rush limbaugh

    By Jonathan Berr

    | 3:30PM 9/01/2009
    For journalists in a slow news cycle, the impulse to sort, rank, and list people, places, and things comes as naturally as breathing. The fact that lists like these often have no point doesn't make them any less compelling or compulsively readable. Still, one exceptionally odd new list attempts to...

    By Russell Turk, M.D.

    | 2:00PM 8/14/2009
    In the beginning, there was Sarah Palin. who warned that the proposed health care reform bill called for the creation of "death panels" to decide whether an elderly patient gets to live or die. Then, along came Rush Limbaugh, who referred to the bill as "a Hitler-like policy." Now, critics of the...

    By Tom Barlow

    | 5:00PM 8/05/2009
    Rush Limbaugh throws his weight around the political world like a boy with a bazooka in a paintball game, but lately there's less of Rush's weight to throw; the radio talk show star has lost 90 pounds. Expect to see a stampede to Quick Weight Loss Centers, which Limbaugh credits for his loss....

    By Jeff Bercovici

    | 3:00PM 7/30/2009
    Back in March, Rush Limbaugh got a lot of attention when he vowed to sell his New York City apartment and cease broadcasting from Manhattan, in response to a planned tax increase for wealthy New York State residents. "I'm going to get out of there totally, 'cause this is just absurd, and it's...

    By Jeff Bercovici

    | 4:20PM 7/29/2009
    First she got a big fat book deal. Then she was supposedly being courted for TV stardom. Now Sarah Palin could be taking into the airwaves in a different form, as the host of her own radio talk show. "[S]ources say Palin representatives have been quietly testing the waters to see how much interest...

    By Joseph Lazzaro

    | 4:00PM 7/27/2009
    Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh has waded further into the nation's universal health-care policy debate by offering his own health-care reform proposal. In an interview with FoxNews's (NWS) Greta Van Susteren, host of On The Record, Limbaugh challenged the claim that 47 million Americans...