BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott

Subject: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 12:09 PM

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002369972

Rush Limbaugh's latest hypocrisy crosses the line. Here is a list of his sponsors. I will cease using Citrical to start. Burn your Sleep Number Bed.
cancel your insurance - whatever it takes to shut this drug deluded asshole once and for all.

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: Mrrzy
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 12:13 PM

yeah, i heard about this.

I think there should be more slut walks.

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: Becca72
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 12:18 PM

Checked the list - I don't use any of these anyway.
I hope she sues and I hope she wins.
Not every woman on the pill uses it for birth control, dickweed. That said, my personal feeling on the matter is, if you don't have a uterus you don't get to tell me what to do with mine!

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 12:18 PM

Where are these events happenin'?

- Chongo

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: Penny S.
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 12:24 PM

The only thing I can boycott is Oreck, which I was easing towards buying at some time.

And I am spared the language of the guy, being in the UK. Is there perhaps a suitable word of the same intensity as slut for a man who prostitutes his talents in such a way?

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 12:25 PM

One of his sponsors (Sleep Train) has already pulled out, and others are considering it -- so let them know what you think (which is the key part of a boycott nowadays, anyway).

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 12:43 PM

Perhaps he is not aware of the condition polycystic ovarian syndrome which causes women over produce androgens and reduces fertility. It is treated with oral contraceptive to counteract the symptoms.

Between 1 in 10 and 1 in 20 women of childbearing age has PCOS. As many as 5 million women in the United States may be affected. It can occur in girls as young as 11 years old. Perhaps it isn't really about controlling women's reproductive system. Maybe it is about the cost to companies to treat conditions like PCOS.

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 01:03 PM

Rush is paid to be as controversial as possible. He "steps over the line" about every 3rd program... this just hit closer to home for a certain majority of the population. ☺

He needs to be censored, censured... and put out to pasture! I suspect that he survives because he has damning information on many Republicans...who are afraid to speak out against him.

Even removing sponsors would only drive him to other venues on the WWW... but there he 'can' be ignored.

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: Amos
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 01:26 PM

Hell, totally aside from medical situations, what the hell business is it of his if a healthy woman wants to have sex without the risk of conception? He is quibbling, for the sake of noise, over a fraction of a percent of the health-care budget, if that.

Consider the cost of one unwanted pregnancy saved by comparison and he should be happy to shell out for contraception for women out of his own pocket. Consider, further, the costs in long-term societal burden, of a child born unwanted to a mother who did not want a long-term connection to its father. It can get pretty gruesome. The cost of contraception is a miniscule cost in comparison even without health factors being added into the calculus.

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: saulgoldie
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 01:31 PM

Yup. Voting does not only take place in the voting booth. We vote every time we spend or deposit a dollar.

Saul

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: gnu
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 02:00 PM

He is not an asshole but, as said above, a money maker. Now, as for his listeners, I believe there are two main groups. First, those that listen to him because they think he is an idiot and find that somehow amusing. The second group, which I contend is the vast majority, are... any guesses?

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 04:55 PM

3 sponsors have bailed on him - Sleep Number is one. Jacqui can keep her bed. Pro Flowers appears to be another. And Sleep Train.

Boycott letters and emails can come from anyone. "I will never use your product as long as you enable Rush Limbaugh" will work for any of his sponsors.

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: Wesley S
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 05:17 PM

"He needs to be censored, censured... and put out to pasture!"

No - never censored - he needs to be ignored. He'll be dumped as soon as his ratings go down.

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: Bobert
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 05:27 PM

Here's an admitted felon who was given a slap on the wrist for things that people are doing hard time for and he has audacity to stand in the pulpit and make these kinds of judgments on innocent people???

Excuse me but this guy needs a serious ass whup... Maybe a couple of them...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: jacqui.c
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 05:32 PM

Just got the following from Carbonite.

Hello,

Over the past two days we have received a tremendous amount of feedback on Rush Limbaugh's recent comments. I too am offended and very concerned about his comments. Limbaugh's remarks have us rethinking our future use of talk radio.

We use more than 40 talk show hosts to help get the Carbonite message out to the public. The nature of talk radio is that from time to time listeners are offended by a host and ask that we pull our advertising. This goes for conservatives like Limbaugh and progressives like Stephanie Miller and Ed Shultz. We even get customers who demand that we pull the plug on NPR. As an advertiser, we do not have control over a show's editorial content or what they say on air. Carbonite does not endorse the opinions of the shows or their hosts.

