Republican Elephant Political Cartoons News March 22, 2012 Republican Elephant Political Cartoons News: More Hypocrisy and Nonsense from the Right-Wing Campaign Project X : 3 Republican candidates make a vanity run for president. As the primary season progresses, things spiral … Continue reading
republican-elephant.com
Rush picks the direction for the Republican Party and the whole GOP follows his direction. There are no republicans with the strength or dignity to stand against or correct Rush Limbaugh.
No matter what he says, even if he calls your daughter or wife or grand daughter or any woman a slut or a prostitute republicans zip their lip and say nothing. What cowards you are!
The Bigger The Cigar The Better
Rush can slap your grandmother back into yesterday and you republican cowards stand silent. Now you want to run the country, God Help Us.
Rush Limbaugh called the woman who was denied the right to speak at a controversial contraception hearing a “slut” on Wednesday.
Sandra Fluke, a student at Georgetown Law School, was supposed to be the Democratic witness at a Congressional hearing about the Obama administration’s contraception policy. However, Darrell Issa, the committee chair at the hearing, prevented her from speaking, while only allowing a series of men to testify about the policy. Fluke eventually spoke to a Democratic hearing, and talked about the need for birth control for both reproductive and broader medical reasons. She mentioned in particular a friend of hers who needed contraception to prevent the growth of cysts.
To Limbaugh, though, Fluke was just promoting casual sex.
“Can you imagine if you were her parents how proud…you would be?” he said. “Your daughter … testifies she’s having so much sex she can’t afford her own birth control pills and she wants President Obama to provide them, or the Pope.”
“What does it say about the college co-ed Susan Fluke who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex — what does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She’s having so much sex she can’t afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex.”
Limbaugh then said, “ok, so she’s not a slut. She’s round-heeled.” “Round-heeled” is an old-fashioned term for promiscuity.
A Face Made for Radio
Limbaugh’s comments came on the same day that Fluke was mentioned during a debate in the Senate about the so-called “Blunt Amendment,” which would override Obama’s contraception rule. Sen. Barbara Boxer brought up Fluke’s testimony, recounting what she would have said at the Congressional panel if she had been given the opportunity.
First he called her a “slut” and a “prostitute.” Then added, “So Miss Fluke, and the rest of you Feminazis, here’s the deal. If we are going to pay for your contraceptives … We want something for it. We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch.”
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh drew sharp criticism from Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and others on Wednesday when he called Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown University law student, a “slut” and a “prostitute” for publicly advocating that employers cover contraception in their health plans. But instead of apologizing for his offensive comments on his show Thursday, he geared up for round two.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which has raised a significant amount of money and gained support in the wake of the recent battles over birth control, circulated a petition on Thursday to ask Republican leaders to denounce Limbaugh’s tirade.
“Rush Limbaugh has come to Republicans’ defense in their war on women,” said Jesse Ferguson, a spokesperson for the DCCC, “but now the real question is whether Republicans are willing to stand up to him and his repulsive attacks on women.”
UPDATE:. — More than 75 Democratic lawmakers signed a letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Thursday expressing outrage over Limbaugh’s comments.
“On his February 29, 2012 show, Mr. Limbaugh repeatedly used sexually charged, patently offensive, and obscene language to malign the character of this courageous young woman who has chosen to be the voice for many of her peers,” the letter says. “This kind of direct attack on a private citizen is unacceptable. Mr. Limbaugh is as free as any American to speak his mind about the political and social issues of our time, but using his radio show as a means for blatantly insulting a hard-working American with obscene and indecent language because he disagrees with her personal choices is an abuse of the public airwaves.”
UPDATE: 4:15 p.m. — Sandra Fluke responded to Limbaugh’s comments in a statement on Thursday.
“I thank the thousands of women and men, including members of Congress, Georgetown University students and faculty, and total strangers of all political stripes across the country who have offered kind words and support following recent egregious personal attacks,” she said. “We are fortunate to live in a democracy where everyone is entitled to their own opinions regarding legitimate policy differences. Unfortunately, numerous commentators have gone far beyond the acceptable bounds of civil discourse. No woman deserves to be disrespected in this manner. This language is an attack on all women, and has been used throughout history to silence our voices. The millions of American women who have and will continue to speak out in support of women’s health care and access to contraception prove that we will not be silenced.”
