Rush Limbaugh

Fanatics! We Think This Is the Right Show for a Sunday

RADIO BROADCAST #218 06-02-13 See also: Henry Rollins: Rush Limbaugh Gets It Wrong, Again Fanatics! I don't know why I keep thinking that each show we do is the best one yet, but I almost always do. This is an amazing line up of songs. I know we have played the Prehensile Monkeytailed Skink track ... More >>

Henry Rollins: Rush Limbaugh Gets It Wrong, Again

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Sunday KCRW broadcast.] See also: Henry Rollins: Remembering Ray Manzarek As I write this I am still out here in the rap ... More >>

Sandra Fluke Headlines L.A. City Hall Rally For Increasing Taxes On Rich

Sandra Fluke, the activist Rush Limbaugh once called a prostitute because she said her Catholic law school, Georgetown, should offer free birth control for women, is in L.A. today. She's the headliner at a City Hall rally organized by a group called the Action. What do they want? An end to tax brea ... More >>

Make Us Laugh, Funny Girl!

Stephanie Miller

John & Ken's Whitney Houston 'Crack Ho' Remark Inspires L.A. Council to Act

Update at 11:39 p.m: According to Daily News columnist Doug McIntyre the council approved the resolution. First posted at 4:15 p.m. The rantings of conservative talk show hosts John & Ken and their colleagues at KFI 640 AM have caught the attention of the L.A. City Council, which is considering a r ... More >>

Andrew Breitbart, R.I. ... P?

Rush Limbaugh's 'Slut' Comment Is Illegal Under Florida Law, Says Gloria Allred

Advertisers running for the hills can't spook Rush Limbaugh, America's most popular (and most conservative) talk-show host. Nor can half a nation of angry feminists. But ace celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred -- now there's a fembot to get scared of. We're talking the same L.A. attorney who helped forc ... More >>

Rush Limbaugh's Appearances on KFI in L.A. Targeted by Local Media Group That Wants Him Suspended

KFI 640 AM, the radio station criticized by some minority groups after its "John & Ken" called the late Whitney Houston a "crack ho" on air is under fire again: The outlet happens to be the local home of nationally syndicated talker Rush Limbaugh, who apologized recently after calling law student S ... More >>

After Whitney Houston 'Crack Ho' Remark, John & Ken Still Not Back On-Air at KTLA News

It's not a good week for conservative talk show hosts at L.A.'s KFI AM 640. After John & Ken called the late Whitney Houston a "crack ho" a few weeks back, the nationally syndicated talker Rush Limbaugh called a birth control proponent a slut and a prostitute. As such, John & Ken were suspended, an ... More >>

Taking the dick out of "dictionary" with 1988's The Nonsexist Word Finder

​Each Monday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets around Los Angeles. The Nonsexist Wordfinder: A Dictionary of Gender-Free Usage Author: Rosalie Maggio Date: 1989 Publisher: Beaco ... More >>

Live Review: LA 101 with Massive Attack and Thievery Corporation

timothy norrismassive attack​ See more of Timothy Norris' photos in 'LA 101 with Thievery Corporation, Massive Attack and more.' By any metric, last night's LA 101 at the Gibson Amphitheatre was a success--save for maybe the fact that the headliners didn't hail from LA. Of course, Massive At ... More >>

KCRW Producer Sarah Spitz Called Out For Saying She Wouldn't Help Rush Limbaugh If He Had A Heart Attack (Would You?)

​Respected KCRW (89.9 FM) producer and spokeswoman Sarah Spitz became the latest target of right-wing conspiracy theorists this week when quips she made about conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh on an email listserve were made public by The Daily Caller (via LA Observed). (This week the Obam ... More >>

Elton John Played Rush Limbaugh's Wedding for $1M

​We're a little late on this one, but, seriously, we couldn't pass this up. Rush Limbaugh got married for the 4th time last week and Elton John was his Wedding Singer. For 1 million dollars (who was Rush's Wedding Planner? Dr Evil?). From The Guardian: On Saturday, Elton John performed at ... More >>

'Imagine If The Tea Party Was Black'

A Tea Party demonstration.​From the mind of self-proclaimed "anti-racist" writer Tim Wise came a fascinating look over the weekend at what the world might be like if the conservative, mostly white Tea Party were mostly black. It's particularly poignant for Southern California, where right-wing ... More >>

Obama 'Joker' Poster: It's All About Race

Ted Soqui​Was it something I said?Early last week I posted a brief blog noting the appearance of those "Obama Socialism" posters, in which the president's face is made up to resemble Heath Ledger's Joker character from The Dark Knight. That Batman-film derived image had been Photoshopped by Firas ... More >>

"Illegal" Is a Label of Pride, not Prejudice

Plus, stay-at-home Mexican dad gets flack from extended family

2008: A News Quiz

By Greg Critser 1. Minor Irritants A certain wearer of these Kawasaki 704 eyeglasses: A. Conjured endless anxiety and concern for the future of the republic B. Got a $6 million book deal for portraying said eyeglass wearer C. Instigated the "hot librarian" movement in American fashion D. Wi ... More >>

2008: A News Quiz

Colin Powell Upstaged by West Covina Car Crash

You've got to hand it to CNN.com for scheduling savvy -- on Saturday it tailgated an excerpt from the cable TV network's highbrowed GPS program with a flaming-car pursuit down Orange County freeways, taken from KABC. Colin Powell had just concluded a sober postmortem on the Republican party's 2008 p ... More >>

Theater Listings

For the Week of Nov. 30-Dec. 6

Chloe Doesn't Live Here Anymore

After her big kiss with El Rushbo, 24’s Mary Lynn Rajskub returns to her darker standup roots

Chloe Does't Live Here Anymore

After her big kiss with El Rushbo,24’s Mary Lynn Rajskub returns to her darker standup roots

Theater Reviews

Heads, Invasion! The Musical, The Complications of Purchasing a Poodle Pillow and more

Theater Reviews

Including this week's pick, Bush is Bad

Right Hook, Weak Punch

Fox News' 1/2 Hour News Hour isn't even half-funny

Mary Lynn Rajskub

...It Was Then That I Carried You

Film Reviews

Including this week's picks, Jackass Number Two and The Science of Sleep

Milking It

9/11 thumb suckers

Weekend Theater Reviews

Reviews of Back of the Throat, King Cat Calico Finally Flies Free! and Lemons Are for Emergencies Only

Scary Clowns

John Powers on Zarqawi and Haditha

Goldberg Flies Air America

Music-biz biggie pilots a new radio hit

Patriots Scorned

True heroes we should be honoring

But Is It Art?

Abu Ghraib, The WB’s Superstar USA, Black Panthers

Radio Provocateur

Phil Hendrie conquers the AM dial one deluded caller at a time. So why can't he get his mug on TV?

Who Are the Black Sheep Now?

NEA war ghosts at Highways' quinceañera

Talk Radio for Lefties

Really Hot Air

Viacom sucks up to FCC over Howard Stern’s indecent exposure

George Bush and the Treacherous Country

The Fatty Arbuckle Memorial Awards for 2003

People Whose Passing We Lament

Rise of the Anti-Machine

Barbarian at the Gate

An Arnold candidacy pumps up the political game for Hollywood

Letters

Once Is Not Enough

Paradise Lost — Again

The Bush plan for the environment

Bubble Wrap

The Nation vs. The Weekly Standard

Review This Book or Else

The latest gripes from the "gun-toting lesbians"

La Vida Loca
Miami Style

Monsters

It's a Wonderful Half-Life