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Rush Limbaugh Isnât the Only Media Misogynist by Kirsten Powers Mar 4, 2012 10:00 AM EST
Rush Limbaugh apologized on Saturday for calling a Georgetown Law student a slut for testifying about contraception and starting a firestorm of outrage. Kirsten Powers says the liberals who led the charge need to start holding their own side accountable.
Did you know there is a war on women?
Yes, itâs true. Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Bill Maher, Matt Taibbi, and Ed Schultz have been waging it for years with their misogynist outbursts. There have been boycotts by people on the left who are outraged that these guys still have jobs. Oh, wait. Sorry, that never happened.
Boycotts are reserved for people on the right like Rush Limbaugh, who finally apologized Saturday for calling a 30-year-old Georgetown Law student, Sandra Fluke, a âslutâ after she testified before congress about contraception. Limbaughâs apology was likely extracted to stop the departure of any more advertisers, who were rightly under pressure from liberal groups outraged by the comments.
Let it be shouted from the rooftops that Rush Limbaugh should not have called Ms. Fluke a slut or, as he added later, a âprostituteâ who should post her sex tapes. Itâs unlikely that his apology will assuage the people on a warpath for his scalp, and after all, why should it? He spent days attacking a woman as a slut and prostitute and refused to relent. Now because he doesnât want to lose advertisers, he apologizes. Whatâs in order is something more like grovelingâand of course a phone call to Ms. Flukeâif you ask me.
But if Limbaughâs actions demand a boycottâand they doâthen what about the army of swine on the left?
During the 2008 election Ed Schultz said on his radio show that Sarah Palin set off a âbimbo alert.â He called Laura Ingraham a âright-wing slut.â (He later apologized.) He once even took to his blog to call yours truly a âbimboâ for the offense of quoting him accurately in a New York Post column.
Keith Olbermann has said that conservative commentator S.E. Cupp should have been aborted by her parents, apparently because he finds her having opinions offensive. He called Michelle Malkin a âmashed-up bag of meat with lipstick.â He found it newsworthy to discuss Carrie Prejeanâs breasts on his MSNBC show. His solution for dealing with Hillary Clinton, who he thought should drop out of the presidential race, was to find âsomebody who can take her into a room and only he comes out.â Olbermann now works for über-leftist and former Democratic vice president Al Gore at Current TV.
Left-wing darling Matt Taibbi wrote on his blog in 2009, âWhen I read [Malkinâs] stuff, I imagine her narrating her text, book-on-tape style, with a big, hairy set of balls in her mouth.â In a Rolling Stone article about Secretary of State Clinton, he referred to her âflabby arms.â When feminist writer Erica Jong criticized him for it, he responded by referring to Jong as an â800-year old sex novelist.â (Jong is almost 70, which apparently makes her an irrelevant human being.) In Taibbiâs profile of Congresswoman and presidential candidate Michele Bachmann he labeled her âbatshit crazy.â (Oh, those âcrazyâ women with their hormones and all.)
Chris Matthewsâs sickening misogyny was made famous in 2008, when he obsessively tore down Hillary Clinton for standing between Barack Obama and the presidency, something that Matthews could not abide. Over the years he has referred to the former first lady, senator and presidential candidate and current secretary of state as a âshe-devil,â âNurse Ratched,â and âMadame Defarge.â Matthews has also called Clinton âwitchy,â âanti-male,â and âuppityâ and once claimed she won her Senate seat only because her âhusband messed around.â He asked a guest if âbeing surrounded by womenâ makes âa case for commander in chiefâor does it make a case against it?â At some point Matthews was shamed into sort of half apologizing to Clinton, but then just picked up again with his sexist ramblings.
Matthews has wondered aloud whether Sarah Palin is even âcapable of thinkingâ and has called Bachmann a âballoon headâ and said she was âlucky we still donât have literacy tests out there.â Democratic strategist Jehmu Greene, who is the former president of the Womenâs Media Center, told Fox Newsâ Megyn Kelly in 2011 that Matthews
âis a bully, and his favorite target is women.â So why does he still have a show? What if his favorite target was Jews? Or African-Americans?
But the grand pooh-bah of media misogyny is without a doubt Bill Maherâwho also happens to be a favorite of liberalsâwho has given $1 million to President Obamaâs super PAC. Maher has called Palin a âdumb twatâ and dropped the C-word in describing the former Alaska governor. He called Palin and Congresswoman Bachmann âboobsâ and âtwo bimbos.â He said of the former vice-presidential candidate, âShe is not a mean girl. She is a crazy girl with mean ideas.â He recently made a joke about Rick Santorumâs wife using a vibrator. Imagine now the same joke during the 2008 primary with Michelle Obamaâs name in it, and tell me that he would still have a job. Maher said of a woman who was harassed while breast-feeding at an Applebeeâs, âDon't show me your tits!â as though a woman feeding her child is trying to flash Maher. (Hereâs a way to solve his problem: donât stare at a strangersâ breasts). Then, his coup de grâce: âAnd by the way, there is a place where breasts and food do go together. Itâs called Hooters!â
Liberalsâyou know, the people who say they âfight for womenââcomprise Maherâs audience, and a parade of high-profile liberals make up his guest list. Yet have any of them confronted him? Nope. That was left to Ann Coulter, who actually called Maher a misogynist to his face, an opportunity that feminist icon Gloria Steinem failed to take when she appeared on his show in 2011.
