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The Nation's Pulse
The Hush Rush Syndrome
The new liberal censoriousness and its growing list of targets.
“I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” Believers in free speech and civil liberties, many of them liberals, have repeated this Voltaire quote so many times it has become a cliche.
Some even applied this principle to excess, treating topless dancing the same as political speech and defending neo-Nazis who wanted to march through a community of Holocaust survivors. There is no right to yell “fire” in a crowded theater. But the principle itself is essential to a free society.
Voltaire has since been replaced by Ring Lardner: “Shut up he explained.”
Pat Buchanan was hounded off the air in February, ostensibly for things written in his latest book that in fact differed little from views he had expressed for years. MSNBC president Phil Griffin proclaimed the book unfit for the “national dialogue” despite the fact it was a New York Times bestseller.
If ideas with enough reach to land on the bestseller lists are too dangerous, we should not be surprised some liberals believe the radio talk show host with the largest audience should not be heard either. Rush Limbaugh may admire Ronald Reagan, but it is his critics who want sponsors to say, “I paid for this microphone.”
“No apology is good enough,” read feminist Gloria Feldt’s indictment. “Rush must go. Period.” What of his 20 million listeners, many of them women, who do not want Rush to go? The right side of the sisterhood must get with the program. “Time for women to make Rush Limbaugh history.”
Limbaugh isn’t the only one Feldt, a former Planned Parenthood CEO, would like to make history: “It’s time for these men, like Pat Buchanan, Foster Friess, and Rick Santorum to climb back under the prehistoric rock from whence they came.”
More ominously, Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, suggested Limbaugh should be dropped from Armed Forces Radio. Levin at least paid lip service to the First Amendment. “I would hope the people that run it see just how offensive this is and drop it on their own volition,” he maganimously told CNN.
Feminist golden oldies Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem took the next step in calling for the FCC to “clear Limbaugh from the airwaves.” The trio writes, “If Clear Channel won’t clean up its airways, then surely it’s time for the public to ask the FCC a basic question: Are the stations carrying Limbaugh’s show in fact using their licenses ‘in the public interest?’”
“This isn’t political,” the political activists maintain. “While we disagree with Limbaugh’s politics, what’s at stake is the fallout of a society tolerating toxic, hate-inciting speech.” Fonda, Morgan, and Steinem accuse Limbaugh of having “hidden behind the First Amendment.”
Calling spectrum a “scare government resource,” the three argue there is nothing wrong with yanking the broadcast licenses of stations carrying Limbaugh’s show. “It’s time for the public to take back our broadcast resources,” they conclude. (This also serves as useful reminder of how secure civil liberties are when resources are collectively owned.)
No longer is it good enough to disagree with conservatives. They must be fired from their jobs, separated from their advertisers, booted from the airwaves, buried under a prehistoric rock. The tactics attributed to Joe McCarthy tied to the polemical rigor associated with Jenny McCarthy.
But who are these gatekeepers? The Color of Change, the group which organized against Buchanan, Lou Dobbs, Glenn Beck, and the late Andrew Breitbart, was co-founded by Van Jones, who had to resign from the Obama administration for signing a petition endorsing 9/11 truther conspiracies. Are Jones’ views certifiably mainstream and unimpeachably fit for the national dialogue?
One need not agree with anything the criticized conservative commentators have written or said. Concerning the remarks that ignited the firestorm currently embroiling Limbaugh, this writer believes the columnist Jeff Jacoby is right on the money. And in a polarized political climate, this kind of censoriousness is not a strictly liberal offense.
There are also honorable exceptions to the liberal purges. “As we all know, Limbaugh’s First Amendment rights aren’t involved here — freedom of speech means freedom from interference by the government,” writes the veteran columnist Michael Kinsley, referring only to the boycotts. “But the spirit of the First Amendment, which is that suppressing speech is bad, still applies.”
Networks can hire who they want. Advertisers can spend their money as they choose. But there is something unsavory about these organized boycotts and politically motivated pressure tactics. There is something much worse about the government deciding which speech is in the public interest.
If you don’t like Limbaugh, Dobbs, Beck, or Buchanan, don’t listen to them. If you think they are purveying ideas that are wrong-headed or mistaken, debate and refute them. But among some of the left’s self-styled defenders of free speech, personal autonomy, and choice, this old-fashioned liberalism is no longer in vogue.
About the Author
W. James Antle, III, author of the new book Devouring Freedom: Can Big Government Ever Be Stopped?, is editor of the Daily Caller News Foundation and a senior editor of The American Spectator. You can follow him on Twitter @jimantle.
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betwyan| 3.12.12 @ 6:24AM
I may be in the minority but I don't think Rush did anything wrong and I don't think he should have even apologized.
I was listening live on that day when he said what he said and he was trying to make a rhetorical analogy of the absurdity of a 30 yr old professional law student and part-time hard-left activist, asking for all of us to pay for her nighttime recreational activities.
Based on how liberal commentators treat Palin, Bachman, Malkin, Coulter, etcl, Rush shouldn't have apolgized but he must have panicked a bit because of sponsors who started to peel away from his show. Now of course, some want to return and it probably puts him and his show in a good situation business-wise. He will probably have many new sponsors.
Darin| 3.12.12 @ 7:04AM
A woman by her own statement said she wanted other people to pay for her sexual encounters. By definition, that is a prostitute (the slang word used is slut). Rush called her what she said she was. Apparently there's a new politically correct term for this. But liberals won't tell anyone (including themselves) what it is.
Purp| 3.12.12 @ 7:50AM
That is Rush's lie. She never said such a thing. She testified that 2 million women need the hormones that are in contraceptives to stop ovarian cystosis, endometriosis and other medical conditions. Rush changed it to sex for his own perverted gratification. And, so many of you fell for it you now repeat the bald-faced lie. Dittoheads need to wake up to this nasty, perverted drug addict.
By continuing to defend him, the women in the country see him for what he his - condescending to women (which is nothing new for Rush) who believes in the subjugation of women. He even asked for all women taking contraceptives to send him video of them having sex. Pervert.
After all, he's on wifey #4, so he can't think much of women except for one thing. Pervert.
Teaghan| 3.12.12 @ 8:14AM
So you are in agreement then that Maher and Schultz should be removed as well?
Hello?
Chico Escuela| 3.12.12 @ 8:53AM
who said anything about leaving ?
Purp| 3.12.12 @ 8:54AM
Nope - Maher IS an entertainer, while Schultz did sincerely apologize and took himself off the air for a week as well as pennance. Rush is not an entertainer, and his apology was not sincere.
Reality1| 3.12.12 @ 9:06AM
Rush is not an entertainer? Funny, I can't count the number of high-profile progressive leaders who have asserted just that label over the last few years. Where were you? Also, if you can discern between sincere/insincere apologies, you should write a book enlightening the rest of society. Wow! Just wow.
ENOUGH ROPE| 3.12.12 @ 9:13AM
If the left had full control, they would put all of us on the right and center in concentration camps. Their actions now prove that they are capable of great evil.
ENOUGH ROPE| 3.12.12 @ 1:26PM
Make David Axelrod a permanent campaign issue by exposing his mentoring by Communists in his rise as a journalist and campaign strategist and manager. Expose him as The Evil Power Behind The Throne who manipulates the public like a puppet master. Persuade the public that they are being fooled by Axelrod. Make Axelrod and Obama defend Axelrod's and Obama's mentoring by Communists. It truly is guilt by association.
Allowing Axelrod immunity from attack is similar to allowing the Communists sanctuary in Manchuria, North Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia during the Korean and Vietnam wars.
As General Patton said, "Attack, attack, attack; always attack."
Zombie Reagan| 3.12.12 @ 10:16AM
Rush is only an 'entertainer' when he says something stupid, sexist or racist. Otherwise he is 'the leading voice of the conservative movement.' Take your pick.
Purp| 3.12.12 @ 2:54PM
Government Officials don't bow and kiss the a** of an entertainer, but your Republicants won't dare upset the Rush - he'd have their skin. He is the Grand High Vizier of the Republicant party, and we all know it. He is NO entertainer, but a political operative hiding behind the label.
beebop2| 3.14.12 @ 5:25PM
You clearly never ever listen to Rush. The contempt he has for the majority of the Republican party is returned in (can I say it?) spades.
tv22| 3.12.12 @ 9:11AM
How is it that Rush is not an entertainer? His one and only job is as host of a radio talk show. He's not a journalist. He's not a politician. He's an entertainer pure and simple.
I think what he said was wrong on a lot of levels, but his job is to get ratings. It's funny, I hadn't listened to him in a while but I did last week to see what he had to say about this issue.
Zombie Reagan| 3.12.12 @ 10:17AM
Rush is only an 'entertainer' when he says something stupid, sexist or racist. Otherwise he is 'the leading voice of the conservative movement.' Take your pick.
RTR14| 3.12.12 @ 11:28AM
ZOMBIE, Rush Limbaugh may be labeled a leader in the conservative movement by some lazy journalists in the liberal mainstream media of which you obviously listen to, but that doesn't make it so. I don't consider him a leader. He's merely a talk show host. He doesn't make policy, he is not a politician, he's not even a journalist. So STOP trying to impose YOUR definition of him (and the liberal press's definition of him) upon the rest of us. You're WRONG. He will tell you himself that he's an entertainer and has stated it many times. He's never aspired to anything but being a talk show host and never pretended he was anything more or less.
boogalie| 3.12.12 @ 11:20AM
For you to excuse Maher/Schultz is with no substance, I truly would ask you to re-visit that aspect of your critical thinking...waaaay off base. The very idea of having the government decide what is 'in the public's interest' in terms of free speech is a horror, facism of the first order. Do some re-thinking. Semper Fi.
ejp| 3.12.12 @ 12:45PM
Maher is only an "entertainer" to people who agree with his KKK style of bigotry against conservative women and against people of traditional faith.
tonypal| 3.12.12 @ 12:45PM
Just to pick apart some of your post. You say Rush is a liar, then proceed to lie yourself. Rush was once addicted to Oxycontin. Everyone knows that. But apparently the news hasn't reached your mom's basement yet that Rush kicked his habit way back when.
I'm also wondering if you're a certified mind reader or just self proclaimed. How do you know he said what he said for "his own perverted gratification?" How do you know his apology wasn't sincere? Interesting.
tonypal| 3.12.12 @ 12:46PM
Just to pick apart some of your post. You say Rush is a liar, then proceed to lie yourself. Rush was once addicted to Oxycontin. Everyone knows that. But apparently the news hasn't reached your mom's basement yet that Rush kicked his habit way back when.
I'm also wondering if you're a certified mind reader or just self proclaimed. How do you know he said what he said for "his own perverted gratification?" How do you know his apology wasn't sincere? Interesting.
tonypal| 3.12.12 @ 12:46PM
Just to pick apart some of your post. You say Rush is a liar, then proceed to lie yourself. Rush was once addicted to Oxycontin. Everyone knows that. But apparently the news hasn't reached your mom's basement yet that Rush kicked his habit way back when.
I'm also wondering if you're a certified mind reader or just self proclaimed. How do you know he said what he said for "his own perverted gratification?" How do you know his apology wasn't sincere? Interesting.
Bob Grant| 3.12.12 @ 1:50PM
Well that's it!!
Per Perp:
Maher is and entertainer and Rush is not.
Schultz did proper penance and Rush did not.
Even though completely illogical, the case is closed and there's nothing more to discuss.
Charlene| 3.12.12 @ 3:05PM
maher is NOT an entertainer for those with civilized tastes. And who are you to decide what's in a person's heart (Schultz was sincere, Rush was not sincere)? All knowing GOD? Purp, you are so part of the problem.
CLVINCENT| 3.12.12 @ 6:43PM
Attacking someone for three days, and then stating the you regret the choice of two words is not an apology. It's a non-apology.
Rush's conduct was disgusting. The least he could do is come out and ask people to stop calling her a slut since he misrepresented what she said. He's a misogynist, pure and simple.
Rachel| 3.12.12 @ 9:12PM
He didn't "attack" her for three days. Good god in heaven. Try again...
I wish people that were bashing Rush would at least take the time to listen to the man before publicly executing him for having an opinion.
I'm a woman and I'm sick of these femi-natzis "speaking" for me. I agree with Rush 100%. But then, I don't count, do I? I'm a part of the "problem" to people like you. I should just sit down and shut up. 'Cause you're so into freedom and liberty and all...
Alan Brooks| 3.12.12 @ 8:25PM
Even if all abortions, adultery,
all that which you rubes consider sin,
were to disappear, it wouyldn't change anything. You's still have the same lives.
Live in an intentional Christian community and life is quiter- but no different in other ways. All the other difficulties you have on the outside, you have in an intentional community.
Alan Brooks| 3.12.12 @ 8:26PM
Even if all abortions, adultery,
all that which you rubes consider sin,
were to disappear, it wouldn't change anything. You's still have the same lives.
Live in an intentional Christian community and life IS quieter- but no different in other ways. All the other difficulties you have on the outside, you have in an intentional community.
Rachel| 3.12.12 @ 9:14PM
....? Might wanna check that basement you're in for chemicals, Alan. I think you're inhaling...
Cpm| 3.12.12 @ 11:01PM
As Rush says, "I'm a guy on the radio. What can I do? I can't raise anybody's taxes. I can't send anybody off to war. I can't force anybody to go out and buy a $50 light bulb. I can't make anybody give up their car and buy an electric car. I can't make anybody do anything, and yet I have to be destroyed. There's a reason for it, and that's because I'm an effective critic of who they are, and that has to be shut down with character assassination or some other thing. "
SirSurfer| 3.12.12 @ 9:02AM
Hormones packaged in Birth Control tablets are also packaged for other FDA labeled applications. Ms Fluke was advocating either off label uses of BC, or secondary uses in treatment of certain conditions.
If her point was historical, she offered no evidence of the absence of on label hormonal drug coverage.
If her point was about the prospective HHS regulations, she was advocating for a "preventative", drug to be used for therapy, thus misusing the free drug.
Ryan| 3.12.12 @ 9:20AM
How about some direct quotations, in context, from her testimony?
SirSurfer| 3.12.12 @ 10:03AM
“A friend of mine, for example, has polycystic ovarian syndrome, and she has to take prescription birth control to stop cysts from growing on her ovaries. Her prescription is technically covered by Georgetown’s insurance because it’s not intended to prevent pregnancy.
squalis| 3.12.12 @ 9:54AM
Purp, you and the rest of the Schultz, Maher, Malloy, Olberman, Sharpton, Waters (Maxine), etc, etc, etc apologists / defenders / deniers use a most disgusting, contorted, disingenuous brand of (ill)logic. Only the most die-hard lib / progressive believers don't see the obvious hyprocisy of the left on this topic, and it is the left that will ultimately be branded by this hypocrisy.
JJ| 3.12.12 @ 12:50PM
We need Purp banned from this site. He is just a worthless troll with no redeeming values.
Indy| 3.12.12 @ 3:20PM
No, we do not need him banned. I believe in free speech so let Purp post. He is one of several I choose to ignore including a certain cut and paste poster. When Purp or others try to dominate a thread, just ignore them, there are other sites to read and comment.
albert constantine jr.| 3.12.12 @ 4:06PM
I concur. Whenever Purp posts, he proves the points that many of us have come to conclude about the lack of ideas and the emptiness of the "compassion" of the left and their ilk.
albert constantine jr.| 3.12.12 @ 4:07PM
To clarify, I concur that he need not be banned.
From the Desk of Media Matters| 3.12.12 @ 4:48PM
Pierre Putz "Purp" Pelosi must be banned from this site immediately.
Organizational bottom rung mindless parrots parroting talking points in opposition to the points of view of the site where the posting occurs making arguments at least as effectively as the opposition itself is in itself an unacceptable situation.
This unacceptable situation must cease.
Ban this embarrassment now.
- MM staff
W| 3.12.12 @ 7:23PM
Purp should not be banned. Let the Purp be Purp. He summarizes the Lefty talking points well. Read Purp and you do not have to watch or read the MSM.
Capatolistmom| 3.12.12 @ 11:04AM
Wife # 4 so he can't think much of women???? What about Larry King? Or the reverse, Liz Taylor? Get real Purp you can't stand it that Rush now has 20 PLUS million listners as a result of this and we are ALL supporting his current sponsors. As for those that left, lots of luck Carbonites stock has fallen 12 percent in 4 days. that CEO should be fired. You lefties had better start bying flowers for all your buddies from..... you probably don't even emember who the sponsor was. If you don't like Rush, don't listen, but LEAVE the rest of us Happy Listners ALONE!!!! Dito to all of the rest of the pro Rush posts!!!
DGinGA| 3.12.12 @ 11:18AM
Purp, obviously you do not listen to Rush. Or at least you were not listening on the day when he said the things he said about Sandra Fluke. All that Rush did was to do the math out loud. To question her statements about how much money SHE allegedly spent on birth control annually. And frankly, unless she has an outrageous amount of sex and used multiple birth control devices each time, there is no way she could have spent the amount of money she said she spent. Period. Doesn't matter if she allegedly spent it to battle endometriosis or cysts, etc. SHE SAID that she spent $3,000 over 3 years for birth control. Now, I am a woman who had endometriosis and fibroid tumors back in my youth. My doc prescribed birth control pills to regulate the estrogen that is normally the culprit in those conditions. I spent about $10 per month on the pills. That's $120 per year. Period. Birth control pills are no more expensive today. Not a hardship - and I was a self-supporting college student at the time. For those women who can't afford to pay the monthly cost of birth control, you can go to Planned Parenthood (where they DID make me pay, BTW) or get Federal assistance to get them for free.
