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Ann Coulter. Hannity & Colmes, June 20, 2001 "God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees. God said, 'Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It's yours."
Sept. 12, 2001 "We should invade their [Muslim] countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."
Tell me she's really a Satanist.. it makes more sense!!
I would sincerely hope there would be NO swear words used on here....I have been picked up on every one I have used, but then thats me....I only have to look sideways and get chatted.
Artful Dodger: So it's ok for this guy and his organisation to hack into the phone of a dead girl as well as hundreds of others and that is ok. To bribe police. to blackmail MP's and to do other matters that are against UK law.
But you then like Bill (your mentor) say I'm applauding bullying by putting words into my mouth. Golly.. I thought you hated that!!
Artful Dodger: Are you then upset by the phone hacking Dan?
As to Murdoch.. he's been interfering with British politics for years and many people in the UK have seen that. The use of his papers and media to support his 'friends' is not new news. Maybe to you though.
As to the kids being branded as racist... the Daily mail as you posted stated "effectively classed, rather than actually classed. Can you prove (as the onus is on you) they were, or are you just going to go by the Daily Mails word?
"The rapes were covered up. And now there are many in the OWS movement (supporters and participants) that are denying that rapes occurred even though there are police records to show differently."
Right.. from what I've read this is the case...
""These protests have a history of welcoming everyone and just assuming they're on your side," said David Meyer, a professor of sociology at the University of California at Irvine, who studies protest movements.
The recent reports of assaults have created a problem the "Occupy" movement is being challenged to address head-on.
"We always encourage victims to go through the proper channels and contact police," said Brendan Burke, 41, who helps run the security team in Zuccotti Park.
But that's not always the case. Burke admitted there have been times when members of the community have taken it upon themselves to chase off men who exposed themselves in the park.
"If there is a consensus that someone is bothering another person, the community will take care of it," he said. "Still, we always notify victims to contact police.""
Now.. It sounds like you are trying to say the protesters are rapists. I could then say as it has happened that Christians and Conservatives are rapists, as a number have been found to be rapists.
Temo: Re: I think it's despicable what they've done. But I can't say I'm "upset" over it. I certainly can understand however why some people are.
Artful Dodger: Good.
Charlotte Church and her family agreed to a £600,000 settlement today. The NI group started hacking her phone when she turned 16. 33 stories published were through her and her families phones being hacked. They even went after her mother.
"At her lowest moment, the NoW issued her with an ultimatum and coerced her into giving them an in-depth interview about her self-harming and attempted suicide. She felt she had no choice but to give the interview and was deeply traumatised by the publication of the story in the News of the World. "The NoW targeted Charlotte and her voicemail messages repeatedly, and in doing so unlawfully obtained her private medical information and details of her personal relationships with her family and friends. Even her first teenage boyfriend. They then ran stories about Charlotte using this information.
Their solicitors words.
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers gave evidence at the Leveson Inquiry today...
""Emails indicate that payments to sources were openly referred to at the Sun," DAC Akers said.
In her written statement, DAC Akers said there was recognition that this behaviour was illegal, with reference made to staff "risking losing their pensions or job", to the need for "care" and to the need for "cash payments"".
================= "Some OWS protesters raped"
One rapist turned out to be a convicted sex offender. As to others.. you'll always get some who will take advantage of such groupings. It doesn't mean they became OWS protesters and that made them start raping does it.
Michael Wolff guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 29 February 2012 17.39 GMT
"What's done is done – even if they don't yet acknowledge that it is 100% done.
James Murdoch, hopelessly tarred by the phone-hacking scandal, exits his position as chairman of News International, the tainted News Corp subsidiary in the UK, and takes up, in his father's words, "a variety of essential corporate leadership mandates, with particular focus on important pay-TV businesses and broader international operations."
Let us first dispense with that fig leaf: James Murdoch does not have a role at News Corp. He is the shadow man. Nobody talks to him – not even, at least not meaningfully, his father. (They once spoke two or three times a day, managing the affairs of their world.) His siblings shun or pity him. He has not existed as a force, and hardly as presence, since the meltdown of the News of the World last summer.
And, to say the least, there is no possibility that he will inherit the top job.
