the Knesset, then-General Ariel Sharon, future Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and with then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
As has been true for thousands of years, almost ten years after Rush's trip the two sides remain locked in battle. From praying at the Wailing Wall to visiting the Holocaust Memorial and the Golan Heights, Rush brought his unique perspective to this troubled region. What conclusions did he draw? How did the trip shape Rush's conclusion that you will never have peace so long as we keep telling Israel to hold back? Find out right here, right now.
- published: 13 May 2009
- views: 1409
- author: ConservatismAlive
Rush Limbaugh TV- Kevorkian On Christ
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:40
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
Do you remember how shocked people were when Doctor Death, Jack the Dripper, Jack Kevorkian appeared on the national scene? There was outrage but that quickly turned to acceptance and an embracing of the culture of death. On the July 29, 1996 episode of Rush Limbaugh the Television Show, we managed to remind people of this guy's psychosis with his bizarre comments on the death of Jesus Christ.
At the National Press Club, Kevorkian described the crucifixion as "undignified." He said, "Do you think it's dignified to hang from wood with nails through your hands and feet, bleeding and hanging for three or four days and slowly dying with people jabbing spears into your side and people jeering you?" Besides the obvious fact that the suffering of Christ for our sins was his whole reason for coming down here, can you imagine the mind that looks at every death and is angry he's not a part of it?
http://wn.com/Rush_Limbaugh_TV_Kevorkian_On_Christ
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
Do you remember how shocked people were when Doctor Death, Jack the Dripper, Jack Kevorkian appeared on the national scene? There was outrage but that quickly turned to acceptance and an embracing of the culture of death. On the July 29, 1996 episode of Rush Limbaugh the Television Show, we managed to remind people of this guy's psychosis with his bizarre comments on the death of Jesus Christ.
At the National Press Club, Kevorkian described the crucifixion as "undignified." He said, "Do you think it's dignified to hang from wood with nails through your hands and feet, bleeding and hanging for three or four days and slowly dying with people jabbing spears into your side and people jeering you?" Besides the obvious fact that the suffering of Christ for our sins was his whole reason for coming down here, can you imagine the mind that looks at every death and is angry he's not a part of it?
- published: 13 May 2009
- views: 2524
- author: ConservatismAlive
Rush Limbaugh TV- Hi Ho Liberals! Away!
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:32
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
Political correctness, like so many liberal ideas, sounds so good and simple. But it just goes too far. Sometimes the results cause anger and pain. More often, they're just plain absurd. One such case: the politically correct comic book story of the Lone Ranger and his ever-loyal sidekick Tonto.
Wait, did we say "ever-loyal" Tonto? Our apologies, because as we quickly learned on the August 17, 1995 episode of Rush Limbaugh the Television Show, this is not your father's Lone Ranger sidekick. This new Tonto didn't give a squaw's hind parts for that masked man - a man presumably masked because he feared to show his evil, white, male, European, misogynistic, homophobic face.
Here's the kind of bilge that the baseball card company Topps wastes time and wampum on. Says this Alan Alda-ized Tonto of his former friend: "I'm not his Indian. I'm not anyone's Indian. I'm Tonto!" Folks, this comic started out with the promise that it would change the world, but here it is seven years later and have you even heard of it? Of course you haven't, because it's long gone - but the laughter lives on.
http://wn.com/Rush_Limbaugh_TV_Hi_Ho_Liberals!_Away!
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
Political correctness, like so many liberal ideas, sounds so good and simple. But it just goes too far. Sometimes the results cause anger and pain. More often, they're just plain absurd. One such case: the politically correct comic book story of the Lone Ranger and his ever-loyal sidekick Tonto.
Wait, did we say "ever-loyal" Tonto? Our apologies, because as we quickly learned on the August 17, 1995 episode of Rush Limbaugh the Television Show, this is not your father's Lone Ranger sidekick. This new Tonto didn't give a squaw's hind parts for that masked man - a man presumably masked because he feared to show his evil, white, male, European, misogynistic, homophobic face.
Here's the kind of bilge that the baseball card company Topps wastes time and wampum on. Says this Alan Alda-ized Tonto of his former friend: "I'm not his Indian. I'm not anyone's Indian. I'm Tonto!" Folks, this comic started out with the promise that it would change the world, but here it is seven years later and have you even heard of it? Of course you haven't, because it's long gone - but the laughter lives on.
- published: 13 May 2009
- views: 1447
- author: ConservatismAlive
Rush Limbaugh TV- Welfare Liberation Plan Freaks Out Dems
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- Duration: 3:54
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
(from rushlimbaugh.com):
Alot of people out there now have, and have always had, this misconception of Rush as a negative, super-serious, ranting host. But you simply don't get 22 million listeners, and endure for fourteen years, and win three Marconi Awards from the National Association of Broadcasters with that kind of shtick. That's why the quest to find a "liberal Rush Limbaugh" always fails. Liberals are dour, and miserable, and see the world blowing up every time someone flushes a square of toilet paper.
Rush, on the other hand, has always mixed the serious with comic relief, having fun even when a president is being impeached or when he himself is suffering the rhetorical slings and arrows of those who seek to smear conservatives. A key example of this blend occurred at Rush Limbaugh the Television Show on March 27, 1995. At issue? Proposals to overhaul welfare and free people trapped in poverty.
Fearing a loss of power, Democratic bureaucrats flipped out and screamed: "You're too poor and stupid to support yourself. Just sit there and vote for us and we'll take care of you, you loser." People had become addicted to government money in this way, and the Democrats addicted to their votes. So when the new GOP Congress threatened to liberate the slaves from the liberal plantation, the liberal overseers pulled out all the stops.
It's liberal mean-spiritedness, partisanship and naked lust for power - all balanced by Rush's indomitable sense of humor...
http://wn.com/Rush_Limbaugh_TV_Welfare_Liberation_Plan_Freaks_Out_Dems
(from rushlimbaugh.com):
Alot of people out there now have, and have always had, this misconception of Rush as a negative, super-serious, ranting host. But you simply don't get 22 million listeners, and endure for fourteen years, and win three Marconi Awards from the National Association of Broadcasters with that kind of shtick. That's why the quest to find a "liberal Rush Limbaugh" always fails. Liberals are dour, and miserable, and see the world blowing up every time someone flushes a square of toilet paper.
Rush, on the other hand, has always mixed the serious with comic relief, having fun even when a president is being impeached or when he himself is suffering the rhetorical slings and arrows of those who seek to smear conservatives. A key example of this blend occurred at Rush Limbaugh the Television Show on March 27, 1995. At issue? Proposals to overhaul welfare and free people trapped in poverty.
Fearing a loss of power, Democratic bureaucrats flipped out and screamed: "You're too poor and stupid to support yourself. Just sit there and vote for us and we'll take care of you, you loser." People had become addicted to government money in this way, and the Democrats addicted to their votes. So when the new GOP Congress threatened to liberate the slaves from the liberal plantation, the liberal overseers pulled out all the stops.
It's liberal mean-spiritedness, partisanship and naked lust for power - all balanced by Rush's indomitable sense of humor...
- published: 13 May 2009
- views: 685
- author: ConservatismAlive
Rush Limbaugh TV- Patsy Schroeder On Martha Washington
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- Duration: 5:14
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
Think about how many pundits and politicians have come and gone since 1988. An example is former Congresswoman Patsy Schroeder - infamous for outraging her fellow feminists by crying on her husband's shoulder after pulling out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
We went back to the Rush Limbaugh the TV Show archive to bring back a sweet memory of Ms. Schroeder - in this case, her backpedaling on Martha Washington's role in the Revolution. It's not that women didn't make great contributions to freedom; it's that Patsy was always making things up - as most people would do if they were liberals who the media never bothered to correct.
This is classic truth detecting, folks!
http://wn.com/Rush_Limbaugh_TV_Patsy_Schroeder_On_Martha_Washington
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
Think about how many pundits and politicians have come and gone since 1988. An example is former Congresswoman Patsy Schroeder - infamous for outraging her fellow feminists by crying on her husband's shoulder after pulling out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
We went back to the Rush Limbaugh the TV Show archive to bring back a sweet memory of Ms. Schroeder - in this case, her backpedaling on Martha Washington's role in the Revolution. It's not that women didn't make great contributions to freedom; it's that Patsy was always making things up - as most people would do if they were liberals who the media never bothered to correct.
This is classic truth detecting, folks!
- published: 19 May 2009
- views: 1714
- author: ConservatismAlive
Rush Limbaugh TV- Feminists Won't Eat Meat
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:13
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
Rush's views on radical feminists are one of the most frequently misunderstood and deliberately misrepresented things about the EIB Network. The fact is, "radical" feminists are as different from rank-and-file women as "radical" environmentalists are from those of us who want clean air, water and land. Both factions have hijacked movements that started out with issues we can all support, and twisted them to their own agendas.
This is why Rush has said that there are only about a dozen "FemiNazis" in the world - not that it has stopped liberals from wrongly claiming every 15 minutes that Rush has called "all" women FemiNazis - because he knows these are the radical, crazy, way-outs who do not represent more than a fraction of womenkind.
For this reason, Rush delights in bringing us examples of such extremist behavior, as he did on the May 18, 1994 episode of Rush Limbaugh the Television Show. To yet again clarify his position on women vs. feminists, Rush brought us a story titled "Meat Equals Power in Male-Dominated Society." It's an examination of a woman named Erin McKenna. You just have to hear and see what this pointy headed professor had to say, folks.
http://wn.com/Rush_Limbaugh_TV_Feminists_Won't_Eat_Meat
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
Rush's views on radical feminists are one of the most frequently misunderstood and deliberately misrepresented things about the EIB Network. The fact is, "radical" feminists are as different from rank-and-file women as "radical" environmentalists are from those of us who want clean air, water and land. Both factions have hijacked movements that started out with issues we can all support, and twisted them to their own agendas.
This is why Rush has said that there are only about a dozen "FemiNazis" in the world - not that it has stopped liberals from wrongly claiming every 15 minutes that Rush has called "all" women FemiNazis - because he knows these are the radical, crazy, way-outs who do not represent more than a fraction of womenkind.
For this reason, Rush delights in bringing us examples of such extremist behavior, as he did on the May 18, 1994 episode of Rush Limbaugh the Television Show. To yet again clarify his position on women vs. feminists, Rush brought us a story titled "Meat Equals Power in Male-Dominated Society." It's an examination of a woman named Erin McKenna. You just have to hear and see what this pointy headed professor had to say, folks.
- published: 19 May 2009
- views: 8499
- author: ConservatismAlive
Rush Limbaugh TV- All American First Cavalry Amazon Battalion
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:23
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
January 7, 1994 marked Day 353 of America Held Hostage for the Middle Class, and day 1,107 for the Rich & Dead. On that day's episode of the wildly popular Rush Limbaugh the Television Show, we brought you the story of how the Clinton administration put on hold plans to force women into combat. This was an example of how liberals are dangerous when they're in power pushing their ideas of social engineering on the rest of us, as opposed to when they're out of power and are just harmlessly kooky.
Since, at the time, the GOP was out of power, Rush decided to illustrate the absurdity of the Clintonista position by posing a nutty idea of his own: the All-American First Cavalry Amazon Battalion. Yes, for a long time, Rush has used this humorous bit to take the vitriol and anger and charges of sexism out of the women-in-combat debate. Rush's idea was to use Pre-menstrual Syndrome as a weapon of war.
Rush teased the giggling studio audience into admitting that PMS existed, and then pointed out that "while in a state of PMS, women get crazy. Some women have even committed murder." Since that's exactly what you want in combat, why not use this syndrome to our advantage? Why not have 52 combat-ready divisions, one a week, synchronized to be ready anytime the nation calls?
This is one of the EIB Network's all-time classics, folks. If you haven't seen it before, you have to see it now...
http://wn.com/Rush_Limbaugh_TV_All_American_First_Cavalry_Amazon_Battalion
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
January 7, 1994 marked Day 353 of America Held Hostage for the Middle Class, and day 1,107 for the Rich & Dead. On that day's episode of the wildly popular Rush Limbaugh the Television Show, we brought you the story of how the Clinton administration put on hold plans to force women into combat. This was an example of how liberals are dangerous when they're in power pushing their ideas of social engineering on the rest of us, as opposed to when they're out of power and are just harmlessly kooky.
Since, at the time, the GOP was out of power, Rush decided to illustrate the absurdity of the Clintonista position by posing a nutty idea of his own: the All-American First Cavalry Amazon Battalion. Yes, for a long time, Rush has used this humorous bit to take the vitriol and anger and charges of sexism out of the women-in-combat debate. Rush's idea was to use Pre-menstrual Syndrome as a weapon of war.
Rush teased the giggling studio audience into admitting that PMS existed, and then pointed out that "while in a state of PMS, women get crazy. Some women have even committed murder." Since that's exactly what you want in combat, why not use this syndrome to our advantage? Why not have 52 combat-ready divisions, one a week, synchronized to be ready anytime the nation calls?
This is one of the EIB Network's all-time classics, folks. If you haven't seen it before, you have to see it now...
- published: 19 May 2009
- views: 1514
- author: ConservatismAlive
Rush Limbaugh TV- The Ponytailed Guy Turns Election '92
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- Duration: 5:43
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
One of the lasting images from the 1992 presidential debates between then-President George H. W. Bush, then-Governor Bill Clinton, and then-nut Ross Perot, came during that town hall-style debate. We at the EIB Network call that occurrence "the Ponytail Debate," in honor of that infantile, socialist, long-haired, maggot-infested FM-type questioner who asked the candidates to think of the American people as their children.
On the March 30, 1993 episode of Rush Limbaugh the Television Show, we talked a bit about this debate, because it was a significant insight into the way too many of us think in this country. The Constitution never set up the commander-in-chief to be a father to the nation. In fact, they fought the revolution to overthrow the king as their all-powerful, godlike father from whom all good things flowed.
We are a nation based on freedom and opportunity, not founded on the guarantee of happiness, a salary, a job or a home. We've seen that trying to legislate those kinds of things sounds great, but it's simply not possible. You just can't do it. We brought this ponytail guy up recently, because President George W. Bush received a similar question during a December town hall meeting in Florida.
Dub's answer wasn't that I'll think of you as my kids and take care of you, it was the right answer: I'll help get government out of the way so you get a job. Right on, Mr. President! Right on!
http://wn.com/Rush_Limbaugh_TV_The_Ponytailed_Guy_Turns_Election_'92
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
One of the lasting images from the 1992 presidential debates between then-President George H. W. Bush, then-Governor Bill Clinton, and then-nut Ross Perot, came during that town hall-style debate. We at the EIB Network call that occurrence "the Ponytail Debate," in honor of that infantile, socialist, long-haired, maggot-infested FM-type questioner who asked the candidates to think of the American people as their children.
On the March 30, 1993 episode of Rush Limbaugh the Television Show, we talked a bit about this debate, because it was a significant insight into the way too many of us think in this country. The Constitution never set up the commander-in-chief to be a father to the nation. In fact, they fought the revolution to overthrow the king as their all-powerful, godlike father from whom all good things flowed.
We are a nation based on freedom and opportunity, not founded on the guarantee of happiness, a salary, a job or a home. We've seen that trying to legislate those kinds of things sounds great, but it's simply not possible. You just can't do it. We brought this ponytail guy up recently, because President George W. Bush received a similar question during a December town hall meeting in Florida.
Dub's answer wasn't that I'll think of you as my kids and take care of you, it was the right answer: I'll help get government out of the way so you get a job. Right on, Mr. President! Right on!
- published: 19 May 2009
- views: 4825
- author: ConservatismAlive
Rush Limbaugh TV- God Rest Ye Merry, Feminists
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- Duration: 5:12
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
Folks, we've been holding back on you here at RushLimbaugh.com, saving one last bit of Christmas cheer for that traditional letdown period that begins each January 2nd. Since we're all about being positive and cheerful all year long, we wanted to bring you something from Rush Limbaugh the Television Show's Christmas 1992 episode to remind you that even this holiest of holidays doesn't stop the liberals from acting absurdly.
On that long-ago Christmas day, Rush led the audience in an uproariously funny, FemiNazi sing-a-long, courtesy of our good friends at the Women's Action Coalition. The gals at WAC had started running around to various New York City landmarks at the time and singing their rewritten Christmas carols to reflect their rage at the unfair treatment of their gender.
This provided a golden opportunity for Rush to "illustrate absurdity by being absurd." Thanks to these nutty gals teeing up the ball so nicely, Rush and the audience knocked the joke straight out of the park. This is the great difference between conservatives and so-called liberals. When they find someone on the right acting nutty, they just freak out and start screaming. But when we catch them making fools of themselves, man, we just have a high old time!
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(From rushlimbaugh.com):
Folks, we've been holding back on you here at RushLimbaugh.com, saving one last bit of Christmas cheer for that traditional letdown period that begins each January 2nd. Since we're all about being positive and cheerful all year long, we wanted to bring you something from Rush Limbaugh the Television Show's Christmas 1992 episode to remind you that even this holiest of holidays doesn't stop the liberals from acting absurdly.
On that long-ago Christmas day, Rush led the audience in an uproariously funny, FemiNazi sing-a-long, courtesy of our good friends at the Women's Action Coalition. The gals at WAC had started running around to various New York City landmarks at the time and singing their rewritten Christmas carols to reflect their rage at the unfair treatment of their gender.
This provided a golden opportunity for Rush to "illustrate absurdity by being absurd." Thanks to these nutty gals teeing up the ball so nicely, Rush and the audience knocked the joke straight out of the park. This is the great difference between conservatives and so-called liberals. When they find someone on the right acting nutty, they just freak out and start screaming. But when we catch them making fools of themselves, man, we just have a high old time!
- published: 19 May 2009
- views: 1395
- author: ConservatismAlive
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Rush Limbaugh phones Phoney Soldier Jesse Ventura.
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- Duration: 2:23
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Rush Limbaugh calls Phoney Soldier Jesse Ventura..
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Rush Limbaugh calls Phoney Soldier Jesse Ventura..
- published: 19 Feb 2010
- views: 5742
- author: tonyface2007
Rush Limbaugh gives Charlie Wong a FREE CAR.
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- Duration: 1:32
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Rush Limbaugh helps staunch Republican Charlie Wong set up his own business by buying him a FREE CAR.
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Rush Limbaugh helps staunch Republican Charlie Wong set up his own business by buying him a FREE CAR.
- published: 03 Feb 2010
- views: 923
- author: tonyface2007
Rush Limbaugh gets a call from CHRIS ROCK !!
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- Duration: 2:36
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Chris Rock calls Rush Limbaugh and blames Bush for everything...
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Chris Rock calls Rush Limbaugh and blames Bush for everything...
- published: 25 Feb 2010
- views: 302356
- author: tonyface2007
Rush Limbaugh makes ignorant remarks regarding The Haiti disaster
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- Duration: 0:29
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Rush Limbaugh makes ignorant remarks regarding The Haiti disaster and attacks Obama's credibility.
Speaking on his radio show Wednesday, Limbaugh said the earthquake has played into Obamas hands, allowing the president to look compassionate and humanitarian while at the same time bolstering his standing in both the light-skinned and dark-skinned black community in this country.
He added: We've already donated to Haiti. Its called the U.S. income tax.
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Rush Limbaugh makes ignorant remarks regarding The Haiti disaster and attacks Obama's credibility.
Speaking on his radio show Wednesday, Limbaugh said the earthquake has played into Obamas hands, allowing the president to look compassionate and humanitarian while at the same time bolstering his standing in both the light-skinned and dark-skinned black community in this country.
He added: We've already donated to Haiti. Its called the U.S. income tax.
- published: 13 Feb 2010
- views: 3297
- author: tonyface2007
Ass Rush Limbaugh mocks Michael J. Fox. sickhorses.com
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- Duration: 0:37
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Rush Limbaugh attacks Michael J. Fox. What a terrific guy.
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Rush Limbaugh attacks Michael J. Fox. What a terrific guy.
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- published: 13 Feb 2010
- views: 71977
- author: tonyface2007
Rush Limbaugh does the Bilbo Dance!
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- Duration: 0:24
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
This is not intended to insult Michael J. Fox- rather, it's meant to insult an inconsiderate idiot.
And what a great song to do it to- the bridge from the Leonard Nimoy recording of "The Legend of Bilbo Baggins."
Enjoy!
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This is not intended to insult Michael J. Fox- rather, it's meant to insult an inconsiderate idiot.
And what a great song to do it to- the bridge from the Leonard Nimoy recording of "The Legend of Bilbo Baggins."
Enjoy!
- published: 13 Feb 2010
- views: 7563
- author: tonyface2007
Rush Limbaugh Trashes Michael J Fox
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- Duration: 7:32
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
This was the story from Countdown With Kieth Olberman where Rush Limbaugh calls Michael J Fox a liar for the commercial he made for the Democrat from Missouri
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This was the story from Countdown With Kieth Olberman where Rush Limbaugh calls Michael J Fox a liar for the commercial he made for the Democrat from Missouri
- published: 13 Feb 2010
- views: 346442
- author: tonyface2007
"You're A Brainwashed Nazi" Rush LIMBAUGH
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- Duration: 3:40
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Republican Caller Tells Limbaugh: "You're A Brainwashed Nazi"
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Republican Caller Tells Limbaugh: "You're A Brainwashed Nazi"
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- published: 13 Feb 2010
- views: 3263
- author: tonyface2007
Rush Gets Owned!
