Just read Limbaugh's comments in context

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milohimself said:
Do what?

Frankly, Rush is free to say whatever he likes on the radio (myself and many others are free to express that he's a waste of flesh) and Bill Maher is free to call Sarah Palin the c-word. The difference between Rush and Maher is that Rush has sponsors to answer to and now his affiliates are losing money hand over fist, while Maher is on HBO which allows him to say whatever he pleases with no consequence.
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Maher, of all people, would sympathize with Rush right now after what happened with his ABC show.

I keep expecting Rush to go the route of Dr. Laura and Howard Stern, throw up his hands and take insane money to switch to Sirius/XM.
 
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Gramps said:
I've saw he has lost:
Legal Zoom
Citrix Success
Heart and Body Extract
AutoZone
Quicken Loans
Sleep Train
Sleep Number
Oreck*
Carbonite
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it's nice that carbonite is consistent... oh wait, they still advertise on msnbc for tools like ed schultz who regularly spew vile and hateful screeds against women like sarah palin and the tea party.

are they upset about the language or the message?
 
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This is going to be the new cause for Monday it looks like. Erickson, Boortz and others are jumping Media Matters and Carbonite guy for ignoring Schultz but getting an attack of morality over Limbaugh.
 
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GAVol said:
This is going to be the new cause for Monday it looks like. Erickson, Boortz and others are jumping Media Matters and Carbonite guy for ignoring Schultz but getting an attack of morality over Limbaugh.
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it reeks of the "new civility" bs.
 
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Lots of buzz on the 'net wanting people to cancel their Carbonite subscription over this. We'll see.
 
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Laura Ingram should call Ed Shultz a goat &@&$&@ tomorrow just so everybody is even.
 
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Did you know there is a war on women?

Yes, it’s true.*Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Bill Maher, Matt Taibbi, and Ed Schultz have been waging it for years with their misogynist outbursts. There have been boycotts by people on the left who are outraged that these guys still have jobs.*Oh, wait. Sorry, that never happened.

Boycotts are reserved for people on the right like Rush Limbaugh, who finally apologized Saturday for calling*a 30-year-old Georgetown Law student, Sandra Fluke, a “slut” after she testified before congress about contraception. Limbaugh’s apology was likely extracted to stop the departure of any more advertisers, who were rightly under pressure from liberal groups outraged by the comments.


Let it be shouted from the rooftops that Rush Limbaugh should not have called Ms. Fluke a slut or, as he added later, a “prostitute” who should post her sex tapes. It’s unlikely that his apology will assuage the people on a warpath for his scalp, and after all, why should it? He spent days attacking a woman as a slut and prostitute and refused to relent. Now because he doesn’t want to lose advertisers, he apologizes.*What’s in order is something more like groveling—and of course a phone call to Ms. Fluke—if you ask me.

But if Limbaugh’s actions demand a boycott—and they do—then what about the army of swine on the left?

During the 2008 election*Ed Schultz said on his radio show that Sarah Palin set off a “bimbo alert.” He called Laura Ingraham a “right-wing slut.” (He later apologized.) He once even took to his blog to call yours truly a “bimbo” for the offense of quoting him accurately in a New York Post column.

Keith Olbermann has said that conservative commentator S.E. Cupp should have been aborted by her parents, apparently because he finds her having opinions offensive. He called Michelle Malkin a “mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick.”*He found it newsworthy to discuss Carrie Prejean’s breasts on his MSNBC show.*His solution for dealing with Hillary Clinton, who he thought should drop out of the presidential race, was to find “somebody who can take her into a room and only he comes out.”*Olbermann now works for über-leftist and former Democratic vice president Al Gore at Current TV.

