Opponents bring war against Rush Limbaugh to Georgia
On one hand, comic Bill Maher has an op-ed in today’s New York Times calling for an end to the clichéd cycle of insult and apology:
Let’s have an amnesty — from the left and the right — on every made-up, fake, totally insincere, playacted hurt, insult, slight and affront. Let’s make this Sunday the National Day of No Outrage. One day a year when you will not find some tiny thing someone did or said and pretend you can barely continue functioning until they apologize.
On the other, Rush Limbaugh’s critics have stepped up their war on his radio program. Note that Macon is a targeted city. From the Associated Press:
NEW YORK — Rush Limbaugh’s opponents are starting a radio campaign against him Thursday, seizing upon the radio star’s attack of a Georgetown law student as a “slut” to make a long-term effort aimed at weakening his business.
The liberal Media Matters for America is using a past campaign against Glenn Beck as a template. In Limbaugh, however, they’re going after bigger game. He’s already fighting back and the group’s stance has provoked concerns that an effort to silence someone for objectionable talk is in itself objectionable.
Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh. AP/Chris Carlson
Media Matters is spending at least $100,000 for two advertisements that will run in eight cities.
The ads use Limbaugh’s own words about student Sandra Fluke, who testified at a congressional hearing that contraception should be paid for in health plans. Limbaugh, on his radio programs, suggested Fluke wanted to be paid to have sex, which made her a “slut” and a “prostitute.” In return for the money, he said Fluke should post videos of herself having sex. Under sharp criticism, Limbaugh later apologized.
In one of the anti-Limbaugh ads, listeners are urged to call the local station that carries Limbaugh to say “we don’t talk to women like that” in our city.
Ad time was purchased in Boston; Chicago; Detroit; Seattle; Milwaukee; St. Louis; Macon, Ga.; and Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The cities were selected to support active local campaigns against Limbaugh or because of perceptions Limbaugh may be vulnerable in that market, said Angelo Carusone of Media Matters.
“What we’re really looking for is a way to demonstrate the persistence of the effort and the fact that it is on a wide scale,” Carusone said.
A spokeswoman for Premiere Radio Networks, which syndicates Limbaugh’s show to more than 600 radio stations nationally, said Media Matters has gone beyond criticism of Limbaugh’s words to an attempt to silence him and intimidate advertisers.
“This is not about women,” said Rachel Nelson, Premiere spokeswoman. “It’s not about ethics and it’s not about the nature of our public discourse. It’s a direct attack on America’s guaranteed First Amendment right to free speech. It’s essentially a call for censorship masquerading as high-minded indignation.”
Limbaugh, on his radio show Wednesday, said he’s being targeted in an attack that was long-planned — not mentioning it was his words that lit the fuse.
“They’re not even really offended by what happened,” he said. “This is just an opportunity to execute a plan they’ve had in their drawer since 2009.”
Determining how much of a financial impact the Fluke comments have already had on Limbaugh is murky business.
Radio stations in Hawaii and Massachusetts have dropped his show. Media Matters claims that 58 companies have specifically asked that their ads be excluded from Limbaugh’s show. Radio-Info.com’s TRI Newsletter said Premiere has circulated a list of 98 advertisers who want to avoid “environments likely to stir negative sentiments,” essentially all politically pointed talk shows.
There’s more. TRI also said a group with several stations that air Limbaugh sent out a list of 31 advertisers who don’t want to be on Limbaugh’s show.
Premiere notes that a list is sent out four times a year reminding stations of advertisers who don’t want to be part of controversial programming, and suggests a reported exodus is exaggerated. The company offered no list of its own, or a comparison that could show advertisers resistant to Limbaugh or other controversial shows that predated the Fluke comments.
Some companies said not to want to advertise within Limbaugh’s program — JC Penney, NAPA Auto Parts, Chapstick, Gold Bond, Green Mountain Coffee — did not respond to requests to clarify their policies. One company listed, NBC-TV, said the network was unaware of any policy or past efforts to advertise with Limbaugh.
Valerie Geller, a veteran radio consultant who worked at Limbaugh’s WABC flagship in New York, said it appears that advertising money coming into Limbaugh’s show is slowing down. “I think it’s a very big wakeup call,” she said.
Whether the advertisers return is another question. Limbaugh has a daily audience estimated at between 2 million and 3 million people, according to Talkers magazine.
“I suspect some people will permanently stay away,” said Tom Taylor, executive editor at Radio-Info.com. “I suspect some people will drift back to Rush. What you won’t see is a press release of someone saying, ‘Hey, we’re back with Rush!’”
While a law student, Carusone was active in a campaign to reach Beck’s advertiser that began after the commentator said in July 2009 that President Barack Obama had “a deep-seated hatred for white people.” Eventually, more than 400 advertisers said they didn’t want to be part of Beck’s show and, for Fox, the ad revenue was nowhere near what would be expected for a TV show as popular as Beck’s. When Beck left Fox in June 2011 to take his show to the Web, the parting was mutual.
The idea with Limbaugh is similar: take advertisers away so rates go down, Carusone said. Couple that with the need to keep track of ever-changing lists of who will advertise with Limbaugh and who won’t, and Media Matters hopes that station managers, market by market, may someday conclude that it’s just not worth the trouble.
Conveniently, many stations will soon have a choice. Former GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is launching his own syndicated radio show in April that will air at the same time as Limbaugh’s, and Huckabee’s backers are touting the show as a more civilized alternative.
Beyond the First Amendment concerns, industry experts like Talkers magazine publisher Michael Harrision are concerned that Media Matters’ effort will simpy take some advertisers out of radio altogether when they have different options.
Carusone said Limbaugh has a chilling effect of his own. “There are plenty of people who self-censor out of fear that Mr. Limbaugh will smear them,” he said.
The means of protest puts Media Matters and the conservative Media Research Center in the unlikely position of agreeing with each other. Brent Bozell, founder of the conservative media watchdog, said his group also informs advertisers of things it considers objectionable.
“We all have free speech,” Bozell said.
That’s where the agreement stops. Bozell this week called on MSNBC chief Phil Griffin to resign, citing objectionable things said in the past by Ed Schultz and Al Sharpton, both MSNBC show hosts. It’s in part retaliation for attacks on Limbaugh, he said. The Fluke story was covered extensively by MSNBC.
“There’s a great sense of selective outrage that is going on here,” he said.
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On a related note, the AJC’s Politifact Georgia has this look at whether comic Bill Maher measures up as the liberal equivalent of Rush Limbaugh when it comes to attacks on women.
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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328 comments Add your comment
findog
March 22nd, 2012
9:07 am
Macon is on the list only to catch the Florida-Mid West traffic on I-75
The Limbaugh Dialectic
March 22nd, 2012
9:13 am
I’m truly amazed that the masses on the loony-left and their captured sock-puppets in the media cannot understand my elegant logic. I did not say anything on my show is in any way slanderous. If I woman wants to use birth control, she is immoral and we, the American People, should not be required to subsidize her immoral ways.
Ergo, Res ipsa loquitor
Doug
March 22nd, 2012
9:19 am
I have no idea about her sex life but we would not be having this discussion if she did want free stuff. She may not be a slut but she wants to steal my money to be used as she sees fit . Thief is much worse then slut.
john k
March 22nd, 2012
9:19 am
Drives me nuts that Limbaugh supporter say this is a free speech issue. It’s not even remotely, unless Congress is passing the “Limbaugh is not allowed to express opinions Act.”
No one has a right to a radio show, and if he were to lose it today, he would still be able to express opinions tomorrow.
justjanny
March 22nd, 2012
9:20 am
The matter does speaks for itself…Yes, Rush is the matter, the matter (that is wrong) with this country!
Dave
March 22nd, 2012
9:21 am
Please read Al Frankens book Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot
euler
March 22nd, 2012
9:22 am
@Doug: “She may not be a slut but she wants to steal my money to be used as she sees fit ”
I would gently recommend you look into this matter further, because (despite what the media is saying) that is not what she asked for. You can verify this by reading the transcript of her testimony.
Roberto
March 22nd, 2012
9:23 am
Al Franken? Surely, you jest.
PMC
March 22nd, 2012
9:24 am
Opinion broadcasting has become virtually worthless.
jimp
March 22nd, 2012
9:24 am
He described her very accurately. She said she needed someone to pay for her birth control and she wasn’t married.
slut (slt)
n.
1.
a. A person, especially a woman, considered sexually promiscuous.
b. A woman prostitute.
2. A slovenly woman; a slattern.
PMC
March 22nd, 2012
9:25 am
It’s almost as futile as our election process.
That's Goofy
March 22nd, 2012
9:26 am
Rush is what he is. People can listen or don’t. Media Matters is no different than the people that tried to get the Simpson’s cancelled, the Parent Television Council (went after WWE) any those that are bent over Stern.
Don’t listen or watch if it offends you.
Crimson Tide Pride
March 22nd, 2012
9:28 am
Rush is Right!
ROLL TIDE!
john k
March 22nd, 2012
9:29 am
euler, they’re not going to look into the matter further. Rush told them what to think, and being obedient little dittoheads, they follow.
It doesn’t matter that she never once said she wanted birth control to have lots of sex, Rush said it, and therefore it is in stone.
euler
March 22nd, 2012
9:29 am
@jimp: “She said she needed someone to pay for her birth control and she wasn’t married.”
She said no such thing.
Rafe Hollister
March 22nd, 2012
9:30 am
Rush will be on the air long after Barry arrives back in Chicago to live, and Ms Fluck has drifted back to wherever Pelosi plucked her from.
Mook
March 22nd, 2012
9:30 am
Read my book
I Couldn’t Give a $hit About Al Franken
findog
March 22nd, 2012
9:32 am
Doug, she doesn’t want it free, she wants it covered in her insurance plan. What if they decide the high blood pressure and cholesterol should just be treated with diet and exercise and quit covering that; or diabetes; or cancer?
John K, wrong everyone has a right to a radio show; capitalism at work determines who can make a living at it.
ECDawg
March 22nd, 2012
9:33 am
Media Matters is all for free speech as long as it passes muster with their views. Limbaugh made a mistake and apologized. His listener numbers are trending higher due to this incident. Despite Galloway’s efforts, Limbaugh is more popular with the American public than ever………..
woodrow
March 22nd, 2012
9:33 am
Rush Limbaugh is piggish fascist media ’slut’ and I don’t think we want to give him a day off.
justjanny
March 22nd, 2012
9:37 am
Tell me, people, what is conservative about Rush Limbaugh? Outrageous, yes, conservative – hardly. Rush is out to make uber dollars and some idiots are foolish enough to pay him to spout off. Come on, folks, can’t we all just use our God-given intelligence and stop letting the Rush Limbaughs of the world fool us! Me thinks that “the emperor has no clothes on”…
john k
March 22nd, 2012
9:38 am
findog, yes, capitalism at work. Rush and his blindly loyal flock of dittoheads cannot force companies to advertise on his show so he can remain on the air. Companies can decide, for whatever reason they choose, to advertise or not advertise on his show. If they decide to drop him due to public outcry, then so be it, if they decide to stay, then so be it. If they decide to leave or remain for any other reason, then so be it. But his freedom of speech is not being suppressed in any way, shape, or form if he loses his show.
Listen up!
March 22nd, 2012
9:38 am
People, reading really is fundamental!! For all of you who say she was wanting “free stuff” or that she is having sex all over the place, please read the transcript of her testimony. She never once referred to herself. Her’s was a series of stories she had heard from different woman who were having to prove to the insurance company why their birth control pills was a medical necessity. A few years ago after suffering intense abdominal pains, my gyno suggested me using the pill to help it. I made the decision not to do that and opted for surgery, but it was my decision to make!
One more thing. Rush is free to say anything he wants to say on his show, but when you do that, be prepared for the consequences because there are always consequences!
Kiljoy
March 22nd, 2012
9:38 am
Doug, we wouldn’t be having this discussion if Rush hadn’t called her a “slut, prostitute etc” and suggested that she give him free porno films. This isn’t about what she said, its about what he said. No American citizen should be slandered just because they express an opinion that you disagree with.
