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The Spectacle Blog
Although I was critical of Rush Limbaugh’s behavior last week, it doesn’t mean I am not critical of liberals who behave badly and the liberals who look the other way. Jeff Lord, via Brent Bozell, has enlightened us to Piers Morgan’s double standards when it comes to Rush Limbaugh and Bill Maher.
But CNN’s double standards are hardly confined to Morgan. Indeed, what does Anderson Cooper’s headline read today?
“Rush Limbaugh’s apology spin”
So it shouldn’t come as any surprise that Cooper didn’t see fit to challenge Maher when he called Sarah Palin “a ditzy housewife” during an interview following a GOP debate in June 2011.
Needless to say, if Rush hadn’t apologized there would be clamors for him to throw himself upon the mercy of the court of public opinion. But now that he has apologized, it isn’t enough. Liberals can’t bring themselves to believe that Rush actually apologized. Thefefore they believe the apology to be insincere.
This double standard with regard to Rush and Maher goes well beyond CNN. As I will demonstrate in a column I hope to have up on the main page tomorrow it goes all the way up to the Obama White House.
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Conservative Not Republican| 3.6.12 @ 4:26PM
Rush, leader of the Stupid Party. The conservative brain trust once led by William F. Buckley and Russell Kirk has been supplanted by talk radio hosts and Sarah Palin populists. In its embrace of the religious right under George W. Bush, the Republican Party became the stupid party. And committing suicide along with it has been the conservative movement. The party united around god, guns and gays is finished. It takes courage to swim against the tide of know-nothingness that has become de rigueur among the anti-elite, anti-intellectual Republican base.
ejp| 3.6.12 @ 5:45PM
A more appropriate moniker for you should be "phony conservative" since there's nothing in your junk that couldn't have been written by a Democrat leftie.
LC Jackboot | 3.6.12 @ 6:14PM
Hey in liberal circles 'cut and paste' stands for intelligent, thoughtful commentary.
Perhaps they need a second page of ad hominem accusations, but that would confuse the proles.
Conservative Not Republican| 3.6.12 @ 9:06PM
Morons. A lefty is going to praise Kirk and Buckley? Apparently you are too ignorant to understand a simple paragraph. Viva the Stupid Party.
ejp| 3.6.12 @ 10:28PM
Someone who invokes Buckley and then rails against the "anti-intellectualism" of the base obviously is unfamiliar with Buckley's quote about how he'd rather be governed by the first fifty names in the Boston phone book than by the Harvard faculty. And someone who also forgets how important the Religious Right was to the Reagan Coalition in the 1980s is someone who knows very little about conservative history.
Take your phony pretensions and vote for Obama. You deserve him.
Colin | 3.6.12 @ 4:41PM
A.G.:
Something you may have missed in your earlier research and analysis: Apologies from conservatives, occasionally engaging in the same form of edgy commentary spewed by hypocritical pinheads like "Mary" Maher, "Sissy" Cooper and "Sgt." Schultz at MESS-NBC is this: With liberal scum -- its NEVER enough. And criticism from our OWN side of the fence only emboldens 'em ... more.
So again I'll say: "Screw takin' names, I'm for kickin' liberal ass."
Works for me!
ejp| 3.6.12 @ 5:47PM
And that is EXACTLY why I was against Rush apologizing and anyone who said he should have. It isn't enough to contain damage for the Nazis of the Left with their thought police mentality designed to stamp out the First Amendment and it never will. We are seeing that happen now in which conservative failure to rally behind Rush makes them think they can drive him off the air. Well this is the time to double down and start returning fire on the Obama White House and their taking money from KKK style bigot Bill Maher.
Simon Templar| 3.6.12 @ 6:21PM
Since everyone is so concerned about fact, fairness, and truth, let us look EXACTLY at what Rush said that day.
"What does it say about the college co-ed Sandra Fluke, who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex, what does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She's having so much sex she can't afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex. What does that make us? We're the pimps. (interruption) The johns? We would be the johns? No! We're not the johns. (interruption) Yeah, that's right. Pimp's not the right word. Okay, so she's not a slut. She's "round heeled." I take it back."
This is the tempest in a teapot. The guy clearly was making an analogy with Butt Sisters music, and all and was attempting to define how absurd and comical this all was just as Saturday Night Live has done a thousand times in thirty years with much more pointed sarcasm and ridicule. This is what he does, political humor. So, technically did he or did he call her a slut for real, or was it jesting, he technicallly said she was not at the end and retracted...in the same sentence he called himself a john or pimp? Maybe he should apologize to himself.
What really is going on here is just an organized hypocritical, cheap and coordinated attack on free speech, a conservative, and an attempt to distract away from their messiah's failed economic policies. You even have one of their own, a respected liberal journalist and a woman of the Fox News staff saying just that...
This was no different when most everybody called congress thieves, crooks, felons, and criminal when we learned that they were using inside trading information for their own gain. Were they technically breaking the law? Unfortunately no. But we used an analogy to demonstrate the absurdity and distasteful unethical acts as being close to criminal and we were angry about it because it offended our sense of values about fairness, our distaste for greed, and our ideas about how our reps should be behaving as our reps and what we beleive they should be doing there in congress.
The hypocricy truly is stunning coming from the Left as well as the insincerity. You owe me an apology and the rest of the nation. Get started you phony, liberal hypocrites. You can start apologizing for Bill Maher and then move on to the other dozen loudmouths you hold up on a pedestal.
Who by the way actually do emphatically and without any question, parody, or jest, or ambiguity call women, conservative women, cunts, whores, sluts, meatbags, and half a dozen other names......on prime time! Stunningly amazing hypocricy!
People who build and live in misogynistic and vitriolic houses should not throw stones!
Goldstein, you are in no position to comment on this and you know why.
Aaron Goldstein| 3.6.12 @ 9:53PM
But I will comment on it and there's nothing you can do to stop me.
Fred V.| 3.6.12 @ 6:41PM
I wish Rush had not said it. He made a despicable woman look like a victim.
Simon Templar| 3.6.12 @ 8:09PM
The Left made a despicable woman look like a victim. Unless, you want all of us to have our tongues removed, the Left will characterize conservatives in a poor manner, lie about their positions and statements, and distort everything we say. Shutting up and restricting your speech will never work with these bastards.
Have you forgot we were called woman haters well before Rush said anything just because a few objected to the forced law on Catholics to make them pay for contraceptives? Say anything and they are waiting to distort and twist.
Want to stop this, then fight back and refuse to accept any double standards and their narratives.