Subject: Rush Limbaugh

• Will She?

  June 14, 2007

• Daily Briefs: April Fool's Day, Hillarycare, Operation: Dumbass!

  April 1, 2008

• KMBZ Drops Ferruzza ... Again!

  July 24, 2008

• Studies in Crap: Missouri Cookbook Roundup!

  September 11, 2008

• Daily Briefs: Bodine, come here! I want you!

  October 21, 2008

• George Brett likes his judges like he likes his umpires

  October 22, 2008

• Daily Briefs: Missouri decides, you guys

  By CHRIS PACKHAM Okay, so John McCain is finally the President of Missouri, thanks to 3,000 people who couldn't stay the fuck home on Election Day. THANKS, YOU GUYS. Now we'll never be rid of McCain and his horrible Alaskan spouse with her stolen wardrobe and hillbilly-like crowd of pregnant, barefoot children. When they move to their Presidential mansion in Independence, will they sleep in the same bed with Joe the Plumber, all wearing little night caps like little cartoon characters? That con

  November 20, 2008

• "Studies in Crap" ODs With "Fuzzy Mules, Pink Slippers Volume One: Came A Clown"

  Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from area basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Fuzzy Mules, Pink Slippers Volume One: Came a Clown Author: McAllister Ransom Publisher: Kohinoor Books, Baltimore Date: 1990 Discovered at: American Veterans Thrift Store, Allston, MA The Cover Promises: A clown named "Puzzles." That doesn't bode well. Also: "NAKED SHE STOOD. NAKED

  January 1, 2009

• Kansas City Strip

  November 2, 2000

• The Twilight District, Episode Eight

  January 3, 2002

• Repressed Memories

  January 10, 2002

• Now it's the Swedes

  A big Fat City congratulations to fellow Pitch blogger Alan Scherstuhl who has made the big time. By big time I am of course referring to a Swedish newspaper publishing a picture of Scherstuhl's cat eating Rush Limbaugh's grandma's Jell-O salad. (How many possessives can one sentence have?)Running the caption through an online translator it reads: "Here we have an "Under the sea salad", consisting of Jell-O, cream cheese and black olives. The being at the top of the image is Limbaugh shortly bef

  February 9, 2009

• Now, back to Sweden... and meatballs

  It was Fat City blogger Owen Morris, writing today about a Swedish newspaper's article that mentioned -- among other things -- Pitch writer Alan Scherstuhl, his cat, green Jell-O salad and big fat Rush Limbaugh that jolted my memory. Last Friday, on KCUR-FM's Walt Bodine Show, when the discussion finally veered away from Valentine's Day versus Halloween (go to the link, it's just too weird to explain logically), one of the show's listeners called in with three very specific requests. First

  February 9, 2009

• Ticket Punch

  August 5, 2004

• Bottom Line: KC Star closing bureaus? PLUS: The first DAILY BRIEFS COLLECTIBLE MINIATURE

  We all know that The Kansas City Star will be going through a fourth round of layoffs soon (I've heard early March), but we don't know who or what they'll be cutting. Until maybe yesterday. On his Bottom Line Communications blog, John Landsberg wrote that Chris here. I told Justin I was going to interrupt his next blog post in mid-sentence with a whole Daily Briefs post, and he said, "No you're not," and I said, "Yes I am," and before he could say "No you're not" again, I was all, like, "co

  February 25, 2009

• Best Local Unapologetic Conservative Radio Personality

  October 7, 2004

• Daily Briefs: The Horsemen are drawing nearer, on the leather steeds they ride

  Radio Free Assmunch: I know Rush Limbaugh is supposed to "be funny" and to "have a sense of humor" and be a real "big-and-tall giggle-pants laff factory outlet" on his show every day. Heck, I'm on-record as a GIANT FAN of things that are funny, such as anything Zach Galifinakis says, or when I give my dog peanut butter. You have never seen anything so funny. It's SO DELICIOUS! But it's like MOUTH CEMENT! BUT SO DELICIOUS! Truly funny. But I'm apparently always stepping out of the room every t

  March 5, 2009

• Studies in Crap: "The O'Reilly Factor For Kids"

  Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from area basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. The O'Reilly Factor For Kids Author: Bill O'Reilly and Charles Flowers Publisher: Harper Collins Date: 2004 Discovered at: DAV Thrift Store, Southwest Boulevard The Cover Promises: Someone's going to have to break the bad news about The O'Reilly Factor to America's children, so

  March 12, 2009

• Comedy heavyweights: Rush Limbaugh vs. Richard Pryor

  A quick follow-up on the Jason "Big Sexy" Whitlock vs. Rush Limbaugh feud. In his column today, Whitlock writes that Limbaugh is "as laugh-out loud humorous as Richard Pryor." Really?Richard Pryor: Or Rush Limbaugh? Pryor: or Limbaugh? Oh, hahahaha. Parkinson's is hilarious.Who's funnier?

