Note Salon's headline: "Limbaugh suggests Jackson died because of Obama."

But in the body of the article we read this: "On his show Wednesday, Limbaugh didn't go quite so far as to suggest Obama was responsible for Michael Jackson's death...".

Is it just me, or has Salon been a bit sensationalist in its headlines lately? Maybe I expect too much...

Wait, that can't be right.

Oxycontin abuser calls Demerol abuser White!

That isn't right either.

Why do you think they call him "Rush"?

Yeah, but Jackson made his best album, Off the Wall, during the Carter administration.

might have meant to imply. Hope nobody's jealous of Rush's millions as one of the direct results of exposing the Marxists in Washington.

On this subject, I would take note of the fact that Rush's listeners say he is a comedian, who is to be laughed at, except when he is too be taken seriously, and those who are his fans know the difference. By picking up and echoing this story, an obvious output of his "comedian" role, all you are doing is proving to his audience once again that you don't "get" Rush, and additionally giving him added publicity and attention. Good job.

Rush hasn't managed to match her level of lunacy/idiocy/ignorance in attributing outbreaks of swine flu to Democratic Presidencies, because for one thing, the last swine flu epidemic happened during Ford's administration, not Carter's, as she incorrectly stated.

Ronald and Nancy Reagan hosted Michael Jackson at the White House and praised him as a wholesome role model for youth. How d'ya like them apples, Rush?

I'll be pointing and laughing the whole time.

It's so, so sweet that the author of "Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot" is now a U.S. Senator. Sorry for reiterating the obvious--I'm just savoring it.

("Ronaldus Magnus"? What the hell?)

Rush's insistence on deifying politicians, positively and negatively, indicates a lack of faith in a higher power. His viewing audience should take note; Rush is a closet atheist. Spread the word.

How can anyone attribute individualism -- maybe hedonism -- to the 1980s with a straight face? I know people are putting Jackson in the same category as Mozart and Rembrandt but he was a pop star and it's not coincidental that he enjoyed his greatest success during a time period when people flocked to the next fad as if they were sheep. Jackson may have been an individualist but his followers certainly weren't. Popularity is defined by a populous exercising a collective interest in the most ephemeral or superficial things. Rush, as usually, has it completely backwards. Jackson was most popular during the '80s because he benefited from a time period in American culture that was characterized by blatant self-absorption and a complete lack of individualism and critical thinking.

Can't wait to hear how Obama is also responsible for: 1) Farrah's anal cancer, 2) Prop 13 and California's financial meltdown, 3) the DC Metro crash, 4) the two recent Airbus plane crashes, 5) any droughts, floods, heat waves or blizzards during the period between his birth and the present day.

Note: Laying the blame on Carter or Clinton would be acceptable substitute for my entertainment.

Yeah, I'm sure that's the message Rush wants to be putting out there.

During the Reagan years, I was in my twenties.

Now I’m more than twenty years older.

Darn that Obama!

I wonder if the dittoheads will join Rush in praising individualism.

He's either running out of reasons to attack Obama (most likely scenario) or he just wanted to talk about Micheal Jackson and still stay "on topic". His paymasters aren't paying him to gossip, after all!

Let's not talk about *your* special friend, Rush: Biggus Dickus.

HIStory went quintuple platinum in the 95. During the Clinton era.

Granted Thriller and Bad did more business, but still Rush! C'mon!

One of the great joys of being an Australian tourist in the US is the oppurtunity to drive from LA to SF on the coast road, during the Bush years we made the drive on 3 ocassions and on each drive for some reason the rental's radio was tuned to Rush. When you are trying to get out of LA you don't have the time to switch the channel so you listen for a while, to be honest it drove me bonkers listening to that drivel. We made the LA to SF drive last Xmas and Rush was there again but I listened with out emotion, subconsciously I knew that the f**kwit was now irrelevant. The direct channel to the White House gone he was no one to fear and fast approaching satire.

because Jackson's career peak would have nothing to do with being in his early to mid 20s, coinciding with prime time for musicians, would it.

John Lennon, but does Rush think there's connection?

Picturing Limbaugh dancing along to Thriller or Billie Jean...

Hearing that Limbaugh brought up Michael Jackson and didn't demonize him is surprising. What's not surprising is that he used Jackson's death to take a shot at Obama, but the effort was entertaining. I also found it amusing that Limbaugh thinks that this piece of fluff would upset liberals. If he wants to upset liberals, and I know he does, he has got to try harder.

Actually, I haven't found Limbaugh upsetting in quite some time. Maybe I've become inured, maybe he's off his game, maybe my hard drive is just full. Or maybe, and I think this will upset Limbaugh, there are so many haters to the right of him, he's starting to sound like a moderate.

Because if it does continue, Jackson will rise from the grave and do a far more disgusting and menacing version of Thriller the next time the Republicans are in the White House.

talking about another. too bad it wasn't rush they found with cardiac arrest - then again, give him more time...

I think we can all agree that Limbaugh is a conservative, and that he is blaming President Obama for Michael Jackson's untimely death, while giving Reagan credit for all his success, and I think we can all agree that his hypotheses are not true, in fact so absurd as to be laughable. If you can find an example of a liberal doing the same thing with Bush, about which we can all agree that it is A. a liberal doing it and B. the liberal is clearly blaming Bush for something that is indisputable that Bush had nothing to do with, then please cite it. Otherwise stfu. My guess is you can't, you just decided to type something because you think you are some kind of smarty pants.