CNN Contributor Argues Limbaugh's Remark Was Worse Than Bill Maher's Vitriol Against Palin
Liberal comedian Pete Dominick, a CNN contributor, listed the "differences" he saw between Rush Limbaugh's crack at Sandra Fluke and Bill Maher ripping Sarah Palin in vile fashion, on CNN Wednesday. "[T]here still is a difference in terms of what comedians say," he said of Maher versus "arguably" the "most influential commentator in all of politics" Rush Limbaugh.
Perhaps his most ridiculous point was that Limbaugh was "quite literal" calling Fluke a "slut," whereas Maher just made "gender-based insults" calling Sarah Palin obscenities that were just as vile. [Warning: this article contains obscenities that are uncensored to accurately portray what Bill Maher has said about women.]
Dominick may not remember this particular instance, but Maher clearly showed his hatred for Palin last July when he called her "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'," before adding that "I'm saying it because it's true."
And Maher never said "I'm only kidding" after smearing Palin as a "twat," a "cunt," or a "MILF." Even the far-left Daily Kos didn't make such a distinction, noting that although Palin and Fluke were different targets the crime was the same for both Limbaugh and Maher.
CNN host Kyra Phillips challenged Dominick's points. "These are really harsh words, and Bill Maher stepped away from the comedic role when he donated $1 million to the super PAC," she said referring to President Obama's super PAC. "[Y]ou can imagine there are people stepping forward, including Sarah Palin, saying you tell the Obama super PAC to give this guy his million dollars back and stick it."
But Dominick was not done differentiating the crimes of Maher and Limbaugh, insisting "there still is a difference in terms of what comedians say" and downplaying Maher's $1 million contribution to Obama's super PAC. He asked "the more important point is, how influential is Bill Maher's money on politics?"
And he thought Maher's 2001 remarks – which led to the canceling of his ABC show Politically Incorrect – were "fairly accurate." Maher had quipped that the 9/11 terrorists were not cowards, but rather that "we have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away."
A transcript of the segment, which aired on March 7 on Newsroom at 11:16 a.m. EST, is as follows:
KYRA PHILLIPS: Look, Rush Limbaugh, right? Influential in the Republican Party. He calls a woman a slut, then yesterday President Obama invokes his daughters, saying that this is offensive discourse. He reached out to Fluke to support her for standing up and testifying about the issue. He wouldn't want his girls exposed to this language, he says. Now the President, whose super PAC got a million bucks from comedian Bill Maher, who said this in the past.
(...)
PHILLIPS: Pete, I'll get right to it. What's the difference?
PETE DOMINICK, Sirius/XM political talk show host: There are a number of differences, and I wouldn't apologize for any man making those kinds of comments about women, as the father of two daughters, and the husband of an amazing woman. But there are differences. A, Bill Maher is a comedian. You heard all of that laughter. That was in the monologue before his show Real Time. And Rush Limbaugh is not, Rush Limbaugh is perhaps arguably the most influential commentator in all of politics, certainly on the Republican side.
There are differences in the targets, with women running for president and a woman, mostly private, testifying one time. And there are differences in terms of the descriptions used, the describers, the words that they use. Rush Limbaugh was quite literal when he described this woman being a slut, and Bill Maher was making gender-based insults, which I frankly am offended by at this point.
PHILLIPS: Gender-based insults have such a greater impact. I mean, let's just for a moment step aside from, okay, the comedian and the powerful voice within the Republican Party. These are really harsh words, and Bill Maher stepped away from the comedic role when he donated $1 million to the super PAC. He went into that political world, so you can imagine there are people stepping forward, including Sarah Palin, saying you tell the Obama super PAC to give this guy his million dollars back and stick it.
DOMINICK: Yeah, Bill Maher stepped away from the political role when he comments on politics. He has a whole entire television show which is great, I love to be on. As do I, as a comedian and a political commentator on Sirius/XM. But there still is a difference in terms of what comedians say – and I am a freedom of speech absolutist, and I defend Rush's freedom to speak. And by the way, Bill Maher has come out in defense of Rush Limbaugh on this, being the host of Politically Incorrect, once getting, well he got fired from Politically Incorrect for his comments which weren't that – which were fairly accurate, in my opinion, and not – but provocative for the time.
But there is a difference, and you're right, we can argue about how much influence his $1 million donation to President Obama's super PAC can be. Technically, President Obama can't tell the super PAC what to do with the money. He can't communicate with them. He could publicly say I think they should give it back, but Kyra, the more important point is how influential iis Bill Maher's money on politics? We should be talking here and everywhere else about how influential big money of big industry – oil, pharmaceutical, the insurance – that money which comes to all the candidates, Democrats and Republicans. It's much more influential than a comedian-slash-political commentator.
PHILLIPS: Understand, but that money becomes a symbol, right? And women are seeing okay, Bill Maher saying these gender-based insults. Okay, he donated a million dollars to Obama's super PAC. Wait a minute, Obama came out and said hey Sandra Fluke, way to go standing up and testifying and don't let these horrible words coming out of Rush Limbaugh's mouth impact you. I wouldn't want my daughters to be impacted in a negative way by that. There's an image there. It's out there.
DONINICK: It's a fair – it's a fair criticism, and we can talk about it. But I think we would also have to talk about anything that any person who has donated much more than Bill Maher has said publicly. But let me just make sure I'm being clear on this. The problem that we have here is Rush Limbaugh, Bill Maher, or anybody else no matter where they're saying it or how they're saying it, making gender-based or race-based or sexual orientation-based insults that would in any way ever discourage any young woman in this case from speaking publicly. My daughters – I would be very honored if my daughters were ever as courageous as this young woman, and come out and speak whatever they believe. And I hope that any young woman or person viewing is not discouraged by the bullying of any of these people saying these things about them.
That's really where the damage gets done, that someone would be shut up, would be afraid to speak because they would be dragged through the mud in this horrific way that has happened to this young woman. And, so, that's really the most important point about this entire conversation that we never discourage women, in this case, from speaking out what they believe.
PHILLIPS: You know, you're a dad. You've got daughters. Rush Limbaugh and Bill Maher don't have daughters. I wonder if they would take –
DOMINICK: It makes a big difference.
PHILLIPS: – use their words differently.
DOMINICK: I was not in this way an advocate for women – I'll be completely honest – before I had daughters. Men who have daughters change the way they view about how women should be treated at work, how women should be paid, in so many other ways. I have completely changed as a man and you're right. Bill Maher and Rush Limbaugh have benefitted tremendously from birth control.
