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Condemnation of Rush Limbaugh Shows Our Hypocrisy ‘Slut’ and ‘whore’ are offensive words, but some of his biggest critics in the whole Sandra Fluke controversy are guilty of using the similar language—they just happen to be liberals. Paul Theroux on how the whole affair reveals our smugness and hypocrisy. by Paul Theroux | March 10, 2012 10:45 AM EST
At first I didn't know whether I’d yawn or puke when I read what Rush Limbaugh said reacting to the Georgetown Law student and self-described reproductive-rights activist, Sandra Fluke. “What does it say about the college coed Fluke, who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says she must be paid to have sex? What does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She’s having so much sex she can’t afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex. What does that make us? We’re the pimps—the johns. No, that’s right—pimp is not the right word.”
All of this is offensive hyperbole—and the confusion of “pimp” and “john” is odd for the man whose idea of a good time is a week in the Dominican Republic with a bagful of Viagra. But it is little more than flapdoodle. Did anyone really think that the earnest, scholarly Sandra Fluke was a prostitute?
It will go away, I thought, and I can return to eating lotuses on my tropical island. But it didn't go away. The president of the United States called Ms. Fluke to tell her that her parents should be proud of her. The war in Afghanistan is deadlier than ever, Israelis are on the verge of bombing Iran, Syria is imploding, gas is inching to $5 a gallon and the president is bucking up a law student who was called a naughty name?
Projectile vomiting became a real possibility when Don Imus weighed in, calling Limbaugh a “fat gutless pill-popping loser.” “It’s the worst kind of cowardice,” Imus said. “Maybe he’s still jacked up on the Oxycontin, or whatever it is, but you can’t say stuff about somebody and not, one, own up to it, and, two, have guts enough to go sit down with her and say, ‘Look, I’m sorry and I won’t do this again.’ But no, he’s a punk.” Rush Limbaugh
Radio talk show host and political commentator Rush Limbaugh, photographed at a football game in Pittsburgh, PA on November 6, 2011., George Gojkovich / Getty Images
This was rich. Don Imus, as he says himself, spent years snorting cocaine, drinking himself into blackouts, and running a radio show in which he routinely insults people. A few years ago, called the black women of a college basketball team “nappy-headed hoes,” which was no surprise to his listeners. At the time his sidekick Bernard McGuirk did an impersonation of New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin, which anyone could have mistaken for his channeling Amos & Andy.
The defense of Sandra Fluke is so shrill that it is almost as though many of her defenders actually believe there is a vicious taint of self-indulgence, if not sluttiness, in a female student’s clamoring for a federal mandate of subsidized contraceptives.
Virtually everyone in public life condemned Limbaugh, some mildly, some harshly, and none were more strident or hypocritical—as Sarah Palin was later to point out—than the hordes of liberals, Fluke-like in their sanctimony. Limbaugh had been offensive! Ms Fluke said she was contemplating a lawsuit—for what? Apoplexy was rife. The man whose whole career is based on offense and mockery had apparently touched a nerve. No one raised much fuss when he hauled out “Queasy” his pet name for Kweisi Mfume (born Frizzell Gray), or called Charles Barkley “Milk Dud,” and when he said that black quarterbacks couldn't rifle the ball he was merely admonished and lost a gig.
Limbaugh is referred to as “the virtual leader of the Republican Party.” Oh, really? If you believe that a cracker like Rush with a radio show is the “virtual leader” of the Republican Party, you need a good proctologist to reposition your head.
Limbaugh, like many mockers—and many successful populists—is a man with a mere high-school education who is able, partly through recklessness, partly through overweening self-regard, to reflect the justifiable anger of a large proportion of the white American public. This is the identical profile of Michael Moore. And by the way, both these semieducated men calling themselves men of the people are multimillionaires.
