Sharpton To Schultz: FCC Should Threaten Radio Stations Carrying Rush
If the left can't get Rush by reviving the Fairness Doctrine, maybe the race card will work . . .
Al Sharpton has called for the FCC to go after the stations that carry Rush Limbaugh, unsubtly implying that their licenses should be in jeopardy. Sharpton made his speech-chilling suggestion to Ed Schultz on the latter's MSNBC show this evening.
The background is the back-and-forth betweeen Schultz and Rush regarding Limbaugh's comments on Jim Clyburn, Pres. Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee. But the bottom line is that the left wants to find an excuse, any excuse, to grab the mike from the man who has wreaked so much havoc on their cause.
View video after the jump of Sharpton repeatedly calling for the FCC to threaten stations carrying Rush's show.
Watch another member of the Dissent Is Patriotic crowd urge the Obama administration to use its power to silence a critic.
AL SHARPTON: When you keep having all of these racial tones, that is supported by federally-regulated radio--remember, these stations that he is on go to the federal government to get consolidation, to get waivers--the government has a right to protect free speech but they also have an obligation to hold standards where American people are not subjected to this
. . .
I think that even if his advertisers can't be stopped with boycotts, the FCC must step in and deal with standards on how they give station clearances to people that just want to race-bait. This is not about opinions, this is not about what you or I say in our college speeches or churches. This is on federally-regulated airwaves that the FCC gives the license to stations to let them do this
. . .
The Congressional Black Caucus, Progressive Caucus and others ought to take this up with the FCC. Their ought to be a line, on race, on gender, on sexual status. There ought to be a line where people have the right to say what they want, but they do not have a right to use federally-regulated airwaves to malign people because of groups
. . .
I think that Rush Limbaugh does what he does. I think that what bothers me is there are stations and networks that are allowed to make money off of him desecrating the presidents of the United States on Mount Rushmore. That bothers me.
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Comments
Investigate Sharpton
Submitted by nkviking75 on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 8:38pm.
How about a gut check for the new Republican House? I'd love to see Sharpton and some of the other race hustlers have to explain themselves to some House committee fort their repeated attempts to silence their critics.
“Always love your country — but never trust your government!" -- Bob Novak (1931-2009)
When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.
I'd take unpaid leave from work
Submitted by IgnatzJFahrquar on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 9:11pm.
to watch this societal turd and his pack of leeches go before a committee.
Hahahaha
Submitted by JamPony on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 11:02am.
I'm sure at this 'hearing' we will all find out that minorities actually aren't mistreated by anyone ever in this country.
And this has to do with the
Submitted by Radical1979 on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 11:07am.
And this has to do with the topic of taking Rush of the air how? Oh, it's you pony. Never mind, I haven't seen your posts making any sense since you've begun.
Try?
Submitted by almostacowboy on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 12:35pm.
Try to keep up with the conversation, troll.
What is wrong with you?
Submitted by The Vet on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 12:51pm.
You wanna call a respected member a troll? Now tell us what you plann to do on day 2 surfing the intertubes.
You should talk.
Submitted by Guttermouth's Return on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 12:54pm.
You should talk.
I believe the key word was "respected"
Submitted by The Vet on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 1:04pm.
+++++
Time's Joe Klein: Obama May Have to Lecture Israel on Its 'Moral ...
Mar 17, 2009 ... Okay, I get this guttermouth. Tue, 03/17/2009 - 14:43 ET by .... 3x to be a lonely housewife pissed off at her husband for making her stay ...newsbusters.org/.../2009/.../times-joe-klein-obama-may-have-lecture-israel-its -moral-standing - Cached +++++++
newsbusters.org/blogs/nb-staff/2009/03/09/open-thread - ++++++++++++++++ Time's Joe Klein: Obama May Have to Lecture Israel on Its 'Moral ...
Mar 17, 2009 ... Okay, I get this guttermouth comparison, but you're really making .... Tell me, 3x - when he comes home smelling like strippers, do you ask ...newsbusters.org/.../times-joe-klein-obama-may-have-lecture-israel-its-moral- standing - Cached
Yay! You found a
Submitted by Guttermouth's Return on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 1:13pm.
Yay! You found a couple!
Even better were chose's responses. Man, we had fun back then.
Yay! Where is 5kidsnadog?
Submitted by The Vet on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 1:19pm.
It was real funny how you ran her off with your creepy posts about her children.
Oh wait.... What was funny about that?
You're imagining things. If
Submitted by Guttermouth's Return on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 1:24pm.
You're imagining things. If you really have so little faith in chose's debating skills, I suggest you read our interactions.
The commies don't get to tell Rush Limbaugh what he can...
Submitted by Dave. on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 8:38pm.
...or cannot say on his radio show. This is still the United States of America. Sort of.Vote for the American in November
Yes the USSA, comrade.
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 9:17pm.
Yes the USSA, comrade.