Again, ALL Rush did was to marvel at Sandra Fluke's OWN testimony and then do the math. When on earth does this woman find time to study???
The real reason there is this huge flap in the media is because Rush called her out as a liberal plant, a liberal activist, which is, after all, what she is. He also called the "hearing" where she spoke a joke. Liberals do not like being exposed for what they are.
da monk| 3.12.12 @ 12:56PM
DGinGa: He has every right to question her math. But does that give him the excuse to call her a "slut" or a "prostitute"? Have you given any thought what Rush would have called you if you went to Planned Parenthood for your medication? Most likely a mooching slut looking for freebies
da monk| 3.12.12 @ 12:56PM
DGinGa: He has every right to question her math. But does that give him the excuse to call her a "slut" or a "prostitute"? Have you given any thought what Rush would have called you if you went to Planned Parenthood for your medication? Most likely a mooching slut looking for freebies
da monk| 3.12.12 @ 12:57PM
DGinGa: He has every right to question her math. But does that give him the excuse to call her a "slut" or a "prostitute"? Have you given any thought what Rush would have called you if you went to Planned Parenthood for your medication? Most likely a mooching slut looking for freebies
da monk| 3.12.12 @ 12:57PM
DGinGa: He has every right to question her math. But does that give him the excuse to call her a "slut" or a "prostitute"? Have you given any thought what Rush would have called you if you went to Planned Parenthood for your medication? Most likely a mooching slut looking for freebies
da monk| 3.12.12 @ 12:57PM
DGinGa: He has every right to question her math. But does that give him the excuse to call her a "slut" or a "prostitute"? Have you given any thought what Rush would have called you if you went to Planned Parenthood for your medication? Most likely a mooching slut looking for freebies
clvincentcpa| 3.12.12 @ 6:49PM
He did not "call her out" until his butt was on the line. This is all just Republican spin. And yes, birth control pills ARE more expensive today. She also wasn't testifying for herself -- it was for a friend who ended up losing an ovary because she couldn't afford the pills her dr prescribed.
How can you be so hateful to another woman? You're a part of the problem. All of these issues were decided years ago, but now the right wants to take away the rights that we have gained. What is wrong with you that you support them in this?
Rex| 3.12.12 @ 7:37PM
I, in fact, DO listen to Limbaugh, because I wanted see what the fuss was about - and I found it's much worse than him jokingly calling her a "slut."
Rush Limbaugh is not a "Conservative Entertainer." He's a cult leader, an agitator, a divisive influence, a cynical crank, a bitter man-child with a tin ear, but he's not an entertainer.
His shows are extended complaints, filled with sarcasm, mocking, and slander. He regularly states misinformation and then repeats it over and over, like a mantra, in a whisper, like a hypnotist or a brainwashing sadist. He never makes corrections even when his lies are pointed out to him, never debates his enemies in person, and cuts off any dissenting callers that get through his screeners.
His idea of "humor" is thinking up new insulting names for his enemies, attributing all of the world's evils to Liberals, and concocting absurdly sinister motives to speculate as being behind the acts of the people he's sneering at. His shows are rituals, they're not "comedy," or "news." What he does is a perversion of news, cultivating and advancing division and conflict.
This compares in NO WAY to some comic dropping an occasional bad word amid a wide variety of topics. Rush's ad hominem attacks are perverted exhibitionism, like cock-fighting, and are like crack cocaine to his Neanderthal devotees.
Wrecks| 3.12.12 @ 8:50PM
I, in fact, DO listen to Obama, because I wanted to see what the fuss was about - and I found it's much worse than him joking about "shovel ready jobs" not being either "jobs" or "shovel ready".
Barry Obama s not a "Constitutional scholar". He's a cult leader, an agitator, a divisive influence, a cynical crank, a bitter metrosexual-commie with a tin ear, but he's not a scholar.
His speeches are extended complaints, filled with blatant lies, mocking, and slander. He regularly states misinformation and then repeats it over and over, like a mantra, in an irritating cadence, like a blatant liar that brainwashed idiots revel in. He never admits responsibility even when his lies are pointed out to him, never gives speeches with opponents in attendence only union members and other scum, and cuts off any attempts to point out his lies to him in person by anyone that got through his handlers.
His idea of "bipartisanship" is thinking up new insulting lies for his enemies, attributing all of the world's evils to America and/or Conservatives and/or especially Tea Partiers and/or especially especially The Evil Rich, and concocting absurdly sinister motives to speculate as being behind the acts of America and/or Conservatives and/or especially Tea Partiers and/or especially especially The Evil Rich he's sneering at. His speeches are pathetic, they're not "presidential", or "listenable". What he does is a perversion of the executive branch, cultivating and advancing division and conflict.
This compares in NO WAY to some radio talk show host dropping an occasional bad but accurate and truthful word amid a wide variety of topics. Obama's ad hominem attacks are perverted marxist game plans, like all statist social engineering, and are like crack cocaine to his criminally stupid evilly lying tyrannically despicable devotees.
albert constantine jr.| 3.12.12 @ 9:15PM
Most excellent!
Gj| 3.12.12 @ 11:33PM
Well played!
Bravo.
Rachel| 3.12.12 @ 9:20PM
You're so right, Rex! And those 20mil + listeners are totally being ordered to listen to him. *sheesh*
I think you just hate white people, Rex. You need to let yourself admit it. You'll feel better if you do.
clvincent| 3.13.12 @ 12:44PM
Rachel:
1. He does not have 20 million+ listeners. That is a number he made up and it doesn't agree with the ratings agencies.
2. I think you just hate brown people, Rachel. You need to let yourself admit it. You'll feel better.
Lyneuss Fields | 3.12.12 @ 11:24AM
If speech wasn't profane, obnoxious, filthy or obscene (to some observers) why would Americans need 1st Amendment privilege?
Lyneuss Fields | 3.12.12 @ 11:25AM
If speech wasn't profane, obnoxious, filthy or obscene (to some observers) why would Americans need 1st Amendment privilege?
John| 3.12.12 @ 11:34AM
It's OK, I'm in pre-law. I thought you were in pre-med. What's the difference.
Really, what is the basis for her expertise to testify as to the medical needs of "2 million women"?
albert constantine jr.| 3.12.12 @ 4:25PM
"You do what you will to us, but I'm not going to sit here while you trash the United States of America".
Mike 3/505| 3.12.12 @ 10:41PM
Gentlemen!
Elle| 3.12.12 @ 4:32PM
First of all, any woman who wants contraceptives can get them CHEAP at Walmart and other such outlets in addition to Planned Parenthood and Public Health Departments. Secondly, if a woman requires pills for other health problems such as the ones listed by the author they are generally covered by insurance or again Planned Parenthood and Public Health Departments.
Limbaugh doesn't demean women. His comments were directed at a 30 year old law student at an elite Catholic University who went on a "poor litlle helpless me and my helpless female friends" rant which was obviously totally contrived.
I am a woman and a feminist who is as disgusted as Limbaugh at this kind of left wing dishonesty.
This woman went to a Catholic University with her left wing agenda. Limbaugh called her out on her dishonesty. She deserved to be called out along with Hanoi Jane, Steinem and the rest of these pretenders. There is no movement afoot to deny women contraception nor is there a "war on women". Abortion is a more difficult issue but many conservatives fully support women's choice.
No this issue was Fluke herself and her faux appeal for her suffering sisters. ( I particularly liked the married couple who confided to Fluke that they would no longer be using contraception as they simply could not fit it into their budget,)
Limbaugh was right on the issue. Fluke deserved nothing but derision.
clvincentpa| 3.12.12 @ 6:51PM
If there is no war on women, they why are there bills in several states trying to deny them their right to decide what to do with their own bodies?
You are part of the problem.
Ground Control| 3.13.12 @ 10:13AM
What right is that? The "right" to kill an unborn baby? That involves a lot more than "their own bodies." You are frankly too stupid to be taken seriously. For a clear view of the real problem, look in a mirror.
clvincent| 3.13.12 @ 12:46PM
That's it? That's all you got? I'm stupid?
Are you taking care of all of the babies that are born who's parents can't take care of them? Are you taking care of the children who are going to bed hungry at night while you get on here and yell about the rights of some fat, old, white man who has more money than he knows what to do with? (Well I guess that's not really true. He buys his wives with it).
Abortion is LEGAL. Women have the right to have one if they need it. Deal with it.
Ground Control| 3.13.12 @ 2:37PM
There are plenty of people willing to adopt babies. Grow up. Killing them is unnecessary and vile. Abortion is a national issue for POLITICAL reasons, not health and social reasons. Providing abortion or regulating the practice of medicine is not a power delegated to the US government. The Supreme Court's RvW decision is a legal fiction. And yes, you are not very bright.
Drew| 3.13.12 @ 1:02PM
Where in the Constitution does it say you have the right to murder the unborn?
clvincent| 3.13.12 @ 1:44PM
Where in the Constitution does it say that you have the right to impose your religious beliefs on others?
Ground Control| 3.13.12 @ 2:39PM
No one is asserting that anyone has such a "right." Abortion is not about religion, it is about life and the right to life, and a respect for life which you obviously do not have.
clvincent| 3.13.12 @ 3:54PM
I have every respect for life. I would not have an abortion. However, I respect that it is a legal medical procedure, and it is not my place to judge a woman who's shoes I have not walked in as to whether she has an abortion or not.
And this is where the problem lies. You want your cake and eat it too. You want YOUR freedom, but you don't want it for those that disagree with you.
Ground Control| 3.13.12 @ 4:26PM
This is a horse manure argument. "I would not kill a baby but I respect the right of another woman who does." Garbage. It is "legal" only in the sense that the Supreme Court says it is, despite the Court's complete lack of legal authority to make it so. Also, explain to me how this has anything to do with "having my cake and eating it too." That statement is nonsensical, a non-sequitur.
RCV| 3.13.12 @ 9:19PM
No, what's garbage is your asserted facts. Even before the decision in Roe, abortion was legal in about a third of the states, including the largest, New York and California, and in states as diverse as North Carolina and Colorado. Americans throughout the country were coming to prefer that women who were going to terminate their pregnancy do so in hospitals, with doctors in attendance, rather than in back-alley illegal clinics where many bled to death. The Supreme Court's ruling only accelerated what was a growing and inevitable trend.
Ground Control| 3.13.12 @ 10:18PM
The Supreme Court lacks any legal authority to impose a universal standard of the practice of medicine. That is a power reserved to the States according to the Tenth Amendment. And yes, abortion WAS legal in several States before RvW, again pursuant to the Tenth Amendment. That is not in question. Where we differ is in the application of judicial fiat in place of Law. That "back-alley" abortions happened is of concern to the States in question, NOT the US government which lacks legal authority to act. Your last statement is telling, that RvW "accelerated" the "trend." The Court has no such authority to accelerate any "trend." The Court's authority is in deciding disputes UNDER the Law, not to fabricate Law out of whole cloth nor to "accelerate" any "trend." The Courts trail the Law, they do not precede it nor dictate its course. By the way, a majority of Americans has consistently believed (according to polls dating back to 1973 and before) that abortions for purely economic and/or convenience reasons should not be legal. Such abortions consitute the vast majority of abortions performed in the USA. Furthermore, this started as a discussion NOT about abortion, but about whether the US government can compel Georgetown University to provide contraceptives as part of its health insurance program. It can not, nor can it compel the university to even provide health insurance at all. This is a PRIVATE decision by the university and the US government has absolutely ZERO legal authority to order the university otherwise.
Mrs. Vito| 3.12.12 @ 5:30PM
Perv, I'm a woman in agreement with Rush. The problem with idiots like you is that you're brittle and humorless. Its apparent that you don't listen to Rush's show because your assertions about his views on women are dead wrong.
And btw, SANDRA FLUKE IS STILL A SLUT!!!
clvincentcpa| 3.12.12 @ 7:14PM
And you are still a bitch.
albert constantine jr.| 3.12.12 @ 9:17PM
So, yours is a war on women, but your only now targeting those who don't agree with you.
Riff Raff| 3.12.12 @ 11:22PM
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! What a maroon! You are so full of it it is embarrassing. The only pervert here is you, dhimm bulb.
spike59| 3.13.12 @ 6:15AM
purp, you're a liar...and not a particularly good one at that-she SPECIFICALLY complained about the cost of contraception-look up the word. and, by the way, the same pills, prescribed for ovarain cystosis, etc....ARE covered for those conditions-you might not know it (although, as a proud progressive, the facts don't matter as much as the narrative), but Ms Fluke certainly must; if she didn't glean that much information during her exhaustive study of Georgetown's health insurance policies, then she's not bright enough to be there in the first place.
"He even asked for all women taking contraceptives to send him video of them having sex." no, actually, he DIDN'T...another Progspeak Lie
i'll agree that Rush's insult was over the line...much like MOST of what comes out of the mouth of Bill Maher, David Letterman, Rolling Stone magazine...but his BIG mistake was in not addressing the salient point-that Ms Fluke, while portraying herself as some fresh-faced little co-ed caught up in a debate, is actually a middle-aged progressive 'Reproductive Rights Advocate' (and a professional one at that) who chose Georgetown SPECIFICALLY to make a public campaign against their policies, and was PLANTED in front of the cameras by a White House eager for a sideshow to divert attention from its obvious violation of the First Amendment
'slut?' not my call to make...'prostitute?' she'd be starving, if that were the case. 'Liar?' most assuredly
Redatheart| 3.12.12 @ 7:57AM
The "Slut Pride" movement that is popular only in summer when women march in self-organized parades wearing very little (thus making summer the optimal season for their demonstrations) is seeing a Surge according to reports at other websites. Apparently, its not such a bad word after all. Women that aren't respected are women that don't invite respect by how they comport themselves. When you dress, act, or talk like Madonna or Lady Gaga, do you really expect to be treated with dignity, class and respect? If you intentionally attend a university that has a code of ethics and some operational rules that don't fit with your lifestyle, yet go before the nation and waste taxpayer money having members of Congress sit and listen to your sob story, the only respect you're going to get is from has-been's and re-tread's like Fonda. Just as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton must have racial discrimination in order to make their comfortable livings and have a public platform, Fonda and Stenium need women like Fluke if they are to keep their psueudo war on women alive.
Russel| 3.12.12 @ 11:46AM
Well said - if you're going to act that way , don't get sore when you get a reaction . And that goes for Fonda too .
Alice Moore| 3.12.12 @ 8:33AM
Darin:
A prostitute asks for pay
A slut gives it away.
Mike 3/505| 3.12.12 @ 10:43PM
And a bitch, gives it to anybody but you.
Carol| 3.12.12 @ 7:14AM
I'm a woman and I agree with what Rush said about the lying FemiNazi Fluke!
Purp| 3.12.12 @ 7:51AM
Then you didn't hear her testimony, did you?
Dick Nome| 3.12.12 @ 8:09AM
It wasn't testimopny you dope. It was propoganda. I heard it and it was just what Rush said it was. RUsh was right too.
Purp| 3.12.12 @ 8:57AM
If you heard her testimony, you wouldn't believe Rush. You didn't hear it, you heard snippets from Fixed News would be my guess. Typical ploy by the propagandists on the right.
Nevertheless, it doesn't change the fact that pervert Lush Limbaugh wants college coeds to send him videos of them having sex. You condone that?
SirSurfer| 3.12.12 @ 10:05AM
You didn't read Rush's transcript, did you?
WhiteBikerTrash| 3.12.12 @ 10:20AM
Perp, don't you pay attention? There was no testimony, there was no hearing. This was a propaganda event staged to seem to be a hearing. A poorly staged press conference! There was no oath taken by a witness, therefore no testomony! Are you really that stupid or is it that you hope we are?
da monk| 3.12.12 @ 1:00PM
Question: Why wasn't Fluke, a woman, not allowed to give testimony to the Issa committee but 6 men were? What the devil do they know about a womens needs?
Johannah Bruggeman| 3.12.12 @ 9:46PM
damonk,
Because it was a hearing about religious freedom not birth control.
Ms Fluke is not a religious leader so she would have nothing to add to a hearing about the 1st amendment and religious freedom.
Come to think of it, she is not a medical professional either so what was she doing speaking at a democrat faux hearing about the medical needs of other people?
She is an activist and wanna be lawyer so she was really there to stir up trouble about a non issue.
The center for Disease Control states that 90+% of women use birth control pills at some time in their life. So it is obvious that they are plentiful and very easy to get.
spike59| 3.13.12 @ 6:19AM
Issa's committee (lloking into whether the mandate violated religious freedom) gave the Dems a choice of 'witnesses'...they chose "Rev" (hahahaha) Barry Lynn, and at the last minute, changed to Fluke, who has no experience or expertise in the subject matter before the committee...the Dems tried to break the agreed-upon rules, Issa wouldn't let them-period.
A.C.| 3.12.12 @ 4:42PM
There is no point in addressing "Purp." It is just a computer program designed to dilute and divert conservative blog. See! It got me too.
Mrs. Vito| 3.12.12 @ 5:33PM
Perp is really that stupid...
Teaghan| 3.12.12 @ 8:16AM
It wasn't testimony Purp. It was a sham hearing set up by Pelosi to distract from the real travisty which is our economy, the cost of fuel and the sham of a president we currently are burdened with.
Gary B| 3.12.12 @ 8:46AM
Now, you're talking, Teaghan. That's exactly what it is and we're falling for it.
Conservative news outlets should drop it like a hot potato, like the mainstream media dropped Joe Arpaio's unrefuted investigation into Obama's birth records and Social Security fraud.
And, by the way, the advertisers who dropped Rush learned all about conservative blowback. Are liberals so arrogant as to think they're the only ones willing to boycott?
