Posted on 03/10/2012 5:09:44 PM PST by Lattero
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These are just a few samples from the arsenal of degrading language Limbaugh deploys on women, people of color, lesbians and gays, immigrants, the disabled, the elderly, Muslims, Jews, veterans, environmentalists and so forth.
Limbaugh doesn't just call people names. He promotes language that deliberately dehumanizes his targets. Like the sophisticated propagandist Josef Goebbels, he creates rhetorical frames -- and the bigger the lie the more effective -- inciting listeners to view people they disagree with as sub-humans. His longtime favorite term for women, "femi-nazi," doesn't even raise eyebrows anymore, an example of how rhetoric spreads when unchallenged by coarsened cultural norms.
At least this most recent incident has turned a spotlight back on the vile, damaging statements Limbaugh has been promulgating for years. His sponsors are dropping him; his stations have begun to follow suit. VoteVets, a coalition of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, released a statement by female vets, including Katherine Scheirman, former chief of medical operations in the U.S. Air Forces, demanding that the American Forces Network drop Limbaugh from its programming.
They state, "Our entire military depends on troops respecting each other -- women and men. There simply can be no place on military airwaves for sentiments that would undermine that respect."
That makes this a fitting time to inquire of his syndicator, Clear Channel Communications, whether it intends to continue supporting someone who addicts his audience to regular doses of hate speech. Clear Channel's Premiere Radio Networks Inc., which hosts Limbaugh's program, has defended his recent comments.
If Clear Channel won't clean up its airways, then surely it's time for the public to ask the FCC a basic question: Are the stations carrying Limbaugh's show in fact using their licenses "in the public interest?"s program, has defended his recent comments.
If Clear Channel won
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The smell of a skunk lingers a long time, doesn’t it?
Lon Chaney????
People here got zotted?
I just got back on - persistent router problems, but fixed until a new Linksys unit arrives - and am working my way thru replies etc. I’ll catch-up to everything soon, I hope...
Not all that sure that tenure gets you a break, so I won’t say anything either, except that I despise these women with every fibre of my being.
Never have they uttered a word to defend a conservative woman from the slurs of leftists comics and commentators.
“...they are the very embodiment of reactionary-vested-interest-power...”
WTH does that mean? I’ve been re-reading it for 2+mins and can’t figure it out
“Jane you ignorant slut”
Now THAT’S the right pic! I was laughing so hard just reading that phrase, after so many years, I forgot who said it on SNL.
YUK! There goes my lunch. Gaaaawd, what an ugly hag!
I overlook some of the clueless leftists in Hollywood because they have no brains.
But I will NEVER forgive Jane Fonda, see any of her movies, buy any product she touts or pay attention to any word she says. She should be getting out of prison in a few years in a righteous world. She was responsible for much of the contempt shown our returning heroes and maybe not a few deaths.
She should be ashamed to open her mouth again.
Rush bashes Jews....are u kidding?
no one really openly bashes Jewish anything in the US except maybe some Mosque in Dearborn, the rare as a Unicorn Neo-Nazi/Klan rally or most commonly....Black militants...now they do openly and get away with it
but I’ve never heard it from Rush and I hear 70% of his airtime
Mark Levin is very Jewish and is a running buddy...I seriously doubt Rush would want to bash Mark’s heritage...now Mark bashes lefty Jews...a lot...with tonal emphasis
anyone else here herd him bash anything Jewish
only folks who really bash anything Jewish are Jewish...in America anyhow...bashing Jews here is really forbidden...it’s whispered from both ends of the political spectrum...like when folks look behind them when saying something negative about black folks but it’s not in the open much
LOL! Hadn’t seen that one before; you make it? Good job!
She has finally turned into the man she always wanted to be..
Ditto what you said, a.
No clue. Robin Morgan - feminist icon - is crazy. Her craziness extends to her word choice.
Before today, I’d never heard of her. Now I’ll do some research on the lib-skank. Thanks.
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