{"id":7292,"date":"2012-03-03T00:02:09","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T08:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7292"},"modified":"2012-03-03T00:02:09","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T08:02:09","slug":"responding-to-rush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/03\/responding-to-rush\/","title":{"rendered":"Responding to Rush"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m sure I don\u2019t have to tell you that the de facto head of the Republican Party,Rush Limbaugh, has gone off the deep end in his vile attacks against Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown Law student, whom Republicans prevented from testifying to a hearing on birth control.  Democrats have responded appropriately, condemning his remarks.  Some Republicans have criticized him in the vaguest possible terms, but none have actually condemned his remarks.  In my opinion, there is only one viable alternative for responding to Rush.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"3.limbaughfluke\"…Democrats saw opportunity even as they expressed outrage. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi called on House Republicans to disavow the statements and  referenced the \u201cvicious and inappropriate attacks\u201d in an email soliciting signatures for a petition against \u201cthe Republican war on women.\u201d Other groups launched fundraisers, asserting that Limbaugh\u2019s opinion only emphasized the importance of recruiting and supporting Democratic women to run for Congress.<\/p>\n

House Speaker John A. Boehner<\/a> (R-Ohio) kept quiet on the matter<\/strong>, but his spokesman said Boehner \u201cobviously believes the use of those words was inappropriate, as is trying to raise money off the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Santorum said Friday that Limbaugh was being \u201cabsurd,\u201d but dismissed him as an entertainer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, at least two of Limbaugh\u2019s sponsors, Sleep Train and Sleep Number, announced on Twitter that they had pulled their ads from his show<\/strong>. Sleep Train, a Sacramento-area mattress company, had advertised<\/a> on the show for more than 25 years.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Sleep Number said on Twitter that the company had decided to immediately pull its advertisements because Limbaugh\u2019s statements \u201cdo not align with our values.\u201d<\/p>\n

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said the president called Fluke \u201cto express his disappointment that she has been the subject of inappropriate personal attacks, and thank her for exercising her rights as a citizen to speak out on an issue of public policy.\u201d<\/strong>… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Perhaps the best coverage on this issue I have seen came from <\/font>Ed Schultz, who covered this story in four segments. Here are two of them. In the first Ed discusses the incidents and Rush’s lost advertisers, and he interviews Al Sharpton.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

Note how Limbarf kept Arguing that Fluke was \u201chaving so much sex that she couldn\u2019t afford her birth control.  How absurd!  First, Fluke\u2019s testimony concerned a friend who lost an ovary, because she could not afford the medication, as a treatment that had nothing to do with birth control.  Second, only someone stupid enough to be a Dittohead<\/em> (Limbarf acolyte) woulk fail to realize that the cost of taking one pill per day is the same, whether one has sex once a year of fifty times a day.  \u201cSo much sex\u201d has nothing to do with it, and Limbaugh presented it in that way solely to defame her character.<\/font><\/p>\n

In the second segment, Ed talks about boycotting Limbarf with Krystal Ball and Karen Finney.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

Limbarf claims that we on the left are trying to silence him, but Republicans play the victim, whenever called to account for their actions.  One might as well try to silence a bull moose in heat.<\/font><\/p>\n

The one viable way to respond to Rush is to take away his microphone by refusing to patronize any business that supports his hate speech with their advertising dollars.<\/font><\/p>\n

There are several things to do here.  One is to complain to Clear Channel at <\/font>(210) 822-2828.  Another is to find out who his local advertisers are in your town and contact them.  A third is to sign a petition at BoycottRush.org<\/a>.  They are also keeping an updated list of his national advertisers.  This rabid Republican needs to be muzzled.  Putting it another way, flush Rush.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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