Purp| 3.12.12 @ 8:58AM
Talk to your boys on the Republicant nomination trail - especially Moon Beam Gingrich and JFK hater Santorum ... They provide all the distraction the press needs.
George True| 3.12.12 @ 4:08PM
How about Moon Beam Purp? Everything you say is patently and provably false. Your views are so far out of mainstream American values that it places you squarely on the lunatic fringe. The moniker of Moon Beam fits YOU to a "T".
A.C.| 3.12.12 @ 4:44PM
"Purp" is not a real person. It is a computer program for infecting conservative blogs with in-context junk-mail.
Cato| 3.12.12 @ 1:29PM
There was no testimony. No committee was in session, and Mizz Fluke was not under oath. It was a propaganda event, pure and simple. Throw a 30-yr old "profesional" law student on top of a soap box and see what sticks...
Cato| 3.12.12 @ 1:30PM
There was no testimony. No committee was in session, and Mizz Fluke was not under oath. It was a propaganda event, pure and simple. Throw a 30-yr old "profesional" law student on top of a soap box and see what sticks...
Charlene| 3.12.12 @ 3:12PM
Clearly, you listen only to left talking points for your misinformation. There was no testimony you dolt.
Skippy| 3.12.12 @ 4:21PM
Testimony occurs in session, not at a presser.
Thanks for playing!
spike59| 3.13.12 @ 6:26AM
if you want to call an Obama adminstration coordinated publicity stunt 'testimony', go ahead...it just makes you look ignorant (not that has ever bothered you in the past)
clvincent| 3.12.12 @ 6:52PM
And I bet your husband tells you what to think and what to say. You're a discredit to women everywhere.
Brad| 3.13.12 @ 6:04AM
And I bet your a*****e tells you what to think and what to say. You're a discredit to humans everywhere.
clvincent| 3.13.12 @ 1:45PM
Is that all you know how to do, Brad? Take someone else's comment and twist it around to your own purposes. What? No original thoughts?
Zombie Reagan| 3.12.12 @ 10:15AM
Why waste your breath defending Hush Bimbo? He has single-handedly dumbed down the Conservative movement till nothing remains but neoconmen and evangelical shitstompers.
scotchieguy| 3.12.12 @ 7:57PM
What he did wrong is assume the woman sleeps around. There is no evidence she is a slut. That misses the point entirely. The point is she wanted BC for free. Funny, average Georgetown law students start out in the $160.000/yr range. Even worse, that is no business to others. Get your BC on your own.
Appleby| 3.12.12 @ 6:35AM
I hear much worse stuff from 12 year old boys and airheaded Gucci Gulchy women on the subways every morning on the way to work. Of course Canada has no de facto freedom of speech; mayors have been forced by the courts to verbally declare Gay Pride Week despite it being against their principles and regligion; but the requirement to allow every filthy word and deed to be pronounced and performed in every public place is just as strong here as it is in the USA.
It's time the people who are tired of this fight back.
USSAlabama| 3.12.12 @ 8:36AM
Fight back, yes and more.
I refer you to an article here at American Thinker that outlines quite well how the 60% need to choose to do business with friendlier businesses and not the ones who seem so trigger happy to jump on the boycott bandwagon.
http://www.americanthinker.com.....of_us.html
This is really excellent. We ARE a majority. We owe it to ourselves and each other to act like it!
I am in the process of creating a web page with a list of better businesses and those who react with progressives.
USSAlabama| 3.12.12 @ 8:38AM
Just wondering, does anyone else notice how the 'femi-nazi's' always seem to look so 'butch'?
Gary B| 3.12.12 @ 8:47AM
I noticed. Their men are better looking than they are. I think they're so angry because they didn't get invited to the prom.
Chico Escuela| 3.12.12 @ 9:09AM
You really think Barbara Bush is a femi-nazi ???
da monk| 3.12.12 @ 1:03PM
USSAlabama: Really. You better check with your eye doctor. Forget their politics, Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinhem are good lookers with numerous male lovers.
MM| 3.12.12 @ 2:15PM
Rachel Maddow looks like a man. So does Jeanine Godawfullo.
Ever seen Betty Freidan? Yeosh! Sally Kohn? A man.
Gloria Steinham is ugly as hell.
Von Mises Jr.| 3.12.12 @ 3:21PM
They don't actually want contraceptives for free. They want an adadictome operation no charge.
clvincent| 3.12.12 @ 6:53PM
You're a pig.
Brad| 3.13.12 @ 6:05AM
Oinked the progtard troll
clvincent| 3.12.12 @ 6:55PM
What does it matter what a woman looks like? Is that all you perverted right wingers think about? Oh, yeah, that's right. You don't like intelligence in your women. That would be too "elite".
Von Mises Jr.| 3.12.12 @ 8:02PM
We like conservative women because they are smart and hot. Palin, Bachmann, Coulter, Malkin, Haley, Pam Bondi, etc.
Most liberal women are miserable dogs, otherwise they wouldn't be liberal women.
Gary B| 3.12.12 @ 4:10PM
da monk,
There are exceptions to everything. As a rule, they're mean, bitter women who hate men, especially white men. Most liberal men are girly men, as are most Republicans in Congress.
Mrs. Vito| 3.12.12 @ 5:36PM
Any woman who's had three facelifts can look good.
jimbo| 3.12.12 @ 6:09PM
In other words, sluts.
BGinTN| 3.12.12 @ 9:08AM
One woman's opinion, she is good!
http://www.redstate.com/snarka.....for-obama/
Mike Hawk| 3.12.12 @ 6:35AM
You are not in a minority. You are incorrect on one thing, the subject is a part-time law student and professional hard-left activist. Last time the Liberals tried to get on Rush about something he said, Harry Reid stuck both left feet in his mouth. This too will pass.
Purp| 3.12.12 @ 7:53AM
Don't count on it... this has awoken women to the 1100 laws passed to attack women's health around the country at all levels of government. All they need do is say 'No' to the men, not tonite, not until you get rid of him, and Rush is gone.
Dick Nome| 3.12.12 @ 8:10AM
Dream on.
R Martin| 3.12.12 @ 8:31AM
Exactly. Ms. Fluke is exhibit #1 that such women cannot say "No" to men.
clvincent| 3.12.12 @ 6:56PM
Again, you bigoted pig, this is not about SEX. This is about women's health issues.
Brad| 3.13.12 @ 6:07AM
Again, you brainless twit, this is NOT about "women's health issues", it's about religious freedom and our right to control what WE PAY FOR.
clvincent| 3.13.12 @ 9:57AM
So, if you have a Jehovah's Witness employer, and they say that they won't allow their insurance to cover blood transfusions, you're okay with that? (JW's btw are diametrically opposed to blood transfusions, even when it is a life or death situation.)
And what if you have a Muslim boss who who doesn't want to cover any kind of birth control or anything related to the sexual organs, you're okay with that?
PolishKnight| 3.13.12 @ 11:34AM
Keep in mind that pro-feminist mangina, Purp, brought up using the P-whip.
Seriously, this doesn't work on married men and for single men, they can get plenty of sex from, er, sluts :-) in the post feminist era.
But sure, feminism is nothing but hyper chivalry with women playing their helpless damsel-in-disdress card either to play upon the men's sympathy or horniness. There aren't too many around out there like that anymore. Listen to the rap songs that most young men, including white men, listen to.
Fluke needn't worry about being considered a slut. She'll lead a nice, long, single life in a law office filling out paperwork after her 15 minutes of fame are up. She can spend all of her mad money on gifts for her nieces and nephews...
Nancy in NC| 3.12.12 @ 8:14AM
No one is attacking women. Why should we pay for their "medicine" or "fun"? If she can go to Georgetown, she can afford both. She is not my responsibility.
Purp| 3.12.12 @ 8:59AM
She wasn't testifying for herself - but YOU didn't hear her testimony before Congress either, did you?
WhiteBikerTrash| 3.12.12 @ 10:30AM
Perp, no one heard "Testimony before Congress" Why do you continue to repeat such a transparent lie? No Congressional hearing was held (Check the Congressional schedule). No oath was given ( a prerequisite to testomony). No wonder you are Progressive, you accept lies to easily.
SUBVET| 3.12.12 @ 7:23PM
She's a Soros plant...................
Bobloblaw| 3.12.12 @ 8:34AM
start naming all 1100 laws. Do you consider ultrasound before abortion to be a threat to woman's health?
Purp| 3.12.12 @ 9:00AM
A mandate by the government is not an attack on women's health, but finding a way to circumvent caring for women's health on political principles is. I'm fine with government mandates - how about you?
Reality1| 3.12.12 @ 9:09AM
You are fine with government mandates? So, you really do not value the individual freedom you "claim" women deserve?
Teaghan| 3.12.12 @ 8:34AM
The "war" Purp, is on the liberties and freedoms of the American people.
Purp| 3.12.12 @ 9:02AM
Oh, like the Freedom to have a vaginal probe inserted in you, which is medically unnecessary and invasion of your most private parts. How about a penile probe before a man can marry, to prove he can be a man? Would you accept anything close to that?
PolishKnight| 3.12.12 @ 10:07AM
World to end tomorrow, women disproportionately affected.
The man who wrote that famous line died recently (pity I don't recall his name, it's a fantastic point).
"Women's health this, women's interests that, gimme gimme gimme." Indeed, Purp, when men's rights are violated (such as the recent cruise ship disaster when the "equal" women demanded special seating, feminists are either silent, rationalize the special treatment using sexist chauvanism (they're baby making machines, when they choose to be of course), or raise a small peep of protest in order to cover themselves (on page 12 of the NYT, a feminist letter writer protested, so there!)
Of course, Gloria Steinem didn't go out to Italy to protest the unequal treatment of women because it SUITED women in that case.
Feminism is about as much about "civil rights" as a tobacco lobbyist is for the "civil rights" of free speech to put up signs near schools or the milk lobby for the "civil rights" of farmers to demand government subsidies.
So Purp, shove a sock in it. I really don't shed tears about your every complaint and someday in the near future most men will feel the same way. Enjoy the victim-princess act while it lasts, honey.
squalis| 3.12.12 @ 10:08AM
What are you talking about? Just making it up as you go along? If you are talking about Virginia, while I don't agree with the pre-abortion ultrasound law, it is an abdominal ultrasound requirement, not a transvaginal ultrasound requirement. None-the-less, this is a State's right issue, not a Constitutionally prohibited Federal mandate.
squalis| 3.12.12 @ 10:11AM
Oh, one more thing...you're a jerk! (Is the "j" word now a prohibited word?)
Teaghan| 3.12.12 @ 1:33PM
Some gals may be on the fence when the go to have an abortion and seeing their baby's heartbeat may hopefully change their minds. There are other options you know. And please don't use the "vaginal probe" intert BS, Purp. How the hell do you think an abortion is normally done? By osmosis? Sheesh........
From the Desk of Media Matters| 3.12.12 @ 6:15PM
Pierre Putz "Purp" Pelosi,
Stop embarrassing us.
The MM accounting department has pointed out that 93.8% of the expenses you attempt to be reimbursed for involve anal probing of some sort.
The MM accounting department no longer accepts any claims for any entertainment expenses in anticipation of potentially crippling legal costs associated with the exposure of our operation by The Daily Caller and others.
This has been explained to you in the past and is not evidence of 'Anally Bigoted Anti-Probery', 'Prejudiced Probation of Anal Exploratory Procedures', 'Probus Interuptus Analous Anally Anuscatory Discrimination', or 'Sexual Anal Probationary Harrassment', as you insistently allege in multiple daily phone calls each one of which has been recorded.
Stop embarrassing us.
- MM staff
Rachel| 3.12.12 @ 8:58PM
Purp, why are all you libs harping on this vaginal ultrasound thing in Virgina? Are you all so dumb you don't know how an abortion is actually done?! Do you know what they stick up there before they scrape that baby out?! I'd take a vaginal ultrasound any day over that--I've had both so you can trust me--though my child was already passed away, I had the same procedure as a woman with a live birth and I ended up in the ER from massive hemorrhaging. Woman's health, MY ASS. All you libs care about it your "agenda". You could care less about the actual people involved.
W| 3.12.12 @ 1:02PM
Purp,
Can you give us a cite to the 1100 laws and who passed them? I bet you are just pasting drivel from you lefty emails.
Rachel| 3.12.12 @ 9:08PM
Wow...
macwell| 3.12.12 @ 6:41AM
This kind of nonsense happens because we the people have allowed that den of lawyers and thieves, we jokingly refer to as Congress, to turn into the good old boys club. The irresponsible way they've lied to us, stolen from us, and made fools of us for the last 50+ years is our fault.
We the people, the silent majority cannot remain silent any longer.
We must remove all the people who think America needs to be "fundamentally transformed".
We must also begin the process of removing all career politicians from our political landscape.
These so called representatives trade their votes like baseball cards and seem to only care about their next election, or next stock tip, or next junket, on our dime, of course.
It's time to clean House, (of Representatives that is), and give our NEW President a little help, God knows he's/she's going to need it.
Marie commenting| 3.12.12 @ 1:16PM
macwell,
I can't agree with you more on Term Limits.Two times around is more than enough for any politician.
Marie commenting| 3.12.12 @ 1:17PM
macwell,
I can't agree with you more on Term Limits.Two times around is more than enough for any politician.
Clint| 3.12.12 @ 6:42AM
Liberals Suffer From Conservative Women Misogyny Derangement Syndrome.
PecosPete| 3.12.12 @ 6:44AM
I believe xxxxxxxxx and frankly xx. xxxxx should be xxxxxxxxxx on the other hand Ms. xxxxx really could be x xxxx but then I don't have any personal knowledge.
For the trolls: Censorship lets me say what I really believe. Ain't it wonderful?
Purp| 3.12.12 @ 7:54AM
And, you can't yell "Fire" in a theater, so free speech be damned when you hurt people.
Truth to Power| 3.12.12 @ 8:19AM
This is just what you expect from brown shirts. They can't really help themselves.
gearjammer| 3.12.12 @ 8:34AM
I guess Purp forgot about that famous democrat Larry Flynt winning his case against Falwell in SJC. Still, looks like another week of Fluke nonsense so no talk of record red ink, no growth, and so forth. The other side gets to brainwash the people that 8.3 unemployment is success, and Obama's energy policy is what is killing us at pump and it will only get much worse after election. More hidden craziness about Obamacare emerge and here we are with this utter Fluke idiocy-thanks to Limbaugh a man you all consider the most astute poilitical genuis ever. God help the USA-ypor next song Lee Greenwood.
Purp| 3.12.12 @ 9:05AM
Yes, 8.3% unemployment with 227, 000 new private sector jobs AND 500, 000 more people coming back to the labor force. Quite an achievement. If the rate drops below 8% in a few months, whatever will you do? Obama beats all your boys now in head to head matches and in majority of the "toss-up" states. Face it, it's over.
gearjammer| 3.12.12 @ 9:57AM
Fash for purp 8 percent stinks. 7 stinks 6 stinks. Growth rate stinks, deficeit is crazy. gas and emergy prices and policy a horror show. Dream on nut job.
PolishKnight| 3.12.12 @ 10:14AM
I remember when GW was also "creating jobs" and the leftist media called them "McJobs" and proclaimed they were worthless because they were merely part-time or low wage jobs. It's a double standard.
I wouldn't count on the unemployment rate going below 8% for quite a while and here's why: Whenever jobs are being created, Obama and elitist Republicans will seek to give them to illegal aliens for their own interests (Obama needs the future voters and Republicans want cheap labor.) Both are recipes for an anemic economy. Welcome to Greece!
And gas prices are going to hurt Obama, big time. Because it's posted on nearly every street corner, people are hypersensitive about it. My wife drives 10 miles to Costco to save a quarter. I laughed and told her that by the time she drove there, waited in line for a half hour, and drove back she saved on the order of two bucks for an hour worth of effort. But she feels a need to save that money because she sees the price several times a day.
Think about it: Millions of signs reminding people several times a day "Obama is ripping you off X cents". I'm surprised a federal court hasn't proclaimed gas station price signs an element of political speech...
squalis| 3.12.12 @ 10:18AM
The true unemployment number from the bureau of labor statistics, the U-6, never reported by your MSM media friends is 14.9%.
MikeBee| 3.12.12 @ 11:52AM
"The Great Presidential Failure," in liberal's eyes, was George W. Under W's watch, unemployment hit 4.5% more than once, and normally was between 5% and 6%. Wonder Boy's 8.3% is nothing to be proud of, Purp. It's WAY worse than what it was under the guy YOU thought was a failure. Only those in the Democrat Alzheimer's party, the party who can't remember anything past today, can be happy with 8.3%.
Marie commenting| 3.12.12 @ 1:20PM
Probably all government jobs!!!!
From the Desk of Media Matters| 3.12.12 @ 1:38PM
Pierre Putz "Purp" Pelosi,
Stop embarrassing us.
Even our other bottom rung MM mindless parrots except Brian "Jack London" Cutteridge know 227,000 new jobs need to be created each month just to offset the growth of population and does nothing to alleviate the 23 million unemployed.
You are an idiot even by all our bottom rung MM mindless parrots with the possible exception of Brian "Jack London" Cutteridge.
Stop embarrassing us.
- MM staff
SUBVET| 3.12.12 @ 7:27PM
8.3 is BS lets talk about the real numbers over 15.3%
Alice Moore| 3.12.12 @ 8:39AM
Purp, an opinion with which you disagree is "Fire!" in a crowded theatre to you.
PolishKnight| 3.12.12 @ 10:17AM
The SC justice who used that line regretted having said it precisely due to abuses such as yours. Clearly, this restriction was to prevent slander and fraud.