Advertisers Drop Rush Limbaugh After He Calls Woman “Slut” On Air
Several advertisers have pulled ads from Rush Limbaugh’s radio show after he called a woman a “slut” and “prostitute” on air Wednesday and suggested that she film her sex acts and put them online. Activists Twitter-bombed Rush’s advertisers, threatening a boycott, and so far two sponsors — mattress stores Sleep Train and Sleep Number — have responded, promising they will cut off the dough.
Rush’s vile comments were directed at Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown Univeristy law student who was refused an opportunity to speak as a witness on the all-male sausagefest to the House Oversight Committee about birth control in health care reform.
Fluke was later given an opportunity to speak at a separate, unofficial hearing organized by Democrats. She explained how Georgetown is a Catholic university and its health insurance plan does not cover contraception, so students pay up to ,000 annually out-of-pocket for their birth control. Fluke’s testimony was meant to underscore how the religiously-affiliated employers who balk at the new rules regarding preventative health care coverage under Obama’s health care reform will actually affect people. (Some background reading for those of who who haven’t been following this: religious employers are not required to cover birth control; the insurers used by religiously-affiliated employers must pick up the cost if the employers refuse. )
Rush jumped on the anti-birth control bandwagon which says mandating insurance coverage of birth control as preventative health care is paying for other people to have sex. He said:
“Can you imagine if you were her parents how proud … you would be? Your daughter … testifies she’s having so much sex she can’t afford her own birth control pills and she wants President Obama to provide them, or the Pope. … What does it say about the college co-ed Susan Fluke [sic] who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex — what does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She’s having so much sex she can’t afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex.” … 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.”
Yeah. Wow.
Several other advertisers that were tweet-bombed indicated Rush Limbaugh’s show might be losing their ad dollars, too.
Advertiser ProFlowers tweeted today, “Rest assured, your feedback is heard. We heard about the comments and we will reevaluate our marketing plan.” Another tweet read, “We would like to assure you that we do not endorse the views expressed by Russ Limbaugh. We understand your concerns and value your feedback.”
The dating site eHarmony also tweeted today, but did not know they had ads airing during Rush’s show: “We’ve never paid for ads on Limbaugh. We’re looking into the matter of “network buys” and will let you know what we discover.”
Georgetown Law School, the president of Georgetown and the actual president have come to Sandra Fluke’s defense. The law school’s statement read:
“Ms. Fluke has had the courage to publicly defend and advocate for her beliefs about an important issue of widespread concern. She has done so with passion and intelligence. And she has been rewarded with the basest sort of name-calling and vilification, words that aim only to belittle and intimidate.”
Georgetown’s President John DeGioia sent a campus-wide email this morning calling Limbaugh’s “behavior that can only be described as misogynistic, vitriolic, and a misrepresentation of the position of our student.” Also today, President Obama called Sandra Fluke, thanks her for speaking out, and said “to tell my parents that they should be proud.” And Fluke herself is remarkably poised during all this, telling MSNBC’s Ed Schultz she was “stunned” but realizes “this is, historically, the kind of language that is used to silence women.” Which is so true.
As for Rush Limbaugh himself? He’s still on his show, yapping away about feminism. He has not apologized
WORLD NEWS
WORLD NEWS
USA NEWS
POLITICAL
SMALL BUSINESS
ENTERTAINMENT
SPORTS NEWS
WEIGHT LOSS NEWS
HEALTH NEWS
EDUCATION
PERSONAL FINANCE
Bye-Bye Advertising Dollars
Whenever any media personality makes an offensive or controversial comment — as radio host Rush Limbaugh did when he referred to Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke as a “slut” and a “prostitute” for her testimony about women’s access to birth control — the question that soon arises is whether it’ll come back to hit him where it hurts most: the wallet.
As Business Insider reports today, some advertisers for Limbaugh’s widely syndicated radio program are either pulling their funding or reevaluating where their ad dollars are being spent.