PHILLIPS: (Laughter) Pete Dominick, thank you. That caught me off-guard. What a perfect way to button it up. Thank you so much, Pete.
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Comments
Hmmm....
Submitted by Annie Ashe Fields on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 6:36pm.
...Let's use the standard Bill Maher set HIMSELF this week.
He said that the dividing line was that Sandra Fluke was not a "public person."
Okay.
NANCY PELOSI IS AN EVIL C*NT AND HER CHILDREN ARE HERS AND HER BROTHER'S.
So... Is that bad?
I mean... I'm just trying to play by their rules.
Yea but she is, she's a
Submitted by redfish on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 6:39pm.
Yea but she is, she's a political activist who we'll probably see heading some PAC or working in the Democratic Party in the future. She wasn't just a random concerned student.
Yer right.
Submitted by Annie Ashe Fields on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 6:41pm.
I know.
But they don't.
oh Annie, they know
Submitted by Willis_Leon_Johnson on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 7:47pm.
But they think everybody is too stupid to see through their little game.
This is a good thing because as long as they maintain their stupidity, they are easy to predict.
I never met a liberal that didn't make me look and feel a lot smarter after the attempted conversation.....
End 'gun violence in America' - Require training and MANDATORY "Shall Carry" by every Citizen.
If harry reid is the best person to lead the senate, what does that say about the other 99 senators?
Unfortunately, they're right.
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 10:56pm.
The majority or very close to is a combination of fools and people who've been brought up to hang on to the government teat and nothing more and they're fine with it.
We have a big problem here. And let's not forget the groups like SIIEEUU and AACCOORRNN furiously printing absentee ballets for dead people and cartoon characters stuffing fake votes into their trunks until just before the voting booths close across the country and showing up with mail bags at the back doors of voting stations.
Careful, satirical points
Submitted by Kenny Bunkport on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 6:58pm.
Careful, satirical points using *'d words may get you flamed. Speaking from experience.
Thanks, hon.
Submitted by Annie Ashe Fields on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 7:23pm.
I'm well aware of what can happen - and they don't scare me.
I have children! I've birthed twins to get them, and all thee are now teenage girls.
NOTHING scares me ;)
~Annie
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 8:34pm.
Once one person uses words like that, some of the more dimly lit male members take it as permission to vomit vile epithets towards women, with the excuse that they're liberal women. A couple of nights ago a member posted in his subject line that, "All liberal women are c"....and a few minutes later our eager beaver here had both c*** and t*** in his subject line. His post was erased, and he's still butt hurt enough to complain about it.
Please do not encourage this behavior, as a dog that carries a bone in will carry a bone out, if you know what I mean.
~What is this sound of gentle sobbing I hear?
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 8:26pm.
Don't whine, Kenny.
It makes you look small; and I already need a magnifying glass to see you.
I wondered if the chum would
Submitted by Kenny Bunkport on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 8:33pm.
I wondered if the chum would bring the sharks.
~Chump is spelled with a 'p'
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 8:35pm.
You're welcome.
No explanation necessary
Submitted by Kenny Bunkport on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 8:37pm.
http://forum.hidemyass.com/index.php?/topic/165-online-forum-etiquette/
~I do like to disappoint people
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 8:41pm.
who expect me to click on their links.
Move on, Kenny.
It's ok. I had you pegged
Submitted by Kenny Bunkport on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 8:43pm.
It's ok. I had you pegged immediately.
~Don't make me roll my eyes
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 8:51pm.
.
Why roll your eyes.....
Submitted by tjc-illinois on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 8:48am.
When you can roll your heels.
'Well, to tell the family secret, my grandmother was Dutch." Bart
~Pegged
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 8:55am.
So, Annie. Remember what I was saying about how sexual slurs against liberal women can just as easily be used against the female members of NB?
Case in point.
WRONG!!!
Submitted by tjc-illinois on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 8:47am.
Chum is spelled correctly and the reference is spot on. Chum is chopped fish, fish fluids, and other material thrown overboard as angling bait. The operative word is bait and you clearly took it.
You're welcome.
'Well, to tell the family secret, my grandmother was Dutch." Bart
You got lot to learn
Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 9:27am.
About hanging with your betters
chump*
Submitted by cajun2 on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 2:45pm.
She called you a chump and fish bait and you fell for it. If her sarcasm is over your head, then you must be a liberal. Dont make the mistake of thinking the women at NB are like you wussie hateful lefties who always see yourselves as the smartest victims around.
Careful who you tangle with lil boy
Well Kenny*
Submitted by cajun2 on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 9:04pm.
Experience doesn't seem to have taught you much. You have been an NB poster for 3 yrs 42 weeks. Yet, you don't seem to know many of the regular posters here very well. You don';t know the rules, and you don't seem to be able to navigate NB very well.
That tells me you are more interested in what YOU post. "Got you pegged immediately"...hmm that could be a "tell"...
Take a deep breath, relax.
Sorry but
Submitted by chiefpayne on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 4:35pm.
I don't buy that at ALL.
After all, I SERIOUSLY doubt her brother would touch her EITHER!
Limbaugh was not being
Submitted by redfish on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 6:37pm.
Limbaugh was not being personal -- he wasn't making an assertion about Fluke's private behavior, he was making a satirical comment about the argument she was using. He was characterizing Fluke's own argument.
Maher WAS being personal, in that he had no reason to call her names except that he didn't like her, but its okay, because it was generic "gender-based insults."
THAT's been said TOO INFREQUENTLY.
Submitted by Annie Ashe Fields on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 6:39pm.
It only takes a rudimentary understanding of English to get that.
Libs are all "nuanced" and stuff so maybe they blew right past it...
You don't know what personal means, do you?
Submitted by Vandamage2000 on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 11:50pm.
Limbaugh said he was suprised she could walk. Said her parents should be ashamed of her. Thats not satire. That is disgusting. If it were your daughter, even if you don't agree with her, you would let someone talk about her like that? Talk about her posting her love life on the internet?
Rush says a lot of obnoxious
Submitted by redfish on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 1:39am.
Rush says a lot of obnoxious things about a lot of public people. I don't listen to him, I don't think he helps create a civil dialogue .But he was making fun of what she was saying before Congress and that's all. Its not worse than him insulting Nancy Pelosi or Barack Obama on what they say.
He's actually gone very personal with Obama and Pelosi, commenting on their looks. He's made fun of Pelosi's Botox shots and her choice of clothing and called Obama "Barack Hussein Odumbo" because of his big ears.