An idea
Submitted by KC Mulville on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 8:48pm.
Fair is fair. If you want the power to regulate speech, and prevent anyone from saying things that you find offensive, then I want the power to prevent you from saying things that I find offensive. And frankly, exploiting Rush's comments shows such abject ignorance that Sharpton should be silenced immediately. If you want to treat all race comments as "fighting words," the same applies in return.
Hypocrite Al
Submitted by Joe W. on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 8:49pm.
"The Congressional Black Caucus"???? How is THAT not racist, Al??
racist
Submitted by TWOTIMETUNA on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 12:53am.
the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
seems racist and way out of date since we have a black President.
The Government is the Enemy
let's not forget the Hispanic
Submitted by sometimesright on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 12:35pm.
let's not forget the Hispanic Caucus. also there's talk of a Women's Caucus. funny how a european white male isn't welcome in any of those. even if you're a democrat! it's no longer about the content of your character but the color of your skin(even gender)!
I also don't recall a United
Submitted by MikeB on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 2:22pm.
I also don't recall a United Caucasian Colleg Fund.
I suppose it's okay to be racist if you are black or brown, anything but white, eh?
Perhaps the FCC should yank the license of any radio or television station that broadcasts statements from Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton, or any other race baiter. How would that be, Al?
Restoration
Submitted by miss911ninja on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 8:56pm.
Rush's driving Miss Daisy comments probably didn't get Al's knickers knotted half as much as Rush's remark that BHO's presidency will be like "graffitti on the walls of history." Please God, let it amount to nothing more than a nuisance, like graffitti. And send someone quick to paint over it and restore the neighborhood!
Right after Schltz finished
Submitted by Barack_must_go..... on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 9:00pm.
Right after Schltz finished calling for the removal of Rush for speaking the truth about the democrat party and the Ass Clown in our White House, he and the co-creator for the daily show, some skanky woman, launched into a 5 minute tirade belittleing Sarah Palin and her two daughters.The woman kept calling them a derogatory name, which I cannot remember, Ed just laughed along.
Barack_Must_Go.....
Free Speech for Me,...
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 9:02pm.
....But Not for Thee.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
but they also have an
Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 9:02pm.
but they also have an obligation to hold standards where American people are not subjected to thisYou know what, Al? No one is "subjected" to Rush. As liberals are so fond of saying when defending smut on TV....change the channel. No one has to tune in to Rush's show. And his words wouldn't go any further than his audience if you and your kind didn't insist on dragging them into the mainstream to whine about. You act as if your life can't go on while Rush is allowed to speak. Liberals' reaction to speech they find "offensive" is to run to Mommy (the government) and whine "Make him stop!!"
Good Post
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 9:13pm.
This is worth repeating.....maybe even repeated twice!
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
Hear, hear! True words.
Submitted by Slyrr on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 12:31am.
Hear, hear!
True words. The left uses the same arguments to defend perversion, pornography, blasphemy and sleaze of every kind. ("Hey, if you don't like it, just don't look!")
Did it ever occurr to any of these losers like Sharpton to apply the same advice to 'free speech' that THEY don't like? 'Hey, no one's forcin' ya to listen to Rush! If you don't like it, just don't listen!'
(No subject)
Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 9:02pm.
oops. already hit "save"
Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 9:04pm.
oops. already hit "save" once. Another "upgrade" that I dislike.
Oh, good grief. I don't know what happened this time.
This new, improved site is going to drive me nuts.
motherbelt...oops..,
Submitted by ww thumper on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 12:34pm.
...you mean this new and not improved site....?
It was easer to use the way is WAS.... :-) WW
MY PASTOR SAYS "GOD BLESS AMERICA"!!!I ASK " GOD SAVE AMERICA, AND RESTORE OUR AMERICAN HONOR!"
Ummm Rev, what exactly is
Submitted by Dingbat on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 9:07pm.
Ummm Rev, what exactly is Clyburn's new "position"? No one seems to know. Suggests to me that Mr Clyburn is a token...maybe a porch person? Please, Rev, refute this with hard facts.
I heard
Submitted by Model850 on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 2:03pm.
He holds the position of "Assistant Democratic Leader," a brand new post.
Reminds me of "The Office" and how Dwight says his title is "Assistant Regional Manager" which Michael quickly corrects as "Assistant TO THE regional manager."
So is Clyburn "Assistant TO HER highness Pelousy?"
in the
Submitted by HockeyKid on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 2:47pm.
Shoeshine Department. How do the Dems not only get away with, but get applauded for, their blatant racial pandering?!"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Am I Right Or Am I Right?
Submitted by rammingspeed on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 9:16pm.
Satire is legal, and Limbaugh's joke did not violate racial "rules," whatever the hell they are. Only idiots would go along with Sharpton's proposal, and everyone knows all the idiots in the country are ipso facto Limbaugh fans, because all the idiotsin the country are on the right. Right?
No, no, no, satire is NOT
Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 9:31pm.