The reality is stark: everybody in the company blames James for the terrible things that have happened in London. They blame his father for falling under James's sway – but blame James more for swaying him.
In a way, it's even starker than that: since he left the top job at BSkyB at his father's behest and took over News Corp's operations in Europe and Asia, James has become the most disliked man in the company. This is partly because, for all the obvious reasons, Murdoch's entitled children would breed a predictable resentment. But additionally, it is because James is an extraordinarily cold, abrasive know-it-all.
"Who would have thought anybody could make Lachlan look good," said one of Murdoch's close executives, referring to the contrast between James and his brother Lachlan, who once was the heir apparent – and, in his moment, another headquarters albatross. But starker still, within News Corp, there is a structural analysis of why everything in London went so wrong – with James as the faulty linchpin.
In his father's determination to elevate James, James Murdoch found himself with vastly more power than he should have had. He used it, as power-mad people are wont to do, to grab more power. He did this by pressuring his father to push out all the key executives – chief operating officer Peter Chernin, general counsel Lon Jacobs, communications chief and Rupert-right hand Gary Ginsberg – who, for so long, had so adroitly steered Rupert and the company. And they had had a tight hold on his ear – for Murdoch often tends to listen most to the last person he has spoken to.
Thus, in the end, with everybody else gone, James was calling most of the shots. His was the strategic mind dealing with the meltdown in London. Or worse: his was the strategic mind that allowed Rebekah Brooks, the former Sun editor who became the CEO of News International, to be the strategic mind.
And then, the Taylor payment: one News Corp view is that he authorised the vast settlement payment to Gordon Taylor, chief executive of the Professional Footballers Association, whose voicemail the News of the World had hacked – not so much because he was afraid of what Taylor might say, but because he thought any potential scandal might provide an excuse for American executives to take a greater oversight role of what was now his domain.
James Murdoch was not trying to cover up the company's crimes – and it never quite made sense why he would. Rather, he was playing internal politics.
Hence the smoking gun: his legal approach during his testimony before the British parliament this summer was the tried-and-true theory of "plausible deniability". If he carefully couched his testimony, then, ultimately, there would just no way of truly knowing what he knew.
Except there was. In essence, the bureaucracy, in the form of Tom Crone, the company lawyer, and Colin Myler, the News of the World editor, whom James had implicitly blamed, rebelled – saying they had told him all. And they had an email to prove it. James's only defence was that he had not read it all. Plausible deniability gone.
He should, of course, step down and out. Not be a distraction, until name is cleared, etc. He continues as an executive now because his father has great difficulties saying the obvious. And because James himself has determined that his personal interests are best served by staying on the inside and being able to pick up what scuttlebutt he can.
The story, however, is not completely over. He will not be the chief executive of News Corp, or much of anything else, but even from jail, if that is where he finds himself, he will be one of four siblings who each control 25% of their birthright company.
James Murdoch has stepped down as executive chairman of News International to focus on News Corp.'s expanding international television businesses, News Corp. announced Wednesday.
James Murdoch and his role at News International have come under scrutiny amid Britain's expanding phone-hacking scandal at Murdoch-owned titles.
In a statement, James, 39, thanked the dedication of his colleagues who he said worked "tirelessly to inform the public." He also praised the company's latest British newspaper, The Sun on Sunday, which had its first edition last weekend.
"With the successful launch of The Sun on Sunday and new business practices in place across all titles, News International is now in a strong position to build on its successes in the future," he said in a statement.
Tom Mockridge, chief executive of News International, will continue in his post and will report to News Corp. President and Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey, the company said in a statement.
Newscore and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
"The birth certificate of US President Barack Obama could be a forgery, a controversial Arizona sheriff claims.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County - who styles himself as America's toughest - unveiled the results of a probe into the origins of the document. His investigators found "probable cause" the certificate may have been made by "forgery and fraud", he said.
Mr Arpaio, known for his tough stance on immigration, is being investigated over allegations of racial profiling. The US justice department alleges that his office routinely discriminated against Latinos.
He also faces a federal grand jury investigation into the activities of his anti-corruption unit, and a forthcoming re-election bid in Maricopa County....
.....Critics have suggested that Mr Arpaio launched his probe into Mr Obama's birth certificate to distract attention from his legal wrangles, as well as to aid his upcoming re-election bid.