If it were my daughter, I would be smart enough to realize that Rush is 1. just a loud-mouthed lout and 2. primarily had a problem with her politics. I would tell my daughter to ignore him.
And if I were a feminist, I would be upset that everyone wants Fluke to get kid gloves treatment from Rush because she's a young woman, and that Obama treated her like a damsel in distress when he called her up to comfort her and give her moral support. If I go before Congress and someone says something mean about me, will Obama give me a phone call? Or do I have to be a young woman?
redfish......You wrote: "I don't listen to him [Rush]." Perhaps
Submitted by Rush Fan on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 2:40am.
if you DID listen to him you would be able to provide an intelligent and knowledgeable post. Moreover if you DID listen to Rush regularly, you might conclude that your evaluation of Rush as someone who "says a lot of obnoxious things", and as someone who is "a loud-mouthed lout" was premature and defective. Those of us who regularly listen to Rush would also conclude that you are naive and uninformed.
I think the point is still being missed
Submitted by Vandamage2000 on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 11:29am.
She was talking about her friends using birth control to treat cysts on her ovaries. It wasn't a political testimony. It was medical. Rush is not a doctor.
The reason why its a big deal for Rush is because he is a ratings monster.
When you guys dig up liberals who make similar comment, you are right, their comments are offensive. But NO ONE reads them!
Malkin complains about Matt Taibbi's comments. But who reads him? Why do you guys pretend writers in magazines (which no one reads anymore) and liberal radio talk hosts (who listens to them?) matter to anyone? There is nothing mainstream about them.
Should I comb through every right wing blog on the internet, to find comments on Pelosi and Obama, and make them apologize? It would be futile. Thats why there is focus on Rush.
~Sandra Fluke is not a doctor
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 11:31am.
Therefore her relation of that story was nothing more than hearsay.
So Rush's comments are worse
Submitted by NC Cop on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 11:33am.
So Rush's comments are worse than the others because he's more POPULAR?? Is this your latest justification for the hypocrisy of the left.
That's the most ridiculous argument I've read yet. And I've read some whoppers!
Which friend? The one that was raped?
Submitted by The Vet on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 12:55pm.
The one that was raped and just assumed her insurance company would not cover the rape medicine? The one that had her sadness doubled when an women's health issues advocate (Sarah Fluke) would not take 20 seconds out of her day to call the insurance company and confirm for her fried that the insurance company would indeed cover rape medicines? That one?
Or wait. The one that actually HAD her medicin covered as Sarah Fluke testified? That one?
Miss Fluke: A friend of mine, for example, has polycystic ovarian syndrome and has to take prescription birth control to stop cysts from growing on her ovaries. Her prescription is technically covered by Georgetown insurance because it’s not intended to prevent pregnancy.
Yup two three fur. March around your living room with your ass for a hat. Yup two three fur. Say, is it hard marching with the Limbaugh stick vibrating in your ass? Zzzzzzzzzz. Oops, time for you to make another Limbaugh whine.
Except that religious
Submitted by redfish on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 2:48pm.
Except that religious institutions don't have an objection about using birth control in this manner, and Georgetown policy allowed it also:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/292739/out-damned-cyst-myth-kathryn...
"Direct sterilization of either men or women, whether permanent or temporary, is not permitted in a Catholic health care institution. Procedures that induce sterility are permitted when their direct effect is the cure or alleviation of a present and serious pathology and a simpler treatment is not available."
I recently watched a YouTube video where Ms. Fluke defended mandates on providing birth control, not on the cyst issue, but on a case where a doctor warned a patient that getting pregnant too early would cause seizures, it would seem the woman would have responsibility in that case:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpotlchVjeU
It should be noted that Ms. Fluke is not just a random student, but a self-described "reproductive rights activist". The reproductive rights lobby regularly will argue that providing birth control reduces health care costs, because it reduces the chances of abortion, or what they consider medical consequences of a poor woman going through with an unwanted pregnancy, like post-partum depression.
If Georgetown refused to give a woman the drugs as treatment for cysts, they went against their own policies. Meanwhile, Democrats would want to ignore that fact as a way to make this a broader fight on social policy by portraying opponents as part of a 'war on women.' Even Maureen Dowd joined in, which isn't surprising because she equates religion with being anti-women.
So, with regards to Rush... you have several ways someone could approach this. The most obvious are, you can attack him, support him, or say everyone on all sides are equally bad. If you say everyone on all sides are equally bad, though, I think you're giving in to the idea that what his critics are saying is 100% true, and that Fluke was just concerned about womens cysts rupturing. That isn't 100% true. I'm not supporting him either, though.
Zzzzzzzzt.
Submitted by The Vet on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 2:54am.
Looks like the Limbaugh stick up braindamage2000's butt is really vibrating tonight.
Poor baby. It thinks we have some say in what Rush says or not says.
In the meantime, that Limbaugh stick keeps buzzing away so it is forced to whine about a man not affiliated with this website any way.
Zzzzzzzzzt. Oops. Time to whine again.
What do your parents think of you, Porn Star?
Submitted by Blonde on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 3:01am.
Curious.
Either you ARE....or you are pretending to be. Which is it? And how proud are your parents of the porn?
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Rush's comment was personal, over-the-top, and he
Submitted by Rush Fan on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 11:58pm.
apologized. End of story.
Mind Boggling
Submitted by rammingspeed on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 6:42pm.
This drip is the epitome of propagandized liberals who twist everything until it comes out wrong. They don't know it's wrong, of course - they're either too stupid or they believe it's good to lie in order to get their way.
If we base it on the size of their auidence
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 6:54pm.
If we base it on the size of their audience, Limbaugh's comment was 1,000 times worse.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
Is this the left jumping the shark on the Fluke issue and can we
Submitted by Lipton on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 6:53pm.
please get back to how the obama administration is trampling on Catholics.
These apologists for
Submitted by Mr. Mike on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 6:56pm.
These apologists for democrats and Bill Maher are all freaking sick in the head. Absolutely bat crap crazy.
Advertisers Who Dumped Rush
Submitted by berlet98 on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 7:00pm.
Advertisers Who Dumped Rush
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” (Edmund Burke)
Politico.com gleefully and triumphantly posted a report that sponsors are bailing out in droves on conservative icon Rush Limbaugh’s nationally syndicated radio show in a kneejerk reaction to the predictable, leftist reaction to the Great Slut Controversy regarding liberal activist, Sandra Fluke.
