lol
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 8 March 2012 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
hope that the dead air slowly takes over his entire show.
― wmlynch, Thursday, 8 March 2012 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
hope that the walking dead slowly take over his entire show
― the Hilary Clinton of Ghostface Killahs (Phil D.), Thursday, 8 March 2012 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
this whole thing is interesting, I mean this is far from the most offensive thing this dude has done in his life, this is like, about as offensive as he's been every single day of his life. so why now? internet anger? limbaugh losing influence?
― iatee, Thursday, 8 March 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
IIRC during the LA riots he was calling the rioters zulus and spearchuckers
― the late great, Thursday, 8 March 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
Sometimes you just wake up and find the world has passed you by.
― Aimless, Thursday, 8 March 2012 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
it's the internet
xp
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 8 March 2012 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
― iatee, Thursday, March 8, 2012 2:10 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i'm wondering this too. i mean, the 'democrat media conspiracy' explanation is not convincing to me.
sex and contraception are sort of in the atmosphere right now, could just be bad luck. he hit the wrong nerve at the wrong time
and w/o getting too gaze-y here, sandra fluke is v mediagenic
― goole, Thursday, 8 March 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
Just GIS'd for sandra fluke, and what do you know? She doesn't look one damn bit like a prostitute or a sex-crazed slut. This may have produced cognitive dissonance in the ur-nation.
― Aimless, Thursday, 8 March 2012 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
oboy does this mean we get to have the "what do prostitutes look like?" conversation again
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 8 March 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
Well considering she went to testify about a friend of hers who lost an ovary because of a treatable cyst but she couldn't get the birth control pills through her Georgetown Law School insurance and it was never about her having a lot of sex it seems absurd that this is the route they're taking in the first place.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Thursday, 8 March 2012 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
"So my friend has suffered because she couldn't get birth control which provides a number of non-contraceptive health benefits..."
"HUSSY! SLUT! WHORE!"
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Thursday, 8 March 2012 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
Not surprised that the Average American is still offended by dishonestly attacking a reasonably hard-working/successful (based on college, etc.) young woman for cheap political points. Folks would probably take less issue with it she were already a public figure, but since she's not it's seen as Limbaugh crossing a line.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 8 March 2012 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
ya it's weird that a human being would approach the subject like that but this guy owns a jet because he has been so successful at doing exactly that
― iatee, Thursday, 8 March 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
looking forward to Limbaugh dying penniless and obscure but somehow I suspect that won't happen
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 8 March 2012 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
he won't be penniless or obscure, but we can hope for something that's painful and takes a while to kill him.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 8 March 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
penis cancer is my first choice
Uh, she's white and middle class, ppl.
― Morning becomes apopleptic (Michael White), Thursday, 8 March 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
As we all know there's a market for martyrdom, and that's what Limbaugh's best at. He'll replace the ad revenue.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 March 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
Looking forward to his 'A Face in the Crowd' moment or his repentance more than his penis cancer tbph
Some french freedom fry company should come to his rescue.
― Morning becomes apopleptic (Michael White), Thursday, 8 March 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
that was supposed to be french, of course
Hope people vandalize that bust of him that'll be in the Hall of Fame
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Thursday, 8 March 2012 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
the Assholes Hall of Fame?
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 8 March 2012 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
Missouri Hall of Fame iirc
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Thursday, 8 March 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
No post ever has called for goatse.cx more and I hope you appreciate my restraint
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les rois, se fait plus vivement à (Michael White), Thursday, 8 March 2012 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
imo the deal is that the Republicans have really misjudged whether the country is ready for "people who use birth control are weirdo sex-crazed perverts." There's a very committed constituency within the right that really does believe birth control is 1) wrong 2) a major source of societal ills, and while I don't think they are actually pulling the strings, I think their voices within the discourse -- the fact that Rush would be having Quiverfull-type stuff cross his radar -- opens the door to him expressing this "a person who wants birth control is a whore" opinion. Which isn't as fringe-y as a lot of his other outrageous opinions: his racism, for example, resonates with racists. But birth control? Literally all straight people use birth control - the % of people, Catholics/Quiverfulls included, who never use it at all is so tiny it's homeopathic. Trying to call somebody a slut for using birth control is like calling somebody a glutton because he ate breakfast; it's a tipping point.
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 8 March 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
the second half of that graf is a mess sorry I'm tired. point is, there's this tiny constituency of people - who write books and make themselves seem like a bigger constituency than they are - who I think Rush might have heard and thought, I'll use that, that's a good line, and he didn't really get that for most people it's not actually a good line
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 8 March 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
really don't think it's the nature of the insult at work here. the internet has greatly facilitated both the rapid dissemination of the offending remarks, and, more importantly the ability to mobilize punitive actions. prior to searchable databases and social media, it would have been a huge pain in the ass to target all his advertisers, especially in large numbers at the click of a button, and it certainly wouldn't have been done so quickly.
