On Monday, within days of his comment, Murphy and his wife Serena were in an automobile accident in Bourne, Massachusetts. Let's all think and talk like Rush and subtly suggest that one of his operatives might have been involved in this unfortunate highway mishap . . . What? That's completely absurd? Of course, but Limbaugh gets big radio numbers for saying things just as ludicrous and stupid day after day, so why can't we? Send ibuprofen and Pulitzer-grade tips to p&j@phx.com.
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- Hail Mary pass?
Phillipe and Jorge noticed an interesting tidbit in the sports section of the New York Times recently.
- Wacko patrol: America's 25 scariest conservatives
Imagine what will happen once the relatively sane folks now running the White House and the Republican National Committee pack up and go home?
- Star crossed
Rush Limbaugh, pink cheeked and increasingly porcine, has emerged as the de-facto head of the Republican Party.
- Dance, monkey!: Bobby Collins
Every week we put a comic in the hot seat. This week's victim is....
- Divide and be conquered
Things do indeed look bad for their Grand Old Party. Actually, it's even worse than they think.
- The end of the affair?
During Mitt Romney's failed bid for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, he demonstrated a potent knack for wooing the conservative commentariat.
- Right-wing terror
Conservatives scoffed in April when the Department of Homeland Security warned that the United States could face another wave of homegrown attacks.
- Rise of the political bogeyman
The Republicans appear headed to a second straight national pummeling, which will leave it marginalized in the federal government and an increasing number of state houses. Many party faithful are already noting the need for the GOP to move back toward the moderate center to survive. But the conservatives with microphones are heading down a very different path — and their followers, who now dominate the Republican Party, are going right with them.
- Extremist Fail
A political story could literally not contain more irony than the story of the USA PATRIOT Act and its effect on the modern extremist right-wing movement.
- Monkeying around
Dire fiscal conditions at most media outlets have led major local players like the Providence Journal and WJAR/Channel 10 to pursue a unique employment strategy. Both organizations are apparently looking into securing the services of trained gibbons to provide much of the support work and eventually the writing and reporting of the news.
- Listing forward
Like anyone who works a specific beat — sportswriters and political writers come to mind — media critics acquire lots of impressions, opinions, and stray observations that never actually make it into print, and yet they are worth musing over.
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