Kirsten Powers says the liberals who led the charge need to start holding their own side accountable.

"The grand pooh-bah of media misogyny is without a doubt Bill Maher."

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This subject (of Rush) came up at dinner with my husband. He repeated one of his favorite native-born Texan expressions: "Well, it sounds like he let an alligator mouth overload a jaybird ass."

"Maher has called Palin a “dumb twat” and dropped the C-word in describing the former Alaska governor. He called Palin and Congresswoman Bachmann “boobs” and “two bimbos.” He said of the former vice-presidential candidate, “She is not a mean girl. She is a crazy girl with mean ideas.” He recently made a joke about Rick Santorum’s wife using a vibrator. Imagine now the same joke during the 2008 primary with Michelle Obama’s name in it, and tell me that he would still have a job. Maher said of a woman who was harassed while breast-feeding at an Applebee’s, “Don't show me your tits!” as though a woman feeding her child is trying to flash Maher. (Here’s a way to solve his problem: don’t stare at a strangers’ breasts). Then, his coup de grâce: “And by the way, there is a place where breasts and food do go together. It’s called Hooters!”

Will Obama Super PAC Return Misogynist Bill Maher's Million-Dollar Donation? | The Weekly Standard

"Above, you'll find video of Maher's show-ending screed against "crazy people" Bachmann and Palin, plus those who respond to criticism of the two "boobs" with blind accusations of sexism. And while it's worth watching in its entirety—there's even some Newsweek-bashing, which is always fun—the following excerpt alone should suffice to prompt discussion:

Now I'm not saying that sexism doesn't exist and isn't real, but we can't throw around the word "sexist" just to stop people like me from pointing out that Michele Bachmann, now running second for the Republican presidential nomination, isn't [sic] a dangerous nincompoop. And when I point out that Sarah Palin is a vainglorious braggart, a liar, a whiner, a professional victim, a scold, a know-it-all, a chiseler, a bully who sells patriotism like a pimp, and the leader of a strange family of inbred weirdos straight out of The Hills Have Eyes, that's not sexist. I'm saying it because it's true, not because it's true of a woman."

Bill Maher Targets Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin in On-Air Tirade

The difference is that Sarah Palin became a public figure when she became a politician in the national spotlight.

Sarah Fluke is a private citizen. It looks like bullying to go against someone just taking a stand on something she believes in.

Rush Limbaugh and various other Republican pundits have frequently gone after public figures. It is going after the private person that crosses the line.

Ann Coulter is often a very harsh and sometimes funny critic of liberal public figures. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ann_Coulter I rarely though have seen her cross into the area where she attacks someone just speaking his or her mind who is not a political figure.

So are you condoning what Maher has said? If so, you surely would be condoning Rush's comments also, by default. Correct?

So it's OK to call a person in the public eye a "c*nt", a tw*t and a whore? When did that happen?.....

If you feel that way, I think that a 30 year old dedicated "women's rights" activist who testifies at a Nancy Pelosi news conference masquerading as a "committee hearing" is putting herself squarely in the public eye.

No, that's wrong. Maher is taking issue with a politician which has a very long tradition in US politics.

Just take a look at how nasty some of the things said about people like John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Richard Nixon, and many others have been. Remember the stain on the blue dress? Or, was it a red dress.

Maher can say whatever he likes as long as it does not actually go to a factual matter and is also wrong and done with malice.

I am not a fan of Maher. Never have watched an entire show of his unless relatives from say Massachusetts are visiting.

I have read some of Ann Coulter's books though.

How much of a choice though did Sandra Fluke really have? Still sounds like some people think that this whole thing is a charade to take the women's vote from the Republicans on the issue of contraceptives.

Your second sentence is squarely on target, except that you doubt it and this is exactly the Democrat strategy. It is exactly the strategy.

Right so Sandra Fluke only needed contraceptives at Georgetown Law during her third year of law school? She just waited to fall in love until the 2012 Election loomed?

And, then... Rush Limbaugh just had to make a fool of himself by rushing into the fray??

Here's a suggestion: If you don't like what Bill Maher has to say, STOP WATCHING HIM.

GREAT IDEA! Why didn't I think of that?!?! Oh that's cuz I don't watch him.:1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:
Returning the favor with advice for you... If you don't like what Rush has to say...STOP LISTENING!!!! :crap2:

WOW...that was EASY!

Wow!!; it seems so simple when you put it that way :)

Seems like a double standard to me. If you are a public figure, then it's open season on you to be called anything in the book, but if you are an ordinary citizen getting involved in the public platform , then you cry foul.