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- Duration: 3:40
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Caller criticizes Limbaugh, Hannity, etal, on torture: "It's like you're all brainwashed"
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Caller criticizes Limbaugh, Hannity, etal, on torture: "It's like you're all brainwashed"
- published: 13 Feb 2010
- views: 65639
- author: tonyface2007
Rush Limbaugh Defends Haiti Comments
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- Duration: 9:00
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
1/15/10 Aftershocks
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Part 10 Rush Limbaugh: Obama is Destroying the Economy
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- Duration: 6:55
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Rush Limbaugh monologue from his June 8, 2009 show.
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Rush Limbaugh monologue from his June 8, 2009 show.
- published: 13 Feb 2010
- views: 15801
- author: tonyface2007
Part 9 Rush Limbaugh: Obama is Destroying the Economy
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- Duration: 9:59
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Rush Limbaugh monologue from his June 8, 2009 show.
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Rush Limbaugh monologue from his June 8, 2009 show.
- published: 13 Feb 2010
- views: 15203
- author: tonyface2007
Part 8 Rush Limbaugh: Obama is Destroying the Economy
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- Duration: 9:44
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Rush Limbaugh monologue from his June 8, 2009 show.
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Rush Limbaugh monologue from his June 8, 2009 show.
- published: 13 Feb 2010
- views: 17141
- author: tonyface2007
Part 7 Rush Limbaugh: Obama is Destroying the Economy
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- Duration: 9:44
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Rush Limbaugh monologue from his June 8, 2009 show.
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Rush Limbaugh monologue from his June 8, 2009 show.
- published: 13 Feb 2010
- views: 20254
- author: tonyface2007
Part 6 Rush Limbaugh: Obama is Destroying the Economy
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- Duration: 1:02
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Rush Limbaugh monologue from his June 8, 2009 show.
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Rush Limbaugh monologue from his June 8, 2009 show.
- published: 13 Feb 2010
- views: 17857
- author: tonyface2007
Part 5 Rush Limbaugh: Obama is Destroying the Economy
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- Duration: 9:13
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Rush Limbaugh monologue from his June 8, 2009 show.
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Rush Limbaugh monologue from his June 8, 2009 show.
- published: 13 Feb 2010
- views: 28087
- author: tonyface2007
Part 4 Rush Limbaugh: Obama is Destroying the Economy
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- Duration: 9:44
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Rush Limbaugh monologue from his June 8, 2009 show.
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Rush Limbaugh monologue from his June 8, 2009 show.
- published: 13 Feb 2010
- views: 34185
- author: tonyface2007
Part 3 Rush Limbaugh: Obama is Destroying the Economy
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- Duration: 9:59
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Rush Limbaugh monologue from his June 8, 2009 show.
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Rush Limbaugh monologue from his June 8, 2009 show.
- published: 13 Feb 2010
- views: 39533
- author: tonyface2007
Part 2 Rush Limbaugh: Obama is Destroying the Economy
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- Duration: 9:59
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Rush Limbaugh monologue from his June 8, 2009 show.
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Rush Limbaugh monologue from his June 8, 2009 show.
- published: 13 Feb 2010
- views: 75525
- author: tonyface2007
Part 1 Rush Limbaugh: Obama is Destroying the Economy
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- Duration: 9:59
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Rush Limbaugh monologue from his June 8, 2009 show.
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Rush Limbaugh monologue from his June 8, 2009 show.
- published: 13 Feb 2010
- views: 368756
- author: tonyface2007
Battle at Kruger
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- Duration: 8:24
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
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A battle between a pride of lions, a herd of buffalo, and 2 crocodiles at a watering hole in South Africa's Kruger National Park while on safari.
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COPYRIGHT NOTICE. For licensing opportunities, please visit http://www.BattleAtKruger.com. This video is copyrighted and cannot be used before live audiences or through any form of mass media without the express permission of Jason Schlosberg or David Budzinski. Its use via YouTube is intended for personal use only and can only be viewed on YouTube and websites using the YouTube embed code. Any other use of the video or its screen captures violate this copyright.
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- published: 07 Apr 2010
- views: 69724982
- author: tonyface2007
3:28
Rush Limbaugh TV- Boy sent to principal for Reading Rush
The liberals love to tell us that schools are places of openness and diversity, and that t...
published: 13 May 2009
author: ConservatismAlive
Rush Limbaugh TV- Boy sent to principal for Reading Rush
The liberals love to tell us that schools are places of openness and diversity, and that they are where children should learn about sex because stupid parents can't teach them properly. But back in 1996 a fourth-grade student found out what happens when you open one See, I told You So open to Chapter called Condoms: the New Diploma in school the confiscation of the book in a style that could only make the great book burners of the past misty-eyed.
They embarrassed this kid. When the father went to the school to ask for the book, he was told, "Nein!" (At least, that's what it amounted to.) These are the same people who are open and tolerant and think that bigotry sits only on the other side of the political spectrum. They would surely think twice before taking away a book from a liberal perspective, such as "Heather Has Two Mommies." But conservatism? That has no place in schools.
- published: 13 May 2009
- views: 1427
- author: ConservatismAlive
4:27
Rush Limbaugh TV- Katie Couric Cooks a Lobster
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
Ten years ago, on June 13, 1994, we brought you clips from a Toda...
published: 13 May 2009
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Rush Limbaugh TV- Katie Couric Cooks a Lobster
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
Ten years ago, on June 13, 1994, we brought you clips from a Today Show cooking segment. In it the Perky One, Katie Couric, moaned and groaned and winced over the imagined pain of a lobster dropped into a pot of boiling water. I had to introduce some reality to the feelings people have about these "cockroaches of the sea." A lobster, like other invertebrate, does not feel pain. It's born to eat things then die so we can eat it.
Lobsters are a gift from God, folks and an excuse to eat butter. Everybody knows that they're brainless crustaceans, but that didn't matter to some of the kooks out there: The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. USA Today's story reported that PETA planned to sue the restaurant owners for cruelty! Talk about projecting your emotions onto others! It's a great example of liberal absurdity, and their belief that the government should tell you how to live right down to what you eat for dinner!
- published: 13 May 2009
- views: 3645
- author: ConservatismAlive
0:47
Rush Limbaugh TV- Rush's Ribbons Prove He Cares
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
On the April 15, 1993 episode of my award-winning television show...
published: 13 May 2009
author: ConservatismAlive
Rush Limbaugh TV- Rush's Ribbons Prove He Cares
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
On the April 15, 1993 episode of my award-winning television show, I had a segment in which I showed up at the beginning of the show wearing multiple multicolored ribbons. I had the AIDS ribbon, the deficit spending reduction ribbon, and eight or nine others pinned to the upper left side of my jacket. As you can see in the screen grabs below, it looked quite colorful. It also looked quite absurd.
I did this to make the following brilliant, insightful point. All these people, at the time, kept showing up with ribbons proclaiming these causes, and what they were trying to do was say, "I'm better than you. I care more than you. I'm wearing a ribbon." So the more ribbons you wore, logically, the more you cared - and that lapel of fruit salad clearly made me the most caring man in America on that April night.
Liberals love and embrace symbolism over substance. No ribbon ever cured a disease or reduced the national debt or promoted gay tolerance or accomplished any of the other causes these ribbons professed. All they did was make those wearing them feel like they did their part - when what had they really done? They'd simply accessorized and showed their good intentions.
- published: 13 May 2009
- views: 3820
- author: ConservatismAlive
5:39
Rush Limbaugh TV- Secret Daschle Memo Details Lies
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Correcting Tom Daschle's lies and distortions have taken up a lot ...
published: 13 May 2009
author: ConservatismAlive
Rush Limbaugh TV- Secret Daschle Memo Details Lies
(From rushlimbaugh.com)
Correcting Tom Daschle's lies and distortions have taken up a lot of Rush's time lately, but we've had our eye on the Puffster since long before his days as illegitimate Senate Majority Leader. Yes, America's Truth Detector has been "doing the job the mainstream press used to do" when it comes to this most liberal son of South Dakota since the days of the Neil's Liquor Store memo.
We brought you that four-point memo on the June 26, 1995 edition of Rush Limbaugh the Television Show. A dim-witted DNC staffer accidentally left the super-secret communiqué behind at Neil's, and some EIB operatives faxed it to home base. The memo detailed Tom Daschle's plan to lie about Republicans, hurt the poor with class warfare, and moan about problems rather than solve them - in short, to do exactly what Daschle has been doing ever since.
"It is a rehash of the problems the Democrats think they have," Rush said of this memo, which included a Mark Mellman poll showing the nation clearly favoring the GOP approach to governing. He then went on to pick apart the memo point by point, just as Rush has picked apart Daschle's mean-spirited, partisan attacks ever since.
Now, you know this memo would've been splashed all over the New York Times front page had it come from a Republican staffer. But you never heard a word about Neil's Liquor Store until Rush broke the story. Is there any wonder Rush is the success he is with a mainstream press that refuses to report all the facts? Enjoy this clip, folks, and keep tuned to the EIB Network for the other side stories like this.
- published: 13 May 2009
- views: 923
- author: ConservatismAlive
4:25
Rush Limbaugh TV- Bo Snerdly As Maya Angelou
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In an inaugural full of self-congratulation, record wasting of tax...
published: 13 May 2009
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Rush Limbaugh TV- Bo Snerdly As Maya Angelou
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In an inaugural full of self-congratulation, record wasting of taxpayer money and childishness, perhaps nothing was more memorable that first day of Clinton than Maya Angelou's reading of a poem. This for the man she later called "the First Black President," which wasn't much of a compliment to black Americans like the EIB Network's own Bo Snerdly.
So on the January 21, 1993 episode of Rush Limbaugh the TV Show we had a little fun. Rush welcomed Bo "Angelou" Snerdly and let him read his own poem for Bill Clinton. The audience reaction to our own poet laureate? Thunderous applause! Endless cheering! Screams of passion and tears of joy! It's moving stuff, folks. Watch it now.
- published: 13 May 2009
- views: 9834
- author: ConservatismAlive
4:31
Rush Limbaugh TV- Killer Condemned For Flip Off
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Back on the June 16, 1996 episode of Rush Limbaugh the Television...
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Rush Limbaugh TV- Killer Condemned For Flip Off
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
Back on the June 16, 1996 episode of Rush Limbaugh the Television Show, Rush rolled a very illustrative piece of video from that week's "trial of the century." Richard Allen Davis brutally killed a 12-year-old girl, and faced the death penalty for his crime. You'd think this would have outraged even those on the left coast, right? Wrong. The real outrage didn't come until Davis gave a double flip-off to the television cameras.
Amazingly, this is what upset us - not the murder, but the obscene gesture. In a world where we consider the merest show of remorse reason for acquittal, this monster took this chance to gain sympathy and "tell his side" and used it to offend the open-minded Californians. This act gave pause to those who would have campaigned all night for years to save this murderer from the electric chair. It was a truly surreal event.
- published: 13 May 2009
- views: 2856
- author: ConservatismAlive
10:05
Rush Limbaugh TV- Animals Don't Play "Fair"
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Rush has always had a huge, giant soft spot in his heart for anima...
published: 13 May 2009
author: ConservatismAlive
Rush Limbaugh TV- Animals Don't Play "Fair"
(From rushlimbaugh.com)
Rush has always had a huge, giant soft spot in his heart for animals, and our next TV clip proves it. Rush rolled video of his furry namesake a racing greyhound down in Phoenix. It was a great chance to talk about the hijacking of the animal welfare movement by radicals who use the name "animal rights" to further completely unrelated causes. Rush pointed out one of the unintended consequences of these extremist policies: predators that no longer fear humans.
- published: 13 May 2009
- views: 899
- author: ConservatismAlive
3:22
Rush Limbaugh TV- Senator Byrd So Boring He Cracks Rush Up
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
Back during the first two years when Rush Limbaugh the Television...
published: 13 May 2009
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Rush Limbaugh TV- Senator Byrd So Boring He Cracks Rush Up
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
Back during the first two years when Rush Limbaugh the Television Show graced the airwaves, Bill Clinton was in the White House and the Democrats controlled both houses of Congress. Conservatism seemed to be on the retreat in some places, leaving many in the GOP ranks feeling depressed, because they thought nobody agreed with their point of view - nobody except Rush, that is.
Rush never bought the notion that the Democrats were unbeatable or even competent. Rush brilliantly poked holes in this myth of Democratic invincibility by, among other methods, illustrating what a wacky and strange group of characters the other side had leading them. Senator Fritz Hollings became "Foghorn Leghorn," Bill Clinton became "the philanderer-in-chief," Ross Perot became "the little general," and so on.
One of our favorite targets was Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the Democrat called "the conscience of the Senate," despite having been a member of - and paid recruiter for - the Ku Klux Klan. Senator Byrd has given many longwinded, borderline cuckoo speeches on the Senate floor.
On the occasion of our February 18, 1994 program, Bobby Byrd pontificated on the Balanced Budget Amendment during a hearing at which he was questioning so-called "experts." This exchange could've put anyone to sleep, but it was also funny as all get out. Rush could barely control his laughter, and the studio audience couldn't believe this man was a United States Senator. Enjoy this clip, folks - and while you're watching it, remember: this is the man that, thanks to Jim Jeffords, is now third-in-line for the presidency. It's just these sorts of Washington scenes that you pay for, folks. Remember that as you watch.
- published: 13 May 2009
- views: 3053
- author: ConservatismAlive
3:46
Rush Limbaugh TV- Robert B. Reichhh Fund
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
At the time of the March 15, 1993 episode of Rush Limbaugh the Te...
published: 13 May 2009
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Rush Limbaugh TV- Robert B. Reichhh Fund
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
At the time of the March 15, 1993 episode of Rush Limbaugh the Television Show, we were just getting to know the hilarious cast of characters in the Clinton administration. We fell in love with Labor Secretary Robert B. Reichhhh right away. He had a sense of humor about everything - including his stature - and pushed honestly the whacky, extreme liberal ideas that most Democrats try to slip into law in the dead of night.
Our Man in Washington shot footage at a Children's Defense Fund event, and asked Secretary Reich what he thought of President Clinton accepting money from grade school bake sales to pay off the national debt. Reich stood by like a loyal soldier - and that simply drove Rush crazy! But he responded with good humor, illustrating the absurdity of this policy by doing a now-legendary impression of the diminutive Reich. You have to see this one.
- published: 13 May 2009
- views: 2645
- author: ConservatismAlive
7:34
Rush Limbaugh TV- Bubba Bails On Zoë Baird
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
Since he left office - and indeed while he was in office - Bill C...
published: 13 May 2009
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Rush Limbaugh TV- Bubba Bails On Zoë Baird
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
Since he left office - and indeed while he was in office - Bill Clinton has feverishly tried to find a non-Monica legacy. In an effort to battle the tide of revisionist history, we went back to the archives of Rush Limbaugh the TV Show and focused on the early days of this most scandal-laden administration in history. Specifically, we took a look at the Zoë Baird nomination for attorney general.
Being a woman was Clinton's only qualification for AG. Zoë Baird was his first choice, but was quickly hung out to dry when it turned out she'd hired illegal aliens. Clinton then nominated and withdrew Kimba Wood before finally settling on Janet Reno - and we all know how she turned out. It's a first glimpse at an administration that would take "style over substance" to a new level.
- published: 13 May 2009
- views: 1044
- author: ConservatismAlive
4:29
Rush Limbaugh TV- Ted Kennedy's Unintelligible Introduction
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
In response to the recent, nationwide clamor for more EIB on TV,...
published: 13 May 2009
author: ConservatismAlive
Rush Limbaugh TV- Ted Kennedy's Unintelligible Introduction
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
In response to the recent, nationwide clamor for more EIB on TV, I've decided to go back into the archives of my wildly popular series, Rush Limbaugh the Television Show. Every night for four years, our TV show made history and broke news, doing the job the mainstream press used to do before it sold its soul to liberalism.
- published: 13 May 2009
- views: 11832
- author: ConservatismAlive
2:16
Rush Limbaugh TV- El Rushbo & Elvis Arouse Suspicious Minds
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
This next Rush Limbaugh the Television Show clip, from the Januar...
published: 13 May 2009
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Rush Limbaugh TV- El Rushbo & Elvis Arouse Suspicious Minds
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
This next Rush Limbaugh the Television Show clip, from the January 13, 1993 episode, features a USA Today comparison of two giants of the 20th Century: El Rushbo and Elvis Presley. The comparison came at a time when Rush's book stood unchallenged at the top of the New York Times best seller list, and harkened back to The King's days at the top of Billboard's best seller list. But the comparisons didn't stop there.
The comparison was lighthearted, but it grew out of controversy. At the time, Bill Clinton had launched one of his flailing attempts to link himself to great men of the past to advance his legacy quest. At the time, Democrats called Clinton "the Comeback Kid," and likened him to Elvis. Receiving these marching orders, liberals in the media deafened themselves to the new president's awful saxophone playing enough to compare him to Elvis' sweet guitar.
Unfortunately for USA Today, the stunt fell flat. Readers took offense at the comparison - just as they later would when Clinton tried to cast himself as the new Teddy Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, JFK and Abraham Lincoln. But one reader had some fun with the absurdity of the comparison, writing, "If anyone should be compared to The King, it would be Rush Limbaugh."
The similarities are truly eerie, folks.
- published: 13 May 2009
- views: 1246
- author: ConservatismAlive
5:15
Rush Limbaugh TV- Rush at NBA All-Star Game
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
As you know, Rush is a powerful influential member of the media. ...
published: 13 May 2009
author: ConservatismAlive
Rush Limbaugh TV- Rush at NBA All-Star Game
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
As you know, Rush is a powerful influential member of the media. But did you know that while Rush scorns the usual D.C., inside-the-beltway crowd, he loves to attend sporting events? It's true. So we decided to bring you Rush's 1995 recap of the NBA All-Star Game. Rush attended the event as a guest of Phoenix Suns Coach Paul Westphal, and also had a chance to enjoy the high school players' rookie game.
One of the rookie events was a $1 million three-point shot. The kid who took the shot missed, and chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall - of all people - said later of watching the throw that she was glad the kid missed the shot because that was too much money for a boy of 16 to have. Class envy came up even at a sporting event! NBC also caught Rush delivering a pep talk! It's a side of Rush rarely seen, folks - and we bring it to you here.
- published: 13 May 2009
- views: 790
- author: ConservatismAlive
4:40
Rush Limbaugh TV- Capital Gains Mania
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
"You can never, ever stop teaching." That's one thing that Rush ...
published: 13 May 2009
author: ConservatismAlive
Rush Limbaugh TV- Capital Gains Mania
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
"You can never, ever stop teaching." That's one thing that Rush understands but your average conservative doesn't. Take this clip from the March 22, 1995 episode of Rush Limbaugh the Television Show. While members of the first GOP Congress in decades were taking victory laps around the Beltway, Rush took to the airwaves to remind his viewers of the Democratic assault on the capital gains tax cut and to bring the issue home to them.
Rush rolled clips by some of the very liberal lions he's long outlasted: Senators Jim Sasser and George Mitchell, plus Congressman Tom Foley. Using CBO numbers, Rush nuked the lie that this tax cut is "only for the rich." And so what if it was? We reported recently that the top 1% of earners pay almost 40% of all income taxes collected. This, plus the fact that no poor person ever hired anyone, helps Rush drive his point home.
- published: 13 May 2009
- views: 912
- author: ConservatismAlive
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Dear Mr. Limbaugh: Evelyn's Appeal
On Oct 14, 2011, media personality Rush Limbaugh made comments regarding the US sending mi...
published: 18 Oct 2011
author: Strongheart
Dear Mr. Limbaugh: Evelyn's Appeal
On Oct 14, 2011, media personality Rush Limbaugh made comments regarding the US sending military advisors to assist in apprehending the brutal Ugandan rebel group The Lord's Resistance Army. Evelyn Apoko, a young survivor of the LRA, turned on the camera and offers this heartfelt, emotional appeal to Mr. Limbaugh, on behalf of the children of Africa - and the estimated 300,000 children currently held captive by rebel and government armies worldwide.
Evelyn is a Fellow of the Strongheart Fellowship Program, a groundbreaking residential healing and learning guidance program designed to help bright, resilient young people from extremely challenging circumstances around the globe develop into compassionate, innovative problem-solvers, influencers, and advocates that can affect significant social change.
More information about Evelyn Apoko & the remarkable work of Strongheart can be found at:
www.strongheartfellowship.org
(Info on Strongheart co-founder Cori Stern can be found there as well.)
An online press release about Evelyn's plea can be found at: http://the-strongheart-group.prezly.com/
7:07
Rush Limbaugh's 53 Smears Against Sandra Fluke
published: 23 Apr 2012
author: Daily Kos
Rush Limbaugh's 53 Smears Against Sandra Fluke
1:14
Rush Limbaugh Sure Is Funny
To see more of what makes horrible people tick go to http://everythingisterrible.com....
published: 17 Oct 2008
author: Everything Is Terrible!
Rush Limbaugh Sure Is Funny
To see more of what makes horrible people tick go to http://everythingisterrible.com.
Youtube results:
5:47
Rush Limbaugh TV- Rush Recalls Israeli Visit
(From rushlimbaugh.com): In the summer of 1993, Rush took a five-day, whirlwind tour of Is...
published: 13 May 2009
author: ConservatismAlive
Rush Limbaugh TV- Rush Recalls Israeli Visit
(From rushlimbaugh.com): In the summer of 1993, Rush took a five-day, whirlwind tour of Israel. With that nation in the throes of brutal terrorist attacks, we decided to bring you Rush's recap of the trip on Rush Limbaugh the Television Show's September 15th episode that year. The trip included a variety of sights, meetings with high-ranking officials in the Knesset, then-General Ariel Sharon, future Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and with then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
As has been true for thousands of years, almost ten years after Rush's trip the two sides remain locked in battle. From praying at the Wailing Wall to visiting the Holocaust Memorial and the Golan Heights, Rush brought his unique perspective to this troubled region. What conclusions did he draw? How did the trip shape Rush's conclusion that you will never have peace so long as we keep telling Israel to hold back? Find out right here, right now.