Tex
March 22nd, 2012
9:38 am
You hippies go get jobs and take baths. Rush is right as always. That woman is a disgrace to women and very fat and ugly at that. Thanks Hippies. Rush’s ratings just get better. Ha Ha
calliope
March 22nd, 2012
9:38 am
how incredible that two commenters here still do not face the truth–she was asking for insurance (not taxpayer) to cover birth control..which is used for many health issues besides “birth control.” If insurance covers viagra, it can surely cover birth control..and many single men use viagra..old guys ya know. so, what are they doing with it? it is really too much fun to judge and praise a fool who wishes to insult someone..which is what a fool does when he has no real argument… he makes a bunch of statements intended to mislead his pandering ican’tthinkformyself audience rather than address an issue that applies to most women at some point in their lives.. should birth control be covered by insurance? The answer is yes, and it is overdue.
ragnar danneskjold
March 22nd, 2012
9:39 am
I have less respect for the Limbaugh protesters than I do for all of those leftists who said such terrible things about Sarah Palin’s daughters. Those who called those children horrific names were not Fascists seeking to punish free speech.
Fred ™
March 22nd, 2012
9:40 am
Doug
March 22nd, 2012
9:19 am
I have no idea about her sex life but we would not be having this discussion if she did want free stuff. She may not be a slut but she wants to steal my money to be used as she sees fit . Thief is much worse then slut.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
This idiot Doug is typical of the Limbaugh worshiper. The woman wants nothing FREE but Doug is too stupid to know that. He only “knows” what his drugged out god, Rush tells him. to actually find the FACTS is too much effort for Dougie and takes too much brain-power (of which he has none). It’s better to be a mindless automaton and spew forth words that one doesn’t understand than to actually think says Dougie.
I WILL agree with Dougie on one thing. A thief is lower than whale dung and Dougie is a thief. He steals the truth and tries to replace it with lies. Man up you thief Dougie. Quit being a thief and a liar. Quit attacking women Dougie you nutless thief.
justsayin'
March 22nd, 2012
9:40 am
Enough already. Who cares what a fat, draft dodging, college dropout thinks anyway?
gm
March 22nd, 2012
9:41 am
Once again for the mis informed Hanniy viewers: Bill Maher is a paid comedian who goes on tour to be funny and insult people, you have never seen him at Dem events or saying he represent Dem.
Rush the scum has been seen at several fund raisers for Rep he has been given awards by the rep party he has introduced Rep members and he said he is the face of the rep party, only the right nut wingers would forgive him for attacking a college student.
Sara the idiot is a public figure like Hillary Clinton they are going to get attacked but calling a college student a slut, you can not get more lower then that.
For all you redneck and hillbillies in Georgia I wonder if rush called your mother or your wife or sister a slut and lets see you defend him””’
The Truth
March 22nd, 2012
9:41 am
Will they also be protesting Bill Maher for his rants about Sarah Palin that were a lot worse then what Rush called the young lady? Will they run a tv ad and ask HBO to remove Maher from their network? No, I did not think so because in a liberal world and mind it is OK to be a racist or sexist as long as you vote democrat.
sheepdawg
March 22nd, 2012
9:42 am
Rush appeals only to people just like him. None of them are worth the time and effort to address. Just allow them to die and go away as our population progresses to a more intelligent level.
Listen up!
March 22nd, 2012
9:42 am
@Calliope, its much easier for them to have someone else tell them what she said than to actually have to read it! Don’t want facts to get in the way of Rush and crew!
Dave
March 22nd, 2012
9:42 am
The Conservative Right tea baggers has drifted so far from reality they have more in common with the Taliban when its about Women.
The Truth
March 22nd, 2012
9:44 am
gm
March 22nd, 2012
9:41 am
Once again for the mis informed Hanniy viewers: Bill Maher is a paid comedian who goes on tour to be funny and insult people, you have never seen him at Dem events or saying he represent Dem.
And here is your liberal hypocrisy at work. Maher is a mouth piece for the dems who just gave a million dollars to Obama for his campaign and this nut wants to make it look like he is being funny. Nice try, people with common sense don’t fall for it.
Steven Arp
March 22nd, 2012
9:44 am
She can be a slut as long as my tax dollars don’t pay for it . Rush was correct. We need more people to speak up. She can have an abortion as long as I don’t have to pay for it. Wake up America before it’s too late. At worst we have 4 more years of this crap, God stay with us, we are gonna need your continued support. Not all of us have turned our backs on you. Obama wants you out.
The Truth
March 22nd, 2012
9:46 am
Dave, to say you are a moron would be a dis-service to the morons of America. The majority of which lives on the left. You break the mold in your racist rant.
Junior Samples
March 22nd, 2012
9:46 am
i am glad obama called her and got that worked out. it was so important to the surviaval of this country.
gm
March 22nd, 2012
9:48 am
The Truth
Hey fox misinformed nut job:
Maher is a paid comedian who goes on tour to be funny and insult people, you have never seen him at Dem events or saying he represent Dem.
What part of that dont you far right nut job understand?
Randy
March 22nd, 2012
9:48 am
Different rules for Liberals ( “progressives” now ).
Phillip Castleberry
March 22nd, 2012
9:49 am
Dems and libs are just plain ignorant.
Buck Hayek
March 22nd, 2012
9:49 am
Fat Rush is the Archie Bunker of today. Uneducated, ignorant, and proud of it.
And millions of fans.
The Truth
March 22nd, 2012
9:50 am
gm
March 22nd, 2012
9:48 am
The Truth
Hey fox misinformed nut job:
Maher is a paid comedian who goes on tour to be funny and insult people, you have never seen him at Dem events or saying he represent Dem.
What part of that dont you far right nut job understand?
Once again little boy, nice try. When you become an adult come back and join the discussion. A C C O U N T A B I L I T Y, I know you can not spell it or define it. You are liberal.
racer
March 22nd, 2012
9:52 am
Galloway which liberal rag of a newspaper signs your pay check?
JB
March 22nd, 2012
9:53 am
As my right, I boycott sponsors of Bill Maher. Letterman.Conehead and Ed Shultz radio, just say’n. to be fair
Astropig
March 22nd, 2012
9:54 am
Rush is controversial and sometimes way too bombastic,but he’s much better,more professional and well prepped than our own local wanna be Rush-Neil Boortz. It’s literally hard to listen to Boortz try to stumble through a three hour show when he has clearly not prepared by reading,studying or even becoming passingly familiar with what he’s pontificating on during any given day. I’m not talking about Neil’s opinions-I am in general agreement with them. But it’s the half baked,college radio texture of his show that has become a major tune out. Its all cliche stuff that he has been doing for years and now his old recycled phrases are just a crutch for him to cash a paycheck.He’s mailing it in and it shows. Rush went through that phase himself back in ‘01-’02-’03 and it was painful to hear. he turned it around and now he’s back on his game (as evidenced by this attempt to get rid of him). but Neil…Well,Neil,you may want to spend more time prepping and less time hitting the Senior Early Bird Specials around Naples.
gm
March 22nd, 2012
9:54 am
The Truth
Do we need to start listing the people that gave money to Rep party? the Koch brothers backed the rep party, and the dirty money they have given to terrorist group do your research”””
Name one Dem event you have ever seen Maher? I guess all comedians who are dem, Obama is responsible for? Rush the slob has been given awards for his work in the rep far nut wing party
John
March 22nd, 2012
9:56 am
You have to laugh at the looney left. They’re going to protest Rush but all it will do is increase his listenership! I Love it!!!
Dave
March 22nd, 2012
9:57 am
The Truth: OK your reaction to the exaggerated statement about the Far Right views on Women is comparable to the lefts reaction on Limbaugh..So who wins…Nobody!
Becky
March 22nd, 2012
9:58 am
Did you ever notice when someone can’t produce facts to prove their point they result to name calling? This seems to be a republican problem most of the time.
Ol' Timer
March 22nd, 2012
9:58 am
Rush is an entertainer and has made a gazillion dollars being provocative. But the disgusting thing it that so many find his tripe entertaining. I guess it says more about the public than it does him.
Jeff
March 22nd, 2012
10:01 am
Health Insurance cost are high enough now, If the insurance companies are forced to include birth control pills or other means then that is just more cost added to the bottom line.
The left seems to think that insurance is some magic pot of money that a big greedy company does not want to spend. That shows how foolish these people are. Insurance is a pool were we shift a small amount of risk (premium) to be pooled with millions of others in a similar class to form the pool. When too much money comes out of the pool the rates must go up. The insurance company is resposible and obligated to keep the pool as solvent as possible to protect the millions of policy holders it has in the class. I for one do not want my rates to go up to pay for someones birthcontrol cost, it is that simple. When the left screams it is for the health and welfare of women that is a lie. They just want something else to be paid for by others.
Becky
March 22nd, 2012
10:03 am
Jeff-hun, you do understand that birth control theoretically prevents pregnancy and therefore one’s insurance coverage does not pay for pregancy and birth?
Buck Hayek
March 22nd, 2012
10:04 am
Birth control pills cost an insurer a lot less than a birth and baby do. You won’t see an insurance actuary complaining about the “cost” of birth control.
Oh, and Fat Rush is a bigot too. He has the Archie Bunker thing down perfectly.
AtlJack
March 22nd, 2012
10:05 am
In a televised interview, Limbaugh admitted he had been fired seven times in seven year. He simply wanted to get an audience so he could keep a job.
He chose to appeal to the lowest part of the market: mean, ignorant, angry, full of hate, bigoted.
Others like Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and Neal Boortz saw this strategy and simply followed it (toning it down to fit their markets).
Boortz has become very wealthy dividing the nation convincing small minds to hate other Americans.
Look at the posts from his admirers. Small minded. Full of hate. Ignorant.
Don't Tread
March 22nd, 2012
10:06 am
Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are hoping no one listens to Bill Maher – they’d become irrelevant overnight.
The left is always looking for ways to silence those who don’t agree with them. Anyone remember Obama attempting to shut Fox News out of the press pool? Then there was the discussion about non-renewal of Fox’s FCC license. I’m sure the OWS crowd will begin gathering around the conservative talk radio station buildings with torches and pitchforks any day now.
DannyX
March 22nd, 2012
10:07 am
“As my right, I boycott sponsors of Bill Maher.”
Which sponsors are those JB?
Buck Hayek
March 22nd, 2012
10:08 am
Jeff is a conservative. Like Santorum his real objection is to recreational sex.
‘Sex is for procreatin’ only’ —- saith the Holy Scraps of Paper.
john k
March 22nd, 2012
10:08 am
Jeff, you’re correct. It’s silly to think that health insurance should pay for health care.
bronco
March 22nd, 2012
10:08 am
The man was just telling it like it was…The law student was on spring break in California last week, that cost a lot of money, who paid for that. Maybe you people, who hate Rush, would like to pay for her trip too so she can have more fun and sleep around
findog
March 22nd, 2012
10:08 am
Randy, I don’t follow your logic.
You don’t like a liberal’s statements then start a boycott of the advertisers for his program. Where is the double standard? I hear Fox News slamming inappropriate liberal speech just as harshly as MSNBC does inappropriate conservative speech.
Liberal’s pushed Imus off the air. Advertisers brought him back. Free speech and free enterprise working simultaneously. What’s the problem?
timbo
March 22nd, 2012
10:09 am
Again, the right HAS NOT waged a war on women. This whole game was created by the left and their willing accomplices in the media. They do not want to talk about Obama’s record, so they have created this fake ‘war on women’. The left and the media absolutely know beyond a shadow of a doubt that they can’t win in November on Obama’s record, so they have created this fake outrage. Look how the left treated Monica Lewinsky, Paula Jones, Kathleen Wiley and others. The left is getting nervous about November, and they are getting more and more desperate. For proof, cruise on over to Jay Bookman’s blog. Those folks over there are just down right delusional.
gm
March 22nd, 2012
10:09 am
Sean Hannity 3 times college drop out, Rush Limbaugh high school drop out, former DJ have made billions off the low self esteem losers on the far right promoting hate and putting fear in the minds of the public.
If you asked half of the dem who the hell is Bill Maher they would have no clue, that is the difference between the two.
Becky
March 22nd, 2012
10:11 am
Why is it the talk radio hosts the most filled with hate are the ugliest? Why can’t they look like Johnny Depp if we have to look at their pictures as evidenced by the photo of the bloated one on this blog? The saying “has a face for radio” is just so true.
DannyX
March 22nd, 2012
10:12 am
“Anyone remember Obama attempting to shut Fox News out of the press pool?”
Obama gave Fox News a permanent front row seat in the White House press room.
I do remember Governor Deal (Republican) kicking out a Fox 5 news reporter and photographer from an event.
markie mark
March 22nd, 2012
10:12 am
For all of you so offended by what Limbaugh said, where were you when Ed Schultz (of MSNBC) call Laura Ingraham a right wing slut? Where was the outrage then? Where were you when the “women” of THE VIEW laughed at it?
You want to know the REAL difference? When Ed Schultz apologized, Ms. Ingraham was adult enough to accept it…..what about Ms.Fluke? …hardly….