This is not to suggest that liberalsâor feministsânever complain about misogyny. Many feminist blogs now document attacks on women on the left and the right, including Jezebel, Shakesville, and the Womenâs Media Center (which was cofounded by Steinem). But when it comes to high-profile campaigns to hold these men accountableâsuch as that waged against Limbaughâthe real fury seems reserved only for conservatives, while the men on the left get a wink and a nod as long as they are carrying water for the liberal cause.
After all, if Limbaughâs outburst is part of the âwar on women,â then what is the routine misogyny of liberal media men?
Itâs time for some equal-opportunity accountability. Without it, the fight against media misogyny will continue to be perceived as a proxy war for the Democratic Party, not a fight for fair treatment of women in the public square.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...-apology-liberal-men-need-to-follow-suit.html
Rush Limbaugh apologized on Saturday for calling a Georgetown Law student a slut for testifying about contraception and starting a firestorm of outrage. Kirsten Powers says the liberals who led the charge need to start holding their own side accountable.
Did you know there is a war on women?
Yes, itâs true. Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Bill Maher, Matt Taibbi, and Ed Schultz have been waging it for years with their misogynist outbursts. There have been boycotts by people on the left who are outraged that these guys still have jobs. Oh, wait. Sorry, that never happened.
Boycotts are reserved for people on the right like Rush Limbaugh, who finally apologized Saturday for calling a 30-year-old Georgetown Law student, Sandra Fluke, a âslutâ after she testified before congress about contraception. Limbaughâs apology was likely extracted to stop the departure of any more advertisers, who were rightly under pressure from liberal groups outraged by the comments.
Let it be shouted from the rooftops that Rush Limbaugh should not have called Ms. Fluke a slut or, as he added later, a âprostituteâ who should post her sex tapes. Itâs unlikely that his apology will assuage the people on a warpath for his scalp, and after all, why should it? He spent days attacking a woman as a slut and prostitute and refused to relent. Now because he doesnât want to lose advertisers, he apologizes. Whatâs in order is something more like grovelingâand of course a phone call to Ms. Flukeâif you ask me.
But if Limbaughâs actions demand a boycottâand they doâthen what about the army of swine on the left?
During the 2008 election Ed Schultz said on his radio show that Sarah Palin set off a âbimbo alert.â He called Laura Ingraham a âright-wing slut.â (He later apologized.) He once even took to his blog to call yours truly a âbimboâ for the offense of quoting him accurately in a New York Post column.
Keith Olbermann has said that conservative commentator S.E. Cupp should have been aborted by her parents, apparently because he finds her having opinions offensive. He called Michelle Malkin a âmashed-up bag of meat with lipstick.â He found it newsworthy to discuss Carrie Prejeanâs breasts on his MSNBC show. His solution for dealing with Hillary Clinton, who he thought should drop out of the presidential race, was to find âsomebody who can take her into a room and only he comes out.â Olbermann now works for über-leftist and former Democratic vice president Al Gore at Current TV.
Left-wing darling Matt Taibbi wrote on his blog in 2009, âWhen I read [Malkinâs] stuff, I imagine her narrating her text, book-on-tape style, with a big, hairy set of balls in her mouth.â In a Rolling Stone article about Secretary of State Clinton, he referred to her âflabby arms.â When feminist writer Erica Jong criticized him for it, he responded by referring to Jong as an â800-year old sex novelist.â (Jong is almost 70, which apparently makes her an irrelevant human being.) In Taibbiâs profile of Congresswoman and presidential candidate Michele Bachmann he labeled her âbatshit crazy.â (Oh, those âcrazyâ women with their hormones and all.)
Chris Matthewsâs sickening misogyny was made famous in 2008, when he obsessively tore down Hillary Clinton for standing between Barack Obama and the presidency, something that Matthews could not abide. Over the years he has referred to the former first lady, senator and presidential candidate and current secretary of state as a âshe-devil,â âNurse Ratched,â and âMadame Defarge.â Matthews has also called Clinton âwitchy,â âanti-male,â and âuppityâ and once claimed she won her Senate seat only because her âhusband messed around.â He asked a guest if âbeing surrounded by womenâ makes âa case for commander in chiefâor does it make a case against it?â At some point Matthews was shamed into sort of half apologizing to Clinton, but then just picked up again with his sexist ramblings.
Matthews has wondered aloud whether Sarah Palin is even âcapable of thinkingâ and has called Bachmann a âballoon headâ and said she was âlucky we still donât have literacy tests out there.â Democratic strategist Jehmu Greene, who is the former president of the Womenâs Media Center, told Fox Newsâ Megyn Kelly in 2011 that Matthews
âis a bully, and his favorite target is women.â So why does he still have a show? What if his favorite target was Jews? Or African-Americans?