However, the outcry over Limbaugh is the worst we've ever seen. I have scheduled a face-to-face meeting next week with Limbaugh during which I will impress upon him that his comments were offensive to many of our customers and employees alike.

Please know your voice has been heard and that we are taking this matter very seriously.

Regards,
Dave

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: Wolfhound person
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 06:17 PM

Its even reached the news over here (UK).
I'm surprised no-one has physically attacked him yet (or worse). I hope the girl sues for libel or whatever you have over there and I hope she wins big-time.

Prat.

Paws

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: GUEST,999
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 06:29 PM

"That said, my personal feeling on the matter is, if you don't have a uterus you don't get to tell me what to do with mine!"

So, Sarah Palin could?

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: GUEST,999
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 06:32 PM

"Is there perhaps a suitable word of the same intensity as slut for a man who prostitutes his talents in such a way?"

Yes. Slut! It works for both sexes.

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: kendall
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 07:16 PM

I'm not a violent man, but I would deck that prick in a heart beat.

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: Don Firth
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 07:21 PM

Rush Limbaugh is an egregious waste of lard.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 07:29 PM

Cleveland Cavaliers has suspended advertising on the show.

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Ignore Rush
From: Genie
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 07:57 PM

I can't/won't "boycott" all of Rush's sponsors because some of the ones I do patronize also sponsor shows like Thom Hartmann's, Ed Schultz's, and other progressive talk shows.

Nor would I call for him to be suspended or censured - except to the extent that other radio personalities such as Don Imus and Ed Schultz were. Imus was fired for calling the Rutgers women's basketball team "nappy-headed ho's" and Ed got a temporary suspension (followed by a sincere apology) for calling Laura Ingrahm (sp?) a "slut" (meaning she was prostituting herself politically, much the way Mike Papantonio calls corporate-paid scientists "biostitutes").

Thing is, Rush's outrageous tirade against Susan Fluke does not in any way represent either his personal views nor his knowledge (or ignorance) of the facts of the matter.   
He's a shock jock who fancies himself a humorist and justifies spewing the most ignorant, inflammatory bile, for media attention, on those grounds.

There is no way that he does not know that
a) Susan Fluke did not testify to ask for birth control for herself, nor did she even mention her own sex life or lack thereof

b) The amount of oral contraceptive you need does not depend on how often you have sex,

c) Having sex often & using birth control does not imply more than one partner or not being married,

d) Oral contraceptives are prescribed for many health issues not connected to having sex, and

e) The woman Fluke testified about who lost an ovary because her employer's health insurance would not cover the oral contraceptive prescribed for ovarian cysts is a lesbian, so she would not have been using the hormonal meds to prevent pregnancy

f) Health insurance companies paying for medicines is not "welfare" or "at taxpayers' expense."


Rush knows all that. Plus, given that he's been married several times and recently flew to the Caribbean with a lot of Viagra in his luggage and has no children (that he acknowledges anyway), it's a safe bet that he's either shooting blanks (vasectomy?) or makes use of some form of contraception rather often.


No, for him it's all about being outrageous for the ratings.   I'd just like for him to be held to the same standard that other shock jocks and talking head are.

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: GUEST,999
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 08:04 PM

Kendall, so would I.

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: Bobert
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 08:25 PM

Okay... Seems that Kendall, brucie and I are all on record of thinkin' that Rush needs a an ass whuppin' and he's got the right folks to deliver said whup...

That's 3 whuppins...

Anyone else want in???

Okay he is a fat toad so yer gonna have to bring yer big boots but, hey...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 09:24 PM

FYI:
Citracal is made by Mission Laboratories, part of the Bayer family of products.
Excedrin is looking good, ladies.

Bobert et al,
Don't waste your energy on that buffoon. Hit him in his pocketbook. I don't want any of you in trouble with the law over this worthless piece of excrement.
SINS, the voice of Reason (heh heh)

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: Charley Noble
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 09:39 PM

Yes, this is a slur that stings.

Russ is certainly a troll of all things indigenous to the slime pond. He should still be drawn and quartered, if anyone can figure out how to do the fractions. I'd settle for approximations.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 10:29 PM

Boycott Limbaugh's sponsors? I'm in!

