Oh, and to propagate another meme, Rush has had four wives, is childless, and is against birth control. Is it worth thinking about the relationship between those facts? I'm just asking questions here...

quickdraw: So its ok for you to express your morals but everyone else should just shut up about theirs?

I'm not calling the FCC, radio stations, and advertisers trying to get a cranky blowhard pulled off the air.

And fer chrissakes do I have to do everything around here??

You know, the apologists (pun intended) and politicians can keep insisting this is something other than an attack on women, but at this point any way they try to spin it sounds like the adult voices on Charlie Brown to female voters. The last year has been an increasingly rancorous attack on women from the Republicans.

This time I think it's going to hurt him. He won't go off the air and he'll still have a huge fan base but I think this will actually have an impact on his career. Companies will be more hesitant to market their products on his show and more importantly, I think he may have to dial the crazy down a notch or risk having this happen all over again. Let's be realistic, a large portion of his listeners tune in just for the crazy.

GoldSpider: quickdraw: So its ok for you to express your morals but everyone else should just shut up about theirs?

I'm not calling the FCC, radio stations, and advertisers trying to get a cranky blowhard pulled off the air.

Why would you? He's your blowhard.

(Alan Colmes *wishes* he could generate national outrage...)

Urbn: You know, the apologists (pun intended) and politicians can keep insisting this is something other than an attack on women, but at this point any way they try to spin it sounds like the adult voices on Charlie Brown to female voters. The last year has been an increasingly rancorous attack on women from the Republicans.

its the give me free stuff

by Obama

thats the bottom line

it is all freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

ask any OWS person

hubcity: Why would you? He's your blowhard.

I must have missed the part where I endorsed his viewpoint. Or the part where I said he should be sued, or where in this thread I called him a "clown"...

Lionel Mandrake: EXPLAIN THIS ASSHOLES

Covered:

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Not covered:

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I never understood that one myself...

Yes, winterwhile, you keeping going with that. That's sure to get women voters flocking to the Republicans.

/eye roll

liverleef: This time I think it's going to hurt him. He won't go off the air and he'll still have a huge fan base but I think this will actually have an impact on his career. Companies will be more hesitant to market their products on his show and more importantly, I think he may have to dial the crazy down a notch or risk having this happen all over again. Let's be realistic, a large portion of his listeners tune in just for the crazy.

He's between a rock and a hard place. He's had to dial up the crazy since so many others have taken selling crazy to a whole new level. If he doesn't ratchet up the crazy he loses listeners, his ratings drop and he loses advertising revenue. If he continues with the bile and vitriol he runs the risk of alienating some of his advertisers and again is looking at losing revenue.

Rush has painted himself into corner. I hope he likes it there.

cameroncrazy1984: So accusing

accusing |əˈkyooziNG|
adjective
(of an expression, gesture, or tone of voice) indicating a belief in someone's guilt or culpability:

Still not buying more than a settlement out of court if the suit alleges defamation.

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1) Leads to more customers

2) Prevents more customers

Unshavenhelga: quickdraw: In fact - it hurts his case. A lot.

I'm sure it does. My point has never been to support his attack. I just am pointing out that I think it's just as shameful to attempt to silence from the left as it is from the right.

LOL WAT ?

OMG I Just read your post and realized that since I don't have a nation wide talk show

I'M BEING SILENCED!!!! 111 one.. one .. eleventy



Limbaugh is as free as the rest of us to shout his stupidity from the street corners from the roof tops and get a fark handle and troll the politics tab .

He is not free of consequences for his speech , which is what the "right" feels is an entitlement for them alone and confuse as "Free Speech"

The "left " is free to exercise their free speech to contact his advertisers and voice their dislike of their association with Limbaugh and inform the advertisers that they will not use their products and inform other to do like wise .

The advertisers are free to dismiss the letters and continue to fund Rush Limbaugh's show or they are also as free to not to .

If all the advertisers withdraw Rush is free to fund his show himself till the money runs out then he is as I said earlier , free to shout at clouds and post troll comments on Fark and become a freeper and ditto head all day long .



A whole lot of freedom there .... Please point out the "attempt to silence" or the taking away of freedom?

Urbn: Yes, winterwhile, you keeping going with that. That's sure to get women voters flocking to the Republicans.

/eye roll

yea.. every one wants their free Obama money

just ask them

as the Nation tanks under Obama, its not going to end well

Monkeyhouse Zendo: How is it satire?

By definition.

satire |ˈsaˌtīr|
noun
the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.

cameroncrazy1984: Please explain how

...he accused her of anything. He implied, you inferred.

s2s2s2: Monkeyhouse Zendo: How is it satire?

By definition.

satire |ˈsaˌtīr|
noun
the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.

I know the definition of satire, I'm just not clear on how that applies to Rush calling her a slut and implying that she was a prostitute. That struck me more as a mean spirited comment disparaging her character than a humorous exaggeration.

quickdrawBecause I'm not going to allow him to push the public discourse back to the 1800s just so he he can make a buck.

THIS!

/Don't back us lady folk into a corner
//We control a good deal of the money going into the economy, but more importantly, ALL of the vagina access

NewportBarGuy: His product is hatred. Hatred of groups of people that make his audience feel better about themselves. I have more respect for drug dealers.

OK. I guess I don't need to post here.

quickdraw: He can and does sway listeners with his rants...

