{"id":6657,"date":"2012-03-14T11:01:30","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T18:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6657"},"modified":"2015-06-15T11:01:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T18:01:58","slug":"rush-limbaugh-digging-sarah-palin-up-from-the-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6657","title":{"rendered":"Rush Limbaugh: Digging Sarah Palin Up From The Grave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a desperate play for attention, Rush Limbaugh has taken to defending Fox News analyst Sarah Palin, who was recently the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6648\" target=\"_blank\">subject of a Democratic fundraising video<\/a>. However, the form of Limbaugh&#8217;s defense may be not be particularly complimentary.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Pix\/Caps\/foxnation-palin-graveyard.jpg\" alt=\"Rush Limbaugh\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/online\/rush-limbaugh-desperate-obama-has-gone-back-to-the-graveyard-to-dig-sarah-palin-back-up\/\" target=\"_blank\">Limbaugh<\/a>: Barack Obama is running a re-elect ad against Sarah Palin who is not running. So it&#8217;s time now for them to have a new demon. In this case, they&#8217;ve got to go back to the graveyard, dig Sarah Palin back up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The graveyard? I wonder how Palin&#8217;s Facebook ghost writers will respond to this insult. Limbaugh is echoing the same sentiment that Fox News expressed yesterday on their Fox Nation web site when they complained that <em>&#8220;Four years later, President Obama is still running against Sarah Palin.&#8221;<\/em> The general consensus among these conservatives is that Palin is a has-been who is not worthy of attention, despite her current employment by Fox News and her hints that she would accept the GOP nomination for president at a brokered convention.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?t=newscorpsecom-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0061733644&#038;ref=qf_sp_asin_til&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"alignright\"><\/iframe>Limbaugh continued his remarks regarding Palin to assert that there is conspiracy to demean the woman he regards as irrelevant:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;And it&#8217;s bouncing off of the HBO movie, Game Change. Which is all part of the plan. It&#8217;s all part of a brilliantly conceived plan that they hope will be a flawlessly executed plan. Now they&#8217;ve got the movie based on the book, Game Change. And it makes Palin and all these Republicans look like idiots. The heroes in that movie are the people who are portrayed as knowing Palin was the wrong choice, and admitting that Palin&#8217;s stupid.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the record, the characterization of Palin in the book and movie, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0061733644\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;camp=14573&#038;creative=327641&#038;linkCode=as1&#038;creativeASIN=0061733644&#038;adid=1WHKTJ7Y1RBY9MS4F7N0&#038;&#038;ref-refURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscorpse.com%2FncWP%2F\" target=\"_blank\">Game Change<\/a>, has been  affirmed by the Republican campaign strategists for McCain\/Palin and her own handlers. If there is a conspiracy it is being orchestrated from the right, not the White House.<\/p>\n<p>The real problem that Limbaugh is dealing with is his own irrelevancy. In the past couple of weeks he has lost more than a hundred advertisers due to his boorish misogyny. His show is running with cheap local ads, free public service announcements, and even dead air. Nevertheless, Limbaugh and his supporters are steadfast in their insistence that none of this has hurt Limbaugh or his show. Fox Nation posted an article claiming, without any evidence whatsoever, that he has <em>&#8220;Has the Biggest Audience He&#8217;s Had in Years.&#8221;<\/em> But we&#8217;ve heard that kind of denial before:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d1gtlxKs2mY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a desperate play for attention, Rush Limbaugh has taken to defending Fox News analyst Sarah Palin, who was recently the subject of a Democratic fundraising video. However, the form of Limbaugh&#8217;s defense may be not be particularly complimentary. Limbaugh: Barack Obama is running a re-elect ad against Sarah Palin who is not running. So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[527,71,381],"class_list":["post-6657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-fox-nation","tag-rush-limbaugh","tag-sarah-palin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1Jn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6648,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6648","url_meta":{"origin":6657,"position":0},"title":"Fox Nation&#8217;s War on Women: Sarah Palin vs. Jane Fonda","author":"Mark NC","date":"3\/12\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I am now firmly convinced that the Fox Nation web site is edited by a high school intern. When you consider the absurdly hyperbolic verbs that animate their headlines (i.e. \"Cheney\u2019s Daughter Annihilates MSNBC Anchor\"), and their infantile pet names for people they don't like (i.e. \"Pig\" Maher), the only\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1342,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1342","url_meta":{"origin":6657,"position":1},"title":"All You Need To Know About Rush Limbaugh","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/26\/2009","format":false,"excerpt":"In another in a series of Fox News PR events for Republican dickwads, Greta Van Susteren hosted Rush Limbaugh, giving him two days of airtime on her show. There is a great deal of inane banter to be mined from this auto-neurotic strokefest, but I'll just focus on one brief\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Election&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1543,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1543","url_meta":{"origin":6657,"position":2},"title":"Fox Nation Inadvertantly Bashes Sarah Palin","author":"Mark NC","date":"2\/1\/2010","format":false,"excerpt":"There may be no better source for comedy than the comments posted on Fox Nation. They appear to be a nation of town idiots. Even when the subject is something trivial, they manage to elevate their foolishness. This was the case after last Saturday night's Miss America pageant. In a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7776,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7776","url_meta":{"origin":6657,"position":3},"title":"Sarah Palin Wants One Name Of A Hostile Republican. OK: Sarah Palin","author":"Mark NC","date":"8\/15\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Washed up GOP VP loser, half-term governor, and failed TV reality show star, Sarah Palin, appeared on Fox News last night with her friend Greta Van Susteren. The conversation turned to some of the nastiness on the campaign trail that Palin thinks is exclusively on the side of the Democrats.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Election&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1190,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1190","url_meta":{"origin":6657,"position":4},"title":"The New Face Of The Republican Party","author":"Mark NC","date":"2\/4\/2009","format":false,"excerpt":"It is now all of two weeks into the administration of Barack Obama, and already the media is heralding the end of the honeymoon. Considering that on the day of the inauguration, Chris Wallace of Fox News suggested that Obama wasn't actually president at all because of the mis-articulation of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5493,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5493","url_meta":{"origin":6657,"position":5},"title":"Rush Limbaugh Says That Obama Is Setting Up Riots","author":"Mark NC","date":"10\/6\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Now that Sarah Palin is officially out of the race for the GOP nomination for president, and is going to remain a full time wingnut pundit, Rush Limbaugh is feeling the pressure to amp up the stupid. Toward that end he had this to say on his radio program today:\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6657"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28816,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6657\/revisions\/28816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}