Rush Limbaugh Is Such A Royal Douchebag ... (Page 5)

Lucid_: I mean who really gives a shit about American Politics?...not me. We have our state elections on this weekend. I do not vote...even though I am breaking the law by doing so. I do not even give a toss about our elections...to me they are all lying bastards.
Why would the politicians in The United States of America be any different?

Give SITS full points though...I always learn something from one of his threads.

Yes SITS Rush is a gigantic woman hating douche.

Wild__: They are ALL a bunch of douchebags!!

Rush Limbaugh SUCKS! Take away his micropone and feed him some oxycotton. The world will be a better place.

Anne Coutler SUCKS! Quite well in fact, from what I hear. (I WISH I could speak from personal experience.)

Bill Maher SUCKS!

Jon Stewart SUCKS!

Comedians are given a greater leeway with regards to what they say, (legaly speaking) but the impetus of responsibility lies within them.

The above remarks regarding people who suck was inspired by none other than SITS

StuckInTheSixties:

Yes, david. Fluke became a celebrity ... as I said, a "miniscule celebrity."

Since you think they're comparable as celebrities, let's go ahead and make the comparison:

A Brief Overview of the Celebrity of Briston Palin

Career

Teen pregnancy prevention spokesperson

In May 2009, at age 18, Palin started working with the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy to inform young people about the negative consequences of teenage pregnancy. The campaign's spokesman, said that working with Palin made sense, because "she's had the highest-profile teen pregnancy of the year." Several interviews and pictorials for similar organizations followed. Also in May 2009 Palin was named a Teen Pregnancy Prevention Ambassador for the Candie’s Foundation, a teen pregnancy prevention organization that is a division of the Candie's clothing brand. In April 2011 it was reported that Palin was paid more than $262,000 by the foundation for her work in 2009. This level of compensation, which constituted 12 percent of the Candie's Foundation operating budget, was criticized by some commentators as excessive. Her duties as a paid spokeswoman involved attending town hall meetings, public service announcements, and giving interviews on morning talk shows.

On Good Morning America, she stated, "Regardless of what I did personally, abstinence is the only 100% foolproof way you can prevent pregnancy." In another interview on Good Morning America with Robin Roberts she stated that 'Pause Before You Play hits a wider range of message, it can mean pause and go get a condom, it can be pause and think about your life, or it could be pause and wait until marriage.' Before Palin became a spokeswoman, she told Fox News that abstinence is "not realistic at all", but that she would like it to become more accepted among people her age. Several weeks later, she stated that that quote had been "taken out of context." However, in a July 2011 interview with Drew Pinsky, she said she doesn’t want to "be named as an abstinence preacher…. I’m not out there saying don’t have sex. I hate that kind of stuff. Birth control needs to be used effectively each and every single time if you’re gonna be having sex.... I’m not advocating [abstinence] for everyone else."

Her role as a spokesperson has been controversial. Bonnie Fuller, former editor-in-chief of YM, has questioned whether the net effect of Palin's presentations has glamorized rather than discouraged teen pregnancy, noting that the "picture perfect" imagery of a People magazine spread seemed to make her "the poster girl for teen momhood." Meghan McCain stated her support for sex education and criticized Palin's sexual abstinence campaign, saying it was "not realistic for this generation." Former MSNBC commentator Keith Olbermann declared Palin his "Worst Person in the World" for her advocacy, to which Palin replied "Accusing me of hypocrisy is by now, an old canard... Parents warn their children about the mistakes they made so they are not repeated. Former gang members travel to schools to educate teenagers about the risks of gang life. Recovered addicts lecture to others about the risks of alcohol and drug abuse. And yes, a teen mother talks about the benefits of preventing teen pregnancy."

Palin works on the speakers' circuit asking between $15,000 and $30,000 for each appearance. She has signed with Single Source Speakers and is listed on their website as available for conferences, fundraisers, special events and holidays, as well as women's, youth, abstinence and pro-life programs.

In January 2011 she was invited to speak at Sexual Responsibility Week at Washington University in St. Louis, but students protested the high fee she was to be paid out of student-generated funds and her appearance was cancelled.

Business venture

In September 2009, Palin formed BSMP, a lobbying, public relations and political consulting services firm. While the initial focus will be working with Candie's Foundation, BSMP plans to work with additional clients.

Television

The Secret Life of the American Teenager

Palin appeared in an episode of the ABC Family network series, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, playing a friend of the fictional character Amy, a 15 year old who is dealing with an unexpected pregnancy. She filmed the scenes in Los Angeles in March 2010; the episode aired on July 5, 2010. "I like doing speaking engagements and stuff like that," she told E!. "I don't think I'll be doing any more acting in the future."