Yesterday, Politico gleefully listed the following bailers: AccuQuote Life Insurance, Allstate Insurance, AOL, Bare Escentuals, Bethesda Sedation Dentistry, Bonobos, Carbonite, Cascades Dental, Citrix, Girl Scouts, Goodwill Industries, Hadeed Carpet, JCPenney, Legal Zoom, Matrix Direct, Philadelphia Orchestra, PolyCom, ProFlowers, Quicken Loans, Reputation Rhino, Sears, Sensa, Service Magic, Sleep Train, Sleep Number, St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Tax Resolution, Thompson Creek Windows and Vitacost.
I can’t vouch for Politico’s accuracy since that website has been in President Barack Hussein Obama’s vest pocket for years. The whole slut controversy has been concocted to destroy Limbaugh and to absurdly paint conservatives as anti-woman to lock up their votes for Obama in November.
As with every conservative I know, I love the fair sex.
A more reliable listing of companies and organizations which have succumbed to misguided political correctness out of pusillanimous fear of Obama’s wrath: Sleep Number, The Sleep Train, Quicken Loans, Legal Zoom, Citrix, Carbonite, ProFlowers, Tax Resolution, AOL, Bonobos, Sears, and Allstate Insurance.
Links to those advertisers’ home pages where we can register our opinions can be found at http://bit.ly/xb6MR4. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=16160.)
Not to worry
Submitted by HockeyKid on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 8:22pm.
Politico's trying to make it all look horrible by listing very local advertiser who has pulled ads from Rush's time block--even temporarily.
On a national level, Rush revealed today that at least two of the sponsors who pulled out now want to get back on--one is practically BEGGING to come back. Add to that three new sponsors to come in the coming days (at the national level). So I guess there are many more conservative customers out there than they thought. Imagine that.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Is the begging sponsor
Submitted by dzejk113 on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 8:42pm.
Carbonite? Cause I hear their stock took a nose dive after they announced they were no longer sponsoring Rush. I wonder how the stocks for the other bailers are doing...
I sure am glad.....
Submitted by almostacowboy on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 7:48pm.
....that Pete cleared that up for me.
(I feel dumber just from reading his words.)
Aye
Submitted by iFight on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 7:48pm.
Here's a difference.
Maher was addressing specific people using vulgar terms.
Limbaugh essentially thinks women who receive tax payer funded contraception are all whores. That's a long list of whores who are offended.
The Comedian Excuse
Submitted by Galvanic on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 10:18pm.
This is the same lame explanation that Stewart and Colbert use.
But consider that Maher is an occasional guest on Hardball -- the Matthews-hosted MSNBC program that his all about politics. When he appears, all he talks about is politics, and from a partisan perspective.
He also hosted Politically Incorrect, where he and a panel of celebrities ridiculed mostly conservative politicians.
Domenick is covering his own act because he does both political commentary and stand up comedy.
But had I been on that program with him, I would have asked him this:
"Is your daughter is running for Vice President of the United States, is it okay if I call her a c*** or t***?"
Public Citizens are fair game
Submitted by Vandamage2000 on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 11:54pm.
Thats why you get to call Obama any name you want.
If you post about your neighbor and use his real name, and damage his reputation, you can be sued in court. That is the difference.
But Bill Maher and Jon Stewart do not speak for Democrats. Democrats don't consult with them and kiss their ass. They don't speak at Liberal Gatherings.
Rush boasts about his influence on the GOP.
Thats the difference.
Vandamage, you are an ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 12:02am.
ass munching liberal fool.
I mean that in a neighborly way.
MD
Do you want to use reason/logic to argue with me?
Submitted by Vandamage2000 on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 12:10am.
Or do you just want to be ten years old?
Nope, I truly do not, Vandamage, as you are also---
Submitted by matthewdean on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 12:16am.
a liberal dipshit who wouldn't recognize reason if it hit you between your running lights, or logic if it bit you on your stupid ass.
Any other questions, troll?
MD
Can you explain why you think I'm wrong?
Submitted by Vandamage2000 on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 12:29am.
Or do you want to just be immature like Rush?
This site, Vandamage, is a conservative one, and ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 1:00am.
you are a liberal.
There is nothing, ideologically speaking, that you have to say, that I would agree with.
There is nothing you can point to about being a liberal that would indicate a positive change to my life were I to adopt liberalism.
There is nothing about liberalism, or being liberal, or being A liberal, that I see as anything more than a desire to either convince yourself that you are a sensitive individual who genuinely cares for others; who is not only better equipped to manage the affairs of others than they themselves are capable of doing, but who will continue to believe such happy horse shit as the world crumbles around your ears.
Look at the damage your messiah Obama has done in only a little over three years.
This country is falling apart, and you, a liberal dork who apparently sees no evil, hears no evil, and will definitely NEVER SPEAK any evil against your adored piece of shit in the Oval Office, have the gall to ask me where I think you are wrong?
You are a god-d*mned idiot.
You are also a *%^#+@, a %$*^%#, a ^#!@*% 'ing moron and a ridiculously naive %@(^ 'er.
Immature?
Only when confronted with enormously egotistical fools who think they can piss on my leg and then convince me it is raining.
Buzz off, troll, or I'll tell you what I really think of you.
MD
Ah
Submitted by Vandamage2000 on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 2:39am.
So there is no room for discussion? This is just a conservative circle jerk?
Do you really think Liberals just love Obama? Do you even know what the Left stands for? Do you really think Obama is a liberal? Do you know that Liberals have been criticizing Obama from the beginning?
Do you know the economy is improving?
Seven questions, preceded in the subject line by ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 3:34am.
the most intelligent presentation yet in any of your posts - "Ah"
Answers:
Did you not get the gist of my message to you, Vandamage?
I am not here to engage with you, make friends with you, debate with you, argue with you, treat with you, converse with you, or deal nicely with you.
I am here, as a militant conservative on a conservative site, to screw with any dumb-arsed liberal who ventures here to spread his crap on bread and then endeavors to force feed me a shit sandwich.
Begone, varlet.
MD
Militant, eh?
Submitted by Vandamage2000 on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 11:36am.
Here is your Republican frontrunner, agreeing with me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMj8KkO23xU
In case you were wondering, the Left generally wants higher taxes on the rich, an end to military conflict, a single payer health care system, legalized marijuana, legalized gay marriage, and Obama wants no part of that. In fact, very few Democrats are interested in persuing these causes.
What makes Obama a liberal in your eyes? He's been almost Reagan-esque in his politics.