But the sheriff denied those accusations, telling reporters at his news conference on Thursday: "I'm not going after Obama. I'm just doing my job.""
"Limbaugh slut slur student Sandra Fluke gets Obama call
US President Barack Obama has called to offer support to a US law student attacked by radio host Rush Limbaugh for her views on contraception.
Mr Obama told Sandra Fluke he was disappointed she had been the subject of "unfortunate attacks", White House spokesman Jay Carney said. Limbaugh called Ms Fluke a "slut" and suggested her testimony to US lawmakers made her "a prostitute".
After criticism of his remarks, Limbaugh did not back down.
"If we are going to pay for your contraceptives, and thus pay for you to have sex, we want something for it. We want you post the videos online so we can all watch," he said on Thursday."
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> And Andrew Breitbart calls the OWS protesters rapists.
Is this the only the far right in America can fight?
Yeah, Sandy gets a call from the prez when a Right wing talk show host calls her a slut. Good for the prez. Just like when he called Sarah Palin when the left was calling her a slut. Oh wait, he didn't call her when that happened.
Well, at least when an MSNBC host called a conservative raido talk show host a slut, Obama called her. Oh wait, Obama didn't call her either.
hmmmm, guess it's not just those on the right. Seems like the left does it all the time. Just check into Twitter.
Sandra is gonna be a lawyer. She is having so much sex she needs government help paying for it (even though she can get contraception's free - that's right folks: FREE). By her own testimony, she spends about 1000$$ a year on contraceptives.. That mathematically means she's having sex at least 5 times a day.
The real story here is that as a lawyer to be, she's learning to screw a lot of people even before she officially becomes a lawyer.
Temo: Re: By her own testimony, she spends about 1000$$ a year on contraceptives.. That mathematically means she's having sex at least 5 times a day.
Artful Dodger: Really... anyone having the pill is having sex 5 times a day...
What about the case Miss Fluke stated?
"Her testimony included the case of a fellow student who needed birth control to control ovarian cysts.
Georgetown, a Catholic university with a prestigious law school, does not cover birth control to prevent pregnancy in its student health plan, and the student, who is gay, could not convince the insurance company she was ill."
"She is having so much sex she needs government help paying for it "
No she wants her health plan (from a religiously affiliated institution) to cover it.
"The real story here is"
That Limbaugh is now apologising as his advertisers are abandoning him.
A University of Maine engineer and his research team have discovered a revolutionary new chemical process that can transform forest residues, along with other materials such as municipal solid waste, grasses, and construction wastes into hydrocarbon fuel oil products. (UMaine News Release here)
Shortening up the process from biomass to hydrocarbons has long been an idea of intense interest, and usually skipped over to the easier fermentation, pyrolysis and other schemes to get molecular change.
Maine is driven by circumstances, a lot of wood, some 6 million green tons of additional available biomass, according to a 2008 Maine Forest Service Assessment of Sustainable Biomass Availability. The new process suggests the biomass could yield 120 million gallons per year of gasoline, diesel, heating oil and kerosene mixtures while providing all the steam and power needs of the processing plants.
The whole of the U.S. transportation industry, which is dependent on hydrocarbon fuels because of their high energy density, could benefit from the revolutionary finding.
The new process was developed by M. Clayton Wheeler, a UMaine associate professor of chemical and biological engineering, and undergraduate students in his lab. Based on a mixed-carboxylate platform, the fuel has been determined to have a number of properties that make it better suited to serve as a drop-in fuel than many alternative fuels being widely researched and, bravely suggested, even those currently on the market.
In an early round of analysis, the UMaine oil product was found to have boiling points that encompass those of jet fuel, diesel, and gasoline. Further refinement to meet emissions standards would be needed in order to use the UMaine oil in vehicles that drive on public ways, but Wheeler believes the oil can be refined as simply as any other current oil at a standard refinery.
The process creating the oil is known as thermal deoxygenation (TDO) is relatively simple, Wheeler says, and will work on the cellulose found in wood or other substances that contain cellulose or carbohydrates and the process requires no catalysts or hydrogen, and is “a spin on chemistry used to make acetone back in the 1800s.”
Wheeler says, “The process is unique. No one else in the world is doing this.”