No, no, no, satire is NOT legal if it's "offensive."
\sarc off
And, for the record, what Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Lusional) found "racist" was Rush's referring to Ed Schultz as "Sgt. Schultz" the dumb German guard from "Hogan's Heroes"
Listen to her trying to make the case
I'm a little sensitive to what that is to garner.
??????
Is that because you have a name that may be ethnically connected to being a Sergeant.
???????
The woman is dumber than a bag of hammers!
She's an embarrassment to her constituents.
Hammers have a job and a purpose
Submitted by Deskpilot on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 11:29pm.
They build houses, straighten bent metal, drive axles into frames, secure shingles to roofs.
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SJL and Rev. Fouls' jobs are to build racial walls, drive their people to the poorer house at every turn, and only work to secure their position in front of a camera and microphone. Racial whores the two of them. All they can do is drive things apart.
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Just remember this
Submitted by TexasMom0517 on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 1:02am.
Sheila Jackson Lee was NOT born in Texas- she is from Queens. So, don't blame Texas! (Well, okay, maybe a little, but she is not the product of Texas schools or Texas culture.
AND, she's part of the "intellectual elite"- from her website- so you'd better be more respectful of your betters.
Congresswoman Jackson Lee earned a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University with honors, followed by a J.D. from the University of Virginia Law School.
Sheila Jackson Lee
Submitted by TomJoe on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 2:47am.
Sheila Jackson Lee's credentials are incredible and undisputible.
I was equally impresed with th following info I found on the honorable representative from Texas. This is fantastic. from Wikipedia:
In 1997, during a subcommittee briefing, Jackson Lee asked a NASA scientist if the Mars Pathfinder had photographed the flag that Neil Armstrong had left on the moon.
Amazing
And, lest we think it was an anomaly,
Submitted by HockeyKid on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 2:56pm.
let's not forget these nuggets:-
"All those who wore sheets a long time ago have now lifted them off and started wearing, uh, clothing, uh, with a name, say, I am part of the tea party." (speaking to the NAACP)
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"two Vietnams living peacefully side by side" (from the House floor)
"Box of Hammers" is actually the superior intellect SJL asks when she doesn't know the answer."Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Sorry, but, in Lee's case I
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 7:29am.
Sorry, but, in Lee's case I have to assume affirmative action had a role there.
Ya Think?
Submitted by TexasMom0517 on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 10:55am.
Heaven forbid! Surely, she's gotten where she is today just like our president did, by dint of extraordinary intellect and hard work.
embarrassment
Submitted by NCConservative on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 4:37pm.
As a proud UVa graduate, I cringe every time I see "University of Virginia" next to this woman's name.
At least for every Sheila Jackson Lee, we also have a George Allen.
Libs Love to Dish it Out, but They Cannot Take it!
Submitted by gruyere cheese on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 9:19pm.
Ok, Mr. Al Sharpton - If the FCC is given the power to regulate shows on TV or Talk Radio that are offensive to some, then that should also apply to Eddie Boy, Chrissie Boy & KeithBO.
What is good for the Goose is good for the Gander, SIR!
These morons on the liberal media had and have no problems calling George W. Bush many names even after he is no longer the President of this country. I don't recall hearing anyone calling for the censorship of their shows because of it!
Mr Al, you need to quit spending so much time at the hair salon and more time addressing issues that are relevant to your followers.
even if....
Submitted by goldbough on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 9:28pm.
Sharpton obviously does not believe in a free country because even if Rush was a rabid racist, he should still be on the air if advertisers were willing to spend money with him.
"these stations that he is on go to the federal government to get consolidation, to get waivers" Wow, that's a stretch. Since he can't say radio is federally owned (like NPR), he says the airwaves are owned by the govt, therefore owners are subject to the government.Followers?
Submitted by grammajane on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 9:35pm.
What followers does Al have, beides the goof he was talking to? Rush has called Al and Jessie the Rightous Brothers. Now they could be the Three Stooges with Mr. Ed on-board. Ed claimed he got under Rush'e skin. The truth is Rush has been laughing at the jerk for two days, adding hillrious satire to his show. Rush is so clever!!
Good luck with that
Submitted by octavioj on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 9:37pm.
It seems from case law that even hate speech, which it clearly was not, is protected. If people feel offended by the comments, just tune out and his show will be naturally dropped. This is censorship pure and simple.
24 hours after the Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing
Submitted by Texndoc on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 9:47pm.
Then President Clinton was using Limbaugh as a scapegoat suggesting he should be off the air. Didn't work, did it.
"the FCC must step in and deal with standards on how they give station clearances to people that just want to race-bait"
Careful for what you wish there, Reverend Race-baiter radio host.
Limbaugh taken off the air?
Submitted by Jer on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 10:16pm.
No, it didn't work...
because Clinton never suggested it.
Jer
Jer, Why do you patrol
Submitted by Chris Norman on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 10:57pm.