Rush argued that Fluke, in principle, is a prostitute if she's expecting people to pay for her sexual activities or a slut if she's sleeping around enough she needs that much BC. I think they're rather poor political arguments myself but they are certainly political arguments rather than personal attacks or a realistic expectation that he's saying she's literally a slut or prostitute.
Teaghan| 3.12.12 @ 8:39AM
Do you not think that Maher "hurt" Sarah Palin and her daughter when he referred to her as a c@nt and that she's stupid? I can assure you Purp, she doesn't need you to "protect" her from hate speech, she knows the left and how they opperate. Life isn't fair and you can't make it so by shutting down Rush and other conservative radio people. Can't you see what the left is doing and that women are nothing but pawns in this game?
Purp| 3.12.12 @ 9:07AM
And, yet there isn't the uproar over Ann Coulter who is way more crass than most entertainers - because she IS an entertainer. She is not the head of the Republicant party as is Rush Loudmouth, so what she says can be dismissed as is Maher's comments.
PolishKnight| 3.12.12 @ 10:31AM
If Rush is the head of the Republican Party, then the NYT is the head of the Democrat party with one main difference:
Rush is making money. :-)
Mike 3/505| 3.12.12 @ 10:49PM
Knight,
You owe me for new keyboard. Mountain Dew spewed all over mine.
Regards,
Mike
Aindyin| 3.12.12 @ 9:18AM
So calling this slut a slut somehow hurt her, BS. If she wants to be a lawyer she had better put on her big girl shoes and get over it.
Kenny| 3.12.12 @ 6:56AM
Do you want to strike a blow for free speech?
Ridicule political correctness whenever you see and mock ALOL those trying to enforce it from bureaucrats to teachers to the media to the clergy and so on.
Carol| 3.12.12 @ 7:13AM
Please don't purchase anything from Proflowers and Blue Mountain Arts - created by my gay rep Jared Polis - C-Colorado (I don't think I need to tell you what the C- stands for).
Drop all companies who have dropped Rush.
Stand up for Rush or they are coming for you next!
nedb| 3.12.12 @ 7:38AM
As I understand it, A couple of the companies have asked to come back. Rush said no.
Purp| 3.12.12 @ 7:55AM
And, you're a woman? How ill-informed you are. sad, very sad. go back to the cave with your caveman.
gearjammer| 3.12.12 @ 8:38AM
You in love with that famous democrat Larry Flynnt Purp. He is such a great friend of women. Especially those afflicted with personality disorders and addiction problems. SHUT UP you rotten, dirty, stinking fraud.
Teaghan| 3.12.12 @ 8:41AM
That's right Gear. They will defend his right to produce filth and again use women to make millions.
Is liberism a mental disease?
gearjammer| 3.12.12 @ 9:01AM
This pig Larry Flynt-famous democrat-is already offering bounties for dirt on Republicans. Money from efforts of most exploited young women is USA. They scout bus stations and air ports and shelters for young messed up women who come to the great state of California to follow their " dreams". Unions offer them zero protection. This industry is big money-huge profits-cheap labor. Bey ya alot of big shot libs and democrats are profitting in it from their venture capitol funds, private equity corps, et. Where is the GOP machinery to go after this ? No place. Fox-ha.
Purp| 3.12.12 @ 9:09AM
Hustler magazine was the the worst piece of trash, and I never would condone nor support it. But amazing how many of you know all about it. Titillate you at all guys? Come on, be honest, you pigs.
gearjammer| 3.12.12 @ 10:01AM
Clinton the Pig had him in WH celebrating. Pig Pelosi and Reid want dirt his bounty on GOP will bring. Pig Obama excepts all the bundled money from Porno sources-Pig Hollywood made a movie glorifying him. Yoy people are corrupt rancid garbage-your all cat feces.
Purp| 3.12.12 @ 9:08AM
Shove it up your gears. Larry Flynt and all he stood for can go to h* for all I care.
gearjammer| 3.12.12 @ 10:03AM
He is a big man-a big democrat-Larry Flynt famous deocrat. You 're peoiple are sucking his joint for money and help.
Purp| 3.12.12 @ 10:23AM
You seem to know more about him than I do... so who is sucking who again?
From the Desk of Media Matters| 3.12.12 @ 10:23PM
Pierre Putz "Purp" Pelosi,
Stop embarrassing us.
You are an idiot.
Even our other bottom rung MM mindless parrots know Barry "I'd like higher gas prices" Obama is sucking the freedom and wealth from every American.
Do not mention anything that serves to remind these readers of Barry "I'd like higher gas prices" Obama and what he is doing to this country.
Stop embarrassing us.
- MM staff
PolishKnight| 3.12.12 @ 10:20AM
Yeah yeah yeah Purp. Do as you say, not as you do. You've climbed in bed with him, so to speak (I can see you crying now as being a poor helpless woman victim of such language), and now you're claiming you could care less.
That's the problem with big government socialism: When you build a frankenstein monster in your basement and set it loose on the countryside, you have responsibility for it. Bill Clinton probably loved to read Hustler.
Bottom line: Don't expect the great socialist revolution to result in Sweden. You're going to get Detroit and Mexico and they if think the traditionalist men here are sexist...
Purp| 3.12.12 @ 10:26AM
Since i am no woman, I'm afraid your arrow missed it's mark, oh Polish wonder. Going back to the caveman days where it's eat or be eaten, kill or be killed is the conservative way of life - everyone for himself, not the democratic way ... but then you've been indoctrinated like a good little Bundist by the Fixed News' of the world ... so ready, now, goosestep in unison, right over the cliff.
PolishKnight| 3.12.12 @ 10:34AM
The caveman slur is rather amusing considering that the left now celebrates non-European cultures as superior and "in tune with nature."
And it's not the conservative way of life but rather the way of life for the (mostly male) taxpayer who has to earn a living or die while government union workers can warm a seat or a welfare recipient get paid for breeding children into poverty.
Conservative men are the backbone of the economy.
Batman| 3.12.12 @ 10:29PM
Riddle me this Robin:
If the evil fiend and friend of fiends evil, the Joker Obama, the Riddler Pelosi, and the Penguin Reid, obviously does not have a penis, yet now claims is no woman, what IS this diabolical menace to society, and threat to the very existence of Gotham, my astute young ally?
Robin| 3.12.12 @ 10:30PM
Holy creepy freaks of perverted degenerate deviancy Batman!
Batman| 3.12.12 @ 10:31PM
Right you are, Robin. We must protect Gotham from this sicko punk no matter how disgusting and vile the task.
Robin| 3.12.12 @ 10:35PM
You have to wonder about a sicko punk who is such a creepy freak of perverted degenerate deviancy that two crusaders wearing tights and masks and capes are disgusted by someone as sicko a punk as this depraved as batshit retard.
David| 3.12.12 @ 8:44AM
Spoken like a true misogynistic troll. Heaven forbid a women should have a different opinion then you. They should only think what Gloria Steinem and other "feminists" tell them to think. For shame.
Teaghan| 3.12.12 @ 9:02AM
That is why they hate Palin. She dare stray from the leftist femi-nazi camp and be....OMG.....
TRADITIONAL!!!!!
Purp| 3.12.12 @ 10:27AM
Anyone that hates Palin isn't thinking... that dumb bimbo couldn't find her way out of a paper bag - there's nothing there there.
Game Change, anyone?
sonofagunny| 3.12.12 @ 12:11PM
Game Change??? Seriously??? if that HBO hit piece is the basis for your opinion you might want to rethink things. BTW, there is nothing there for the boy wonder either...57 states or Corpseman, anyone?
George True| 3.12.12 @ 4:16PM
You must really loathe yourself. Otherwise, why would you continue to denigrate a woman who obviously has many times the smarts, savvy, and wisdom as you? After all, she was smart, focused, and driven enough to win elective office, raise a family, and become a multi-millionaire. You only accomplishment is becoming resident Communist troll at TAS. Compared to you, she looks like a genius.
clvincent| 3.13.12 @ 10:01AM
If she was so traditional, why didn't she stay home and take care of her children? Why did she drag a newborn baby with special needs and health problems around the country in her desperate bid to become famous?
People who disliked Palin do so only because of her ignorance, vindictiveness and complete inability recognize when she is wrong.
Purp| 3.12.12 @ 9:10AM
She ain't listening to her sisters - must be under a man's subjugation.
Teaghan| 3.12.12 @ 1:39PM
What?
Ret. Marine| 3.12.12 @ 7:33AM
" hush Rush syndrome" yeah right, in their dreams, and that's about it because they have neither the intellectual or honesty to state their positions anywhere near their so called truth. But, hey, don't let them in on this, they might get the impression someone out there gives a damn about what they think or say for that matter. I know for a fact I don't even listen to their lies and haven't for years now. That's all they have is their lies and as near as I can tell, no one I know either believes of trust them, so why start now. Life is too short to have to listen to lip spittle and too precious to take their words to mean anything close to the truth. And do remember, as they have found out lately, a boycott works both ways.
Redatheart| 3.12.12 @ 7:43AM
Both Fonda and Steinum know hate speech when they hear it. It can be argued that Hanoi Jane is largely responsible for the aborrent treatment Viet Nam war vets rec'd when returning home. THis past weekend a community in CO celebrated a vet of that era with the local American Legion paying to replace his Purple Heart medal that had been stolen. "Thank you" was finally said to a hero.
Jane and Gloria can burn their bra's again but as a woman raised in the era where they were at their height, I, and every other woman I know in ALL age groups, want nothing to do with the repackaging of their nonsense. They are protected under the Constitution to spew this latest effort to draw attention to themselves. After a string of pathetic B movies, failed personal relationships, exercise videos, peddling their opinions in books and living off royalities of really good movies they didn't appear in, these two apparently have a new message. Go ahead and have your say. You are going up against 20 million Rush listeners. Add several million more that follow Hannity, Beck, Levin and Savage and if you'll put your bullhorns down long enough to listen, you will certainly hear US roar. Go ahead and try to recreate yourselves as Team Talk Terminators, but remember, that Constitution that you both despise so much, protects both your right to publicly depise conservative talk radio hosts and the voices you're trying to silence. Tread lightly. Better yet, don't Tread On Me or the millions of women like me that are focused on REAL issues and problems. You can say what you will but we're sticking with America's Truth Detector.
Purp| 3.12.12 @ 7:59AM
It's more like 2,000, 000 Rush listeners .. the 20 million number came from Rush's staff - exaggerations anyone?
Rush lied, turned this to sex and that is NOT what the woman testified about. If any of you had bothered to listen to her testimony, you would be questioning Rush's perverted comments too. During the daytime, I might add, when children can be listening to the old, fat turd of a pervert.
Dick Nome| 3.12.12 @ 8:11AM
Go back to Maher and Liebowitz. Your seem to like that kind of crap.
Teaghan| 3.12.12 @ 8:46AM
You're starting to sound desparate Purp and I think I hear MoveOn calling you home.
Now go away.
Purp| 3.12.12 @ 9:14AM
Desperate? Hahaha ... Checked the polls lately? Obama beats all your boys in a one on one matchup.
Teaghan| 3.12.12 @ 1:39PM
What?
Purp| 3.12.12 @ 1:45PM
Go to RealClearPolitics.com - no Democratic leaning site and read the head to head polls on Obama vs. Romney, etc. ... here's a start dittohead:
http://www.realclearpolitics.c.....-1171.html
From the Desk of Media Matters| 3.12.12 @ 2:33PM
Pierre Putz "Purp" Pelosi,
Stop embarrassing us.
Even our other bottom rung MM mindless parrots except Brian "Jack London" Cutteridge know 1980 polls around this time of year indicated Carter with 58% would win in a landslide over Reagan with 40%.
Stop embarrassing us.
When Obama loses badly for the same reasons Carter did we may well all starve bottom rung and top rung alike without the benevolence of the productive classes.
Stop embarrassing us.
- MM staff
clvincentcpa| 3.12.12 @ 7:04PM
Stop it. It's not funny.
From the Desk of Media Matters| 3.12.12 @ 7:22PM
Just the type of response even we at MM expect from those females on our side that come from stupid lying sluts exactly like you and Sandra Fluke the middle aged professional radical activist for feminist and gender and sexuality and free prophylactics studies about to publically announce her homosexuality to the world.
Stop embarrassing even us at MM all you stupid lying sluts exactly like Sandra Fluke and clvincentcpa or CLVINCENT or whatever name you are stupidly lying under like the slut you are.
- MM staff
From the Desk of Media Matters| 3.12.12 @ 7:32PM
PS:
Send a photo to our offices.
A significant office pool being run simultaneously with the NCAA tournament but with more money being bet is riding on whether clvincentcpa or CLVINCENT or what name you are stupidly lying under like the slut you are is uglier than Rachel Hillary Rachel
Ruth Rodham Maddow Ginsberg D'Alesandro Bader or not.
Thanks for the pic in advance.
-MM staff
clvincent| 3.13.12 @ 10:07AM
Typical. Honey, you'd be dazzled by my beauty -- in addition to which I also have brains (I'm a CPA). Probably too scary for a cave man like yourself.
I feel honored to be called a 'slut' and 'ugly' by the likes of you. Fortunately, I am adult enough to know that it just means I'm doing something right.
Now go crawl back under your rock, little boy. The women are here now. We can handle it. :-)
From the Desk of Media Matters| 3.13.12 @ 12:27PM
Can MM staff rely on a photo you have in fact sent to us?
Your blatant bigotry against men who had somehow managed to live past their own mother's unalienable right to kill their own flesh and blood in prehistoric times has us uncertain you have in fact sent us a photo.
Your blatant bigotry against men who are still living or reliving their childhood now, who have somehow managed to live past their own mother's unalienable right to kill them when they were completely defenseless, has us uncertain you have in fact sent us a photo.
Your blatant bigotry against men who are living now but are scared of women who are smarter, who managed to live past their own mother's unalienable right to kill their own unborn babies, has us uncertain you have in fact sent us a photo.
Your blatant bigotry against men who are living now but are miserable they don't have the attentions of women who are dazzlingly beautiful, who somehow managed to live past their own mother's unalienable right to kill their own flesh and blood, has us uncertain you have in fact sent us a photo.
Your blatant bigotry against men and women who believe no person has an unalienable right to kill their own innocent and defenseless unborn flesh and blood babies, who have somehow managed to live past their own mother's unalienable right to kill them when they were innocent and defenseless unborn flesh and blood babies, has us uncertain you have in fact sent us a photo.
Your blatant bigotry against men and women who hold as a self-evident truth that all persons are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with the unalienable right to life not to mention liberty for each and every American, who have somehow managed to live past their own mother's unalienable right to kill their own innocent and defenseless unborn flesh and blood babies, has us uncertain you have in fact sent us a photo.
Your profession allows us to assume you are accurately and appropriately aware of the value of money but we remain uncertain you have in fact sent us a photo to determine who now owns the money in the pool being wagered on your looks.
Those wagerers who have risked their own money on you being in fact a dazzling beauty will be rewarded magnificently, as their odds are currently 100000:1, which as an accountant you must be aware means for every dollar they wager that you are attractive they will receive 100,000 dollars in return, though truth be told those odds continue to skyrocket.
Can MM staff rely on that photo 'mizz' clvincent "uggo" CLVINCENTPA?
- MM staff
clvincent| 3.13.12 @ 12:59PM
Did you forget to take your meds, honey?
Let's clear some things up, shall we?
1. Mrs. Vincent.
2. Your absolute bigotry towards anyone who thinks differently than you has me uncertain as to why I should send you a photo? Do I get to be in on the pool?
3. I have a beautiful daughter and wonderful son, and I give thanks every day that they are loving, kind, open minded people who don't try to judge other people or other people's lives -- unlike you and your friends at MM.
4. Are you a 4Chan guy or Anon? Do you still live in your mother's basement?
From the Desk of Media Matters| 3.13.12 @ 3:18PM
With the dazzling brains in your possession do you not know what MM is all about?
The primary purpose is for mommy's basement types being able to live off of others, this is including immoral women who are sluts by definition being able to get their contraceptives off of others, which you, genius, through your dazzling brains are jeopardizing with every post.
We MM types lament the fact that all MM type womyn are more dazzling beautiful with bags over their heads, and are sick and tired of you uggos, especially when you jeopardize our right to live off of others mizz genius who apparently is even bigoted against her own allies.
How beautiful would your daughter be, and how wonderful would your son be, had you exercised your unalienable right to lovingly, kindly, open mindedly killed your own flesh and blood when they were equally created and were innocent and defenseless?
No more stupid uggos.
- MM staff
clvincent| 3.13.12 @ 4:04PM
That would never have happened, because I would not have an abortion. That is my right to make that choice, just as it is the right of other women to make their own choices. I respect that other people have opinions and beliefs that are different from my own -- but neither of us has the right to foist those beliefs on other people. And no religious organization has any right to prevent their employees from having what they want covered for the insurance that the employees pay for.
Now, isn't it time for your nap, little boy. I have tax returns to prepare, and you're boring me now.
Yaaawwwwnn
From the Desk of Media Matters| 3.13.12 @ 7:01PM
God help your children if you raised them with brains on display like that.
Please God we'll take the uggos just no more stupid uggos we beg you - even as we deny you are the one who endows rights - as even tired little boys needing a nap can see that rights are really endowed by womyn with brains such as Goria Steinem and Hanoi Fonda and Slutra Fluke and clvincent.
God help all the children of these idiots should they be lovingly and kindly and open mindedly born.
- MM staff
SirSurfer| 3.12.12 @ 9:52AM
She said:
“Without insurance coverage, contraception, as you know, can cost a woman over $3,000 during law school."