The TDO process starts with the conversion of cellulose to organic acids. The acids are combined with calcium hydroxide to form a calcium salt. That salt is heated to 450 degrees Celsius (900 degrees Fahrenheit) in a reactor, which constantly stirs the salt. This produces a reaction resulting in a dark amber-colored oil.
Here it gets very interesting -the reaction removes nearly all of the oxygen from the oil, which is a key step that distinguishes TDO from other biofuel processes. Oxygen is removed from as both carbon dioxide and water, and without the need for any outside source of hydrogen to remove the oxygen. Therefore, most of the energy in the original cellulose source is contained in the new oil.
The research paper, free with a registration, is titled “Energy Densification of Levulinic Acid by Thermal Deoxygenation,” at Green Chemistry.
Wheeler explains, “Biomass has a lot of oxygen in it. All of that oxygen is dead weight and doesn’t provide any energy when you go to use that as a fuel. If you’re going to make a hydrocarbon fuel, one of the things you have to do is remove oxygen from biomass. You can do it by using hydrogen, which is expensive and also decreases the energy efficiency of your process. So if there’s a way to remove the oxygen from the biomass chemically, then you’ve densified it significantly. Our oil has less than 1 percent oxygenates. No one else has done anything like this. ”
Wheeler’s lab team recently used unpurified, mixed carboxylates, which were produced from grocery store waste such as banana peels, cardboard boxes and shelving to successfully make a batch of the fuel. The use of municipal solid waste illustrates another important point about the potential of the UMaine fuel – it does not require an uncontaminated cellulose source, which makes the TDO process and resulting oil even more attractive. Many other pathways to hydrocarbons require purified feedstocks or intermediates, which adds more complexity and cost to their processes.
“You don’t need pure wood or pure cellulose,” says Wheeler. “Anytime you can use something without having to separate it, your costs go down.”
This was in the Waco Tribune Herald, Waco , TX > > > > Put me in charge . . . > > > > Put me in charge of food stamps. I'd get rid of Lone Star cards; no cash for > > Ding Dongs or Ho Ho's, just money for 50-pound bags of rice and beans, > > blocks of cheese and all the powdered milk you can haul away. If you want > > steak and frozen pizza, then get a job. > > > > Put me in charge of Medicaid. The first thing I'd do is to get women > > Norplant birth control implants or tubal ligations. Then, we'll test > > recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine and document all tattoos and > > piercings. If you want to reproduce or use drugs, alcohol, smoke or get > > tats and piercings, then get a job. > > > > Put me in charge of government housing. Ever live in a military barracks? > > You will maintain our property in a clean and good state of repair. Your > > "home" will be subject to inspections anytime and possessions will be > > inventoried. If you want a plasma TV or Xbox 360, then get a job and your > > own place. > > > > In addition, you will either present a check stub from a job each week or > > you will report to a "government" job. It may be cleaning the roadways of > > trash, painting and repairing public housing, whatever we find for you. We > > will sell your 22 inch rims and low profile tires and your blasting stereo > > and speakers and put that money toward the “common good.” > > > > Before you write that I've violated someone's rights, realize that all of > > the above is voluntary. If you want our money, accept our rules.. Before > > you say that this would be "demeaning" and ruin their "self esteem," > > consider that it wasn't that long ago that taking someone else's money for > > doing absolutely nothing was demeaning and lowered self esteem. > > > > If we are expected to pay for other people's mistakes we should at least > > attempt to make them learn from their bad choices. The current system > > rewards them for continuing to make bad choices. > > > > AND While you are on Gov’t subsistence, you no longer can VOTE! Yes that is > > correct. For you to vote would be a conflict of interest. You will > > voluntarily remove yourself from voting while you are receiving a Gov’t > > welfare check. If you want to vote, then get a job. > > Now, if you have the guts - PASS IT ON...
(V): Anyone that spends 1000 per year as Fluke said she does could only do that if they are having sex non stop. It's 4 bucks a month for the generic pills at the retail pharmacy and condoms are free via Planned Parenthood.
And an exceptional case isn't the standard we should hold up to raise everyone's insurance costs.
