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FCC should clear Limbaugh from airwaves
CNN ^ | 03/10/2012 | Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem

Posted on 03/10/2012 5:09:44 PM PST by Lattero

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These are just a few samples from the arsenal of degrading language Limbaugh deploys on women, people of color, lesbians and gays, immigrants, the disabled, the elderly, Muslims, Jews, veterans, environmentalists and so forth.

Limbaugh doesn't just call people names. He promotes language that deliberately dehumanizes his targets. Like the sophisticated propagandist Josef Goebbels, he creates rhetorical frames -- and the bigger the lie the more effective -- inciting listeners to view people they disagree with as sub-humans. His longtime favorite term for women, "femi-nazi," doesn't even raise eyebrows anymore, an example of how rhetoric spreads when unchallenged by coarsened cultural norms.

At least this most recent incident has turned a spotlight back on the vile, damaging statements Limbaugh has been promulgating for years. His sponsors are dropping him; his stations have begun to follow suit. VoteVets, a coalition of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, released a statement by female vets, including Katherine Scheirman, former chief of medical operations in the U.S. Air Forces, demanding that the American Forces Network drop Limbaugh from its programming.

They state, "Our entire military depends on troops respecting each other -- women and men. There simply can be no place on military airwaves for sentiments that would undermine that respect."

That makes this a fitting time to inquire of his syndicator, Clear Channel Communications, whether it intends to continue supporting someone who addicts his audience to regular doses of hate speech. Clear Channel's Premiere Radio Networks Inc., which hosts Limbaugh's program, has defended his recent comments.

If Clear Channel won't clean up its airways, then surely it's time for the public to ask the FCC a basic question: Are the stations carrying Limbaugh's show in fact using their licenses "in the public interest?"s program, has defended his recent comments.

If Clear Channel won

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To: Lattero
FCC should clear Limbaugh from airwaves
CNN ^ | 03/10/2012 | Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem

Maybe Jane, Robin and Gloria could write something about what Leftist women have been calling Sarah Palin for the last four years, too.

21 posted on 03/10/2012 5:21:34 PM PST by Talisker (He who commands, must obey.)
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To: carriage_hill

Gobbels would be in FAVOR of silencing opposition and free speech. There you go, fascist.


22 posted on 03/10/2012 5:21:45 PM PST by 50sDad (A Liberal prevents me from telling you anything here.)
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To: P.O.E.
Correct image....


23 posted on 03/10/2012 5:22:00 PM PST by moehoward
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To: Lattero
His longtime favorite term for ________-_______ women, "femi-nazi," doesn't even raise eyebrows anymore,

They are missing a descriptive adjective here. Oh how the Nags can spin. Get your uterus out of my life.

24 posted on 03/10/2012 5:22:15 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)/?)
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To: carriage_hill

Welcome indeed.


25 posted on 03/10/2012 5:22:31 PM PST by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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To: Lattero

“His longtime favorite term for women, “femi-nazi,””....Not for ALL women, just certain ones. The arrogance here is the claim to speak for all women and to assume a falsely superior air in judging Rush’s speech. Rush has always been an in-your-face kind of guy, and what they are really complaining about is that he doesn’t obsequiously bow in their direction.


26 posted on 03/10/2012 5:22:31 PM PST by Tom Bombadil
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To: Lattero

Outrageous that it is it actually can be flipped in our favor because it will wake up and piss off millions of conservatives..,at a very bad time for them...could revitalize the Tea Party through a strong backlash and we highly outnumber them GREATLY....harness it like a slingshot to our benefit


27 posted on 03/10/2012 5:22:48 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (I do not disrupt Newt threads. I do not naysay or troll there. Respect my Santorum threads, please.)
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To: Lattero
FROM ONE OF THE WRITERS, ROBIN MORGAN:

"I feel that 'man-hating' is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them."

"I haven't the faintest notion what possible revolutionary role white hetero-sexual men could fulfill, since they are the very embodiment of reactionary-vested-interest-power. But then, I have great difficulty examining what men in general could possibly do about all this. In addition to doing the sh*twork that women have been doing for generations, possibly not exist? No, I really don't mean that. Yes, I really do."

28 posted on 03/10/2012 5:23:03 PM PST by DNA.2012
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To: M Kehoe

bump #12


29 posted on 03/10/2012 5:23:24 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Mears

bfl


30 posted on 03/10/2012 5:23:32 PM PST by Mears (Alcohol. Tobacco. Firearms. What's not to like?)
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To: Lattero

Aren’t those old witches dead yet?

I can say that because I am a 65-year-old witch.

I was sure they were dead. Maybe they just look like it.

Obama sure knew where to dig them up. I would love to see all his lists - his enemies list, his old liberal witches list, his young liberal witches list, all the lists he pulls from for his various unpresidential attacks on American citizens (and on the Constitution).


31 posted on 03/10/2012 5:24:56 PM PST by SusaninOhio
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To: M Kehoe

Take a number.


32 posted on 03/10/2012 5:25:03 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: M Kehoe

Guess she stopped straddling enemy tanks for long enough to co-write an article.


33 posted on 03/10/2012 5:25:35 PM PST by DNA.2012
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To: Lattero

Rush should go tell them to Fluke themselves. But use prorection!


34 posted on 03/10/2012 5:25:52 PM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Lattero

Rush should go tell them to Fluke themselves; but use protection!


35 posted on 03/10/2012 5:26:40 PM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Lattero
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36 posted on 03/10/2012 5:26:48 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: A CA Guy

“Rush should go tell them to Fluke themselves. “

Very funny.


37 posted on 03/10/2012 5:27:12 PM PST by Mears (Alcohol. Tobacco. Firearms. What's not to like?)
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To: Lattero

Just as soon as Jane Fonda stands trial as a traitor of the USA...


38 posted on 03/10/2012 5:27:20 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Beware the Sweater Vest)
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To: Lattero

Never will be able to get that picture of Fonda sitting at an enemy anti-aircraft gun out of my mind.


39 posted on 03/10/2012 5:28:09 PM PST by Retired Chemist
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To: Lattero
Are the stations carrying Limbaugh's show in fact using their licenses "in the public interest?

What the government licenses, the government controls. Radio, marriage.

40 posted on 03/10/2012 5:28:12 PM PST by DNA.2012
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