- published: 13 May 2009
- views: 1409
- author: ConservatismAlive
5:40
Rush Limbaugh TV- Kevorkian On Christ
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
Do you remember how shocked people were when Doctor Death, Jack t...
published: 13 May 2009
author: ConservatismAlive
Rush Limbaugh TV- Kevorkian On Christ
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
Do you remember how shocked people were when Doctor Death, Jack the Dripper, Jack Kevorkian appeared on the national scene? There was outrage but that quickly turned to acceptance and an embracing of the culture of death. On the July 29, 1996 episode of Rush Limbaugh the Television Show, we managed to remind people of this guy's psychosis with his bizarre comments on the death of Jesus Christ.
At the National Press Club, Kevorkian described the crucifixion as "undignified." He said, "Do you think it's dignified to hang from wood with nails through your hands and feet, bleeding and hanging for three or four days and slowly dying with people jabbing spears into your side and people jeering you?" Besides the obvious fact that the suffering of Christ for our sins was his whole reason for coming down here, can you imagine the mind that looks at every death and is angry he's not a part of it?
- published: 13 May 2009
- views: 2524
- author: ConservatismAlive
1:32
Rush Limbaugh TV- Hi Ho Liberals! Away!
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
Political correctness, like so many liberal ideas, sounds so good...
published: 13 May 2009
author: ConservatismAlive
Rush Limbaugh TV- Hi Ho Liberals! Away!
(From rushlimbaugh.com):
Political correctness, like so many liberal ideas, sounds so good and simple. But it just goes too far. Sometimes the results cause anger and pain. More often, they're just plain absurd. One such case: the politically correct comic book story of the Lone Ranger and his ever-loyal sidekick Tonto.
Wait, did we say "ever-loyal" Tonto? Our apologies, because as we quickly learned on the August 17, 1995 episode of Rush Limbaugh the Television Show, this is not your father's Lone Ranger sidekick. This new Tonto didn't give a squaw's hind parts for that masked man - a man presumably masked because he feared to show his evil, white, male, European, misogynistic, homophobic face.
Here's the kind of bilge that the baseball card company Topps wastes time and wampum on. Says this Alan Alda-ized Tonto of his former friend: "I'm not his Indian. I'm not anyone's Indian. I'm Tonto!" Folks, this comic started out with the promise that it would change the world, but here it is seven years later and have you even heard of it? Of course you haven't, because it's long gone - but the laughter lives on.
- published: 13 May 2009
- views: 1447
- author: ConservatismAlive
3:54
Rush Limbaugh TV- Welfare Liberation Plan Freaks Out Dems
(from rushlimbaugh.com):
Alot of people out there now have, and have always had, this misc...
published: 13 May 2009
author: ConservatismAlive
Rush Limbaugh TV- Welfare Liberation Plan Freaks Out Dems
(from rushlimbaugh.com):
Alot of people out there now have, and have always had, this misconception of Rush as a negative, super-serious, ranting host. But you simply don't get 22 million listeners, and endure for fourteen years, and win three Marconi Awards from the National Association of Broadcasters with that kind of shtick. That's why the quest to find a "liberal Rush Limbaugh" always fails. Liberals are dour, and miserable, and see the world blowing up every time someone flushes a square of toilet paper.
Rush, on the other hand, has always mixed the serious with comic relief, having fun even when a president is being impeached or when he himself is suffering the rhetorical slings and arrows of those who seek to smear conservatives. A key example of this blend occurred at Rush Limbaugh the Television Show on March 27, 1995. At issue? Proposals to overhaul welfare and free people trapped in poverty.
Fearing a loss of power, Democratic bureaucrats flipped out and screamed: "You're too poor and stupid to support yourself. Just sit there and vote for us and we'll take care of you, you loser." People had become addicted to government money in this way, and the Democrats addicted to their votes. So when the new GOP Congress threatened to liberate the slaves from the liberal plantation, the liberal overseers pulled out all the stops.
It's liberal mean-spiritedness, partisanship and naked lust for power - all balanced by Rush's indomitable sense of humor...
- published: 13 May 2009
- views: 685
- author: ConservatismAlive
2:23
Rush Limbaugh phones Phoney Soldier Jesse Ventura.
Rush Limbaugh calls Phoney Soldier Jesse Ventura.....
published: 19 Feb 2010
author: tonyface2007
Rush Limbaugh phones Phoney Soldier Jesse Ventura.
Rush Limbaugh calls Phoney Soldier Jesse Ventura..
- published: 19 Feb 2010
- views: 5742
- author: tonyface2007
1:32
Rush Limbaugh gives Charlie Wong a FREE CAR.
Rush Limbaugh helps staunch Republican Charlie Wong set up his own business by buying him ...
published: 03 Feb 2010
author: tonyface2007
Rush Limbaugh gives Charlie Wong a FREE CAR.
Rush Limbaugh helps staunch Republican Charlie Wong set up his own business by buying him a FREE CAR.
- published: 03 Feb 2010
- views: 923
- author: tonyface2007
2:36
Rush Limbaugh gets a call from CHRIS ROCK !!
Chris Rock calls Rush Limbaugh and blames Bush for everything......
published: 25 Feb 2010
author: tonyface2007
Rush Limbaugh gets a call from CHRIS ROCK !!
Chris Rock calls Rush Limbaugh and blames Bush for everything...
- published: 25 Feb 2010
- views: 302356
- author: tonyface2007
0:29
Rush Limbaugh makes ignorant remarks regarding The Haiti disaster
Rush Limbaugh makes ignorant remarks regarding The Haiti disaster and attacks Obama's cred...
published: 13 Feb 2010
author: tonyface2007
Rush Limbaugh makes ignorant remarks regarding The Haiti disaster
Rush Limbaugh makes ignorant remarks regarding The Haiti disaster and attacks Obama's credibility.
Speaking on his radio show Wednesday, Limbaugh said the earthquake has played into Obamas hands, allowing the president to look compassionate and humanitarian while at the same time bolstering his standing in both the light-skinned and dark-skinned black community in this country.
He added: We've already donated to Haiti. Its called the U.S. income tax.
- published: 13 Feb 2010
- views: 3297
- author: tonyface2007
0:37
Ass Rush Limbaugh mocks Michael J. Fox. sickhorses.com
Rush Limbaugh attacks Michael J. Fox. What a terrific guy.
http://sickhorses.com...
published: 13 Feb 2010
author: tonyface2007
Ass Rush Limbaugh mocks Michael J. Fox. sickhorses.com
Rush Limbaugh attacks Michael J. Fox. What a terrific guy.
http://sickhorses.com
- published: 13 Feb 2010
- views: 71977
- author: tonyface2007
0:24
Rush Limbaugh does the Bilbo Dance!
This is not intended to insult Michael J. Fox- rather, it's meant to insult an inconsidera...
published: 13 Feb 2010
author: tonyface2007
Rush Limbaugh does the Bilbo Dance!
This is not intended to insult Michael J. Fox- rather, it's meant to insult an inconsiderate idiot.
And what a great song to do it to- the bridge from the Leonard Nimoy recording of "The Legend of Bilbo Baggins."
Enjoy!
- published: 13 Feb 2010
- views: 7563
- author: tonyface2007
7:32
Rush Limbaugh Trashes Michael J Fox
This was the story from Countdown With Kieth Olberman where Rush Limbaugh calls Michael J ...
published: 13 Feb 2010
author: tonyface2007
Rush Limbaugh Trashes Michael J Fox
This was the story from Countdown With Kieth Olberman where Rush Limbaugh calls Michael J Fox a liar for the commercial he made for the Democrat from Missouri
- published: 13 Feb 2010
- views: 346442
- author: tonyface2007
3:40
"You're A Brainwashed Nazi" Rush LIMBAUGH
Republican Caller Tells Limbaugh: "You're A Brainwashed Nazi"
courtesy www.Mediamatters...
published: 13 Feb 2010
author: tonyface2007
"You're A Brainwashed Nazi" Rush LIMBAUGH
Republican Caller Tells Limbaugh: "You're A Brainwashed Nazi"
courtesy www.Mediamatters.org
- published: 13 Feb 2010
- views: 3263
- author: tonyface2007
3:40
Rush Gets Owned!
Caller criticizes Limbaugh, Hannity, etal, on torture: "It's like you're all brainwashed"...
published: 13 Feb 2010
author: tonyface2007
Rush Gets Owned!
Caller criticizes Limbaugh, Hannity, etal, on torture: "It's like you're all brainwashed"
- published: 13 Feb 2010
- views: 65639
- author: tonyface2007
9:00
Rush Limbaugh Defends Haiti Comments
1/15/10 Aftershocks...
published: 13 Feb 2010
author: tonyface2007
Rush Limbaugh Defends Haiti Comments
1/15/10 Aftershocks
- published: 13 Feb 2010
- views: 11501
- author: tonyface2007
6:55
Part 10 Rush Limbaugh: Obama is Destroying the Economy
Rush Limbaugh monologue from his June 8, 2009 show....
published: 13 Feb 2010
author: tonyface2007
Part 10 Rush Limbaugh: Obama is Destroying the Economy
Rush Limbaugh monologue from his June 8, 2009 show.
- published: 13 Feb 2010
- views: 15801
- author: tonyface2007
9:59
Part 9 Rush Limbaugh: Obama is Destroying the Economy
Rush Limbaugh monologue from his June 8, 2009 show....
published: 13 Feb 2010
author: tonyface2007
Part 9 Rush Limbaugh: Obama is Destroying the Economy
Rush Limbaugh monologue from his June 8, 2009 show.
- published: 13 Feb 2010
- views: 15203
- author: tonyface2007
9:44
Part 8 Rush Limbaugh: Obama is Destroying the Economy
Rush Limbaugh monologue from his June 8, 2009 show....
published: 13 Feb 2010
author: tonyface2007
Part 8 Rush Limbaugh: Obama is Destroying the Economy
Rush Limbaugh monologue from his June 8, 2009 show.
- published: 13 Feb 2010
- views: 17141
- author: tonyface2007
9:44
Part 7 Rush Limbaugh: Obama is Destroying the Economy
Rush Limbaugh monologue from his June 8, 2009 show....
published: 13 Feb 2010
author: tonyface2007
Part 7 Rush Limbaugh: Obama is Destroying the Economy
Rush Limbaugh monologue from his June 8, 2009 show.
- published: 13 Feb 2010
- views: 20254
- author: tonyface2007
Vimeo results:
5:11
Dear Mr. Limbaugh: Evelyn's Appeal
On Oct 14, 2011, media personality Rush Limbaugh made comments regarding the US sending mi...
published: 18 Oct 2011
author: Strongheart
Dear Mr. Limbaugh: Evelyn's Appeal
On Oct 14, 2011, media personality Rush Limbaugh made comments regarding the US sending military advisors to assist in apprehending the brutal Ugandan rebel group The Lord's Resistance Army. Evelyn Apoko, a young survivor of the LRA, turned on the camera and offers this heartfelt, emotional appeal to Mr. Limbaugh, on behalf of the children of Africa - and the estimated 300,000 children currently held captive by rebel and government armies worldwide.
Evelyn is a Fellow of the Strongheart Fellowship Program, a groundbreaking residential healing and learning guidance program designed to help bright, resilient young people from extremely challenging circumstances around the globe develop into compassionate, innovative problem-solvers, influencers, and advocates that can affect significant social change.
More information about Evelyn Apoko & the remarkable work of Strongheart can be found at:
www.strongheartfellowship.org
(Info on Strongheart co-founder Cori Stern can be found there as well.)
An online press release about Evelyn's plea can be found at: http://the-strongheart-group.prezly.com/
7:07
Rush Limbaugh's 53 Smears Against Sandra Fluke
published: 23 Apr 2012
author: Daily Kos
Rush Limbaugh's 53 Smears Against Sandra Fluke
1:14
Rush Limbaugh Sure Is Funny
To see more of what makes horrible people tick go to http://everythingisterrible.com....
published: 17 Oct 2008
author: Everything Is Terrible!
Rush Limbaugh Sure Is Funny
To see more of what makes horrible people tick go to http://everythingisterrible.com.
Youtube results:
1:02
Part 6 Rush Limbaugh: Obama is Destroying the Economy
Rush Limbaugh monologue from his June 8, 2009 show....
published: 13 Feb 2010
author: tonyface2007
Part 6 Rush Limbaugh: Obama is Destroying the Economy
Rush Limbaugh monologue from his June 8, 2009 show.
- published: 13 Feb 2010
- views: 17857
- author: tonyface2007
9:13
Part 5 Rush Limbaugh: Obama is Destroying the Economy
Rush Limbaugh monologue from his June 8, 2009 show....
published: 13 Feb 2010
author: tonyface2007
Part 5 Rush Limbaugh: Obama is Destroying the Economy
Rush Limbaugh monologue from his June 8, 2009 show.
- published: 13 Feb 2010
- views: 28087
- author: tonyface2007
9:44
Part 4 Rush Limbaugh: Obama is Destroying the Economy
Rush Limbaugh monologue from his June 8, 2009 show....
published: 13 Feb 2010
author: tonyface2007
Part 4 Rush Limbaugh: Obama is Destroying the Economy
Rush Limbaugh monologue from his June 8, 2009 show.
- published: 13 Feb 2010
- views: 34185
- author: tonyface2007
9:59
Part 3 Rush Limbaugh: Obama is Destroying the Economy
Rush Limbaugh monologue from his June 8, 2009 show....
published: 13 Feb 2010
author: tonyface2007
Part 3 Rush Limbaugh: Obama is Destroying the Economy
Rush Limbaugh monologue from his June 8, 2009 show.
- published: 13 Feb 2010
- views: 39533
- author: tonyface2007
photo: Creative Commons / Axou
24 Dec 2012
Steve Jobs was controversial in life, and now his high-tech mega-yacht is associated with a controversy long after his death. The former Apple CEO's ship was impounded in Amsterdam in the middle of a financial battle over a disputed bill. Phillippe Starck, a French product designer and architect, has alleged that Jobs' heirs owe him 3 million euros for his work on Venus, the 256-foot yacht Jobs commissioned before his death ... ... ....(size: 2.6Kb)
photo: WN / Janice Sabnal
27 Dec 2012
Washington. Six people, including two young children, were left dead in weather-related accidents, as winter snowstorms complicated travel for many Americans in the Midwest and Northeast on Wednesday. Snow totals in parts of Indiana ranged from 6 to 12 inches, CNN reported. About 350 snowploughs were clearing roads throughout the city. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told residents they should avoid nonessential travel ... IANS ... ....(size: 2.2Kb)
photo: AP / Adel Hana
25 Dec 2012
Thousands of Christians from the world over have packed Manger Square in Bethlehem to celebrate the birth of Jesus in the ancient West Bank town where he was born. For their Palestinian hosts, this holiday season was an especially joyous one, with the hardships of the Israeli occupation that so often clouded previous Christmas Eve celebrations eased by the United Nations' recent recognition of an independent state of Palestine ... - AP. ....(size: 9.3Kb)
photo: AP / Hasan Jamali
26 Dec 2012
The six Gulf states have sharpened their tone against their neighbour Iran, demanding an immediate halt to its "interference" in their internal affairs while urging action to halt mass killings and violations of international law in Syria ... The council said they "reject and denounce" Iran's "continued interference" in their internal affairs that increase regional tension and threaten security and stability ... 419 Source.. Agencies. Share ... ....(size: 18.7Kb)
The Examiner
27 Dec 2012
One of the leading voices of the far right media is radio talk show host, Rush Limbaugh ... Limbaugh continued and claimed that all shooters are "liberals" who are "mentally disturbed.". Rush Limbaugh ... Rush Limbaugh ... Rush Limbaugh ... Whether it's right-wing talkers like Rush Limbaugh, the talking heads on Fox News or an outrageous speech made by the head of the NRA, commonsense gun laws don't seem to stick with extreme conservatives....(size: 2.7Kb)
Kansas City Star
27 Dec 2012
Lock Rush Limbaugh in a closet ... And that has nothing to do with my view of Limbaugh, which admittedly isn’t very high ... But removing the bust of Limbaugh from the Missouri Capitol’s rotunda would solve the ridiculous controversy about it ... Recall in the spring that former House speaker Steve Tilley chose to honor Limbaugh by placing his bronze bust in the Hall of Famous Missourians ... Limbaugh never should have been considered....(size: 2.9Kb)
Stuff
27 Dec 2012
Rush Limbaugh. While Rush Limbaugh spews a lot of dirtbag-level junk, he hit a particular nerve in February with his comments about Sandra Fluke, calling her a "slut" and "prostitute" for appearing before the House to gain support for contraceptive coverage. Or, as Jezebelwrote, "The talking butthole that replaced Rush Limbaugh's face decades ago is making sounds again."...(size: 8.7Kb)
New York Daily News
27 Dec 2012
After several years of recession-induced stability, New York radio resumed playing musical chairs in 2012. The most shocking move was the disappearance of WRKS (98.7 FM), which had been Kiss-FM from 1981 until this April 30. The demise of Kiss left the new owners of WBLS (107.5 FM) with the city’s only “adult urban contemporary” station ... 2 ... Joy Browne, and are expected to bring in Rush Limbaugh next year ... ....(size: 2.5Kb)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
27 Dec 2012
.. Polls rightly show that the American people will blame the Republican Party for pushing the country over the Fiscal Cliff, and into across-the-board tax increases, solely to prevent tax increases on the wealthiest among us that a majority of Americans, via their 2012 Presidential vote, said they supported ... Election over. Case closed - - even if Rush Limbaugh is still in his lather and Karl Rove still can't believe it ... Comments (0). ... ....(size: 8.7Kb)
Denver Post
27 Dec 2012
Time to see if you were paying attention over the past year. • What vanishing products will Americans pretend to miss the most? A) Newsweek, print edition. B) Kodak film. C) Phone books. D) Twinkies. • Best Buy Co. emerged as. A) a struggling retailer that only its founder would be crazy enough to buy. B) a showroom for Amazon.com Inc. C) a company that makes RadioShack Corp. look, well, not so bad ... • Which U.S ... C) Rush Limbaugh ... ....(size: 6.2Kb)
Yahoo Daily News
27 Dec 2012
Despite a recent shift toward greater belief in anthropogenic climate change, perception of its risks remains low among the US public. A study published in the September issue of Nature Climate Change may help explain why ... positive) ... The fact that the Nature study found that The Rush Limbaugh Show provided the most "explanation" of climate models among major news publications and programs should be disconcerting enough ... reusable vs ... NOAA....(size: 9.4Kb)
Star Tribune
27 Dec 2012
Americans preparing for this year's holiday season got a nasty pre-Christmas present from the U.S. House of Representatives ... 1, ostensibly following an adverse reaction by stock and bond markets and ratings agencies ... And the primary challenge would be driven by the money coming from the Club for Growth and other right-wing groups, and amplified by the right-wing wind machine led by Rush Limbaugh ... So much for the House ... Congress ... . ....(size: 10.6Kb)
Yahoo Daily News
26 Dec 2012
It has been seven months since Rush Limbaugh's likeness was enshrined into the Hall of Famous Missourians ... Jay Nixon's office over the choice of having the controversial talk show host as a permanent reminder of the ire Limbaugh creates ... * In a Twitter post responding to the article, Jones supported "the battle over getting the Rush bust out" of the capitol....(size: 2.8Kb)
STL Today
26 Dec 2012
Rush Limbaugh. While Rush Limbaugh spews a lot of dirtbag-level junk, he hit a particular nerve in February with his comments about Sandra Fluke, calling her a "slut" and "prostitute" for appearing before the House to gain support for contraceptive coverage. Or, as Jezebel wrote, "The talking [expletive] that replaced Rush Limbaugh's face decades ago is making sounds again."...(size: 7.3Kb)
The Guardian
26 Dec 2012
Washington Post reports that the former head of Tea Party-backer FreedomWorks feared group was being hijacked ... Photograph. Win McNamee/Getty ... FreedomWorks was one of the driving forces behind the Tea Party movement, helping right wing candidates sweep to power in the 2010 mid-term elections and organising massive rallies with conservative media stars like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh ... ....(size: 5.6Kb)
The Verge
26 Dec 2012
From The Fountainhead to the Furries ... These ideas were later picked up on and put into play by major right-wing figures of the past half decade, including the key architects of America's most recent economic catastrophe -- former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan and SEC Commissioner Chris Cox -- along with other notable right-wing Republicans such as Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Rush Limbaugh and South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford ... ....(size: 4.3Kb)
Foreign Policy
26 Dec 2012
Americans preparing for this year's holiday season got a nasty pre-Christmas present from the U.S. House of Representatives ... COMMENTS (0) SHARE.. Twitter . Reddit . More... But it underscores how seriously dysfunctional the House continues to be ... And the primary challenge would be driven by the money coming from the Club for Growth and other right-wing groups, and amplified by the right-wing wind machine led by Rush Limbaugh ... ....(size: 5.6Kb)
For other members of the Limbaugh family, see Limbaugh family.
| Rush Limbaugh | |
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 Rush Limbaugh, 2009 |
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| Born | Rush Hudson Limbaugh III (1951-01-12) January 12, 1951 (age 61) Cape Girardeau, Missouri, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Southeast Missouri State University (did not graduate) |
| Occupation | Radio host, political commentator, author, television host (former) |
| Years active | 1967–present |
| Spouse | Roxy Maxine McNeely (1977–1980, div.) Michelle Sixta (1983–1990, div.) Marta Fitzgerald (1994–2004, div.) Kathryn Rogers (2010–pres) |
| Website | |
| www.rushlimbaugh.com | |
Rush Hudson Limbaugh III ( /ˈlɪmbɔː/; born January 12, 1951) is an American radio talk show host and political commentator. Since he was 16 Limbaugh has worked a series of disc jockey jobs. His talk show began in 1984 at Sacramento radio station KFBK, featuring his ongoing format of political commentary and listener calls. In 1988 Limbaugh began broadcasting his show nationally from radio station WABC in New York, New York. He currently lives in West Palm Beach, Florida, from where he broadcasts the The Rush Limbaugh Show, the highest-rated talk-radio program in the United States.[1][2]
In the 1990s Limbaugh's books The Way Things Ought to Be (1992) and See, I Told You So (1993) made The New York Times Best Seller list. Limbaugh frequently criticizes, in his books and on his show, what he regards as liberal policies and politicians, as well as what he perceives as a pervasive liberal bias in major U.S. media.
