A Rush too far
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A Rush too far
How come Glenn Beck suffered boycotts and eventually got the boot from Fox News Channel for his outrageous comments about American politics, while radio's Rush Limbaugh -- who can be just as over-the-top at times -- has received a free pass? I think a lot of it was just that Limbaugh -- a radio talker since the end of the Reagan era -- has been around for so long he's managed to establish a baseline of bad behavior. When you make repeated comments about "Feminazis" or racially charged remarks and stay on the air, the bar gets raised...or is it lowered?
But is it possible that after all these years, El Rushbo has finally gone too far?
Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh, already under fire from Democrats over his language in discussing a Georgetown University law student who testified about contraception, ratcheted up his rhetoric on Thursday, saying the student should post an online sex video if taxpayers are forced to pay for contraception.
Limbaugh on Wednesday had referred to student Sandra Fluke as a “slut” for supporting a requirement that health insurance cover contraception. On his radio show Thursday, Limbaugh went a little further:
"So Miss Fluke, and the rest of you Feminazis, here's the deal. If we are going to pay for your contraceptives, and thus pay for you to have sex. We want something for it. We want you post the videos online so we can all watch."
The word "slut" shouldn't be used in any rational discourse (remember, MSNBC's Ed Schutlz was suspended -- as he should have been -- for calling radio talker Laura Ingraham "a slut") but it's even worse when the most-listened-to radio host in America uses it to go after a law student -- who's done nothing wrong except express an opposing political viewpoint. Locally, WPHT -- which dumped Beck and Sean Hannity -- should be ashamed for still airing this trash.
Tonight there's serious talk about a boycott of Limbaugh's sponsors. I'm not so sure if that's the answer -- boycotts are rarely effective (although Beck may have been an exception) and come off as little heavy handed even when the boycotters are clearly on the right side. On the other hand, let's just say I'm not going out of my way to buy anything from Pro Flowers, Domino's Pizza or Auto Zone any time in the near future, either.
The liberal media Never said anything disturbing about George Bush or his children.
Bill Maher is such a nice guy- never once attacked a republican.
Will Bunch- hypocrite.
— Keep The Change- This comment has been deleted. — towelie
- towelie, so high gas prices are Obama fault? Get real, we are now export more oil then we import. Should we nationalize all oil reserves? — DavidAG
- Bush and Obama are public figures. This woman is not.Guys like yiou are too unintelligent to know the difference. Too much rush on your little brains. — mike l
- Yes, she is a public figure. She heads an organization on campus advocating for free contraception and she testified publicly before a committee of Congress about that. It's about "free" contraceptives for her paid for by someone else. How entitled can you get? — Falls Ed
- Limbaugh is the guy who was busted going to a country know for prostitution, especially child prostitution, the Dominican Republic, with a suitcase full of Viagra and Oxy. Nobody called him a pedophile, which is a good possibility he is. This guy is a low life and should be at least suspended. We can only hope that the loss of advertisers will drive Foggy Channel to drop him like Faux News did to Glen Beck. — DavidAG
- Keep the Change: An attack for bad policies (Bush) or plain crazy thinking (current Republicans) is one thing. Limbaugh could be sued for libel in England and I would be happy to see that and even file a Friend of the Court. This was a totally uncalled-for insult to a college girl who was simply stating her opposite view on a policy issue. And it was nasty, nasty, nasty.— Archimedes
- Actually, in his humorous way, Limbaugh is correct!— ANGRY AL 2
- She's a 29 year old law student complaining that she has high contraception expenses and she shouldn't have to pay for it. She's insatiable! — Falls Ed
- I assume Obama/Biden are raising gas prices because they back Big Oil?
That is exactly what we heard when Bush/Cheney were in the White House correct?
Bush controlled gas prices right? For his oil buddies?
Yet now the media explains -in detail- why gas prices are high- strange how that works.
What happened to the War protestors and the evening news showing photos of every soldier killed in action?
— Keep The Change - Limbaugh is an entertainer- get it?
— Keep The Change - You call that entertainment? Low IQ is what I call it. Not funny, notintellectually stimulating. Just trash from a fat drug-addled moron. — mike l
- Great job government morons. We've now decided to mandate coverage for contraceptives, taking the culture wars to a whole 'nother level.— RG
- Federal mandates....subservient citizens. — Falls Ed
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