WHAT? You didnt hear about it? Maybe because no left wing outlet (and yes, that includes ABC, CBS, NBC, et al ran MAJOR news stories on it….
for those who missed it….
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/when-i-was-called-slut-barbara-walters-just-laughed-laura-ingraham-slams-the-view-on-double-standard/
Becky
March 22nd, 2012
10:12 am
timbo-sugar. Women in this country remember and we outnumber you ignorant a$$e$.
Atlantan
March 22nd, 2012
10:12 am
Someone ask that hissy fit prone David Brock about his attack on Anita Hill. Media Matters is astroturf as the come. If they really cared they’d also being go after rap stars for their misogynistic music. Once again this has been educational how the left has selected manufactured outrage and is a movement based hypocrisy.
Where were you Limbaugh attackers defending Paula Jones, Linda Tripp & Sarah Palin?
markie mark
March 22nd, 2012
10:13 am
Becky, I have watched your posts on this issue…why dont you comment on Ed Schultz doing the same thing? And Ingraham accepting his apology?
gm
March 22nd, 2012
10:14 am
Don’t Tread
Name one event or one cause Rush the scum has got up behind his mic and went to the streets and took up a cause? I am still waiting
Al Sharpton dont just talk he goes out and take a stand, Rush uses low self esteem whites (tea party) to do the work while he collects millions you people loved being pimped
Becky
March 22nd, 2012
10:15 am
I recall Ed Schultz was suspended. Next!
Bruce Benedict
March 22nd, 2012
10:15 am
Unlike the prissy effeminate individual currently occupying the white house or any other powerful people in DC, Rush does not pose a threat to anyone’s freedom or liberty. The left in this country would prefer that any opposing voices be shut down because they want to control the information, and ultimately the people in this country. Well you know what? It’s not going to happen. Freedom loving Americans will overcome and beat back the powers of marxism, and it will start in November. All you pathetic liberal whiny losers are going to have to step aside and let real men run the country again.
WOW
March 22nd, 2012
10:16 am
@ findog
You are exactly right! This is free speech and free enterprise interesecting. If Media Matters wants to put pressure on Limbaugh’s advertisers then let them go ahead. I seem to remember Bill O’Reilly getting Pepsi to drop Ludacris a few years back. Its the same thing. If Bozell and his crew want to go after Maher then let them.
What is the problem?
Becky
March 22nd, 2012
10:17 am
Well Brucie-you are in for a big surprise. And poor you with that unfortunate name your momma gave you. LOL!
Highlands
March 22nd, 2012
10:17 am
Becky, me refusing to pay for your birth control pills does NOT deny you access to birth control; you still can purchase as much as you would like (you just have to pay for it yourself). That, quite simply, is why Sandra Fluke is a liar and the media are nothing but ministers of propaganda. She also claimed her pills cost $1000/year…um, can she only take them with Beluga caviar? Lies, lies, and more lies make you a LIAR.
dawgfan
March 22nd, 2012
10:17 am
One of these days when the United States is no longer the most powerful and prosperous nation in the world and everyone is trying to figure out why all they have to do is come and read blogs like this.
That’s all I’ve got to say about that.
timbo
March 22nd, 2012
10:17 am
Becky,
You are delusional. The women who are ‘offended’ by Rush, or anyone on the right, were NEVER going to vote for a Republican. The smart women who vote Republican see through this BS, and they also vote.
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
10:17 am
Sad how libtards act like an angry mob. I will boycott any company that boycotts Limbaugh.
WOW
March 22nd, 2012
10:18 am
@ Markie Mark
Mr. Schultz’s remarks about Ms. Ingraham were said once, he appologized, was suspended, and has not repeated them. I think Rush ranted about Ms. Fluke for a couple of days…
Listen up!
March 22nd, 2012
10:18 am
@Timbo, so all of the legislation that has been put in place to make changes to women’s reproductive rights…are you saying that the democrats made the republicans introduce all this? The Blunt-Rubio bill? Are the democrats now ventriliquist or puppetmasters making the republicans write all these bills?
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
10:19 am
Only libtards can call people offensive names.
jj
March 22nd, 2012
10:19 am
I find it interesting that those people I know that troll the internet and jump on the boycott bandwagon are predominately those that have no jobs, have no disposable income, have not and most likely will not be a customer of any of the companies that they pressure into removing their advertisements from various shows. One day the companies will realize this and the boycott from the vocal no buyers will do nothing… until then, I don’t complain, just stop buying from the chickens that pull adverstising.
DannyX
March 22nd, 2012
10:19 am
“All you pathetic liberal whiny losers are going to have to step aside and let real men run the country again.”
Exactly, we want our leaders to wear sweater vests and eat cheesy grits!!!!!
Kococo Brothar
March 22nd, 2012
10:21 am
Need I say Bill Maher!! He rountinely calls women $%%@!!!!, right wing white males $##@!!!, conservative black women #@@@!!!!!, and Media matters is sponsered by George Soros a convicted felon and anti-American, Capitalist nut. Bill Maher also critizes those that profess their belief in God and call them ^#@! minded!!! UY@@!@##@!!!! on his show HBO.
Where is the consistancy of liberals, they say nothing about their left lunny toons
timbo
March 22nd, 2012
10:21 am
@ Listen Up
Monica Lewinsky
Paula Jones
Kathleen Wiley
‘Nuff said.
Becky
March 22nd, 2012
10:22 am
I am so embarrassed for you all.
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
10:22 am
Can we conservatives just have the pacific Northwest and Alaska and the libtards have everything else and we form two seperate countries? I mean its obvios that libtards will not rest until we ar elike Europe….grey, sterile looking and Godless
Pete
March 22nd, 2012
10:22 am
Rush has a First Amendment right to free speech. His advertisers also have a right to pull the plug on their ads if they don’t like what he says. He can continue to say his trash, exaggerations, and lies all he wants, but they don’t have to support it. Will all these protests do any good? Probably not. Rush, scarily, has too big of a following for him to be taken off the air
don
March 22nd, 2012
10:23 am
What did Limbaugh say about Fluke that, though offensive in the eyes of the politically correct Nazis, wasn’t true?
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
10:24 am
@Kococo….only the left can name call. The right must keep queit or else the SS libtards will raise such a stink that we will do whatever they want just to get the smell away from us.
Conservatives use thick skins and intelligent arguements to get their points accross. Libtards use stinky loud hippies to occupy govt buildings (Wisconsin) and public areas.
timbo
March 22nd, 2012
10:25 am
Becky,
You have been played by the leftist media and your liberal leaders. That really is sad. Maybe one day you will wake up and see it, but probably not.
Pete
March 22nd, 2012
10:25 am
Highlands, if you want to deny women birth control through their insurance, then you and I as men should not have our Viagra covered either.
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
10:25 am
@Pete…his spnsors have a right to pull the ads and I have a right to pull my business for them doing so.
Pete the Dog
March 22nd, 2012
10:25 am
Correction to the above article: It was not a congressional hearing. It was a glorified press conference set up by the Democrats made to look like a congressional hearing. Rush apologized for his remark. All these left wing hacks can do is ask for civility. No apology from anyone of them
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
10:26 am
Pete….I agree with you. Lets take birth control and Viagra off the table and pay for it ourselves.
Pete
March 22nd, 2012
10:27 am
And when bith control is no longer covered, we will have more accidental pregnancies, more abortions, more kids on welfare, more high school dropouts, more fatherless kids, more crime, etc. etc., etc.
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
10:28 am
This libtard who said she needed 3 grand to cover her rubbers is an advocate for insurance covering sex changes too. This lady is a leftist libtard with an agenda. She has “friends” who need the pill for health reasons.
timbo
March 22nd, 2012
10:28 am
Funny that liberals want the government out of their bedrooms, but expect the government to pay for what goes on in their bedrooms.
kerryb
March 22nd, 2012
10:30 am
I live in Macon and Media Matters can kiss my a**.
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
10:31 am
Hey Pete….I have a better way of stopping “accidental pregnancies” then having everyone pay for rubbers through insurabce….get rid of entitlements to people having babies they cannot afford.
The argument of abortions and welfare babies is not solved by pill coverage.. its solved bu entitlement reform.
gm
March 22nd, 2012
10:31 am
timbo
Funny how the right hates gov but are standing in line to get unemploment checks, va, checks, medicare ssi, and lets not forgot when a storm comes thru their hand is out for fema.
Becky
March 22nd, 2012
10:31 am
timbo-I imagine your beer swilling cheeto eating lifestyle is contributing to my healthcare cost going up. Please stop.
And Phil-no one is taking you seriously with your “handle”. are you still in grade school thinking you are so clever?
Tex
March 22nd, 2012
10:31 am
This woman is a complete floozy to be discussing her reproductive issues on Capitol Hill. She must be an exhibitionist. Rush is right. He will still be in Palm Beach in a mansion long after this hag has left the building. She will be camping with Cindy Sheehan before you know it.
WOW
March 22nd, 2012
10:32 am
@ Phil McGroin
“Conservatives use thick skins and intelligent arguements to get their points accross. Libtards use stinky loud hippies to occupy govt buildings (Wisconsin) and public areas.”
Funny that all your posts have name calling in them??? Now that’s what I call intelligent arguments…
findog
March 22nd, 2012
10:33 am
Jeff, wake up, most states require birth control be provided as part of any basic plan sold in there state. This is not a new issue, it is just made up to create a challenge to the new health care law that has not even gone into effect yet.
Get off the decaf and do try to keep up…
John K, going after college kids on spring break now? Sir have you sense of decency?
VA/DC/MD
March 22nd, 2012
10:33 am
Rush is half retarded with that ear piece and he has the nerve to make fun and say stuff like that. Eventually that hate he has will catch up with him *Hint* Breibart
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
10:34 am
Is it really progressive when you cannot be called a slut and turn the other cheek?
gm
March 22nd, 2012
10:34 am
Looking at this, now we know why this state and Sc are the only idiots of conservatives in the USA that voted for Newt.
john k
March 22nd, 2012
10:34 am
findog, what the H*** are you talking about?
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
10:34 am
If this libtard wanted insurance to pay for healthcare maybe she should have attended a school thats not a catholic based school and research which schools paid for rubbers.
Becky
March 22nd, 2012
10:36 am
Phil-has anyone other than yourself?
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
10:36 am
@WOW….what is wrong with libtards….It saves me the time of using Liberal Retards.
markie mark
March 22nd, 2012
10:38 am
yes, Becky….next my a$$. Ed was suspended because he worked for a network….Limbaugh is self syndicated….nice attempt at dodging, but you didnt bother to address the question. HINT – it wasnt what happened to Ed at work…..
timbo
March 22nd, 2012
10:38 am
gm,
Who said the right hates the government? We would just like it to be smaller and more efficient.
Becky,
Showing your ignorance again. If that is your level of aptitude, you wouldn’t qualify to vote Republican.
Highlands
March 22nd, 2012
10:39 am
Hey Pete I don’t need Viagra (yet), but good luck buddy. If it helps get your motor cranking again, I agree that an insurance company shouldn’t be forced to pay for ED meds, either.
I’m hoping that Becky moves to someplace like Saudi Arabia somebay soon so that she can see what REAL oppression of women looks like, since she’s obviously not smart enough to see how good things are here.
Listen up!
March 22nd, 2012
10:39 am
Uh, Timbo…you didn’t say anything! What does that have to do with legislation passed?
BigAintheBigA
March 22nd, 2012
10:39 am
Rush is right. Most conservatives are outraged at the blatant attacks on our core values and institutions. He saw Fluke for the tool she is and called her a couple of pertinent names that shouldn’t have been aired publicly. He apologized, take it or leave it, and the left’s politically correct propaganda machine rolls on. Didn’t Rahm Emanuel say something to the effect of “never let a crisis go to waste”? Actually nothing to see here but Media Matters and their minions going full retard on another conservative institution. Knock yourself out. We will not be silenced.
northfultonite
March 22nd, 2012
10:39 am
Rush is a loser. Anyone who labels a woman as a feminazi for standing up for themselves, is a complete tool. I’m sick of the culture in this country in regards to women. Rush wants to call this lady a slut, but isn’t that what women are encouraged to be in this country?? Our culture tells us that women have no value if were not considered “hot.” How many times have we heard I would vote for Sarah Palin and not Hillary Clinton cause she’s “hot.” As one d-bag male said, “she’s a candidate I could really get behind.” Young women rarely aspire to do anything except look pretty, because that is all our culture values. It’s a shame. Women need to start standing up for themselves. If these PIGS want to call us sluts, and not give a crap about our healthcare then maybe we should just cut them all off. No sex for you. Not like your schlong is any better than a battery powered device anyway.