RELATED: Georgetown Student Sandra Fluke Responds To Being Called ‘Slut,’ ‘Prostitute’ By Limbaugh
Sleep Train Mattress (“the largest mattress retailer on the West Coast”), for one, has announced via Twitter that it is pulling its ads from the show:
ProFlowers, meanwhile, is now rethinking its marketing plan in the wake of Limbaugh’s remarks. The company has been responding to concerns on Twitter, telling concerned commenters that “Your concerns affect how we manage dealing with our advertising partners,” “We understand your concerns and I will ensure that your feedback is communicated to the producers of that show,” and “We would like to assure you that we do not endorse the views expressed by Rush Limbaugh and we appreciate your feedback.”
And other advertisers have been bombarded with feedback from concerned and enraged commenters — despite not advertising on Limbaugh’s show.
Here is a partial list of Rush Limbaugh’s sponsors. Please call them and tell them what you think about Rush calling women who use contraceptives, ‘sluts’ and ‘prostitutes’. It is time to get hate speech like this off of the public airwaves, off of OUR, as in the taxpayer’s, airwaves.
At the end of the advertisers is how to get in touch with the FCC to lodge a complaint.
I believe in free speech. I also believe there needs to be some boundaries; especially since Rush serves at the public’s pleasure since we own his airwaves and he is getting them for FREE. Our government is sponsoring his hate speech and it needs to stop.
All of Rush’s wives, according to his own words, are sluts since he has no spawn.
9 Major Nationwide Clients Have Dropped Limbaugh
Quicken Loans – confirmed sponsor (update: they have pulled their advertising) 1050 Woodward Avenue
Detroit, MI 48226
Client Relations – (800) 863-4332
and: (800) 251-9080
also: you can chat online
Century 21 Real Estate LLC – (no longer advertise with Rush)
International Headquarters
1 Campus Drive
Parsippany, NJ 07054
Web contact form
973-647-9042 (This is the phone number for Mr. Gentile, media contact for Century 21). I was told this is a better way to get in touch with these people.
ProFlowers (Have Dropped Limbaugh)
Web contact form
Sales or Service: 1-800-580-2913
Phone: 800.580.2913
eharmony (Update: eharmony no longer advertise with Rush)
300 N. Lake Ave., Suite 1111
Pasadena, CA 91101
media@eharmony.com
Web contact form
626.795.4814
FAX 626.585.4040
CARBONITE, Inc. (Have Dropped Limbaugh)
617-587-1100
177 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
carbonite@mailnj.custhelp.com
Direct Dial Office: 617-587-1100 EXT:1115
Sleep Number Bed (update. They have pulled their advertising)
Select Comfort Corporation – confirmed and long-time advertiser
6105 Trenton Lane N
Minneapolis, MN 55442
Phone: 763-551-7000
Fax: 763-551-7826
800-438-2233
investorrelations@selectcomfort.com
Oreck Upright Vacuum Cleaners (update: No longer advertise on Rush) Oreck Corporation
100 Plantation Road
New Orleans, Louisiana 70123
Online contact form
800-289-5888
Mid-West Life Insurance Company of Tennessee
9151 Grapevine Hwy.
North Richland Hills, TX 76180
Phone (800) 733-1110
(web banner ads on rushlimbaugh.com)
AutoZone Inc. (Update: they have dropped Rush)
901-495-7185; Fax: 901-495-8374
P.O. Box 2198, Memphis, TN 38101
investor.relations@autozone.com
LegalZoom.com – confirmed and long-time advertiser
800-773-0888; Fax: 323-962-8300
(Have Dropped Limbaugh)
Site has a Web Form
Citrix Online (GoToMyPC)
6500 Hollister Avenue, Goleta, CA 93117
Phone: 805-690-6400; Fax: 805-690-6471
info@citrixonline.com
American Forces Network (update: have dropped Rush)
Contact Us: @MyAFN.net
Mission Pharmacal Company
10999 IH-10 West Suite 1000
P.O. Box 786099
San Antonio, TX 78278-6099
Telephone: (800) 531-3333
Bennett Kennedy – Citracal Product Manager
Life Quotes, Inc.
32045 Castle Court
Evergreen, CO 80439
1-800-670-5433
info@lifequotes.com.au
Contact information for Clear Channel Communications: This is the company that carries the Rush show on their radio network. (They encourage Rush to be a crude and rude as possible and Have Taken No Action against Limbaugh.)