Obama wants NO part of
Submitted by NC Cop on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 11:42am.
Obama wants NO part of that??? What planet do you live on? The only reason those things haven't happened is because he knows he could not get it throught Congress NOW.
When he did have the majority he managed to piss away $1 trillion in one of the biggest wastes of taxpayer money in the history of the country. That money went to liberal "wish lists" and thank yous for voting for him.
Reagan-esque in his policies? That's priceless!! Next time warn me when you're going to start your comedy routine! I just spit soda all over my monitor.
Oh, my sides.
You, VD, apparently believe that you ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 5:43pm.
can read minds.
Why else would you state "Here is "your" front runner, agreeing with me -" ?
Where do you get off labeling me a Republican?
Where do you get off thinking I would agree with anyone who would agree with you?
Where do you get off sucking up oxygen that a higher life form could make better use of?
Obama almost Reaganesque, eh?
You are a fookin' moron.
MD
My bad, MD
Submitted by Vandamage2000 on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 6:16pm.
So you're not a Republican, you are a conservative. And you are angry that no one in the Presidential Race shares your views. ME TOO!
Theres no lefties up there, and the Right Wingers just are not going to win. America is a moderate country, that I think leans a bit left. Theres a lot of Red States, but the few Blue States have a lot of people.
But obviously you don't want Obama in there. So who will you vote for?
The media leans left, VD, not the ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 7:16pm.
country.
Not even "a bit left".
The media, however, may have some people believing that America tilts left because the media leans so far left that it is traveling in circles. Hopefully, ever diminishing circles, so that it will soon crawl up it's own fundament and disappear entirely.
If I have given you the impression that I don't care for Obama - I have been seriously remiss with my communication skills.
I loathe, hate, detest, and am disgusted by and with Barack Hussein Obama. I would never pass up an opportunity to piss on him, unless, of course, he was on fire.
About the only specific life forms I like less than Obama and his wife are liberals, Democrats, liberal Democrats who are politicians, and trolls.
You are a troll.
While I recognize that you may be laboring under the delusion that we might possibly have something in common reference having no one in the Presidential Race who shares "our" views - let me disabuse you of that notion immediately.
You and I would match up far less congenially than fire and water, a balloon and a cactus plant, or the Titanic and an iceberg.
I shall not reveal who I plan on voting for because I wouldn't want you to have the satisfaction of knowing that you neutralized my vote by voting for a different candidate.
Nothing personal, troll. It's just business.
MD
Ah the Paul bots strike
Submitted by MightyMouth on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 12:19am.
Ah the Paul bots strike again! Take a hike liberal!
I have written to Mr. Limbaugh requesting you be banned.
Submitted by The Vet on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 1:15am.
Cuz he boast of being in charge of NewsBusters too.
Keep on marching around with that ass for a hat, braindamage troll.
No Mas! El Rushbo Resigns as Titular Head of Republican Party
May 20, 2009
All Audio & Video »
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: As any of you and all of you who have been paying attention to the Drive-By news media the past number of months have heard, I am the titular head of the Republican Party. I have been anointed to this position by members of the Drive-By Media, and, of course, the Obama White House. I have not been named the titular or any other head of the Republican Party by anybody in the Republican Party. And so I hereby, ladies and gentlemen, today announce that I am resigning. I am resigning as the titular head of the Republican Party. Clearly I am not the titular head of the Republican Party. It's not an office I sought. It was a position that was ladled on to me when I was appointed without my acquiescence. So the only thing I can do to remain true to myself and to you is to resign this position that I never had in the first place. But because so many people think I am the titular head of the Republican Party today, I quit.
He quit being titular head two years ago.
Right
Submitted by Vandamage2000 on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 2:41am.
So how come when people like Michael Steele and Sarah Palin criticize him, the GOP makes them backtrack?
Source it troll.
Submitted by The Vet on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 2:45am.
You are interacting with adults.
Sure
Submitted by Vandamage2000 on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 11:53am.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZP6wWa-gKA&feature=relmfu
Thats Steele.
It was well known that Palin wanted Rahm Emanuel to resign for using the word "retarted" in private, but wouldn't condemn Rush for saying it on the airwaves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhZsyisVwMU
This is why Palin is lame.
If that's the case you must
Submitted by NC Cop on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 11:56am.
If that's the case you must agree that all the democrats/liberals who never said a word when Maher said his disgusting comments (and still does), Olbermann's idiocy, Shultz's offensiveness, are all lame for getting up in arms about Rush.
Right?
~Retarted
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 12:04pm.
is what happens to Georgetown when Sandra Fluke returns to campus. And you're wrong, according to HuffPo..
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/04/sarah-palin-rebukes-rush_n_4499...
I fell over the first three hurdles.
Submitted by The Vet on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 1:48pm.
The coach laughed and made me "retart". I cleared them all the next go round.
Not watching your videos, troll.
Submitted by The Vet on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 1:37pm.
I said to source it. We are not paid to spend the next 20 minutes of our life watching your videos. Source where the GOP made them backtrack. I want documents, signed documents stating the GOP at the point of a gun made Michael Steele and Sarah Palin backtrack.
Fail again troll. Videos where Micahel Steele or Sarah Palin talk about Rush Limbaugh prove nothing about the GOP FORCING THEM to backtrack.
Still the ass for a hat wearing child troll that can't interact with adults.
Come on troll. You gonna act like a man and back up what you say or just give us more of the anonymous moniker horseshit that you think gives you cover to lie?
Duuude!
Submitted by Vandamage2000 on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 6:09pm.
You asked for sources, and I gave them to you. And I actually tried to find the more concise, shorter videos. There are tons of videos of Rush trashing Steele, and Steele apologizing for slighting Rush. He calls him an important conservative voice in the party.
Palin wants Rahm fired for using the "R" word,but cant even criticize Rush for doing the same.
Now you want to move the goalposts with "signed documents."? Because video proof is not good enough for you?
Come on, The Vet. If that is your real name!
I'm sure you're a really nice guy, and I wish I could meet some of you guys and have a beer and have a discussion that does not include insults. Is anyone in CT?
Up yours troll.
Submitted by The Vet on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 10:31pm.
You are nothing but a damned liar. You have no intention of being serious here. So knock it off with the troll games. I said source it you frelling troll.
Source where the GOP made them backtrack. I want documents, signed documents stating the GOP at the point of a gun made Michael Steele and Sarah Palin backtrack.
You are a frelling liar. Up yours.
Ok.....
Submitted by Vandamage2000 on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 11:52pm.
