On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Wesley McGee <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:21 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I never listen to Rush Limbaugh, and rarely pay much attention to the >> summaries of his radio show comments that appear in various media sources, >> as I assume he mostly says outrageous things just for the ink. But my email >> was blown up today with notes from various (admittedly liberal) sources >> about his recent remarks about Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown Law student who >> "testified" at the shadow hearing on President Obama's regulation that >> employers cover the cost of contraception (the amendment to overturn this >> was defeated in the Senate today). >> >> Apparently Limbaugh called Fluke a slut for (once run through his >> distorted, labyrinthine processor) that she wanted the US taxpayer to pay >> for her to have sex; then backed it up today by saying that if Fluke and >> her fellow Feminazis have their birth control paid for, they should be >> required to post videos of themselves having sex on the internet so "we" >> get our money's worth. (see: >> http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/01/10552338-limbaugh-contraception-advocate-should-post-online-sex-videos >> ). >> >> My question, for anyone here who monitors Limbaugh: Is this just more of >> his throwing out the red meat to get attention, or has Limbaugh just gone >> off the deep end? At a distance, these comments seem to suggest that >> Limbuagh is following Pat Buchanan into the land of those who have lost >> their bearings, and can no longer tell the difference between outrageous >> and abhorrent. >> > > > Though this is qualitatively worse than what he has said before, it's more > like he gradually drifted to that end of the dank pool, over the course of > years... what I'm saying is I was not surprised he would go to > "slut-shaming". And likely, if he didn't hit the big red button of "she's a > slut, so I wanna see her sex-tape", this would probably be simply part of > the package of every other conservative's rancorous remarks on > contraception. And honestly, he wasn't alone as he drifted there... This is > one of the things that Breitbart will endure as his legacy, as he helped > turn this culture war with Limbaugh and Beck and the others into something > as vicious and vindictive as it is now. > I was wondering if the reflects in part the effects of Breitbart (who for the most I successfully avoided being exposed to) in recent years; in order for Limbaugh to get the same shock-buzz, he has to be a lot more extreme now than he used to be. At a certain point, he just can't go any further. I have to think that a critical mass of the casual Limbaugh audience, who after all either are women, or have wives or daughters or mothers who are women, are going to be repulsed by an old man calling a young woman who is a law student a slut who should videotape herself having sex and post it online so he can get his money's worth. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