Jer,
Why do you patrol these threads looking for nits to pick, like a small town sheriff looking for cars with cracked tail lights to ticket? Clinton may have not directly demanded that Limbaugh be removed from the air, but to what other end could he have been thinking of when he made that inflammatory accusation?
Well, excuse me, Chris...
Submitted by Jer on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 11:31pm.
I didn't realize correcting factual errors was pointless nit-picking. It clearly isn't against the site's terms of use. But I honestly regret that you're bothered by it.
Are you likewise still bothered by the fact that I sign my name to my posts? Perhaps you would care to answer why, of the dozens of posters who also sign their names or initials, I am the only one you have ever criticized for the practice.
Jer
Wow, that signing your name
Submitted by Chris Norman on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 11:47pm.
Wow, that signing your name at the end when your name is already at the top thing still rankles you, huh? I'd forgotten all about that. Your "corrections" don't bother me. It's just that, like I once noted with "Balboa", it seemed that rather than ever commenting on the main post, he confined himself to replying to comments in the thread. It's like you're saying, "Well, I can't argue with the NB contributor's point, so I'll concentrate on the laymen's comments which might contain some hyperbole".
No, Chris...
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 12:22am.
It didn't particularly rankle me. But it apparently rankled you, since you made an issue of it more than once--even after I explained my reasons on the first occasion you moaned about it. So, why not answer the question: Why did you pointedly criticize me twice about something you never mentioned even once to others?
With regard to your other point, I'm frankly shocked by the accusation. You and I have both been here long enough that you should be perfectly aware my posts pretty well cover the gamut--from lengthy exchanges of opinions, to short quips, to taking issue with a blogged article, to sourced argumentation, to agreeing with and complimenting other posters, to interjecting snarky objections, to posting [attempts at] humorous observations or good-natured banter, to battling multiple ideological "opponents" etc. Just what the hell do you want from me?
Jer
It was kinda nitpicky sir.
Submitted by The Vet on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 2:16am.
RUSH: Let's go back, April 24th, 1995, Mississippi, Minnesota.
CLINTON 1995: We hear so many loud and angry voices in America today whose sole goal seems to be to try to keep some people as paranoid as possible and the rest of us all torn up and upset with each other. They spread hate. They leave the impression that -- by their very words, that -- violence is a acceptable. You ought to see -- I'm sure you are now seeing the reports of some things that are regularly said over the airwaves in America today. It is time we all stood up and spoke against that kind of (pounding podium) reckless speech and behavior.
FOLLOWERS: (applause)
RUSH: That was Bill Clinton, blaming me for the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19th, 1995. Yesterday we had the tea parties, and the Drive-By Media (I'm sure to its great chagrin) is filled with stories about how festive and how peaceful and how unthreatening all of the tea parties were. The effort to infiltrate these tea parties fizzled. They have stories on that that they probably do not like having to report. And, ladies and gentlemen, it's very clear that these citizen uprisings -- genuine grassroots citizen's uprisings -- are far more powerful than an attempt to drum up fake opposition to them from the White House. Yet, Bill Clinton is back in the game, expanding that threat via this sound bite.
CLINTON 2010: There was this rising movement in the early nineties that was basically not just a carefully orchestrated plot by people of extreme right-wing views but one that fell into fertile soil because there were so many people for whom the world no longer made sense. They wanted a simple, clear explanation of what was an inherently complex, mixed picture full of challenges that required not only changes in public policy, but personnel conduct and imagination about the world we were living in. So demonizing the government and the people that work for it sort of fit that -- and there were a lot of people who were in the business back then of saying that the biggest threat to our liberty and the cause of our economic problems was the federal government itself.
RUSH: So there you have it: Bill Clinton once again trying to rebirth his empty threat from 1995. He starts out tracing the plot that started in the eighties to "demonize government." I have a question. We have two more sound bites of the president here specifying right-wing talk radio, but I have a question: How come we're supposed to draw (on the basis of no evidence), a connection between conservatism and terrorism, conservative ideology and terrorism? Where is that connection? Yet we are told we must reject, despite tons of evidence, the connection between Islamist ideology and terrorism. So we can't call Islamist fundamentalists "terrorists." We can't even use the word. But we can have ex-presidents and current presidents running around trying to associate conservatives with nonexistent terrorism at peaceful tea parties. Somebody needs to explain this to me.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Bill Clinton. By the way, these statements were this morning at the big left-wing think tank, The Center for American Progress. So we played the sound bite where he starts out tracing the "plot" that started in the eighties to demonize government. Next sound bite, Clinton says that right-wing talk radio has made money off of anger, aided by the Internet.
CLINTON 2010: When I became president, it's hard to remember this, there were only 50 sites on the World Wide Web. Among those who first saw its potential and made use of it were those who used the Internet to do all kinds of interesting things, including share information on how to make bombs. We didn't have blog sites back then, so the instrument of carrying this forward was basically the right-wing radio talk show hosts. They understood that emotion was more powerful than reason. They got much bigger listenership and more advertisers and more commercial success if they kept people in the white heat. For 99% of them, it was just that: Turn on the radio, listen to somebody say something you agree with, vent your anger.