Becky
March 22nd, 2012
10:40 am
And once again when their point can’t be defended they resort to name calling.
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
10:41 am
Can any leftist answer why someone who is obviously is such dire financeial need to have insurance pay for birth control chose a grad school that does not have insurance plans to cover it….and even further has a value system set away from it?
It would be like me going to a Muslim university and whining cause they don’t sell pork BBQ at the campus cafeteria.
markie mark
March 22nd, 2012
10:41 am
WOW……and there was ABSOLUTELY no outrage at Mr Shultz from the people screamng now…..and as far as reported, Limbaugh said that once…..no one has aired a clip of him doing it more than once from what I have seen….
and you still make the point….there was no outcry from the left, the women on The VIEW LAUGHED……you guys are so two faced….
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
10:42 am
Northfultonite….this lady was not some random person standing up for themselves…this lady was a BIG TIME activist. She has pushed for insurance to cover sex changes in the past….next.
Highlands
March 22nd, 2012
10:43 am
“I’m so embarrassed for all of you.” Hey Becky, where’s the substantive point there? The policy? The fact? Don’t hurt yourself falling down off that high horse, Miss.
andy@hgi1.com
March 22nd, 2012
10:44 am
Media Matters is a “far left” operation financed by George Soros. I don’t recall them attacking Maher when he used to “C” word to describe Palen. Anything this group puts out has no credibility with most citizens only the far left loones.
timbo
March 22nd, 2012
10:45 am
Listen Up
Why don’t you educate us all on this so-called legislation that you speak of.
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
10:45 am
I am just amazed how ignorant progressive really are. I mean they ACTUALLY think this lady speaking before this democratic committee was just some random constituent with an opinion on the topic. This lady is a 30+ year old activist. A career student.
Ben The Independent
March 22nd, 2012
10:46 am
I’m sure the anti-Rush battle will go well in my home town of Macon, GA. Macon was a progressive, proud city as I was growing up but in later years has become an embarassment to the state. I hope Macon will recover in coming years as I watch from afar.
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
10:46 am
George Soros the felon?
timbo
March 22nd, 2012
10:47 am
Becky is whining again. Can someone get her a Midol please?
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
10:49 am
Libs want to look the other way when Obama hangs with multiple radicals, as Maher trashes women and men alike, as dem leaders embarass themselves and their families, as govt infringes on every aspect of our lives and then they jump mon conservatives for a comment on an entertainment show that was A) tongue in cheek and B) enlightening us on the situation
George
March 22nd, 2012
10:49 am
Rush in Georgia he should feel right at home.
findog
March 22nd, 2012
10:51 am
gm, he’s the guy who got his start in a soft porn movie based on pizza delivery
Phil McG ergo you are liberal?
jj, isn’t that a country song, friends in low places
jkd
March 22nd, 2012
10:53 am
Fred ™
March 22nd, 2012
9:40 am
she wants it covered 100% by insurance companies – kind of sounds like for free
Marko
March 22nd, 2012
10:53 am
@Calliope – There are very few insurance companies that provide coverage for Viagra. It’s a talking point the left started that has little basis in fact.
JB
March 22nd, 2012
10:56 am
Becky, now that is rich…………….I wish we could get Obama to talk facts………..Not lies……..The most thinned skinned President ever……….And way over his head……..He hasn’t a clue.
Becky
March 22nd, 2012
10:57 am
jb-what on earth are you talking about now?
timbo
March 22nd, 2012
10:58 am
Obama is now blaming Fox News for his 41% approval rating ….because they call him a Muslim 24/7. Waaaaaaa!!!!!!
Listen up!
March 22nd, 2012
11:00 am
@Timbo
1. House Bill 2625 is expected to expand the current religious exemption in Arizona’s contraceptive mandate to include all employers who have a religious objection to providing contraceptives in their health plans, allowing employers to impose their religious beliefs on to their employees, and more specifically, their female employees.
2. House Bill 462 essentially would have required that an ultrasound be done with a vaginal probe. Gov. Bob McDonnell pushed for an amendment and the signed law calls for an abdominal ultrasound.
3. I am not a supporter of abortion but a very bad and terrible bill – spurred by the narrow-minded zealots who I openly loathe – has wormed its way into the Tennessee Legislature and before our state lawmakers vote on House Bill 3808 tomorrow, I am praying that cool heads and tender hearts will carefully examine the proposed “Life Defense Bill of 2012.” – Rep. Matthew Hill, R-Jonesborough
Timbo, I am sure I can find more. But since you seem to not think any existed, I just gave you a snippet! Reading is fundamental!
JB
March 22nd, 2012
11:00 am
I’m sorry Becky ( notice apology) I was reading a post of yours from page 1. Have a blessed day.
findog
March 22nd, 2012
11:00 am
John, do you read your own posts? You’re jumping on the lady for going on spring break. Please, do try to keep up with what you post.
Hey Phil, they did until they could cry that Obamacare was anti-religious; and didn’t Saint Sister Sarah say that you cannot use the “r-word” in public discourse?
Timbo, please provide one instance in the years the GOP ran the entire federal government when they made it smaller and more efficient.
DannyX
March 22nd, 2012
11:00 am
“He hasn’t a clue.”
Speaking of which, JB when are you going to post a list of the Bill Maher sponsors you are boycotting?
john k
March 22nd, 2012
11:02 am
findog, I did not say one single word about her going on spring break. Not one. Not a single word.
JB
March 22nd, 2012
11:02 am
I called a friend of mine in Gulfport Mississippi after I read that 53% thought Obama was a Muslim in his state and was shocked. He told me he was shocked it was that low.
JB
March 22nd, 2012
11:03 am
Dannyx…………..I do it by not PAYING for HBO. How’s that for a boycott.
Jason
March 22nd, 2012
11:04 am
It is simply unreal that Limbaugh got caught red-handed lying to his listeners, and they continue to defend him.
Independent
March 22nd, 2012
11:05 am
Rush Limbaugh has done more damage to this country than any single individual in our history. He spreads lies and propaganda, much like Goebblels did in Nazi Germany. Apparently there are two or three million people who are brain-washed, like I used to be, by his rhetoric. An evil person like Limbaugh should be silenced by the good people of this country. And I hope it happens sooner rather than later.
JB
March 22nd, 2012
11:05 am
Jason……………Have you fact checked this President? Just wondering.
john k
March 22nd, 2012
11:07 am
finddog, why don’t you look back and see who posted that, and then keep up with, and try to make sense of what you read.
lliberalefty
March 22nd, 2012
11:09 am
RUSH is just an insecure white man whose easily intimidated by black men so he lashes out at blacks due to his fear and hatred of black men…typical gop white male….
DannyX
March 22nd, 2012
11:10 am
“How’s that for a boycott”
You still haven’t listed the Bill Maher sponsors you are boycotting. You are just like Rush, nothing but hot air. How’s your Michael J Fox impersonation?
Listen up!
March 22nd, 2012
11:11 am
@Timbo…here’s something else the puppetmaster democrats are obviously making the republicans do (with the exception of Scott Brown and a couple of other repubs):
In 1994, Congress stood together and passed the Violence Against Women Act, which provides grant money for police departments and agencies to aid victims and prosecute domestic violence offenders.
The law, which is up for re-authorization, is facing opposition from many Republicans who believe Democrats included language which would extend protections for tribal Native Americans, undocumented immigrants and same-sex couples, to politicize the typically bipartisan re-authorization
Independent
March 22nd, 2012
11:12 am
And by the way “Conservatives”. He flunked out of college after one semester, is a convicted drug addict, has had four failed marriages, has never held political office (and these are the things that we know about) yet wrote a book titled “The Way Things Ought To Be”. I’m not necessarily and Obama supporter, but he’s 100 times the man that Limbaugh is.
plow
March 22nd, 2012
11:13 am
Oh yeah, Rush is a big fat idiot.
Real American
March 22nd, 2012
11:14 am
Rush is a liar, drug addict with erectile dysfunction issues, which probably make him lash out at people more than normal. However, why can’t he go to satellite and really test his free market principles? Won’t his listeners be willing to pay to listen to him? Outta 20 million, it wouldn’t be a problem, right?
plow
March 22nd, 2012
11:14 am
Is everyone in the South and inbred idiot?
OSAMA
March 22nd, 2012
11:14 am
@JB
yeah OBAMA is a chump….i dont like him either
findog
March 22nd, 2012
11:14 am
so sorry John, got you confused with Bronco
please accept this heartfelt apology
liberalefty
March 22nd, 2012
11:15 am
conservative christians love this obese convicted junkie…
southern royalty
March 22nd, 2012
11:16 am
A bit off topic…..but didn’t Rush promise to leave the country if President Obama won back in 2008? What happened with that!!?? I say….”make him apologize for getting our hopes up!”
Transcript
March 22nd, 2012
11:16 am
I find it interesting how few people have actually read the transcript of Fluke’s testimony. But then I remembered, very few people like to discuss facts when it is more fun to jump on a bandwagon.
calliope
March 22nd, 2012
11:16 am
Enter your comments here
liberalefty
March 22nd, 2012
11:18 am
he sees OBAMA , a fit healthy black man in the white house and it makes him angry since hes old fat and cant get it up”,not to mention almost deaf…OBAMA like other black men makes RUSH feel insecure..
john k
March 22nd, 2012
11:18 am
Water under the bridge, finddog.
Atlantan
March 22nd, 2012
11:18 am
@independent – you don’t get out much do you? Please share with us all the Limbaugh lies and propaganda
Jeff H.
March 22nd, 2012
11:19 am
I just had to laugh at the Limbaugh impersonator here that says birth control is immoral after calling the left ‘looney’.
You are the nutjob.
john k
March 22nd, 2012
11:20 am
Transcript, that’s what I find funny too. They just want to be obedient & blind little dittoheads, and stick with whatever their Oxycontin addled blowhard tells them to believe.
liberalefty
March 22nd, 2012
11:21 am
RUSH makes insecure white males feel good about being a failure…they blame their failures on OBAMA,BLACKS,HISPANIC,WOMEN,GAYS, ETC….
honested
March 22nd, 2012
11:25 am
This problem could be fixed by eliminating the ‘expense’ deduction for ALL advertising.
Then, the public at large would not be paying the freight for the wrong-wing-rant-radio parasites.
The only reason I ever listen to talk-radio is to keep my boycott list current so my customers can keep current as well.
catlady
March 22nd, 2012
11:25 am
Is that a large hair growning out of Rush’s ear?
HENRY
March 22nd, 2012
11:26 am
GIVE ‘EM HELL, RUSH….WE LOVE YOU BECAUSE YOU TELL IT LIKE IT IS AND SCREW THE DEMOCRATS THAT HATE EVERYTHING……………
DannyX
March 22nd, 2012
11:26 am
Speaking of morals…
Why would Limbaugh need Viagra while traveling with 4 other guys during a trip to the Dominican Republic?
calliope
March 22nd, 2012
11:31 am
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1895
the above article may help some of you realize that if this radio voice does not have a good story, he will MAKE ONE UP. but even as I post this, i know in my heart that there are many who will not or cannot read it..they will lead their lives based upon what someone says.. even if it is not true. i was in education for 30 years, many of which were in poverty areas..the people were often wonderful and kind, but the things they believed were beyond me…there were parents who believed pregnancy could result from a girl using the toilet after a boy had used it. there were kids who believed snakes would seek revenge on you, there was a preacher who was so ignorant he said dinosaurs were “made up” in california to trick us into thinking the Bible was a lie. they had heard it from someone they trusted..well that is exactly what is going on here. instead of researching and checking facts, people are just trusting in this radio announcer as if he were the preacher. they are being tricked and taken advantage of and it is sad, because many who believe in what he says are actually good people. they are just ignorant and the radio voice simply preys on them.
levite
March 22nd, 2012
11:33 am
Does anyone else see the irony of HENRY’S last comment?
Listen up!
March 22nd, 2012
11:37 am
@Calliope, I was about to post Sandra Fluke’s actual testimony as well. However, I decided not too because they won’t read it! It’s much easier for them to have someone tell them a lie and believe it true than to read and know the truth for themselves!
Joe Mama
March 22nd, 2012
11:47 am
Markie Mark — “For all of you so offended by what Limbaugh said, where were you when Ed Schultz (of MSNBC) call Laura Ingraham a right wing slut? Where was the outrage then? Where were you when the “women” of THE VIEW laughed at it?”
“You want to know the REAL difference? When Ed Schultz apologized, Ms. Ingraham was adult enough to accept it…..what about Ms.Fluke? …hardly….”