The grand pooh-bah of media misogyny is without a doubt Bill Maher.
Left-wing darling Matt Taibbi wrote on his blog in 2009, “When I read [Malkin’s] stuff, I imagine her narrating her text, book-on-tape style, with a big, hairy set of balls in her mouth.” In a Rolling Stone article about Secretary of State Clinton, he referred to her “flabby arms.”*When feminist writer Erica Jong criticized him for it, he responded by referring to Jong as an “800-year old sex novelist.” (Jong is almost 70, which apparently makes her an irrelevant human being.) In Taibbi’s profile of Congresswoman and presidential candidate Michele Bachmann he labeled her “bat**** crazy.”*(Oh, those “crazy” women with their hormones and all.)

Chris Matthews’s sickening misogyny was made famous in 2008, when he obsessively tore down Hillary Clinton for standing between Barack Obama and the presidency, something that Matthews could not abide.*Over the years he has referred to the former first lady, senator and presidential candidate and current secretary of state as a “she-devil,” “Nurse Ratched,” and “Madame Defarge.”*Matthews has also called Clinton “witchy,” “anti-male,” and “uppity” and once claimed she won her Senate seat only because her “husband messed around.” He asked a guest if “being surrounded by women” makes “a case for commander in chief—or does it make a case against it?” At some point Matthews was shamed into sort of half apologizing to Clinton, but then just picked up again with his sexist ramblings.

Matthews*has wondered aloud whether Sarah Palin is even “capable of thinking” and has called Bachmann a “balloon head” and said she was “lucky we still don’t have literacy tests out there.” Democratic strategist Jehmu Greene, who is the former president of the Women’s Media Center,*told Fox News’ Megyn Kelly in 2011 that Matthews
“is a bully, and his favorite target is women.” So why does he still have a show? What if his favorite target was Jews? Or African-Americans?

But the grand pooh-bah of media misogyny is without a doubt Bill Maher—who also happens to be a favorite of liberals—who has given $1 million to President Obama’s super PAC. Maher has called Palin a “dumb twat” and dropped the C-word in describing the former Alaska governor. He called Palin and Congresswoman Bachmann “boobs” and “two bimbos.” He said of the former vice-presidential candidate, “She is not a mean girl. She is a crazy girl with mean ideas.” He recently made a joke about Rick Santorum’s wife using a vibrator. Imagine now the same joke during the 2008 primary with Michelle Obama’s name in it, and tell me that he would still have a job. Maher said of a woman who was harassed while breast-feeding at an Applebee’s,*“Don't*show me your tits!” as though a woman feeding her child is trying to flash Maher. (Here’s a way to solve his problem: don’t stare at a strangers’ breasts).*Then, his coup de grâce:*“And by the way, there is a place where breasts and food do go together. It’s called Hooters!”
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Rush Limbaugh Isn
 
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David Letterman can call Sarah Palin a slut on national TV.
No problemo.

Bill Maher (who donated a million $$ to the Obama PAC)
can regularly use the 'C' word to describe Sarah Palin.
No problemo.

But don't call a liberal a slut, all hell is going to be raised.
As far as I'm concerned, all progressives are sluts or worse.

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tvols75 said:
And he did go too far by sensationalizing his argument by including the terms slut and prostitute. However, while I do not agree with a lot of his blabber, his point was right. The girl was essentially arguing that we should pay for them to have sex because it's causing such a financial burden on some people.
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Rush Limbaugh is a first semester college dropout (flunkout), has had 4 failed marriages, is a convicted drug addict, has never held public office despite his rhetoric, yet wrote "The Way Things Ought To Be". Only idiots still listen to him, so he's irrelevant.
 
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WA_Vol said:
God I'm so tired of people asking the govt to pay for services they want.
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Yet you still like having Social Security, Welfare, Armed Forces, Interstate Hwys, National Parks, Postal Service, Medicare, FBI, CIA, Federal Courts, National Currency, Federal Banks, Food & Drug Admin., etc. (Please tell me which one of these you don't benefit from)
 
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NEOCON said:
doubt rush really cares what volatile and others think who already don't listen him.

meanwhile, I personally will still listen and am currently enjoying a very delicious blueberry tea that he peddles.

mmm drink up. so good.
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You should hold up a sign that says "I'm a shallow moron". Then again, you already said it.
 
