Guess Which Women’s Group Rush Limbaugh Has Donated Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars to?

Hint: it’s the one that defends him whenever he launches into a sexist tirade.

Eli Clifton - June 12, 2014

For years, women’s groups have bristled at Rush Limbaugh and his litany of inflammatory, sexist statements on women. The conservative radio host has referred to feminists as “feminazis,” Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke as a “slut” and a “prostitute” and female cabinet members as “Sex-cretary of State” and “Sex-cretary of [Health and Human Services].”

But Limbaugh’s comments rarely cross the line for the Independent Women’s Forum, a group that time and again has staunchly defended the talk radio powerhouse. There may be a reason, other than a shared ideology, why the IWF has so often come to Limbaugh’s defense when other women’s groups have cringed at his utterances: money.

According to previously undisclosed tax documents acquired by the American Independent, Limbaugh cut a check in 2007 to the IWF for just over $273,000. Though I studied the past decade’s worth of tax records, it was impossible to determine how much more Limbaugh may have given in recent years. Since 2009, donors to the IWF began cloaking its contributions by running them through the right-wing’s biggest donor-advised fund, DonorsTrust.

That money may have been used to pay for IWF dinners honoring Nancy Brinker of the Susan Komen Women’s Foundation and Condoleezza Rice according to comments made by former IWF CEO Michele Bernard in March 2012. Bernard, appearing on MSNBC’s Up with Chris Hayes, said that Limbaugh has paid “several hundred thousand dollars out of his own pocket” to underwrite these dinners.

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