Pensito Review: Politics and Media Pensito Review: Politics and Media
August 20, 2008
ARCHIVE: Radio

Rush Limbaugh, the drug-addled radio entertainer and provocateur, used the New York Times article suggesting John McCain had a too-cozy relationship with a female lobbyist a decade ago — a story sourced to, and apparently leaked by, Republican operatives in the 2000 McCain presidential campaign — to castigate McCain with a rambling discourse […]

Topics: Radio, Campaign 2008 |

Rush Limbaugh, whose criticisms of John McCain put him in danger of becoming irrelevant, could still have a way out: hate everybody.
That’s the only winning strategy for Rush, Ann, Laura, and all the other blathering conservative big mouths, according to industry experts.
Rush rose to fame during the Newt Gingrich Contract With America years, when both […]

Topics: Fox News, Radio, Campaign 2008 |

The truly most divisive figure in the 2008 race is not Hillary Clinton, it’s John McCain. His ascendancy has ripped the Republican Party asunder — and his most vicious and vocal conservative opponents include the loudest mouths in America: Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity and, especially, Rush Limbaugh.
They don’t like McCain because he is a leftwing […]

Topics: Republicans, Radio, Campaign 2008 |

The best entertainment going this season is the crack up on the right over the ascendancy of John McCain. What could be more fun than witnessing the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Hugh Hewitt and others in a full-bore panic because the conservative movement is imploding under their feet.
Hugh Hewett was just […]

Topics: Radio, Campaign 2008 |

I don’t know. She seems a bit old for him:
Limbaugh, a vocal advocate of “family values,” has been divorced three times, and is currently unmarried.
Conservative radio talker Rush Limbaugh’s got a new sweetheart - and she’s nearly half his age.
Limbaugh, who turned 57 Jan. 12, told Page Two he’s been dating West Palm Beach […]

Topics: Republicans, Radio |

Good news for liberals in the Jacksonville-St. Augustine market:
[It] appears that Jacksonville, Fla., will be getting its very own progressive talk station.
Andy Johnson, former member of the Florida House and current host of his own afternoon talk show, has taken over WZNZ (1460AM), and will turn it into the only progressive talk station in North […]

Topics: Radio |

When asked if his cigar was a phallic symbol, Sigmund Freud supposedly replied, “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.” Implied in this answer, of course, is the idea that sometimes a cigar is more than a cigar: It is a symbol for something else.
Keeping that in mind, the Smoking Gun has revealed that when […]

Topics: Television, Radio |

Rapping rap: In a guest commentary on The Black Commentator, Akweli Parker cuts loose on the current icons of rap music for their musical messages that glorify guns and drugs, and denigrate middle class values of hard work and achievement. Here are a couple of excerpts, but it’s worth reading the whole entertaining, insightful […]

Topics: Radio |
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