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Early life[link]
Family and background[link]
See also: Limbaugh family
Rush Hudson Limbaugh III was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, the son of Mildred Carolyn "Millie" (née Armstrong) and Rush Hudson Limbaugh, Jr. His father was a lawyer and a U.S. fighter pilot who served in the China Burma India Theater of World War II. His mother was a native of Searcy, Arkansas. The name "Rush" was originally chosen for his grandfather to honor the maiden name of family member Edna Rush.[3]
His family has many lawyers, including his grandfather, father and brother David. His uncle, Stephen N. Limbaugh, Sr. is a Ronald Reagan-appointed federal judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. His cousin, Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr., is currently a judge in the same court, appointed by George W. Bush. Rush Limbaugh, Sr., Limbaugh's grandfather was a Missouri prosecutor, judge, special commissioner, member of the Missouri House of Representatives from 1930 until 1932, and longtime president of the Missouri Historical Society.[4] The Federal Courthouse in Cape Girardeau is named for Limbaugh's grandfather.
Education and Vietnam draft[link]
Limbaugh began his career in radio as a teenager in 1967 in his hometown of Cape Girardeau, using the name Rusty Sharpe.[3][5] Limbaugh graduated from Cape Girardeau, Missouri Central High School, in 1969. Because of his parents' desire to see him attend college, he enrolled in Southeast Missouri State University but left the school after two semesters and one summer. According to his mother, "he flunked everything", and "he just didn't seem interested in anything except radio."[3][6]
Limbaugh was not drafted during the Vietnam War draft lottery, as his birth date's high rank (152) was well above the 125 rank below which service members were drafted. He was classified as "1-Y" (later reclassified "4-F") due to a pilonidal cyst.[3][7]
Professional career[link]
1970s[link]
After dropping out of college, Limbaugh moved to McKeesport, Pennsylvania. In 1972, he became a Top 40 music disc jockey on WIXZ, a small AM radio station that reached much of the Pittsburgh area. He started with an afternoon show and later did mornings, broadcasting under the name Jeff Christie. Limbaugh moved to Pittsburgh station KQV in 1973 as the evening disc jockey, succeeding Jim Quinn. He was fired in late-1974, when the station was sold to Taft Broadcasting. Limbaugh was reportedly told by management that he would never make it as on air talent, and should consider going into sales.[3] Unable to find another job in local radio, Limbaugh moved back home to Cape Girardeau. He became a lifelong fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers from his time in the region.[8]
For the rest of the decade Limbaugh took jobs at several radio stations, working in music radio, before settling in Kansas City. In 1979, he left radio and accepted a position as director of promotions with the Kansas City Royals baseball team.[3] There he developed a close friendship with then-Royals star third baseman and future Hall of Famer George Brett; the two remain close friends.[9]
1980s[link]
In 1984, Limbaugh returned to radio as a talk show host at KFBK in Sacramento, California, where he replaced Morton Downey, Jr.[3] The repeal of the Fairness Doctrine—which had required that stations provide free air time for responses to any controversial opinions that were broadcast—by the FCC in 1987 meant stations could broadcast editorial commentary without having to present opposing views. Daniel Henninger wrote, in a Wall Street Journal editorial, "Ronald Reagan tore down this wall (the Fairness Doctrine) in 1987 ... and Rush Limbaugh was the first man to proclaim himself liberated from the East Germany of liberal media domination."[10]
On August 1, 1988, after achieving success in Sacramento and drawing the attention of former ABC Radio President Edward F. McLaughlin, Limbaugh moved to New York City and began his national radio show. He debuted just weeks after the Democratic National Convention, and just weeks before the Republican National Convention. Limbaugh's radio home in New York City was the talk-formatted WABC, and this remains his flagship station (although Limbaugh now hosts his program from West Palm Beach).[3]
1990s[link]
In December 1990, journalist Lewis Grossberger wrote in The New York Times that Limbaugh had "more listeners than any other talk show host" and described Limbaugh's style as "bouncing between earnest lecturer and political vaudevillian".[11] Limbaugh's rising popularity coincided with the Persian Gulf War, and his support for the war effort and his relentless ridicule of peace activists. The program gained more popularity and was moved to stations with larger audiences, eventually being broadcast on over 650 radio stations nationwide.
In 1992, Democrat Bill Clinton was elected president of the United States. Limbaugh satirized the policies of Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, as well as those of the Democratic Party. When the Republican Party won control of Congress in the 1994 midterm elections, the freshman Republican class awarded Limbaugh an honorary membership in their caucus. This event confirmed him as an influential figure on the national political scene.[12]
2000s[link]
Limbaugh had publicized personal difficulties in the 2000s. In late 2001, he acknowledged that he had gone almost completely deaf, although he continued his show. He was able to regain much of his hearing with the help of cochlear implants.
In 2003, Limbaugh had a brief stint as a pro football commentator with ESPN. He resigned a few weeks into the 2003 NFL season after making comments about the press coverage for quarterback Donovan McNabb that caused controversy and accusations of racism on the part of Limbaugh. His comment about McNabb was: "I don't think he's been that good from the get-go. I think what we've had here is a little social concern in the NFL. I think the media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. They're interested in black coaches and black quarterbacks doing well. I think there's a little hope invested in McNabb and he got a lot of credit for the performance of his team that he really didn't deserve. The defense carried this team."[13] For example, a sportswriter construed the comment as racist against himself and other sportswriters.[14] Another sports analyst wrote Limbaugh's viewpoint was shared by "many football fans and analysts" and "it is ... absurd to say that the sports media haven't overrated Donovan McNabb because he's black."[15]
In April 2006, Limbaugh turned himself in and was arrested "on a single charge of prescription fraud".[16] His record was later expunged after 18 months of rehabilitation and paying court costs.
[edit] The Rush Limbaugh Show
Main article: The Rush Limbaugh Show
Limbaugh's radio show airs for three hours each weekday beginning at noon Eastern Standard Time on both AM and FM radio. The program is also broadcast worldwide on the Armed Forces Radio Network.
Radio broadcasting shifted from AM to FM in the late 1970s because of the opportunity to broadcast music in stereo with better fidelity. Limbaugh's show was first nationally syndicated in August 1988, in a later stage of AM's decline. Limbaugh's popularity paved the way for other conservative talk radio programming to become commonplace on the AM radio. In March 2006, WBAL in Baltimore became the first major market radio station in the country to drop Limbaugh's nationally syndicated radio program.[17] In 2007, Talkers magazine again named him #1 in its "Heavy Hundred" most important talk show hosts.
Limbaugh frequently mentions the EIB (Excellence In Broadcasting) network, but this is a mythic construction, as he told The New York Times in 1990.[18] In reality, his show was co-owned and first syndicated by Edward F. McLaughlin, former president of ABC who founded EFM Media in 1988, with Limbaugh's show as his first product. In 1997, McLaughlin sold EFM to Jacor Communications, which was ultimately bought up by Clear Channel Communications. Today, Limbaugh owns a majority of the show, which is syndicated by the Premiere Radio Networks.
According to a 2001 article in U.S. News & World Report, Limbaugh had an eight-year contract, at the rate of $31.25 million a year.[19] In 2007, Limbaugh earned $33 million.[20] On July 2, 2008, Matt Drudge reported that Limbaugh signed a contract extension through 2016 that is worth over $400 million, breaking records for any broadcast.[21] A November 2008 poll by Zogby International found that Rush Limbaugh was the most trusted news personality in the nation, garnering 12.5% of poll responses.[22]
Television show[link]
Limbaugh had a syndicated half-hour television show from 1992 through 1996, produced by Roger Ailes. The show discussed many of the topics on his radio show, and was taped in front of an audience. Rush Limbaugh says he loves doing his radio show[23] but not a TV show.[24]
Other media appearances[link]
Limbaugh's first television hosting experience came March 30, 1990, as a guest host on Pat Sajak's CBS late-night talk show, The Pat Sajak Show.[25] ACT UP activists in the audience[26] heckled Limbaugh repeatedly; ultimately the entire studio audience was cleared. In 2001, Sajak said the incident was "legendary around CBS".[27]
On December 17, 1993, Limbaugh appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman.[28] Limbaugh also guest-starred (as himself) on a 1994 episode of Hearts Afire. He appeared in the 1995 Billy Crystal film Forget Paris, and in 1998 on an episode of The Drew Carey Show.
In 2007, Limbaugh made cameo appearances on Fox News Channel's short-lived The 1/2 Hour News Hour in a series of parodies portraying him as the future President of the United States. In the parodies, his vice president was fellow conservative pundit Ann Coulter. He also made a cameo in the Family Guy episode "Blue Harvest" that year. More recent Family Guy appearances have been: the 2010 episode "Excellence in Broadcasting", and the 2011 episode "It's a Trap!", a parody of Return of the Jedi, in which Limbaugh can be heard on the radio claiming that, among other things, the "intergalactic liberal space media" was lying about climate change on the planet Hoth, and that Lando Calrissian's administrative position on Cloud City was a result of affirmative action.
His persona has often been utilized as a template for a stereotypical conservative talk show host on TV shows and in movies, including an episode of The Simpsons (as a conservative talk radio host named Birch Barlow), as Gus Baker on an episode of Beavis and Butt-head, as Lash Rambo (host of "Perfection in Broadcasting") on an episode of The New WKRP in Cincinnati, and as Fielding Chase in the Columbo spinoff film Butterfly in Shades of Grey.
As a result of his television program, Limbaugh became known for wearing distinctive neckties. In response to viewer interest, Limbaugh launched a series of ties[29] designed primarily by his then-wife Marta.[30] Sales of the ties reached over US$5 million in their initial sales year, but were later discontinued.
In January 2010, Chicago's Second City announced a new production, Rush Limbaugh: The Musical, a musical parody-pastiche following in the footsteps of 2009's successful run of Rod Blagojevich Superstar, which has been written and developed by the same creative team.
On January 30, 2010, Limbaugh was a judge for the 2010 Miss America pageant in Las Vegas.[31] In early 2011, Limbaugh was the subject of the third season of Golf Channel's The Haney Project, in which instructor Hank Haney coached him in eight episodes.[32]
Views[link]
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In his first New York Times best seller, Limbaugh describes himself as conservative, and is critical of broadcasters in many media outlets for claiming to be objective. He has criticized political centrists, independents, and moderate conservatives, claiming they are responsible for Democrat Barack Obama's victory over Republican John McCain in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election and inviting them to leave the Republican party. He calls for the adoption of core conservative philosophies in order to ensure the survival of the Republican party.[33][34][35]
James Rainey of the Los Angeles Times quoted Limbaugh as saying after the 2008 election of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States that the Democrats will "take your 401(k), put it in the Social Security Trust Fund."[36]
African-Americans[link]
Limbaugh has been noted for making controversial race-related statements with regard to African-Americans. He has drawn connections between African-American appearance and criminality on several occasions, once opining that all newspaper composite pictures of wanted criminals resembled Jesse Jackson, and another time that "the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons."[37][38] While employed as what he describes as an "insult-radio" DJ, he used a derogatory racial stereotype to characterize a black caller he could not understand, telling the caller to "take that bone out of your nose and call me back."[38] In March, 2010, Limbaugh used the similarity of recently resigned Rep. Eric Massa's surname to the slavery-era African-American pronunciation of "master" to make a pun on the possibility that Gov. David Paterson, New York's first African-American governor, would pick Massa's replacement: "Let's assume you're right [caller]. So, David Paterson will become the massa who gets to appoint whoever gets to take Massa's place. So, for the first time in his life, Paterson's gonna be a massa. Interesting, interesting."[39]
Limbaugh has asserted that African-Americans, in contrast with other minority groups, are "left behind" socially because they have been systematically trained from a young age to hate America through a widespread movement headed by figures such as Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers, and Barack and Michelle Obama.[40]
Capital punishment[link]
Limbaugh supports capital punishment, saying "the only thing cruel about the death penalty is last-minute stays."[41]
Drug abuse[link]
Limbaugh has been an outspoken critic of what he sees as leniency towards criminal drug use in America. On his television show in October 5, 1995, Limbaugh stated, "too many whites are getting away with drug use" and illegal drug trafficking. Limbaugh proposed that the racial disparity in drug enforcement could be fixed if authorities increased detection efforts, conviction rates, and jail time for whites involved in illegal drugs.[42]
In 2006, the Palm Beach County State Attorney charged Limbaugh with doctor shopping to obtain OxyContin. The State Attorney subsequently reached an agreement with Limbaugh in which the charge was dropped after Limbaugh agreed to pay $30,000 to defray the investigation cost and to complete an 18-month therapy regimen with his physician.[43]
Environmental issues[link]
Limbaugh is critical of environmentalism and climate science.[44] He has disputed claims of anthropogenic global warming, and the relationship between CFCs and depletion of the ozone layer, saying the scientific evidence does not support them.[41] Limbaugh has argued against the scientific opinion on climate change saying the alleged scientific consensus "is just a bunch of scientists organized around a political proposition."[45] Limbaugh has used the term "environmentalist wacko" when referring to left-leaning environmental advocates.[46] As a rhetorical device, he has also used the term to refer to more mainstream climate scientists and other environmental scientists and advocates with whom he disagrees.[47]
Limbaugh has written that "there are more acres of forestland in America today than when Columbus discovered the continent in 1492," a claim that is disputed by the United States Forest Service and the American Forestry Association, which state that the precolonial forests have been reduced by about 24% or nearly 300 million acres.[48][49]
Feminism[link]
Limbaugh is critical of feminism, saying that "Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society."[50] He also popularized the term "feminazi", referring to about two dozen feminists "to whom the most important thing in life is ensuring that as many abortions as possible occur."[51] He credited his friend Tom Hazlett, a professor of law and economics at George Mason University, with coining the term.[52]
Iraq prisoner abuse[link]
On the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal, Limbaugh said, "This is no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation ... And we're going to ruin people's lives over it and we're going to hamper our military effort, and then we are going to really hammer them because they had a good time."[53][54]
Use of entertainment props[link]
Limbaugh utilizes props to introduce his monologues on various topics. On his radio show, news about the homeless has often been preceded with the Clarence "Frogman" Henry song "Ain't Got No Home."[55] For a time, Dionne Warwick's song "I Know I'll Never Love This Way Again" preceded reports about people with AIDS.[56] These later became "condom updates" preceded by Fifth Dimension's song, "Up, Up and Away (in My Beautiful Balloon)."[55] For two weeks in 1989, on his Sacramento radio show, Limbaugh performed "caller abortions" where he would end a call suddenly to the sounds of a vacuum cleaner and a scream. He would then deny that he had "hung up" on the caller, which he had promised not to do. Limbaugh claims that he used this gag to illustrate "the tragedy of abortion" as well as to highlight the question of whether abortion constitutes murder.[57] During the Clinton administration, while filming his television program, Limbaugh referred to media coverage of Socks, the Clintons' cat. He then stated, "But did you know there is also a White House dog?" and a picture of Chelsea Clinton was shown. When questioned about it, Limbaugh claimed that it was an accident and that without his permission some technician had put up the picture of Chelsea.[58][59][60][61][62][63]
Claims of inaccuracy[link]
Some groups and individuals have criticized Limbaugh's accuracy. The July–August 1994 issue of Extra!, a publication of the progressive group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), alleges 50 different inaccuracies and distortions in Limbaugh's commentary.[64][65] Others have since joined FAIR in questioning Limbaugh's facts. Al Franken, a former comedian and current Democratic Senator of Minnesota, wrote a satirical book (Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations) in which he accused Limbaugh of distorting facts to serve his own political biases.[66]
Limbaugh has been criticized for inaccuracies by the Environmental Defense Fund. A defense fund report authored by Princeton University endowed geoscience professor Michael Oppenheimer and professor of biology David Wilcove lists 14 significant scientific facts that, the authors allege, Limbaugh misrepresented in his book The Way Things Ought to Be.[67] The authors conclude that "Rush Limbaugh ... allows his political bias to distort the truth about a whole range of important scientific issues."
On October 14, 2011, Limbaugh questioned the U.S. military initiative against one of the most wanted men in the world Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), based on the assumption that they were Christians. "They are fighting the Muslims in Sudan. And Obama has sent troops, United States troops to remove them from the battlefield, which means kill them." Upon learning about the accusations leveled against Kony, which included kidnapping whole schools of young children for use as child soldiers, Limbaugh stated that he would research the group. [68][69] The show's written transcript on his website was not changed.[69][70]
Charitable work[link]
Leukemia and lymphoma telethon[link]
Limbaugh holds an annual fundraising telethon called the "EIB Cure-a-Thon"[71] for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.[72] In 2006, the EIB Cure-a-Thon conducted its 16th annual telethon, raising $1.7 million,[73] totaling over $15 million since the first cure-a-thon.[74] According to Leukemia and Lymphoma Society annual reports, Limbaugh personally contributed between $100,000 and $499,999 from 2000–2005 and 2007,[75] and Limbaugh claims to have contributed around $250,000 in 2003, 2004 and 2005.[76] NewsMax reported Limbaugh donated $250,000 in 2006,[77] and the Society's 2006 annual report placed him in the $500,000 to $999,999 category.[75] Limbaugh donated $320,000 during the 2007 Cure-a-Thon,[78] which the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society reported had raised $3.1 million.[79] On his radio program April 18, 2008, Limbaugh claimed to pledge $400,000 to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society after being challenged by two listeners to increase his initial pledge of $300,000.[80]
Marine Corps–Law Enforcement Foundation[link]
Limbaugh conducts an annual drive to help the Marine Corps–Law Enforcement Foundation collect contributions to provide scholarships for children of Marines and law enforcement officers/agents who have died in the line of duty.[81][82] The foundation was the beneficiary of a record $2.1 million eBay auction in October 2007 after Limbaugh listed for sale a letter critical of him signed by 41 Democratic senators and pledged to match the selling price.[83] With the recent founding of his and his wife's company Two if by Tea, they have pledged to donate at least $100,000 to the MC-LEF beginning in June 2011.[84]
Personal life[link]
Limbaugh has been married four times and has no children.[85] He was first married at the age of 26 to Roxy Maxine McNeely, a sales secretary at radio station WHB in Kansas City, Missouri. They were married at the Centenary United Methodist Church in Limbaugh's hometown of Cape Girardeau, Missouri on September 24, 1977. McNeely filed for divorce in March 1980, citing "incompatibility." They were formally divorced on July 10, 1980.[3]
In 1983, Limbaugh married Michelle Sixta, a college student and usherette at the Kansas City Royals Stadium Club. They were divorced in 1990, and she remarried the following year.[3]
On May 27, 1994, Limbaugh married Marta Fitzgerald, a 35-year-old aerobics instructor whom he met on the online service CompuServe in 1990.[86] They were married at the house of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who officiated.[87] They were separated on June 11, 2004.[88] Limbaugh announced his divorce on the air. The divorce was finalized in December 2004.[89] In September 2004, Limbaugh became romantically involved with then-TV personality Daryn Kagan, and they broke up in February 2006.[90]
On December 30, 2009, while vacationing in Honolulu, Hawaii, Limbaugh was admitted to Queen's Medical Center with intense chest pains. His doctors attributed the pain to angina pectoris.[91]
He dated Kathryn Rogers, a party planner from Florida, for three years[92] before he married her on June 5, 2010.[93][94] During the wedding reception after the ceremony, Elton John entertained the wedding guests for a reported $1 million fee; however, Limbaugh himself denied that the $1 million figure was accurate on his September 7, 2010, radio show.[95][96]
Through a holding company, KARHL Holdings (KARHL meaning "Kathryn and Rush Hudson Limbaugh"), Limbaugh launched a line of bottled iced tea beverages, entitled "Two if by Tea"[97] after a line from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Paul Revere's Ride."[98]
Prescription drug addiction[link]
On October 3, 2003, the National Enquirer reported that Limbaugh was being investigated for illegally obtaining the prescription drugs oxycodone and hydrocodone. Other news outlets quickly confirmed the investigation.[99] He admitted to listeners on his radio show on October 10, 2003, that he was addicted to prescription painkillers and stated that he would enter inpatient treatment for 30 days, immediately after the broadcast.[100] Limbaugh stated his addiction to painkillers resulted from several years of severe back pain heightened by a botched surgery intended to correct those problems.
