Rush Slut Rant Backlash

lol well if anyone knows hate speech, its the people at the democraticunderground

wow, you went to all that trouble to post all that about a stupid comment made by a stupid man?
Sticks and stones, sticks and stones.

Limbaugh's verbal attack on law student sparks backlash
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http://www.freep.com/article/20120303/NEWS07/203030435/Limbaugh-s-verbal-attack-on-law-student-sparks-backlash?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

Quote:
Calls for Limbaugh's sponsors to pull their ads rocketed through cyberspace, and at least three companies did, including Quicken.

Letters:
http://www.freep.com/article/20120303/OPINION04/203030393/Letters-Limbaugh-s-comments-far-beyond-inappropriate

He apologized today, same kind of apology Ted Kennedy gave after Chappiquidick. Sleep Number will be back within month, along with Pro Flowers. They all just needed him to say "i'm sorry". It's like an Anthony Weiner "i'm sorry". Or a Robert Byrd "i'm sorry I was a KKK leader" i'm sorry

He didn't apologize, it was a statement, not an on-air apology. Probably some staffer wrote it up and put it on the PR newswire.

"My choice of words was not the best, and in the attempt to be humorous, I created a national stir. I sincerely apologize to Ms. Fluke for the insulting word choices."

So according to Limbaugh, she's still a slut and prostitute, but he didn't mean to use those exact words. He meant to say "loose woman", "painted Jezebel", and some more archaic terms more suited to his geriatric audience.

Limbaugh apologizes to law student for insult
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/03/03/a_statement_from_rush

He said he's sorry, now go on to something else, you bunch of demoncrats.

Who's a democrat? I've been warning of these extreme blowhards for years. They've made our country intolerant. Just look at the Replubs candidates.... truly scary.

Read his so-called apology. He's not sorry and he's not admitting that he totally made up half the shit he said on-air too. He's only sorry about his "insulting word choices".

I hope she gets his ass in court for libel/slander/defamation and keeps him there until he starts detoxing from his OxyContin addiction.

I agree with anon, that is more of a Democrat apology. Sounds like something Ted Kennedy would say after driving off a bridge.

Wow, Fred, pander much?

People are starting to wake to the fact that this Hate radio thing has escalated into what we've just experienced with the Drugster Rush. They're saying to themselves hey wait-a-minute that ain't right...damn this crap has gone to far. About time people start thinking out side the blowhard box!

A few facts about the Drugster.
In 2006, Drugster was detained at Palm Beach International Airport in Florida after authorities found a bottle of Viagra in someone else's name in his bag. 2004 Rush's third wife, Marta, allegedly grew tired of never having sex with her and filed for divorce. http://pssht.com/biography/rush_limbaugh.html Rushbo has been married and divorced three times. He currently lives with a cat. A regular Citizen Kane!
He didn't register to vote until he was 35. Rush attended college but never finishing and according to his mother, "he flunked everything", In 2006, the Drugster was arrested on a single charge of prescription fraud. He publicly acknowledged being addicted to pain medication. (MORE) http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2009/03/06/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-rush-limbaugh

Now I ask you who is going to believe this character?

hmmmm I would guess between 10-20 million people a week, about the same number that read your posts. LOL

Fred The Nazi Party lead by Adolf Hitler had about 35,000 members in 1923. The total German population was about 63,000 in 1923. How many were right about him?

Even Wall Street Columnist Peggy Noonan said about the Rushbo on Sunday.... "was crude, rude, even piggish, it was just unacceptable, he ought to be called on it".....

He was called on it. He was humiliated in public by the outcry and rightfully apologized.

How long will this be harped on?

Fred The Nazi Party lead by Adolf Hitler had about 35,000 members in 1923. The total German population was about 63,000 in 1923. How many were right about him?

Remember to add three more zeros next time. It was 63 million people.

I hope she gets his ass in court for libel/slander/defamation and keeps him there until he starts detoxing from his OxyContin addiction.

She made herself at least a limited use public figure by testifying before Congress. She is now a full-blown public figure by appearing on The View this morning. She isn't fighting for "privacy", she's putting herself out there...not only as a newsworthy person, but as a noteworthy person...a "mini" celebrity.

Also, if I remember right, she'd have to show "actual damages" to win defamation. Has she been kicked out of school? Divorced? Forced out of town? Had her future earnings threatened? Is she facing a mountain of public scorn? Answer to all questions: no, no, no, no, and no. She is a celebrity now.

She's made Limbaugh, and his advertisers, bend to her. She's a hero, and apparently lapping up every single minute of it with fawning appearances all over the press telling Limbaugh to shove his apology back up his ass. She ain't hurtin'...

Besides, he's still going to get away with it. BTW, who did bill maher call a cunt? I hope El Rushbo gets a list of former sponsors, and sells it on e-bay like he did when the democratz sent a list to Clear Channel.

She wouldn't have been a full-blown public figure unless Rush hadn't gone batshit insane and shoved her in the limelight by spending three days calling her a slut and prostitute on-air which generated such controversy. As a "limited-use public figure" (OHT seems to be an Internet Lawyer here), being asked/required to testify in front of Congress does NOT give Limbaugh or anyone else the ability to slander people without legal repercussions. Now, after El Rushbo has said she's a prostitute (someone paid for sexual acts) and a slut (go look up the definitions yourself), she's going to have to defend herself and character. Never mind the fact she was testifying ABOUT A FRIEND'S MEDICAL NEED FOR "THE PILL" if I recall correctly. Rush made an attack that's way off base, to pander to HIS base, damaging the reputation of this woman, and then issued a pathetic excuse of a so-called apology where he laughs it off as "my job is humor and I used some words I shouldn't have... they were insulting words and I meant some words that weren't as insulting but otherwise carried the same connotations."