Actually, the REAL difference is that Ed Schultz apologized unreservedly, called his own actions “wrong” and said that he dishonored himself, his family and his employer by what he did. Rush’s mealymouthed non-apology consisted of him saying that he’d ‘chosen the wrong words’ and didn’t once say “I’m sorry” or anything approaching it.
The real difference is also that Ed Schultz got a week’s suspension for his misdeeds. Rush was back on the air the next day and doubled down on his BS.
I guess that’s why conservatives and Republicans from George F. Will to Ron Paul have rejected Rush’s bulldada ‘apology’ and have called for him to issue a REAL one.
Georgia, The " New Mississippi "
March 22nd, 2012
11:47 am
Macon is a part of Bibb County. It is loaded with GOP Simpletons like Erik Erickson. His program rating may actually go up in Macon.
gsueagle
March 22nd, 2012
11:55 am
GO RUSH! listening more than ever.
kreedham
March 22nd, 2012
12:01 pm
To Danny X..I think JB missed your point-that Maher has no advertisers since he’s on HBO. He then comes back with saying he boycotts by not getting HBO. Now if he dropped HBO because of Maher that might qualify but I suspect he didn’t have HBO to begin with!
In regards to George Soros…yes he gives to “left” causes primarily Center for American Progress, moveon.org and America Coming Together but there’s no record that I can find that he’s given to Media Matters. His contributions over the years have come to about $25 million while the Koch Brothers contributions to the Heritage Foundation and other conservative groups are around $100 million.
As far as Jim Galloway he may think left, I don’t know but he just publishes what’s in the news. Most of it these days happens to be on the right, a large portion of it just happens to show the crazy things they say or come up with.
As far as the comment on David Brock’s attack on Anita Hill…that was when he was a right winger before he saw the light. He has since apologized to her.
liberalefty
March 22nd, 2012
12:02 pm
insecure white males in GEORGIA hate blacks but love theyre GEORGIA BULLDOGS…
liberalefty
March 22nd, 2012
12:03 pm
@liberalefty 12:02
whoever u are u need to stop using my name…u must be an insecure white male who blames all his failures on someone else.
Refugee from Dikkksie (Thank God We Escaped)
March 22nd, 2012
12:10 pm
Give Bill Maher credit for coining the name by which the Southern Primaries will always be known: “Toothless Tuesday”
The Truth
March 22nd, 2012
12:11 pm
Anybody that would waste their time listening to a college drop-out drug addict like Rush Limbaugh doesn’t have a bit of common sense.
liberalefty
March 22nd, 2012
12:14 pm
@refugee
the most toothless region in the country is eastern KENTUCKY according to a segment on 20/20
gm
March 22nd, 2012
12:17 pm
To all the Limbaugh lovers who loved to be pimped:
Name one event or something he stood up for and went to the streets other then behind his mic? I am still waiting
liberalefty
March 22nd, 2012
12:19 pm
LIMBAUGH makes racists feel good about being a racist
limbagh says
March 22nd, 2012
12:22 pm
Why go to the streets when I can make millions spewing hate and make low self esteem tea party people do the work for me.
MyPatootie
March 22nd, 2012
12:23 pm
The writer of this article is typical of the one-sided view expressed by the liberal elite media, of which he is definitely a part of. Notice he concentrates on what RL said, but nary a word about what Bill Maher(Mr. DirtyMouth himself) said. This is the double-standard that has everyone’s attention(that is, anyone who PAYS attention).
calliope
March 22nd, 2012
12:26 pm
@Listen up! I understand. What I posted was an article in which the author had researched some of the radio show host’s claims and comments and found them to be blatantly false. Famous among these was his claim that Michael J. Fox was faking his Parkinson’s Disease..that Anita Hill pursued and dated Clarence Thomas. This article covers economic and global statistics as well as his famous AIDS/condoms debacle. It is a toheckwiththefacts, I am swami and I think i will say this today. And people eat it right up. Frightening is that people believe and are stirred to contempt and hatred by half-truths and all-out lies. But as the sweet ignorant folk used to say..”why you know it true..it say so on the radio.”
Hollis
March 22nd, 2012
12:28 pm
Keep up the good work, Rush!!!
gm
March 22nd, 2012
12:29 pm
Retards on the right, Bill Maher is a paid comedian who goes on tour, Chris Rock is a paid comdedian who also gets paid to go on tours.
Scum Limbaugh speaks at rep events, introduce rep at events, he has received awards at rep events, when will you idiots stop listening to 3 times college drop out Sean Hannity? and use common sense.
timbo
March 22nd, 2012
12:31 pm
Lets not focus on high unemployment, out of control spending, record high debt, problems in the Middle East, or high energy prices…..no, lets go after a talk radio host and this fake ‘war on women’.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
March 22nd, 2012
12:34 pm
So let me get this straight…
It’s OK to call for a boycott of MSNBC and ‘uphold you ability to vote with your dollars’ when they want to retaliate against things Al Sharpton and Ed Schultz have said..
But if Media Matters tries to organize a campaign for something Rush said to encourage people to vote with their dollars against him, that’s against the First Amendment and horrible?
Yeah, IOKIYAR.
Which is why arguing with conservatives is pointless. They don’t ‘DO’ introspection. They just do what they’re told.
Which is why this fight matters. Limbaugh is the the Pope of the Republican Church.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
March 22nd, 2012
12:36 pm
Note the focus on employment, spending, debt, middle east and energy when dealing with issues the Republicans don’t want broadcast, but its perfectly ok to have Voter ID (supression) laws, Pro Business (Union destroying) laws, Pro Life (Anti Women) laws etc.
Note the number of ‘jobs’ bills coming out Republican dominated legislatures. Yeah.
None.
IOKIYAR.
gm
March 22nd, 2012
12:38 pm
timbo
You mean like over 15 states have unemployment less then 8% or do you mean the out of controll spending of the last President with billions going to build up Iraq and not the USA.
How about the $4 gas Americans paid under Bush? funny how the rep were quiet on all these issues.
timbo
March 22nd, 2012
12:44 pm
Hey Aaron
What was unemployment when Obama took office? What is it now? What has it been for 3 years?
Voter ID suppression laws? So you are against someone showing an ID when they vote? That is sad.
Unions destroy businesses, that is just a fact that libs don’t understand. Look at the UAW.
Anti-women laws? Really? So you are also playing the ‘war on women’ game? Sham set up by the left and the leftist media, but they know their sheeple will follow them wherever they go.
timbo
March 22nd, 2012
12:51 pm
Hey gm,
When gas prices hit $4 per gallon under Bush, didn’t they come back down? Now we have an energy secretary admitting that lowering gas prices is not the goal of this administration. They would rather waste tax payer dollars on ‘green energy’ companies that are going bankrupt. Yeah, lets throw our money down that rat hole.
Funny that the left thinks 8% unemployment is an achievement on their part.
2012 will be the end of an error.
timbo
March 22nd, 2012
1:03 pm
So now we have Obama blaming someone else for Solyndra??? This food stamp president, community apologizer, and failed leader will never take responsibility for anything. I am shocked he hasn’t blamed Bush for this …….yet.
http://freebeacon.com/obama-on-solyndra-loan-this-was-not-our-program/
markie mark
March 22nd, 2012
1:12 pm
Joe…BEFORE ED apologized….there was NO Outrage on the left…by you or anyone else….and as I stated before, Limbaugh is self syndicated….he works for himself. Your premise is the Ed Schultz’s apology is sincere…..you are entitled to your opinion, but the facts are that Laura Ingraham graciously accepted it, even when the left was NOT OUTRAGED AT ALL…but you didnt bother to address that….
honested
March 22nd, 2012
1:14 pm
timbo,
You demonstrate that the ‘talking points’ work well with the underinformed.
You also show quite clearly how factual discourse is wasted on those who cannot see beyond the baseless talking points.
Here, I’ll prove my point, where are the imaginary WMD we wasted 5,000 American lives chasing?
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
1:19 pm
Nothing to see here. Obama has increased our deficit at an alarming rate, underemployment and unemployment are at too high a numbers (especially if unemployment was calculated correctly), billions wasted on alt energy startups for Al Gores pals, Afganistan is a quagmire, energy cost and food cost are moving up faster then raises, housing is in the toilet despite govt “aid”, welfare at an all time high. Millions of US dollars going to pay for gold toilet seats in Saudi palaces, racial divide at a clear high level, GM making crappy volts on taxpayer dime.
Nothing to see here…doing a great job.
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
1:21 pm
Again….no libtard has hypothesized why a career student picks a jesuit school to attend knowing that they have a religious stance against birthcontrol.
Kind of like me going to a rock concert and demanding they turn the music down.
Ima Media Slut
March 22nd, 2012
1:21 pm
I am the media. I only publish good news about the Obumbler Dumbocraps and bad news about the Repubs. In other words, I am a &^%%$ lying hypocrite!
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
1:22 pm
@GM….Rush took a stand outside of the microphone when he spoke at a fund raiser for the white AND black victims of the Missouri tornados.
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
1:23 pm
I like how Obama is speaking today about how he “championed” the pipeline deal. The repubs have been pushing that for months and years and he has been against it….until he saw polling numbers.
gm
March 22nd, 2012
1:26 pm
timbo
So now that we have Obama who won big in 2008 now we change the voter law thats been in place 200 years? I wonder why???/
I wonder why unemployment went up after the biggest economy crash since the greatest recession in our history, I wonder what President caused this?
gm
March 22nd, 2012
1:29 pm
Phil McGroin
Oh you mean those people that do not want governement but had their hands out for fema checks, I wonder did rush give some of those people some of his millions?
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
1:29 pm
but but but GM….Obama said if we passed the trillion dollar slush fund that unemployment would stay under 8%…what happened?
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
1:30 pm
GM….there is a BIG difference between getting a FEMA check from a natural disaster then getting a welfare check for each of you 10 kids.
I wonder how many of these welfare recipients have a smart phone.
honested
March 22nd, 2012
1:32 pm
phil,
Once the Supreme Court finds the ACA entirely Constitutional and within the bounds of the Interstate Commerce Clause, the whole argument will be moot.
When the next step occurs and ‘health care coverage’ can be purchased without the inclusion of a predatory for profit insurance parasite to skim 35% off the top, religious zealots will no longer have any reason to quibble about their failed ability to FORCE people into acceptance of a belief system.
HUMAN BEINGS will be able to GOT TO THE DOCTOR and receive whatever is deemed APPROPRIATE CARE and pay for it out of their PAYCHECKS without intrusion of any flat-earth morons.
What a concept.
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
1:33 pm
I wonder how many people without healthcare have satellite TVs, smart phones and internet?
Atlanta Native
March 22nd, 2012
1:34 pm
Dave- thanks for reminding me of Al Franken’s book, Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fats Idiot! I have a copy on my shelf; it’s a treasure. It is definitely a classic and a must-read! Al Franken was a man ahead of his time; he was among the first to boldly speak out against the Limbaugh idiocy, with facts and humor.
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
1:34 pm
“Forced” belief system???? How is it forced. Did Georgetown force this lady to attend their law school?
honested
March 22nd, 2012
1:35 pm
phil,
How many Americans get ‘welfare checks for each of their 10 kids?
How many over-fertile Americans get a tax deduction for each of their 10 kids?
In either case, as a proud TAXPAYER I get to contribute, and I would rather contribute to family planning.
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
1:35 pm
Al Franken of Air America?
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
1:36 pm
I could not care less how many kids someone has as long as they pay for them. What cost the taxpayer more? The tax exemption or the welfare checks, peachtree healthcare, food stamps?
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
1:38 pm
Still waiting on that study showing how many people without healthcare have smart phones. Surely Apple stock is not above 600 just because the people WITH healthcare have them.
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
1:39 pm
Still waiting on someone to educate me on why someone would go to georgetown knowing that Georgetown health plans do not cover rubbers.
honested
March 22nd, 2012
1:41 pm
phil,
Actually, what ‘costs more’ is the price of the pointless, mission-less aircraft we all pay to assemble daily in Marietta.
That cost alone dwarfs what we spend on assisting American Citizens.
But we need to be ready in case the Klingons come from the sky.
And, by the way, that’s Senator Al Franken.
Read his book on Lush Rimjob, you might learn a lot.
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
1:43 pm
You still never answered the original question honested. You original point was that overfertile tax deductions was similar to welfare for overfertile. Which cost more?
As far as building military jets, asked lord Chamberlain if he wished he had not been militarily complacent in the 1930s.