Fluke doesn't have to have sex. She wants to have it and wants others to pay for it. You need a basic economics less here Jules. If insurance companies are forced to offer the coverage she advocates, we will all pay higher premiums.
Jules, I looked in your previous posts and couldn't find where yo posted about Letterman when he called Palin a slut. Nor when an MSNBC host called Laura Ingraham a slut. And then Ann Colter, Michelle Malkin, and Michelle Bachman...all called foul names by those on the left. But like your missing posts on these incidents, there was no left wing outrage either.
BTW, I've never listened to Rush. Nice try but you missed the ball. And Rush will overcome this.
BTW, those "advertisers" that left Rush - interesting that they stayed with MSNBC even though it was on that network that Ingraham was called a slut.
And they say that the Left has no standards. Well, they in fact do have standards. -Double Standards-
Carbonite’s Bad Business Decision Rush Limbaugh called Sandra Fluke a “slut.” He later apologized sincerely.
Ed Schultz called Laura Ingraham a “slut.” He never apologized for that, sincerely or otherwise.
Carbonite has severed its advertising relationship with Rush. It continues advertising on Schultz’s show.
Rush Limbaugh audience: About 15 to 20 million, on hundreds of radio stations at all times of the day.
Ed Schultz audience: Nearly too tiny to measure, on one cable channel and a few dozen (maybe) radio stations.
On the basis of business alone, Carbonite has made a terrible decision. I know I’ll never use their product now, and the same is probably true for a large number of Rush’s audience once they hear of the Democrat-owned business’ double standard. If there’s a neutral or conservative-owned online computer backup provider out there, they’ll starting getting some new business that Carbonite is destined to lose.
AD's prediction: Rush will not be hurt by any of this. But the left will and those businesses that left Rush will feel it in their bottom line.
Watch and see. Unless, I guess, Carbonite suddenly picks up some new government contracts…
Temo: Re: It's 4 bucks a month for the generic pills at the retail pharmacy
Artful Dodger: ..... Is there a new pill that women only take once a month? Otherwise... it's 1everyday, or 21 days of the month (depending on the pill and woman)
Which (using the 21 day scenario) is 21 x 4 x 12 ie 1008
"You need a basic economics"
Looks like you need basic knowledge on how contraception is used!!
"when he called Palin a slut."
Maybe the word "slut" I don't find really that bad. It was the likes of this...
""If we are going to pay for your contraceptives, and thus pay for you to have sex, we want something for it. We want you post the videos online so we can all watch," he said on Thursday.""
....and his seemingly male need to call the woman a prostitute. Looks like he's threatened by the idea a woman can be in charge of her ability to have or not have children.
"BTW, I've never listened to Rush."
Never said you did.
"even though it was on that network that Ingraham was called a slut. "
Again, you seem to be concentrating on that word "slut".. as Jon said, that is pettyfogging.
Temo: Re: It's 4 bucks a month for the generic pills at the retail pharmacy
(V): ""If we are going to pay for your contraceptives, and thus pay for you to have sex, we want something for it. We want you post the videos online so we can all watch," he said on Thursday.""
Wow, he really said that? Unless he also says the same about a dude who got a vasectomy or uses Viagra paid for by insurance needing to post their videos as well, this is pure misogyny. The name calling by Ed Schultz and whoever else is also unacceptable, but what Limbaugh said is pure evil.
Temo: Re: It's 4 bucks a month for the generic pills at the retail pharmacy
lizrising: Not pure evil. What Hitler did to innocent people, cooking them in gas chambers, that's pure evil. What Rush said was just stupid. Comments like yours are why conservatives like myself don't take what you say seriously.
Now it seems the argument is that it's ok to call a woman a slut but not ok to ask for pictures.
It's simple Liz, it's all bad. You don't call a woman a bimbo or a slut or suggest she post videos. It's all bad. Letterman was wrong as was Ed as was Rush. Bill Mahr gets away with his foul name calling because as he said, he doesn't have sponsors. (his exact argument for why what he says is not wrong)
Slavery is pure evil. Molesting children is pure evil. Murder is pure evil. Raping is pure evil.
How you can seriously put Rush's comments in the same category is puzzling.
Temo: Re: It's 4 bucks a month for the generic pills at the retail pharmacy
Artful Dodger: By demanding videos he is insinuating that he owns Fluke's body because "he paid for" (he didn't actually) her birth control. Yes, that is evil and completely unacceptable.