A subsequent investigation into whether Limbaugh had violated Florida's doctor shopping laws was launched by the Palm Beach State Attorney, which raised privacy issues when investigators seized Limbaugh's private medical records looking for evidence of crimes. On November 9, 2005, following two years of investigations, Assistant State Attorney James L. Martz requested the court to set aside Limbaugh's doctor–patient confidentiality rights and allow the state to question his physicians.[101] Limbaugh's attorney opposed the prosecutor's efforts to interview his doctors on the basis of patient privacy rights, and argued that the prosecutor had violated Limbaugh's Fourth Amendment rights by illegally seizing his medical records. The American Civil Liberties Union issued a statement in agreement and filed an amicus curiae brief in support of Limbaugh.[102][103] On December 12, 2005, Judge David F. Crow delivered a ruling prohibiting the State of Florida from questioning Limbaugh's physicians about "the medical condition of the patient and any information disclosed to the health care practitioner by the patient in the course of the care and treatment of the patient."[104]
On April 28, 2006, a warrant was issued for his arrest on the charge of doctor shopping. According to Teri Barbera, spokeswoman for the sheriff, during his arrest, Limbaugh was booked, photographed, and fingerprinted, but not handcuffed. He was then released after about an hour on $3,000 bail.[105][106][107] After his surrender, he filed a "not guilty" plea to the charge. Prosecutors agreed to drop the charge if Limbaugh paid $30,000 to defray the cost of the investigation and completed an 18-month therapy regimen with his physician.[108]
Limbaugh asserted that the state's settlement agreement resulted from a lack of evidence supporting the charge of doctor shopping. Under the terms of the agreement, Limbaugh may not own a firearm for eighteen months and must continue to submit to random drug testing, which he acknowledges having undergone since 2003.[109]
Before his addiction became known, Limbaugh had condemned illegal drug use on his television program, stating that "Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country... And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up."[110][111]
Roy Black, one of Limbaugh's attorneys, stated that "Rush Limbaugh was singled out for prosecution because of who he is. We believe the state attorney's office is applying a double standard."[112]
In June 2006, Limbaugh was detained by drug enforcement agents at Palm Beach International Airport. Customs officials confiscated Viagra from Limbaugh's luggage as he was returning from the Dominican Republic. The prescription was not in Limbaugh's name.[113]
After he was released with no charges filed, Limbaugh joked about the incident on his radio show, claiming that he got the Viagra at the Clinton Library and was told they were blue M&M's. He also stated that "I had a great time in the Dominican Republic. Wish I could tell you about it."[113]
Cigar aficionado[link]
In the early 1990s, when the cigar boom was gaining momentum, Limbaugh was seen frequently with a cigar in hand and by the end of the 1990s, cigars had become Limbaugh's staple in many public appearances. Often starting segments of his show with the phrase, "Amid billowing clouds of fragrant and aromatic first-, second-, and sometimes third-hand premium cigar smoke" as well as mentioning a story print-out in his "formerly nicotine-stained fingers", cigars became a common topic of discussion. In the spring of 1994, Limbaugh appeared on the cover of the magazine Cigar Aficionado and shared the story of his conversion to cigars. He has since been a frequent participant in many events such as "The Big Smoke", hosted throughout the year by the magazine. Limbaugh has participated in many charity cigar auctions hosted by the magazine, and is known to talk frequently with his listeners about his and their cigar interests, preferences and recommendations. "I think cigars are just a tremendous addition to the enjoyment of life."[114] He is also frequently seen in his studio smoking a cigar during his show.
Deafness[link]
Rush Limbaugh has described himself as being "100%, totally deaf".[115] In 2001, he was diagnosed with a rare autoimmune inner ear disease (AIED), which, in the span of three months, rendered his right ear completely deaf and left ear severely deaf. "I cannot hear television. I cannot hear music. I am, for all practical purposes, deaf – and it's happened in three months."[116] On December 19, 2001, doctors at the House Ear Clinic in Los Angeles were able to successfully restore a measure of his hearing through cochlear implant surgery. Limbaugh received a Clarion CII Bionic Ear.[117] In 2005, Limbaugh was forced to undergo "tuning" due to an "eye twitch", an apparent side-effect of cochlear implants.[118]
Controversies[link]
Armed Forces Radio[link]
On May 26, 2004, a Salon.com article criticized the presence of the Rush Limbaugh Show on American Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS).[119] The article opposed the AFRTS carrying the first hour of Limbaugh's show. Melvin Russell, director of AFRTS, defended Limbaugh's presence, by pointing to Limbaugh's high ratings in the US; in addition, AFRTS produced a ballot of radio and television shows asking troops worldwide, "Who do you want that we don't at present carry?" The Rush Limbaugh Show was not listed on the ballot, but won the vote as a write-in by the troops. A later poll by Lund Media Research found that a majority of soldiers preferred that talk show programs be replaced by hip hop and rap stations.[120]
Michael J. Fox[link]
In October 2006 Limbaugh said Michael J. Fox, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, had exaggerated the effects of his affliction in political TV ad advocating for funding of stem cell research. Limbaugh said that Fox in the ad had been "shameless" in "moving all around and shaking", and Fox had not taken "his medication or he's acting, one of the two". [121] Fox said "the irony of it is I was too medicated", adding that there was no way to predict how his symptoms would manifest. Limbaugh said he would apologize to Fox "bigley and hugely...if I am wrong in characterizing his behavior on this commercial as an act".[122] In 2012 Fox said Limbaugh in 2006 had acted on "bullying instincts" when "he said I faked it. I didn't fake it", and said Limbaugh's goal was to have him marginalized and shut down for his Stem Cell stance.[123]
Phony soldiers[link]
Main article: Phony soldiers controversy
Media Matters' reported radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh in 2007 saying that Iraq war veterans opposed to the war as "the phony soldiers." Limbaugh later said that he was speaking of, Jesse MacBeth, a soldier who falsely claimed to have been decorated for valor but, in fact, had never seen combat. Limbaugh said Media Matters was trying to smear him with out of context and selectively edited comments. After Limbaugh published what he said was the entire transcript of phony soldiers discussion, Media Matters said that over a minute and 30 seconds of the transcript was omitted without "notation or ellipsis to indicate that there is, in fact, a break in the transcript."[124][125] Limbaugh said during the minute and a half gap Media Matters had pointed out, he was waiting for relevant ABC news copy on the topic, and the transcript and audio edits were “for space and relevance reasons, not to hide anything.”[126]
Comments on Obama's policies[link]
On January 16, 2009, Limbaugh commented on the Obama presidency, "I hope he fails."[127] Limbaugh later said that he wants to see Obama's policies fail, not the man himself.[128] Speaking of Obama, Limbaugh said, "He's my president, he's a human being, and his ideas and policies are what count for me."[127]
Sandra Fluke comments[link]
Main article: Rush Limbaugh – Sandra Fluke controversy
On February 29, 2012, during his show, Limbaugh called Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke a "slut and a "prostitute", based on her testimony before House Democrats. Fluke was appearing in support of mandating health insurers to cover contraceptive costs. Limbaugh said:[129][130]
"[Fluke] essentially says that she must be paid to have sex -- what does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She's having so much sex she can't afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex."
During and following his continued branding of Fluke as a slut for the next two days, Limbaugh lost several national advertisers, and political figures, including President Obama and Republican House Speaker John Boehner, voiced disapproval.[131] On March 3 Limbaugh apologized to Fluke for some of his comments saying his "insulting word choices" were meant to be "humorous", and that he never thought she was a slut or a prostitute.[132][133] Fluke rejected the apology as dubious and inadequate.[134]
Awards and recognition[link]
A month after Bill Clinton's defeat of George H. W. Bush in 1992, Ronald Reagan sent Limbaugh a letter in which he thanked him "for all you're doing to promote Republican and conservative principles ... [and] you have become the Number One voice for conservatism in our Country."[135][136]
Limbaugh was the 1992, 1995, 2000 and 2005 recipient of the Marconi Radio Award for Syndicated Radio Personality of the Year (given by the National Association of Broadcasters), joining the syndicated Bob & Tom Show as the only other four-time winners of a Marconi award. He was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 1993.
In 2002, Talkers Magazine ranked him as the greatest radio talk show host of all time.[137] Limbaugh is the highest-paid syndicated radio host.[138]
On March 29, 2007, Limbaugh was awarded the inaugural William F. Buckley, Jr. Award for Media Excellence, by the Media Research Center, a conservative media analysis group.[139]
On January 5, 2008, the conservative magazine Human Events announced Limbaugh as their 2007 Man of the Year.[140]
On December 1, 2008, TV Guide reported that Limbaugh was selected as one of America's top ten most fascinating people of 2008 for a Barbara Walters ABC special that aired on December 4, 2008.[141]
On February 28, 2009, following his self-described "first address to the Nation" lasting 90 minutes, carried live on CNN and Fox News and recorded for C-SPAN, Limbaugh received CPAC's "Defender of the Constitution Award", a document originally signed by Benjamin Franklin, given to someone "who has stood up for the First Amendment ... Rush Limbaugh is for America, exactly what Benjamin Franklin did for the Founding Fathers ... the only way we will be successful is if we listen to Rush Limbaugh".[142]
Zev Chafets, whose book Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One was published May 25, 2010, wrote after the first primaries of the 2010 U.S. election season that Limbaugh was "the brains and the spirit behind" the Republican Party's "resurgence" in the wake of the 2008 election of President Barack Obama. In his May 20, 2010, New York Times op-ed column, Chafets pointed among others to Sen. Arlen Specter's defeat, after being labeled by Limbaugh "Republican in Name Only," and to Sarah Palin, whose "biggest current applause line—Republicans are not just the party of no, but the party of hell no—came courtesy of Mr. Limbaugh." More generally, Chafets wrote, Limbaugh has argued the party-of-no Ronald Reagan conservative course for the Republicans vigorously, notably since six weeks after the Obama inauguration, and has been fundamental to, and encouraging to, the more prominently noted Tea Party movement.[143]
Works[link]
- The Way Things Ought to Be (1992) Pocket Books ISBN 0-671-75145-X
- See, I Told You So (1993) Pocket Books ISBN 0-671-87120-X
In 1992, Limbaugh published his first book, The Way Things Ought To Be, followed by See, I Told You So in 1993.[144] Both became number one on the New York Times Best Seller list, The Way Things Ought to Be remaining there for 24 weeks.[145] Limbaugh acknowledges in the text of the first book that he taped the book and it was transcribed and edited by Wall Street Journal writer John Fund. In the second book, Joseph Farah of WorldNetDaily is named as his collaborator.[146]
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- ^ Gregory, Ted (1995-08-18). "Right and wrong; Rush Limbaugh critics want to set the facts straight, but it's not easy". Chicago Tribune.
- ^ "Joseph Farah". Speakers and Talk Show Guests. WorldNetDaily.com. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/speakers/jfarah.asp. Retrieved 2006-07-19.
Further reading[link]
- Arkush, Michael (1993). Rush!. New York: Avon Books. ISBN 0-380-77539-5.
- Chafets, Zev (2010). Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One. New York: Sentinel. ISBN 978-1-59523-063-8.
- Colford, Paul D. (1995). The Rush Limbaugh Story: Talent on Loan from God: An Unauthorized Biography. New York: St. Martin's Paperbacks. ISBN 0-312-95272-4.
- Davis, J. Bradford (1994). The Rise of Rush Limbaugh Toward the Presidency. Norcross, Ga.: MacArthur Publishing Group. ISBN 0-9642619-0-1.
- Derych, Jim. Confessions of a Former Dittohead. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Ig Publishing. ISBN 0-9752517-8-3.
- Evearitt, Daniel J. (1993). Rush Limbaugh and the Bible. Camp Hill, Pa.: Horizon House Publishers. ISBN 0-88965-104-3.
- Franken, Al (1996). Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0-14-101841-6.
- Franken, Al (2003). Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. New York: Plume. ISBN 978-0-452-28521-7.
- Jacobs, Donald Trent. The Bum's Rush: The Selling of Environmental Backlash: Phrases and Fallacies of Rush Limbaugh. Boise, Idaho: Legendary Publishing Company. ISBN 0-9625040-5-X.
- Keliher, Brian (1994). Flush Rush. Berkeley, Calif.: Ten Speed Press. ISBN 0-89815-610-6.
- Kelly, Charles M. (1994). The Great Limbaugh Con: And Other Right-Wing Assaults on Common Sense. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Fithian Press. ISBN 1-56474-102-8.
- King, D. Howard (1994). Rush to Us. New York: Windsor Publishing Company. ISBN 0-7860-0082-1.
- Layne, Tom (2006). The Assassination of Rush Limbaugh. Kirkland, Wash.: Red Ginger Publishing Company. ISBN 0-9768515-0-4.
- Mahurin, Cecil (1993). A Public Rebuttal to Rush Limbaugh. New York: Vantage Press. ISBN 0-533-10766-0.
- Perkins, Ray, Jr. (1995). Logic and Mr. Limbaugh: A Dittohead's Guide to Fallacious Reasoning. Chicago: Open Court Publishing. ISBN 0-8126-9294-2.
- Rahman, Michael. Why Rush Limbaugh is Wrong, or: The Demise of Traditionalism and the Rise of Progressive Sensibility as Perceived. Santa Monica, Calif.: Mighty Pen Publishing. ISBN 0-9647470-0-6.
- Rendall, Steven, Jim Naureckas, Cohen, Jeff (1995). The Way Things Aren't: Rush Limbaugh's Reign of Error: Over 100 Outrageously False and Foolish Statements from America's Most Powerful Radio and TV Commentator. Written for FAIR. New York: The New Press. ISBN 1-56584-260-X.
- Seib, Philip M. (1993). Rush Hour: Talk Radio, Politics, and the Rise of Rush Limbaugh. Fort Worth, Tex.: Summit Group. ISBN 1-56530-100-5.
- Tucker, R. K. (1997). The Rules According to Rush: The American people vs. Rush Limbaugh. Chapel Hill, NC; Bowling Green, Ohio: OptimAmerica; Professional Press. ISBN 1-57087-339-9.
- Varon, Charles (1997). Rush Limbaugh In Night School. New York: Dramatists Play Service. ISBN 0-8222-1534-9.
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The Rush Limbaugh–Sandra Fluke controversy (IPA:flʊk) began on February 29, 2012, when American conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh's remarks about contraceptive mandates included mention of Georgetown University Law Center student Sandra Fluke as a "slut" and "prostitute". Limbaugh was commenting on Fluke's speech the previous week to House Democrats in support of mandating insurance coverage for contraceptives. Despite disapproval from major political figures, Limbaugh continued in similar fashion for the next two days, leading to the loss of several national sponsors and Limbaugh's apology on his show for some of his comments. Fluke rejected the apology as dubious and inadequate.[1][2][3][4][5]
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Background[link]
Sandra Fluke, then a 30-year-old law student at Georgetown, was invited by Democrats to speak at a hearing by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on the new Administration rules on Conscience Clause exceptions in health care.[6] Democrats requested the committee add Sandra Fluke to the first panel, which was composed of clergy and theologians. Committee chairman Darrell Issa (R-California) refused, stating that Fluke lacked expertise and was not member of the clergy, and that her name was not submitted in time.[6][7] Democratic members criticized the decision not to include Fluke since it left that panel with only male members.[8]
The next week, the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee convened a meeting to invite Fluke to speak. Fluke argued in favor of a private mandate for contraception coverage, to include institutions with moral objections to contraception.[6] She said that during the time spent as a law student, birth control could cost $3,000 or more. She also stated that 40% of Georgetown Law School's female population suffered financial hardship as a result of birth control not being covered by the student health insurance plan, and that the lack of free contraception coverage in the university insurance plans would induce many low income students to go without contraceptives. She then shared the stories of friends affected by such policies, citing a friend with polycystic ovary syndrome. Fluke claimed this friend needed contraceptive hormones costing over $100 per month to treat this disease, and that while PcOS was "covered by Georgetown insurance", the insurance company repeatedly denied contraceptives, according to Fluke, because they suspected the purpose of the medication was contraception. [9][10][11]
Remarks by Limbaugh[link]
On February 29, 2012, after referencing Fluke's statement that "contraceptives can cost a woman over $3000 during law school", Limbaugh stated:[12][13][14][15][16]
What does it say about the college co-ed Susan Fluke [sic], who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex, what does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She's having so much sex she can't afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex. What does that make us? We're the pimps. (interruption) The johns? We would be the johns? No! We're not the johns. (interruption) Yeah, that's right. Pimp's not the right word. Okay, so she's not a slut. She's "round heeled". I take it back.[17]
He continued that day and stated:[18]
Can you imagine if you're her parents how proud of Sandra Fluke you would be? Your daughter goes up to a congressional hearing conducted by the Botox-filled Nancy Pelosi and testifies she's having so much sex she can't afford her own birth control pills and she agrees that Obama should provide them, or the Pope.
On March 1, 2012, Limbaugh offered what he said was a "compromise" to contraception coverage: purchasing "all the women at Georgetown University as much aspirin to put between their knees as possible". He continued that he "[ran] some numbers" on contraception costs and argued that contraception coverage was "flat-out thievery" that would force taxpayers to pay to "satisfy the sexual habits of female law students at Georgetown". Later, he dismissed concerns over lack of access to contraception coverage and mocked Fluke's congressional testimony, affecting a baby's voice and pretending to cry, saying: "I'm going broke having sex. I need government to provide me condoms and contraception. It's not fair." He asked, "Ms. Fluke, have you ever heard of not having sex? Have you ever heard of not having sex so often?"[19] After mentioning that Washington, D.C., Department of Health "will send you free condoms and lube", Limbaugh said:
So, Ms. Fluke and the rest of you feminazis, here's the deal. If we are going to pay for your contraceptives, and thus pay for you to have sex, we want something for it, and I'll tell you what it is. We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch.[19]
During the same show, Limbaugh remarked that Fluke is "having so much sex, it's amazing she can still walk",[20] and continued on to suggest that Georgetown should establish a "Wilt Chamberlain scholarship ... exclusively for women". He also asked, "Who bought your condoms in junior high? Who bought your condoms in the sixth grade? Or your contraception. Who bought your contraceptive pills in high school?"[19] He described Fluke as "a woman who is happily presenting herself as an immoral, baseless, no-purpose-to-her life woman. She wants all the sex in the world whenever she wants it, all the time, no consequences. No responsibility for her behavior."[19]
On March 2, 2012, Limbaugh defended his previous comments about Fluke, saying, "not one person says that, 'Well, did you ever think about maybe backing off the amount of sex that you have?'" Limbaugh said that requiring insurance companies to cover contraception is "no different than if somebody knocked on my door that I don't know and said, 'You know what? I'm out of money. I can't afford birth-control pills, and I'm supposed to have sex with three guys tonight.'" Limbaugh commented on Fluke receiving a call from President Obama, who stated that her parents should be proud of her, saying, "I'm gonna button my lip on that one." He went on to say that if his daughter had testified that "she's having so much sex she can't pay for it and wants a new welfare program to pay for it," he'd be "embarrassed" and "disconnect the phone", "go into hiding", and "hope the media didn't find me". He continued later, "Oh! Does she have more boyfriends? They're lined up around the block. They would have been in my day." He continued that Fluke testified that her "sex life is active. She's having sex so frequently that she can't afford all the birth-control pills that she needs. That's what she's saying."[19]
Reaction to Limbaugh's remarks[link]
Many public figures and organizations rejected Limbaugh's comments as sexist. Georgetown University president John DeGioia said Limbaugh's description of Fluke was "misogynistic, vitriolic"; 130 members of the faculty signed a letter supporting Fluke.[21] The National Organization for Women called Limbaugh a "bigoted bully" using "hate-filled speech" to "shame a young woman" for her views. They also called on Clear Channel to drop his show.[22] Rachel Maddow said Limbaugh was trying to fan outrage, and his attacks seemed to be based on the idea that the cost of birth control pills is proportional to the amount of sexual activity.[23]
Peter Gabriel requested that Limbaugh no longer play his song "Sledgehammer" on his show, saying he was "appalled" that the song was played while Limbaugh disparaged Fluke.[24]
Democratic[link]
President Barack Obama called Fluke on March 3 to express his support.[15] Concerned Women for America accused Obama of hypocrisy after he criticized Limbaugh for using crude and vulgar language to describe Fluke, but did not criticize Bill Maher (who had donated one million to an Obama PAC) for using the same kind of crude and vulgar language to describe Sarah Palin.[25]
Many politicians and pundits responded by calling Limbaugh a "peculiar individual", "despicable", "disgusting", "loathsome" and "a national disgrace", and deploring hateful and derogatory speech within political discourse.[26][27] Jesse Ferguson, spokesperson for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said “Limbaugh has come to Republicans' defense in their war on women".[28][29]
In a letter to donors, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), wrote that "Rush Limbaugh, the voice of the ultraconservative right, issued one of the most vile tirades against women I've ever heard."[30]
Minority Leader in the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi called the comments "obnoxious" and "vicious and inappropriate attacks".[31][32]
Seventy-five Democratic Party lawmakers signed a letter expressing outrage at the remarks labeling them as "sexually charged, patently offensive, obscene", "indecent" and "an abuse of public airwaves".[28]
Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney called it "an attempt to silence people that are speaking out for women".[33]
Sen. Gretchen Whitmer asked if Limbaugh would have made similar comments if Fluke had been a man, describing him as a "chauvinist" and his words hate speech. She also tried to tie Republicans to Limbaugh.[34]
Obama campaign advisor David Axelrod said Limbaugh's comments were "predicated on a lie" that taxpayers would have to pay for contraceptive coverage, when in fact it is insurance companies that will have to pay.[35]
Democratic political analyst for Fox News Kirsten Powers agreed that Limbaugh was a misogynist and deserved to be boycotted, but expanded her position further stating, "the liberals who led the charge need to start holding their own side accountable." She then cited specific examples of crude and vulgar language being directed toward women by Chris Matthews, Ed Schultz, Keith Olbermann, Matt Taibbi, and Bill Maher. Powers went on to say, "when it comes to high-profile campaigns to hold these men accountable—such as that waged against Limbaugh—the real fury seems reserved only for conservatives."[36]
Republican[link]
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney said "it’s not the language I would have used."[37][38] Fellow Republican primary candidate Rick Santorum dismissed the comments stating that "an entertainer can be absurd."[39] U.S. Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas), running for the party's presidential nomination, said that Limbaugh's comments were "over the top" and that his apology was not sincere, while disagreeing with Fluke on the insurance mandate.[40]
Senator John McCain (R-Arizona), the party's 2008 candidate for president, said Limbaugh's statements were unacceptable "in every way" and "should be condemned" by people across the political spectrum.[41]
House Speaker John Boehner criticized Limbaugh's choice of words while repeating his own opposition to government funding for contraception. Boehner's spokesman issued a statement: "The speaker obviously believes the use of those words was inappropriate, as is trying to raise money off the situation".[42]
Conservative commentator George Will suggested other Republicans made only mild criticisms because they are afraid of Limbaugh.[35]
David Frum, former special assistant to President George W. Bush (emphasis supplied): "Limbaugh's verbal abuse of Sandra Fluke set a new kind of low. I can't recall anything as brutal, ugly and deliberate ever being said by such a prominent person and so emphatically repeated. This was not a case of a bad 'word choice'. It was a brutally sexualized accusation, against a specific person, prolonged over three days."[43]
Limbaugh's apology[link]
On March 3, Limbaugh repeated his previous attacks against Fluke and insurance coverage for contraception.[44] Later that day he released an apology on his official website:[45]
For over 20 years, I have illustrated the absurd with absurdity, three hours a day, five days a week. In this instance, I chose the wrong words in my analogy of the situation. I did not mean a personal attack on Ms. Fluke. I think it is absolutely absurd that during these very serious political times, we are discussing personal sexual recreational activities before members of Congress. I personally do not agree that American citizens should pay for these social activities. What happened to personal responsibility and accountability? Where do we draw the line? If this is accepted as the norm, what will follow? Will we be debating if taxpayers should pay for new sneakers for all students that are interested in running to keep fit? In my monologue, I posited that it is not our business whatsoever to know what is going on in anyone's bedroom nor do I think it is a topic that should reach a Presidential level. / My choice of words was not the best, and in the attempt to be humorous, I created a national stir. I sincerely apologize to Ms. Fluke for the insulting word choices.