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 10:41 PM

Gee, I wish that it was possible that he would have to defend his comments with his life...in a duel. With swords. I'd be happy to cut him into many tiny pieces.

No, I agree that he is not an asshole. An asshole has a very useful function.

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: GUEST,999
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 11:17 PM

A line I heard years ago: he was begat on a duchess by a head waiter.

I agree that nailing his sponsors is good, but equally I'd call the radio stations and tell them that they will be losing you (whoever you are) as a listener.

I'll say one thing as a dad: talk like that about my daughters and you got major problems, and trust me, the law will be the least of them. In fact, you'll be real happy to see a cop or two.

I'd ask one thing because I don't know: what does the FCC actually do? Has America gone so far downhill that garbage is on its radio (and presumably TV) shows? How did this happen?

The anger from both Bekka and Penny (who seemed so angry they didn't know whether to poop, wind their watches or steal third) is real, and I hope if I was a woman I'd feel the same. This guy has gotta go, but as important is that he cannot be replaced by another like him.

It is my understanding that the first amendment was meant to protect one's right to address or redress a grievance in public while protecting the individual who grieves. It never had the intent to allow this type of hatred to be foisted on the public and in doing so allow a wrong to be perpetrated. A wrong HAS been perpetrated, and Rush Limbaugh is guilty of doing just that.

He is disgusting and so much beneath contempt that his name should disappear. Along with his diatribe and his ilk. I hope he has, by saying what he did, awakened America to the deadly disease it has within. There is NO time left for complacency. Speak as you can or will, but for fuck sake, speak!

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: John P
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 12:37 AM

I think there's a level of danger here that's not been talked about. Rush, not so long ago, proved he had the power to get apologies from very high ranking Republican elected officials. Now he is attacking someone who testified before Congress. How many liberals will think twice about testifying in the future, and how many Republicans will tell him "no"?

Congress should convict him of witness tampering.

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: michaelr
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 02:09 AM

President Obama called Sandra Fluke to "express his disappointment that she has been the subject of inappropriate personal attacks" and to thank her for speaking out on an issue of public policy.

Limbaugh is a turd you scrape from your sole on the curb and walk on.

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: Penny S.
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 03:38 AM

Limbaugh is a turd you scrape from your sole on the curb and walk on

Trouble with that analogy is that your shoe still stinks. Mind you, I'm not sure where that extension of the analogy leads.

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: Elmore
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 07:34 AM

Beyond the totally unacceptable language emanating from that foul man, I can't believe we're talking about the issue of contraception in the year 2012.

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 08:06 AM

The lunatic right believe that women should be slaves to men - kinder, kuche und kirche - and bred to death.

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: Bobert
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 08:45 AM

The Republicans just can't help themselves... They are addicted to the Taliban...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: kendall
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 09:01 AM

Rush is a humorist? I resent that. He's about as funny as Mother's day in an orphanage.

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: catspaw49
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 09:19 AM

I spent last night on emails and petitions but what I really want is to see this fat fuck laying in a ditch, face down in a mound of shit with a 24 inch dildo shoved up his ass...........sideways.............then ask the dickhead for an apology and a huge donation to several women's health organizations.

If he refuses, get a bigger dildo............


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: Midchuck
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 09:59 AM

I agree with the Outlawed Raparee. (Hey, I made a poem!)

In a civilized society, the guy would receive multiple challenges to duels. If he accepted them, he would be killed in one of them. If he refused them, he would be shunned and ignored by all respectable people.

Peter.

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: jacqui.c
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 10:09 AM

Spaw - I love you!

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: GUEST,David E.
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 10:55 AM

Wow. There's no lynching like a liberal lynching is there? Go ahead, throw stones at me for saying that as well, but really people, you're getting played by the media. Shake it off and have a don't let it ruin your weekend okay?

David E.

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: GUEST,999
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 10:59 AM

Spaw's got it wrong: Rush IS a dildo, pecker head and general all-'round fuck face. IMO. YMMV.

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: EBarnacle
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 11:06 AM

In a recent movie shoot, I was asked to carry a protest sign and curse out Al Pacino. The best I came up with, appropriate to our subject was: You're lower than pond scum--at least that gives off oxygen.

That said, he is entitled to say what he says and we are entitled to take what legal actions we wish.

Rap, I'll join you and if, [the diety we don't name] forbid, you lose, I will take up the blade in your honor.