Full transcript here
Good Lord, Vet...
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 2:50am.
Not only did Clinton never mention Limbaugh's name, he didn't even remotely suggest that Rush be taken off the air.
And yet the poster asserted both as fact--which I disputed.
And you come along and lend credence to Chris's lame complaint regarding the form and technique of my posting--added to his past bitching and moaning about how I sign my name. Maybe I should submit all of my proposed furture comments to Chris for prior approval so as not to offend his personal notions of posting propriety.
Jer
No. You are allowed to sign your name if you want.
Submitted by The Vet on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 3:02am.
I will support Uncler Jer for that. I will petition to have Uncle Jer sign it with Yours truly, Uncler Jer"
I know it was a lot to read but Rush kinda said it too.
RUSH: That was Bill Clinton, blaming me for the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19th, 1995.
More ----
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Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) says the former president's comments are an effort to silence critics.
Former President Bill Clinton’s comments surrounding the Oklahoma City bombing commemoration are “unconscionable” and an “over-the-top” effort to silence critics, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) said Tuesday.
Clinton has drawn fire for reprising criticism he made of conservative talk radio 15 years in the wake of the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building that took 168 lives and injured more than 500 others.
“I could not believe it when I first saw the Clinton remarks that he had come out again, 15 years later, and talked about this being precipitated by right wing talk radio,” Inhofe said in an interview for POLITICO’s Arena forum. “This is an over-the-top effort to try to stop a movement of people who aren’t amenable to supporting Obama programs, like cap and trade, government-run health care and closing Gitmo.”
+++++
You can kinda understand where people are getting this stuff.
Right, Vet...
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 3:37am.
I had already read Rush's remarks, Clinton's, and Imhofe's as well. I know Rush has been framing this for fifteen years as an effort to muzzle him and get him thrown off the air. Imhofe has tried to make political hay over this imagined threat by Clinton to free speech.. Now, there are some idiots like Sharpton who come along every so often and make stupid statements which deserve to be ridiculed.
But, to repeat, Clinton said nothing of the sort.
I thank the Vet for his support of the continued signing of my name to posts. [By the way, now that there is an "additional comments" feature, it is also a useful way to determine whose recent post is being read.].
Finally, maybe you can inquire of Chris which lib's posting style meets with his approval. He apparently has decided to bitch and run.
Jer
Point goes to Uncle Jer.
Submitted by The Vet on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 4:02am.
President Clinton did go into an extended whine about Rush Limbaugh, kinda blamed him for Tim McVeigh but never spoke of getting him off the air.
President Clinton picked up this fretful refrain in Atlanta on May 3, amidst sagging poll numbers and embarrassing headlines ranging from Whitewater to Paula Jones. "You [have] got to understand in the rural South where you've got Rush Limbaugh and all this right-wing extremist media just pouring venom at us every day and nothing to counter that, we need an election to get the facts out," claimed the president on CNN. A few weeks later, the president was back on the warpath during an interview aboard Air Force One with St. Louis radio station KMOX. "The Republicans and the far right in this country have their own media networks. We don't have anything like that. They have extra organized political action groups that we can't match, and they have the Republican Party's fund-raising apparatus, which has been strengthened by having had the White House for all but four in the [past] 20 years." (For the record, Bill Clinton had spoken at a $3.5 million Democratic fundraiser 36 hours before. But I digress.)
"I think there is too much cynicism and too much intolerance...look at how much of talk radio is a constant, unremitting drumbeat of negativism and cynicism," the president continued, explaining that he was newly determined "to be aggressive." He then added, "After I get off the radio with you today, Rush Limbaugh will have three hours to say whatever he wants, and I won't have any opportunity to respond, and there's no truth detector. You won't get on afterward and say [what] was true and what wasn't."
The pundits didn't quite know what to make of that. Yes, they agreed, Rush Limbaugh is a blemish on the American political landscape. Still, the president's performance was odd. The response of the New York Times editorial page was blistering: "Whining and public self-pity are not presidential-scale attributes." The Washington Post's Mary McGrory concurred: "His remarks were soggy with self-pity.... Self-pity is exhaustion's little sister and follows her everywhere. Clinton should read what was said about our most saintly president, Abraham Lincoln, and stop whining." Even London's Sunday Telegraph could not resist commenting: "To get into a barnyard scrap with right-wing talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh does little for the dignity of the Oval Office."
jer signs his name.....