No one made them do anything. They did it because they are Spineless? Is that better?
Another northeastern lib, unless CT stands for ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 11:55pm.
Crap Therapy.
MD
DO NOT FEED THIS TROLL!!
Submitted by MightyMouth on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 12:34am.
DO NOT FEED THIS TROLL!!
I hate to tell you, Vandumbass...
Submitted by Dave. on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 1:23am.
...but you and your ilk's upteenth latest plot to silence Rush has failed miserably.
Give it up. moron.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
No, VD.................the
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 12:08am.
No, VD.................the StateRun Media BOASTS about Rush's 'influence' on the GOP. But, as usual, you can't get even the simplest of statements correct.
So I guess Axelrod going on
Submitted by NC Cop on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 12:23am.
So I guess Axelrod going on Maher's show doesn't mean anything, huh?
Neither does Debbie Wateringhole Schitz
Submitted by UpNorth on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 1:35am.
going on Maher's show, Cop. I guess she wasn't there, kissing Maher's ass.
Oh wait, only conservatives or Republicans do that with Rush, even though he very rarely has anyone on with him, other than the callers.
Oh Really?
Submitted by Blonde on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 3:14am.
But Bill Maher and Jon Stewart do not speak for Democrats. Democrats don't consult with them and kiss their ass. They don't speak at Liberal Gatherings.
Rush boasts about his influence on the GOP.
Thats the difference.
Care to explain that?
Because Bill Maher just donated ONE MILLION BUCKS to Barry's PAC.
Kindly PARSE that chit for me. Because you can't.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Now there's a ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 3:36am.
down home, arse kicking gotcha if I ever saw one.
Nice.
Very nice, actually.
MD
Bill Maher does support Democrats
Submitted by Vandamage2000 on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 12:16pm.
He voted for Obama, and probably will do so again. But if you think Bill Maher is the "voice" of the Democratic Party, you're mistaken. Obama doesn't take his cues from Bill Maher.
You're probably right, VD.
Submitted by UpNorth on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 12:30pm.
Obama takes his cues from whichever way the wind blows and the polls tell him to.
$1 MILLION, porn star
Submitted by Blonde on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 12:24pm.
That's not chump change, even for Obama.
But you totally failed to address that.
So you think that the Republicans "take their cue" from Rush Limbaugh? Do I have that right? If they did, Romney would be running an entirely different campaign, as anyone who ACTUALLY listens to him knows. But he's not. Kind of makes your little fiction go *poof*.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
I'm thinkin' that if
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 1:28pm.
I'm thinkin' that if Donkeyface donated $1 million to Boy Barry (and I'm still not believin' that it's all HIS money!!), he's probably gonna be votin' for the guy too!!!
How's my Obamaspeak doin'???? I'm gettin' pretty good at this 'stuff'.....................
NAILED!!!!
Submitted by BEGRUNT on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 1:29pm.
Troll Stomper gets em again!! Funny how they always duck the issue! VD, take your lame a$$ed arguments back to Kos where they belong, wingnut!!
"A nation can suffer it's fool's, but cannot survive the traitor"
Cicero
And Fox news donates to Republican Governers
Submitted by Vandamage2000 on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 6:30pm.
So what?
Dude, GOP always waxes about how great Rush is. Where are the Democrats that do the same to Maher? Just because Axelrod appeared on his show to answer questions doesn't mean he's a huge fan of him. Media appearances are part of his job.
Rush has been spewing hate for 20 years. Maher makes two dumb comments, and NO ONE WATCHES HIM. How could you compare the two?
⇒ You lose, VD
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 6:38pm.
Consider thyself duly enclowned. Bill Maher did the highly-publicized "big check" presentation to the Super PAC. This is another one of those lessons the President is teaching his young daughters - that it's not OK, under penalty of public misogyny, to stray from the Liberal Democrat Plantation.
The President should not have once again trotted out his very young daughters to give the country a lesson on sex. It's pathetic and despicable.
Ahhh, I see
Submitted by Vandamage2000 on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 11:55pm.
The Right Wingers have the class to donate their money to thier candidate of choice in Secret, so that makes it ok. Got it!
I'm not sure why racial language is necessary, but have at it.
2????
Submitted by Blonde on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 6:53pm.
Get out.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
You already admitted that you don't listen to Rush,
Submitted by dzejk113 on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 1:34am.
which is obvious, so how exactly do you know what Rush has been saying for 20 years? Other than what you read on Daily Ko(ok)s or where ever you get your "info" from? I suggest you actually try listening to Rush for at least a week or two, with an open mind if you're capable of doing so. If you still think he's spewing hate after that, then you can come here and say so. Don't tell us that you never listen to him, and then try to tell us what he's been saying for 20 years. I hope you can understand how completely ridiculous you sound by doing so.
*Note: if you do take me up on this challenge, remember that keeping a TRULY open mind while listening is supremely important.
Hhmm,
Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 1:44pm.
Your right, he takes them from Soros, Alinsky, Rev Wright, and a variety of other demagogues and ideologues.
Nah, Boudin.............this
Submitted by killa37 on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 2:13am.
Nah, Boudin.............this nimrod doesn't even know who those guys are...........just check out his other posts on other threads.......... kinda like his main 'man' Boy Barry!!!!
I don' t listen to Limbaugh, so I don't know whom . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 2:38pm.
. . . he consults with or not.
But watch the difference in the interview when a prominent Dem guests on The Daily Show, and when a prominent Republican guests. Watch how they ridicule conservative women versus how they gently poke fun liberal women. They'll always play for laughs, but it's softball versus hardball.
Beyond that is the fact that when Stewart has been interviewed and the question of bias is raised, he always responds that he is an entertainer and not a journalist.
Fair enough. Doesn't Limbaugh say the same thing?
The Left has appointed Limbaugh as the head of the GOP -- I have heard pundits and some Dems literally crown him as the head. And when he shoots his mouth off, they demand an apology from the Republicans.
But if there is some tenuous link between Limbaugh and the GOP, there is certainly a link between MSNBC and the President. Maddow and Special Ed Schultz had personal meeting with Obama to discuss the Dems media offensive. I never heard Obama apologize for Schultz's labeling of Ingraham as a "slut."
As for calling Obama names, the instant that anyone even criticizes his policies -- let alone call him a name -- they are branded as 'racist.'
The distinction between public and private persons is a weak one. Just ask Joe the Plumber. All he did was ask Candidate Obama a simple requestion regarding Obama's camapign promises and the impact they may have on the business he wanted to start. The Left and MSM stomped on him with both feet.
