Seriously people, can we get beyond Rush?

[Remodeling Maidiac]

BTW grampa, we get beyond it by posting other topics until there are no Rush threads on the top page.

LOL. I've tried that. They get ignored.

 

[LoneLaugher]

Well believe it or not I don't listen to him. I hear soundbites but that's about it. I work in my clients homes and I don't allow talk radio on the job. And the only music allowed is catered to what I think the client will tolerate if they hear it.

Having said that I simply don't care. I heard the replays that night and I think he took the absurd request from the woman to its logically absurd extreme. I do respect your contacting your congress person.

What absurd request?

And...what the fuck does "logically absurd" mean?

Requesting that congress FORCE private insurance companies to provide an elective procedure or product. Can we force congress to make my provider pay for a face lift when I turn 60?

Absurd

Man...you are full of shit. Even in walking back your previous bullshit.....you provide more bullshit.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

It's his opinion, who cares?

And as a result, it's the opinion of everybody who listens to him.

Dittoheads.

We have a failed obama economy.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

remember imus?

I remember we have a failed obama economy.

 

[Lakhota]

We have a recovering Bush disaster. Most people know that...

 

[bigrebnc1775]

And the republicans fell for it hook, line and sinker. On Feb 13th Andrew Sullivan wrote that Obama would sucker the right into screwing up their initial win on this issue and he was spot on.

But some Republicans and conservative Catholics have already rejected the compromise. They have declared it to be just as inimical to religious freedom as church organizations being forced to pay for their employees’ contraception. Before the compromise, the spokesman for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops went even further, arguing that entirely secular corporations, if owned or run by faithful Catholics, should be able to exclude contraception from their employees’ health-insurance coverage. “If I quit this job and opened a Taco Bell,” he declared, “I’d be covered by the mandate.” And even that would be unacceptable.


So Catholic doctrine should, according to the bishops’ spokesman, also apply to non-Catholics—even if they are merely selling burritos.


This kind of rhetoric is not about protecting religious freedom. It is about imposing a particular religious doctrine on those who don’t share it as a condition for general employment utterly unrelated to religion at all. And if that is the hill the Catholic hierarchy and evangelical right want to fight and die on, they will lose—and lose badly.

^^^^^^^^^^

That's from the article in question. I recommend certain people who will go nameless [*cough*CaliGirl*cough*] go read the whole thing. Sullivan was pretty much spot on.


Andrew Sullivan: How Obama Set a Contraception Trap for the Right - The Daily Beast

Obama's Economic Policies Have Failed
RealClearPolitics - Obama's Economic Policies Have Failed

 

[konradv]

Well believe it or not I don't listen to him. I hear soundbites but that's about it. I work in my clients homes and I don't allow talk radio on the job. And the only music allowed is catered to what I think the client will tolerate if they hear it.

Having said that I simply don't care. I heard the replays that night and I think he took the absurd request from the woman to its logically absurd extreme. I do respect your contacting your congress person.

What absurd request?

And...what the fuck does "logically absurd" mean?

Requesting that congress FORCE private insurance companies to provide an elective procedure or product. Can we force congress to make my provider pay for a face lift when I turn 60?

Absurd

It's an equal protection issue. There's no harm to anyone to offer an insurance product, especially when it can save lives. It's no different from Viagra.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

What absurd request?

And...what the fuck does "logically absurd" mean?

Requesting that congress FORCE private insurance companies to provide an elective procedure or product. Can we force congress to make my provider pay for a face lift when I turn 60?

Absurd

It's an equal protection issue. There's no harm to anyone to offer an insurance product, especially when it can save lives. It's no different from Viagra.

There's harm if it's against their religious belief.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Seriously people, can we get beyond Rush?

The man makes 50+ million a year. A few advertisers lost is a drop in the bucket. It won't slow him down. In fact I bet his ratings will go up.

You mean....like you....right?

 

[Sarah G]

Uhhmm. Not yet.

He needs to learn to keep his big fat mouth shut.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

It's his opinion, who cares?

And as a result, it's the opinion of everybody who listens to him.

Dittoheads.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Uhhmm. Not yet.

He needs to learn to keep his big fat mouth shut.

So the first amendment means nothing to you?

 

[Peach]

The man makes 50+ million a year. A few advertisers lost is a drop in the bucket. It won't slow him down. In fact I bet his ratings will go up. And even if it was the beginning of the end for him it wouldn't matter as the void would be filled by someone else.

Point is he has no power. He doesn't make policy. He is a damn pundit. Like him or hate him it really makes no difference overall. This controversy will be long forgotten by election day. But gas may still be high. We may be involved in another military action. UE is still to high. The economy is still slugging along.

This story is a pimple on a 15 year old. Get over it. If you're on the left and this is all you got you're in big trouble come November. If you're on the right and you're obsessed with this you need a fucking hobby. It's his opinion, who cares?

Ps. I do see the irony but it needed to be said.

Rush stoked the fire with yesterday's SECOND apology. All Rush, all the time. It is be hoped the PRIMARIES today shift the focus.

 

[zeke]

There's harm if it's against their religious belief.

What a crock of shit. 97% of Catholic women have or still do practice birth control. If the men that run the Catholic church don't want to take their birth control, then they don't have to. Or better yet, when the men that run the Catholic church can force the women of the flock to abstain from using birth contol, then maybe they might have a valid point.