On March 5, 2012, Limbaugh repeated parts of his apology on his show, but criticized the reaction he received, saying:
I acted too much like the leftists who despise me. I descended to their level, using names and exaggerations. It's what we've come to expect from them, but it's way beneath me.[46]
The same day, Fluke responded to his latest apology on ABC's The View saying:
I don't think that a statement like this, saying that his choice of words was not the best, changes anything, and especially when that statement is issued when he's under significant pressure from his sponsors who have begun to pull their support from the show. / I think any woman who has ever been called these types of names is [shocked] at first. / But then I tried to see this for what it is, and I believe that what it is, is an attempt to silence me, to silence the millions of women and the men who support them who have been speaking out about this issue and conveying that contraception is an important healthcare need that they need to have met in an affordable, accessible way.[47][46]
She said Limbaugh's comments were not of "one person who went crazy" but that "he insulted me more than 50 times over three days".[48][49]
Loss of sponsors and stations[link]
In response to Limbaugh's remarks several online and social media campaigns were created by advocacy sites, such as Democratic Underground, Media Matters for America, Daily Kos, Think Progress, and The Huffington Post, to encourage Limbaugh's radio sponsors to stop advertising on his show. As a result, by March 3, over a dozen advertisers [50][51][52] had discontinued their sponsorship.[53][54] After Limbaugh's apology, the exodus slowed but did not stop, with competing number counts in the dozens.[54] [4][5] [55][54] [56][57][58][54] Several advertisers also clarified that they "did not intentionally advertise" on the show, either running ads in news segments next to the Limbaugh show or being held responsible for local affiliates' local buys.[59] [60] [61]
On March 5, KPUA, a talk radio station serving Hilo, Hawaii, discontinued the Rush Limbaugh program, its only conservative program. [62] In Pittsfield, Massachusetts, broadcaster WBEC, a channel that carries most of the Premiere Networks lineup, discontinued only the Rush Limbaugh show. [63] The show's change of stations in Philadelphia, from WPHT to WWIQ, alleged to be a result of media campaigns, was unrelated to the controversy.[64]
Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem have asked listeners to complain to the Federal Communications Commission to have Rush Limbaugh removed from all public airwaves.[65] Female veterans have also called for him to be removed from the Armed Forces Radio,[66][67] and the White House website provided a place to register complaints online.[68][69]
Clear Channel Communications, the owner of Premiere Networks and a large number of Limbaugh's affiliates, has reaffirmed its support for Limbaugh, whose contract runs through 2016, [70] and conservative blogger Michelle Malkin announced that she had purchased air time on the program to advertise Twitchy, a news aggregator focused on stories culled from social media posts.[71]
On March 9, Politico estimated that Limbaugh's talk show had lost 45 sponsors, a number that includes advertisers that purchased ad time on local stations but had never bought national advertising on the show itself.[72]
Radio competitors Cumulus Media Networks tried to lure advertisers and stations away from the Limbaugh show, during the crisis, hinting that numbers of affiliates have agreed to drop the program in favor of The Mike Huckabee Show.[73]. On March 19, they released a list of all 31 advertisers that they identified as having specifically dropped Limbaugh's program.[74]
Clear Channel lifted its two-week moratorium on using barter advertising during the show on March 26. Thereafter, Kohler [75] and Reputation.com pulled advertising.[76]
A March 28 post-mortem on the end of the campaign by The Washington Post concluded
Exactly one month after the conservative radio host sparked outrage ... stations are standing by him, advertisers are trickling back to his program and the news media have moved on ... Angelo Carusone, who has been leading the anti-Limbaugh efforts for Media Matters for America, a Washington organization ... acknowledged that outrage is hard to sustain.[77]
Media Matters, a "liberal watchdog group," began a paid ad campaign on March 22 to sustain their online campaign against Limbaugh. The group spent over $100,000 in various markets, to encourage more stations to drop the Limbaugh show.[78] Limbaugh countered, "Media Matters and the Democrat National Committee and the Democrat Party are exposing ... that their Astroturf campaigns are not grassroots at all.... They are totally professionally created and executed Democrat Party opposition research-type attacks."[78] Clear Channel's CEO said there has been no major move among stations to drop the show.[79]
See also[link]
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- ^ Paul: Limbaugh apologized for personal gain, CBS News, March 4, 2012
- ^ "McCain: Limbaugh outburst 'totally unacceptable'". CBS News. 2009-01-13. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501707_162-57390447/mccain-limbaugh-outburst-totally-unacceptable/. Retrieved March 6, 2012.
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- ^ "Limbaugh Advertisers Keep Heading for the Exits". http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/limbaugh-advertisers-heading-exits-15851650#.T1UdGvUmySo.
- ^ "Rush Limbaugh Continues To Apologize As Advertiser Boycott Rises To 12". All Access Music Group. March 5, 2012. http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/103126/rush-limbaugh-continues-to-apologize-as-advertiser. Retrieved March 6, 2012.
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- ^ "Papa John's stops advertising on Rush Limbaugh program". PizzaMarketPlace.com. http://www.pizzamarketplace.com/article/192538/Papa-John-s-stops-advertising-on-Rush-Limbaugh-program. Retrieved 2012-04-03.
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| Brian Williams | |
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 Williams at the 2011 Time 100 gala |
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| Born | Brian Douglas Williams (1959-05-05) May 5, 1959 (age 53) Ridgewood, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Education | Brookdale Community College George Washington University The Catholic University of America |
| Occupation | News Anchor and Managing Editor of NBC Nightly News |
| Years active | 1981–present |
| Notable credit(s) | NBC News reporter (1993–2004) NBC Nightly News weekend anchor (1993–1999) NBC Nightly News anchor (2004–present) |
| Salary | $10 million annually[1] |
| Spouse | Jane Gillan Stoddard Williams[2] |
| Website | |
| http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3667173/ | |
Brian Douglas Williams (born May 5, 1959) is the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News, the evening news program of the NBC television network, a position he assumed in 2004.[2] Williams was listed among Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2007,[3] and in 2010, a prominent media observer dubbed him "the Walter Cronkite of the 21st century."[4]
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Early life[link]
Williams was reared in a middle-class Irish Catholic home.[5] His father, Gordon L. Williams, was an executive vice president of the National Retail Merchants Association, in New York.[6] During childhood, his family moved from his birthplace, Ridgewood, New Jersey,[7] to Elmira, New York. He lived in Elmira for ten years before moving to Middletown, New Jersey, when he was in junior high school.[8]
He graduated from Mater Dei High School, a Roman Catholic high school in the New Monmouth section of Middletown.[9] While in high school, he was a volunteer firefighter for three years at the Middletown Township Fire Department. His first job was as a busboy at Perkins Pancake House.[10]
After high school Wiliams attended Brookdale Community College, after which he transferred to The Catholic University of America, and then The George Washington University.[11] He did not graduate, and instead interned with the administration of President Jimmy Carter. He now calls leaving college one of his "great regrets".[12] Brian Williams completed a total of 18 college credits."[13]
Early career[link]
After working in the lobbying arm of the National Association of Broadcasters, Williams began his broadcasting career at KOAM-TV in Joplin, Missouri in 1981.[14] A year later he moved back to Washington, D.C. and worked at WTTG as general assignment reporter. Williams joined NBC News from WCBS-TV in New York in 1993 and became the network's chief White House correspondent in 1994. In 1996, Williams began anchoring The News with Brian Williams on MSNBC and rebroadcast on CNBC.
[edit] Nightly News
Williams became anchor of NBC Nightly News on December 2, 2004, and his first year in that post was marked by coverage of two disasters: the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina. NBC personnel felt that the program became his program (rather than predecessor Tom Brokaw's) with his coverage of the tsunami,[15] and his reporting on Katrina, including from inside the New Orleans Superdome, was given praise by industry observers.[16] His work helped earn NBC a Peabody Award,[17] the Peabody committee concluding that Williams and the Nightly News staff "exemplified the highest levels of journalistic excellence in reporting on Hurricane Katrina."[18]
Nightly News fell behind ABC's World News in the first half of 2007. Nightly News regained the lead later in the year[19] and expanded it beginning in the fall of 2008.[20] Williams was compared by Jon Friedman of Marketwatch to Walter Cronkite.[4]
When Williams succeeded Tom Brokaw as anchor of NBC Nightly News, his annual salary was reported to be $8 million,[21] and by October 2006, it had reportedly increased to $10 million.[1] He occasionally fills in for Lester Holt on weekends when needed.
On Sunday, May 1, 2011, Williams anchored a simulcast between all NBC affiliates and MSNBC covering the death of Osama bin Laden, going on air before 11:30 pm and continuing coverage until at least 2:00 am.
[edit] Rock Center with Brian Williams
Main article: Rock Center with Brian Williams
On Tuesday, October 4, 2011, it was announced that Williams would be the host of Rock Center with Brian Williams, a newsmagazine program premiering on Monday, October 31, 2011, at 10:00 pm Eastern, replacing the cancelled drama series The Playboy Club.[22] Named after the nickname of Rockefeller Center, the New York City landmark where NBC Radio City Studios are located, the program would become the first new NBC News program to launch in primetime in nearly two decades.[23]
Appearances[link]
Williams frequently appears on The Daily Show as a celebrity guest interviewed by Jon Stewart. He appeared on the Weekend Update segment of Saturday Night Live before hosting the program on November 3, 2007.[24]
Williams regularly appears on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, where he slow jams the news of the previous week as Fallon sings and reiterates what Williams says, with The Roots providing the musical backing. He has also made numerous appearances on Late Show with David Letterman despite its being on CBS, a competing network. During an appearance on July 26, 2011, Williams demonstrated a skilled vocal impersonation of TV personality Regis Philbin. Williams has also appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien where he took part in numerous skits and interviews.
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Williams also frequently makes guest appearances on NBC's television comedy 30 Rock as a caricatured version of himself. In the episode The Ones, he's seen at home receiving proposition calls meant for Tracy Jordan. In Audition Day, he auditions to be a new TGS cast member. He also is seen once on the show taunting a CNBC news host. In April 2012, on the West Coast installment of the 30 Rock season 6 live show, Williams portrayed a news anchor covering the Apollo 13 story.
Williams appeared on Sesame Street in a 2007 episode, announcing the word of the day, squid, in a special broadcast. Williams appeared on Sesame Street again in a 2008 episode reporting for Sesame Street Nightly News about the Mine-itis outbreak where he becomes a victim of it. He also was the host of the 2009 Annual Sesame Workshop Benefit Gala.
In May 2012, Williams spoke at The George Washington University commencement on the National Mall.
Personal life[link]
He lives in New Canaan, Connecticut, with his wife, Jane Gillan Stoddard Williams, two children, Allison and Douglas Williams, and two dogs.[26]
NASCAR[link]
Williams is an avid fan of NASCAR in both the local and national levels. He was first exposed to auto racing as a child attending races on dirt tracks all over upstate New York. In 1999, Williams was the studio host of the first NASCAR race ever shown on NBC, the Pennzoil 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Two years later, at NASCAR's awards banquet in New York City, he introduced a videotaped tribute to Dale Earnhardt, who had died at the Daytona 500 some months earlier. Earnhardt and Williams had become close friends.
A 2012 promo for Rock Center with Brian Williams features a baseball motif, with the journalists' jerseys. Williams' jersey, similar to Kansas City Royals manager Ned Yost, in honor of his Earnhardt friendship, carried #3.
New York Giants[link]
Brian Williams has shown himself to be a fan of the New York Giants NFL franchise. This became noticeable publicly during the Giants 2011 Super Bowl run during which Williams was noted for not only openly discussing his fandom, but also wearing a New York Giants jersey underneath his sports jacket and over his dress shirt and tie, similar to a sweater.[27]
Career timeline[link]
- 1981: KOAM-TV
- 1982–1984: WTTG-TV correspondent
- 1985: Panorama Host
- 1985–1987: WCAU-TV New Jersey correspondent
- 1987–1993: WCBS-TV Anchor of weekday noon and weekend night newscasts; reporter
- 1993–1994: NBC News correspondent
- 1994–1996: NBC News White House correspondent
- 1996–2004: The News with Brian Williams anchor
- 2004–present: NBC Nightly News anchor
- 2011–present: Rock Center with Brian Williams host
References[link]
- ^ a b Movie & TV News @ IMDb.com - Studio Briefing - October 23, 2006
- ^ a b Brian Williams - Nightly News with Brian Williams - MSNBC.com
- ^ Brian Williams - The TIME 100 - TIME
- ^ a b Jon Friedman, "Brian Williams: a Cronkite for the 21st century", MarketWatch, June 2, 2010.
- ^ Albiniak, Page (2009-11-01). "Questions for Brian Williams". New York Post. http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/questions_for_brian_williams_qd8HkSI84X6IZijazkH3wL. Retrieved 2010-10-07. "I come from a loud Irish-Catholic family."
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/08/style/brian-williams-weds-jane-stoddard-tv-producer.html
- ^ "Brian Williams - Meet the faces of MSNBC". MSNBC Interactive. MSNBC. March 18, 2003. Archived from the original on February 16, 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080216081630/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3080472/. Retrieved 2008-11-06.
- ^ Strauss, Robert. "IN PERSON; The Life Of Brian, Annotated", The New York Times, October 27, 2002. Accessed June 13, 2011. "Mr. Williams grew up in Mom-apple-pie-and-TV-trays style in Middletown, Monmouth County, a town of true middle class.... Mr. Williams, who was in junior high when the family moved there from Elmira, N.Y., was an average student who had his eyes on fast cars, fun summer jobs and hanging out at the local fire station, where he became a volunteer firefighter."
- ^ "Brian Williams". NOPAC Talent. http://www.nopactalent.com/speakers/Brian-Williams/1043. Retrieved October 14, 2007. "Graduated from Mater Dei, a Roman Catholic High School in New Monmouth, NJ."
- ^ The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Friday 5/22/09
- ^ Strauss, Robert (October 27, 2002). "IN PERSON; The Life Of Brian, Annotated". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9905E1DA153CF934A15753C1A9649C8B63. Retrieved 2007-10-14.
- ^ "Remarks by Brian Williams. Tulane University Commencement". May 19, 2007. http://www.grads.tulane.edu/transcript_brianwilliams.html.
- ^ Interview: Last Call with Carson Daly, NBC, May 20, 2011
- ^ "Brian Williams Takes Helm Of 'NBC Nightly News'". WESH Orlando. December 2, 2004. http://www.wesh.com/r/3965446/detail.html. Retrieved 1 September 2010.
- ^ Howard Kurtz, "NBC's Brian Williams, On Top of the News", Washington Post, Dec. 5, 2005.
- ^ Bill Carter, "Storm and Crisis: The News Anchor; Career-Maker For Williams As the Anchor At NBC", New York Times, Sept. 4, 2005.
- ^ Brian Stelter, "A Year Later: TVNewsers On Katrina", mediabistro.com, Aug. 31, 2006.
- ^ Peabody Awards, Coverage of Hurricane Katrina 2005, Organization: NBC News.
- ^ "Evening News Ratings: Williams Tops Gibson In November Sweeps", New York Times, Dec. 4, 2007.
- ^ "A Matrix of News Winners Buoys NBC", New York Times, March 8, 2009.
- ^ "Biography for Brian Williams (III)". Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1047419/bio. Retrieved 2007-12-11.
- ^ Goldberg, Lesley (October 4, 2011). "NBC Cancels 'The Playboy Club'". The Hollywood Reporter. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/nbc-cancels-playboy-club-brian-williams-rock-center-241714. Retrieved 2011-10-04.
- ^ "NBC cancels 'Playboy Club,' schedules 'Rock Center'". HitFix. http://www.hitfix.com/articles/nbc-cancels-playboy-club-schedules-rock-center. Retrieved 2011-10-04.
- ^ "Brian Williams Hosts Saturday Night Live Tonight". WOAI. November 3, 2007. http://www.woai.com/news/local/story/Brian-Williams-Hosts-Saturday-Night-Live-Tonight/kIg9HROBPUCwfaTYZSN2mg.cspx. Retrieved 1 September 2010.
- ^ Hubbard, Matt (writer); Riggi, John (director) (2011-02-03). "¡Qué Sorpresa!". 30 Rock. season 5. NBC.
- ^ "Brian Williams Biography-TV Guide". http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/brian-williams/bio/198488.
- ^ "Top Ten Celebrity New York Giants fans". http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ycn-11201764.
External links[link]
- NBC News Bio
- The Daily Nightly - Brian Williams's blog
- Bio and photo of Brian Williams — Crain's New York Business 40 under 40 — 1998[dead link]
- Video of talk to journalists group - from SAJAforum.org
- Men's Vogue profile of Brian Williams
- Chmiel, David, "His Heart Belongs to Jersey", New Jersey Monthly, June 9, 2008. Retrieved 2009-11-19.
- C-SPAN Q&A interview with Williams, December 26, 2004
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NBC News Chief White House Correspondent 1994–1996 |
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| Preceded by Tom Brokaw |
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| Name | Williams, Brian |
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| Short description | News Anchor and Managing Editor of NBC Nightly News |
| Date of birth | (1959-05-05) May 5, 1959 (age 53) |
| Place of birth | Ridgewood, New Jersey |
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| William Shatner | |
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 William Shatner in 2005 |
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| Born | William Alan Shatner (1931-03-22) March 22, 1931 (age 81) Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Residence | Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Other names | Bill Shatner |
| Education | Baron Byng High School Westhill High School |
| Alma mater | McGill University |
| Occupation | Actor, musician, novelist, spokesman, film director |
| Years active | 1950–present |
| Known for | James T. Kirk, Sergeant T. J. Hooker, Denny Crane, Priceline Negotiator |
| Home town | Westmount, Quebec, Canada |
| Television | Star Trek, T. J. Hooker, Boston Legal |
| Religion | Judaism |
| Spouse | Gloria Rand (1956–1969) Marcy Lafferty Shatner (1973–1994) Nerine Kidd-Shatner (1997–1999; her death) Elizabeth Martin (2001–present) |
| Children | 3 (with Rand) |
| Awards | People's Choice Award, Emmy Awards, Golden Globe Award |
| Website | |
| williamshatner.com | |
William Alan Shatner (born March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor, musician, recording artist, author and film director. He gained worldwide fame and became a cultural icon for his portrayal of James T. Kirk, captain of the USS Enterprise, in the science fiction television series Star Trek from 1966 to 1969, Star Trek: The Animated Series from 1973 to 1974, and in seven of the subsequent Star Trek feature films from 1979 to 1994. He has written a series of books chronicling his experiences playing Captain Kirk and being a part of Star Trek, and has co-written several novels set in the Star Trek universe. He has also authored a series of science fiction novels called TekWar that were adapted for television.
Shatner also played the eponymous veteran police sergeant in T. J. Hooker from 1982 to 1986. Afterwards, he hosted the reality-based television series, Rescue 911 from 1989 to 1996, which won a People's Choice Award for Favorite New TV Dramatic Series. He has since worked as a musician, author, producer, director and celebrity pitchman. From 2004 to 2008 he starred as attorney Denny Crane in the television dramas The Practice and its spin-off Boston Legal for which he won two Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award.