“Do you ever think you’re just a bag of hot gas?” David Letterman asked Limbaugh a few years ago, when he appeared as a guest. Limbaugh squinted and then, taken aback, denied that the thought had ever occurred to him, as Letterman to his credit said, “I certainly think I am!”
My gorge rose again when Limbaugh offered an apology, muttering about a poor choice of words, sorry, sorry, blah-blah, and of course no one believed him for a minute. Many of his sponsors bailed. Limbaugh’s spin to his listeners on this was “They don’t want your business!” The result was that he got even more listeners.
The whole affair has now begun to appear to me fairly interesting. The defense of Sandra Fluke is so shrill that it is almost as though many of her defenders actually believe there is a vicious taint of self-indulgence, if not sluttiness, in a female student’s clamoring for a federal mandate of subsidized contraceptives. How else to interpret such a welter of special pleading? They believe she actually needs defending.
It occurred to me that in this fairly illiterate, irony-challenged country we have no notion of what satire actually is. Satire is merciless, unsparing, savage. It is not the genial teasing comedy of The Daily Show, or the fooling of Saturday Night Live. It is destructive and cruel. It is Jonathan Swift in “A Modest Proposal” writing of cooking and eating babies. It is Daniel Defoe in “The Shortest Way With Dissenters” speaking of killing members of a religious sect. It is Thomas Nast drawing pictures of hideous cannibalistic Catholic priests, or Horace making rhymes about buggery. It is John Collier mocking suffragettes by writing a whole novel about a man who marries an actual ape from the Congo in “His Monkey Wife,” and nearer to the present, it is Hunter Thompson’s “He was a Crook”—“ If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles …”
The mention of sexual matters in public life leaves us gasping and confused and irrationally indignant. The iconic figure in this respect is President Clinton getting a BJ in the Oval Office—a seismic event in the United States. What bothered many people—me included—was that he was enjoying, and early on defending something that was a dismissible offense to anyone elsewhere in the government. The Starr Report was dense with lubricious details.
Clinton’s sexual proclivities were everything, but who mentions the cruel errand that Clinton went on in the fall of 1992, when—interrupting his campaign in New Hampshire—he flew to Little Rock to sign the governor’s execution order of Ricky Ray Rector, a mentally deficient man, and a helpless victim of the system. Clinton in assisting in the murder of this man wanted to prove to New Hampshire voters that he was a hard-liner on crime, yet in the recent PBS four-hour documentary which is loaded with Lewinskiana there is no mention of this melancholy murder.
Similarly, Newt Gingrich is the thrice-married man—and jeered at for being horny. The fact that he is a shill for a Las Vegas gambling king who paid him $11 million to claim that the Palestinians are “an invented people” does not matter at all. His dipstick matters more, as it mattered with Eliot Spitzer, the Anthony Weiner, and all the rest of them.
“Slut” and “whore” have always been powerful words. Laputa (the whore) is the flying island in “Gullivers Travels.” “That great whore, reason,” Martin Luther famously said. In the Book of Mormon “the great whore of all the earth,” the Whore of Babylon, is the Catholic Church—words that must have tripped off Mitt Romney’s tongue many times, in his role as bishop in his readings to his flock. This most American of religions, cooked up by one of our more priapic prophets, had sex on the brain from the moment Joseph Smith crouched under a blanket and dictated the book to the first of his many wives.
This whole Limbaugh business epitomizes our confusion and our hypocrisy. The folks who depicted George Bush as a chimp, and Sarah Palin as a skank, are indignant when these same words are used against their people in the virtue industry, and that includes the troopers in the Reproductive Rights Activist Service Corps. The trouble with Limbaugh is that he is not a satirist—hasn’t the brains or the humor for it—and his earnestness, and his vanity, always gets in the way. He seems to believe that he is an opinion leader, but even as a gas bag on the sidelines he has a role to play, because not many other people are playing that role. If only he knew more about the power of satire, how it can do more than mere mockery. But, as a mocker—the Fluke affair is proof—he has an effect, and I think it uncovered one of our greatest weaknesses and our weirdest tendencies.
