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On his Thursday “Talking Points” segment on Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” host Bill O’Reilly took aim at the latest Media Matters for America initiative to have conservative talker Rush Limbaugh taken off the air. Nearly a month ago, Limbaugh made some remarks about law student and contraception activist Sandra Fluke. (more)

Here are the top 10 most anticipated books coming out this fall. (more)

While some of radio host Rush Limbaugh’s opponents have called for more civilized discourse, the Missouri chapter of the National Organization for Women spent Monday voicing its displeasure at Limbaugh with toilet paper — or a lack of it. (more)

Last week, conservative radio talker Rush Limbaugh began to utilize Twitter as a means of mobilizing listeners against attacks aimed at him for remarks he made about Georgetown Law student and so-called contraception activist Sandra Fluke. (more)

A new video compilation of Rev. Al Sharpton’s past remarks is providing conservative commentators with new ammunition against the MSNBC host. (more)

On his Wednesday radio show, Rush Limbaugh announced what might be somewhat of a setback for Media Matters’ campaign to silence him. (more)

David Axelrod, the chief communications officer for President Obama’s re-election campaign, will not appear on “Real Time with Bill Maher”, despite reports that he was scheduled to appear as a guest in the coming weeks. (more)

In the wake of uproar following conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh’s characterization of 30-year-old contraception activist and Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke last month as a “slut,” Limbaugh has seen advertisers flee and entire campaigns waged to get him off the air. (more)

By now you’ve probably heard more than enough of Slutgate. Or have you? There’s so much to love about this newest episode of “Sex and Politics.” The creepy lasciviousness of Rush Limbaugh’s imaginings of Sandra Fluke’s sex life. The melodramatic theatrics of Obama’s phone call to Fluke for the sake of his daughters. The faux outrage of Limbaugh advertisers who had no idea that they were sponsoring a trash-talking bad boy. The fact that Rush’s insult of the previously unknown Fluke will probably turn out to be the best thing that’s ever happened to her. Gloria Allred’s campaign — in the name of feminism! — to have Rush prosecuted under a 19th-century Florida law protecting women against false charges of non-chastity. Tom Wolfe: we need you. Now. (more)

Three stalwarts of the feminist movement — Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda and Robin Morgan — have added their voices to the calls to take radio giant Rush Limbaugh off the air. (more)

Conservative talker Rush Limbaugh has taken plenty of heat from advertisers since his comments last week about to self-proclaimed contraception activist Sandra Fluke, but at least one female advertiser isn’t backing away from his radio show. (more)

So to recap: Rush Limbaugh said some nasty things about a Georgetown law student named Sandra Fluke. Congressional Democrats, and then the president himself, leaped to Fluke’s defense. Limbaugh apologized, but it wasn’t enough. The story dominated cable news. Dozens of companies abandoned Limbaugh’s show. (more)

Bill Burton, the former Obama 2008 campaign press secretary who went on to found the pro-Obama super PAC Priorities USA, appeared on Andrea Mitchell’s MSNBC show Thursday, trying to distinguish between the rhetoric used by HBO “Real Time” host Bill Maher and conservative radio talker Rush Limbaugh. Maher recently donated $1 million to Priorities USA. (more)

In a Wednesday post on the ComPost blog at The Washington Post, Alexandra Petri — who, according to her blog’s banner, “put the pun in punditry” — criticized conservative radio talker Rush Limbaugh because of reports that he was accepting advertising from AshleyMadison.com. This, Petri wrote, means his show is “targeting jerks.” (more)

After claims of 45 businesses (and counting) pulling their ads from The Rush Limbaugh show amid the controversy surrounding the host’s comments about Sandra Fluke, at least one business wants to start advertising on the show. (more)

As someone who has been personally attacked by Rush Limbaugh many times, I yield to no one in my strong disagreement with Limbaugh on virtually everything. I consider his opinions too often hateful, inaccurate and despicable. That is my opinion. (more)

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental crusader who got his start in the movement performing community service after a heroin conviction, thrust himself into a the evolving story about Rush Limbaugh and Sandra Fluke on Tuesday, calling Republican Sen. James Inhofe a “prostitute” and a “call girl.” (more)

The controversy over Rush Limbaugh’s incendiary statements about Sandra Fluke and Limbaugh’s subsequent apology has reached its second week. In this age of 24-hour news cycles and government involvement in just about everything, we’ve been treated to opinions on this from presidential candidates, pundits, reporters and, of course, the president. Even in the wake of his apology, Limbaugh continues to weigh in. (more)

On his Wednesday show, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh accused “the mainstream media” of spreading “misinformation” about advertisers deserting his program. (more)

MSNBC once heralded itself as “the place for politics,” but on Super Tuesday in the heat the contest for the Republican presidential nomination, it was a place where viewers were treated to the antics of left-wing documentary filmmaker Michael Moore. (more)