Joe Mama
March 22nd, 2012
1:44 pm
Markie Mark — “Joe…BEFORE ED apologized….there was NO Outrage on the left…by you or anyone else…”
Wrong. Schultz was ROUNDLY criticized by many people on the left. As for me, you don’t know anything about me or what I said and did. You don’t speak for the left and you certainly don’t speak for me.
“and as I stated before, Limbaugh is self syndicated….he works for himself.”
Wrong. Limbaugh may be self-syndicated, but he answers to his *show distributor,* Clear Channel, who cuts ad deals with advertisers. Mr. Limbaugh can produce all the shows he wants, but without a distribution deal, he might as well be a ham radio operator.
“Your premise is the Ed Schultz’s apology is sincere…..you are entitled to your opinion, but the facts are that Laura Ingraham graciously accepted it, even when the left was NOT OUTRAGED AT ALL…”
Wrong. But what’s worth noting is that *many* people on the right have expressed the view that Limbaugh’s so-called apology wasn’t sincere, George F. Will and Ron Paul being just two notable examples.
Look, Markie, we can both agree that Ed Schultz said and did something horrible. However, you seem to be using that as an *excuse* for Limbaugh’s actions. I don’t know how you were raised, but my parents taught me that “Jimmy did it too” was a lousy excuse when I was four of five years old, and that if I did something bad, I was going to get a paddling for it regardless of what Jimmy did or didn’t do. Mr. Limbaugh needs to man up and apologize for what he said without that mealymouthed ‘bad choice of words’ crap.
REAL men know how and when to apologize. Clearly Mr. Limbaugh never learned the details of that.
“but you didnt bother to address that….”
I don’t bother to address things that aren’t true. You don’t speak for “the left” and you don’t speak for me.
Real world
March 22nd, 2012
1:45 pm
GM maybe you need to do a little research about Bill Maher and the Democratic party http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/292831/alabama-democrats-use-bill-maher-fundraising
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
1:45 pm
So being a senator makes him smarter or more dignified? I persoanlly would be offended if someone equated my level of intelligence by saying I was in govt.
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
1:46 pm
….but stuart smalley the movie was great. LOL!
honested
March 22nd, 2012
1:47 pm
Atlanta Native,
I attempted to refer to chapter 37 of the book, but apparently the title of that chapter doesn’t make it past the sensors. However, the chapter references the man responsible for the law ushering in the ‘bush depression’. Hint: Gramm-Leach-Blilay.
Independent
March 22nd, 2012
1:48 pm
Honested, you’re a voice of reason in an unreasonable world. It’s unfortunate that, with all of the information available these days, some don’t have the capacity to absorb it. Like John Lennon sang….. “Imagine”.
honested
March 22nd, 2012
1:50 pm
phil,
The tax deduction on children more than the first two costs more because IT APPLIES TO MANY MORE PEOPLE.
The ‘Chamberlin’ comparison is bogus. The godawful expensive fighters currently being squeezed out in Marietta have NO MISSION (other than to keep displaced farmers employed and to keep saxby and johnny in a government job).
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
1:53 pm
John lennon the dead beat dad? Its amazing how john Lennon was deified for being a man of peace instead of villified for being a loser dad.
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
1:55 pm
So we do not need to spend as much money on military…is that it? Maybe we should pull the troops out of the quagmire in afganistan. I mean Obama lead us to victory in Iraq…why not Afganistan. Apparently mcCrystal knew something about a military leader.
Bill
March 22nd, 2012
1:59 pm
lets not forget her statement on a political litmus test on women’s issues…..
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
1:59 pm
So let me get this straight honested…..the 3k deduction for the tax payer with kids versus the welfare, peacthree care, foodstamps money to the non tax payer….I am failing to see how John Q taxpayer who on average has less kids gets more govt benefit the laquita J and Cletus R Welfare recipient.
honested
March 22nd, 2012
2:01 pm
phil,
I thought Betray Us was the grand master that would end the Afghan Fiasco?
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
2:03 pm
Is Petreaus the commander and cheif? I beleive his recommendations 2 years ago were only partially met by Obama and only after 30+ days of deliberation (reading polls).
honested
March 22nd, 2012
2:03 pm
phil,
How many people in America qualify for and receive the level of aid you specify?
What percentage of them are really named Buck or Junior?
Aaron Burr V Mexico
March 22nd, 2012
2:04 pm
@Phil McGroin – You mean like Newt being a womanizer, Limbaugh being a druggie and a hypocrite, Romney being a liar, Bush being a war criminal, Cheney advocating torture etc etc.
You will forgive YOUR side for anything but you attack anyone on the left for anything they ever did at any point in their life.
IOKIYAR. I’ve also noticed your use of the right wing tactic of distract distract distract. This was and is about the Republican Pope, who is a harbinger of hate and evil and allows the echo chamber to foster lethal and devilish ideas, many of which are lies and many of which you are espousing.
Re: The military. Ever notice how a veteran that talks about conservative causes is a patriot but a veteran that is a liberal is fair game to trash like Kerry, Cleland or any one running for congress, many of which are trashed by the Republican Pope Limbaugh?
Republicans don’t GET to talk about defense until they start treating liberal veterans with more respect. Answer THAT question Phil.
Prediction: You will bring up all kinds of false crap about Kerry and Cleland and refuse to acknowledge the shameful treatment of Republicans to liberal veterans.
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
2:04 pm
Again…still waiting on soemone who is progressive to tell this mouth breather why a girl would chose a law school that is based in Catholicism to supply her birth control?
honested
March 22nd, 2012
2:07 pm
phil,
Again, healthcare law is the law.
Superstition does not exempt any institution from provision of appropriate medical car.
If you don’t understand, I feel your pain, but your question has been answered.
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
2:08 pm
Aarron Burr how is Bush a war criminal? As for torturing, those neaderthal methods on those poor little terrorist led to Bin Laden right? As for Newt I would not vote for him in the repub primary because of his sleaziness.
I am not sure how repubs mistreat liberal vets so I cannot speak on that. I assume you know.
As for hypocrisy I think Obama has won that trophy…
Super Pacs
Afgansitan
Keystone Pipeline
Saying that Bushs spending was “unAmerican”
Distancing himself from terrorist Billl Ayers and Wright
Saying we to work across party lines (like forcing obama care)
Aaron Burr V Mexico
March 22nd, 2012
2:09 pm
Because Religion does not get to intrude on basic medicine.
When a woman, who is religious, goes to a religious school, and the state decides that schools must provide insurance to students (which many do), then a religious does not get to say that a woman’s health/life is less important than their religious beliefs.
THIS WAS NOT ABOUT CONTRACEPTION BUT A LEGITIMATE HEALTH ISSUE. YOUR FREEDOM OF RELIGION DOES NOT GET TO PREVENT OUR HEALTH BY REFUSING VACCINES, OR BASIC TREATMENTS THAT ARE NEEDED TO SAVE A LIFE.
AGAIN THIS WAS NOT ABOUT CONTRACEPTION.
DO I NEED TO USE EVEN BIGGER TEXT TO GET IT THROUGH YOUR THICK SKULL?
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
2:11 pm
So honested at what point does healthcare stop paying for things? Sex change? I mean I am not for healthcare covering viagra either.
Just because its a law does not make it right. Instead of bankrupting ourselves (CBO says obamacare going to cost TWICE more then estimated) why ot address the issues with expanding healthcare cost. Tort reform, open competition between heathcare isnurers).
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
2:11 pm
So rubbers are a health issue?
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
2:12 pm
Rubbers are a vaccine? LOL! Man some people are just too progressive for my think skull.
Damn Yankee
March 22nd, 2012
2:12 pm
from Dave: “The Conservative Right tea baggers has drifted so far from reality they have more in common with the Taliban when its about Women.”
Dave, would that be the same Taliban and muslim mindset that the liberals in this country are trying to get us to tolerate? They say we must tolerate muslim culture, which by the way calls for women to be maimed if they have an independent thought, or young girls to be killed by their fathers if they “disgrace” the family by chosing who they want to marry.
I don’t agree with Rush calling her a “slut”, but if I pitched a fit about everything I didn’t agree with that I heard on the radio…I’d be a miserable person. Me, I just change the channel. Simple solution, much like I do when I see Bill Maher on TV.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
March 22nd, 2012
2:13 pm
Fact: US prosected Nazis at Nuremburg for waterboarding as war criminals.
Fact: US has signed a treaty to which we agree that torture is a war crime.
Fact: George W. Bush has admitted authorizing torture.
Period.
Super Pacs: When the cowboys have revolvers, its dumb for the indians to keep using bows. As long as its legal (and it shouldn’t be), failure to use the weapon is dumb. As is your calling him a hypocrite about it.
Afghanistan: Ignored by Bush for 5 years, suddenly expect to solve. Now, granted, he IS doing a crappy job, but Bush was a major contributing factor.
Keystone: Laughable. Opposing a single Republican liked project but authorizing many others including oil projects does not make him ‘anti energy.’ This is a joke.
Spending Unamerican: Unfamiliar with the issue. Might be a legitimate complaint. Might also be another dumbass conservative smoke screen.
Bill Ayers/Wright: Palin issues. Laughable.
Work Across Party Lines: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAH! That dumb ass (Obama) bent over BACKWARDS to work with the contards for two years. To say he didn’t would take a reality denying contard. And he was stupid to ever try.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
March 22nd, 2012
2:15 pm
Phil: Dear pinhead. You seem incapable of holding to the original topic.
Rush attacked Fluke because she wanted the pill covered by inusrance.
She wanted it for her friend who had a health issue and needed it for a non contraception related issue.
If your tiny brain somehow makes condoms flow into that, I feel sorry for you.
Partisay
March 22nd, 2012
2:16 pm
“Millions of US dollars going to pay for gold toilet seats in Saudi palaces”
Phil….When did we spend millions of dollars on gold toilet seats in Saudi palaces? How many did we buy? How much were they apiece? Did you hear that on Rush’s show?
I am waiting on your answers to those questions..since you are all about waiting on answers yourself.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
March 22nd, 2012
2:25 pm
In case Phil is busy filing complaint reports on my reply because I personally insulted him…here is the summary without doing so.
Your religion does not get to prevent basic health. This was not about contraception. Repeat. This was not about contraception. A woman who goes to a religious school and who has a basic health/life threatening issue has a right to life that trumps the freedom of religion clause. Period.
Phil mcgroin
March 22nd, 2012
2:29 pm
I am not one to complain about name calling. Thick skin.
honested
March 22nd, 2012
2:30 pm
Folks, it is obvious that facts are not a point of this discussion. Adherence to wrong wing talking point (and a shift each and every time one of those talking points is demonstrated to be false) is all that can be presented.
We live in a Country where pinheads feel it is ok to waste 3 trillion on wars of choice but flinch at spending anything on basic research to get beyond the only product (petroleum) that provides any reason to have any contact with any country in the middle east.
It is a shame these self-deluded nuts still get to vote.
Phil mcgroin
March 22nd, 2012
2:31 pm
Partisan…I apologize but am unable to visualize tongue in cheek statements from facts. I cannot quantify gold toilet seat production in Saudi Arabia. Again….sorry if I misled you
tardacus
March 22nd, 2012
2:32 pm
It doesn`t matter what she said, it is never appropriate to call a woman a slut and a prostitute just because you disagree with her.If you had been raised properly you would already know this. true conservative values do not allow for saying the things rush said.rush`s claims of having conservative values are false.This isn`t a free speech issue or a political issue, this is an issue of morals,values, right and wrong,honor,integrity.
“Call not coldness of soul, religion; nor put the Bigot in the place of the Christian.” – Thomas Paine
Phil mcgroin
March 22nd, 2012
2:33 pm
We might have money to research alt energy and get out of middle east if we drill here. Jus sayin’
Listen up!
March 22nd, 2012
2:36 pm
Mr. McGroin, I will gladly answer that question for you. If you bother to read the transcript from Ms. Fluke, you will see that she never talked reference herself. As I mentioned below and you can easily do a search on this engine called “Google” you will see that her testimoney was a series of stories told to her about different women she met that had medical issues that required birth control as a form of treatment. These women were unaware that birth control is not included as a part of their insurance plan (which by the way is required of all students at the school). The cost of the pills were about $100 a month out of pocket. I believe that to be true because my blood pressure medication out of pocket would be $75 a month. By the way, this young lady was gay, so the whole birth control issue was moot. Because she was no longer able to afford the pills, she developed a tennis ball size cyst on her ovary and it had to be removed. Being a woman, I understand this as a pretty significant issue because if anything happens to her other ovary, you will be forced into early menopause. That opens up a whole other set of issues. Other women she spoke of had similar issues.
