Posted on 03/14/2012 10:30:19 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Rep. Shelley Berkely, D-Nev., has led a push to get Rush Limbaugh pulled off the air, but she doesnn't believe that Bill Maher needs to face the same pressure because Maher is less important to Democrats.
"There’s a big difference between what is being said by Bill Maher and his humor, although I don’t find that funny, and what Rush Limbaugh does, who pretty much calls the shots in the Republican Party," Berkely, who is running for Senate, said in the Las Vegas Sun. Maher has donated $1 million to President Obama's superPAC.
She maintained that her petition drive calling for Clear Channel to pull Limbaugh's show "has nothing to do with the First Amendment" and everything to do with defending women from demeaning remarks. "I am merely asking Clear Channel to make a business decision to get somebody who uses and abuses the public airwaves off the airwaves," Berkley said. "We need to stand up for ourselves as women around this country."
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And my anger grows more by the fricking DAY!
Good lord I despise these people!
I went going to Rep-ulsive Shelley Berkley ( as in California).
My wife seeing the Rep’s photo exclaimed “She’s wearing
a “rug” ‘.
Barf alert!
http://berkley.house.gov/contact/email-me.shtml
You cannot send and e-mail if you dont live in her district.
I believe “this” kind of input from “Democratic” leaders helps both the Rush Limbaugh program ratings and will also help the Republicans in the 2012 elections.
Please “Democratic” leaders {Reid, Pelosi; others} continue your recent rhetoric with your MSM freinds. We Freepers need all the help we can get to get the country back on the right path. “Your” comments indicate “what” you have been stepping in the past few years..and we do not want to continue.
For the sake of the children, that woman needs to put a bag over her head!
I swear to Gosh, John, I thought this was one of yours....
Hey, what did we ever do to you!?
This isn’t about defending women from demeaning remarks. It’s about trying to silence a voice of the opposition. If she sat down and thought really hard (I’m giving her the benefit of the doubt here) she would find other aspects of the culture that are much more seriously demeaning to women than anything Limbaugh said, including some lucrative activities in her home state. Let’s see her go after those.
sheesh and here I thought decades of feminism would have made women tougher than that (snicker)
I guess she is another den who has neglected to read and understand the constitution?The government does not have the right to limit speech of anyone especially any entertainer.Rush is not the leader of any party.
I guess she is another dem who has neglected to read and understand the constitution?The government does not have the right to limit speech of anyone especially any entertainer.Rush is not the leader of any party.
I’ve been wanting to verify exactly what Rush said because I didn’t hear it first hand...
Here it is in all its glory:
RUSH: “What does it say about the college co-ed Sandra Fluke, who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that 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. (interruption) The johns? We would be the johns? No! We’re not the johns. (interruption) Yeah, that’s right. Pimp’s not the right word. Okay, so she’s not a slut. She’s “round heeled.” I take it back.”
He clearly asked, then answered his own question... True, he took her “testimony” out of context, but then there are a lot of people taking Rush’s statements about it out of context as well.
You can view the transcript and hear the audio here: http://rncnyc2004.blogspot.com/2012/03/rush-limbaugh-radio-show-on-sandra.html
First of all, this person just admitted they don’t believe in the first amendment.
But she also shows she is an idiot. God, how much power they give just one person.
If she thinks it has nothing to do with the First Amendment, then she doesn’t understand the Constitution and she needs to be recalled by her constituents.
He went on my list and never got off after he proclaimed that the terrorists that committed 9/11 were really brave and our troops were cowards hiding behind technology.
On case you didn't know or have forgotted here is the crap he spewed:
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away," said Bill Maher, the host of Politically Incorrect. "That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly."
“I am merely asking Clear Channel to make a business decision to get somebody who uses and abuses the public airwaves off the airwaves,”
Really?
Would that also include:
Bill Maher
David Letterman
Al Sharpton
Keith Olberman
and on, and on, and on...
Was reminded on talk radio who owns MSNBC, it’s Comcast. Is Ms Berkley going to also rally against Comcast? Surely she doesn’t want to be labeled a hypocrite. Right? Surely she’s acting on pricipal and not politics. Right? No, I didn’t think so either.
It is a puzzlement.
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