Fall in Love?!?! At $3000/year, that ain't just love!

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Never listened to him, never planned to ever listen to him. Just assumed you watch Bill Maher all the time, since you seem to be so well informed about his comments.

Five more advertisers have pulled their ads from Rush's show bringing the total now to 20. At this rate Limbaugh would be lucky to land "Hustler" magazine, Frederick's of Hollywood and the Voyeur's Club for Middle-Aged Corpulent Cads to buy time on his daily sexual star chamber.

Nope, not well informed until the whole Rush thing came up. Don't really listen to Rush either, but most of what I have heard from Rush is right on! I DO NOT CONDONE his recent comments tho.
Let sponsors pull their ads, that may bring other sponsors to the table. Pretty sure Rush could afford to go it alone also. It's not always easy or popular to stand for what you think is right.

Actually the Democrats had someone else to speak for the Congressional committee on this topic. It was a guy named Barry Lynn who the Democrats presented as a witness to help make their case for the imposing of unconstitutional mandates that the Church must provide contraceptives to it's university students. He was vetted and cleared to testify.

The Democrats then changed the program and insisted that the unvetted Sandra Fluke testify as they wanted to put a women's face on the issue and this 30 year old political women's right activist, who has also fought to have employers pay for trans-gender surgery for it's employees, testify.

The Republicans, per Rep. Issa, refused this last minute addition of the unvetted Ms. Fluke and in response Nancy Pelosi conducted a news conference set up to look like a Congressional hearing to present Ms. Fluke in her call for "free contraceptives for everyone" at the Roman Catholic Church's expense.

Sandra Fluke, this 30-year-old birth control activist then gives unverified and inexpert testimony about how Georgetown's long-standing and public policy has hurt her unnamed friends.

The Democrats used Sandra Fluke to create a controversy, while Sandra Fluke used them to advance her agenda, which is to force a religious institution to abandon their principles in order to meet hers.

This is all a ploy to resurrect for public consumption that oldie but goodie "The Republicans hate women" mantra. This is supposed to turn around polls indicating that Obama has lost ground among women voters.

I don't know what polls you've been reading. The latest ones I've seen say republicans have lost 18 points of support from suburban women in the last few weeks. The drop could be the result of the state-madated vaginal probe laws as well as Rush's tirade.

Sandra Fluke was exercising her first amendment right to speak when she testified. It doesn't matter what her motives or background may be. Rush Limbaugh also has the same first amendment right to speak, which he has been exercising for the past 20 years, but he's not allowed to make slanderous comments.

There are polls besides the ones with slanted questions issued by left wing media to falsely give the impression of an Obama rebound greater than it is.

Actually though, Obama's rebound, no matter how much, among women voters bolsters my argument that this contraceptives debate was begun for this very purpose.

(You really really love to keep writing about "vaginal probes", don't you. What ever happened to the proper and long used correct medical designation "sonogram". I guess it doesn't sound "evil" enough.)

The crazy thing is that these extremists want you to believe that God is guiding them in this hate.

What extremists are you talking about who have said they are on a mission from God?

I'd like to read that.

This entire "contraceptive" media/Liberal driven off topic message, is nothing more than to distract from the failure of Obamacare and to take the financial mess that Obama has delivered, and the inability to deal with it out of the public eye. Hence, NO BUDGET for over 1000 days and counting.

The last, was voted down in flames by the Democrat controlled Senate, and therefore, will not be dealt with because it shows the agenda.

Here's the link to those polls I mentioned:


Obama's support among women increases - Kate Nocera - POLITICO.com

Who are the ones that brought up this entire " contraceptive" issue? The state legislature in MS that tried to pass a personhood amendment; Gov Bob McDonald R-VA who wrote the state-madated vaginal-probe law now being passed by the state legislature; Rep candidate Rick Santorum, who said states have the right to ban contraception; Rush Limbaugh, who called a young woman a slut and prostitute because she was exercising her first amendment right to testify before congress, etc etc.

President Obama must be a political genius if he got republicans to take this bait, because women are deserting the GOP in droves.

Make that 23 advertisers that have dropped Rush Limbaugh.

There so much wrong with your post beginning with you calling Nancy Pelosi's press conference as "testifying before Congress". The 30 year old "women's activist" was speaking to the media. It's was not a Congressional hearing.

