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Dem leader: More advertisers should drop Limbaugh
The Hill ^ | March 5, 2012 | Mike Lillis

Posted on 03/05/2012 3:03:39 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) is calling on advertisers of Rush Limbaugh's popular radio show to join those advertisers who have dropped the program in response to Limbaugh's three-day verbal attack on a college student.

Limbaugh issued an apology Saturday to Georgetown Law Center student Sandra Fluke after calling her a "slut" and a "prostitute" on his show last week. Miller, a leading House Democrat who co-chairs the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee, said on Monday that Limbaugh's apology was insincere and unacceptable.

Miller said Limbaugh's attack on Fluke — who testified recently before Congress in support of President Obama's new contraception mandate — was "hateful, hurtful and deliberately misleading."

"I believe that Rush Limbaugh chose his words carefully when he called her a slut and a prostitute for using contraception," Miller said in a statement. "And in doing so, he called every woman who uses contraception a slut and a prostitute and as a result has lost what little credibility he might possibly have retained after his many years of intentionally inflammatory and hateful commentary."

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1 posted on 03/05/2012 3:03:41 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Rush did what he needed to do. Move on!


2 posted on 03/05/2012 3:04:58 PM PST by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

LOL stupid progressive lunatics. Rush was calling it as he sees it..Fluke isn’t a slut though, she is a whore, there IS a difference..so I’m assuming this Dem whacko will also demand that Bill Maher, Keith Olbermann, David Letterman, and Sandra Bernhard also have to apologize to the Palin family, Michelle Malkin, Michele Bachmann, and S.E. Cupp, all had disgusting, vile comments made about them


3 posted on 03/05/2012 3:07:18 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Free ThinkerNY

It’s a happy day for Fascists when they can call for suppression of speech and do it in the name of ‘civility’.


4 posted on 03/05/2012 3:09:41 PM PST by Track9 ("Strength through peace.. oh wait, I mean.." Mit Romney)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Big difference between elected officials calling for boycotts, and a company deciding to drop advertising, with him.


5 posted on 03/05/2012 3:10:57 PM PST by itsahoot (This space currently for rent. 1-800-555-1212)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) is calling on advertisers of Rush Limbaugh's popular radio show to join those advertisers who have dropped the program in response to Limbaugh's three-day verbal attack on a college student.

It's none of Congress' damn business.

Do what you are there to do most of all and get a budget drawn as late as it is.

6 posted on 03/05/2012 3:11:14 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

There you have it.

Democrats in Comgress are attempting to deny Rush Limbaugh his right of free speech in violation of the First Amendment.

Rush needs to file suit against Sandra Fluke, the Democrats who are directing companies to pull their ads from his show and all the companies who are pulling their ads from his show.


7 posted on 03/05/2012 3:12:05 PM PST by Uncle Slayton
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Figures, words from a Cali - fornication Kreep.
8 posted on 03/05/2012 3:14:36 PM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

George Miller is a punk. Nothing more.


9 posted on 03/05/2012 3:16:08 PM PST by Fledermaus (Democrats are dangerous and evil. Republicans are just useless.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Just more over-reaching on the Dems part. The are so much like lemmings, soon the cliff’s edge will be before them.


10 posted on 03/05/2012 3:17:28 PM PST by The Working Man (The mantra for BO's reign...."No Child Left a Dime")
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To: All

This is all a smoke screen. Faux outrage.
The left is all about thought control.
If tomorrow every conservative talker Rush,Hannity, Savage,Levine,Ingram all were taken off the air it would not satisfy them.
They would find something in George Will or Charles Krauthiemer’s remarks that was racist, sexist or anti-Islamic and they would be demanding they be taken off the air.


11 posted on 03/05/2012 3:17:47 PM PST by Jonah Johansen ("Coming soon to a neighborhood near you")
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To: Jonah Johansen

Read Miller’s comments carefully. This is exactly the connection that will be made (wrongly of course) in the minds of many. This is why the liberals perceive this as a tremendous propoganda victory, and why it was wise to admit the indulgence in the language of the leftists was a mistake, apologize, and move on.

We allow the univeral franchise in this country and there is no IQ or EQ test for voting.


12 posted on 03/05/2012 3:26:39 PM PST by ngat
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Public: More Taxpayers Should Dump Dems


13 posted on 03/05/2012 3:27:19 PM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Go advertise on Air America.


14 posted on 03/05/2012 3:29:10 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Romney just makes me tired all over.)
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To: EGPWS

The advertisers that pulled are going to be sorry at the loss of sales as a result.


15 posted on 03/05/2012 3:29:55 PM PST by dandiegirl
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To: Free ThinkerNY

HBO’s Bill Maher called Sarah Palin a twat and a c*unt. Called her that to the applause and cheers of the ‘oh so sensitive’ liberals in the audience.

Double standard?


16 posted on 03/05/2012 3:30:20 PM PST by GOPJ (Democrat-media complex—buried stories and distorted facts... freeper 'andrew' Breitbart)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Rush had it right the first time. This is an insane liberal with credentials that border line stupid.


17 posted on 03/05/2012 3:30:26 PM PST by Logical me
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To: Track9

BINGO

But to the lefties. Don Imus (nappy headed ho’s) and Ed Schulz (Laura Ingraham is right wing slut) apologies were “heartfelt”... LOL

Look who “forgave” Imus for his nappy-headed ho’s comment

hey has barry sutoro called Laura Ingraham (or Bristol Palin) yet with a crying towel?


18 posted on 03/05/2012 3:32:34 PM PST by silverleaf (Funny how all the people who are for abortion are already born)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Now it’s becoming an assault on free speech.


19 posted on 03/05/2012 3:32:34 PM PST by jersey117 (The Stepford Media should be sued for malpractice)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

What we need is a republican/conservative talkshow host with guts who will play clips of everything liberals have said about conservatives/republicans. Maher calling Sarah the c-word among others, Barnhard saying Sarah should be raped, Baldwin saying Hyde and his family should be murdered, Lettermans remarks about Sarah and Piper, Pelosi calling people teabaggers and astroturf, Malloy threatening Breitbart, and Jon Stewart stupidity along with Bahar (?). The list can go on and on.

Enough is enough. They are such professional liars that they just don’t bother to hide it anymore.


20 posted on 03/05/2012 3:34:07 PM PST by mardi59 (I'm not looking for MTV, I'm looking for MVP. Newt 2012!)
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