That's OK, Galvanic,
Submitted by SickofLibs on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 2:50pm.
VD has apparently never seen Maher's show, either.
Or else he'd know that the guest list is an endless string of Dem politicians and pundits.
contrast and compare
Submitted by MidAmerica on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 8:17pm.
Rush said stuff that is mild enough to say to a national radio audience and would not even rate a notice on Maher's show BUT what Maher said can only be said on a venue like HBO and could never be said on Rush's show.
Comedian Pete Dominick
Submitted by djwolf12 on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 8:44pm.
"PETE DOMINICK, Sirius/XM political talk show host". Yep, just another cowardly cover by CNN to let some guy Slander someone in the name of "Satire".
Ok well here goes; here is my stab at political satire: "Pete Dominick looks like one big circumsized penis with that shaved head of his and I think it should be castrated.
Oops, were my words and actions offensive? I am NOT SORRY nor will I EVER resign. Try boycotting my sponsors if you'd like but my main sponsor is the First Amendment which liberals love to hide such comments from their own as "SATIRE".
I saw this moron on Red Eye one time and he argued about the
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 8:57pm.
most inane crap with Andy Levy to the point that everyone started to laugh at him, and not because he is funny. Eventually Greg had to chime in to shut him up and explain what was constitutional and what is not. This guy is the purest form a muck off the bottom of society's shoe and he has actually reproduced!
Red Eye
Submitted by djwolf12 on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 9:11pm.
When Greg Gutfeld and Andy Levy turn on you, look out!
I know it's like good cop, bad cop lol
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 12:44am.
*nm
Neither one is excusable.
Submitted by proudamerican1990 on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 9:52pm.
Neither one is excusable.
The hoops of tortured, convoluted logic speak volumes...
Submitted by krendler on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 10:49pm.
The hoops of tortured, convoluted logic speak volumes. The left knows they've been exposed - once again - as nauseating, unprincipled hypocrites. The louder they shriek about Limbaugh, the more Maher should be thrown in their faces.
I'd feint if one of these supposed journalists had enough integrity to bring Maher up in front of Obama or Carney and ask why Palin didn't get a supportive phone call from the president and why he didn't, at the time it happened, comment on what's in Bill Maher's heart.
These a$$-clowns don't have a leg to stand on.
Kind of like the Valerie Plame deal, where two words will shut up the most hysterical, Bush-hating liberal: Dick Armitage.
Same here: Bill Maher.
One journalist did
Submitted by Radical1979 on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 10:53pm.
I just saw on Hannity that a reporter from Town Hall did bring up Maher, but BO ignored him.
CNN still doesn't get it! Of course, you wouldn't expect a
Submitted by Rush Fan on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 11:33pm.
Leftist media network to understand, even after the outcry of hypocrisy and the double standard reflected in Brent Bozell's letter to CNN's Piers Morgan. But still, you always hope.
CNN's lefty Carol Costello (Rush calls her CNN's stalker assigned to me) introduced CNN's Jeanne Moos today for a segment titled Critics, Comics Bash Rush Limbaugh. Who did Jeanne Moos use as one of the critics of Rush Limbaugh? You guessed it, Bill Maher!
CNN stalker Carol Costello introduced Moos's segment this way:
COSTELLO: A second radio station drops Rush Limbaugh from its line up. More advertisers pull their ads from his talk radio show and Limbaugh's critics are not pulling any punches. Here's CNN's Jeanne Moos.
JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Remember the days when the S word was a comedy punch line?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Jane, you ignorant slut.
MOOS: The way Rush Limbaugh used it has made him a punch line.
JON STEWART, TALK SHOW HOST: Human cold shower Rush Limbaugh.
STEPHEN COLBERT, COMEDIAN: Poster boy for contraception.
BILL MAHER: Rush Limbaugh, four wives, he's had no children. Dude, you are birth control. [....]
Jeannie Moos is still around?
Submitted by UpNorth on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 6:42pm.
Wow, I thought she had retired to the Old Journolist's Home, where her only diversion was giving sponge baths to Brokaw and Larry King.
Up.....I'm in stitches!!
Submitted by BEGRUNT on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 8:47pm.
"where her only diversion was giving sponge baths to Brokaw and Larry King." LMAO!! And repulsed at the same time!! ;-)
"A nation can suffer it's fool's, but cannot survive the traitor"
Cicero
UpNorth......I agree. The picture you painted of Moos giving
Submitted by Rush Fan on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 11:46pm.
sponge baths to Brokaw and Larry King was hilarious!
lol Sad when people refuse
Submitted by shawn. on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 2:04am.
To answer the question
Limbaugh was crass, but the Palin comment from Maher was filth
Submitted by Less1leg on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 6:08am.
Liberal media. Ah what a double standard to new lengths a liberal will take them. Hmm. it acceptable that a Bill Maher can say the most derrogatory comment about a female possible, and not get crucified by the media for saying it. You can't get more derrogatory than Bill when it comes to commenting about Mrs.Palin.
On the otherhand, the liberal media types jump through windows about a crass comment concerning Rush Limbaugh. Yes, it was gutter talk. But let's get right down to it. That young lady paying a ton of cash per year to attend that liberal stronghold University, isn't a victim but is a well placed plant to stir away a bad month of Obama administration decisions. What better ruse can you get than, Wiley Snaggletooth, " exit stage right".
this young lady for all she is worth, demands that we the public pay for her sexual indulgences. As she commented at least three times per week. Funny how the other facts get lost in translation. She also pays $70,000 bucks a year to attend Georgetown U. But she doesn't have the cash for a three times a week knock the sheets back moment of bliss with her partners. Nope, you the public are on the hook for her sexual gratifications.
And Bill Maher has the nerve and as well as the liberal media to think this is comedy er funny. And when Rush Limbaugh implies a gutteral comment about a sleazy act Ms.Fluke is. Well the liberal media go crazy. I kinda laughed when I heard the story Ms.Fluke may take Rush to court. Question, who in the right mind would challenge Rush in court over his comment. When Rush has every right to call in every sexual partner good and bad to give comments about your qualifty of character? Obviously she must be in the bottom of her graduating class because those comments alone were mind numbing, from a lawyer. Geesh... Money wasted on that twit, huh?
Bill Maher is just a comedian
Submitted by Tiger on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 8:26am.
Libs called Limbaugh "just" an entertainer until last week. It amazing how quickly the rules can change.
