The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The headquarters of the Greater Manchester Police force's Xcalibre squad could pass for any Baltimore police district station. Their second-floor office in the center of the city's highest crime area, Moss Side, is wallpapered with dozens and dozens of young men identified as gang members, with names like "Tree Frog", "Baby Soldier", "Screwface" and "Dirt Star"....
The Virginian (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The Obama invincibility that was so much in evidence then seems to have lost its power. People can argue the reasons why these elections, all in places Obama carried handily, were so close. But if he were the political marvel he was thought to be, these races wouldn’t have been contests, but walkovers. So one consequence of this Election Day is the end of his special political magic. ... That’s...
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Comparing Fergie and J.Lopez to Limbaugh is laughable. What offensive lyrics did Jennifer Lopez ever have? Black Eyed Peas? Lets Get Retarded? Talk about grasping for straws.Goodell got caught flat-footed simply because he has no answer for why one potential-partial owner's controversial comments are any different that the other partial-owner's controversial comments.It's stunningly hyprocritical....
montgomeryadvertiser.com (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Montgomery parents and grandparents packed the room of a recent forum on gang prevention with the hope of finding definitive solutions on how to keep the negative influence out of their neighborhoods and away from their homes.
Shelbyville Times-Gazette Headlines (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Rush Limbaugh's bid to become part owner of the St. Louis Rams became an exercise in futility last week when Dave Checketts, the leader of the group, informed the bombastic radio icon that he and his...
The Michigan Daily (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
So far, the most prominent racial debates of 2009 have thrown around the term racism as if 400 years of our nation’s cruel racial history has not defined the concept. Today, everyone is considered racist. But there is a sharp difference between Obama’s supposed “racism” and Rush Limbaugh’s likening of NFL games to a battle between the Bloods and the Crips, only without...
The Swamp (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
by Mark Silva Despite the protestation of radio's Rush Limbaugh that, "if you are conservative, then you are not wanted'' in the NFL, following his rejection by the league, professional football team owners tend to share the same political bench with Limbaugh. National Football League owners and their family members have given $1,458,946 to Republicans since Jan. 1, 2007, more than three times...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Perhaps the most precise word to summarize Limbaugh's reaction to news that his inflammatory commentary of the past excluded him from ownership in the NFL is "fear."
JONATHAN TURLEY (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
In American politics there are few more polarizing figures than Al Sharpton and Rush Limbaugh. Now, in what will be a spasmodic moment of euphoria for many, Sharpton and Limbaugh may be going to court with the former suing the latter for defamation. Putting aside the sheer joy of the moment for many, [...]
The New SteveSilver.net (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
It would be if not for the Jaycee Dugard/"You left the yard" thing, but here, Stu Bykofsky compares the Phillies and Dodgers to the Bloods and the Crips. And yes, that exact analogy was one of the comments that got...
Daily Mail online | Sport (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Brazilian Diego Tardelli is the sort of man that Manchester City should be signing. He wouldn't think the club owed him, unlike certain compatriots
Little Green Footballs (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
As the apologists all over the right wing blogs continue to focus on one or two disputed quotes, here’s a lengthy collection of racist and/or race-baiting quotes from Saint Rush Limbaugh — all of them verified, cited and attributed: Limbaugh: My racial views? You mean, my belief in a colorblind society? “We are being told that we have to hope [Obama] succeeds, that we have to bend...
Workingclass Conservative (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Well, we come to the requiem for the Limbaugh sliming controversy. Limbaugh’s lawyers are looking into defamation suits against both those who made up the phony quotes (like Jack Huberman, pictured above, author of titles like “Bushit”... that’s all you really have to know) AND those in the media (like CNN and NBC who knowingly used those fake quotes. But as bad as the fake...
Valleywag (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
New York Times reporter David Rohde was held hostage by the Taliban for over seven months before he escaped. The Times coordinated a media blackout on the story to protect Rhode. Rohde's publishing...
The Phil Nugent Experience (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
After Rush Limbaugh was dropped from a group bidding for the St. Louis Rams , the aggrieved radio star declared that "this is about the future of the United States of America and what kind of country we're going to have." Well, yeah. We're a country where saying that slavery kept the streets safe at night and that "The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips"...
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