The "personhood" law is a separate debate of when does life begin. You want to get into that again? The use of a sonogram is a medical tool, and it's not always necessary to illustrate the progression of the separate and distinct life within the woman. A simple ultrasound is usually sufficient. The use of the term "trans-vaginal is being use by liberal abortion rights activists, like you, to inflame the situation by transforming the sonogram into a form of "forced rape".

Saying Rick Santorum want's to "ban contraception" is a lie propagated by his enemies.

As Ronald Reagan would have said "There she goes again"

Rick Santorum is only defending the First Amendment Rights of the Church, and nothing more.

Rush has apologized for his poor choice of words in his comments. Of course that's not good enough for the rabid leftists who see this as another chance to silence the most effective voice in the conservative media in 20 years. I won't defend him again to you, as it's pointless.

Losing it. :o

It was a committee hearing that MS Fluke testified at, not a press conference, after she was not allowed to testify by Rep Darrell Issa, R-CA.

I believe a sonogram is performed on the outside of a woman's body, as opposed to a trans-vaginal probe. This is what Gov Bob McDonald's law proposes. Call it what it is. I thought republicans, and especially tea-partiers, were against government intrusion. This is government intrusion in the worst way. Where is a woman's right to privacy guaranteed by the constitution? Gov McDonald suggested he would like to be considered for VP. The only VP he is going to be remembered for is the vaginal probe.

I heard Rick Santorum say that "states have a right to deny contraception" or words to that effect. Will post the link.

As you said, Rush apologized for his poor choice of words: "slut" "protitute". What words does he wish he had said: "harlot" "street-walker"? He went on about this for three days. This was not a slip of the tongue remark. Anybody that has a daughter, granddaughter, sister, wife, mother should be outraged.


http://truthhugger.com/2012/03/01/ri...ering-is-good/

Barbara Walters laughed when Laura Ingraham was called a slut...

Ingraham: Barbara Walters Laughed When I was Called 'Slut'

Twenty nine sponsors have now dropped Rush Limbaugh.

29? Where did that number come from?

What you have said above might be part of the reason for Rush's apology. For all we know, he might have gotten a call from her attorney asking for an apology. Or, Rush's own attorney might have told him that he had better apologize quickly and make it good.

Rush, as he will tell you himself, is a "broadcast professional". And, as such, he can say anything he needs to say and make it sound believable. That's what makes him a great salesman for all the many products sold on Radio.

But I detected some inconsistencies (or untruths) in his apology. Could it be that telling falsehoods comes so natural to him that he told more of them during his apology?

1) He said that everything he says on the radio is for the benefit of his listeners not the advertisers.

2) He said he came down to the level of his opponents, as though he had never done so before.

Number one above: Is it for our benefit that he keeps trying to convince us, over and over again, that we can eat any and all processed junk-food and that doing so has nothing to do with health?

Number two above: He always comes down to the level of his opponents. When Bush was President, the left was hoping the war in Iraq would be a big failure. And since Obama became President, Rush has been hoping that the economy would be a big failure. That's evident in his selective reporting of economic news.

To be honest, he always comes down to the level of his opponents. This time was different only because he slandered a woman and then became fearful that, 1) he might get sued by her and 2) he might lose more and more of his advertisers.

Think Progress tweeted it. According to my latest count, Rush still has about 46 sponsors left.

J C Penney makes it 33 sponsors who have dropped Rush Limbaugh, according to a tweet I just received from think progress.

Who are you addressing this too? If you mean yourself, I hope you can retain whatever it is you're losing.

Everything above is in error, especially the press conference that was no a real congressional hearing. But I think I'll step back an allow you your misconceptions. There's really no point in me trying to reason with someone who I think is unreasonable.

When you get all these liberal women bashers thrown off the air, talk to me again about Rush Limbaugh.

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Somewhere in this thread I can't find it but villages pl used it as a quote) cherlyincliff wrote that Sandra Fluke should sue Rush Limbaugh for libel and that yes, he/she (cherylincliff looked up libel).

Just to clarify libel is written defamations while slander verbal defamation.
As I recollect Rush made his comments while doing his radio talk show.

Secondly the defense to slander/libel is the truth. I really don't believe that Sandra Fluke would be interested in opening her private life to the public.....I'm just saying.

The liberal media for obvious political reasons is just focusing on 2 words that Limbaugh said. What they're not reporting is that Rush Limbaugh otherwise is right about Ms. Fluke.

This article says it very well, and I'll just link it for your information. If the bomb throwers get hinky I'll summarize it later.

Why Rush Limbaugh Was Right About Sandra Fluke « CBS Tampa