Are we clear now?
unbelievable
March 22nd, 2012
2:38 pm
Anyone notice that we call her a slut and immoral for something she didn’t even say, but Rush DID say he wanted porno, and we’re not criticizing his morality???
I guess the knuckle-draggers really do have a constituency. Sad in this day and age.
Phil mcgroin
March 22nd, 2012
2:41 pm
So birth control prevents cyst. She could not spend 75 a month out of pocket. Who is this girl. Why was she not paneled but fluke was? Does she exist?
I have a friend who died of retardation from watching maher. See how easy that was.
Fluke is a good friend to speak for her friend….wherever she is.
Listen up!
March 22nd, 2012
2:42 pm
@Mr. McGroin, I apologize for a few grammatical errors. It’s one of the drawbacks of multitasking!
Phil mcgroin
March 22nd, 2012
2:46 pm
Not worried about spelling. Make that mistake myself
Partisay
March 22nd, 2012
2:48 pm
“Obama has increased our deficit at an alarming rate, underemployment and unemployment are at too high a numbers (especially if unemployment was calculated correctly), billions wasted on alt energy startups for Al Gores pals, Afganistan is a quagmire, energy cost and food cost are moving up faster then raises, housing is in the toilet despite govt “aid”, welfare at an all time high. Millions of US dollars going to pay for gold toilet seats in Saudi palaces, racial divide at a clear high level, GM making crappy volts on taxpayer dime”
So Phil…any of these others you listed “tongue in cheek”? Racial divide at a clear high level? Isn’t it always? Was it lower when Bush was in office? But never mind my questions, please respond to Listen Up!’s 2:36 comment – if you haven’t already – so we can see if you truely understand what the issue was really all about.
Pat McCrotch
March 22nd, 2012
2:50 pm
I agree with Phil
urban redneck
March 22nd, 2012
2:50 pm
he wouldn’t be so grumpy if he was still eating enough oxycontin to kill a large horse……although it’s apparently not quite enough to kill a large horse’s arss.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
March 22nd, 2012
2:51 pm
@Phil – Re: Why she wasn’t there. I dunno. Maybe she died because she didn’t get the treatment she needed?
Re: Drilling here. I actually approve of the idea…along with nuclear power….as long as it isn’t Fracking, isn’t Tar Sands with unsafe pipelines, and isn’t with off shore oil platforms put together by the lowest common denominator. We are going to need oil and need it for a long time, but we don’t have to do it in a moronic fashion.
Phil mcgroin
March 22nd, 2012
2:53 pm
Other then the toilet seats I am speaking in fact based opinions. Is affordable contraception really a big issue. If it does indeed prevent cyst them sign me up. I hear vitamins promote preventive health too. Insurance for vitamins anyone. Also I hear chocolate prevents heart attacks and broccoli prevents cancer. I will call etna immediately.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
March 22nd, 2012
2:55 pm
@Phil – Basic contraception costs $75 a month. Some forms that are needed for advanced medical conditions like Fluke’s friend can be significantly more expensive and require insurance for anyone of a middle class lifestyle.
Which, by the way, college students most certainly are not.
Insurance for preventative care is a good idea.
The science behind birth control preventing some health issues vs chocolate and broccoli is considerably different and a straw man.
Partisay
March 22nd, 2012
2:57 pm
Well…at least Phil’s not talking about rubbers anymore. We’ve accomplished something.
Partisay
March 22nd, 2012
2:58 pm
Everybody – including Phil – have a good afternoon…I’m out of here…
Phil mcgroin
March 22nd, 2012
3:03 pm
Partisan…you too.
Combination birth control pills contain a combination of estrogen and progestin, while the “mini pill” contains only progestin. Both are designed to prevent pregnancy; the “mini pill” is slightly less effective but is tolerated better by some women. The pill is one of the most popular methods of birth control, but is sometimes prescribed to help stabilize irregular menstrual cycles, to lessen menstrual cramps, to decrease the risk of anemia associated with heavy periods, and for other medical reasons.
Typical costs:
For patients not covered by health insurance, birth control pills typically cost $20 to $50 a month.
For patients covered by health insurance, out-of-pocket costs typically consist of a prescription drug copay. Most insurance plans offer the lowest copays on generic medication — usually $5 to $15 — and higher copays of $30 to $40 for non-preferred brands.
Birth control pills, the most commonly covered contraceptive, are covered by more than 80 percent of health insurance plans, according to the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals. And in some states, it’s mandatory; the Kaiser Family Foundation lists 33 states that require coverage of birth control.
What should be included:
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists offers an overview of how birth control pills work.
Standard combination birth control pills — for example, Yasmin and Ortho Tricyclen are taken on a 28-day cycle.
Extended-cycle pills are designed to be taken continuously for three months; however, many women experience spotting or breakthrough bleeding while taking extended-cycle pills.
There are more than 40 brands of birth control pills available in the United States, each with slightly different doses or forms of hormones. Because women’s bodies can react to even slight changes in formulation, sometimes several brands will have to be tried, with the help of a doctor, to get the fewest negative side effects — such as mood changes or weight gain — or the desired positive side effects — such as better skin and less menstrual cramping.
Birth control pills are 98 to 99 percent effective when taken exactly as directed — at the same time every day without missing a day. Vomiting before the hormones get into your system also can lower effectiveness. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration offers a chart comparing risks and effectiveness rates of various forms of birth control.
Additional costs:
Birth control pills are available only with a prescription; getting one requires visiting a doctor for a pelvic exam and sexually transmitted disease tests. This can cost $35 to $200, or a copay of $10 to $30 for patients covered by health insurance.
Discounts:
Clinics such as those operated by Planned Parenthood offer discounted birth control pills to women who qualify. And most college campus health centers do the same for enrolled students.
In most states, Wal-Mart, Target and Kroger pharmacies offer a limited selection of generic birth control pills for $9 per month.
Shopping for birth control pills:
To get a prescription for birth control pills, make an appointment with your general practitioner, gynecologist or a clinic. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists offers a physician locator by state and Planned Parenthood offers a clinic locator by zip code. Or, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services offers a local clinic locator by city or zip code.
Birth control pills are not recommended for women who have had blood clots, have serious heart or liver disease, have had breast or uterine cancer, or are over 35 and smoke.
According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, risks include dizziness, nausea, changes in cycle, changes in mood, weight gain, high blood pressure, blood clots, heart attack and stroke.
Listen up!
March 22nd, 2012
3:03 pm
Mr. McGroin, may I call you Phil? Yes, birth control can prevent ovarian cyst. Birth control pills are used as treatment of a host of female problems from endometriosis to acne. I actually had a female issue that my doctor recommended I take the pill for. I opted not and instead chose surgery, which my insurance would have paid for whatever I chose. Ms. Fluke, being a third year law student was at one time president of a reproductive rights group. I’m sure I can find out if this was an already established group or if it grew, like most things, out of an immediate need while she has been at Georgetown. I don’t think it unusual for all subjects to be in attendance because she was the spokesperson. I’m sure they thought her more articulate than they were with explaining their plight. I have had to speak on behalf of others, that doesn’t mean the others don’t exist. By the way, Ms. Fluke wanted to speak on this issue to congress but was refused. Instead, they allowed a group of men, who have never had a reproductive issue in their lives. come in and spreak on the subject.
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
3:08 pm
Eating prevents starvation…should insurance pay for that. At what point do we take care of ourselves?
Courtney
March 22nd, 2012
3:08 pm
Bill Maher is a small man full of hate.
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
3:10 pm
20 bucks a month…9 bucks at walmart and we are wasting time onthis. Unreal. And now we use this as a chance to pile on Rush. obama speaks about it and ignores maher and his million donation.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
March 22nd, 2012
3:12 pm
Well, given that a team of very smart doctors on a government panel said, “We think Birth Control should be part of insurance” by the same logic you’d like to apply here, I’d say when a government panel says, “Food should be paid for by insurance.”
If, and when, the majority of scientists and medical doctors say food should be covered by insurance, I will happily join you in shouting them down Phil.
Until then, I’ll side with the scientists and doctors who think that birth control is important enough that it should, in fact, be part of health insurance.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
March 22nd, 2012
3:14 pm
Maher is not the Democratic pope. Democratic leaders are not afraid to criticize Bill Mahar.
Every. Single. Republican. Leader is terrified of Rush.
Comparing the two is silly. Also, quite frankly, comparing what Rush said about calling her a slut and wanting to see her (lesbian) porn video is also silly.
As are most conservative beliefs.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
March 22nd, 2012
3:15 pm
PS… Sarah Palin is exactly what Bill Maher said and I’m not apologizing. Guess that makes me the moral equivalent of him and Limbaugh.
Yet somehow, I don’t feel that way.
Marie
March 22nd, 2012
3:21 pm
Please, people. Can’t we all just get along?
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
3:22 pm
Wowo Aaron….just wow. Sad for you buddy. Your three above post are really misguided and kind of not progressive.
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
3:22 pm
I agree. Healthcare and shoes for everyone. And to all a good night! Stay blessed!
Listen up!
March 22nd, 2012
3:25 pm
Phil, most insurance companies already include it in their coverage as preventative care. In order to get the $9 or $20 pill from the neighborhood walmart, you must meet certain qualification. That type of pill would be the mini pill. If you go online you will see a wide variety of birth control pills. Why? Because all pills are not made equal for the purpose needed. Just admit, you want to think this as some sort of conspiracy and no matter what anyone says, you are going to believe that! By the way, chemo and radiation are forms of treatment for cancer, but I imagine you would say pay for it yourself! This stuff may not be important to you, but for the person dealing with it, its the most important thing!
Aaron Burr V Mexico
March 22nd, 2012
3:28 pm
@Phil – I’m only mostly progressive because its the most Not Conservative thing I can be. What I mainly am is pro reality, anti hypocrisy, and pro science. Still, basic progress principles like, “Hey let’s not let people starve to death or bleed to death if we’re rich enough as a society to afford it” are things I approve of.
@Marie – No. We can’t. Not until the Republican Pope has fallen. This is a war of symbols, and Rush is the symbol of all that is dark and wrong with conservatives. Which is a shame, because we need liberals and conservatives to make the country work. But one of our two sides is brain dead and the other has no guts.
But for the record, I am NOT tolerant, nor do I have to be. I don’t need to tolerate stupidity.
Oh and the fact that saying that comparing Rush and Maher is silly makes you ’sad for me’ shows just how lost you really are.
Tata Phil.
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
3:28 pm
If Chemo cost 20 bucks a monthi would be indifferent to whether insurance pays it or not.
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
3:29 pm
Wow Aaron is on a jihad!
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
3:30 pm
Better look out for cars running into Rushs studio….we know who to suspect now.
Listen up!
March 22nd, 2012
3:34 pm
But it doesn’t! So, God forbid, anyone you know needs it, hope and pray that either they are millionaires or they have insurance to help with the cost! By the way, many people pay for insurance their whole life and never get the benefit! Maybe the enemy is the insurance companies! Ever thought about that?
Joe Mama
March 22nd, 2012
3:48 pm
P. McGroin — “If Chemo cost 20 bucks a monthi would be indifferent to whether insurance pays it or not.”
I agree, but it doesn’t. What I was on was closer to $75K a year; possibly even a bit more.
bigdawg
March 22nd, 2012
3:48 pm
Lawdy, save me from the ignorance of the grumpy, white, middle-aged, balding, paunchy Teabots!
“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross!”
– Sinclair Lewis, 1937
Aaron Burr V Mexico
March 22nd, 2012
3:49 pm
@Phil – Spinspinspinspinspinspinspin. Look! Your shoes are untied!
Joe
March 22nd, 2012
3:55 pm
The right moans over this, but they were all about shutting down the Dixie Chicks after they insulted Bush.
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
3:58 pm
The right is not worried about insults as long as its a fair playing field. When Obama gets on the mic and speaks against Rushs comments that is fine. my issue is he does this while accepting 1 million from Maher who called Palin a c word.
Joe Mama
March 22nd, 2012
4:02 pm
P. McGroin — “my issue is he does this while accepting 1 million from Maher”
I’m pretty sure that million couldn’t have gone directly to President Obama. Maher has to abide by the same campaign contribution limits as anyone else, which, IIRC, are $2000 per Presidential candidate per election cycle.
Maybe someone can find exactly who Maher donated the money to, but I don’t think it was President Obama.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
March 22nd, 2012
4:03 pm
@Phil – Mahar does not equal Rush.
So, oh great issuer of questions challenging the left, answer one yourself.
Justify the moral equivalence of Rush vs Maher.
