Who Said It ..Romney or Burns

Limbaugh Lies and Offends EVERY Woman

Recently, Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) angrily walked out of a congressional hearing on the contraception coverage rule last month because the one female witness the Democrats brought,  was not allowed to speak because a republican deemed her  "unqualified" to contribute to the issue at hand.  She was to add the young woman's perspective, as a college student at Georgetown.   Basically, she could relate to a fellow student who lost an ovary because the birth control she needed for a medical condition was not affordable.  Sounds like many would say she DID have something to say. 

But Rush Limbaugh says she is a "slut" and a "prostitute."    Her name is Sandra Fluke.  She is a law student.  She is most certainly not a prostitute, and no woman deserves to be called the other name Limbaugh called her.  He also insulted young women by saying he would by aspirin for Georgetown girls to put between their legs. 

My problem is not a First Amendment problem...Mr. Limbaugh has the right to say whatever he feels and believes. But what this blog is becoming about, this discourse that it acceptable to some, is just poison. Because Limbaugh will certainly continue to be hated by his haters, but, a great many people will tune right in again to him, unoffended by this.  I think, personally, that broadcasters have been fired for less.  I'd like to see him pay with his job.  But, that won't happen, because he is basically self employed.  The only way to get rid of him is to complain to the station that broadcasts him and demand his removal ..but it will never happen.   What bothers me is that nobody walked out of the room Limbaugh was speaking to. 

Some of the poisonous diatribe in politics today is muddy half truths.  But, all too often, and dare I say all too often from the right, its just lies ..and in this case, a young and bright woman, a future lawyer, being the brunt of very hurtful lies, as Limbaugh said on his show about her,  "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."


Mr Limbaugh  ..and Mr Limbaugh's listeners and supporters, that is just undefendable BS.

As I always say on this blog ..go ahead and disagree and use whatever the facts are to back up your positions, and you probably can get accomplished whatever your agenda is.  But, folks, we with common sense, MUST begin to stand up against dialogue like this ....the half truths and the lies must exit from the conversation, or we are sunk as a society, because it makes the great idea of democracy, to ugly to stomach in it's current form.

Gas Prices Media Coverup ? Some say yes ..not me

I just checked my Facebook and a person whom I like very much says that he thinks the media are purposely not reporting gas prices going up. ..And that the reason for this blatant ignorance of the gas price rise story is that the media is hiding the rising gas prices to help Obama.  And he punctuates his belief that he hasn't heard anything by saying the media is just trying to blame George W.  Now here is the thing...as absolutely preposterous as I believe his Facebook status statement to be, and furthermore indicative of how furious so many Virginians and Americans are with the job the president has done (or not done), I am amazed that as of this moment 8 people "like" his statement.

So, I for one have heard LOTS of media coverage about the gas prices, and while the media didn't go out of their way to praise Obama when prices were 3.00, they also haven't ignored the story as the Facebook friend claims.  Nor did they laugh hysterically when a candidate claimed if he were elected gas would be 2.00 a gallon.  This is just another example of how civility has left the great pastime of political discussion and disagreement.  I am amazed at how the audacity of some to make unsubstantiated statements is unchecked by certain some of us who see things with a bit more intellect and with less haze. 

I watch NBC news as well as the local ABC affiliate and Washington DC stations, WUSA 9, NBC 4, plus web news from cnn.com. foxnews.com, the very liberal Huffington Post, Time Magazine online to name a few.  I feel the media is bombarding us with news on gas prices.  And having worked in media for awhile, I think these entities talk about gas prices so much because media endeavors to talk about what everyone is talking about ..and EVERYONE is talking about gas prices. 

Even Jeb Bush wants COMMON SENSE in politics

Jeb Bush as quoted on the Time Magazine web site.
Sounds like he could come write for this website if he wanted.
 

“I used to be a conservative, and I watch these debates and I’m
wondering, I don’t think I’ve changed, but it’s a little troubling
sometimes when people are appealing to people’s fears and emotion
rather than trying to get them to look over the horizon for a broader
perspective, and that’s kind of where we are.”

Jeb Bush

Gingrich and the History Lesson from Brokaw and NBC

Let us speak of Gingrich, of hypocrisy, of the unmitigated gall of a man who thinks he should be president after his marriages overlap while prosecuting Clinton for infidelity, and who proclaims his integrity in the hope that, as this Tom Brokaw NBC News History Lesson from the Mitt Romney Campaign proves, he has little or none. We may still not know who exactly is the right man to lead the country as much as we are SURE it is not Newt Gingrich after his ethical violations when he was Speaker of The House.