You have to give Limbaugh a pass, otherwise you lose the right to go on calling Gingrich and Eric Cantor pimps for Israel, and Rick Santorum a mental midget, and if you foreswear colorful, if not robust or wicked language altogether you might as well shut up.
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On a related note, I remember watching Tom Jackson and Steve Young apologizing for Rush's comments on sportswriters attitude towards McNabb.
I wanted to beat those two pussies like Canadians on Harp Seals- except use a slightly smaller bat so they'd live a bit longer and I could relish in their squeals and drink their tears Eric Cartman stylie.
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Quote: Did anyone really think that the earnest, scholarly Sandra Fluke was a prostitute?
Yes, Squidly, 23rdstMB and Charming_Sophisticate among others have all publicly shared their agreement that Fluke is a slut.
No, I said she's a Fuckbag- get it right.
Don't fret people, I'm sure she's got a legitimate shot at being elected president when she's 48 years old and has finally stopped going to school for a living!
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Edited by CharmingSophisticate (03/12/12 08:24 PM)
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Quote: Did anyone really think that the earnest, scholarly Sandra Fluke was a prostitute?
Yes, Squidly, 23rdstMB and Charming_Sophisticate among others have all publicly shared their agreement that Fluke is a slut.
3K for birth control? that's easily obtainable for free or at a reduced cost everywhere on the planet? She's either a moron or has a vag like a wizard sleeve.
I think colorful adjectives are up for grabs by her own admission.
Quote: Did anyone really think that the earnest, scholarly Sandra Fluke was a prostitute?
Yes, Squidly, 23rdstMB and Charming_Sophisticate among others have all publicly shared their agreement that Fluke is a slut.
3K for birth control? that's easily obtainable for free or at a reduced cost everywhere on the planet? She's either a moron or has a vag like a wizard sleeve.
I think colorful adjectives are up for grabs by her own admission.
You do realize she never once mentioned herself in her testimony right?
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frvcvs you are hysterical over this. as a liberal I was in defense of Rush
As I saw condemnation idiotic. Its Rush Fcuking Limpbag! the chick is a whore. Whoring herself out to congress. Fcuk her(And take video) I knew I was right for liking Theroux.
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Quote: Radio talk show host and political commentator Rush Limbaugh, photographed at a football game in Pittsburgh, PA on November 6, 2011., George Gojkovich / Getty Images
thanx for posting !!
Skully is the bait !!
like a flame to a moth sweet irony
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Really like Paul Theroux and his books. Interesting prose he wrote...all I know is that there seems to be more and more anger on talk radio formats recently...which punishments coming down in one way or another.
Quote: Did anyone really think that the earnest, scholarly Sandra Fluke was a prostitute?
Yes, Squidly, 23rdstMB and Charming_Sophisticate among others have all publicly shared their agreement that Fluke is a slut.
3K for birth control? that's easily obtainable for free or at a reduced cost everywhere on the planet? She's either a moron or has a vag like a wizard sleeve.
I think colorful adjectives are up for grabs by her own admission.
That IS something like 2,000 condoms. At least. That's a lot of going on. Then again, if she's into the gangbang thing...
Was Limbaugh one of her clients?
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Quote: Did anyone really think that the earnest, scholarly Sandra Fluke was a prostitute?
Yes, Squidly, 23rdstMB and Charming_Sophisticate among others have all publicly shared their agreement that Fluke is a slut.
3K for birth control? that's easily obtainable for free or at a reduced cost everywhere on the planet? She's either a moron or has a vag like a wizard sleeve.
I think colorful adjectives are up for grabs by her own admission.
That IS something like 2,000 condoms. At least. That's a lot of going on. Then again, if she's into the gangbang thing...
Was Limbaugh one of her clients?
Maybe she plans on banking some of that jizz.....or selling it.