Submitted by old cro on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 4:01am.
and posts all his progressive crap for posterity. He has a dream of publishing the archives showing the world how he, the mighty jer, stood up to hundreds, nay thousands, of rabid right wingers with his foolish rhetoric and beat down the conservative threat to this country. With visions of movie rights in his mind he is currently seeking a producer (Sam T. Bronokwitz) and director (Spike Lee) and is in active negotiations with Sean Penn to play the title character. I can see the screen play in my minds eye:
It was not your usual Friday night. In fact, it was unusual. There had not been a posting on News Busters for three whole minutes with some grammatical error or ideallogy that I disagree with and my fingers ached from their poised position above my $50 keyboard. Suddenly, a posting by old cro (played by Woody Allen). They were always good for errors.........................
sharpton
Submitted by niufan99 on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 10:08pm.
SHUT UP SHARPTON!
matthew 19:26
Not a surprise. when crapily
Submitted by Darasen on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 10:40pm.
Not a surprise. when crapily Guy is offensive the left says turn the chanel. If they don't like something they want it off the air.
Why is this race baiting,
Submitted by Chris Norman on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 10:40pm.
Why is this race baiting, racial violence instigating, charlatan still given a place in polite company?
WHAT 'polite company'?
Submitted by Tailgunner on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 11:07pm.
MSNBC hardly deserves that label.
CANDIDATE Obama: 'Yes, we CAN'.
PRESIDENT Obama: 'BECAUSE we CAN'.
Yes, but he also appears on
Submitted by Chris Norman on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 11:49pm.
Yes, but he also appears on Fox News and other media outlets.
Sometimes...
Submitted by almostacowboy on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 1:48pm.
....I think they have him appear on Fox just to allow him to expose himself as the fraud he is.
Comic Relief
Submitted by Jerry Mack on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 3:10pm.
Reverend Al supplies comic relief on Fox just like the cartoons that movie theaters once played. Anyone that takes either of these clowns seriously is less than educated.
Let me say I support keeping MSNBC on the air.
Submitted by Tailgunner on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 11:05pm.
For one thing, we stand for the First Amendment even when it comes to lunatics like Olbermann, Malloy and Sergeant Schulz.
Second, someone once wrote that truth could only be appreciated by contrasting it with lies.
CANDIDATE Obama: 'Yes, we CAN'.
PRESIDENT Obama: 'BECAUSE we CAN'.
And that roses smell sweeter
Submitted by Chris Norman on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 11:06pm.
And that roses smell sweeter after sniffing dog poop? :)
Well, could anyone deny that?
Submitted by Tailgunner on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 11:09pm.
Rather crude way of putting it, but the principle's not much different.
CANDIDATE Obama: 'Yes, we CAN'.
PRESIDENT Obama: 'BECAUSE we CAN'.
Yes, I'm feeling rather crude
Submitted by Chris Norman on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 11:16pm.
Yes, I'm feeling rather crude tonight. Still, I've seen much cruder here...
Where was Al?
Submitted by pbthinker on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 11:15pm.
Where was Al and Senator Rockefeller (for those of you who follow this stuff) when Air America was on? I heard more offensive things on Air America than I ever heard on Rush Limbaugh. The point is, I guess, all about whose ox is being gored.
Despite the constitionally
Submitted by Chris Norman on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 11:24pm.
Despite the constitionally offensive demand of clown Al Sharpton, I'm more struck by the video on Real Clear Politics (link from Drudge) of Jay Rockefeller musing that it would be a good thing if both MSNBC and Fox News were removed from the air. This is what we were talking about the other night when we suggested that some liberals, in criticizing MSNBC, were teeing up for their next moves of equivocating them with Fox, then ultimately suggesting that both be somehow reined in. Chilling thoughts from a US senator.
Cnn standing alone
Submitted by Jerry Mack on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 3:15pm.
Imagine sitting down with a bowl of popcorn and watching thrilling Larry King interviews. Better still would be Andersen Cooper's bullying shows. Yep get rid of Fox and MSDNC.
From Cooper
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 4:56pm.
I would expect lessons in Tea Bagging which apparently is have favorite activity.
Perhaps the news thing doesn't pan out he can get a job washing balls at the driving range.
"Congress shall make no law
Submitted by Deskpilot on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 11:43pm.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
This is the proverbial fish in a barrel here. Free Speech is what MUST be protected. For as much as you disapprove of the content, or the speaker, or the manner in which it is delivered, short of incitement of a riot or a breach of the peace, free speech is FREE SPEECH. If you don't like it, walk away, tune it out, change the channel or better yet, stand up and factually challenge what is being said.
It's the last part of that which SJ Lee(valone) Rev Foul and Sgt. Shultz and the rest of the left can't do. Look at the success of Air America.
Five times over 20 years, I raised my right hand and solemnly swore, "to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America..." That's my reference point.
But free speech has limits
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 12:32am.
But free speech has limits when over public airwaves. In fact free speech has limits anyways. The government does limit speech over the air for public decency or at least it used to.
Decency isn't normally the problem
Submitted by Deskpilot on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 4:42am.