Dancing with the Stars

Palin joined the Fall 2010 season of Dancing with the Stars (DWTS), partnered with professional Mark Ballas, who is a two time champion on the show, having won with Olympic figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi in season 6, and with Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson in season 8.

Her long run on the show despite her frequently lower scores from the judges, attracted media attention and speculation. Questions were raised about the integrity of the public voting process including allegations of fraudulent online voting using multiple e-mail addresses. Executives at ABC and the show's executive producer, Conrad Green, stated that "checks and balances" in the system, including IP address verification, prevent such voting practices, and that "[t]here's nothing in the voting that looks dissimilar to previous seasons." Nonetheless, Green speculated that Palin may have received votes for political reasons by backers of her mother in the Tea Party movement, and support from older viewers who had maternal feelings toward her due to her youth and lack of prior experience. Palin herself credited her success to the support of her fans who were tuning in each week to see her improvement.

Palin's success on the show attracted other negative attention, including death threats against her. In one instance, suspicious white powder was received by the show. The powder turned out to be harmless, but as a result, security on the show was tightened.

Palin and her partner finished in third place. Prior to the final show, Palin stated that winning "would be like a big middle finger out there to all the people out there who hate my mom and hate me." Following the competition, she remarked that she was happy with her third place finish, that prayer and faith had helped her, and that she had grown as a person.

Due to her dancing rehearsal schedule, she said she forgot to mail in her absentee ballot for the November 2010 general election.

Sarah Palin's Alaska

Bristol made an appearance on the TLC travelogue/documentary Sarah Palin's Alaska, helping on a commercial halibut fishing boat. During the airing of the first episode, Bristol posted defensive comments on Facebook against posters who criticized the Palin family. Some of Bristol's comments included profanity, for which she later issued an apology.

Bristol Palin: Life's a Tripp

Bristol Palin's docu-series "Life's A Tripp" will be premiering later this year on Lifetime in the US. Lifetime has ordered 10 episodes for original broadcast, which will follow Palin as she adjusts back to normal routine in Alaska.

Music video

While still competing on DWTS, Palin appeared in a music video for an Alaskan symphony rock band, Static Cycle. The video was shot at the Ice Museum in Chena Hot Springs, Alaska, with Palin dressed in a fur hat and coat and played a mother-nature-type role of melting the ice.

Memoir

In June 2011, Palin released a memoir, co-written with Nancy French, entitled Not Afraid of Life: My Journey So Far, in which she candidly discusses aspects of her personal life, including tensions with the McCain family and losing her virginity. The book has received mixed reviews from critics and readers alike, many of them criticizing her for releasing a memoir at only 20 years old. The book appeared briefly on the New York Times bestseller lists in July 2011.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Palin



A Brief Overview of the Celebrity of Sandra Fluke

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StuckInTheSixties:

Of note:

Republican Response

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has said he disagrees with the language used without distancing himself from the position itself, while fellow Republican primary candidate Rick Santorum dismissed the comments stating that "an entertainer can be absurd." U.S. Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas), running for the party's presidential nomination, said that Limbaugh's comments were "over the top" and that his apology was not sincere, while disagreeing with Fluke on the insurance mandate.

Senator John McCain (R-Arizona), the party's 2008 candidate for president, said Limbaugh's statements were unacceptable "in every way" and "should be condemned" by people across the political spectrum.

House Speaker John Boehner criticized Limbaugh's choice of words while repeating his own opposition to government funding for contraception. Boehner's spokesman issued a statement: "The speaker obviously believes the use of those words was inappropriate, as is trying to raise money off the situation".

Conservative commentator George Will condemned Republicans and suggested other Republicans were scared of Limbaugh.

David Frum, former special assistant to President George W. Bush: "Limbaugh's verbal abuse of Sandra Fluke set a new kind of low. I can't recall anything as brutal, ugly and deliberate ever being said by such a prominent person and so emphatically repeated. This was not a case of a bad "word choice". It was a brutally sexualized accusation, against a specific person, prolonged over three days."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh_–_Sandra_Fluke_controversy

Wild__: Its odd how people that are opposed to abortion are also opposed to contraceptives.

StuckInTheSixties:

wildman69er says:
"Attacking families of polical figures is wrong!"

True. It shouldn't be done.

