The NASCAR crowd doesn’t quite understand why, when the husband and the wife are going the same place, the first lady has to take her own Boeing 757 with family and kids and hangers-on four hours earlier than her husband, who will be on his 747. NASCAR people understand that’s a little bit of a waste. They understand it is a little bit of uppity-ism.

- Rush Limbaugh, thought leader of the white supremacist Republican Party, applauding the actions of racist NASCAR fans who booed the First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama at veterans’ event at a race last weekend because she is African-American.

Product placement has become such a subtle art form these days that it’s hard to tell the difference between advertising and the editorial or entertainment content. Case in point, right-leaning Politico.com a reports that the tea party astroturfers, Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks, and the Heritage Foundation, a Reaganite intellectual boneyard, are quietly underwriting the [...]

30%

Amount by which Rush Limbaugh’s ratings have slipped since November, according to new Arbitron research. The Sean Hannity Show is also down by 28%.

When you consider that Republicans in the Senate are set to kill the START treaty — which would, among other things, enable tracking down and securing of loose nukes and thus make the world a safer place — not on principle but solely for the partisan political purpose of denying a diplomatic success for Pres. [...]

Here’s a story we doubt you’ll see reported on FOX News. AlterNet recently completed a year-long investigation into so-called “gaming the system” at the content aggregator, Digg. A Yahoo group calling itself the Digg Patriots (whose site has since been taken down) figured out how to rig Digg’s voting. If you don’t know, at Digg [...]

Nobody would accuse Rush Limbaugh of being an honorable man of his word, but a web site we wish we’d thought of is trying to help convert him. ATicketFor Rush.com is collecting $1 donations to send the big guy packing.

“No one wants Rush Limbaugh to die. But they do want his doctors to fail.”

— TheFullGinsberg on Twitter

About two-thirds of the way into media writer Michael Woolf’s Vanity Fair column, “The Man Who Ate the G.O.P.,” on the conundrum of Rush Limbaugh’s dual role as GOP party boss and hate radio megastar, this demographic nugget about the conservative media audience caught my eye:
“Among ad-supported cable nets, the news nets … [...]