  March 12, 2009

• Missouri Libertarians: We're not terrorists!

  According to a Missouri fusion center, these kids might be terrorists.When Mike Ferguson got a late-night alert about a report linking the Libertarian Party to domestic terrorism he thought it was the work of an overzealous blogger with bad information and a penchant for conspiracy. An official publication distributed to Missouri law enforcement agencies associating his party's 2008 presidential candidate, Bob Barr, with violent extremists? Surely not. Well, the leaked memo from a fusion center

  March 24, 2009

• Daily Briefs Nights

  Okay, so the DNC is tiredly introducing some anti-Rush Limbaugh billboards in Rush's current hometown of West Palm Beach, Florida. Here is a picture their thunderingly dull and un-clever brainchild: So, they're gonna, what? Drive slowly around his office all day, blaring a horn that plays "La Cucaracha?" Wasn't that whole Rush thing, like, back in February? I was sort of led to believe that the rest of the world had abandoned that fat snot goblin and moved on to other, different easy targe

  March 31, 2009

• The Old Turf

  April 16, 2009

• Don’t you know “illegal” is all about context?

  February 26, 2009

• Letters from the week of February 5

  February 5, 2009

• Trans Glam

  October 26, 2006

• This Week We Love

  August 10, 2006

• Alien Irony

  April 27, 2006

• Winging It

  April 13, 2006

• Kansas Congressman Todd Tiahrt calls Rush Limbaugh an "entertainer"

  Todd TiahrtOh, no. U.S. Rep. Todd Tiahrt is about to leave the circle of trust. Asked if Rush Limbaugh is the Republican Party's "de facto leader" by a Kansas City Star Editorial Board member (the story's by Yael Abouhalkah), Tiahrt said, "No, no, he's just an entertainer." Todd, have you learned nothing from the real chairman of the Republican Party, Michael Steele? And what are you doing talking to the Star's Editorial Board? Oh, yeah. 2010.Hat tip to Kansas Jackass.

  April 17, 2009

• Backwash

  We drag the river for stuff you didn't know you were missing.

  June 23, 2005

• Adult Education

  The Star writes for fifth-graders, but Jerry Agar doesn’t get it.

  January 27, 2005

• Out and About

  Westport's gay community center is back.

  October 21, 2004

• Oooh, Fashion!

  This fashion benefit is good for everyone.

  May 20, 2004

• Roll Out

  The Prairie Dogg finds the dirt on Playboy, Popeyes chicken and Harry Potter with Ludacris.

  February 19, 2004

• Turnbuckles and Turntables

  Vince McMahon pile-drives the music industry with WWE Originals.

  February 19, 2004

• Ludacris

  Chicken 'n Beer (Def Jam)

  December 11, 2003

• Double Vision

  Cheryl Weaver takes two roles on one stage.

  December 4, 2003

• Park It

  Letters from the week of August 28, 2003

  August 28, 2003

• Golf. Fashion. The Beach.

  With celebrities like Rush Limbaugh, Dan Quayle and John O'Hurley in attendance, it's important to dress properly when attending this weekend's golf tournament.

  May 8, 2003

• Letters

  Letters from the week of October 4, 2001

  October 4, 2001

• Monday Night Blues

  Dennis Miller is funny, but he's no Don Meredith or Howard Cosell.