A good example of this was when, in late 1992, just after Bill Clinton won the election but before taking office, on his television show, Rush Limbaugh "accidentally" (tongue-in-cheek) mixed up a picture of the "White House Kid" and the "White House Dog." It was a not-too-subtle slight at Chelsea, who was, at the time, not the most attractive of 12 year old girls. (She blossomed into a very attractive young adult woman, though, didn't she?)

That didn't cause nearly the shit-storm that the "slut/prostitute" controversy did, but many people didn't take too kindly to that joke.

But Bristol Palin is not an innocent 12 year old Chelsea Clinton. She's parlayed her celebrity into one of those "Why is this person famous?" kind of "reality-show" kind of "has no talents whatsoever but is somehow famous" kinds of celebrity, sort of in the Paris Hilton mold (albeit, without the sex tape).

Whether we, or the celebrities like it, part of the price of celebrity is that people will inevitably make fun of you, sometimes harshly so. Chelsea Clinton now working as a correspondent on NBC's "Rock Center With Brian Williams." As such, it's now open season on her. She is a celebrity.

If Sandra Fluke parlays this controversy into some kind of celebrity as well, she'll also fall within the social guidelines of the world we live in that allows for celebrities to be targets.

Wild__: Sad but true. Entering public domain opens one up to vicious attacks from both sides of the spectrum. If I ran for office, of any kind, the whole world would find out how I earned the name "wildman."

Attacking someones family is pretty low, but I guess humanity itself has gotten pretty low as well.

StuckInTheSixties:

One would think Bristol Palin would understand that she would be liable for such treatment, as she's got publicity agents and other "handlers."

I suspect that Sandra Fluke also knew she would be targeted for the content of her testimony, but I doubt she, or anyone else, had any idea that Rush would bludgeon her with "slut" and "prostitute" to his millions of devotees for three days straight.

He talks to his dittoheads on the phone all throughout his program. Didn't any of them think it might be a good idea to call up and suggest he tone it down a little bit?

~LoisLane~: Paris Hilton

P.S She (paris) has been working since she was a child...

StuckInTheSixties:

That was hyperbolic on my part. Paris is a pretty skanky ho of an example. But the point is that Bristol is trying for one of those celebrity careers for those without any basis for one. You have to ask: "Why is she famous?"

Karma: I'm frankly amazed that David is so admittedly un-American in his beliefs.
Freedom of expression is a cornerstone, and yet he seems cavalier in wanting the restriction of it.

Wild__: I'd rather poke the pointed ends of pencils in my ears, rendering myself permanently deaf, than listen to two minutes of Rush Limbaugh!

Again, both sides of the political spectrum are equally wrong in attacking family memebers of an adversary.

Whether its Chelsea Clinton or Bristol Palin! Its just plain wrong.

And, Sandra Fluke SHOULD have the right to speak her mind without being called names.

Jetters: Who the hell calls their kid Bristol. Thats a brand of paint here haha

Jetters: Wild, YOU are a slut

davidk14: .

Karma,

You obviously don't have a clue about my beliefs.

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davidk14: .

Sandra Fluke was not just some girl going to school who was called to Capitol Hill to give testimony about her “need” for free birth control. She is an advocate for free birth control.

Sandra Fluke graduated from Cornell University in 2003 and spent five years working for Sanctuary for Families. a New York-based nonprofit aiding victims of domestic violence, where she launched the agency's pilot Program Evaluation Initiative. She co-founded the New York Statewide Coalition for Fair Access to Family Court, which successfully advocated for legislation granting access to civil orders of protection for unmarried victims of domestic violence, including LGBTQ victims and teens. Fluke was also a member of the Manhattan Borough President's Taskforce on Domestic Violence and numerous other New York City and New York State coalitions that successfully advocated for policy improvements impacting victims of domestic violence. Sandra Fluke is currently a Public Interest Law Scholar at Georgetown Law, due to graduate in 2012. At Georgetown University Law Center, she authored a paper in The Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law titled "Employment Discrimination Against LGBTQ Persons", she argues that free gender reassignment is a universal human right. She is development editor of that Journal for 2011–2012. Fluke was also active in campus protests at Georgetown University advocating the University do away with its objection to contraception coverage.

Fluke wrote a column for the Georgetown student newspaper that she was subsequently asked to present as a speech at a February 9 media event organized by Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, one week before the February 16 congressional hearing.


She said that over the three years as a law student, birth control could cost $3,000 or more.

She also stated the 40% of Georgetown Law School's female population suffered financial hardship as a result of the fact that birth control was not covered by the student health insurance plan, and that Federal free contraceptive programs such as Title X could not meet this need.