"Now it seems the argument is that it's ok to call a woman a slut but not ok to ask for pictures."
Others may say that but not me. I think that is completely unacceptable as well and I don't support Ed Schultz or David Letterman or Bill Maher for name calling either.
No one said one pill a month. You made that up. That's because you like to to obfuscate a problem with extraneous information. Your MO. BTW, there are once a month birth controls out there. But that's not what's even being discussed. Clearly it was sarcasm. You'd have to be pretty sexually active to be spending $1000 per year.
Seems you are still unclear about basic economics and clearly you are unaware of the availability of once a month contraception.
"Maybe the word "slut" I don't find really that bad."
So you're ok with women being called sluts. Good to know.
Like so many liberal thinkers, that is hypocritical.
Temo: Re: It's 4 bucks a month for the generic pills at the retail pharmacy
lizrising: BTW, you inferred it. You are projecting that he implied what you are saying. And clearly Rush was being sarcastic and trying to be over the top. He certainly wasn't being serious.
Let’s see how they react when one of their own savages women in ways Limbaugh would never dream of doing.
Everyone remembers Ed Schultz calling Laura Ingraham a “slut” on his radio show. MSNBC suspended him for a week, but none of Schultz’s advertisers dropped his show under media pressure. There was no pressure. Some of the same sponsors now pulling out of Rush’s show still support Schultz.
What Schultz said is nothing compared to his colleagues.
Fellow talk show host Mike Malloy hoped Sarah Palin “drives herself into madness” and insisted Michele Bachmann is an “evil bitch from Hell” who would have gladly supervised the Holocaust.
Montel Williams rooted on Air America for Bachmann to slit her own wrist or throat.
Randi Rhodes insisted that teenage boys weren’t safe from Palin’s advances if they stayed over at her house. There’s no news coverage or “war on women” narrative when the mud-covered women are conservatives.
Then consider the case study of Bill Maher, who’s welcomed all over TV news shows. A year ago on his HBO show, he called Sarah Palin a “dumb twat.” He followed up days later in a Dallas stand-up routine by calling Palin the C-word. Last July on HBO, he said Palin was “a bully who sells patriotism like a pimp, and the leader of a strange family of inbred weirdos.” Last September on his show, Maher said Palin would have sex with Rick Perry if he was black.
Days after he called Palin the T-word, he appeared with then-CNN host Eliot Spitzer, where Spitzer concluded, “Your show is brilliant. I love watching it.”
On Sunday, Democratic Party chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz huffed on “Meet the Press” that "I don't know any woman in America that thinks that being called a slut is funny." But two months ago, she accepted an invitation to sit on the set with the man who called Palin a “c---.”
President Obama placed a tender phone call to Sandra Fluke Friday to express sympathy for Limbaugh’s harsh words. He never called Ingraham, or Palin. But his super PAC did cash that $1 million check from Maher.
Some outrage
A couple of years ago, “comedian” Louis CK “joked” on the Opie and Anthony radio show about Palin coming to the Republican convention “holding a baby that just came out of her f-ing, disgusting [C-word], her f-ing retard-making [C-word]. I hate her more than anybody,” he said. On Twitter, this “comedian” attacked Palin in 2011 as a “f—ing jackoff [C-word]-face jazzy wondergirl” who “has a family of Chinese poor people living in her [C-word] hole.” Guess which event this same fellow is headlining in June? -- The Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner. “We’re very excited about having Louis C.K. at the dinner,” said Jay McMichael of CNN, who chairs the Radio and Television Correspondents Associations’s executive committee. “This is an evening you’ll want to experience. We’re shaking things up, showcasing the unexpected, and delivering lots of laughs.”
What more do you liberals need to read to realize that it's the LEFT that is vile and filthy???
Rush is singled out because he's a conservative. What he said was wrong but all of you who are "offended" by his words have been totally silent about these other incidents. Why? Those women were conservatives.
Hypocritical!