Address:
•200 East Basse Road
San Antonio, TX 78209
Communications / Media Relations:
•Public Relations
(210) 822-2828
publicrelations@clearchannel.com
60′s Rocker and Druggie Endorses Mitt
Musician Ted Nugent has endorsed Mitt Romney, according to a tweet from him Friday. Nugent claimed that he spoke with the former Massachusetts governor on the phone.
“[A]fter a long heart&soul conversation with Mitt Romney today I concluded this goodman will properly represent we the people & I endorsed him,” reads the tweet.
The rocker has a history of making incendiary remarks toward Democratic politicians and vocally supporting Republican ones. Nugent once threatened the lives of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in a rant on stage. He also lavished praise on Sarah Palin in a Time magazine piece.
If you don’t know or remember Nugent don’t feel bad, only regular viewers of Fox Noise have seen him this century.
AMHERST COUNTY VIRGINIA DEMOCRATIC NEWS
Alaska - Open Primary: Parties select who may vote in their primaries. To vote in the GOPprimary, a voter must be registered as a Republican 30 days beforeElection Day.
Georgia - Open: No party affiliation required at registration. However, on ElectionDay, voters must declare an oath of intent to affiliate with theparticular party for whom they are voting on Election Day.
Idaho - Closed: Until 2011, all Idaho primaries were open. Independents intervened in a lawsuit brought by a faction of the Republican Party seeking to close their primaries. However, the GOP obtained adeclaratory judgment that mandating open primaries violated freedom ofassociation and was thus unconstitutional in Idaho Republican Party v. Ysura. Subsequently, the legislature passed a bill allowing parties to choose which type ofprimary they use. Democrats have chosen a semi-closed primary;unaffiliated voters may register a party at the polls on election day,but they are bound to that party affiliation at the next election.
Massachusetts - Semi-Closed: Affiliated voters must vote in the primary of their party; however, unaffiliated voters may vote in either primary.
North Dakota – Closed: The only state without voter registration. To vote in the Republicancaucus you must have affiliated with the Republican Party in the lastgeneral election or intend to do so in the next election.
Ohio - Closed: Voters’ right to vote in the primary may be challenged on the basisthat they are not affiliated with the party for whom they are voting inthe primary.
Oklahoma - Closed: Only voters affiliated with a particular party may vote in its primary.
Tennessee - Open: No party affiliation required at registration.
Vermont - Open: No registration by party. For presidential primary, voters must declare which ballots they want.
Virginia - Open: No party affiliation required at registration.
source: FairVote
Republican Elephant Political Cartoons News March 8, 2012 Republican Elephant Political Cartoons News: More Hypocrisy and Nonsense from the Right-Wing THE REPUBLICAN HUNGER GAMES: In the ruins of Primary season, the GOP makes remaining candidates compete in twisted right-wing pandering … Continue reading
republican-elephant.com
Republican Elephant Political Cartoons News February 2, 2012 Republican Elephant Political Cartoons News: More Hypocrisy and Nonsense from the Right-Wing This Means War: GOP Wall Street Elites and Social Neanderthals fight one another over a primary, using dirty tricks, negative … Continue reading
republican-elephant.com
House Democratic Caucus Chairman Mike Turner stood up for Tennessee veterans and their families Tuesday defending the state’s “veterans’ preference” hiring policy.
Governor Bill Haslam and Republicans are proposing to eliminate preference given to military veterans and spouses of deceased and disabled veterans with a change to state personnel rules.
Haslam’s “TEAM Act,” sponsored [...]
TNDP News
Republican Elephant Political Cartoons News February 2, 2012 Republican Elephant Political Cartoons News: More Hypocrisy and Nonsense from the Right-Wing GOP Wars: Episode I – The Gingrich Menace. Newt Gingrich, strong with the Dark Side of the Force, is still … Continue reading
republican-elephant.com
Republican Elephant Political Cartoons News January 26, 2012 Republican Elephant Political Cartoons News: More Hypocrisy and Nonsense from the Right-Wing Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shelters. Solving the mystery of Mitt Romney’s Swiss and Cayman bank accounts.Mitt conveniently moves his … Continue reading
republican-elephant.com
So, who won tonight’s set-to in South Carolina? And, more deliciously, who lost? The 16th debate has narrowed the choices down to 5.
WINNERS
Newt Gingrich: This was the former House Speaker’s best debate of the entire race. With not all that much to lose, Gingrich let ‘er rip tonight and had the exuberant crowd — more on that below — eating out of his hand.