Most airwave customers know indecency when they hear and lodge the appropriate complaint with the FCC if it's really egregious, or as in the Janet Jackson fiasco takes direct action. The Market corrected with a 7 second delay, just as radio talk does when listeners call in. For the most part, the DUMP switch is used to prevent George Carlins seven dirty words from getting on the air, but just about everything else, in context is fair game.
As much as we hate the word, neither Dr. Laura nor her show's producer use the DUMP when she herself used the word "nigger" several times in responding to a caller. She wasn't calling anybody a nigger, she was describing how it is used by one part of our society to raucous laughter, and condemned when others use is in almost the same type of context
I hate to do this, but this is where I found the audio. DON'T SAY YOU WEREN'T WARNED
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201008120045
The Driving Ms. Nancy satire wasn't indecent, it was just perceived as offensive on its face by the chief race-baiter who only gets his feed from Media(doesn't)-Matters. A transcript can not gather the tone of the speakers voice, nor would Media (doesn't)-Matters bother to type into a transcript the fact that it was satirical or sarcastic. They're lefties and can't comprehend that level of intelligence.
http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/2010/11/lefties-struggle-to-make-rush...
Poor Rev. Foul just doesn't get it, and never will.
And what exactly did Limbaugh
Submitted by Beukeboom on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 11:42am.
And what exactly did Limbaugh say that qualifies as an exemption to the constitutionally mandated freedom of speech? I haven't seen any evidence whatsoever that the material he uttered on-air was outside any legal boundaries that would remove him from constitutional protection from the government in regards to free speech.
those limits...
Submitted by almostacowboy on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 1:50pm.
Those limits apply to verbiage, not content.
But wouldn't this create a problem for Al and his show?
Submitted by Rhymes With Right on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 12:09am.
After all, a ban on race-baiters would mean that he would be the first kicked oft the air,
Dingy Harry
Submitted by jon_torlin on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 12:14am.
Hm, I'm reminded of the last time someone kinda high profile(sometimes in their own little minds) called for Rush to be taken off the air and/or fired and that was Dingy Harry writing a letter to Clear Channel which ended up on an Ebay auction that was matched by Rush for a good cause. And Dingy Harry claimed he was all part of that.
-Jon
Dust Off Your Copy Of Orwell's 1984
Submitted by Blue Collar Todd on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 12:28am.
Remember that brutal interogation scene in 1984? Who else will be a thought criminal? Go to 1:20 in the video here to watch.
HEY LIBS! I have an idea!
Submitted by Van Halen on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 1:12am.
HEY LIBS! I have an idea! Let's boycott Rush!
Because that worked SO WELL before!
Remember how well boycotting Beck worked?
Remember when Clinton and then Obama each got in on the action? How did that work out?
Call the advertisers and demand they stop advertising on a show that is carried on over 600 stations!
Dial that phone, now!
Let's stop him from saying things that we disagree with!
Sharpton Is A Racist
Submitted by DaMama on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 12:52am.
Why won't anyone state the obvious? Al Sharpton is an anti-white racist. But no one dare call him on the carpet about this because it isn't politically correct. Blacks can't be racist according to political correctness.
This man has -0- credibility. Why anyone pays attention to this blowhard after his involvement with the Tawana Brawley scandal is beyond me. Sharpton has lied, slandered and should never EVER be referred to as "Reverend". He is an embarrassment to the ministry.
Sharpton, Jackson and their ilk need to just go away. They spew hatred freely because no one has the cojonoes to tell them to shut up for fear of being branded a racist.
Let me at 'em. I'll call them racists to their faces and I'll back it up with FACTS, not the lies and fabrications they come up with.
Sharpton should not call for
Submitted by celator on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 1:10am.
Sharpton should not call for Federal action against anyone since he refuses to pay his income tax bill to the IRS. Not sure what deal he cut with the IRS, but he still owes a load of money, it would appear. Hopefully there there will be a trial for him in the future, as there would be for any of us.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/07/21/2008-07-21_feds_drop_criminal...
What, Rush off the air? And,
Submitted by jdhawk on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 1:16am.
What, Rush off the air? And, miss Rush's dozen of so parodies of the "Justice Brothers" Al Sheepdip and Jesse Jacksh*t.? I don't think so . . . lol
But, heck, I can't wait for Rush's "hearing" before the FCC on CSPAN playing as evidence his favorite parodies for all America to enjoy. What a hoot! Look out Jon Stewart . . .
Hey, if that doesn't sway the commissioners of the FCC, Rush can show clips of Al Sheepdip answering questions during the debates when Al was running for "president." It will make clear to the commissioners the true meaning of the term moron.
After the above, and a few moments of healing and reconciliation - from laughing too hard - the commissioners will surely find Rush not guilty.
Of course, then there's this, "a light skin African American with no Negro dialect," a quote of Senator Reid, during the presidential race of 2008.
Typical... "Censor
Submitted by Cowboy on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 1:43am.
Typical...