See, that's where I think you are 100% wrong. Anybody who listens to Limbaugh already has their mind made up. He isn't changing anybody's mind, he's just reinforcing what his audience already believes.

SkinnyHead
You know what, you're right. When David Letterman made a crude and tasteless joke about Governor Palin's daughter, people were right to call him on it. If you'd wanted to call his sponsors in protest, you'd have been in the right.

That said, you're obviously defending Limbaugh, a crude obnoxious bully. I have yet to see you say you thought his actions were wrong. In fact, you've been doing nothing but white-knight him with your GED-in-law arguments.

Unshavenhelga: cameroncrazy1984: No you wouldn't.

What about the interview after interview she's given in the wake of her shameful treatment by the GOP? What about appearing on multiple forums to discuss her issues. She's a public figure.

\does NOT have herpes

Uh. That's ex post facto, you idiot.

GoldSpider: quickdraw: He can and does sway listeners with his rants...

See, that's where I think you are 100% wrong. Anybody who listens to Limbaugh already has their mind made up. He isn't changing anybody's mind, he's just reinforcing what his audience already believes.

I agree to a certain extent. The problem is that Rush provides a feedback mechanism by which people with hateful views come to believe that their views are both common and justified. Where before they might have shied away from expressing their more extreme views and might have been put in a position to question whether they were valid and beneficial, they now have an external voice supporting them and reassuring them that their hatred is not only valid but just and right.

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90K for college tuition

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you have a problem with that?

I like the Canadian guy who suns for Rush sometimes, but disagree with everything they say. (Only reason I listen is my crappy radio only gets Rush's show or Cowherd on ESPN, and I get bored of sports trolling.

winterwhile: Urbn: Yes, winterwhile, you keeping going with that. That's sure to get women voters flocking to the Republicans.

/eye roll

yea.. every one wants their free Obama money

just ask them

as the Nation tanks under Obama, its not going to end well

You have a funny definition of "tanking"

elffster: phenn: elffster: phygz: Or how about you change the station and don't listen to his crap, then your life is free fr ...


Changing the station does nothing to remove him from the airwaves. He does nothing to help the nation. Is it so difficult for you to see this?


I did work in radio, so I know that there are alternatives to hearing his crap. Rush does nothing to make the world a better place. If you can't understand that then we dont have shiat to talk about.

Actually, changing the station has everything to do with getting him off the air. If enough people do it, he won't have the ratings, the advertisers and thus a show.

No, sorry...that is only part of the way to remove him. Folks that have common sense will complain to the FCC. They will complain to Armed Forces Network about him. They will chew out the national advertisers until those companies do not use Clear Channel AT ALL until Rush is gone.

They will complain to their local stations advertisers too, and refuse to use thier businesses until Rush is gone from the airwaves.

I am a third generation broadcaster. I am not just a little put off by Rush's antics, he makes me ill. What he does is NOT entertainment. What he does helps no one. What he does is make incredibly stupid people feel justified in their stupid beliefs and stupid actions.

If you don't understand this....

I understand it. If he's collecting money from the Armed Forces Network, I have a problem with it. Tax dollars are funding him then. Why in the hell should I or you pay for a cancer growth to get fatter? Cancer starves off good cells, allowing more cancer cells to take their place. Let Rush pay for his own cloning.

Monkeyhouse Zendo: Where before they might have shied away from expressing their more extreme views...

How else can we identify (and summarily dismiss) people with extreme views if they don't express themselves? In that regard, Limbaugh is providing a public service :)

phenn
I'm going to repeat something RON PAUL just said on CNN when he was asked about this: Rush isn't sorry for what he said. He's sorry that he's lost some advertisers.

Quoted. For. Truth.

The defamation is a side issue. It's an important one, but it's a side issue. The main issue is: Mr. Limbaugh earns his money through hate speech against, among others, women. He keeps doing this because the (relatively) small number of people who listen to his program are loyal to his advertisers. Those sponsors make it possible for him to continue.

Spewing a three-day misogynist tirade towards a 30-year-old law student crossed a line, even for him. Enough people started saying -- ignoring this just encourages it. He lost sponsors, so he issued his phony "apology."

He and his lawyers may be a little worried about a defamation suit. But if he were really worried about it, he'd have scrubbed his website completely of the remarks. He hasn't -- they're still up. (http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/03/01/left_freaks_out_over_my_ fluke_remarks)

He's worried -- and rightly so -- about becoming so toxic that no sponsors will touch him.

Why should Rush ever apologize for anything? He's pretty much the same as any of his listeners: morbidly obese, limp dicked, adulterous, stupid and a traitorous un-American sack of s**t. Given that's what his mouth breather audience expects, who would he ever be apologizing to?

To actually issue a real apology, it requires you to be a man with a mild amount of honor. He is not. Pretty much like the monkeys who listen to him.

Although, come to think of it, Rush is exactly like to type of man that Jesus was, so I guess he is a great Christian.

cameroncrazy1984: winterwhile: Urbn: Yes, winterwhile, you keeping going with that. That's sure to get women voters flocking to the Republicans.

/eye roll

yea.. every one wants their free Obama money

just ask them

as the Nation tanks under Obama, its not going to end well

You have a funny definition of "tanking"

5 Trillion is new debt

all under Obama, in less than 3 years

yea.... thats a utter failure, comming to our kids