Gingrich’s characterization of President Obama as the “food stamp president” won him applause but it was nothing as compared to the standing ovation he received when challenged about that statement later by debate panelist Juan Williams.
So in Newt’s corner was the audience that even his far less sensical lines — “Only the elites despise earning money,” he said at one point — earned him applause.
Gingrich proved again tonight that when he is on — and he isn’t always on — he is the best debater in the field. His performance almost certainly solidified his place as the strongest alternative to former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney in the field. But will it do any thing more than that?
Rick Perry: The Texas governor didn’t talk all that much but when he did he was very effective. His line about the South Carolina being “at war” with the federal government drew raucous applause.
His ability to step back from a fight between Romney and former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum and label them both “insiders” showed how much he has progressed as a debater.
Perry’s performance left us wondering where this guy had been in the previous 14 debates. Unfortunately for Perry, his poor performances in the past virtually ensure that his strong showing tonight won’t make much difference.
He’s really just playing for his own legacy in the race at this point. Tonight, he did himself a solid.
The BIG WINNER
Barack Obama: If you assume — and we do — that Romney is the all-but-certain Republican nominee (whether that happens sooner or later remains anybody’s guess) then the Obama campaign got some good material to use against him tonight.
Romney committed — kind of, sort of — to (maybe) releasing his taxes in April, a pledge the Obama team will hold him to. He also stuck to his decidedly conservative line on immigration, which will make it more difficult for him to court Hispanics once the general election begins.
On a far more minor — but not entirely unimportant — note: You can bet the Democratic National Committee will have fun with Romney’s incredibly awkward answer on hunting. And we quote: “I am not the great hunter.”
* Super PACs/Stephen Colbert: The amount of time spent discussing super PACs was astounding. And, the more super PACs get talked about in such a high-profile setting, the more the people running them can make a convincing case to the people donating to them that they are having an impact. (Welcome to the political law of unintended consequences!)
Looming over the whole super PAC conversation — at least for us — was the image of a smiling Stephen Colbert and his “Making a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow/The Definitely Not Coordinated With Stephen Colbert Super PAC”. Nothing but comic fodder in all of that back and forth for Colbert.
LOSERS
Ron Paul: Ugh. We don’t often feel bad for politicians — after all, they are putting themselves out there and inviting public scrutiny — but we felt some pangs for the Texas Republican Congressman tonight.
His answers on foreign policy were repeatedly booed and Perry even suggested that a gong should have been used to cut Paul off. While Paul-ites undoubtedly cheered their hero’s willingness to stand up for what he believes in when it comes to U.S. involvement in foreign countries, it’s just not a majority position — or anywhere
close to it — in the Republican electorate of South Carolina.
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: If Paul would deflect all foreign policy questions and turn every answer into something about his economic views, he could be a real contender for the nomination. He won’t do that, so he isn’t.
* Audience: The Fix is pro-audience involvement — to a point. Tonight’s debate went beyond that point. Not only were moderators booed for asking questions — just doing their jobs, folks — but it became clear after about 15 minutes that Gingrich, Perry and, to a lesser extent, Santorum were all vamping for crowd reaction in each of their answers.
The result? Lots of conservative red meat thrown on the debate stage but not a lot of serious and detailed discussion that went beyond the candidates’ talking points.
(Sidebar: The level of audience involvement hurt Romney. Unlike his rivals who have nothing to lose by throwing out every rhetorical excess known to man, he has to be far more measured — knowing the Obama opposition research team is always watching.)
* Pop culture references: With former Utah governor Jon Huntsman out of the race, the level of pop culture knowledge on stage took a mighty hit. Romney referenced Bigfoot for pete’s sake!
NEWS
USA NEWS
WORLD NEWS
POLITICAL
SMALL BUSINESS
PERSONAL FINANCE
EDUCATION
Amherst County Virginia Democratic News
Republican Elephant Political Cartoons News January 12, 2012 Republican Elephant Political Cartoons News: More Hypocrisy and Nonsense from the Right-Wing Underworld Atakening: Romney makes millions with Vampire Capitalism, taking over American companies to suck dry Make It Rain, Man: Newt … Continue reading
republican-elephant.com