  July 6, 2000

• Right-wingers demand we stop investigating terrorist threats

  Damn, the fall-out from these Missouri Information Analysis Center reports is just never going to end. The short version for those of you who don't know -- in February MIAC issued a strategic report warning that a militia movement could be underway, and some conservatives (like Rush Limbaugh) got mad that they were being targeted for investigation along with the rest of the fringe groups and demanded that these reports stop being made. Apparently that old line about If you have nothing to h

  June 26, 2009

• This week's Pitch and 30 things we learned this week

  ​This week's Pitch is on the street and so is Darlene White, the subject of Casey Lyons' feature, "The Oldest Professional." White sells $5 blow jobs so she can buy $20 rocks of crack. She claims she was once lit on fire by a John. It's a hard life out there. Also, Martin looks at the dog park mess. Harper and Gintowt preview the Crossroads Music Fest (so does the Buckle Bunny). Ferruzza reviews Zest, and Scherstuhl tells you whether you should see L'Histoire d"Amour.In other news:1. KCK Commu

  September 11, 2009

• Cleaver doesn't poo-poo Limbaugh buying STL Rams

  Rush Limbaugh​Congressman Emanuel Cleaver didn't totally bag on the idea of Oxy-numbed mouth breather Rush Limbaugh buying the St. Louis Rams. Cleaver, a Democrat from Missouri, even plugged Limbaugh and St. Louis Blues owner Dave Checketts' bid to buy the Rams as a good thing, The Hill reports. "With both the [Kansas City] Chiefs and Rams yet to win a game this season," he said in a statement to The Hill, "maybe Rush's fire and brimstone can inspire the Rams to victory. It certainly can't hur

  October 8, 2009

• Dittoheads smear Jason Whitlock

  Rush Limbaugh​Kansas City Star and Fox Sports columnist and noted fitness expert and master gardener Jason Whitlock is on the shit list of Rush Limbaugh's followers thanks to yesterday's column calling on NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to resist letting one of his franchises -- the St. Louis Rams -- end up in the hands of a man with the reputation of a little-blue-pill-popping sex tourist. Actually, Whitlock shoots down El Rusho's Rams bid as just a publicity stunt. I'm not so sure about that,

  October 14, 2009

• Rightbloggers defend Rush with an NFL boycott; are beer, buffalo wings next?

  ​ The National Football League has a large millionaire population which predictably contributes overwhelmingly to Republicans over Democrats. Yet this week we learned from rightbloggers that the NFL is in fact a wing of the liberal conspiracy.Early this month Rush Limbaugh and Dave Checketts collaborated on a bid to buy the St. Louis Rams NFL franchise. But after some people in the League -- including Commissioner Roger Goodell and NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith --

  October 19, 2009

• Rush forces KC car dealer who gave away AK-47s to boycott NFL

  Self portrait via cnsnews.comMark MullerThe loonies claiming they're giving up the National Football League due to its treatment of oppressed rich white guy Rush Limbaugh can count a Kansas City car dealer among their ranks.Our sister paper The Riverfront Times points out that Mark Muller, owner of Max Motors and wannabe arms dealer (he saved Missourians from having to make the hard choice between a pickup truck and an assault rifle this summer by giving away free AK-47s with purchase of a truck

  October 21, 2009

• Car dealer explains his NFL boycott

  via cnsnews.comMark Muller​A couple of days ago, we read about Mark Muller's boycott of the NFL. Muller, owner of Max Motors and wannabe arms dealer (he offered $450 vouchers so Missourians get an AK-47 with the purchase of a truck from his dealership), claimed he was giving up his Kansas City Chiefs season tickets after the NFL supposedly blocked Rush Limbaugh's attempt to buy the St. Louis Rams.I finally caught up with Muller yesterday, and he clarified: It's not about Rush. It's about Ameri

  October 23, 2009

• Comment of the Week

  ​In this week's chapter of Exploring the Right Wing Blogosphere, the Village Voice's Roy Edroso surveyed conservative thinking on the NFL's shunning of team-hungry Rush Limbaugh. Plog reader Realist weighed in this way, starting with a quote (in italics) from Edroso's entry:Doug Powers was incensed that the NFL had approved Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie for NFL ownership, as she had sung sexually explicit lyrics.Unlike right-wing hero Ted Nugent, performer of "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang" along w

  October 23, 2009

• Fake but accurate: Obama 'thesis' proves his treason even after it's debunked

  ​ Much has been written in recent days about the White House's War on Fox News, in which Administration officials have called the Republican-friendly network "the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party" and such like, excluded it from the President's media tours, and even tried unsuccessfully to remove it from pool interviews of other officials.This cold-shouldering is generally seen as a mistake even by reporters presumed sympathetic to the Administration. We've had so

  October 26, 2009