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It is absolutely nuts that

Aunt Sam — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:11:06 +0000

It is absolutely nuts that even the Dems aren't hanging Romney out with the Bain Capital major ownership in Clear Channel fact. Romney still receives huge revenue from Bain, which per reports and published contract terms, includes monies from Clear Channel (Rush's program revenue included).

The MSM isn't talking about this nor publishing except for the few smaller entities and now even the Dems are shying away (except in their fund raising e mails). WTH?

Axelrod is doing talking

artappraiser — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:02:49 +0000

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Axelrod is doing talking points to reporters using Limbaugh against Romney:

Obama political guru David Axelrod laid into Romney for his somewhat tepid response after Limbaugh said a Georgetown University student who wanted her college health plan to pay for birth control was a "slut" and a "prostitute."

"If you don't have the strength to stand up to the most strident voices in your party, how are you going to stand up to (president Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad?" Axelrod asked on a conference call with reporters.

from AFP, Obama camp mocks Romney over radio host, Iran, March 7.

Seema Mehta at the LATimes gives some of the other talking points from that conference call, like "He's continuing to grind out a kind of tactical victory in a … death march."

Let's be perfectly honest

tmccarthy0 — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 20:02:32 +0000

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Let's be perfectly honest here, those advertisers saw an opening to drop a guy who probably hasn't been bringing in the revenue he once did, and this last outburst simply gave them the excuse to exorcize their morality clauses to dump him.

Am I glad the biggest troll out there might suffer some financial consequences for his big fat offensive mouth? Oh yes, very much so. But let's not fool ourselves, if he still had the power that he once had, they would never have dropped him, no matter the outcry, because they didn't before, he has had 20+ years of attacking libruls, feminazi's, even children weren't off limits to him so it's hard to believe all of the sudden they care about what he says. No, they care about revenue/

/That is all

You are right. He has a one

trkingmomoe — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 08:19:54 +0000

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You are right. He has a one track mind and only changes the person he is slandering. What has changed is the public is no longer in the mood to put up with that kind of public discourse. They just happen to let his sponsors know that. The FCC should of pulled his card years ago for the slanderous statements he has said over public airwaves.

Just encountered this 'Do the

EmmaZahn — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 01:25:35 +0000

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Just encountered this 'Do the Limbaugh' episode of Hearts Afire from 1992-1993 on Hulu's front page. Yes, Limbaugh guest stars in a series produced by the Clinton's friend Linda Bloodworth-Thomason. I watched and was amazed how little dialog has changed in twenty years.

I disagree with the premise.

Aunt Sam — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 01:05:20 +0000

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I disagree with the premise. It's important to stand up and speak out over this type of vitriolic blather that Rush utilizes as well as all actions of this type.

This has hurt him, but more important it has empowered the consumer and all who have concerns that the voice of the people cannot be heard and acknowledged.

It is a good link! Shultz was

Richard Day — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 19:58:14 +0000

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It is a good link!

Shultz was on last night discussing his brush with destiny. It involved one sentence, took 6 seconds to say and he punished himself by going into hibernation for a week and losing his pay.

rusho went on for three days and his rants consisted more than two words for chrissakes.

My only point is that rusho was hurt by this. He lost prestige and I cannot believe he has not lost some moolah and rusho is in it for the moolah.

Great link. Best part: I

EmmaZahn — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 19:13:01 +0000

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Great link. Best part:

I am sick of recriminations and demands for retractions and counter-retractions and shocked outrage and line-drawing and line-crossing and apologies and non-apologies and boycotts and petitions. I am tired of watching every national debate inevitably pirouette out of the realm of morality, or merit, and into a rhetorical funhouse where insults bounce from mirror to distorted mirror. It's our dominant mode of political debate now: We don't evaluate arguments for their logic or elegance or force (or lack thereof), but for their appropriateness relative to metrics of racism, sexism, patriotism, religious bigotry etc.