All posts tagged "Limbaugh"

Jay Adler has an excellent post that pushes back against Rush Limbaugh, his "crisis management" team, and his army of Twitter minions who now complain that the #StopRush efforts, which began as a response to Limbaugh's misogynistic attacks on Sandra Fluke --  amounts to liberal censorship.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has praised the uproar over radio host Rush Limbaugh's insulting of a young woman as the top diplomat voiced hope that US women can set an example for the world.

Comedian Bill Maher said Thursday it was ridiculous to equate offensive language he used to describe Sarah Palin with the offensive language Rush Limbaugh used to describe Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke.

A majority of Americans say that conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh should be off the air after he called a Georgetown University law student a "slut" and a "prostitute" over her support for contraception, according to a recently released poll. An even larger majority said that birth control should not be part of the national political debate at all.

In all the chaos of SXSW, I very nearly missed the embarrassing overreach by Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem, who are pushing for the FCC to pull Limbaugh from the airwaves. These women do good work in the world, but this is a classic case of feminist narrow-mindedness, where devotion to feminism without considering intersectionality can make us look stupid. Government censorship is something feminists really need to shun, on moral grounds and because, as the crackdowns on Occupy show, because it rarely works out for our side anyway. Going after his advertisers, and using shunning to show that he doesn't speak for "real America" is working great. Why rush it? 

A memo being circulated by the distribution company behind Republican shock jock Rush Limbaugh has revealed a massive flight from Limbaugh's program in the wake of his offensive comments about a Georgetown law student.