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I think his comments fall within the framework of free speech. Was it in poor taste, yes.
The media wants political correctness.
 
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It's late and I can't sleep, but the oft-divorced, pillhead is not one who should be lecturing anyone at all on morality. Whether you agree with his stance or not, you have to admit that he is also a whore in many ways; he's a morbidly obese glutton, he illegally abused pills, he is incapable of making a marriage work, and he has zero compassion for anyone, other than the pittance he tosses out of his bloated salary every year. He also was a strong anti-drug abuse proponent while illegally taking drugs. His famous quote on the matter is below this post. No worries, though; I just found out he's 61, so his time on the air and Earth is limited.

"Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. ... And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up."
 
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WA_Vol said:
I think his comments fall within the framework of free speech. Was it in poor taste, yes.
The media wants political correctness.
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Would you be saying this if Rush called your mother, sister or daughter a slut and prostitute

i agree with the point he was making but he went over the line in the wording he used.

It's not always what you say that get you in trouble, it's the way you say it.


He could have made his point without the name calling. IMO this falls in the same category as the Don Imus ordeal.
 
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UGADawg4Life said:
Yet you still like having Social Security, Welfare, Armed Forces, Interstate Hwys, National Parks, Postal Service, Medicare, FBI, CIA, Federal Courts, National Currency, Federal Banks, Food & Drug Admin., etc. (Please tell me which one of these you don't benefit from)
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listing things allowed in the Constitution really doesn't help your argument.

As for the "you still like having" part, you should probably speak for yourself rather than others. You listed a lot of govt waste/handouts in there (and even a non-govt funded one)
 
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What he said falls well within his rights. It just so happens that sponsors pulling their money does, also.
 
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VOLatile said:
What he said falls well within his rights. It just so happens that sponsors pulling their money does, also.
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That, I can agree with.

Political correctness has destroyed the public narrative. Until the pendulum swings the other way any real public discussion is basically worthless.
 
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Lexvol said:
That, I can agree with.

Political correctness has destroyed the public narrative. Until the pendulum swings the other way any real public discussion is basically worthless.
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[X] Backlash against Rush correct because his comments were offensive.

[X] Rush was intentionally offensive because he hadn't seen name in paper in awhile.

[X] Rush underestimated backlash.

[X] People who routinely listen to Rush not offended by comments, anyway.

[X] Rush will get new sponsors so who cares?
 
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lawgator1 said:
[X] Backlash against Rush correct because his comments were offensive.

[X] Rush was intentionally offensive because he hadn't seen name in paper in awhile.

[X] Rush underestimated backlash.

[X] People who routinely listen to Rush not offended by comments, anyway.

[X] Rush will get new sponsors so who cares?
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I agree with all of that as well. My comments were much more broad than this situation.

I'm much more frustrated about the idea that we can turn birth control into a forced health issue.

1. It is about liberty. The govt has no business telling a health insurance company or an employer what they have to fund in terms of insurance.
2. Birth control is on the four dollar walmart list. You can get a year's supply for $48....or if you don't have health issues, a condom costs about 25 cents.
3. If I was the CEO of Trojan, I'd have adds running every 20 seconds about the safety, value and efficacy of my product.
 
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Lexvol said:
I agree with all of that as well. My comments were much more broad than this situation.

I'm much more frustrated about the idea that we can turn birth control into a forced health issue.

1. It is about liberty. The govt has no business telling a health insurance company or an employer what they have to fund in terms of insurance.
2. Birth control is on the four dollar walmart list. You can get a year's supply for $48....or if you don't have health issues, a condom costs about 25 cents.
3. If I was the CEO of Trojan, I'd have adds running every 20 seconds about the safety, value and efficacy of my product.
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There are many, many government mandated coverages. And many of those have been sponsored or promoted by Republicans. I know that they are very common at the state level.
 
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