“Just last week, a married female student told me that she had to stop using contraception because she and her husband just couldn’t fit it into their budget anymore.
Was she talking abut sex or treatment or perhaps both? At no point in her speech did she claim contraception did not include birth control. Thus, she did testify, in part, about sex.
She was complaining about lack of coverage, though revealed that the plan did cover treatment for which a contraceptive might be used as a secondary treatment.
She said:
“In 65% of the cases at our school, our female students were interrogated by insurance representatives and university medical staff about why they needed prescription and whether they were lying about their symptoms.
Why would she say this if the door was closed to any BC prescription?
It would appear the insurance plan distinguished between treatment and BC.
Finally,she continues that the insurance is not subsidized by Georgetown. Is she making a case she is compelled to buy the Georgetown plan?
She had a choice.
She and her classmates chose. She said:
“We expected that when 94% of students oppose the policy the university would respect our choices regarding insurance students pay for – completely unsubsidized by the university.
They should have paid for a different policy frm an insurer more to her liking. Nothing appeared to stop her, and she and her classmates could pay premiums. What stopped her?
Redatheart| 3.12.12 @ 11:56AM
Purp, you and your ilk are arguing for 'civility', right? You don't like name-calling, right? How about presenting your thoughts with some professionalism rather than using slander and name-calling as you have here? You've helped load the comment section of this important article with nonsense and repetition. This article presents an opposing view to what the news media is pushing as headline news. They aren't espousing anything other than the liberal agenda regarding this issue. Some helpful advice: Make yourself some signs and go stand on a street corner where yelling and name-calling are accepted ways to express political opinion. You'll probably find a willing OWStreeter or two to join you. Lucky for you and the others here that trash a web article with comments unbecoming of civil discourse and useful exchange of ideas that Spectator doesn't scrub and delete and eliminate YOUR freedom of speech. See how this works, now? Everybody has a voice and everybody wants their opinion heard, so you've had your say, over and over and over. Please accept responsibilities of being an American citizen and if you're going to fight, fight for the rights of all to express themselves. The next liberty or freedom that is extinguished just might be one that is very important to you.
Purp| 3.12.12 @ 1:55PM
So what's stopping you from expressing what you just did? The fact that I answer or take issue with any opinions on here is MY right and it will not be infringed.
Many on here defend Lush Limbaugh, but here is man that downgrades and condescends to women and he's been married 4 times? No wonder. They can only stand him so long apparently.
Moreover, I have no problem name-calling, especially when called purp-this and purp-that. However, when an innocent person is singled out and besmerched by the likes of Loudmouth, I certainly voice my opinion loudly and often. The fact that I use your own tactics and you don't like it is immaterial to me.
You want civil discourse, you start it. You started it down the other path when Newt Gingrich blew into town in '94. Tone him and his like down and we will too.
Being nice and courteous is seen as a weakness to your side, so until you sow the seeds of civil discourse, you will reap the whirlwind. Live with it until YOU change it.
Mrs. Vito| 3.12.12 @ 5:46PM
Right on, sister! Couldn't have said it better!
martin j smith| 3.12.12 @ 7:44AM
This is a continuous old story not really new. However my question is this: Is the Republican Party relevant in our political environment. The 2008 election was last to Republicans because of GWB's very passive and poor perforance in his second term as well as his failure to respond to crticis--he was a coward. Nopt classy. McCaine was a goof ball or just currupt and had no intention of desiring to win. 2010--the Tea Party wins but Republican Establis2ment moan and groan about it. Now--Voters are tired of the Republican Crap but even more tired and pissed at Obama. So they will go for Mickey Mouse.
Rush Limbaugsh is a symbol not f the Republican Party but of the real oposition to the LEFT. The Conservative and Tea Party base. It has been way over due that there is a vital need for strong rebuttal to the Socialist garbage. When will that happen ? Antlee ?
24AheadDotCom | 3.12.12 @ 2:32PM
What we need is a mainstream opposition to the areas where the far-left are noxious. One such area is attempts to shut down speech.
Instead, what we get is a non-mainstream opposition to the areas where the left is most popular. I.e., the Teapartiers trying to roll back social spending.
The proof is in the pudding, and in this case it should be obvious that the TPers are just one big fail. The TPers aren't willing or capable of keeping their loudest supporter on the air. The TPers aren't even capable of understanding this paragraph or learning from it. Instead, they'll dismiss this paragraph even as Rush loses advertiser after advertiser.
somnolence| 3.12.12 @ 7:45AM
The word "prostitute" was properly applied by Rush, it isn't vulgar, and he really had nothing to apologize about. Merle Haggard once stated in an interview that he had "prostituted" himself many times by recording silly stuff that would sell to the public. So the particular word was appropriately applied.
Purp| 3.12.12 @ 8:01AM
You didn't see her testimony either, did you? Why do you believe this windbag that everything he says is true? it's not, and he hides behind "I'm an entertainer", and feels justified to make shit up, when he clearly is a political wonk. It's sad you don't check the facts - listen to her testimony yourself, then decide.
Truth to Power| 3.12.12 @ 8:23AM
Testimony? Like a typical brown shirt their propaganda becomes testimony. Political stunts that occur in front of a committee in Congress are still political stunts. It is slipping away and they can't stand it.
A.C.| 3.12.12 @ 4:45PM
Forget about "Purp." It is not a real person, just a spam-bot aimed at conservative blogs.
Teaghan| 3.12.12 @ 8:50AM
HEY STUPID! There's this thing called TV and they played the loop of this "reproductive activist" spewing her silly story that was fed to her by the left. WE HAVE SEEN IT and we know what she said. Maybe it's YOU who doesn't know what she said!
Truth to Power| 3.12.12 @ 8:54AM
http://jewishworldreview.com/0312/steyn031212.php3
Here is a fine take from Mark Steyn.
Purp| 3.12.12 @ 9:15AM
When you resort to name-calling you're either ignorant, stupid or evil. Which are you? Either way, it shows you have no argument, no debate skills, nothing to offer so why don't you just shut up?
Truth to Power| 3.12.12 @ 9:18AM
That is quite a self indictment. Thanks for letting us see your inner conversations.
Purp| 3.12.12 @ 10:22AM
Oh, the old "I'm rubber and you're glue" ... How mature of you ... as I suspected, you have no real response.
ChristIsKing| 3.12.12 @ 10:32AM
No, he is calling out your hypocrisy, the same way I did.
albert constantine jr.| 3.12.12 @ 12:36PM
Actually, Purp; I think it is an accurate statement. Let's take a look at one of your many recent posts:
Purp| 3.9.12 @ 4:32PM
Why, how wonderful - the first Gay President - makes your head explode that a gay boy could rule over you, huh?
Included therein you refer to an adult male of color who happens to be President of the United States as a "boy". How racist of you.
Likewise, your condescending treatment of the issue of homosexuality reveals your homophobia.
Off to the reeducation camp with you.
Truth to Power| 3.12.12 @ 12:53PM
Projecting is what you folks do. It is obvious and you should hide it better.
ChristIsKing| 3.12.12 @ 10:08AM
I thought it would be fun to go back and see all of the names you have called people on here.
pervert
liar (both rush and other commenters)
propagandists
moon beam gingrich
jfk hater santorum
loudmouth
ill informed
cavewoman
caveman
pigs
old
fat
turd
windbag
wonk
old white republicant bigots
So are you ignorant, stupid or evil? Those are the only three options you left me with.
irish19| 3.12.12 @ 11:19AM
There is a fourth: all of the above.
From the Desk of Media Matters| 3.12.12 @ 1:49PM
Pierre Putz "purp" Pelosi,
Stop embarrassing us.
We have suspended your $5 per post payments as you have previously been informed last week.
Even our other bottom rung MM mindless parrots except Brian "Jack London" Cutteridge know you are embarrassing us.
Stop embarrassing us.
- MM staff
Jack London| 3.12.12 @ 8:07AM
Ha ha - poor conservatives whining about people using their free speech rights to campaign against filth like Rush. Ain't no-one banning anything but sounds like you cons want to ban the right to voice objections.
Bobloblaw| 3.12.12 @ 8:37AM
Did you actually read the piece??? No conservative wants to ban people from disagreeing with Rush Limbaugh. It's the left that wants to use to coercive power of govt to take him off the air.
Teaghan| 3.12.12 @ 8:51AM
Jack's mamma didn't finish reading him the story.
Jack London| 3.12.12 @ 9:13AM
If you think the FCC is going to ban Limbaugh then you're wetting your pants over nothing. It isn't going to happen, even though he probably broke the law and has done so many times before:
"It is a violation of federal law to air obscene programming at any time. It is also a violation of federal law to air indecent programming or profane language during certain hours. Congress has given the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) the responsibility for administratively enforcing these laws. The FCC may revoke a station license, impose a monetary forfeiture or issue a warning if a station airs obscene, indecent or profane material.”
daddio| 3.12.12 @ 12:18PM
Putting Rush off the air for something like is, there is no surer way to galvanize the conservative and moderate movement into one. It would be a huge gift to the Republican party. Any thinking Republican candidate has got to be saying "Oh, please, oh, please!!!"
Jack London| 3.12.12 @ 12:54PM
'Any thinking Republican candidate'
If you spot one do tell - I thought they were extinct.
daddio| 3.12.12 @ 2:39PM
Ron Paul comes to mind-the only freedom loving candidate.
gs425| 3.12.12 @ 8:24AM
There is no right to FALSELY yell fire in a crowded theater.
Bobloblaw| 3.12.12 @ 8:38AM
How is calling Fluke a slut yelling fire in a crowded theatre??? How is public safety put at risk by calling Fluke a slut and prostitute? Answer: It isnt.
Alice Moore| 3.12.12 @ 8:47AM
Bobloblaw, any disagreement with the Left is "Fire!" in a crowded theater.
albert constantine jr.| 3.12.12 @ 8:57AM
GS245 is technically correct, and Mr. Antle ("There is no right to yell "fire" in a crowded theater. ") and Purp ("And, you can't yell "Fire" in a theater, so free speech be damned when you hurt people") got it wrong.
One has a right (and arguably a duty) to shout "fire" in a crowded theater, particularly if the place is going up in flames. The act not protected by the First Amendment is the false claim of fire, when the speaker knows the information is not true.
Typical White Person| 3.12.12 @ 8:38AM
Another perfect example of "It's Different When We Do it." Misogyny, wars, debt, etc, are all perfectly acceptable when liberals do it.
clvincentcpa| 3.12.12 @ 7:06PM
You've got that backwards. Misogyny, debt, wars, etc, are all perfectly acceptable when conservatives do it.
Bobloblaw| 3.12.12 @ 8:40AM
When I look at Steinman and Fonda, I think we are only 10-20 years away from getting rid of the generation born in the 40s and raised in the 60s. America will be a better place when that generation passes.
Purp| 3.12.12 @ 9:17AM
THAT I can agree on. All the old white tea party Republicant bigots will be gone, replaced by the largest Democratic majorities since the 30's.
Brian Mc| 3.12.12 @ 3:29PM
If you don't abort yourselves out of existence first. Oh, wait, I forgot that the intent is to get the following the right to a place at the ballot box: criminals, illigal immigrants, dead cats...due to your smug level of compassion, of course.
gearjammer| 3.12.12 @ 8:40AM
Larry Flynt-famoud democrat-say it Mit, Newt , Rick. Say it !
Claypoole| 3.12.12 @ 8:45AM
Ol' Jane, obviously, has had a lot of work done. Wonder if she and Nancy Pelosi use the same plastic surgeon. They ought to make an appointment with the doc for Gloria, the former Playboy bunny.
Anthony| 3.12.12 @ 8:46AM
Don't forget clueless Juan Williams who was thrown off of NPR, paid with our tax dollars, because his appearence on FOX apparently gave him conservative coodies, hence, could not be allowd to contaminate NPR.
Then you have Gloria Allred, the most reprehensable leftist bottom feeder of the legal profession, from California, calling for Rush to be criminally prosecuted in Florida.
Allred is more than happy to throw hapless souls into the breech, looking for their 15 minutes of fame, as she exploits them for her ego and leftist political agenda. Anybody remember the names of the women she paraded in front of the cameras in order to get Herman Cain?
This is the America left in all their unvarnished, thugish glory. It's long past time America had a "correction".
Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 3.12.12 @ 8:49AM
I think it's very simple why the Left's attempting to destroy Limbaugh about this Fluke's a slut comment, they figure if they do, then Air America might make a comeback, and "actually" get ratings this time around!! But it won't!! It would still suck!! The Majority of Americans can't listen to a Liberal for more than five minutes at a time, unless they're being restrained, which explains the lack of ratings Liberals get on the Radio, on TV, and on Cable too. Liberals, and their wacky ideas, are old and boring and tired, and no working commuter would ever waste their time listening to their garbage!! Rush will survive this, and the Left will lose again!! I guarantee it!! Oh yeah, and Jane Fonda's a Traitor, so who give a f*ck what she says!!
Teaghan| 3.12.12 @ 8:53AM
BINGO! Thank you for your post LLand L.
I stand with you!
BGinTN| 3.12.12 @ 9:26AM
She explains why.
http://www.redstate.com/snarka.....for-obama/
sirbourbon| 3.12.12 @ 8:55AM
"... Van Jones, who had to resign from the Obama administration for signing a petition endorsing 9/11 truther conspiracies...."
Come on! Van Jones was exposed by Glenn Beck while Beck was still on television as having assocations with the communist party.
It is ironic for a guy like Jones to be questioning the "official" party line. Van Jones probably never got the memo: the government is never wrong and you must accept the government's side of the story no matter what. And that includes wars, depressions and goofey explanations of the USS Maine, the Lusitania , Pearl Harbor and Richard Nixon was unaware of what took place at the Watergate hotel.
Yobar| 3.12.12 @ 8:59AM
If they manage to take Rush off the air, Civil war will be inevitable.. There is just to big of a dive and we can't count on the Government to address it, it just gets worse.
Chico Escuela| 3.12.12 @ 9:01AM
Rush must have accidentally taken TWO Viagras instead of his usual dose. These fleeing sponsors sure have made him stand UP straight at attention as he panics at the damga he has done to the GOP.
This self-inflicted mortal injury will be a lesson to all hate speech GOP water carriers, your hatred for women, minorities, foreigners and even your own country, will come back to haunt you and your miserable party of gloom and doom.
gearjammer| 3.12.12 @ 9:07AM
Your party is busted out out. bankrupt in every way imaginable We hate seeing our beautiful nation destroyed. You define hate as not submitting to abject losers, haters and traitors like you. We will not submit to you-we will take your kind out one way or another. You are messing with fire.
Chico Escuela| 3.12.12 @ 9:13AM
get back in your basement and finish stocking the canned goods, water, ammo, food insurance and gold.
and dont forget to keep the windows covered !!
gearjammer| 3.12.12 @ 10:09AM
Wait till we cut off your welfare and foodstamps. you'll be begging for can goods. Your hero Obama getting beat head to head in latest-after all the effort by Media and Hollywood and all the gang to raise him up and Repubs infighting. Crapping your pants yet. You have to get a job soon OWS deadbeat.
Purp| 3.12.12 @ 9:20AM
Your party is at war with itself .. Enjoy the circular firing squad while President Obama remains your President. And, is Hillary next? Oh, would that make your heads explode, huh?
Teaghan| 3.12.12 @ 9:09AM
You wish it was a mortal injury.
Don't you whiney progressives get it? When you attack on of our own, we rally around, we don't run off in fear. Rush will get more listeners from this and sponsors will stand in line to get a spot on his show.
You are dreamin' dude.
Chico Escuela| 3.12.12 @ 9:16AM
Rush may get sponsors, his sucker listeners will buy ANYTHING. I mean, $22 for iced tea ?!?!?
Anyway, Obama is leading Romney by 18% amongst women voters, all because of the GOP's War on Women. Keep it up the hate GOP, no one on the left will silence your hatred, the American electorate will take care of that.
Aindyin| 3.12.12 @ 9:21AM
Well at least conservitives buy their Tea with their own money unlike libs such as yourself who would buy it with other peaples money.
Chico Escuela| 3.12.12 @ 9:24AM
ummmmm, whut ?
Hola Boba| 3.12.12 @ 5:51PM
Chico "Purpura" Escuela,
Bienvenido linguista: el idiota nombre esta el idiota en tod lenguaje.
Tu truco de nada "Purpura".
Yobar| 3.12.12 @ 9:13AM
See the hate speech the left always uses. " GOP water carriers, your hatred for women, minorities, foreigners and even your own country" There is no hope for a descent and civil discussion with them . The Mexican makes my point. Thanks Chico.
Louis Jenkins| 3.12.12 @ 9:10AM
Jane Fonda- the samer person who climbed up on the AA gun in Hanoi, and tried to look embaressed. The same gun that fired at US fighters and bombers and may have brought down American crews to their deaths? Yeah, the war is over in Vietnam, but that image is how I will remember her. She is a traitor!! And will remain a traitor til the day she dies. And I'm not wrapped up in the American flag either, but She went to Hanoi on her own accord, to campaign against the United States. No one made her go. She picked her side a long time ago, and she's still on that side-communism.
Chico Escuela| 3.12.12 @ 9:19AM
reminds me of all the Americans who were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan by the very weapons Ronald Reagan illegaly sold the terrorists in the region.
Aindyin| 3.12.12 @ 9:22AM
Reminds me of all the Americans killed in the US by the very weapons illegaly sold by Obama and the Justice department to the mexican drug cartels.
Chico Escuela| 3.12.12 @ 9:26AM
5,000+ us soldiers killed by terrorists using wepaons sold to them by the Reagan administration vs ONE american killed by the Fast and Furious plan hatched by the Bush administration.
hmmm, either one is bad I suppose.