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Early life, and education[link]
Shatner was born on March 22, 1931, in the Côte Saint-Luc neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, the son of Anne (née Garmaise) and Joseph Shatner, a clothing manufacturer.[1][2] He has two sisters, Joy and Farla.[3] His paternal grandfather, Wolf Schattner, anglicized the family name to "Shatner".[4] All of Shatner's grandparents were Jewish immigrants (from Austria, Poland, Hungary, and Ukraine),[5][6] and Shatner was raised in Conservative Judaism.[7] He attended Willingdon Elementary School,[8] in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (NDG-Montreal) and Baron Byng High School, in Montreal, as well as West Hill High School in NDG. He is an alumnus of the Montreal Children's Theatre.[9] He also attended McGill University in Montreal, where he studied economics and graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree.[10] In June 2011, McGill awarded him with an honorary doctorate of letters.[11] The Students' Society of McGill University building on McTavish Street is popularly (though not officially) named "Shatner".
Shatner has said that he faced anti-semitism while growing up in Montreal.[12]
Acting career[link]
Early stage, film, and television work[link]
After graduating from McGill University in 1952 Shatner became business manager for the Mountain Playhouse in Montréal before joining the Canadian National Repertory Theatre in Ottawa. Trained as a classical Shakespearean actor, Shatner began performing at the Shakespearean Stratford Festival of Canada in Stratford, Ontario beginning in 1954. He played a range of roles at the Stratford Festival in productions that included a minor role in the opening scene of a renowned and nationally televised production of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex directed by Tyrone Guthrie, Shakespeare's Henry V, and Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great. Shatner made his Broadway debut in the latter, in 1956.[13] In 1954, he was cast as Ranger Bob on The Canadian Howdy Doody Show.[14] Shatner was understudy to Christopher Plummer; the two would later star as adversaries in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
Though his official movie debut was in the 1951 Canadian film The Butler's Night Off, Shatner's first feature role came in the 1958 MGM film The Brothers Karamazov with Yul Brynner, in which he starred as the youngest of the Karamazov brothers, Alexei. In December of the same year, he appeared opposite Ralph Bellamy playing Roman tax collectors in Bethlehem on the day of Jesus' birth in a vignette of a Hallmark Hall of Fame live television production entitled The Christmas Tree directed by Kirk Browning, which featured in other vignettes such stars as Jessica Tandy, Margaret Hamilton, Bernadette Peters, Richard Thomas, Cyril Ritchard and Carol Channing. Shatner had a leading role in an Alfred Hitchcock Presents third-season (1957–1958) episode titled "The Glass Eye", one of his first appearances on American television.
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William Shatner (Archie Goodwin) and Kurt Kasznar (Nero Wolfe) in the aborted 1959 CBS television series Nero Wolfe
In 1959, he received decent reviews when he took on the role of Lomax in the Broadway production of The World of Suzie Wong. In March 1959, while performing on stage in Suzie Wong, Shatner was also playing detective Archie Goodwin in what would have been television's first Nero Wolfe series had it not been aborted by CBS after shooting a pilot and a few episodes.[15]
In 1960, he appeared twice as Wayne Gorham in NBC's The Outlaws Western series with Barton MacLane, and then in another Alfred Hitchcock Presents fifth-season episode titled "Mother, may I go out to swim?". In 1961, he starred in the Broadway play A Shot in the Dark with Julie Harris and directed by Harold Clurman. Walter Matthau (who won a Tony Award for his performance) and Gene Saks were also featured in this play. Shatner also starred in two episodes of the NBC television series Thriller, "Grim Reaper" and "The Hungry Glass".
Guthrie had called the young Shatner the Stratford Festival's most promising actor, and he was seen as a peer to contemporaries like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, and Robert Redford. Shatner was not as successful as the others, however, and during the 1960s he "became a working actor who showed up on time, knew his lines, worked cheap and always answered his phone." His motto was "Work equals work", but Shatner's willingness to take any role, no matter how "forgettable", likely hurt his career.[13] In 1962, he starred in Roger Corman's movie The Intruder. He also appeared in the Stanley Kramer film Judgment at Nuremberg and two episodes, "Nick of Time" and "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet", of the science fiction anthology series The Twilight Zone. In the 1963–1964 season, he appeared in episodes of two ABC series, Channing and The Outer Limits ("Cold Hands, Warm Heart"). In 1963, he starred in the Family Theater production called "The Soldier" and received credits in other programs of The Psalms series. That same year he guest starred in Route 66, in the episode, "Build Your Houses with Their Backs to the Sea". In 1964, he guest starred in the episode "He Stuck in His Thumb" of the CBS drama The Reporter.Also in 1964 he co-starred with Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Paul Newman and Edward G Robinson in the western "The Outrage"
In 1965, Shatner guest-starred as Major Curt Brown in second season episode 9, "I Am The Enemy" of 12 O-Clock High. He guest-starred in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. in an episode that also featured Leonard Nimoy,[16] with whom Shatner would soon be paired in Star Trek. He also starred in the critically acclaimed drama For the People in 1965, as an assistant district attorney, costarring with Jessica Walter. The program lasted for only thirteen episodes. Shatner starred in the 1966 gothic horror film Incubus, the second feature-length movie ever made with all dialogue spoken in Esperanto. He also starred in an episode of Gunsmoke in 1966 as the character Fred Bateman. In 1967 he starred in the little known film White Comanche starring as two characters: Johnny Moon and his twin brother Notah.
[edit] Star Trek
Shatner was first cast as Captain James T. Kirk for the second pilot of Star Trek, titled "Where No Man Has Gone Before". He was then contracted to play Kirk for the Star Trek series and held the role from 1966 to 1969. In 1973, he returned to the role of Captain Kirk, albeit only in voice, in the animated Star Trek series.
In his role as Kirk, Shatner famously kissed African American actress Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura) in the November 22, 1968, Star Trek episode "Plato's Stepchildren". The episode is popularly cited as the first example of an interracial kiss on scripted television in the United States.[17][18][19]
1970s[link]
Shatner's wife Gloria Rand divorced him in March 1969.[20] After Star Trek was cancelled that year, Shatner experienced difficulty in finding work in the early 1970s. With very little money and few acting prospects, he lived in a truck bed camper in the San Fernando Valley[21] until small roles turned into higher-paying jobs. Shatner refers to this part of his life as "that period", a humbling one during which he would take any odd job, including small party appearances, to support his family.
Shatner again appeared in "schlock" films, such as the horror film The Devil's Rain, Corman's Big Bad Mama,[13] and the TV movie The Horror at 37,000 Feet, which many fans believe is his worst work.[21] Shatner received good reviews as the lead prosecutor in a 1971 PBS adaptation of Saul Levitt's play The Andersonville Trial. Other television appearances included a starring role in the western-themed secret agent series Barbary Coast during 1975 and 1976, and guest roles on many 1970s series such as The Six Million Dollar Man, Columbo, The Rookies, Kung Fu, and Mission: Impossible.
Shatner was an occasional celebrity guest on The $10,000 Pyramid and The $20,000 Pyramid in the 1970s, once appearing opposite Nimoy in a week-long matchup billed as "Kirk vs. Spock". His appearances became far less frequent after a 1977 appearance in which, after giving an illegal clue ("the blessed" for Things That Are Blessed) at the top of the pyramid ($200) which deprived the contestant of a big money win, he threw his chair out of the Winner's Circle.[22] Other shows included The Hollywood Squares, Celebrity Bowling,[13] Beat the Clock and Match Game.
Shatner did a number of television commercials for Ontario-based Loblaws and British Columbia-based SuperValu supermarket chains in the 1970s,[23] and finished the Loblaws ad spots by saying, "At Loblaws, more than the price is right. But, by Gosh, the price is right."[24] He also did a number of television commercials for General Motors, endorsing the Oldsmobile brand, and Promise margarine.
A return to Kirk, and to work[link]
After its cancellation, Star Trek unexpectedly gained a cult following during the 1970s from syndicated reruns, and Captain Kirk became a cultural icon.[13] Shatner began appearing at Star Trek conventions organized by Trekkies.[25] In the mid-1970s Paramount began pre-production for a revised Star Trek television series, tentatively titled Star Trek: Phase II. However, the phenomenal success of Star Wars led the studio to instead consider developing a Star Trek motion picture. Shatner and the other original Star Trek cast members returned to their roles when Paramount produced Star Trek: The Motion Picture, released in 1979. It re-established Shatner as an actor, and he played Kirk in the next six Star Trek films, ending with the character's death in 1994's Star Trek Generations. His final appearances in the role are in the movie sequences of the video game Starfleet Academy (1997), and briefly for a DirecTV advertisement using footage from Star Trek VI running from late summer 2006.
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Although Trekkies had resurrected Star Trek after cancellation, in a 1986 Saturday Night Live skit about a Star Trek convention Shatner advised a room full of fans to "Get a life".[26][13] The "much-discussed sketch" accurately portrayed his feelings about Trekkies, which the actor had previously discussed in interviews.[26] Shatner had been the unwilling subject of adoration by them for decades; as early as April 1968, a group attempted to rip his clothes off as the actor left 30 Rockefeller Plaza,[27] and he stopped attending conventions for more than a decade during the 1970s and 1980s.[28] Shatner also appeared in the film Free Enterprise in 1998, in which he played himself and tried to dispel the Kirk image of himself from the view of the film's two lead characters. He also has found an outlet in spoofing the cavalier, almost superhuman, character persona of Captain Kirk in films such as Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) and National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon (1993).
Tim Allen's role in Galaxy Quest as Captain Peter Quincy Taggart / Jason Nesmith is an analogue of James T. Kirk / William Shatner as seen by the public at large. Taggart has a reputation for taking off his shirt at the flimsiest excuse, rolling on the ground during combat, and making pithy speeches, while Nesmith is an egomaniac who regards himself as the core of Galaxy Quest and tells fans to "get a life". Poking fun at himself, Shatner professed to have no idea whom Allen was parodying.[29]
Besides the Star Trek films, Shatner gained a new starring role on television as a police officer in T. J. Hooker, which ran from 1982 to 1986. He then hosted the popular dramatic reenactment series Rescue 911 from 1989 to 1996. During the 1980s Shatner also began directing film and television, directing numerous episodes of T. J. Hooker and the feature film Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.
Subsequent acting career[link]
Shatner has appeared in advertisements for many companies and products, and for most of the 14 years ending in 2012, he has done a series of commercials for the travel web site Priceline, in which Shatner plays a pompous, fictionalized version of himself.[13][30] Although he received stock options for the commercials, Shatner insists that reports that they are now worth hundreds of millions of dollars are exaggerated.[31][32] Shatner was also the CEO of the Toronto, Ontario-based C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures, a special effects studio that operated from 1994 to 2010.[33]
Shatner has enjoyed success with a series of science fiction novels published under his name, though most are widely believed to have been written by uncredited co-writers such as William T. Quick and Ron Goulart.[34] The first, published in 1990, was TekWar. This popular series of books led to a Marvel Comics series, to a number of television movies, in which Shatner played a role, and to a short-lived television series in which Shatner made several appearances; he also directed some episodes. In 1995, a first-person shooter game named William Shatner's TekWar was released, and was the first game to use the Build engine. He also played as a narrator in 1995 American documentary film Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie directed by Peter Kuran.
In the television series 3rd Rock from the Sun, Shatner appeared in several episodes as the "Big Giant Head", a womanizing party-animal and high-ranking officer from the same alien planet as the Solomon family. The role earned Shatner a nomination for an Emmy.[35]
In 2001, Shatner starred in the animated film Osmosis Jones as the character Mayor Phlegmming, the self-centered head of the "City of Frank", a community comprising all the cells and microorganisms of a man's body. In the movie, the pompous Phlegmming is constantly preoccupied with his reelection and his own convenience, even to the detriment of his "city" and constituents.
In 2003, Shatner appeared in Brad Paisley's "Celebrity" and "Online" music videos along with Little Jimmy Dickens, Jason Alexander, and Trista Rehn.
Star Trek: Enterprise producer Manny Coto stated in Star Trek Communicator's October 2004 issue that he was preparing a three-episode story arc for Shatner. Shortly thereafter, Enterprise was cancelled.
After David E. Kelley saw Shatner's commercials,[13] he joined the final season of the legal drama The Practice. His Emmy-award winning role, the eccentric but highly capable attorney Denny Crane, was essentially "William Shatner the man . . . playing William Shatner the character playing the character Denny Crane, who was playing the character William Shatner."[13] Shatner took the Crane role to Boston Legal, and won a Golden Globe, an Emmy in 2005, and was nominated again in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009 for his work. With the 2005 Emmy win, Shatner became one of the few actors (along with co-star James Spader as Alan Shore) to win an Emmy award while playing the same character in two different series. Even rarer, Shatner and Spader each won a second consecutive Emmy while playing the same character in two different series. Shatner remained with the series until its end in 2008.
Shatner made several guest appearances on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, including cameos reciting Sarah Palin's resignation speech, Twitter posts, and autobiography. He has also recited Twitter posts by Levi Johnston, father of Palin's grandson. He also appears in the opening graphics of the occasional feature "In the Year 3000", with his disembodied head floating through space, announcing, "And so we take a cosmic ride into that new millennium; that far off reality that is the year 3000," followed by the tag line, "It's the future, man."
Shatner also played the voice of Ozzie the opossum in DreamWorks' 2006 feature Over the Hedge.
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Shatner's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
In January 2007, Shatner launched a series of daily vlogs on his life called ShatnerVision[36] on the LiveUniverse.com website. In 2008, he launched his video blogs on YouTube in a project renamed "The Shatner Project".[37] Shatner also starred as the voice of Don Salmonella Gavone on the 2009 YouTube animated series The Gavones.[38]
Shatner was not "offered or suggested" a role in the 2009 film Star Trek.[39][40] Director J.J. Abrams said in July 2007, that the production was "desperately trying to figure out a way to put him in" but that to "shove him in . . . would be a disaster."[41] an opinion echoed by Shatner in several interviews. At a convention held in 2010, Shatner commented on the film by saying "I've seen that wonderful film." Shatner had invented his own idea about the beginning of Star Trek with his latest novel, Star Trek: Academy — Collision Course.[42]
Shatner's autobiography Up Till Now was released in 2008. He was assisted in writing it by David Fisher. Shatner has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (for Television work) at 6901 Hollywood Boulevard. He also has a star on the Canadian Walk of Fame. Shatner was the first Canadian actor to star in three successful television series on three different major networks (NBC, CBS, and ABC).
Shatner starred in the CBS sitcom $#*! My Dad Says, which is based on the Twitter feed Shit My Dad Says created by Justin Halpern. The series premiered in late 2010 and was canceled May 2011.[43] Shatner is also the host of the interview show Shatner's Raw Nerve on The Biography Channel, and the Discovery Channel television series Weird or What?[44] Also in 2011, Shatner appeared in the episode of Psych titled, "In For a Penny" on the USA Network as the estranged father of Junior Detective Juliet O'Hara (Maggie Lawson). He has signed on to continue the role into the 2012 season.
In 2011, Shatner starred in The Captains, a feature length documentary which he also wrote and directed. The film follows Shatner as he interviews the other actors who have portrayed starship captains within the Star Trek franchise. Shatner's interviewees included Patrick Stewart, Avery Brooks, Kate Mulgrew, Scott Bakula, and Chris Pine. In the film, Shatner also interviews Christopher Plummer, who is an old friend and colleague from Shatner's days with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario.[45]
In February 2012, Shatner performed in a new one-man show on Broadway, called Shatner's World: We Just Live in It. After a 3-week run at the Music Box Theater,[46] the show is currently touring throughout the United States.
In May 2012 Shatner was the guest presenter on the British satirical television quiz show Have I Got News For You.[47][48]
Music and spoken-word work[link]
Main article: William Shatner's musical career
Shatner began his musical career with the spoken-word 1968 album The Transformed Man, delivering exaggerated, interpretive recitations of "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". He performed a reading of the Elton John song "Rocket Man" during the 1978 Science Fiction Film Awards that has been widely parodied. Ben Folds, who has worked with him several times, produced and co-wrote Shatner's well-received second studio album, Has Been, in 2004. His third studio album, Seeking Major Tom, was released October 11, 2011.
[edit] Space Shuttle Discovery
Shatner recorded a wake-up call that was played for the crew of STS-133 in the Space Shuttle Discovery on March 7, 2011, its final day docked to the International Space Station. Backed by the musical theme from Star Trek, it featured a voice-over based on his spoken introduction from the series' opening credits: "Space, the final frontier. These have been the voyages of the Space Shuttle Discovery. Her 30 year mission: To seek out new science. To build new outposts. To bring nations together on the final frontier. To boldly go, and do, what no spacecraft has done before."[49]
Personal life[link]
Shatner dislikes watching himself perform, and claims that he has "never watched Star Trek . . . not even any of the Star Trek movies"—except the dailies from Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, which he directed—or Boston Legal.[50]
Family[link]
Shatner has been married four times. His first marriage was to Gloria Rand, from 1956 to 1969. His second marriage lasted 21 years and was to Marcy Lafferty; the couple were married in 1973 and divorced in 1994.
His third marriage was to Nerine Kidd-Shatner, from 1997 until her death in 1999. On August 9, 1999, Shatner returned home around 10 pm to discover Nerine's body at the bottom of their back yard swimming pool. She was 40 years old. An autopsy detected alcohol and Valium in her blood, but the coroner ruled the cause of her death as an accidental drowning. The LAPD ruled out foul play and the case was closed. Speaking to the press shortly after his wife's death, a clearly shaken and emotional Shatner said that she "meant everything" to him and called her his "beautiful soulmate."[51] Shatner urged the public to support Friendly House, a non-profit organization that helps women re-establish themselves in the community after suffering from alcoholism and drug addiction.[52] He later told Larry King in an interview that ". . . my wife, whom I loved dearly and who loved me, was suffering with a disease that we don't like to talk about, alcoholism. And she met a tragic ending because of it."[51] In his 2008 book Up Till Now: The Autobiography, Shatner discusses how Leonard Nimoy helped take Nerine for treatment of her alcoholism. Shatner writes in an excerpt from his book:
Leonard Nimoy's personal experience of alcoholism now came to play a central role in my life and it helped us bond together in a way I never could have imagined in the early days of Star Trek. After Nerine [Kidd] and I had been to dinner with Leonard and Susan Nimoy one evening, Leonard called and said: "Bill, you know she's an alcoholic?" I said I did. I married Nerine in 1997, against the advice of many and my own good sense. But I thought she would give up alcohol for me. We had a celebration in Pasadena, and Leonard was my best man. I woke up about eight o'clock the next morning and Nerine was drunk. She was in rehab for 30 days three different times. Twice she almost drank herself to death. Leonard took Nerine to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, but she did not want to quit.[53]
In 2000, a Reuters story reported that Shatner was planning to write and direct The Shiva Club, a dark comedy about the grieving process inspired by his wife's death.[54] Shatner's 2004 album Has Been included a spoken word piece titled "What Have You Done" that describes his anguish upon discovering his wife's body in the pool. "What Have You Done" was also sampled in the Concord Dawn and Chris Su Drum and Bass track "Scream to the Stars".
Since 2001, Shatner has been married to Elizabeth Martin. In 2004, she co-wrote the song "Together" on Shatner's album Has Been.[55]
Relationships with other actors[link]
Shatner first appeared on screen with Leonard Nimoy in 1964, when both actors guest-starred in an episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., entitled: "The Project Strigas Affair". However, Shatner states in his autobiography that he does not recall meeting Nimoy at that time. As co-stars on Star Trek, they interacted socially both on and off the set. After Star Trek's cancellation in 1969, Shatner and Nimoy reunited in the production of Star Trek: The Animated Series, as well as The $20,000 Pyramid, where "Kirk vs. Spock" appeared on two different tables. Nimoy also guest-starred on T. J. Hooker for a few episodes. Shatner starred in the title role of the show.
The 1999 death of Shatner's third wife, Nerine, served to strengthen the friendship of Shatner and Nimoy, as Nimoy had mourned over the loss of his best friend's wife. Nimoy also appeared alongside Shatner at the TV Land Awards (hosted by John Ritter) and was one of the many people to serve as a celebrity "roaster" of Shatner. Nimoy summarized his four decade friendship with Shatner by remarking, "Bill's energy was good for my performance, 'cause Spock could be the cool individual, our chemistry was successful, right from the start." Nimoy has spoken about their mutual rivalry during the Star Trek years: "Very competitive, sibling rivalry up to here. After the show had been on the air a few weeks and they started getting so much mail for Spock, then the dictum came down from NBC: 'Give us more of that guy, they love that guy, you know?' Well, that can be . . . that can be a problem for the leading man who was hired as the star of the show; and suddenly, here's this guy with ears – 'What's this, you know?'" said Nimoy. Shatner has similarly described their Star Trek relationship, stating that they only became close friends while attending fan conventions together.[21] On an episode of the A&E Network series Biography, Nimoy remarked, "Bill Shatner hogging the stage? No. Not the Bill Shatner I know."
Shatner has been a friend of actress Heather Locklear since 1982, when Locklear began co-starring with him on T. J. Hooker as Officer Stacy Sheridan. Locklear was asked by Entertainment Tonight whether it was hard to work on two weekly TV shows at the same time. (During the four years Locklear was in Hooker, she was also appearing in a semi-regular role in a fellow Aaron Spelling production, Dynasty). She replied ". . . I'd get really nervous and want to be prepared . . ." for Shatner and for the experienced cast of Dynasty. After Hooker ended Shatner helped Locklear get other roles. Locklear supported a grieving Shatner in 1999 when he was mourning the death of his wife, Nerine. In 2005, Locklear appeared in two episodes of Shatner's Boston Legal as Kelly Nolan, an attractive, youthful woman being tried for killing her much older, wealthy husband. Shatner plays Denny Crane, a founding partner of a large law firm, and a legendary litigator. Crane is attracted to Nolan and tries to insert himself into her defense. He is about the same age as Nolan's deceased husband, so Crane courts death by pursuing her. Locklear was asked how she came to appear on Boston Legal. She explained "I love the show, it's my favorite show; and I sorta kind of said, 'Shouldn't I be William Shatner's illegitimate daughter, or his love interest?'"
