Saturday, March 10, 2012
A little more Limberger
Rush Limbaugh is losing sponsors all over the place. & Bill Maher is defending him as having just made a bad joke.
In 2007, when Imus referred to the Rutgers women's basketball team as "some nappy-headed hos," I admit I gave thought as to whether that remark was worth more than a sincere in-person apology & a suspension. It was an impulsive remark (hardly the I-man's first racist crack), & I also believed if Imus met & liked Coach Stringer & the team, he's the kind of person who could do a complete turnabout, fess up to his insult, & they would have no better supporter in the media. Imus' insult was not politically-motivated. I decided however it played out would be o.k. with me, even if Imus were fired.
Limbaugh was different. He went at Sandra Fluke for three days, with the same defamatory comments. This was not improvisational shock jock comedy gone wrong. It was a deliberate, calculated, libelous attack on a private citizen's integrity & reputation in an attempt to discredit a federal policy on health insurance.
In 2007, when Imus referred to the Rutgers women's basketball team as "some nappy-headed hos," I admit I gave thought as to whether that remark was worth more than a sincere in-person apology & a suspension. It was an impulsive remark (hardly the I-man's first racist crack), & I also believed if Imus met & liked Coach Stringer & the team, he's the kind of person who could do a complete turnabout, fess up to his insult, & they would have no better supporter in the media. Imus' insult was not politically-motivated. I decided however it played out would be o.k. with me, even if Imus were fired.
Limbaugh was different. He went at Sandra Fluke for three days, with the same defamatory comments. This was not improvisational shock jock comedy gone wrong. It was a deliberate, calculated, libelous attack on a private citizen's integrity & reputation in an attempt to discredit a federal policy on health insurance.
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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
The interesting thing about people who defend him (not talking about Maher, just regular people that actually listen to people like Limbaugh) is that they have no clue what Sandra Fluke was going to testify about! The people I have talked to that listen to those shows all said the same thing about Ms. Fluke's sex life. When I explained what she was really wanting to talk about, the deafening silence is palatable. And, in some cases, these "people" actually thought Ms. Fluke "testified" at the Issa hearings in Congress. I have to educate them on the fact that this whole thing started because Issa refused to let her testify, not because she did testify (and then I have to tell them that the Democratic party asked her to testify separately, but they were forced to have the testimony in a small room as the Rethugs would not let the Dems use a regular room, and they turned off the CNN cameras and there was no sound as mikes were cut, etc.). That's how out of touch with the real story these people are/were/will always be.
As for Mr. Maher, I don't have a clue where his brain fell out of his head on this topic. But, then again, he did have a thing for that Ann Coulter bitch. Go figure.
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As for Mr. Maher, I don't have a clue where his brain fell out of his head on this topic. But, then again, he did have a thing for that Ann Coulter bitch. Go figure.
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