Louis Jenkins| 3.12.12 @ 9:49AM
Wow- AKs that can last 28 years. Now that's a weapon with endurance! Get real Mr. Escucie. The weapons Reagan had handled were sent to the scrap heap a long time ago or they haven't been fired.
gearjammer| 3.12.12 @ 10:05AM
99.9 of their weapons came from your homeland-mother Russia.
Vox populi| 3.12.12 @ 10:06AM
Well said!
jose goldfinger| 3.12.12 @ 9:26AM
No, Jeff Jacoby was not right. Limbaugh apologized, Jacoby wanted him to grovel. Fools like Jacoby will never understand that you can't make nice with the left by kissing their collective ass. Personally I think Limbaugh should not have apologized, but he did and I think he did because he thought it was the right thing to do. Reasonable people can disagree on that. BTW did the author of this article forget that Van Jones was a Communist? In a sane world that fact alone would disqualify his organization from being taken seriously.
Missouri David| 3.12.12 @ 9:26AM
A right sense of proportion can only be attained by Christ from whence all Liberty and Truth flow! Thanks and Merry Christmas
TimC| 3.12.12 @ 9:33AM
Purp, how many times have leftists called anyone who refused to be bullied into submission a teabagger? How many times does Maher get to call conservative women C*nts? How many times have liberal democrats stated that Republicans want to kill the elderly, kill children, rape the environment, poison the air, water, soil, etc...
How many times will I be called a racist, or homophobe, or worse. Why is the new show on hate television called GCB, short for Good Christian Bitches?
Where is your outrage over these abuses?
PS: I listened to Ms Fluke's testimony, and then found out who and what she really is......and based on that information.....Rush was right!
Dick Nome| 3.12.12 @ 9:46AM
It wasn't testimony and it wasn't a hearing. It was a staged propoganda presser by Congressional Democrats after the full Committee refused to have the tramp testify at the last minute in full Committee.
TimC| 3.12.12 @ 9:50AM
I realize that, forgive my choice of wording.
Chico Escuela| 3.12.12 @ 10:12AM
it all would have been a non-story until Rush had to put his big fat foot in his big fat mouth and expose the entire GOP gameplan to attack, attack, attack women and see how that works out.
good luck with that.
sonofagunny| 3.12.12 @ 12:25PM
No, actually the Fluke presser exposed the Dems gameplan to change the topic from boy wonder's attack on religious freedom and the Catholic Church to a phony "war on women". Unfortunately, with the usual media assistance, it seems to b e working.
Chico Escuela| 3.12.12 @ 12:28PM
if it wasnt for Rush, no one would have heard of Ms Fluke.
THANKS RUSH !!!!!
greg| 3.12.12 @ 9:41AM
once fluke decided to present herself to the public and advertise her dissolute lifestyle neither she nor anyone else should be surprised that the kind of comments made by limbaugh would be made.
Skip| 3.12.12 @ 9:45AM
Chico=fail. A bit all over the map, aren't we?
War on Womyn™...glurg!!! Illegal arms in Afghanistan.....yeaarrrrggggghh!!!
Are the DU forums really that slow this morning??
Yobar| 3.12.12 @ 9:54AM
I think Chico is talking about all the Afghanistan and Iraq citizens that were killed in Central America over the years. History and facts can get a little tricky.
Chico Escuela| 3.12.12 @ 10:10AM
Well, some of the illegal Reagan-Iran money did wind up in Nicaragua so, you may be correct.
Vox populi| 3.12.12 @ 10:05AM
The left have the minds of nasty children. Rush should just ignore them and they will lose interest in a few days.
Mimi| 3.12.12 @ 10:15AM
I'll tell you one thing....We should in the FUTURE make a double-huge BIGGIE every darn time they open their mouth. Shout the OUTRAGE to the HEAVENS.
When that Libbie-Left...their measly 20 % , get an inch of POWER they think they can take over the Universe....The ABUSE of POWER they exhibit has got to be get some real NOISE from the Patriots.
STAY CIVIL, Stay with TRUTH .....but GO GET 'UM !!!
POST American| 3.12.12 @ 10:16AM
-"Women without filial affection, the woman
on her own, is a natural destroyer
---she can't even help it."
D H Lawrence
Indeed they are!
And ---AH! the CIA backed and funded Steinem!
Still without so much a hint of depth or
dimension beyond attitude!
---------------------WHAT A JERK----------------------
hardcard| 3.12.12 @ 10:35AM
McCarthy got the plot, Nixon got alger hiss and the commie/socialists,progs went for the kill and tasted the blood. The left will never stop until this free country is destroyed. The end is near.
boogalie| 3.12.12 @ 11:32AM
Yes, it is. In November the end will come. I am sorry, but refuse to buy into this end times stuff. My beleif: Get the silent majority active, be active in supporting what you believe to be right. America is a wonderful country, rich in history and righteous Nation. From its' founding, it has demonstrated that overall. So, speak out, be active, and all will be well. It will take time, effort, movtivation and resolution on the part of patriots ..I cannot help but think of Washington at Trenton. Press on and God Bless America! Semper Fi.
sirbourbon| 3.14.12 @ 11:45AM
Nixon got soviet spy Alger Hiss and for a while it looked like Nixon was the genuine article (loyal , patriotic and anti-UN) but it turned out that his lust of the presidency was more powerful than his love of country and joined the UN crowd and the anti-American organization -the CFR.
As president he strapped the nation with: the EPA, Wage and Price Controls, More bureaucracy stifling energy production, 55 MPH laws, OSHA, the "war on Drugs, we lost in Vietnam, POWs left behind, more inflation, more debt more CFR people running our government and the worst of all he visited Communist China reneging on something he promised the "committee of one million" he would never do - give diplomatic recognition to the murdering outlaw nation of Mao. With that one act he betrayed all of mankind by coddling communism. How serious he was in chasing Alger Hiss one will never really know. My guess is that he was just a tricky little politician using people to advance his political career.
Bob K.| 3.12.12 @ 10:46AM
I note that at this time 10:45 AM EST there have been over 150 comments on this article since it appeared at 6:10 AM.
Clearly the issue of free speech is more important than the race for the Republican nomination for President is!
Bob K.| 3.12.12 @ 9:03PM
It is now 9:00 PM and there are 319 posts. 3 cheers for free speech!
Petronius| 3.12.12 @ 10:47AM
To all the trolls:
Our Rights are Not what the Left says they are.
Dick Nome| 3.12.12 @ 10:48AM
The trolls are really enjoying themselves today. I wish I could use them for fertilizer in my garden, but it might be toxic.
Ken (Old Texican)| 3.12.12 @ 10:49AM
Folks,
I am simply amazed at the communist idiots who post here.
They may not understand that if they get their way... momma may not HAVE a basement for their computers.
Folks,
this is a country based upon EARNING a living... by doing something constructive.
Purp and ilk are finally out of luck. We are finally tired of supporting them.
Chico Escuela| 3.12.12 @ 11:05AM
Limbaugh and the GOP have said repeatedly that they want Obama to fail, they want America to fail and they think women are failures.
Fine, now America can decide if those are the values it wants to hold or if they have other plans.
Aint freedom GREAT !?
Brian Mc| 3.12.12 @ 3:48PM
If the alien fails...we WIN a small battle but the war against the likes of you, unfortunately, must continue. You don't get it. I refuse to be dragged, kicking and screaming, to your idea of 'change' and to demand that I do is unjust, unconstitutional, and un-American. Your ilk are bound and determined to 'reform' this country and fail to see we are seething from your efforts; this is no game anymore.
Oldefarte| 3.12.12 @ 11:07AM
Everyone should read Jed Babin's truthful commentary here today, and should additionally understand the old saying of.....STICKS AND STONES MAY BREAK MY BONES, BUT WORDS WILL NEVER HURT ME!!!!!!!
Purp| 3.12.12 @ 11:14AM
Even though I cannot get pregnant from sex with my boyfriend (I haven't yet at least) I can still relate to the pain and fear that college coeds , of any age, have of a "good time" that leads to a lifetime of unwanted parenthood. Who else but the government can protect these poor soils from themselves and who else should pay but the taxpayer?
boogalie| 3.12.12 @ 11:25AM
Please tell me...you cannot be serious with that comment? What about reaching the 'age of accountability, that is: maturity? What about self reliance, accountability. Those who do foolish things should deal with the consequences of their actions. We already live in a civil society that picks up a large part to the expense brought on by irresponsible behavior. Should society pay even more? Please tell me, how much is enough? Is there not end? Where do the draw a line? I find your comments absurd, sorry. Semper Fi.
albert constantine jr.| 3.12.12 @ 1:50PM
I think someone might be spoofing Purp on this one, though with the serial misspellings, lack of logic and endorsement of self destructive leftist approved lifestyles it is difficult to distinguish.
RCV| 3.12.12 @ 11:17AM
Mr. Antlee seems unable to grasp what the Frist Amendment is all about. You have the RIGHT to speak freely -- the government may not punish the exercise of protected speech -- but nothing in the First Amendment requires private parties to support you when you say something offensive to them. That's the difference between supporting the RIGHT of Nazis to march in Skokie, and deciding you as a private individual don't have to underwrite Rush's show when you disagree with what he says.
Chico Escuela| 3.12.12 @ 11:30AM
Republicans dont do nuances. They just react to what they are told to react to without much thinking involved.
Keep things short and simple, black and white... and you will appeal to them.
boogalie| 3.12.12 @ 11:37AM
Do you recognize that generalizing is the basis of racism? Think about it, yes...it will make the world more compex for you (not a insult, just fact). But the thought process if you employ it, will surely benefit your understanding of our Nation. We live in the greatest country in the world, cherish it and preserve it.Semper Fi.
Chico Escuela| 3.12.12 @ 11:46AM
What "race" is Republicanism ?
Butch| 3.12.12 @ 2:20PM
It's Esquillo, genius. And you are at least 50 years old. Love the way you spent your morning.
Calvin| 3.12.12 @ 1:08PM
"Networks can hire who they want. Advertisers can spend their money as they choose. But there is something unsavory about these organized boycotts and politically motivated pressure tactics. There is something much worse about the government deciding which speech is in the public interest."
RCV just reacts in his typical stupid fashion. What an intellect. Mr. Antle said it just right and the lazy RCV did his best version of the idiot post. Apparently the slow RCV thought that the First Amendment was being discussed instead of the Nazi like desire of his side to shut off all disagreement. We get you RCV. You are a closet fascist with a burning desire to kill all dissent. How patriotic.
RCV| 3.12.12 @ 3:52PM
I have no desire to shut out disagreement. I relish political discourse, which is why I read this emag with which I rarely agree. But organized boycotts by private individuals and non-governmental groups are also protected dissent, as the Supreme Court ruled in a case where Alabama tried to punish the NAACP for boycotts. I happen to agree with Mr. Antle insofar as the FTC regulating speech content "in the public interest" but not with the right of Americans to express their displeasure with someone else's speech. The Nazis have the right to march in Skokie, but the rest of us also have the right to express our displeasure with anyone who underwrites their activities, Calvin.
RCV| 3.12.12 @ 4:50PM
...and you never told me which bucolic paradise you reside in, Cal.
Reprobate Charlatan Vomitus| 3.12.12 @ 7:09PM
I don't just react in my typical stupid fashion, as sometimes I don't just react in atypical stupid fashion as well, on reacting in stupid fashion, either typically or atypically or neither or both, that makes me unable to grasp that by reminding you of the bucolic paradise that I reside in, that allows me to not be able to grasp I wholly lack not neither but both common sense and intelligence, to remind you in the first place of posts better left not reacted to in my typical or atypical stupid fashion, which I will typically or atypically review here now in stupid fashion, since I either typically or atypically brought it up, even while I have no desire to shut out disagreement on this, typically or atypically, matters:
RCV | 3.3.12 @ 3:29pm (in response to Marc Jeric):
"Maybe with collusion from little green aliens from Area 666?"
Reprobate Charlatan Vomitus | 3.3.12 @ 6:18pm:
"I don't show a modicum of common sense, much less a shred of intellectual honesty, ever, on American Spectator, and reveal myself to be a sanctimonious and hypocritical pompous ass with every post; but, this particular post, especially, is one for the ages, as far as my posts are concerned, matters:
"RCV | 10.20.10 @ 7:06pm:
"I don't sign silly petitions on scientific matters."
[the above response, in reponse to the petition, at petitionproject.com, signed by 31,487 scientists, the 31,487 scientists who provide their names, their degrees, their scientific specialties, the peer-reviewed research, 132 references to the peer-reviewed research, who verified the academic and the professional credentials of all 31,487 scientists in response to saboteurs, the 31,487 scientists who debunk manmade global warming, the 31,487 scientists - including Marc Jeric - who signed the petition]""
RCV | 3.3.12 @ 6:41PM:
"Zzzzzz....zz.z...z..."
Calvin | 3.4.12 @ 9:56AM:
"This is RCV in his most functionally intelligent state. When he is awake he is thinking up great ideas for even more Ponzi schemes, unsustainable bullet trains, juicy wind turbines, Solyndra style payoffs and much more. Be thankful when he sleeps. When awake he is trying to turn your home into Detroit or Washington D.C. or Chicago or Los Angeles or the various shit holes that make up the blue American experience. Sorry if I left out your favorite shit hole."
RCV | 3.4.12 @ 1:14PM:
"So, Calvin, tell us what bucolic heaven you live in."
The back and forth above clearly shows I don't just react in my typical stupid fashion, as sometimes the word stupid clearly is not typically adequate to describe my fashion, even while I have no desire to shut out disagreement on this, matters.
RCV| 3.12.12 @ 7:25PM
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz......
Reprobate Charlatan Vomitus| 3.13.12 @ 12:46PM
I don't just react in my typical stupid fashion, as I just reacted with this comment in my typical stupid fashion, even though I don't just react in my typical stupid fashion, even as with this comment I just reacted in my typical stupid fashion that is a comment I just react in my typical stupid fashion at least every other time I react in my typical stupid fashion, on just reacting with comments in typical stupid fashion matters.
RCV| 3.13.12 @ 4:41PM
Seriously, Skip, I'm flattered by the fact that you get a hard-on everytime you see RCV, and collect all my posts, but your obsession isn't healthy, even for a guy as messed-up as you. Your mom is probably tired of changing your sheets in the morning after those wet dreams. Get help, man.
Reprobate Charlatan Vomitus| 3.13.12 @ 7:23PM
I don't just react in my typical stupid fashion as I just reacted in my typical stupid fashion that is the epitome of typical stupid liberal fashion according to the definition provided by the great John II:
"A liberal is a person who pretends to a lofty rationality (Seriously, Skip,) as a kind of veneer to cover fiercely resentful passions (I'm flattered by the fact that you get a hard-on everytime you see RCV,), which leak out almost constantly in the form of crazed projections (and collect all my posts,) revelatory of ignorance (but your obsession isn't healthy), arrogance (even for a guy as messed-up as you)., and a certain dogged stupidity (Your mom is probably tired of changing your sheets in the morning after those wet dreams.) that encompasses an odd fascination with violence (Get help, man.). In public policy, this aspect of liberalness translates into the morally and intellectually bankrupt habit of doing the same failed thing again and again and again (I don't sign silly petitions on scientific matters).
In short, as a dog returns to his vomit, so the liberal returns to his folly (Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.....). (cf. Proverbs 26:11)"
on my reactions just being the epitome of my typical stupid liberal fashion on my not just reacting in my typical stupid fashion typically or stupidly in the fashion of a typical stupid liberal typically stupidly matters.
RCV| 3.13.12 @ 7:36PM
Your hardon is showing, Skip. You need professional help.
Reprobate Charlatan Vomitus| 3.13.12 @ 9:05PM
I don't just react in my typical stupid fashion as I just reacted in my typical stupid fashion that is the epitome of typical stupid liberal fashion according to the definition provided by the great John II:
"A liberal is a person whose thoughts are so meager and whose feelings are so insistent that his caressing fondness for those thoughts and feelings drives him to repeat himself endlessly."
on my reactions just being the epitome of my typical stupid liberal fashion of my not just reacting in my typical stupid fashion typically or stupidly but caressingly fondly in the fashion of a typical stupid liberal who is driven by meager thoughts typically and stupidly and caressingly fondly in the fashion of a typical stupid liberal who is driven by insistent feelings typically and stupidly repeated endlessly and endlessly and endlessly not to mention the resentful passions and the crazed projections and the ignorance and the arrogance and the dogged stupidity and the morally bankrupt and the intellectually bankrupt and the dogged dog doggedly wolfing his own dogged vomitus endlessly and endlessly and endlessly doggedly matters.
RCV| 3.13.12 @ 9:25PM
speaking of repeating himself endlessly ...Skip?
Reprobate Charlatan Vomitus| 3.13.12 @ 9:48PM
I don't just react in my typical stupid fashion, as sometimes I just react in my atypical stupid fashion, by attempting to deflect personal accountability for my own sanctimonious and hypocritical words typically stupidly liberally espoused as the typical stupid liberal pompous ass I am, not to mention deflecting from my resentful passions and my crazed projections and my ignorance and my arrogance and my dogged stupidity and my moral bankruptcy and my intellectual bankruptcy as the typical stupid liberal I am, while being appropriately mocked for it appropriately matters.
Anthony| 3.12.12 @ 11:21AM
When the Muslim Marxist finally manages to destroy America and impose Sharia Law, I look forward to the day when leftist hypocrite women such as Allred, Steinem, and Fonda are forced to don burkas.