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Quote: frvcvs you are hysterical over this. as a liberal I was in defense of Rush
As I saw condemnation idiotic. Its Rush Fcuking Limpbag! the chick is a whore. Whoring herself out to congress. Fcuk her(And take video) I knew I was right for liking Theroux.
See that's the thing. People claim free speech. Which I'm a big defender of. But that freedom should also cover us in the way we choose to respond to Rush's words. I would never expect or ask for the government to silence him. So long as somebody wants to pay him to keep broadcasting thats their business. But it's my freedom to tell them as a potential customer I'd prefer they didn't and will consider their response the next time I'm considering buying their product or service. That's kind of the free market at work isn't it?
Now I know I said the government shouldn't pay Rush to be on armed forces radio which I stand by. I also agree that Rachel Maddow or Keith Olbermann shouldn't be either. I don't think the federal government should be paying with our tax dollars for anyone to make a living spewing divisive politics. It's a conflict of interest. Neither side should be on our payroll.
As for Don Imus he's always been an idiot and "Nappy Headed Hoes" was the first thing to come to mind when I heard him speak up. Hardly an appropriate critic.
And as for Bill Maher who I'm happy to admit I'm a fan of. I disagree with his defense of Limbaugh on this last weeks show.
I'll tell you why. He shrugged off Limbaugh's 3 day long tirade as a "bad joke" or a slip of the tongue. It was nothing of the sort. It was a three day long attack on this woman. There was no punchline or laugh track. And where Bill is wrong is he claims freedom of speech yet dismisses the people's freedom to respond as if it only protects those on the airwaves.
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Quote: Did anyone really think that the earnest, scholarly Sandra Fluke was a prostitute?
Yes, Squidly, 23rdstMB and Charming_Sophisticate among others have all publicly shared their agreement that Fluke is a slut.
3K for birth control? that's easily obtainable for free or at a reduced cost everywhere on the planet? She's either a moron or has a vag like a wizard sleeve.
I think colorful adjectives are up for grabs by her own admission.
That IS something like 2,000 condoms. At least. That's a lot of going on. Then again, if she's into the gangbang thing...
Was Limbaugh one of her clients?
Maybe she plans on banking some of that jizz.....or selling it.
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Quote: My gorge rose again when Limbaugh offered an apology, muttering about a poor choice of words, sorry, sorry, blah-blah, and of course no one believed him for a minute.
is this true ??
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Quote: Did anyone really think that the earnest, scholarly Sandra Fluke was a prostitute?
Yes, Squidly, 23rdstMB and Charming_Sophisticate among others have all publicly shared their agreement that Fluke is a slut.
3K for birth control? that's easily obtainable for free or at a reduced cost everywhere on the planet? She's either a moron or has a vag like a wizard sleeve.
I think colorful adjectives are up for grabs by her own admission.
You do realize she never once mentioned herself in her testimony right?
Do you realize that she's most likely projecting herself, and at the very least, painted all Georgetown law coeds as hosebeasts? nice work...
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As the controversy over Rush Limbaugh calling a Georgetown law student a “slut” for advocating insurance coverage of birth control fades, Limbaugh insists there will be no lasting effect.
He likens the reported loss of several dozen advertisers to a couple of French fries falling out of a bag: “You don’t even notice.”
Limbaugh’s fans, including public figures like Sarah Palin, have circled the wagons and take the whole controversy as further evidence the hypocritical liberal media is out to get him: Rush is the victim.
But others say the heated discussion could impact his influence in the conservative Republican world.
Mitt Romney’s refusal to make more than the mildest criticism of Limbaugh’s comments reflects the fact that when you’re trying to sell yourself to conservatives, you don’t want to ruffle Rush.
But if he’s perceived as someone with whose remarks you don’t want to be too closely associated, that could make him less necessary — and like most people, he enjoys his power.