Maher, Colbert, Stewart, Letterman, this guy
Submitted by David Kramer on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 12:37pm.
They are just entertainers and comedians, they are allowed to say anything even pedophile jokes about children. But oh if some conservative says something off color or "offensive". They must be removed from the airwaves.
It is another use of the Saul Alinsky method.
Use the standards they set against them. Since liberals have no morals, their politicians can be rapists. There entertainers can call for the raping of children of politicians from the right. But call them a slut, which they are, the left comes unglued. They call for death. Funny how the leftists have a movement called the slutwalk but now they are decrying being called sluts.
They have officially become insane.
He's right. There is a
Submitted by Immortal Fish on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 1:21pm.
He's right. There is a difference.
CONTEXT!!
> Maher just made "gender-based insults"
I.E. Misogyny. What the left would call a hate crime.
The "different story" meme is getting old.
Submitted by Quasi-socialist on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 2:07pm.
The media only investigated "Joe the Plumber" but Limbaugh insulted a civilian. That makes them different stories, right? So, in light of the fact that they are different stories, the libs win, right? I mean the press didn't say anything vile about Joe, and Rush did.
That's on one hand. But who hasn't noticed liberals lathering over privacy issues, so if someone insults you, you still have your privacy. Not so when the press comes after you with a proctoscope.
Plus Sarah Fluke offered her "expert testimony" to Congress, while Wurzelbacher asked questions of a campaigning politician in his neighborhood. But not only was Fluke's testimony offered, it was key to women being represented in whether or not the government can make Catholic institutions pay for birth control that the Dems walked out of the actual hearing and recovered with the sham hearing. So that's a different story.
Ostensibly she was offering key expert testimony to making somebody pay for something that violate their conscience. In the force of the government being brought to bear on a third party. This is as opposed to a guy asking questions of a representative campaigning in his neighborhood.
Who had better standing as a "private citizen" in their 15 minutes? Who's reaction was more extreme? And I doubt that Maher restrained himself (does he even know that it's possible?) from bagging on Wurzelbacher at the time.
One of my favorite quotes from Charles Forte is "Everything is like something else to a degree". I think the negative is true as well: Everything is unlike everything else to a degree. The libs keep looking to distract with vacillating differences. But the facts are 1) they have said much worse about women. 2) They have done worse about people not in the public eye.
Bill Maher said "Americans are stupid". I would guess 99(?)% are not "public figures" thus Maher is calling a large degree of people who will never offer their expert witness to Congress "stupid".
Rush might have said something with the unprecedented combination of insulting toward women and punching "private figures", but I think that honor goes to James Carville for his "drag a 100-bill through a trailer park comment" when faced with a woman who claims to have been sexually harassed by his employer. Fluke wasn't on the scene by way of her claiming victim-hood of sexual harassment and Paula Jones, although she was offering testimony against the President of the United States was only a "public figure" by bringing a suit that brought a lot of interest.
I'm quite sure that Maher told no Paula Jones jokes, right? Carville didn't lose his job because there were a lot of liberals who agreed with him. "Yup, trailer trash." And you didn't believe her story (even though it was eventually the President who lied under oath--but that was an okay lie)
Yes, libs. We understand. You will look for any opening to press for a political victory. You will also look for any difference and diversions or chaff that you can throw up which diffuses your hypocrisy.
Someone Expose The Media
Submitted by feisty on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 2:11pm.
It's really quite astonishing that the media will not move off this issue, especially after an apology was made. With each passing second it's becoming less and less an issue. The death and destruction in the midwest is barely covered anymore, but the embers from this silly issue are still being stoked by the media. I couldn't imagine seeing this carry on so long 20 years ago. It would be covered and then a day or two later, there would be other things to report and it would be over.
I really wish Newbusters or someone could infiltrate the media and find someone willing to talk (anonymously or whatever) and tell us where the marching orders come from. Who makes the decision to not move off an issue like this. I know we could all answer it one way or another, but I wish I could hear someone brave in the news media actually say it and explain why issues like this are promoted endlessly 24/7. It seems very coordinated across all news outlets, from NBC evening news to Access Hollywood, to crap shows like The View. Nobody seems to want to forget about it.
Who or what is pulling the strings on this (the White House? Someone on the inside tell us) story?
Private citizen attack
Submitted by Nelbert on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 10:15pm.
The left have been trying to run cover for people like Maher by all the talk about how the slurs used by Limbaugh were about a private citizen.
While I don't find that a reasonable defense, Maher has also unleashed his venom against private citizens. En masse, he's used vulgar insults against those in the Tea Party, who - shock of shocks - are private citizens. (Has anyone on the left ever bothered to offer any sort of apology for use of the vulgar pejorative "teabagger"?)
I have never heard of Pete Dominick is (he's just that good a comedian), but he and his ilk have stirred up a hornet's nest. The outrageous double standards have worn thin and people like Maher, Malloy and others know that all those attacks against the right can backfire and overwhelm them as well.
You're getting close!
Submitted by Vandamage2000 on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 11:49pm.
The Tea Party are private citizens, but the left doesnt single people out in the tea party by name and humiliate them, because that would be over the line.
Flukes role as an "activist"
Submitted by Radical1979 on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 11:55pm.
Means she is no more a private citizen than Sarah Palin. But why is it that a conservative woman in politics should be fair game for sexual name calling? Isn't she also just trying to do her civic duty and help he country?
Running for office doesn't make a woman fair game for this abuse.
⇒ Really, VD?
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 11:55pm.
You mean like biting off the finger of an old man?
And please don't act ignorant. That's something, unlike entertaining, at which you have shown a high degree of proficiency.
Ah yes, the democrats excuse
Submitted by NC Cop on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 12:05am.
Ah yes, the democrats excuse maker goes on and on. Pathetic.
HBO and Bill Maher ARE accountable to advertisers....guess who?
Submitted by thescoots on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 9:32am.
YOU! If you are conservative....how on earth can you justify giving one more dime to a network which is nothing more than the entertainment wing of the democrat party? Are you that hooked on their smack?
Cancel HBO, conservatives! I did....its very liberating...and believe it or not....when enough Benjamins are absent....change will happen....always follow the money. If Bill Maher's ridiculous excuse about how he is exempt from accountability because he has no advertisers and he's just a "comedian"...then maybe Game Change will convince you. Cancel HBO Sunday...the day Game Change airs....that will speak volumes.
Where do you think Bill Maher got the one million dollars to give the Obama's PAC? He got it from YOU! How is that working out for you?