For years, Shatner was accused of being difficult to work with by some of his Star Trek co-stars, most notably James Doohan and George Takei. In the 2004 Star Trek DVD sets, Shatner seemed to have made up with Takei, but their differences continue to resurface. In the 1990s, Shatner made numerous attempts to patch things up with Doohan, but was unsuccessful for some time; however, an Associated Press article published at the time of Doohan's final convention appearance in late August 2004 stated that Doohan had forgiven his fellow Canadian Shatner and they had mended their relationship.
Takei continues to speak negatively about Shatner. In a 2008 television interview, he stated "he has a big, shiny, demanding ego."[56] Shatner, in turn, recorded videos for YouTube, saying that Takei had some sort of "psychosis".[57]
Takei has repeatedly asserted (most recently on the December 26, 2009, episode of the NPR radio program Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me) that he invited Shatner (along with other Star Trek cast members) to his 2008 wedding to Brad Altman, but Shatner never responded to the invitation. Shatner has repeatedly counter-asserted (most recently in the January 2010 issue of GQ) that he never received an invitation.[58][59]
In 1995, when Shatner interviewed his Star Trek costars for his memoir Star Trek Movie Memories, Nichelle Nichols (who played Uhura on the show) told him, "Now let me tell you why I hate you,"[60] explaining that, despite the few lines she had in the show, he would sometimes argue with the director that an Uhura dialog line was unnecessary.[61] She then "gave Shatner an earful about how she and the rest of the other four felt, which prompted Shatner to wake up and set about making things right with his former costars." He and Nichols patched up their differences sufficiently that she appeared on his August 20, 2006 Friars Club roast, telling the Comedy Central audience, "Bill Shatner would crap on the last piece of pizza just so no one else could enjoy it."[62]
Health problems[link]
Shatner suffers from tinnitus as a result of an accident on the set while shooting the Star Trek episode "Arena" and is involved in the American Tinnitus Association. His treatment for this condition involved wearing a small electronic device that generated a low-level, broadband sound (white noise) that "helped his brain put the tinnitus in the background".[63]
Charity work[link]
In 2006, Shatner sold his kidney stone for US$25,000 to GoldenPalace.com.[64] In an appearance on The View on May 16, 2006, Shatner said the $25,000 and an additional $20,000 raised from the cast and crew of Boston Legal paid for the building of a house by Habitat for Humanity.
In his spare time, Shatner enjoys breeding and showing American Saddlebreds[13] and Quarter Horses. Shatner has a 150 hectare (360 acre) farm near Versailles, Kentucky, named Belle Reve (from the French beau rève, "Beautiful Dream," -- Belle Reve was the name of Blanche Dubois and her sister Stella's family home in A Streetcar Named Desire), where he raises American Saddlebreds. His champion American Saddlebreds include Call Me Ringo, Revival, and Sultan's Great Day. The farm's activities help benefit the Central Kentucky Riding for Hope "Horses For Heroes" program.
Shatner also plays on the World Poker Tour in the Hollywood Home Games, where celebrities play for their favorite charities. Since 1990, he has been a leading force behind the Hollywood Charity Horse Show, which raises money for children's charities.
Nominations and awards[link]
In 2004, Shatner won his first Emmy Award for his role as "Denny Crane" on The Practice. In 2005, he won his first Golden Globe award and a second Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his work on Boston Legal. In 2009, Shatner won a Streamy Award in the category of Best Reality Web Series.
In May 2011, he was honoured with the Governor General of Canada's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, recording a humorous short film William Shatner Sings O Canada for the occasion.[65][66] On June 2, 2011, Shatner received an honorary Doctor of Letters from McGill University, his alma mater.[67]
See also[link]
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- William Shatner talks about 'Star Trek: The Tour' in Long Beach
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- The Times (London), January 26, 2008. "Man of Enterprise. As a new series of Boston Legal begins, our critic salutes the many facets of its veteran star William Shatner" by Sophie Davies
- Shatner turns down real offer to go into space "I do want to go up but I need guarantees I'll definitely come back.", accessed 2010-07-21
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- William Shatner interview at Archive of American Television January 22, 2009 and September 15, 1999
- William Shatner In Conversation (video) with The Big Bang Theory creator and show runner Bill Prady at 2010 Banff World TV Festival
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| 61st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | |
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| Assumed office January 5, 2011 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Nancy Pelosi |
| House Minority Leader | |
| In office January 3, 2007 – January 3, 2011 |
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| Deputy | Roy Blunt (2007–2009) Eric Cantor (2009–2011) |
| Preceded by | Nancy Pelosi |
| Succeeded by | Nancy Pelosi |
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| In office February 2, 2006 – January 3, 2007 |
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| Deputy | Roy Blunt |
| Preceded by | Roy Blunt (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Steny Hoyer |
| Chairman of the House Committee on Education and Workforce | |
| In office January 3, 2001 – January 3, 2006 |
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| Preceded by | William Goodling |
| Succeeded by | Howard McKeon |
| Chairman of the House Republican Conference | |
| In office January 3, 1995 – January 3, 1999 |
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| Preceded by | Dick Armey |
| Succeeded by | J.C. Watts |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 8th district |
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| Assumed office January 3, 1991 |
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| Preceded by | Buz Lukens |
| Member of the Ohio House of Representatives from the 57th district |
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| In office January 3, 1985 – December 31, 1990 |
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| Preceded by | Bill Donham |
| Succeeded by | Scott Nein |
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| Born | John Andrew Boehner (1949-11-17) November 17, 1949 (age 62) Reading, Ohio, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Deborah Gunlack (1973–present) |
| Children | Lindsay Boehner Tricia Boehner |
| Residence | West Chester Township, Butler County, Ohio |
| Alma mater | Xavier University |
| Profession | Business consultant |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
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| Website | Speaker of the House Friends of John Boehner Fighting for Freedom. Making a Difference. John Boehner – 8th District of Ohio |
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| Years of service | 1968 (8 weeks) |
John Andrew Boehner ( /ˈbeɪnər/ BAY-nər;[notes 1] born November 17, 1949) is the 61st[1] and current Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. A member of the Republican Party, he is the U.S. Representative from Ohio's 8th congressional district, serving since 1991. The district includes several rural and suburban areas near Cincinnati and Dayton, and a small portion of Dayton itself.
Boehner previously served as the House Minority Leader from 2007 until 2011, and House Majority Leader from 2006 until 2007. As Speaker of the House, Boehner is second in line to the presidency of the United States following the Vice President in accordance with the Presidential Succession Act.
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Early life, education and career[link]
Boehner was born in Reading, Ohio, the son of Mary Anne (née Hall) and Earl Henry Boehner, the second of twelve children. His father was of German descent and his mother had German and Irish ancestry.[2][3][4][5][6] He grew up in modest circumstances, having shared one bathroom with his eleven siblings in a two-bedroom house in Cincinnati. His parents slept on a pull-out couch.[7] He started working at his family's bar at age 8, a business founded by their grandfather Andy Boehner in 1938.[7] He has lived in Southwest Ohio his entire life. All but two of his siblings still live within a few miles of each other; two are unemployed and most of the others have blue-collar jobs.[8]
Boehner attended Cincinnati's Moeller High School and was a linebacker on the school's football team, where he was coached by future Notre Dame coach Gerry Faust.[9] Graduating from Moeller in 1968, when U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War was at its peak, Boehner enlisted in the United States Navy but was honorably discharged after eight weeks because of a bad back.[10] He earned his B.A. in business administration from Xavier University in 1977, becoming the first person in his family to attend college, taking seven years as he held several jobs to pay for his education.[7]
Shortly after his graduation in 1977, Boehner accepted a position with Nucite Sales, a small sales business in the packaging and plastics industry. He was steadily promoted and eventually became president of the firm, resigning in 1990 when he was elected to Congress.[4]
Early political career[link]
From 1982 to 1984, Boehner served on the board of trustees of Union Township, Butler County, Ohio. He then served as an Ohio state representative from 1985 to 1990.[citation needed]
U.S. House of Representatives[link]
In 1990, Boehner ran against incumbent congressman Buz Lukens, who was under fire for having a sexual relationship with a minor. He trounced Lukens in the primary, taking 49 percent of the vote. This was tantamount to election in the heavily Republican 8th District. He has been reelected 10 times with no substantial opposition, and even ran unopposed in 1994.
Gang of Seven[link]
During his freshman year, Boehner and fellow members of the Gang of Seven took on the House establishment, Republicans and Democrats alike, and successfully closed the House Bank (House banking scandal), uncovered "dine-and-dash" practices at the House Restaurant, and exposed drug sales and illegal cash-for-stamps deals at the House Post Office.[11]
[edit] Contract with America
Boehner, along with Newt Gingrich and several other Republican lawmakers, was one of the engineers of the Contract with America in 1994 that helped catapult Republicans into the majority in Congress for the first time in four decades.
Legislative accomplishments[link]
From 1995 to 1999, Boehner served as House Republican Conference Chairman which is the party caucus for Republicans in the United States House of Representatives. In this post, he was the fourth-ranking House Republican, behind Gingrich, Majority Leader Dick Armey and Majority Whip Tom DeLay. There he championed the Freedom to Farm Act that, among other provisions, revises and simplifies direct payment programs for crops and eliminates milk price supports through direct government purchases.
Following the election of President George W. Bush, Boehner was elected as chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee from 2001 until 2006. There he authored several reforms including the Pension Protection Act and a successful school choice voucher program for low-income children in Washington, DC.[12] He was also a major force in the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, saying it was his “proudest achievement” in two decades of public service.[13]
Leadership challenge[link]
In the summer of 1997 several House Republicans, who saw Speaker Newt Gingrich's public image as a liability, attempted to replace him as Speaker. The attempted "coup" began July 9 with a meeting between Republican conference chairman Boehner and Republican leadership chairman Bill Paxon of New York. According to their plan, House Majority Leader Dick Armey, House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, Boehner and Paxon were to present Gingrich with an ultimatum: resign, or be voted out. However, Armey balked at the proposal to make Paxon the new Speaker, and told his chief of staff to warn Gingrich about the coup.[14]
On July 11, Gingrich met with senior Republican leadership to assess the situation. He explained that under no circumstance would he step down. If he was voted out, there would be a new election for Speaker, which would allow for the possibility that Democrats—along with dissenting Republicans—would vote in Dick Gephardt as Speaker. On July 16, Paxon offered to resign his post, feeling that he had not handled the situation correctly. Paxon was the only unelected member of the leadership group, having been appointed to his position by Gingrich.[15]
Congressional leadership[link]
In 1998, Boehner was ousted as the chairman of the House Republican Conference, after his party lost five congressional seats.[16]
In an upset, Boehner was elected by his colleagues to serve as House Majority Leader on February 2, 2006. The election followed Tom DeLay's resignation from the post after being indicted on criminal charges.
Boehner campaigned as a reform candidate who wanted to reform the so-called "earmark" process and rein in government spending. He defeated Majority Whip Roy Blunt of Missouri and Representative John Shadegg of Arizona, even though he was considered an underdog candidate to Blunt. In the second round of voting by the House Republican Conference, Boehner defeated Blunt with 122 to 109 votes. Blunt kept his previous position as Majority Whip, the No. 3 leadership position in the House. (There was some confusion on the first ballot for Majority Leader as the first count showed one more vote cast than Republicans present,[17] due to a misunderstanding as to whether the rules allowed Resident Commissioner Luis Fortuño of Puerto Rico to vote or not).[18]
After the Republicans lost control of the House in the 2006 elections, the House Republican Conference chose Boehner as Minority Leader. While as Majority Leader he was second-in-command behind Speaker Dennis Hastert, as Minority Leader he was the leader of the House Republicans. As such, he was the Republican nominee for Speaker in 2006 and 2008, losing both times to Pelosi. While the Speaker is nominally elected by the full House, in practice he or she is almost always chosen by the majority party.
According to the 2008 Congress.org Power Ranking, Boehner was the 6th most powerful congressman (preceded by Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Hoyer, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Sander M. Levin, Dean of the House John Dingell, and Appropriations Committee Chairman Dave Obey, all Democrats) and the most powerful Republican.[19] As Minority Leader, Boehner served as an ex officio member of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Speaker of the House[link]
On November 17, 2010, Boehner was unanimously chosen by the House Republicans as their nominee for Speaker,[20][21] all but assuring his formal election to the post when the new Congress convened with a Republican majority in January 2011. He is the first Speaker from Ohio since fellow Republicans Nicholas Longworth (1925 to 1931) and J. Warren Keifer (1881 to 1883). He is also the first Speaker who has served both as majority and minority floor leader for his party since Texas Democrat Sam Rayburn.
As Speaker, Boehner is still the leader of the House Republicans. However, by tradition, he normally does not take part in debate (though he has the right to do so) and almost never votes from the floor. He is also not a member of any House committees.
Controversies[link]
Connections to lobbyists[link]
In June 1995, Boehner distributed campaign contributions from tobacco industry lobbyists on the House floor as House members were weighing how to vote on tobacco subsidies.[22] In a 1996 documentary by PBS called The People and the Power Game, Boehner said "They asked me to give out a half dozen checks quickly before we got to the end of the month and I complied. And I did it on the House floor, which I regret. I should not have done. It's not a violation of the House rules, but it's a practice that‘s gone on here for a long time that we're trying to stop and I know I'll never do it again."[23] Boehner eventually led the effort to change House rules and prohibit campaign contributions from being distributed on the House floor.[24]
A September 2010 New York Times story said Boehner was "Tightly Bound to Lobbyists" and "He maintains especially tight ties with a circle of lobbyists and former aides representing some of the nation’s biggest businesses, including Goldman Sachs, Google, Citigroup, R.J. Reynolds, MillerCoors and UPS.".[25]
Smithsonian[link]
In November 2010, Boehner, along with Minority Whip Eric Cantor, called for the cancellation of an exhibit in the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery after he learned that it featured a video by David Wojnarowicz, A Fire in My Belly, that contained an image of a crucifix with ants crawling on it. Boehner spokesman Kevin Smith said, "Smithsonian officials should either acknowledge the mistake and correct it, or be prepared to face tough scrutiny beginning in January when the new majority in the House moves [in]."[26]
Political positions[link]
A profile in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review said, "On both sides of the aisle, Boehner earns praise for candor and an ability to listen."[27] The Plain Dealer says Boehner "has perfected the art of disagreeing without being disagreeable."[28]
Boehner has been classified as a "hard-core conservative" by OnTheIssues.[29] Although Boehner does have a conservative voting record, when he was running for House leadership, religious conservatives in the GOP expressed that they were not satisfied with his positions. According to the Washington Post: "From illegal immigration to sanctions on China to an overhaul of the pension system, Boehner, as chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, took ardently pro-business positions that were contrary to those of many in his party. Religious conservatives – examining his voting record – see him as a policymaker driven by small-government economic concerns, not theirs."[30]
Boehner has received a "0" rating from the Human Rights Campaign in the last three congressional sessions, voting against the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010, the Early Treatment for HIV Act, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, and the Hate Crimes Prevention Act. Boehner voted for a Federal Marriage Amendment. In a letter to the Rights Campaign, Boehner stated, "I oppose any legislation that would provide special rights for homosexuals... Please be assured that I will continue to work to protect the idea of the traditional family as one of the fundamental tenets of western civilization."[31][32]
On May 25, 2006, Boehner issued a statement defending his agenda and attacking his "Democrat friends" such as Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. Boehner said regarding national security that voters "have a choice between a Republican Party that understands the stakes and is dedicated to victory, and a Democrat Party with a non-existent national security policy that sheepishly dismisses the challenges of a post-9/11 world and is all too willing to concede defeat on the battlefield in Iraq."
Boehner is a signer of Americans for Tax Reform’s Taxpayer Protection Pledge.[33]
Military spending[link]
Boehner has called on the President to justify spending for military operations against terrorists.[34]
Financial crisis[link]
On September 18, 2008, Congressman Boehner attended a closed meeting with congressional leaders, then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, and was urged to craft legislation to help financially troubled banks. That same day (trade effective the next day), Congressman Boehner cashed out of an equity mutual fund.[35]
On October 3, 2008 Boehner voted in favor of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP),[36] believing that the enumerated powers grant Congress the authority to "purchase assets and equity from financial institutions in order to strengthen its financial sector."
Boehner has been highly critical of several initiatives by the Democratic Congress and President Barack Obama, including the "cap and trade" plan that Boehner says would hurt job growth in his congressional district and elsewhere. He opposed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and said that, if Republicans took control of the House of Representatives in the 2010 elections, they would do whatever it takes to stop the act. One option would be to defund the administrative aspect of the Act, not paying "one dime" to pay the salaries of the workers who would administer the plan.[37] He also led an opposition to the 2009 stimulus and to Obama's first budget proposal, promoting instead an alternative economic recovery plan[38] and a Republican budget (authored by Ranking Rep. Paul Ryan, R-WI).[39] He has advocated for an across-the-board spending freeze, including entitlement programs. Boehner favors making changes in Social Security, such as by raising the retirement age to 70 for people who have at least 20 years until retirement, as well as tying cost-of-living increases to the consumer price index rather than wage inflation, and limiting payments to those who need them.[37]
In 2011 Boehner called the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act “one of our highest legislative priorities.”[40][41]
Political campaigns[link]
2006[link]
In the November 2006 election, Boehner defeated the Democratic Party candidate, U.S. Air Force veteran Mort Meier, 64% to 36%.[42]
2008[link]
In the November 2008 election, Boehner defeated Nicholas Von Stein, 68% to 32%.[43]
2010[link]
Boehner was opposed by Democratic nominee Justin Coussoule, Constitution Party nominee Jim Condit, and Libertarian nominee David Harlow; but won the 2010 election.[44]
As Republican House Leader, Boehner is a Democratic target for criticism of Republican views and political positions. In July 2010, President Barack Obama began singling out Boehner for criticism during his speeches.[45] In one speech, Obama mentioned Boehner's name nine times[46] and accused him of believing that police, firefighters, and teachers were jobs "not worth saving."[47]
Electoral history[link]
| Year | Democrat | Votes | Pct | Republican | Votes | Pct | Other | Party | Votes | Pct | Other | Party | Votes | Pct | |||||
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| 1990 | Gregory Jolivette | 66,584 | 40% | John Boehner | 99,955 | 60% | |||||||||||||
| 1992 | Fred Sennet | 62,033 | 26% | John Boehner | 176,362 | 74% | |||||||||||||
| 1994 | No candidate | John Boehner | 148,338 | 100% | |||||||||||||||
| 1996 | Jeffrey Kitchen | 52,912 | 26% | John Boehner | 127,979 | 70% | William Baker | Natural Law | 8,613 | 4% | |||||||||
| 1998 | John W. Griffin | 52,912 | 29% | John Boehner | 127,979 | 71% | |||||||||||||
| 2000 | John G. Parks | 66,293 | 26% | John Boehner | 179,756 | 71% | David Shock | Libertarian | 7,254 | 3% | |||||||||
| 2002 | Jeff Hardenbrook | 49,444 | 29% | John Boehner | 119,947 | 71% | |||||||||||||
| 2004 | Jeff Hardenbrook | 90,574 | 31% | John Boehner | 201,675 | 69% | |||||||||||||
| 2006 | Mort Meier | 77,640 | 36% | John Boehner | 136,863 | 64% | |||||||||||||
| 2008 | Nicholas Von Stein | 95,510 | 32% | John Boehner | 202,063 | 68% | |||||||||||||
| 2010 | Justin Coussoule | 65,883 | 30% | John Boehner | 142,731 | 66% | David Harlow | Libertarian | 5,121 | 2% | James Condit | Constitution | 3,701 | 2% |
Personal life[link]
Boehner and his wife Debbie were married in 1973, and live in the Wetherington section of West Chester Township. They have two daughters, Lindsay and Tricia.[50]
Notes[link]
- ^ The German pronunciation of the name Boehner/Böhner is [ˈbøːnɐ] BURH-na, see Hanks, Patrick (2003). Dictionary of American Family Names. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-508137-4. However, Boehner's biography at House.gov recommends the pronunciation BAY-ner.
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- ^ See House Rule IV 7 at rules.house.gov.
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Further reading[link]
- Barone, Michael, and Grant Ujifusa, The Almanac of American Politics 2006: The Senators, the Representatives and the Governors: Their Records and Election Results, Their States and Districts (2005) pp 1328–32.
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Rush Hudson Limbaugh III ( /ˈlɪmbɔː/; born January 12, 1951) is an American radio talk show host and political commentator. Since he was 16 Limbaugh has worked a series of disc jockey jobs. His talk show began in 1984 at Sacramento radio station KFBK, featuring his ongoing format of political commentary and listener calls. In 1988 Limbaugh began broadcasting his show nationally from radio station WABC in New York, New York. He currently lives in West Palm Beach, Florida, from where he broadcasts the The Rush Limbaugh Show, the highest-rated talk-radio program in the United States.
In the 1990s Limbaugh's books The Way Things Ought to Be (1992) and See, I Told You So (1993) made The New York Times Best Seller list. Limbaugh frequently criticizes, in his books and on his show, what he regards as liberal policies and politicians, as well as what he perceives as a pervasive liberal bias in major U.S. media.
Rush Hudson Limbaugh III was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, the son of Mildred Carolyn "Millie" (née Armstrong) and Rush Hudson Limbaugh, Jr. His father was a lawyer and a U.S. fighter pilot who served in the China Burma India Theater of World War II. His mother was a native of Searcy, Arkansas. The name "Rush" was originally chosen for his grandfather to honor the maiden name of family member Edna Rush.