Laurie Cantillo, now program director of all-news WTOP in Washington, who was Limbaugh’s boss at WABC (770 AM), also suggested there could be a longer-term impact.
The controversy will boost Limbaugh’s ratings in the short term, she told the Washington Post, “but it won’t be worth the damage that’s been caused in loss of revenue and advertiser confidence.
“It is perceived by many as an attack on young women. ... Women 25-54 is the prize demo for most advertisers, and Rush’s remarks strike at the heart of the audience they’re trying to reach, hence the apology.”
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Quote: Did anyone really think that the earnest, scholarly Sandra Fluke was a prostitute?
Yes, Squidly, 23rdstMB and Charming_Sophisticate among others have all publicly shared their agreement that Fluke is a slut.
3K for birth control? that's easily obtainable for free or at a reduced cost everywhere on the planet? She's either a moron or has a vag like a wizard sleeve.
I think colorful adjectives are up for grabs by her own admission.
You do realize she never once mentioned herself in her testimony right?
Do you realize that she's most likely projecting herself, and at the very least, painted all Georgetown law coeds as hosebeasts? nice work...
More like Rush and other Viagra fueled crusty old mysoginists like yourself are projecting what you want her to be cause the best you got is the elderly dried out snatches and saggy udders of your post-manapausal peers or you can fantasize about someone like Fluke's sexcapades that she never even mentioned. At least when we called Bristol Palin a slut it was based upon fact, that little cumchugger got knocked up by the captain of the hockey team and you guys were all in an uproar that she should be off limits and now here you are calling someone a slut for testifying to the costs of contraception.
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Vox News Rush Limbaugh: Jane Fonda wants him kicked off air. Should FCC listen? Feminist activists Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem are calling for the FCC to take action against Rush Limbaugh. Doing so, however, could create complications.
By Peter Grier, Staff writer / March 12, 2012
Actress Jane Fonda arrives at the The Weinstein Company after party following the 69th annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif. Fonda wrote an opinion article with Gloria Steinem calling for the FCC to take Rush Limbaugh off the air.
Should the Federal Communications Commission kick Rush Limbaugh off the airwaves because of his harsh speech? That’s what Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda, and Robin Morgan are calling for in an opinion piece published today by CNN Ms. Steinem, Ms. Fonda, and Ms. Morgan are a trio of famous feminist activists, of course. Steinem is cofounder of “Ms. Magazine,” among other things. Fonda was, well, Jane Fonda – do we really need to say more? Morgan was a “Ms.” editor. Together the three are partners in the nonprofit Women’s Media Center.
Their argument is that Mr. Limbaugh’s use of the words “slut” and “prostitute” to describe Georgetown University Law student Sandra Fluke is par for Rush’s rhetorical course. He uses words like that all the time, they say.
“He promotes language that deliberately dehumanizes his targets,” they say.
If pressure on sponsors does not cause Clean Channel Communications to drop Limbaugh’s show, then the FCC should step in, Steinem, Morgan, and Fonda argue. Radio stations are supposed to use their licenses “in the public interest.” If enough listeners complain about Limbaugh, then the stations that carry him could be denied license renewal, according to the three women.
“It’s time for the public to take back our broadcast resources,” they write.
Well, we have this to say about that: You can think that Limbaugh’s words were vile, yet realize that this FCC strategy is unlikely to work, and could be dangerous.
First, it’s logistically difficult, since it would require an activist dump-Rush movement to remain focused on this strategy for years. The nation’s radio stations indeed have entered a cycle of license renewal applications, according to the FCC. But the last won’t come up for a re-do until 2014.
“He promotes language that deliberately dehumanizes his targets,” they say.
If pressure on sponsors does not cause Clean Channel Communications to drop Limbaugh’s show, then the FCC should step in, Steinem, Morgan, and Fonda argue. Radio stations are supposed to use their licenses “in the public interest.” If enough listeners complain about Limbaugh, then the stations that carry him could be denied license renewal, according to the three women.