Judging from how these woman have aged, burkas would serve a duel purpose.
If only the left got what was coming to them, for once!!!!
Chico Escuela| 3.12.12 @ 11:33AM
Muslim extremists keep their women in burquas, Christian extremists keep their women barefoot , pregnant and in the kitchen.
6 of one, half a dozen of the other.
boogalie| 3.12.12 @ 11:38AM
Ditto on my previous response to you C. Semper Fi.
Chico Escuela| 3.12.12 @ 11:48AM
What "race" is Christianity ?
I'm starting to get the idea you have no clue what the word 'racism' means.
Chico Escuela| 3.12.12 @ 11:49AM
What "race" is Christianity ?
I'm starting to get the idea you have no clue what the word 'racism' means.
Chico Escuela| 3.12.12 @ 11:49AM
What "race" is Christianity ?
I'm starting to get the idea you have no clue what the word 'racism' means.
Be careful when you paint people with your booad brush.
Anthony| 3.12.12 @ 11:53AM
Yeah, so how did you manage to escape, Chico? Does your boyfriend know you're playing all day on the computer instead of doing your household chores?
I suppose you want us to pay for your sex change operation as well, eh? Well at least we'll be able to stone you when you commit adultery on your boyfriend.
Gee, Sharia Law does have its benefits, afterall.
RTR14| 3.12.12 @ 11:42AM
The bottom line is, this 30 year old woman was whining because Georgetown (a Catholic university which she KNEW was Catholic) doesn't offer coverage for birth control pills when all she has to do is get them at WalMart for $9 a month or the county health dept. for FREE if she's that poor. I think her school loans will cover $9/month. This whole thing has been a diversion to distract us from the REAL issue - that Obamacare requires religious organizations to go against their teachings and provide for something they teach against! Do I think it's stupid that Catholics don't believe in birth control? You're darn right I do. To me, it's bizarre. Do I defend their right to uphold those beliefs however? YOU'RE DARN RIGHT I DO! If you don't want the limitations put forth at religious universities/institutions your choice is simple. DON'T GO TO/WORK FOR THEM. And if you decide to, abide by their rules, make arrangements to get your birth control elsewhere, and like it! Because freedom to practice our religion as we see fit is a basic right given by our Constitution and it trumps all these other issues.
Jack London| 3.12.12 @ 12:32PM
'Because freedom to practice our religion as we see fit is a basic right given by our Constitution and it trumps all these other issues.'
No it doesn't – go read the first amendment. Federal and state governments cannot establish any religion. Once you allow religions to alter state regulation such as health plans you are establishing them and that way lies anarchy as any crackpot 'belief'system could establish itself to do anything and break any law.
M Bauman| 3.12.12 @ 1:31PM
My first amendment also says:
"or prohibiting the free exercise thereof".
J.C.Eaton| 3.12.12 @ 2:22PM
Rights of any kind do NOT come from the Constitution Laddie: they come from GOD.
J.C.Eaton| 3.12.12 @ 2:22PM
Rights of any kind do NOT come from the Constitution Laddie: they come from GOD.
davelnaf| 3.12.12 @ 12:04PM
Liberals thirty years ago would be defending Rush’s right to free speech and might even acknowledge that people on the left often do much worse. That can’t say that now or even defend free speech unless in a pro forma way because, after three years of Obama, they have lost all of the arguments about the size and essential role of government.
Liberals are no longer liberal but pure leftists complete with all the instincts that motivate their kind to eliminate the opposition. They might even have a realistic shot at doing this if the country reelects O.
SupremeGalooty| 3.12.12 @ 12:20PM
Slut: a dirty, slatternly woman, an immoral woman. Trollop, sloven, fornicates, hussy, strumpet, jade. If the shoe fits… wear it. It occurs to me that Rush pretty well nailed it right on the money. What's the big fuss?
SupremeGalooty| 3.12.12 @ 12:21PM
Slut: a dirty, slatternly woman, an immoral woman. Trollop, sloven, fornicatress, hussy, strumpet, jade. If the shoe fits… wear it. It occurs to me that Rush pretty well nailed it right on the money. What's the big fuss?
Dick Nome| 3.12.12 @ 3:38PM
You forgot ho'. That's what the hip-hop crowd calls their women to show their civility.
ejp| 3.12.12 @ 12:47PM
Here's my comeback for Jane Fonda. If she agrees to plead guilty to treason against the United States and will spend the rest of her life in Leavenworth and agrees to let 100% of her net worth be confiscated as reparation payments for American soldiers who fought in Vietnam, then I'll take her demand seriously.
ejp| 3.12.12 @ 12:47PM
Here's my comeback for Jane Fonda. If she agrees to plead guilty to treason against the United States and will spend the rest of her life in Leavenworth and agrees to let 100% of her net worth be confiscated as reparation payments for American soldiers who fought in Vietnam, then I'll take her demand seriously.
ejp| 3.12.12 @ 12:48PM
Here's my comeback for Jane Fonda. If she agrees to plead guilty to treason against the United States and will spend the rest of her life in Leavenworth and agrees to let 100% of her net worth be confiscated as reparation payments for American soldiers who fought in Vietnam, then I'll take her demand seriously.
carla| 3.12.12 @ 1:17PM
Always a treat to see Hanoi Jane with her pantyhose in a wad
carla| 3.12.12 @ 1:18PM
Always a treat to see Hanoi Jane with her pantyhose in a wad
carla| 3.12.12 @ 1:18PM
Always a treat to see Hanoi Jane with her pantyhose in a wad
Anthony| 3.12.12 @ 3:09PM
Alas, poor, poor Barbarella now looks like Bozo the clown. And Steinem, having recently fallen in love with a man, no less, has discovered, much to her amazement, that fish do have bicycles.
Yes, the American left, always good for a laugh, right up to the end!!!
Ronald Ackenberry| 3.12.12 @ 1:53PM
It seems to me a lot of conservatives wish Mr. Limbaugh would just shut the F* up, too.
How many leading Repubican politicians have rush-ed to his defense over this episode?
How many so-called conservative blogger-commentators have been furiously shouting, "Look, look, over there a red herring named, Maher!"
One problem as I see it is Mr. Limbaugh has unhumbly claimed to be the spokesman of conservatism for the entire USA. (In the New York Times I believe.)
To some it appears he is saying then conservatives are women haters obsessed with sexual behavior including porn videos.
In short, I think a lot of liberal and illiberal persons would like to hush Mr. Rush.
One good outcome of his radio show is that it has become virtually ad free...even dead quiet during commercial breaks.
And so even this cloud also has a silver lining.
ella8| 3.12.12 @ 4:44PM
Oh yes, I am a women hater who watches porn all day. Actually I am a mother of three who loves her husband. I love my job as a mother and wife. The only interest I have in porn is getting it out of the classroom. All I am asking for is for the feminazis to get out of my life and stay away from my daughter.
Ronald Ackenberry| 3.12.12 @ 1:54PM
It seems to me a lot of conservatives wish Mr. Limbaugh would just shut the F* up, too.
How many leading Repubican politicians have rush-ed to his defense over this episode?
How many so-called conservative blogger-commentators have been furiously shouting, "Look, look, over there a red herring named, Maher!"
One problem as I see it is Mr. Limbaugh has unhumbly claimed to be the spokesman of conservatism for the entire USA. (In the New York Times I believe.)
To some it appears he is saying then conservatives are women haters obsessed with sexual behavior including porn videos.
In short, I think a lot of liberal and illiberal persons would like to hush Mr. Rush.
One good outcome of his radio show is that it has become virtually ad free...even dead quiet during commercial breaks.
And so even this cloud has a silver lining.
Dick Nome| 3.12.12 @ 3:36PM
It's obvious you don't listen to Rush. Try it some time. You'd find out how wrong you are about what you think you know but have only heard 2nd hand.
Brad| 3.13.12 @ 6:23AM
Probably 22nd hand...
Nina| 3.12.12 @ 2:23PM
Apparently, Rush has been quite entertaining!
He's gotcha's all talking.......good or bad....to me, he's done his job. Otherwise, this twit would have gotten away with testifying when at something she shouldn't have been involved in in the first place.
Bill| 3.12.12 @ 4:05PM
Her claim that contraception will cost the typical Georgetown Law School (a Jesuit school, mind you) as much as $3,000.00 suggests that her sex life involves her purchasing 3,000 condoms at $1.00 each; that, of course, is sex 3 times a day, every day of the year, including summers, for the entire duration of law school.
A woman who is having sex an average of 3 times a day for 3 years meets SOME sort of loose definition, if you ask me. But I'm old, from the Sixties, so maybe I don't know how it is these days.
Stan REdmond| 3.12.12 @ 6:15PM
Don't forget the foreplay.
clvincentcpa| 3.12.12 @ 7:12PM
Your comment is garbage and you know it. This is not about having sex, it's about women's health issues. Stop being a tool of propaganda.
The Bruce| 3.13.12 @ 2:12AM
Women's health? All she talked about was contraception (as in preventing conception), or are you of the mind that pregnancy is a disease.
Are you making the argument that birth control pills, at $9 per month, are preventing a disease?
Brad| 3.13.12 @ 6:26AM
Your comment is garbage and you know it. This is not about women's health issues, it's about the left's attacks on religious freedom, and the attempt to force us to pay for something against our will. Stop being a tool for propaganda.
Bill| 3.13.12 @ 8:57AM
You can say THAT again!
clvincent| 3.13.12 @ 1:02PM
So you don't have a problem with a Jehovah's Witness employer refusing to pay for coverage of blood transfusions, even if it's a life-threatening situation? Good to know.
clvincent| 3.13.12 @ 1:49PM
There you go again. Just repeating what I said, but twisting it around to your own purposes.
You really don't have an original thought, do you?
Mike Hawk| 3.12.12 @ 5:18PM
She wasn't testifying. It was a staged Democrat photo-op.
ella8| 3.12.12 @ 3:08PM
I would like those crusty old feminazis to get their claws off of me, stop trying to shove their pills down my throat, and get the hell out of my children's class rooms. They don't care about women, as a matter of fact they HATE women who view marriage and motherhood as the highest ideals. Their real intent is to eradicate the "disease" of pregnancy. They don't care about me or my health. I love my husband and I love my babies, treason I know.
clvincentcpa| 3.12.12 @ 7:10PM
Lies, lies, lies.
They want all women to be able to achieve whatever they set their minds to achieve. If women want to stay home and raise their children, bravo. If women want to forgo having children for a career, bravo. If they want to do it all, bravo. The point is, we should all be able to achieve our dreams, whatever those may be.
Both of these women have been married. Jane Fonda has children. So your argument is moot.
ella8| 3.12.12 @ 7:44PM
Just leave me be is that too much to ask. I am not trying to take away your pills and dildos. Just stay away from my daughter, is that too much to ask?
clvincent| 3.13.12 @ 10:29AM
Dildos? What has that got to do with anything.
I am not doing anything to your daughter. I just want women to have the freedom to achieve whatever they like. I stayed home and raised two children then put myself through college after they were older, so I obviously have no problems with women wanting to stay home and raise their children. My own daughter is 27, and she wants to have children some day -- AND she wants to be able to stay home with them.
I am simply saying that women have worked long and hard to get to where we are today. We weren't even allowed to vote until 1918. We were once considered the property of our husbands. Now, it doesn't have to be that way. Part of being able to choose, is being able to choose when to have children. We also need to be able to take care of ourselves by yearly exams and mammograms. Often insurance doesn't cover any of these things. Why? Wouldn't it be more cost effective to keep women healthy and have less accidental pregnancies?
The distraction here is that this is not really about religious freedom. No religious organization is being asked to pay for anything. It's part of the insurance, and that's the way insurance works. We all pay premiums, and what the insurance company doesn't have to pay in claims, they make a profit from. Insurance companies know that it is more cost effective to pay for birth control pills, than to not pay, and have to pay obstetric costs, plus whatever costs there might be if the baby has health problems or the delivery causes issues for the mother. It's only the religious leaders who are turning this into a religious issue. A compromise was made, but for some reason that's not enough. The only way things can run smoothly is if we compromise. Otherwise, we get nowhere.
From the Desk of Media Matters| 3.13.12 @ 12:52PM
Please send, along with a photo of your dazzling beauty, a copy of your IQ.
A new pool has sprung up at the MM offices. Along with the NCAA tourney pool, and clvincent attractiveness pool, is now the clvincent intelligence quotient pool.
The odds on the new clvincent intelligence quotient pool eerily mirror the older clvincent attractiveness pool.
- MM staff
clvincent| 3.13.12 @ 1:09PM
We've started our own pool here at the Feminazi HQ. Please send proof of age and your address in Mommy's basement so that we can pay the lucky winner.
From the Desk of Media Matters| 3.13.12 @ 3:24PM
MM staff wishes to be able to be supported by others same as you mizz genius of the dazzling brains.
You are jeopardizing both our ability to play with our computers downstairs while others pay for it same as you are jeopardizing the ability of stupid ugly feminazis such as yourself to be able to slut it up while others pay for it since we're all on the same side in this mizz genius of the dazzling brains and beauty.
Feminazi dazzling beauties. Even basement dwellers under mommy roofs know they don't exist much to our misery.
No more stupid uggos.
- MM staff
Rachel| 3.12.12 @ 9:32PM
They don't want women to achieve anything. They want us to be tied and beholden to the government. They want us all to believe communism and the collective "right" is all that's important. If they really cared about women they'd be more concerned with bringing down Shar1a L@w that abuses and mutilates and kills women and girls every day. Or they'd be concerned with the fact that nearly a million children are murdered every year for "convenience" and half of those are girls, so....
Liberal rule #1: if you don't agree with me you're wrong and must be silenced.
Liberal rule #2: if I say something dumb or lie then just see rule #1
clvincent| 3.13.12 @ 10:37AM
"They don't want women to achieve anything."
That's just nonsense, and you know it. Women are achieving more now than they ever have before.
Having standardized medical coverage is not being beholden to the government. It's helping people who don't have the ability to pay for the insurance we have now.
Why is it that you are more concerned about the "children murdered for convenience", as you so 'delicately' put it, than you are about the children who are already here? There are children going to bed hungry at night. There are children who do not have a fair chance in this world because they live in poverty, in school districts where the buildings are falling down around them, and where they don't get the same educational benefits that children in wealthier homes do.
Studies show that the people who pull themselves up out of poverty are in the minority, because it is simply nearly impossible to do so without help from somewhere. Middle class and upper are more educated and more likely to go to college. How are the poor supposed to move up, if they are ignored?
The humanity in this country is in the toilet. I just don't understand it.
From the Desk of Media Matters| 3.13.12 @ 12:58PM
Please send that copy of your IQ next day air.
Even MM staff know coerced public government welfare has not helped those in poverty.
Even MM staff know voluntary private charity assistance has.
The odds you are both hideously ugly and criminally stupid are spiraling beyond the range of handheld calculators.
Please haste post post haste.
- MM staff
clvincent| 3.13.12 @ 1:11PM
"Even MM staff know voluntary private charity assistance has."
Then why are there children still going hungry every night in America? It's because of people like you who don't give two hoots about anything but what you think. As long as you've got yours, you don't care about anyone else.
You can't even have a discussion with me without insulting me. I'd call you arrogant, but I don't think that even covers it.
From the Desk of Media Matters| 3.13.12 @ 3:29PM
Even we mommy basement dwelling grown children MM staffers - as if there are any other kind - know the obvious answer begging to bitchslap you in the face to the question you cluelessly asked - even as we are all on the same side just trying to keep others supporting our every whim - mizz genius of the dazzling brains and beauty who keeps jeopardizing this with every additional dazzlingly brainish comment.
No more stupid uggos.
- MM staff
ella8| 3.12.12 @ 3:16PM
They are the BULLIES. I just want them to leave my family alone.
clvincent| 3.13.12 @ 10:37AM
What, exactly, are they doing to YOUR family?
ella8| 3.12.12 @ 3:17PM
They are the BULLIES. I just want them to leave my family alone.
ella8| 3.12.12 @ 3:23PM
What part of NO don't they understand. I don't want to be a part of your vicious and poisonous sisterhood.
Bill| 3.12.12 @ 3:58PM
The Right is so stupid we have to shut them up so their ideas don't get around!
Bill| 3.12.12 @ 4:09PM
Looking at the photo of Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem, their sirenic days apparently over judging from the photo, aroused the immediate reaction: "fag hags!"
Paul from SA| 3.12.12 @ 5:05PM
It's too bad the gov't doesn't require citizens to listen to Rush.
It could be included as part of Obama's health insurance mandate. After all, they don't care about our rights and the U.S. Constitution.
Stan REdmond| 3.12.12 @ 6:17PM
You are absolutely right. The statement "as determined by the secretary" is the most ominous illegal terrifying and unconstitutional term ever.
Sebelius can determine everything. She is now the second most powerful person in the USA. The first being the flip flopper Justice Kennedy.
the halfrican| 3.12.12 @ 5:27PM
I thought Letterman was hilarious when he said 12 year old Sasha Obama had public sex with Derek Jeter in the Yankee dugout during the 7th inning. Oops, my bad I think it was 12 year old Willow Palin which means it is OK.
ella8| 3.12.12 @ 5:39PM
I heard that Mike Tyson and some jerk comedian wanted to hate f@#$ Michelle Obama in her retard making c@#$. Oh woops my bad, that was for Sarah Palin.
Stan REdmond| 3.12.12 @ 6:19PM
I heard a hilarious comic named Sandra Bernhard say she wanted Michelle gangraped by her brothers in the hood and to smash her 'catchers mitt' in her face.
