Although Rush Limbaugh's verbal assault on Sandra Fluke is both hideous and in keeping with the war on women being waged by his political party, even more disturbing is the silence by leading Republicans that seems to indicate tacit approval of his comments. Props to the president for supporting her.
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Dear Jayson,
My integrity and "open-mindedness" does not now, nor have they ever, needed your approval or indeed your opinion to prove their existence. You do seem to have a problem, but it has nothing to do with me, your "man crush" notwithstanding. I seem to be the only person you are intent on convincing, but I have to tell you, I don't care. I will post and present for discussion anything I want to post. Your approval is neither necessary or even desired. I've said all this before, but as you seem incapable of understanding the message, I won't hold my breath that this time will be any different. So rant away, my friend. Rant until you are blue in the face. Whatever gets you off.
As of today, NINETY-EIGHT major corporations have pulled their ads from ANYTHING that Mr. Sunshine's "Premier Networks" touches, not just his show itself. Ford, GM, Toyota, McDonald's, Subway, Geico, State Farm, AllState...It's a long list.
The fun part will be watching Free Market acolytes try to spin the Free Markets' foot in Limbaugh's ass into some sort of conspiracy of socialist censorship engineered by the gays, the environmentalists, the uppity wimmen and a deep-cover sleeper plot put in place by Saul Alinsky before he died, forty years ago, while Rushie was still playing pop music on Top 40 radio.
I believe that the real problem is not that some people are not denouncing RL, but instead that anyone feels the need to denounce him at all. He speaks with no moral authority, nor are his opinions well-considered or well-informed, and yet millions of people listen to him and base their own viewpoints on his. This is a symptom of a terrible problem in our society -- that anyone pays any attention to him at all.
The implication that Limbaugh's hateful rhetoric is found equally on the left as on the right is ridiculous. It's like saying that the filibuster is used equally by the Republicans and the Democrats. Again, ridiculous...and easily researched. The fact that Rush's shameful attack on a young woman, who was doing nothing more than honestly engaging in the political process (which I thought we wanted in this country), has nothing to do with Sarah Palin, Reverend Wright, Maxine Waters, or Henry Louis Gates. The fact that Jayson (and others) would try to divert attention from the incident by whining that "they do it too, mom," only illustrates the lengths some (like Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Eric Cantor, and others) will go to support Rush's words and deeds. President Obama's election and presidency has served to excise people's true feelings like sweat in a sauna. The crap just comes out of their pores. They can't help it. The latest fear and loathing project from the right is the re-invention of Derek Bell (who, conveniently for the right, died recently and so is not here to defend himself) as a "radical" when nothing was further from the truth.
Again, props to the president for supporting Fluke. Anyone with daughters (or even a mother or sister) should have the urge to do the same.
Pro Flowers dropped him. And I hear that at least 40 others have.
Conservatives are more likely to see things as a zero sum game ( trying to win it completely by controlling and rigging it further for their side ) while liberals support a more cooperative paradigm ( trying to make the game more fair for everyone ). The right sees things in terms of dominance, submission and humiliation...so trash talk is important to them. Yet they are so ridiculously whiny when criticized. Rush Limbaugh, Beck, Palin, or any of the right have that annoying mix of asserted moral superiority alongside some supposed deep victimization angst.
Granted there are foul-mouthed liberals that insult the right. However almost always they do not engage in the eliminationist rhetoric common on the right. At least liberals want their opponents to have health care so they and their children, friends and family don't die unnecessarily.
Of course, Limbaugh, who has been married 4 times and espouses the virtues of Viagra is in a poor position to tell anyone what they can and can't do regarding their sex lives. I guess for Limbaugh, it's "No Egg Left Behind" meaning that for him I suppose, menstruation is a form of contraception as well.
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