Sestak and Limbaugh tussle over 9/11 trials

Congressman Joe Sestak (D-7) and radio host Rush Limbaugh had a little tussle over the weekend, after Limbaugh called Sestak a “dangerous, left-wing, radical ideologue” for supporting the Obama administration’s decision to try Guantanamo detainees in the United States.

Airing comments Sestak made in a television interview, Limbaugh said the decision to try the detainees in the U.S. was being done “precisely to appease the left” (audio above).

Sestak’s Senate campaign shot back in a…

November 16, 2009 at 8:55 am | Comments (8)

Rush’s rant

Predictably, after being jettisoned as a minority partner by the group hoping to buy the St. Louis Rams, Rush Limbaugh, along with his many minions, is lashing out and, as is so typical of today’s conservatives, painting himself as a victim and blaming everyone for his predicament but himself.

As expected, both he and his listeners are following what has become the well-trod path of conservative victimization and denial. First, Rush never said any of…

October 17, 2009 at 11:09 pm | Comments (2)

It takes two to be civil

Nice

May 14, 2009 at 9:12 am | Comments (0)

Are you listening Rush?

I have a

April 23, 2009 at 11:02 am | Comments (0)

A Republican who’s not afraid of Limbaugh

Larry Murphy has strong feelings about Rush Limbaugh.

“Rush Limbaugh is a racist, he’s a cancer to the Republican Party and he should be excised,” pThose aren’t unusual sentiments. But what is unusual is hearing them from a Republican candidate for office. Republicans far and wide have been a id="lzj-" title="prostrating themselves" href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/19517.html" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.politico.com']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politico.com%2Fnews%2Fstories%2F0309%2F19517.html','prostrating+themselves')" target="_blank"prostrating themselves/a before Limbaugh in recent months, who has been effective at leveraging his massive conservative audience into allegiance from elected officials in the party. But Murphy, an underdog Republican candidate for Senate, says Limbaugh can’t be the voice of the party./p
p“My opponents are afraid to say that,” Murphy, told empa2010.com /emrecently./p
pHe’s got a point. Incumbent Senator Arlen Specter, working hard to court the party’s conservative base ahead of a grueling primary next year, recently said of Limbaugh: “I like him.”/p
pMurphy, by far the least known of the four Republican Senate candidates, has such a low profile that it’s unlikely he’ll get caught up in the apologize-to-Rush game that has snagged his more prominent colleagues in recent months. But he’s also clearly hoping his stance against Limbaugh will bolster his credentials as a more independent Republican./p
p“People like Rush and [radio host] Laura Ingraham, they’re really destroying our party, and we need to wake up and see that,” Murphy said, adding that his would be a “different kind of Republican candidacy.”/p
p“It’s not going to mean-hearted, it’s not going to be sound bites,” he said./p
pFormer Congressman Pat Toomey and conservative activist Peg Luksik are also running against Specter in next year’s primary./p
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Republican Senate candidate Larry Murphy