My argument against:
Point 1: Palin is an elected official. Fluke is not. Even though she is an advocate, until recently she was not a public official. The standard for allowable public insult is different. This is the law of the land as well as cultural norm.
Point 2: Maher used a swear word to say Palin was stupid. It was a rather offensive one. Rush a) Got the facts wrong. b) Called her a slut and basically dehumanized her. c) Went on and on about it for more than an hour. d) Demanded to see a porn video put on by Fluke.
Are you SERIOUSLY going to argue that these two are the same? SERIOUSLY?
Dawg '88
March 22nd, 2012
4:05 pm
Is there a “war” being brought upon Bill Maher? After all he has used equally if not worse language/sexual derogatory comments towards females. Or is there equal outrage over Dave Letterman’s use of disparaging remarks about Gov. Palin’s daugher?
Obama called what happened to Fluke as uncivil comments. He called her to reassure her and support her. Did he call for civility in these other instances? NO! He took $1 million dollars from Maher and refuses to return it. And his wife goes on Letterman and doesn’t admonish him for being uncivil.
Its hypocracy at its worst. What wrong for others is ok if it someone who supports you. The post above here says it a “republican” problem. No it isn’t!
I believe Obamaand his wife, Maher, and Letterman are Dems.
Don’t point fingers….its a a game of immoral hypocritical politics. Period!
Obama would make a much larger gesture showing he truly cares about civility by returning the money to Maher and denouncing him like he did RL.
When will it happen?….NEVER…too many votes and his reelection hinge on the $$$….Sad…Hypocrite!
Lush Rimbaugh
March 22nd, 2012
4:05 pm
She’s a slut! Now, anybody got any good prescriptions for me?
Aaron Burr V Mexico
March 22nd, 2012
4:06 pm
@Dawg – No, he did not.
David Letterman’s attack on Palin’s daughter is closer, but hey, as I recall THERE WAS A WAR AGAINST LETTERMAN WAGED BY THE RIGHT.
Don’t YOU point fingers American Taliban.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
March 22nd, 2012
4:08 pm
To clarify “no he did not.”
Maher is not equal to Rush. That’s stupid. And Conservative reality denial.
Dawg '88
March 22nd, 2012
4:15 pm
Aaron Burr….resulting to call me names shows what character you have.
That weakens your argument….The Taliban kills people. That is disgusting and you owe me an apology. But I know that is the liberal way….Nothing surprising there.
Sad…someday all of this Dem. and Repub. immoral behavior will stop. Lets pray that it does. Its bad on both sides. Maher and Lim. are both on equal footing…their entertainers and they are immorally wrong and unjust in their comments…PERIOD!
Dawg '88
March 22nd, 2012
4:17 pm
Rush is wrong but its ok for Aaron to use nasty terms.
Yeah…that makes sense. Defend that which cannot be defended without looking hypocritcal and foolish is impossible.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
March 22nd, 2012
4:17 pm
@Dawg – You started it. When I encounter a reasonable conservative I talk with them like people.
That isn’t you.
The Republicans are killing people.
Indeed, I will join you in prayer that the diaobolical behavior on both sides will stop.
Maher and Lim are not on equal footing. To say that they are, to use religious terminology (which you initiated) is like saying shoplifting and murder are the same. If you believe that, I feel sorry for you.
Limbaugh is MUCH more than an entertainer to the Republican Church.
Oblama
March 22nd, 2012
4:36 pm
gm – Bill Maher was at a Dem fund raiser last week where he announced on TV that he was giving $1,000,000 to the Oblama campaign and then spewed a long list of curse words and insults at several conservatives addressing them by name. He and Al Frankin are two of a kind. Hateful, garbage mouths that definitely do not fit the definition of comedian. Under occupation they put I D I O T.
Uncle Tom
March 22nd, 2012
4:36 pm
I moved to South Florida about 25 years ago from Atlanta and I was there a couple of years. The first thing I noticed was that all the radio stations were extremist. It was either Fascists on one station or Cuban Communists on the other. “Thank God,” I said, “Atlanta isn’t anything like that!” But nowadays, with people like Limbaugh and Company, we’ve become like the disease that hit South Florida. His kind is the problem and we’re a heck of a lot better without them. I am now so old I remember when WSB radio was respected, mainstream and good for the community. But now the whole country is like South Florida with extremism the norm.
RAMZAD
March 22nd, 2012
4:44 pm
Yes, we should remove Rush from a place where he can spew poison into the public discourse. It would be helpful if he would just drink his poison.
Independent
March 22nd, 2012
4:50 pm
Partisay quoted:
““Obama has increased our deficit at an alarming rate, underemployment and unemployment are at too high a numbers (especially if unemployment was calculated correctly),”
Indie: I’ve heard this from many right-wingers. Fact is unemployment is quoted the exact same was that it was under the Bush admin. And the deficit is as much or more about Congress than it is about the President, left and right. Are you, like Limbaugh, hoping that the President and thus, the country, fails? I think some of you Limbaugh-ditto-heads actually are.
Independent
March 22nd, 2012
4:52 pm
I have to say that anyone still listening to Rush Limbaugh has checked what little brain they have at the door.
Going Right
March 22nd, 2012
4:58 pm
I sure wish they would put Numbnuts column back where it belongs so we can peruse it without having to hunt for it!
I believe those with half a brain know what Sandra Fluck Rhymes-With really wants: freebie pills without having to pay a penny for them! Ms Fluck Rhymes-With may not be a slut nor might she not be promiscuous, but she is not Mother Theresa! Ms. Fluck Rhymes-With is a cheap shill at least and should go to Nancy Pelosi to get more instructions on how to piss off regular tax-paying folk. Ms Fluck Rhymes-With and Pelosi are birds (not a pun) of a feather.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
March 22nd, 2012
5:05 pm
So, after spending 2 and a half pages of messages convincing the LAST guy WHY absolutely everything he said was wrong, here comes another conservative, saying EXACTLY THE SAME THING, only more viciously, pretty much shows (I hope) why I am equally vicious to conservatives.
To paraphrase Paul from the bible, “Speak ye the language of those to whom ye preach.”
So when Conservatives speak vitriol I shovel it back in equal measure.
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
5:14 pm
Thanks for spreading the “tough love” to use cretons Aaron. LOL! Coco…coco!
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
5:15 pm
I think it is hilarious how there is a liberal jihad against Rush…too funny.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
March 22nd, 2012
5:16 pm
@Phil – …do you mean coocoo?
Or are you advocating that I have chocolate?
Normally I don’t make fun of spelling but if you’re going to insult someone, don’t just open yourself up like that…I mean…really.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
March 22nd, 2012
5:17 pm
@Phil – You know….didn’t you say you were going away?
Could you be Morph pretending to be Phil? Phil recited talking points but seems considerably more literate than you….
Morph, on the other hand, makes spelling errors all the time.
Oblama
March 22nd, 2012
5:19 pm
God’s Word is “The Bible”. not bible. If you were true believer you would know that. I am neither a Repub or a Dem but it amazes me that those on the far left are so hateful towards any opinion that is not theirs – the arrogance is fascinating! Bill Maher and Al Franken are hate personified yet you justify their hate because you agree with them? H Y P O CR I S Y.
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
5:19 pm
This whole Limbaugh jihad is nothing more then a terroristic act. if Limbaugh were to e fired cause of disinterest due to his comments then so be it, but to have billionaire (felon) George Soros funded media maters attacking is a hilarious. One of his sponsors was saying how his business has been attacked with phone calls and yet his business is fine…..hmmmm.
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
5:20 pm
Oblama….one of these guys equated Palin to Bill Ayers….HELLO! MCFLY!
Aaron Burr V Mexico
March 22nd, 2012
5:26 pm
@Oblama – When your alias is Oblama you’re a Republican by default. And talking about hate from the left, coming from the right (which you are, whether you admit it or not) is H Y P O C R I S Y.
And yes, I say bible not Bible, because I don’t need to justify my theology as defined by Not Being the Catholic Church, understand the Bible (pronounced as capitlized noun work not He as in God and “B”ible as you pronounce it) to be what it actually is, a historical record created by prophetic men (operative word being men) passed down by more men, translated by men, and preached by men. Any TRUE relationship with God is with God….because if God really wanted to rely on MEN to display His word, then He would have made sure that the people preaching it had much better caliber of morality.
The bible is an inspirational work. But it is not “The Bible.” So yeah, I believe in Christ, but I don’t need “The Bible” to be “Not Catholic.”
@Phil – I take it back. You are the real Phil. And you just go back to full on reset mode ignoring anything and everything re: shown re Limbaugh before and ignore my question to you.
Thus, proving that I and anyone else can and should ignore one of your ‘questions’ challenges in the future. You don’t engage in dialog and no one should with you in turn.
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
5:27 pm
You are a very angry person Aaron. I will pray for you.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
March 22nd, 2012
5:28 pm
@Phil – You’re angrier.
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
5:28 pm
Oblama….one lady equated birth control to chemo….BWAHAAHAHAH!!! Unreal.
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
5:28 pm
@ Aaron…I know.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
March 22nd, 2012
5:30 pm
@Phil – Don’t think it means I’m frightened of you. I’m not. Nor am I frightened by Palin or anything any of you say or do. *I* unlike most cowardly Dems don’t fear you or anyone on your side.
Except, of course, the idea of Willard being president. But then, I know what he’d really if he gets the chance. Ce la vis.
Phil McGroin
March 22nd, 2012
5:32 pm
Wow!!! Aaron i”aint skeered”. I am glad he has told us all that. I am not sure why is feels the need to be skeered or not skeered….but he aint!
Aaron Burr V Mexico
March 22nd, 2012
5:33 pm
Because the Right seems to feel that any time anyone insults a conservative pundit, they are ’scared’ of them. Criticizing Palin means we are ‘afraid’ of her.
Of course, by that same logic, what does it say about Conservatives and Obama…
Given what we’re seeing on here…I’d say a lot.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
March 22nd, 2012
5:40 pm
Alright, I’m out of here. And this thread too. If you see me post today after 5:40pm today you’ll know its Morph.
creative
March 22nd, 2012
6:51 pm
can we all agree that Fluke is a slut and Palin is a C@@t. The truth hurts but Bill and Rush are correct is these assessments of these woman.
creative
March 22nd, 2012
6:54 pm
What’s worse? A Sean Hannity Freedom fest concert or an Occupy Wall Street rally. I think they should all be entered into a mad Max beyond Thunderdome contest and then the world will be better off.
It's called free speech people!
March 22nd, 2012
8:00 pm
Get over it and do something productive.
TomPaine
March 22nd, 2012
8:33 pm
Rush was just mad he can’t get his OxyContin free.
Concerned American
March 22nd, 2012
8:44 pm
Isnt it funny that when Maher makes a very negative comment about women, it’s looked at as a joke but Rush gets crucified. I admit his use of words was unexceptible but Maher has been saying this for at least 2 years w/o the same level of public outcry! As a business owner with over 90 employees, contraception is not a decision that “our” government should mandate what so ever! My employees collectively laughed at this Obama position! They stated that it is just another political posture he is taking to win the impressionable young vote as in 2008. I’d we continue to get this type of governmental demands on small business, the white house can add my employee numbers to the unemployed line!
RGB
March 22nd, 2012
9:01 pm
That a woman who is 12 years after graduating from high school cannot afford a $9/month contraceptive speaks volumes about the train wreck commonly called the Idiot Left.
But, in fact, this issue has nothing to do with contraception, but with liberty. The Idiot Left abhor, disdain, and mock freedom in America.
In November, tell the Idiot Left you want your country back.
vdavis
March 22nd, 2012
9:23 pm
@findog, where is the Right to have a radio show covered??? is it in the Bill of Rights or the US Constitution??? a US citizen has the right to the pursuit of happiness, but i don’t know where or when they were granted the right to host a radio show…
joe taxpayer
March 22nd, 2012
9:38 pm
where is the right to birth control or health care?
Martin Williams
March 22nd, 2012
10:48 pm
Rush has no children, on his fourth marriage, that tells you all something about this half educated mouthy. I will say this, if you are a woman and you listen to Rush, the curse is for everyone of you. Rush has zero respect for women, period. You can have all the believe in first amendment, that is just Rush. Rush mentally abused that law student.
Listen up!
March 23rd, 2012
9:34 am
McGroin, at no point did I compare birth control pills to chemo. However, when you make blanket statements like “at what point do we take care of ourselves”, you put everything in the same bucket. For some women in pain, birth control may be on par with chemo. You’re not a woman, so this is absolutely out of your area of expertise! Like I have said before, reading is fundamental! On that note, I think we can officially shut this blog down! Peace and blessings!