“It’s time for the public to take back our broadcast resources,” they write.
Well, we have this to say about that: You can think that Limbaugh’s words were vile, yet realize that this FCC strategy is unlikely to work, and could be dangerous.
Will Limbaugh still seem like such a big target in two years? OK, given his tendency to utter anything that pops into his mouth maybe he will, but given the speed of the modern news cycle, we’re not sure.
Second, do we really want the US government to use its power to enforce speech codes? Yes, the First Amendment is not absolute, but if liberals go after Limbaugh in this manner, conservatives won’t just sit there, inactive. Plenty of folks on the right will are mad about Bill Maher’s words about Sarah Palin, and talk show host Ed Schultz’s language, and so forth. First they come for Rush Limbaugh, and then they come for Rachel Maddow.
“The US has been well served by legal and social norms that stop the government from targeting, punishing, or censoring political speech based on the perceived offensiveness of its content. Weakening that norm would result in attempts by the left and right to use speech codes as a cudgel against opponents,” writes Conor Friedersdorf of The Atlantic today in a piece that does a good job of summarizing objections to such an attempt.
Third, rightly or wrongly, Steinem, Morgan, and Fonda are jointly a red flag to many on the right. If they continue to attack Limbaugh, even conservatives who don’t like his methods will defend him. The Women’s Media Center might be better served to let less high-profile activists take the lead in this fight if they really want it to succeed.
“No longer is it good enough to disagree with conservatives. They must be fired from their jobs, separated from their advertisers, booted from the airwaves, buried under a prehistoric rock,” writes W. James Antle III, associate editor of the conservative American Spectator, today in a piece titled “The Hush Rush Syndrome
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Quote: The abortion defenders call themselves "reproductive rights" advocates...another term for allowing mothers to kill their unborn babies, or nascient babies. It sounds so benign to say reproductive rights and so coarse to say baby killing. If you're going to commit the act, have the guts to say what it is.
I heard a talk on Middle-ages earth where famine was rife and parents killed some of their children so the others could have food. The story of Hansel and Gretel was a memory of those times, parents turning children out into the woods to starve. This sounds horrible...yet "reproductive rights" does not.
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Quote: Did anyone really think that the earnest, scholarly Sandra Fluke was a prostitute?
Yes, Squidly, 23rdstMB and Charming_Sophisticate among others have all publicly shared their agreement that Fluke is a slut.
3K for birth control? that's easily obtainable for free or at a reduced cost everywhere on the planet? She's either a moron or has a vag like a wizard sleeve.
I think colorful adjectives are up for grabs by her own admission.
You do realize she never once mentioned herself in her testimony right?
Do you realize that she's most likely projecting herself, and at the very least, painted all Georgetown law coeds as hosebeasts? nice work...
Hosebeasts
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Rush Limbaugh off Armed Forces Radio? Some petition Obama to make it so By msnbc.com staff A petition to remove conservative host Rush Limbaugh’s program from the Armed Forces Radio Network is nearing the number of electronic signatures needed to get a response from the White House, the Army Times reported.
Two online petitions are competing on the "We the People" section of whitehouse.gov, which encourages people to request government action on issues.
The petitions come in the wake of Limbaugh calling a Georgetown law student a "slut" and "prostitute" for advocating that insurance companies cover birth control.
LOS ANGELES – In response to Clear Channel Media Holdings nationally syndicated talk show host Rush Limbaugh’s apology for calling a Georgetown University law student a “slut” for testifying on Capitol Hill about women’s access to contraception, a Coalition of Black media and broadcasting professionals is demanding that Clear Channel suspend Limbaugh’s program over the comments.
First Clear Channel’s John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou of the “John and Ken Show” refer to pop music icon Whitney Houston as a “crack ho” three days after her death, and now another one of their hosts, Rush Limbaugh, calls a woman a “slut” and a “prostitute” on the eve of Women’s History Month. It’s obvious to us that Clear Channel’s talk show hosts have serious issues with not just African-Americans but women aswell.
