Rush Limbaugh said on Wednesday everything was “cool” with his show despite the mass exodus of close to 50 advertisers in the wake of Slutgate.  Yet on Thursday listeners were treated to five minutes of dead air during his show. Dead air. Radio silence. Crickets.  According to Think Progress:

There were four separate instances during this afternoon’s broadcast on WABC 770 AM in New York City where the network fell silent. During the lead in to the show, two and a half minutes of silence was broken up by a single, solitary ad before Limbaugh hit the air. Then, towards the end of the first hour of Limbaugh’s three hour program, a public service announcement was followed by an additional minute of silence before Limbaugh returned. Another minute of dead air came in hour two, and a fifth minute in hour three followed that. A spokesperson for WABC wouldn’t say whether the silence was caused due to a technical glitch or Limbaugh’s fleeing sponsors.

According to Media Matters, 77 of the 86 ads aired on Thursday were free public service announcements. Of the nine paid ads, seven were from companies who are in the process of withdrawing their ads from his show.

Couldn’t happen to bigger sack of shit.

Best line ever in an anti-Planned Parenthood ad.

Ranker pulled together a list of Top Ten Most Ridiculous Anti-Planned Parenthood Ads. 

The “Don’t Abort Your Baby Because He Might be Tim Tebow” Super Bowl ad came in at number 4. The number 1 ad featured the line about how Planned Parenthood is a drug dealer, and its gateway drug for children is teaching the kiddos how to masturbate.

#2 on the list, featuring the Terminator abortionist, bad ’80s hairdo parents, and the toddler is the most bizarre:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWQFKdfcYFs

In all the distraction of Breitbart dying, Rush Limbaugh opened his trap yesterday.  After a Georgetown University law student was infamously prevented by Republicans from being the one woman to speak at the opening panel at the hearing on contraception coverage, she spoke at a “counter-hearing” organized by Rep. Nancy Pelosi about the issue.

Apparently that tied Rush’s knickers in a big knot, and on Wednesday he denounced this young woman as a “slut” and “prostitute” for wanting birth control pills covered the same as any other medication by her insurance plan.  Yesterday he called on her to make a sex tape and post it on the Internet to compensate taxpayers for having to cover her pills.

We shall see what insanity spews out of his hole today, but what Nojo said about Breitbart made me realize I can’t wait to speak ill of a dead Rush.

[SF Chronicle]

Newtie was in the Bay Area to pick up some cash (hide your wives!), and was asked by someone from the Chronicle why he’s always using the coded phrase “San Francisco Values” — does he mean the values of tolerance and universal health care?  In any event, the question led to him waxing nostalgically about the friendly transvestite he met out here back in 1984…

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Arizona’s Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu hates the brown people almost as much as his bro Joe Arpaio does. He’s the darling of the Tea Party, he appeared in a 2010 ad for McCain and appears frequently on Faux News to denounce the socialist president for not building a bigger fence. And of course, he’s not a friend of the gheyz.  Oh, and he’s running for the GOP nomination for Arizona’s new Congressional seat.

So you know where this is going, boys and girls…

Babeu threatened his Mexican ex-lover with deportation when the man refused to promise never to disclose their years-long relationship, the former boyfriend and his lawyer tell New Times.

Babeu met his ex-lover Jose online at gay.com (naturally), and affectionately referred to Jose as “Papi.” Speaking of his online profile… Read more »

She had talent out the ying-yang, and some amazing pipes, but sadly every obituary will include her infamous comment “crack is whack.”  She was found dead today at the Beverly Hilton hotel, on the eve of the Grammy Awards.  Her first album cover:

[LAT]

That would be the motto of the San Francisco Police Department, which today became the first and only police department law enforcement agency in the country to contribute to the “It Gets Better” effort to dissuade LGBT kids from committing suicide.

As much as I can sometimes bitch about the whack-a-doodleness of The City, I can’t imagine a greater place to live in the United States.

And Flying Spaghetti Monster knows I needed a little something to take the edge off after reading Benedick’s post about Uganda and how the GOP is fighting the renewal of the Violence Against Women Act.

[SF Chronicle]