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 8 March 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
yah you could be right - twitter, especially, is really powerful at getting word out fast
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
Credit what aero or someone up thread called the mood of the movement for the trouble "Rush" is in now. We've repeatedly seen liberals and Democrats willing to cede ground to the right on reproductive freedom. Rush had the supreme misfortune to make these remarks at a time when liberals felt like they had the public behind them. You can bet that it would have been ignored had this happened in 2010. We can all make lists of offensive shit Rush has said; this is AS bad as other things.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
apparently this was a minor thing in this whole mess
http://www.thebigquestions.com/2012/03/02/rush-to-judgment/
― goole, Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
the % of people, Catholics/Quiverfulls included, who never use it at all is so tiny it's homeopathic.
totally stealing 'homeopathic' for the next talk i have to give
― catbus otm (gbx), Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
I was curious to see the response to the HPV vaccine thing w/Bachmann - a bunch of wingnuts basically wrote her off for her comments. Perhaps this is similar for Rush since the lady Fluke was talking about wasn't seeking hormonal contraceptives for fornication but for ovarian problems. I know someone who had a similar ailment and maybe some of them do too and the cheapness of the shot resounded w/some of the base.
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
lol I am legit honored by this!
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
apparently this was a minor thing in this whole messhttp://www.thebigquestions.com/2012/03/02/rush-to-judgment/
jesus fucking christ, one of the commenters there actually seriously wrote that he couldn't see the misogyny in the word "slut"
can we start over
― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:18 (twelve years ago) link
yeah the % of people who think contraception is a bad thing in toto are a pretty small and powerless bunch. more influential than their raw numbers would suggest, but still quite marginal
however, the % of people who think that talking about your sex life in public makes you a slut is quite a bit higher. and talking about what kinds of basic benefits you'd like to have guaranteed, concurrently? whole lot of folks aren't hearing that either.
the trouble is the numbers of this second group are still not as high a % as they themselves think
― goole, Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:20 (twelve years ago) link
I will listen (impatiently tapping my feet) to their arguments about religious freedom when such acts of God like ED and its remedies aren't covered by my insurance payments.
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:23 (twelve years ago) link
Dr. Giboyeux reports receiving payment for work as the local principal investigator for a decent jukebox anywhere really (RIP CC Club), receiving consulting fees from definitely not that guy at his friend's party inre: non-specific "swelling", and grant support from his pal Grant S. (thanks Grant!); select editorial contributions were given by Texxas Jam '78.
― catbus otm (gbx), Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
Have you guys talked about this podium:
http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/03/120307_POL_newtInSouth.jpg.CROP.rectangle3-large.jpg
― polyphonic, Thursday, 8 March 2012 22:17 (twelve years ago) link
omg
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 8 March 2012 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
Bunch of those signs people were having had that on them as well. Quality lols.
In regards to that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzEnKdBAb_o&feature=player_embedded
yeah yeah fox lols etc etc
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Thursday, 8 March 2012 22:19 (twelve years ago) link
so shamelessly stupid. what an amazing unbridled liar.
newt i mean
― goole, Thursday, 8 March 2012 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
He was telling everyone to #250gas or something like that.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Thursday, 8 March 2012 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/neal-boortz-worms-7186415
It's amazing what you can hear when you listen to "conservative" talk radio in this country. Lately I've been listening to WSB here in Atlanta to keep up with the Georgia primary, and yesterday I heard "libertarian" Neal Boortz call poor people "worms." As in, more or less: "The situation in this country is like a dog with worms. You bring the dog to the vet to be dewormed, but the vet is Dr. Obama, and he says you can't get the dog dewormed because the worms have a vote. And that's the problem, folks: the worms have a vote." He repeats "the worms have a vote," several times, and then quotes, as I remember it, somebody who's emailed him: "I'm going to call my dog Section 8 because so many parasites live there." Big yuks, all around. So Rush is particularly loathsome. But he isn't the only one.
― the Hilary Clinton of Ghostface Killahs (Phil D.), Friday, 9 March 2012 01:48 (twelve years ago) link
http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/images/item/twitter-20120201-boortz-poor.jpg
i mean if you're using neal boortz as a yardstick the "toenail fungus" line is pretty much canon
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 9 March 2012 05:58 (twelve years ago) link
This popped up down the street from my house this week. Observe the characteristic misspelling associated with Tea Party signs.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/420301_3233794080440_1134308060_3242785_95967765_n.jpg
― the Hilary Clinton of Ghostface Killahs (Phil D.), Friday, 9 March 2012 12:52 (twelve years ago) link
props for flexing an appetite for civil disobedience by using an upended chair instead of a lawn sign
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Friday, 9 March 2012 12:56 (twelve years ago) link
also i think obama ordered name change to "guangzhao."
― low-rise concentration camps (Hunt3r), Friday, 9 March 2012 13:25 (twelve years ago) link
I have one of those chairs (in black) on my balcony!
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 March 2012 14:39 (twelve years ago) link
They were on sale at Target last week: $20.99