She continued that the lack of free contraception coverage in the university insurance plans would induce many low income students to go without contraceptives.

She then discussed the consequence of such policies, anecdotally citing a friend with polycystic ovary syndrome who needed contraceptive hormones for non-contraceptive purposes to treat this disease and whose out-of-pocket cost was over $100 per month.

While the condition was "covered by Georgetown insurance", the insurance company repeatedly denied coverage of her prescription based on the idea that the true purpose of the medication was contraception, despite the doctor's verification of her condition. She also added that this is not a rare event for women with these medical conditions under insurance plans that did not cover contraception. She then stated that she wanted equal treatment for women's health issues and did not see the issue as being against the Catholic Church.

Fluke came to Georgetown University interested in contraceptive coverage: She researched the Jesuit college’s health plans for students before enrolling, and found that birth control was not included.

“I decided I was absolutely not willing to compromise the quality of my education in exchange for my health care,” says Fluke, who has spent the past three years lobbying the administration to change its policy on the issue. She’s a former president of the university’s chapter of Law Students for Reproductive Justice, and is an organizer with Catholic Students for Women’s Health, a coalition of students from Catholic colleges and universities.

Speaking to a meeting of Democratic members of the House of Representatives, organized as the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee in an event that was recorded but not televised.

Fluke argued in favor of requiring religious institutions, including those with moral objections to some or all contraception, to provide free contraception in their health insurance.

She’s not just some student.

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lavendar_star: Your right David she isnt just a student she sounds like an excellent young women advocating for the rights of women but to compare her to Sarah Palin is just silly. lol Lois I'm British so that was the English spelling of douchbag I should stick with English words like Rush is a wanker instead.

Wildman69 you made an excellent point that how can one be against abortion also against birth control, it nice to have enlighten men in a discussion when it comes to issues affecting women.

slasian: Mr David, you are not an entertainer and your comments are so lame, I think you also have to apologies to the women here, and to the men also we both need contraceptives. I think you should better follow the footsteps of your hero and say sorry. You are older than a seven year eh, how can you argue with the "well they are doing it too logic"

slasian: And who is this guy Mr David, one of your friends perhaps?

Karma: David,
All I know about your beliefs is what I can infer from your posts.

StuckInTheSixties:

david, the first half of your "comparison" describes the activities of a diligent, conscientious law student that could be at any law school in the country ... well ... except for one of those wacky fundamentalist Christian universities or something.

The second half is essentially a synopsis of her ten minute testimony.

This does not make a celebrity. A better measure would be something like how many pages of coverage a person gets in People Magazine, Us Weekly, or the like, or how many minutes they get on Entertainment Tonight.

Let's try People Magazine, which touts itself as the "#1 celebrity site ..."

Search: Bristol Palin - 262 results
Search: Sandra Fluke - 0 results other than a link to "Instacheckmate.com, a site for making record checks, and another for something called "Fluke products"

Okay, how about Us Weekly:

Search: Bristol Palin - 538 results
Search: Sandra Fluke - 2 results (both about actress Patricia Heaton apologizing for her Twitter Tweets about Fluke)

Entertainment Tonight

Search Bristol Palin - 197 results
Search Sandra Fluke - 0 results other than the same "Instacheckmate.com" link

Other than from the notoriety of being trashed by Rush Limbaugh, Sandra Fluke is not a celebrity in any reasonable interpretation of that word. It's silly to insist that.

natowar: Karma and Stuck..Karma and Stuck. Bubbly bubbly bubbly all stuffed with fluff..

StuckInTheSixties:

Nato.

No FZ quotes? You're slippin' dude!

davidk14: .


And the time line is how many years has Palin been in the cross hairs? 4 years compared to a month? Palin's children weren't running for office, she was yet her children, a teenager and a mentally challenged infant were dragged through the mud. Then you say that anyone with Plukes reputation and then out of 310,000,000 million Americans to be called to testify in front of congress? Come on now. Your're painting yourself into a corner.

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StuckInTheSixties:

"Then you say that anyone with Plukes reputation and then out of 310,000,000 million Americans to be called to testify in front of congress?"

Your syntax is suffering as badly in this thread as your spelling.

And you're displaying this idiosyncrasy of taking the names of people you don't like - "Pluke," "John Daily" "Bill Mayer" - and modifying them as means of signifying your displeasure."

That idiosyncrasy is often displayed here in Wireclub by a certain kind of user. It's sort of a hallmark of a certain kind of behavior, along with making irrelevant references to someone's age, appearance, etc.