Media Matters - The Rush Limbaugh Show

Media Matters - The Rush Limbaugh Show http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/the_rush_limbaugh_show This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: The Rush Limbaugh Show en-US Copyright 2009, Media Matters for America Limbaugh claims Franken "stole" MN Senate race, cites WSJ editorial to claim "[t]hey're counting votes twice" http://mediamatters.org/items/200901050016 Rush Limbaugh baselessly claimed that Democrat Al Franken "stole the race" for Minnesota's Senate seat and asserted that "The Wall Street Journal has a story on this. They're counting votes twice -- votes that were rejected, all kinds of things." However, the Journal "story" Limbaugh referred to was an editorial, which simply asserted that there was double counting -- echoing the accusation by the incumbent, Republican Norm Coleman -- and did not cite reporting to support its claim. http://mediamatters.org/items/200901050016 Mon, 5 Jan 2009 19:01:54 EST Limbaugh falsely claimed Bush waited until his second term to replace "some" of Clinton's U.S. attorneys http://mediamatters.org/items/200812100009 On his radio show, Rush Limbaugh falsely claimed that in his first term, President George W. Bush "left a lot of Clinton U.S. attorneys in office, did not sweep them. Only in his second term did he start replacing some." In fact, Bush reportedly replaced 88 of the 93 U.S. attorneys with his own appointees during the first two years of his presidency. http://mediamatters.org/items/200812100009 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:25:18 EST Limbaugh guest host attacks Obama appointee as extremist for supporting comprehensive immigration reform, which Bush also supports http://mediamatters.org/items/200812040010 On The Rush Limbaugh Show, Mark Davis accused President-elect Barack Obama of choosing an "amnesty fetishist" in his appointment of Cecilia Muñoz, of the National Council of La Raza. But contrary to Davis' suggestion, Muñoz and NCLR's position in support of comprehensive immigration reform is far from radical, and shared in principle by members of Congress from both parties and by President Bush. http://mediamatters.org/items/200812040010 Thu, 4 Dec 2008 14:15:29 EST Conservative radio hosts continue to promote discredited claim that Obama has yet to prove he was born in the U.S. http://mediamatters.org/items/200812030008 Radio hosts Brian Sussman, Mark Davis, Lars Larson, Bob Grant, Jim Quinn, and Rose Tennent repeated the discredited claim that President-elect Barack Obama has not produced a valid birth certificate and is not eligible for the presidency because he is not a natural-born citizen. In fact, the Obama campaign posted a copy of Obama's birth certificate on its Fight the Smears website and reportedly provided the original to FactCheck.org, whose staff concluded that it "meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship." A Hawaii Health Department official also reportedly confirmed that the birth certificate Obama's campaign posted is valid. http://mediamatters.org/items/200812030008 Wed, 3 Dec 2008 13:01:58 EST Limbaugh's guest host is latest radio host to compare current policies or proposals to slavery http://mediamatters.org/items/200811170003 While discussing potential Republican outreach efforts toward African-Americans, Jason Lewis stated on The Rush Limbaugh Show: "[T]his whole notion of taxing -- taxing America's labor -- you know, I don't know how else you describe what this sordid experience of slavery was when you take away somebody's ability to engage in the marketplace with the fruits of their labor." Lewis later added: "We need to go into the African-American community there on cultural issues. And they should be there on taxes, because they know what it's like to have to work for free." http://mediamatters.org/items/200811170003 Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:32:26 EST Conservative radio hosts accuse Dems of "trying to steal" MN Senate election -- but there's no evidence, according to GOP governor http://mediamatters.org/items/200811130014 Several conservative talk radio hosts have accused Democrats of "trying to steal" the Minnesota senatorial election for Democratic challenger Al Franken over incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman (R). They offer no evidence for the accusation; indeed, the state's Republican governor has said there is none. http://mediamatters.org/items/200811130014 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:11:02 EST Hannity, Limbaugh promote myth of an "Obama recession" http://mediamatters.org/items/200811120011 Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh continue to suggest that President-elect Barack Obama is to blame for the decline in the stock market, referring to the state of the stock market as an "Obama recession." In fact, analysts have refuted the proposition that the market decline has anything to do with anticipation of Obama's presidency. http://mediamatters.org/items/200811120011 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:16:46 EST Media conservatives claim America is "center-right," but political scientists challenge reliance on voter self-identification