Limbaugh said he “did not mean a personal attack” on Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown student. “My choice of words was not the best, and in the attempt to be humorous, I created a national stir. I sincerely apologize to Ms. Fluke for the insulting word choices.”
The Coalition points out that when asked why Clear Channel’s KFI hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou of the “John and Ken Show,” were taken off the air and suspended without pay for ten days for calling pop music icon Whitney Houston a “crack ho” three days after the legendary singer’s death, programming director Robin Bertolucci replied, “because they crossed the line.” When asked what that line was, Ms. Bertolucci’s response was, “it’s very difficult to define but you know it when you hear it.”
We, along with millions of other listeners in Los Angeles, heard that line crossed again on KFI’s airwaves when Limbaugh unapologetically referred to a woman, on the eve of Women’s History Month, as a “slut” and a “prostitute.”
Once again, this happened without any statement from KFI management or repercussions like those sustained by John and Ken. Obviously Clear Channel just doesn’t get it.
We are calling on Clear Channel to suspend Rush Limbaugh over his comments and to develop, define, and put into place clear policy and procedures that draws the line for their talk show hosts and programming directors, sothat when they “hear it,” they know it and the proper action is taken.
KFI’s license expires December 1, 2013. We are calling on Clear Channel CEO John Hogan to assume a leadership role in addressing these pervasive issues within his corporation.
Unless quick and decisive action is made, we will file a formal FCC complaint against KFI and Clear Channel.
The Coalition’s response to Clear Channel comes amid a public relations crisis with it’s Los Angeles radio station KFI, the most listened to radio station in Los Angeles, as well as the most listened to AM radio station and most listened to news/talk radio station in the country.
On Thursday, KFI issued a flaccid response to a meeting at their Burbank offices on Mon. Feb. 27 with the Coalition where key areas of concern over its hiring practices and diversity were presented to station management along with recommended solutions—including the hiring of African-Americans and more women, this after two of its hosts referred to Whitney Houston as a “crack ho” three days after her death.
After reviewing KFI’s response and determining it to be 100% unsatisfactory, the Coalition has decided that a more aggressive approach must now be deployed.
Asians, Latinos, Native Americans, Muslims, and women’s groups will now be actively encouraged to join our efforts to put pressure on Clear Channel’s local and national advertisers. Traditional and new media will also be given regular updates on the status of our efforts. Our goal is to put an end, once and for all, to the racist and sexist diatribes poisoning the public airwaves on Clear Channel stations across the country.
We are calling on local, state and federal officials to ask for public comment and hearings to bring these discriminatory practices to light.
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Quote: On a related note, I remember watching Tom Jackson and Steve Young apologizing for Rush's comments on sportswriters attitude towards McNabb.
I wanted to beat those two pussies like Canadians on Harp Seals- except use a slightly smaller bat so they'd live a bit longer and I could relish in their squeals and drink their tears Eric Cartman stylie.
So how did you take Rush's APOLOGY ??
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He has been a personal guide and familiar voice for decades. He still sees it all clearly.
Skully, while I often agree with your points, I can hold no truck with the sanctimonious and self righteous left. I have often found myself falling under their ill graces due to my wanton and libertine lifestyle choices.
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I can't think of anything more pointless than getting indignant about what Rush Limbaugh said other than getting indignant about it in a surfing forum. He's a troll. He wants nothing more than the Skullys of the world to act like ninnies in response to him. Stop being a ninny, Skully, and focus on something real.
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Quote: I can't think of anything more pointless than getting indignant about what Rush Limbaugh said other than getting indignant about it in a surfing forum. He's a troll. He wants nothing more than the Skullys of the world to act like ninnies in response to him. Stop being a ninny, Skully, and focus on something real.
That, in a nutshell, is the precise and complete augment on this subject.
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