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[MetalSlimeHunt]

As I understand it, Rush has been losing a lot of advertisers over this (he supposedly has started to have periods of dead air because of it), and now a bunch of artists are telling him not to use their music on his show anymore.

[Reelya]

His mistake was taking the blowtorch to someone who wasn't a professional politician, hence why all the conservatives are now trying to paint her as a professional agitator, or a deliberate democrat party plant. He should have stuck to sexist comments about Nancy Pelosi.

[Max White]

Wait, I don't get it. It is not ok to call a 23 year old woman a prostitute and a slut and what not, but it is totally ok if she is a 30 year old woman's right activist?

[Frumple]

It is not ok to call a 23 year old woman a prostitute and a slut and what not, but it is totally ok if she is a 30 year old woman's right activist/liberal media plant.

Welcome to American politics

Seriously though, almost makes you wonder if RL 'imself, or someone backing him, started up that line about the age. Or just the "conservative media," I guess.

Yellow journalism... innit that the name for it?

[Leafsnail]

Guys, I don't think you've realised.  Being 30 years old, a woman and a women's rights activist instantly destroys your credibility.  Especially if you don't repeatedly state that you aren't a coed, otherwise you're misleading Rush Limbaugh because he will assume you are.

[Max White]

Clearly... You would think that she would wear a collar around her neck with her name, age, and phone number to call in case she get's lost, being a woman's rights activist and all...

[Truean]

I know it's a cracked article, but its actually fairly well written about a topic we've been discussing for quite some time now.

http://www.cracked.com/blog/how-archies-gay-friend-proved-internet-can-do-good/

Cracked.com is rarely work safe.

[penguinofhonor]

This whole controversy keeps tempting me to read Archie.

[Reelya]

The same way Birdo make me more likely to check out Super Mario Bros

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birdo

Birdo's gender in the original manual for Super Mario Bros. 2 asserts that Birdo is a boy who believes that he is a girl, and would rather be referred to as "Birdetta".

Translation: "She appears to be Yoshi's girlfriend -- but is she really his boyfriend?!"

Other than these couple of references to Birdo's gender in the backstory, Yoshi and Birdo are treated the same as any other characters.

[ggamer]

Interesting trend i've noticed lately:

When moderate-liberal or liberals are arguing, they cite A.M. radio, RL, and various other conservative media outlets as being the devil.

When moderate-conservatives or conservatives are arguing, they cite Newspapers, Mass media, and various other liberal media outlets as being the devil.

Is anyone else catching this?

On topic, what was the 23/30 year old woman even doing that pissed RL off so much? If she was trying to investigate college abuse, or claiming to have been abused to slander a public official, I could understand.

[Realmfighter]

The chick that Rush called a whore? She was speaking in congress in support of requiring insurance providers to pay for contraception, which in Limbaugh's head meant that she could be only a prostitute.

[Reelya]

More to the point, Catholic colleges are withholding medicine which was already covered by insurance plans paid for by student's school fees, based on the college administrations ideology. And, then, those students turn to tax-payer funded free clinics for treatment because the college is withholding stuff.

[ggamer]

More to the point, Catholic colleges are withholding medicine which was already covered by insurance plans paid for by student's school fees, based on the college administrations ideology.

Love how you phrase that to make it seem like the catholic schools are with holding medicine from dying african children.

No, the reason is that, from what I have heard, the government has started forcing various catholic institutions to pay for various contraceptive medications, i.e. abortion and morning-after pills.

Of course, that sounds like bullshit. If there's anything that people are adamant about, it's respect for religious beliefs, if you're a believer, and containment of religious beliefs, if you aren't. Plus, I doubt you could slip a measure like that past a republican majority congress.

[Leafsnail]

Interesting trend i've noticed lately:

When moderate-liberal or liberals are arguing, they cite A.M. radio, RL, and various other conservative media outlets as being the devil.

When moderate-conservatives or conservatives are arguing, they cite Newspapers, Mass media, and various other liberal media outlets as being the devil.

...Huh?  No, I don't see what point you're making, other than listing a bunch of possible news sources (with the liberal ones being much more vague than the conservative ones).

Fox News (IE a mass media source) is the main conservative one anyway, which is undeniably atrocious.  As in, regardless of your politics, their complete lack of journalistic standards is unforgivable.

More to the point, Catholic colleges are withholding medicine which was already covered by insurance plans paid for by student's school fees, based on the college administrations ideology.

Love how you phrase that to make it seem like the catholic schools are with holding medicine from dying african children.

Uh... no?  He said what they're actually doing.

[Realmfighter]

No, the reason is that, from what I have heard, the government has started forcing various catholic institutions to pay for various contraceptive medications, i.e. abortion and morning-after pills.

Of course, that sounds like bullshit. If there's anything that people are adamant about, it's respect for religious beliefs, if you're a believer, and containment of religious beliefs, if you aren't. Plus, I doubt you could slip a measure like that past a republican majority congress.

If you're providing medical insurance you can't say I don't believe in this particular thing so I don't have to pay for it. If your boss didn't pay for your medicine even though you had insurance just because his religion disagrees with it I doubt you would be supporting him.