http://mediamatters.org/items/200811100013 Several conservative commentators claim America is ideologically a "center-right" country, citing as evidence general election exit polls showing that 22 percent of respondents identify themselves as "liberal," 44 percent as "moderate" and 34 percent as "conservative." But political scientists dispute the reliability of voters' identification with political ideologies, and other polling has found that a strong majority favored the more progressive position on a number of issues. http://mediamatters.org/items/200811100013 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:01:34 EST Morris, Hannity, Limbaugh implicate Obama in stock-market decline -- analysts disagree http://mediamatters.org/items/200811070011 Conservative commentators have asserted that President-elect Barack Obama is to blame for the decline of the stock market since the election. But several analysts disagree, citing weak corporate reports and the release of unemployment statistics. http://mediamatters.org/items/200811070011 Fri, 7 Nov 2008 19:09:37 EST Limbaugh distorts discussion between Brokaw and Rose to assert they were "trying to figure out who Obama is" http://mediamatters.org/items/200811030015 Rush Limbaugh played an audio clip "montage" from Charlie Rose's interview of Tom Brokaw, in which Limbaugh asserted that Rose and Brokaw were "trying to figure out who Obama is." In fact, Limbaugh heavily edited the clip, at one point falsely suggesting that Brokaw expressed the opinion that "there's a lot about him [Obama] that we don't know," when in fact Brokaw attributed that assertion to "conservative commentators." http://mediamatters.org/items/200811030015 Mon, 3 Nov 2008 16:35:58 EST Limbaugh smears Obama with misrepresentation of comments on Constitution http://mediamatters.org/items/200810280007 Rush Limbaugh distorted comments by Sen. Barack Obama in a 2001 radio interview and falsely characterized Obama as "an anti-constitutional professor" who has "flatly rejected" the U.S. Constitution. Obama made the comments in a panel discussion of how the Founders addressed the issue of slavery in the Constitution; he did not reject it, as Limbaugh falsely claimed, but called it "a remarkable political document." http://mediamatters.org/items/200810280007 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:10:24 EST Conservative media figures allege Obama's Hawaii trip is about discredited birth-certificate rumors, not his ailing grandmother http://mediamatters.org/items/200810230020 Michael Savage, Rush Limbaugh, and Jerome Corsi suggested or asserted that the true purpose of Sen. Barack Obama's current trip to Hawaii is not to visit his ailing grandmother, as Obama claims, but rather to address rumors -- widely debunked -- that Obama has failed to produce a valid U.S. birth certificate. However, in addition to FactCheck.org and a Hawaiian Health Department official, even Corsi's employer, the right-wing website WorldNetDaily, has reportedly determined that the birth certificate provided by the Obama campaign is authentic. http://mediamatters.org/items/200810230020 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:13:46 EST Limbaugh falsely claimed "[t]here's no evidence" Obama wrote anything before Dreams from My Father "except a poem" http://mediamatters.org/items/200810130016 On his radio show, discussing Sen. Barack Obama's book, Dreams from My Father, Rush Limbaugh falsely claimed that "[t]here's no evidence that Obama has ever written anything prior to this except a poem." In fact, Obama reportedly authored an article for the Harvard Law Review in 1990. Limbaugh also baselessly suggested Obama did not write Dreams because "[h]e doesn't talk this way," and repeated the baseless allegation that there is a connection between Bill Ayers' written work and Obama's, because Ayers "does write very well." http://mediamatters.org/items/200810130016 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:48:27 EST Conservative radio hosts claimed HUD said 5 million illegal immigrants were given subprime mortgages, despite HUD's reported denials http://mediamatters.org/items/200810130015 Rush Limbaugh and KSFO's Lee Rodgers repeated a variation of the claim that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) gave "5 million illegal aliens" subprime loans that they have not paid back. Quinn & Rose's Jim Quinn also cited the 5 million statistic without citing a source for the figure. None of these radio hosts noted that HUD has reportedly stated that this statistic is false. http://mediamatters.org/items/200810130015 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:12:00 EST Limbaugh mischaracterized accomplishments of '06 Nobel Peace Prize winner, smeared Jimmy Carter http://mediamatters.org/items/200810130013 On his radio show, Rush Limbaugh claimed that Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank Project, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 "[b]ecause he came up with a way to offer loans to poor people who couldn't pay them back." But Grameen Bank's monthly report for August 2008 shows a repayment rate of 98.08 percent. http://mediamatters.org/items/200810130013 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:07:29 EST