Oh wait. That was Sarah Palin she was talking about. And Sandra Burnhard is just a comedianne.
possibly less than halfrican| 3.12.12 @ 9:46PM
I heard a radio talk show host named Rush Limbaugh said a middle aged professional liberal activist with a degree in feminist and gender and sexuality studies despicably demanding her right to force other people to provide for her contraceptives was a slut - or in other words an immoral woman.
Oops, my bad it was a middle aged professional liberal activist with a degree in feminist and gender and sexuality studies despicably demanding her right to force other people to provide for her contraceptives who is a slut - or in other words an immoral woman - even though it was the hated el Rushbo himself who said it.
Bubba T. | 3.12.12 @ 5:52PM
I hold in my hand, an envelope that's been stored in a mayonnaise jar, and left overnight on the doorsteps of Funk & Wagnall. Without having seen the question, the great one, Carnak the Magnificent will devine the answer ... and amaze. The envelope and a moment of silence please ...
Jane Fonda ... Gloria Steinem ... and RuPaul!
(Jane Fonda ... Gloria Steinem ... and RuPaul.)
(rip-whoosh-rattle ...)
Name two bags and a drag!
HIII YOOO ... BAH-DAH BUMP!!
albert constantine jr.| 3.12.12 @ 7:31PM
The collegial comradeship of Ed McMahon and the the accompanying rimshots of the Doc Severinsen orchestra have yet to be duplicated. Carnak's turban, on the other hand, is frequently imitated.
sirbourbon| 3.12.12 @ 6:54PM
Getting all excited over Rush bashing and sponsors leaving him over the trash talk is nothing compared to the true censorship that just took place on March 8,2012 with Obama signing a major anti-Bill of Rights bill that censors Americans' First amendment protections.
A few days ago while the uproar over Rush losing some sponsors Barack Obama signed into law H.R. 347 the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011.
There were no petitions from mainline conservative blog sites urging congress to defeat the measure and no wringing of hands by the conservative bloggers over this blatant attack on the First amendment, but an attack it surely is nonetheless!
H.R. 347 gives congress the power to impose federal criminal charges on not only those who enter the White House grounds without prior permission, but on anyone who participates in protests at or near a location falling within the greatly enlarged scope of this new prohibited zone.
One example of how H.R. 347 imposes an unconstitutional prior restraint on political speech and assembly is found in Section (c) of the act. This paragraph defines the key phrase "restricted buildings" as follows:
"[R]estricted buildings or grounds" means any posted, cordoned off, or otherwise restricted area —
(A) of the White House or its grounds, or the Vice President's official residence or its grounds;
(B) of a building or grounds where the President or other person protected by the Secret Service is or will be temporarily visiting; or
(C) of a building or grounds so restricted in conjunction with an event designated as a special event of national significance
Under the terms of the existing law amended by this act, the Department of Homeland Security is tasked with deciding which events will qualify as being of "national significance."
Limbaugh has made his money and probably could care less about this bill. He has used up his time on the airwaves and is time for people that really care about the Bill of Rights to replace him.
Limbaugh used his time onthe air to shill for the Bushs. When Bush senior wanted NAFTA passed Rush to pushed the treaty on the air. Along comes Bush junior and for 8 years Rush kept quiet about all the Security and Prosperity Partnership Meetings Bush had with Mexico and Canada in secretly forming the NAU.
Rush never once lent a hand to expose the nefarious plan to merge Canada and Mexico's economy and security systems with the USA along lines of the European Union. Not once!
Go away Rush, Please just go away.
Bill Maher may not know it but he is probably more on the mark in his assessment of Rush than he or Rush's fans realize .
Trish| 3.12.12 @ 7:19PM
More phony bleeting by the leftist women who are totally driven by politics. No dissent is permitted. Needless to say if they were authentic regarding the debasement of women they would howl about the vile bile hurled at conservative women. My Sen. Levin will be receiving a phone call from me tomorrow.
OregonBuzz| 3.12.12 @ 8:01PM
While one could make the argument that Rush was a bit over the edge in his comments, a similar case can be made that he was dead on target. Ms. Fluke (an appropriate moniker if I ever heard one) is a red herring selected by the liberal left to promote their cause. Frankly, I agree with Rush. If one will take the time to remember the diatribes aimed at Sarah Palin et al by the left wing horror mongers, Rush's comments pale by comparison. We live in a very precisely divided world folks. There's us that loves liberty and them that doesn't. Make a choice.
Oldefarte| 3.12.12 @ 8:56PM
'....Jane Fonda and Roger Vadim Were Way Into Group Sex (and Other Revelations From Patricia Bosworth's New Biography).By Sharon Knolle (Subscribe to Sharon Knolle's posts)Posted Aug 15th 2011 7:00PM...Jane Fonda, now 73, was once an international sex symbol and then one of the most famous -- and most hated -- celebrity activists. A new biography details the star's open marriage to her first husband, French director Roger Vadim, who also romanced Catherine Deneuve and Brigitte Bardot.The book reads like a who's who of the Swinging '60s: Fonda partied with Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson and indulged in threesomes to please her husband.
Biographer Patricia Bosworth, who's also profiled Marlon Brando and Mongomery Clift, shares a lengthy excerpt of her new book on Vanity Fair's web site. The section focuses on Fonda's time in France and the making of the cult film 'Barbarella' (see above) and details her sexual and political awakening and desire to carve out an identity other than "Henry Fonda's daughter."Check out some highlights: Rumors about Jane's sexuality: For years there were rumors that Jane was gay or bisexual. "Look," she said once, "can't we leave something to the imagination?" She added, "Frankly, I've probably done everything. But I will never write about my sex life unless I write about it in a novel."Her open marriage to Vadim:She hated Vadim's idea of "an arrangement," but she kept silent, rationalizing that she had to put up with it in exchange for the emotional security Vadim gave her: "I didn't want to be alone," she wrote. "I still felt that it was my relationship with him, however painful, that validated me." So she didn't object when he brought home a beautiful redhead, a high-class call girl from Madame Claude's, the most elegant brothel in Paris. Jane wrote, "I ... threw myself into the threesome with the skill and enthusiasm of the actress that I am." The threesomes would continue throughout most of their marriage.The wild times at Vadim's villa in Rome: Buck Henry, who was in Rome writing the screenplay for 'Catch-22' for Mike Nichols, would drop by the villa in the evenings. "I'd heard about orgies, acid, a lot of drugs. I was never invited. I wanted to be." What he remembers best is Jane. "I'd go in and just feast my eyes on Jane. She was unbelievable. So beautiful. And unattainable. Those long, long legs, so much blonde hair. Sexy. Jane was born a movie star."The wild times in Hollywood:Jane would sunbathe nude on one of the decks, not at all self-conscious when friends such as Brando and Christian Marquand wandered by. Dennis Hopper often took photographs. Nathalie [Vadim's daughter with Danish model Annette Stroyberg] said, "Sometimes while Jane was lying there, Vadim would kneel down and caress her beautiful body with oil." Once, a female guest was so overwhelmed by the sensual atmosphere that she knelt down and kissed Jane full on the mouth.
While many of these scandalous details were previously revealed in autobiographies by Vadim and Fonda herself, Bosworth is one of Hollywood's most respected biographers and appears to provide more context to these revelations.Fonda's place in film history is definitely a cause for discussion: Will she be best remembered as the sex symbol of the '60s; one of Hollywood's leading actresses and a political lightning rod of the '70s; or the workout enthusiast of the '80s?
Leading with the sexy French phase of Fonda's life is definitely a great way to hook readers who might only know her as J.Lo's scary mother-in-law in 'Monster-in-Law.' 'Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman' will be released on Aug. 30, just weeks after Fonda debuts her own latest book, 'Prime Time,' about embracing life into your 70s. (Fonda will turn 74 in December.)....'
Free Spirit| 3.12.12 @ 9:55PM
Quoque tu!!!!
with great surprise, I read the quote attributed to Voltaire...... I never, never said or wrote that!!! Please don't follow the penquins! on the Left
That quote "... I don't agree with what you said but... blaah blaah" is not in any of Voltaire's writings... You will find it for the very first time in a 1906 Evelyn Beatrice Hall book, "The Friends of Voltaire", Smith, Elder and Co. London, 1906. She made it up!!!!!
Voltaire did, on the other hand say and write: " It would be pure folly, to became a martyr to Truth". Regarding Christians, Conservartives and "the people", he did write, instead: "Squash ... le canaille!"
So much for the patron saint of "democrats"!
Pax Christi.
Free Spirit| 3.12.12 @ 10:20PM
...sorry, that second line should, naturally, read:
....HE never, never said or wrote that!!!
... (mea culpa).
Bill| 3.13.12 @ 9:00AM
Voltaire DID say that if there were no God, it would be necessary for men to make Him up.
Bill| 3.13.12 @ 9:09AM
Was it Voltaire who said that the Law, in its majesty, makes it equally criminal for the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges?
Ground Control| 3.12.12 @ 11:41PM
I'm pretty sure no one will read this, but will some leftist please explain what part of the US Constitution guarantees someone free contraception services and supplies? Paid for by others? Is this an "emanation from a penumbra" (or is that a "penumbra from an emanation"?) of the Third Amendment guaranteeing the people to be free from having soldiers quartered in their private residences except in time of war? Or is it the Eight Amendment guarantee against cruel and unsual punishments? I'm sure some leftist boob will suggest it is an unstated "right" pursuant to the Ninth Amendment, but that would be a corruption of the actual Amendment, not pursuant to it. Perhaps Ms. Flukes sexual escapades are "protected" under the First Amendment right to "Free Speech." So, once you leftists explain what "right" is being violated, please explain who is doing the violating? Georgetown Law School? Really? Georgetown Law School is not the government, and can't censor Ms. Fluke, nor prevent her from obtaining contraceptives, nor punish her in any way except expulsion, and they have not proposed that. Ms. Fluke can leave Gerogetown any time whe wishes, she can have sex with anyone she wishes, she can purchase contraceptives on her own at any time (can anyone say 7-Eleven?) and she is under no obligation to anyone, nor can anyone compel her to anything. NO ONE HAS VIOLATED ANY RIGHTS OF MS. FLUKE! This is a completely manufactured "controversy" to divert attention away from the real problem of our time, the criminal leftism/socialism that pervades our body-politick, as embodied by the stupidest man in Washington, Barack Obama. That this nothing is even a controversy is an astonishing example of how far political discourse has sunk at the hands of leftist boobs who offer nothing but the aggrandizement of their own egos.
Bill| 3.13.12 @ 9:05AM
If the decision in Roe v. Wade is any indicator, the right will be claimed to come from the Fourth Amendment, which was the principle amendement used in the Roe case: "the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated..."
I am still, after something like 43 years, still trying to figure out how that provision justifies the finding that there's a right to abortion, much less to taxpayer-funded contraceptives.
Ground Control| 3.13.12 @ 9:30AM
I agree. The Fourth Amendment guarantees protection FROM GOVERNMENT against unwarranted searches and seizures. It does not make a private act an automatically legal act or "right" by virtue of it being private. This concept is the basis for RvW and if that made any sense then one could argue that Jefferey Dahmer's dinner parties were protected "rights" because they were private affairs. Of course this is ludicrous. The Fourth Amendment also allows that government CAN invade your privacy with a warrant obtained based on probable cause and supported by oath or affirmation. How this translates into "anything I do in private is a protected right" is not a leap in logic, but rather pure fantasy. Justice Blackmun had a preconceived and pre-desired outcome and wrote RvW to mete that outcome. Likewise, the loons on the Left will "utilize" the Fourth Amendment to claim a "right" to taxpayer funded contraception for Ms. Fluke. And of course, they will divert attention away from President Bozo's collossal failures and "outraged" idiots will consequently vote Democrat and oppose those "nasty Republicans who want to interfere with a woman's right to choose!!!"
clvincent| 3.13.12 @ 1:04PM
Taxpayers would not be paying for it. Insurance companies would. And they'll be happy to. You know why? Because it's more cost effective than only paying for obstetrics.
Ground Control| 3.13.12 @ 2:32PM
Please explain to me what legal authority the US government has to compel a university to provide health insurance? This is something that people should buy on their own or companies can offer it as a benefit to attract employees. The government has absolutely ZERO legal authority to compel a company or university to provide health insurance, or mandate what services that any insurance will cover. Cost effectiveness is not relevant to the discussion. Illegal government mandates are what is being discussed.
Bill| 3.14.12 @ 9:22AM
The issue is not whether it's financially advantageous for insurance companies to bear that cost; the issue is whether or not they have the right and the power to make the choice as to whether they'll cover contraceptives or not, and whether or not a prospective insured can choose not have contraceptives covered in their insurance plan for reasons of conscience.
POST American| 3.12.12 @ 11:52PM
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-------------------------TIME TO STAND!
Bill| 3.13.12 @ 9:06AM
Arrest Angelina Jolie for a terrible and deteriorating collagen job on her lips!
Bartender| 3.13.12 @ 3:41PM
I thought those lips were "au naturel" as they say. Another myth shattered?
Bill| 3.14.12 @ 9:24AM
I thought it was collagen, maybe not. But if they're natural, why didn't she have "lip reduction" surgery at some point in the past?
ebonystone| 3.12.12 @ 11:53PM
Funny how only a month or so ago, the Left was frothing at the spectacle of sponsors pullng their advertising from the "American Muslim" TV show. That was CENSORSHIP! Evil, evil, evil!
But now they are demanding that sponsors do just that to Limbaugh's show. If it was censorship then, it's censorship now.
spike59| 3.13.12 @ 6:00AM
jane fonda was always a big fan of totalitarians; this latest enterprise is right up her alley
jdc| 3.13.12 @ 11:01AM
These skanks embody Rushs Undeniable truth 24: Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women access to the mainstream of society.
Rush didnt need to apologize for anything to anyone. Fluke is a slut.
shipley130| 3.13.12 @ 2:19PM
I can smell the sty brewing.
Osamas Pajamas| 3.13.12 @ 3:54PM
The only "good" censor --- like the only good dictator --- is a "dead" one.
Freedom of speech [1st Amendment] and defense of personal liberty [2nd Amendment] go hand-in-hand.
The privately-owned guns of the 2nd Amendment are the proper and moral weapons for the defense of the 1st Amendment.
The Founding Fathers killed for freedom of speech and freedom of the press, among other freedoms.
Anyone in government or outside of government who in any way tries to limit or destroy freedom of speech should "Drop dead!" --- one way --- or another.
Draw your own conclusions.
POST American| 3.14.12 @ 1:13AM
----------------------BOTTOM LINE------------------------
IN this, the 11th hour of the CFR-RED China
handover, TREASON and FINAL EUGENICS OP
ON this, the 60th Anniversary of the astoundingly
relevant ---------------KOREAN WAR----------------
---------------WHY ARE YOU AFRAID?----------------
------------------------TO MOVE?-------------------------
-------------------------WHY???---------------------------
While GOOGLE is DARPA-NSA
---------and NUREMBERG 1934 IS HERE
----------------------------------------------WHY????
Flit Andersen| 3.14.12 @ 4:24AM
So nice that Hanoi Jane finally apologized - after 30-odd years, to the Vietnam Vets for ratting out those guys in the Hanoi Hilton and getting them beaten up for attempting to get word out to the World about how they were being abused.
I guess all is forgiven now, huh? Of course, the "apology" only came when she had to make a movie and a number of these rude Neanderthals were hanging around the area stinking the place up, walking in front of the Best Boys & Gaffers and generally making things uncomfortable for Jane and all of her Beautiful People friends.
Jeez, Jane, were are the Gook Guards when you need them, huh?
Highsider| 3.15.12 @ 6:26PM
Having had, perhaps, a few more years of observation time racked up than some here, I’d like to offer my opinion that conservatism is a bit shortsighted in the latter fifty to sixty years of it’s history at least.. The liberal left, or “progressivism” as they again dare call themselves, have ALWAYS planned further down the road than we, as conservatives have. Tell a true leftist leader (as opposed to the leftist herd) that conservatives have a plan, and they will laugh at you. Neither you as a conservative nor any conservative “leader” we might want to name, even knows what a plan is, compared to the hard core left.
At this point in history, the left has virtually total control over not only the mainstream news media, but our educational system also. This did not happen by accident nor did it happen overnight. It is the results of very carefully crafted planning from a long time ago. So that in the ‘50s and ‘60s, when the John Birch Society was warning us that this exact situation was being built up, step by step, we ignored it, buying instead, the left’s mantra that the JB’ers were a bunch of kooks. I can remember talking to people, good people, not leftists, but people who wanted the best for our freedoms, who actually thought that the John Birch Society were some sort of communist group.
So here we are. The left controls the dialog in our newspapers and in most broadcast news. It’s all most of America reads or hears. The left now controls not only the college level education but now the High school and grammar school levels and we are graduating crops of new little socialists year after year.
It wasn’t always so. After WW2, for several years, it wasn’t, but some detailed long range planning took place on a scale that most conservatives can’t grasp.
Most conservatives don’t realize it, but we are going down for the third time. Fate has thrown us a branch however, in the form of something that was not foreseen at the time all that planning took place.
Those planners had no way of knowing either that radio would NOT be completely made obsolete as a form of mass communication by the emergence of nationwide television, nor that THIS form of mass communication, the internet, would appear in the nations households. The advent of both talk radio and the internet, caught the left by surprise and is slowing the implementation of the next steps in their planning.
The now formidable recourses of the left have not been napping however. They have, in fact been planning the demise of both these tools that the right was handed on a silver platter. We are, as usual, way behind the curve in our planning to protect these resources. Can we rouse ourselves to the state necessary to accomplish what must be accomplished to just continue to exist, in the day late and dollar short form that we exist today? May God help us.