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: EBarnacle
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 11:06 AM

In a recent movie shoot, I was asked to carry a protest sign and curse out Al Pacino. The best I came up with, appropriate to our subject was: You're lower than pond scum--at least that gives off oxygen.

That said, he is entitled to say what he says and we are entitled to take what legal actions we wish.

Rap, I'll join you and if, [the diety we don't name] forbid, you lose, I will take up the blade in your honor.

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: Ebbie
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 12:13 PM

Well, I've now read Ms Fluke's entire testimony before Congress. She evidently spoke in the name of having been" a past-president of Georgetown Law Students for Reproductive Justice or LSRJ."

Unless Limbaugh has staff that feed him selected cuts of her testimony- and he never bothered to read or hear her entire presentation, he knows full well that she never even spoke of herself or her sex life. Nor did she even mention sex life on campus. Her testimony was of health issues impacted by the cost of non-insured medicine that happen also to be used for birth control.
http://www.whatthefolly.com/2012/02/23/transcript-sandra-fluke-testifies-on-why-women-should-be-allowed-access-to-contraception-


Here is Limbaugh's response to the first aftermath:

Oh, is that... Well, that's touching. Obama just called Sandra Fluke to make sure she was all right? Awwww. (kissing sound) That is so compassionate! What a great guy. The president called her to make sure she's okay. What is she 30 years old? Thirty years old, a student at Georgetown Law, who admits to having so much sex that she can't afford it anymore.
And thus, a new welfare entitlement must be created so that society will pay for it. You know, somebody asked me, "Why are you so insulting?" Me? Can anybody understand that a whole lot of us are insulted by this? Here we are, we're minding our business one day. We're bothering nobody. We can't anyway! We can't inspect your kids' lunch box. We can't raise your taxes. We can't send your kids off to war. We can't make you buy a certain kind of car. We can't do anything. And all of a sudden we're told that people who want to have sex without consequence, sex with no responsibility, and we have pay for it! We're told we have to pay for it -- and if we object, that somehow we're Neanderthal. Just out of nowhere this comes up.
Now, that, to me, is insulting.

(And later:)
RUSH: Well, I say this really with the absence of all ego: What this is about now is getting me. What this is about is silencing me, removing my voice as a credible critic. This is not even about contraception or any of that anymore. Because you raise another good point. The assumption in this is that every woman in this country is angered by what I said. Every woman in this country.
CALLER: We're not!
RUSH: Of course not.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/03/02/the_democrats_are_desperate_obama_calls_sandra_fluke_the_30_year_old_victim


The man is beyond despicable. I suspect his current career is not going to survive this.

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: SINSULL
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 12:39 PM

I agree that Limbaugh has the right of free speech. I too have some rights and am exercising them. By the way, the sponsors who pulled ads have only done so "temporarily". My boycott is permanent.
As I have never set foot in a Walmart or Denny's, I can say that I will keep my word. I also will not have Sally Hanson's products in my home.
Does it help? It helps me sleep at night.
Limbaugh is a buffoon and I have up until now ignored his nonsense. Attacking a Congressional witness as a slut and prostitute crosses a line as did the Palin "cunt" comment. Both show a reprehensible contempt for women.
This latest slur following on the Komen Foundation booboo is bringing out the the Feminazi in me and finally younger women who take their current freedom and lifestyle for granted. Good on Rush!

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: Wesley S
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 12:40 PM

Sad to say but I'm betting that Rush is going to laugh all the way to the bank on this one.

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: Bobert
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 12:51 PM

Well, if nothing else, we have Rush to thank for the upcoming slaughter of Republicans in November...

Thanks, Bad Rash, and keep up the good work on behalf of the American Taliban...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: kendall
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 01:14 PM

The first amendment doesn't cover slander.

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: jacqui.c
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 01:23 PM

Problem is there are a lot of folk out there who seem to take as gospel everything this guy says. They don't bother to find out for themselves whether he's telling the truth and that will colour the way that they vote come November.

The good thing about this is that he may have helped to wake a sleeping giant - women who might otherwise not take too much interest on what is going on in politics. I hope so.

Subject: RE: BS: Calling All Sluts: Boycott
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 01:25 PM

Problem is, he probably can't get any himself, and it makes him cranky.

No, we shouldn't censor. Boycotts are great if they make people pay attention.

But I think he's digging his very own hole, and we should just stand by and watch, with glee.

Dani