By the way, according to Florida law (where Limbaugh lives and broadcasts from), Rush is now a criminal.
http://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2011/836.04

836.04 Defamation.—Whoever speaks of and concerning any woman, married or unmarried, falsely and maliciously imputing to her a want of chastity, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.

I'd totally file charges if I were her. Let's see his mugshot and his long-form police report!
ARREST RUSH LIMBAUGH & SENTENCE HIM TO JAIL!

If Paul and the others on the left were really worried about women being called names they would have posted about these comments-
Ed Schultz said on his radio show that Sarah Palin set off a “bimbo alert.”

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.”

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 “batshit crazy.

Chris Matthews has also called Clinton “witchy,” “anti-male,” and “uppity” and once claimed she won her Senate seat only because her “husband messed around.”

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.

Maher said of a woman who was harassed while breast-feeding at an Applebee’s, “Don't show me your tits!

Oddly enough it's a liberal woman who points all this out in her column http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/03/04/rush-limbaugh-s-apology

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/05/imus-calls-limbaugh-insincere-pig-after-slut-apology/

BAHHAHAHAAHHHAH this is so great! Watching these right-wing talkers fight with each other! I NEED MOAR POPCORNS!

Look at the post above, your boy Imus of "nappy-headed ho" fame calling El Rushbo "an insincere pig. Pill-popping pinhead.”"

The thing about Olbermann and Maher is their shows are on cable, not FCC-regulated public airwaves. Doesn't truly excuse their comments, but it's not the same as WSPD and the bits of their LICENSE which include public service, if they haven't gotten all that removed after intense lobbying by now.

bill maher has problems with his MOTHER, I think. Maybe she looks like Sarah Palin? With a nose like his, I'd be mad at someone too. Although I admit, I'd like to have a nose like that full of nickles!

Rush Limbaugh may be sorry he called student advocate Sandra Fluke a "slut," but RON PAUL isn't buying it.

"He's doing it because some people were taking their advertisements off of his program. It was his bottom line he was concerned about," Paul said. "I don't think he's very apologetic. It's in his best interest, that's why he did it."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/04/ron-paul-limbaugh-slut-apology_n_1319742.html

AC, I can't believe you didn't call out wolfman for invoking Godwin's Law.

I did in fact see that but was more annoyed at the "oh she's a public figure so El Rushbo can say whatever he likes" implication from OHT. Yeah, and if any of us here went up to Congress and told them off only to have one of the blowhards on either end of the political spectrum spend three days impugning our sexuality and moral character, we'd be reaching for our lawyers and be all over TV fighting back too.

But yeah, BAD WOLFMAN! DO NOT GODWIN! YOU'RE NOT HELPING!

Wolfman:

Use this next time:

AC an jr - thanks for the learning moment - I had never heard of Godwins Law before!

"Rush attack on Sandra Fluke was hate speech"

Hey wolfman,did you feel the same way when the Huffington post ridiculed the Catholic religion or are you one of those people that believe that freedom of speech is only good for those that you agree with?

If one is into hate speech,all you have to do is listen to MSNBC.I say if you don't like Rush then just tune him out.If enough people did that then he would be off the air.

I am humored at all the posters here being upset about Rush and his name calling.There are plenty of times when these same posters are on here calling people names when they don't agree with them.You know who you are!Hypocrites!

http://www.mediaite.com/online/report-first-radio-station-drops-the-rush-limbaugh-show/

I like the bit where the station prez said “Had this been one of my disc jockeys that had made this comment, they would have been terminated.”

How many other people have been fired from WSPD over the years who made comments less inflammatory than Limbaugh's?

The Hitler thing was only used to give an analogy. I fear with what has happened in my lifetime over the years I've noticed a gradual disintegration of tolerance, a coarsening of political discussion. I think this has dire consequences when big money can dominate all discussion. I do apologize for the Hitler reference but will not take anytime off as did Ed Schultz. Thanks for the correction oldhometown on the 63 million number!

Bullshit, you make Hitler analogies every chance you get, e.g. like with Rich Iott. And I congratulate you on your collection of NAZI photos.

Begins at 09:40 on the time meter
ABC’s George Will told me Sunday on “This Week” that GOP leaders have steered clear of harshly denouncing Limbaugh’s comments because “Republican leaders are afraid of Rush Limbaugh.”

Wulf something to think about!
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March 6, 2012
Rochelle Riley: Rush Limbaugh is the 21st Century's foolish bigot
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She talks about the late Sen. Joe McCarthy and his similarity to Rush

The problem with making Hitler analogies with Rich Idiott is that there cannot be a violation of Godwin's Law when the subject of the comparison does indeed dress up in Nazi garb. Rich Idiott arrived on-scene pre-Godwinned.

Why is the thread centering each of the lines of text? it really looks strange?

wolfman edited the post that started this thread and added some mangled HTML that I will try to correct.

Consider the simularities of Rush Limbaugh and Michael Moore. Both are self-made, both are political and philosophical extremists and both make an extraordinarily good living trying to beat their own record for the most outrageous public statement of the year.

Anyone who takes the outrageously extreme opinions of either of these two entrepreneurs might consider a few things:

1. Even a broken clock is right twice a day - but timing is everything.
2. They are doing this to make money. You're helping.
3. What they say might well be foolish or untruthful, but a lot of people believe them. Think about that one for a minute.

Want proof? Just look at this thread.

Exactly madjack that's why the WARNING! at the top of this thread.

Everyone knows you didn't mean that.

A total of 86 ads aired during WABC's broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show today. 77 of those ads were public service announcements donated free of charge by the Ad Council

Of the nine paid spots that ran, seven were from companies that have said they have taken steps to ensure their ads no longer air during the program

WABC's online feed included about 5:33 of dead air when ads would normally have run.

AHAHHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA.