The National Fanny Cyst Erupts:  Read more 

Clear Channel Communications strikes again, censoring Iraq veteran Brian McGough’s voice in an ad that VoteVets PAID to run during Rush Limbaugh’s show: WJNO AM in Palm Beach, Florida  Read more 

He includes photographs of soldiers who served with him in Iraq.  Read more 

Why are they asking Limbaugh to apologize for calling serving soldiers “phonies”?

They always ask for apologies, and it just makes them look weak.

How about another resolution condemning Limbaugh? Or better:  Read more 

Rick is leaving TNR for fairer shores, and he knocks one out of the park as he goes. I wish I’d written this, it’s damn good.

Please excuse the blunt language. From here forward, to avoid the ugly words, I’ll refer to it as “FNB politics.” With little to show the electorate in 2008—after six years of uninterrupted control—besides sub-standard care from a privatized workforce at Walter Reed Hospital, thrice-married “family values” presidential candidates, and a boom in home foreclosures, the conservative base’s 2008 strategy has begun to emerge: Weaken the major Democratic opponents by making their image unpalatable to the public.

Ann Coulter might have been the one to use the precise word aloud. But the effort to discredit John Edwards as not really a man began soon after he came to national prominence as John Kerry’s running mate. And the endeavor fits into a running conservative pattern—one Ann Coulter’s most important patron, Roger Ailes of Fox News, knows perfectly well. In The Selling of the President, Joe McGinniss relates an episode where Richard Nixon’s set dressers had the candidate in front of a turquoise curtain. Ailes, Nixon’s detail-obsessed TV guru, had a conniption. “Nixon wouldn’t look right unless he was carrying a pocketbook,” he grumbled, ordering the curtains replaced by wood panels with “clean, solid, masculine lines.”  Read more 

Thank The God of Your Choice, If Any, that somebody’s standing up to that blowhard. Mikey Weinstein is the founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, which has taken the lead on calling the Christianists out on their coercive evangelization, and their denial of the separation of church and state enshrined in our Constitition. And not only is this a Consitutional issue, it’s a national security issue. If you really want to “break the Army” by wrecking unit cohesion, coercive evangelization is a great way to do that.

Mikey Weinstein writes:

An Open Letter to Rush Limbaugh:

In Defense of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation

Satan’s Lawyer. Un-American. Anti-religion. Pacifist. Anti-Christ. Liberal. The Field General of the Godless Armies of Satan. The Most Dangerous Man in America.

I’ve been called many names since I began my battle to uphold the religious freedoms of the noble men and women in our armed forces. I’m impressed with the creativity of my adversaries and frankly flattered that so much time has been invested in coining these denigrating titles.

It’s rare that I take time to call attention to these criticisms, sticks and stones may break my bones but, you know the rest; however, Rush, you who kindly called both me and Military Religious Freedom Foundation members liberal pacifists, also asked an important question of me on your radio program last week.

“Who in the world are you, Mikey, to say that our military has to ban religious activity in the Pentagon because it might offend the enemy?”

Question asked. And answered:  Read more 

I told you he would walk.

Must be nice to be white, rich, and protected.

Rush Limbaugh, pictured after being detained at Palm Beach International airport for possession of prescription drugs.  Read more