"Censor everybody but me..."
talk about call'n the kettle black
Submitted by donabernathy on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 1:48am.
"deal with standards on how they give station clearances to people that just want to race-bait."
Al....Al....Al
roflmao
Stations that carry Rush's
Submitted by Beukeboom on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 9:12am.
Stations that carry Rush's show should have their licenses revoked/pulled/yanked/whatever for WHAT LEGITIMATE REASONS, Al?
The sheer hypocrisy, ignorance and arrogance of Al Sharpton is legendarily offensive. So if offensive things are to be done away with in this politically correct universe as created by the likes of Sharpton then Al should be near the front of the Soylent Green factory line.
Two words for Al of which he can never escape and of which have ruined any legitimacy that he might once enjoyed: Tawana Brawley.
One camp
Submitted by theduck6 on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 11:01am.
will challenge the other's views and debate based on facts and one wants to silence the other because they have no argument to counter. Which one is more likely to be on the side of logic and accuracy? Progressive windbags like Special Ed? I think not. I would call him Sgt Schultz but apparently Shiela Jackson Lee is so dim a bulb as to understand a pop culture reference.
Getting even crazier out there...
Submitted by tanstaafl4 on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 11:12am.
...if such were possible.
Combine comments of race baiter extraordinaire Al Sharpton with Jay Rockefeller's comments yesterday that the FCC should shut down Fox and MSNBC (ASIF they're in the same category to begin with) with the fact that the FCC is already run by Idiotlogues, and things go to a whole new level of weird.
Jay Rockefeller as much as stated that the cable broadcasts are interfering with Congress' ability to do its job. There's a funny joke, right there. He added insult to injury in implying that what those self-indulgent, ideologically bent Congresscritters do is central to and/or critical to the futures of we the beleaguered peeps.
Jay Rockefeller is an egotistical mook in the style of Obama and Kerry.,
Free speech
Submitted by misterbee241 on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 11:28am.
If speech can be controlled for Rush, it can for Al too. It all depends who is in control of Congress. Dont wish too hard, Al, you might just get what you wished for.
Another False Claim from a Civil Rights Whore
Submitted by ah64mtp on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 11:57am.
All you have to do is look at the source. Don't get between him and a camera. What Rush stated is correct and thereby true.
i can't think of a better
Submitted by sometimesright on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 2:51pm.
i can't think of a better term to refer to lee or sharpton and a multitude of others. a CIVIL RIGHTS WHORE. they wait in the wings to get angry about anything that is "percieved" as racism. i laughed when lee tried to tie the "sergeant" tag of schulz to something racist, she wasn't even sure what but there was SOMETHING there.
Remind me again why MSNBC's
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 1:19pm.
Remind me again why MSNBC's rating are in the toilet? I forgot...
Going down that path~!!!
Submitted by Godfatherofblog on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 1:59pm.
Mr. Sharpton it was a parody, a joke. It had to do with the relationship between Sen Clyburn and Pelosi as it compares to Driving Ms. Daisy! So I guess we should stop all reruns of Driving Ms. Daisy because of it's racial over tones. Since Driving Ms Daisy is so racial and the recent Murd_r of the publicist in Beverly Hills, who was involved in the promotion of this racist movie, probably because of that involvement, we should conclude that this hateful rhetoric spewed by you Mr. Sharpton is a direct cause and affect of that rhetoric, that you Mr. Sharpton should be considered having played a part in the crime against the publicist. Therefore you should be taken off the Air and considered an accessory before the fact and charged accordingly.
Now Al baby do you see where this can end up when you start down that path-Comrade~!!!
And Special Ed
Submitted by HockeyKid on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 3:04pm.
completely fails to recognize that Sharpton's bright idea could result in Ed's show being outlawed.He actually knows nothing. Amazing.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Ed Knows
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 3:13pm.
Sgt. Shultz has been mentioned for two days in a row on Rush's show. He'll say just about anything to get that sort of publicity.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
What This Really Is
Submitted by Wildcatter1980 on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 10:15pm.
Sharpton and the rest of the left can't win the debate so they seek to prevent the debate instead.
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If you want to know what liberal secular progressives are really doing, just listen to what they are accusing others of.
Recommended reading: Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg
Sheila Jackson Lee and Al Sharpton
Submitted by papawterry on Fri, 11/19/2010 - 10:38pm.
Affirmative action PLUS! Both of them should get into the George Bush plan "No Child Left Behind". With those two I'm sure it must have been "Hire the Handicapped" week. Al Sharpton is the 2nd biggest racist in the USA! He can't carry Jesse Jackson's bible though. And that Sheila Jackson Lee speaks and acts like a grade school dropout, and I'm bragging on her now. Sad that anyone that can read would even vote for her. Or admit it if they couldn't read and punched her name.Free speech
Submitted by LarryG on Sun, 11/21/2010 - 1:16pm.
Winston Churchill -
Some people’s idea of free speech is that they are free to say what they like but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.