How much harm to the Catholic church does it do? when they can't even enforce their doctrine with the faithfull.

 

[LoneLaugher]

Uhhmm. Not yet.

He needs to learn to keep his big fat mouth shut.

So the first amendment means nothing to you?

What does it mean to you?

 

[zeke]

So the first amendment means nothing to you?

rush is not haveing his first amendment rights infringed. He is a big mouthed advertising salesman who pissed off the people that pay him 50 million a year. They are just exercising their rights to not deal with the asshole. if the American people are lucky, they will fire his fat ass.

 

[JoeB131]

Wrong on #2

Our politicians are elected to represent us as Americans. Not police the free market and media.

It's not a matter of "policing" anything. It's a matter of doing the right thing.

When I was in the Army, my CO had this sign on his desk. It read, "If you see something wrong and don't do anything about it, you've set a new standard."

Most sensible people (those who aren't coming on here trying to rationalize it) know what Limbaugh did was wrong. Mitt Romney knows it was wrong. Newt Knows it was Wrong. Santorum knows it was wrong. Ron Paul might know it's wrong if the medications are kicking in.

Not a one of them came out and openly said, "What Rush Limbaugh said was vile, disgusting, horrible. and has no place in our public discourse".

Don Imus was taken off the air for referring to Rutger's players as "nappy headed ho's." Laura Schlsesinger, after years of homophobic remarks, took herself off the air after the uproar over her used of the dreaded N-Word. My opinion, neither of those are as egregious as what Limbaugh did.

And I like Limbaugh. Really, I do. I enjoy his show, I enjoy his little parodies. He is one of the great satirists of our age.

But he crossed a line.

The line he did or did not cross is for the listening public and his advertisers to determine. Not our elected officials. This is how free markets function. Had Rush done something illegal, then officials should have chimed in.

I'm not asking Romney as a public official to determine anything.

I'm saying as a man, as a decent human being, he should condemn what Rush said.

But he can't.

Because he's cowering in fear of Rush, at least until he secures the nomination.

Which is reason #827 why I won't vote for him.

 

[Mac1958]

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Why in the world would the Dems want to "get beyond" this? Holy crap, Limbaugh handed them a present with a pretty bow. Their mousetrap worked better than they could have ever dreamed, they caught The Big One. They're gonna squeeze every last drop out of this story.

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[OtaniKitano]

The man makes 50+ million a year. A few advertisers lost is a drop in the bucket. It won't slow him down. In fact I bet his ratings will go up. And even if it was the beginning of the end for him it wouldn't matter as the void would be filled by someone else.

Point is he has no power. He doesn't make policy. He is a damn pundit. Like him or hate him it really makes no difference overall. This controversy will be long forgotten by election day. But gas may still be high. We may be involved in another military action. UE is still to high. The economy is still slugging along.

This story is a pimple on a 15 year old. Get over it. If you're on the left and this is all you got you're in big trouble come November.

Bahahahaaa......You must be a man. Women of reproductive age and the parents of women of reproductive age are going to the polls in November and it's the GOP that's in trouble. Rush drove home what Santorum started....a big black rabbit hole for Republicans. Obama was smart enough to see the opportunity of publicly consoling Fluke. Too bad you've got idiots running for Prez on the right.

Your sig and your post contradict each other.

No, they don't. I believe Ralph Nader is correct when he says this country is ruled by a two-party dictatorship. But I find the Republican party has been hijacked by the Tea Baggers and Grover Norquist. And let's not leave out Mitch McConnell whose only goal is to "make Obama a one-term president". The man was ELECTED and yet these butthead Republicans act as if it was some sort of Muslim coup that got him into office.

 

[Peach]

It's not a matter of "policing" anything. It's a matter of doing the right thing.

When I was in the Army, my CO had this sign on his desk. It read, "If you see something wrong and don't do anything about it, you've set a new standard."

Most sensible people (those who aren't coming on here trying to rationalize it) know what Limbaugh did was wrong. Mitt Romney knows it was wrong. Newt Knows it was Wrong. Santorum knows it was wrong. Ron Paul might know it's wrong if the medications are kicking in.

Not a one of them came out and openly said, "What Rush Limbaugh said was vile, disgusting, horrible. and has no place in our public discourse".

Don Imus was taken off the air for referring to Rutger's players as "nappy headed ho's." Laura Schlsesinger, after years of homophobic remarks, took herself off the air after the uproar over her used of the dreaded N-Word. My opinion, neither of those are as egregious as what Limbaugh did.

And I like Limbaugh. Really, I do. I enjoy his show, I enjoy his little parodies. He is one of the great satirists of our age.

But he crossed a line.

The line he did or did not cross is for the listening public and his advertisers to determine. Not our elected officials. This is how free markets function. Had Rush done something illegal, then officials should have chimed in.

I'm not asking Romney as a public official to determine anything.

I'm saying as a man, as a decent human being, he should condemn what Rush said.

But he can't.

Because he's cowering in fear of Rush, at least until he secures the nomination.

Which is reason #827 why I won't vote for him.

Santorum said Rush was "absurd", but as an "entertainer" he has the right. Stronger?