It's ALL wrong! Just say it and stop making excuses. (pay attention Jules)
Temo: Re: It's 4 bucks a month for the generic pills at the retail pharmacy
lizrising: "The name calling by Ed Schultz and whoever else is also unacceptable, but what Limbaugh said is pure evil."
nonsense
I've already explained to you what real evil looks like. Don't cheapen it. And your statement above is clearly minimizing the name calling by Schultz. So it's not so bad, according to you, to call a woman a slut. Just inappropriate (like farting in public). Come on!
Temo: Re: It's 4 bucks a month for the generic pills at the retail pharmacy
Artful Dodger: I was referring to Rush asking to see sex tapes. Ed did not do that.
I am not the complete liberal apologist you think I am. I am critical of everyone in the media. Actually, sometimes I even agree with the things you post here.
Temo: Re: It's 4 bucks a month for the generic pills at the retail pharmacy
lizrising: So calling a woman a slut is just bad form but asking for sex tapes is pure evil? You can't be serious? That is a huge double standard! Both are equally wrong. Maybe it's just that Rush is a conservative and that's your biggest beef.
Temo: Re: It's 4 bucks a month for the generic pills at the retail pharmacy
Artful Dodger: Calling someone a name is not equal to demanding something of someone as though you own them. Somehow you turned "completely unacceptable" into "bad form." Stop turning my words around.
Rush's apology: "For over 20 years, I have illustrated the absurd with absurdity, three hours a day, five days a week. In this instance, I chose the wrong words in my analogy of the situation. I did not mean a personal attack on Ms. Fluke.
I think it is absolutely absurd that during these very serious political times, we are discussing personal sexual recreational activities before members of Congress. I personally do not agree that American citizens should pay for these social activities. What happened to personal responsibility and accountability? Where do we draw the line? If this is accepted as the norm, what will follow? Will we be debating if taxpayers should pay for new sneakers for all students that are interested in running to keep fit?In my monologue, I posited that it is not our business whatsoever to know what is going on in anyone's bedroom nor do I think it is a topic that should reach a Presidential level.
My choice of words was not the best, and in the attempt to be humorous, I created a national stir. I sincerely apologize to Ms. Fluke for the insulting word choices."
Ed's apology: "On my radio show yesterday, I used vile and inappropriate language when talking about talk show host Laura Ingraham. I am deeply sorry, and I apologize. It was wrong, uncalled for and I recognize the severity of what I said. I apologize to you, Laura and ask for your forgiveness. It doesn't matter what the circumstances were. It doesn't matter that it was on radio and I was ad libbing. none of that matters. none of that matters. What matters is what I said was terribly vile and not of the standards that I or any other person should adhere to. I want all of you to know tonight that I did call Laura Ingraham today and did not make contact with her and I will apologize to her as i did in the message that I left her today. I also met with management here at MSNBC, and understanding the severity of the situation and what I said on the radio and how it reflected terribly on this company, I have offered to take myself off the air for an indefinite period of time with no pay. I want to apologize to Laura Ingraham. I want to apologize to my family, my wife. I have embarrassed my family. I have embarrassed this company. And I have been in this business since 1978, and I have made a lot of mistakes. This is the lowest of low for me. I stand before you tonight in front of this camera in this studio in an environment that I absolutely love. I love working here. I love communicating with all of you on the radio and the communication that I have with you when I go out and do town hall meetings and meet the people that actually watch. I stand before you tonight to take full responsibility for what I said and how I said it, and I am deeply sorry,"
Carbonite stock approaches 52-week low since dropping sponsorship of Rush Limbaugh show While Carbonite decides to drop it’s sponsorship of the Rush Limbaugh show over their faux outrage over the whole Sandra Fluke situation, while continuing to sponsor misogynist Ed Schultz is dropping like a rock. As of the closing bell on Monday, March 5th, 2012, Carbonite’s stock dropped to $9.15 per share. They actually hit their 52 week (or one year) low during trading of $9.09 per share. Oh, and the 52 week high for Carbonite stock was $21.10. Seems like they have quite a business model running there huh?
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lizrising: It's your own personal interpretation that Rush suggested he "owned" Fluke. That is laughable. You're making this up as you go. The real standard of a liberal is the double standard.
And liz, you originally said unacceptable, NOT completely.
Something that is unacceptable can also be bad form. I have the better view: equally bad. Equally unacceptable. Equal! You're still making excuses.