But the grand pooh-bah of media misogyny is without a doubt Bill Maherâwho also happens to be a favorite of liberalsâwho has given $1 million to President Obamaâs super PAC. Maher has called Palin a âdumb twatâ and dropped the C-word in describing the former Alaska governor. He called Palin and Congresswoman Bachmann âboobsâ and âtwo bimbos.â He said of the former vice-presidential candidate, âShe is not a mean girl. She is a crazy girl with mean ideas.â He recently made a joke about Rick Santorumâs wife using a vibrator. Imagine now the same joke during the 2008 primary with Michelle Obamaâs name in it, and tell me that he would still have a job. Maher said of a woman who was harassed while breast-feeding at an Applebeeâs, âDon't show me your tits!â as though a woman feeding her child is trying to flash Maher. (Hereâs a way to solve his problem: donât stare at a strangersâ breasts). Then, his coup de grâce: âAnd by the way, there is a place where breasts and food do go together. Itâs called Hooters!â
Liberalsâyou know, the people who say they âfight for womenââcomprise Maherâs audience, and a parade of high-profile liberals make up his guest list. Yet have any of them confronted him? Nope. That was left to Ann Coulter, who actually called Maher a misogynist to his face, an opportunity that feminist icon Gloria Steinem failed to take when she appeared on his show in 2011.
This is not to suggest that liberalsâor feministsânever complain about misogyny. Many feminist blogs now document attacks on women on the left and the right, including Jezebel, Shakesville, and the Womenâs Media Center (which was cofounded by Steinem). But when it comes to high-profile campaigns to hold these men accountableâsuch as that waged against Limbaughâthe real fury seems reserved only for conservatives, while the men on the left get a wink and a nod as long as they are carrying water for the liberal cause.
After all, if Limbaughâs outburst is part of the âwar on women,â then what is the routine misogyny of liberal media men?
Itâs time for some equal-opportunity accountability. Without it, the fight against media misogyny will continue to be perceived as a proxy war for the Democratic Party, not a fight for fair treatment of women in the public square.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...-apology-liberal-men-need-to-follow-suit.html
Really? So you're dropping advertisers that don't want to be associated with a thug hiding behind a microphone who calls innocent women sluts and whores?Quote from 377OHMS:
LOL
We're giving CITRIX the boot at the end of the month. Purely technical reasons of course.
Stamps.com is more difficult to drop. Gonna do a little research to see what we can do about them.
Will take a look at Endica.
Classy.
ADVERTISER CRAWLS BACK TO LIMBAUGH, IS REJECTED
Via The Right Scoop, an advertiser with Rush Limbaugh's show that had suspended live endorsements in the wake of the slutroversy came crawling back only to be rejected by the radio giant.
Limbaugh apparently received the requests from Sleep Train personally, and his camp responded to Sleep Train's request to come back thusly:
âUnfortunately, your public comments were not well received by our audience, and did not accurately portray either Rush Limbaughâs character or the intent of his remarks. Thus, we regret to inform you that Rush will be unable to endorse Sleep Train in the future.
Sleep Train can't have it both ways. They can't bash Limbaugh and simultaneously expect him to endorse their product on air.
Schadenfreude. Well played.
Via The Right Scoop, an advertiser with Rush Limbaugh's show that had suspended live endorsements in the wake of the slutroversy came crawling back only to be rejected by the radio giant.
Limbaugh apparently received the requests from Sleep Train personally, and his camp responded to Sleep Train's request to come back thusly:
âUnfortunately, your public comments were not well received by our audience, and did not accurately portray either Rush Limbaughâs character or the intent of his remarks. Thus, we regret to inform you that Rush will be unable to endorse Sleep Train in the future.
Sleep Train can't have it both ways. They can't bash Limbaugh and simultaneously expect him to endorse their product on air.
Schadenfreude. Well played.
Birds of a feather, Brass, birds of a feather. Further, he goes on to say that CITRIX is for technical reasons. They know that right wing crap will not play in public.
Really? This behavior is almost always considered in poor taste. Of course, one must actually have taste to realize that.
A New York Times article in 2002 cited a number of scientific studies of schadenfreude, which it defined as "delighting in others' misfortune." Many such studies are based on social comparison theory, the idea that when people around us have bad luck, we look better to ourselves. Other researchers have found that people with low self-esteem are more likely to feel schadenfreude than are people who have high self-esteem.
Sweet.
I've never listened to his show but I occasionally view his website.
My guess is that his audience will increase. I've got to laugh at those calling for him to be fired. Guess liberals don't understand that a syndicated show is a business and that Rush is the boss. Hilarious.
Also funny is the 23 year old "law student" being outed as a 30 year old hardcore leftist. Her 3000.00 expense turned out to be bogus as well.
The bogusity meter is pegged!
I'd still so like to get a response from Max the Ignorant (has me on ignore) to my assessment of his "pithy" analysis of Carbonite.
It was nice of RCG to quote my earlier post, and I had hoped that Max might see it and respond. But maybe he's smarter than I thought and is understandably embarrassed by the nonsense that he wrote.