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Dem Rep: Maher can stay on the air, but Rush can't
washingtonexaminer.com ^ | March 14, 2012 | Joel Gehrke

Posted on 03/14/2012 10:30:19 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

Rep. Shelley Berkely, D-Nev., has led a push to get Rush Limbaugh pulled off the air, but she doesnn't believe that Bill Maher needs to face the same pressure because Maher is less important to Democrats.

"There’s a big difference between what is being said by Bill Maher and his humor, although I don’t find that funny, and what Rush Limbaugh does, who pretty much calls the shots in the Republican Party," Berkely, who is running for Senate, said in the Las Vegas Sun. Maher has donated $1 million to President Obama's superPAC.

She maintained that her petition drive calling for Clear Channel to pull Limbaugh's show "has nothing to do with the First Amendment" and everything to do with defending women from demeaning remarks. "I am merely asking Clear Channel to make a business decision to get somebody who uses and abuses the public airwaves off the airwaves," Berkley said. "We need to stand up for ourselves as women around this country."

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1 posted on 03/14/2012 10:30:20 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Not your call, b!tch, so STFU.


2 posted on 03/14/2012 10:31:35 AM PDT by ScottinVA (A single drop of American blood for muslims is one drop too many!)
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To: ScottinVA

A United States Congresswoman calling for cancelling the first amendment.

Americans yawn.

The MSM ignores.


3 posted on 03/14/2012 10:32:44 AM PDT by mbarker12474 (If thine enemy offend thee, give his childe a drum.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Maher is less important to Democrats.

Yeah that's why they're turning him down for fundraisers left and right. /s
4 posted on 03/14/2012 10:33:49 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

To all Dem trolls —> Stick it where the sun don’t shine!


5 posted on 03/14/2012 10:34:42 AM PDT by xtinct (The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you..Be Strong Patriots!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
This woman needs to be impeached because what she's advocating is a breach of the first amendment. That is a violation of her oath of office.
6 posted on 03/14/2012 10:34:42 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (Barack has a memory like a steel trap; it's a gift ~ Michelle Obama)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Rep. Berkely obviously has not read the Constitution she has sworn to defend in her oath of office. What part of Congress shall make no law ...abridging the freedom of speech... doesn't she understand?
7 posted on 03/14/2012 10:35:07 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("The problem with socialism is that pretty soon you run out of other people's money" M. Thatcher)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Dem Rep: Maher can stay on the air, but Rush can't

That's because the 1st Amendment only applies to LIBERAL free speech, NOT CONSERVATIVE free speech!!


(Silly rabbit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . free speech is for kids!)

8 posted on 03/14/2012 10:36:45 AM PDT by DustyMoment (Congress - Another name for white collar criminals!!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Hypocrite


9 posted on 03/14/2012 10:37:32 AM PDT by bmwcyle (I am ready to serve Jesus on Earth because the GOP failed again)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

How, HOW, do these idiots get elected, and keep the office???


10 posted on 03/14/2012 10:37:51 AM PDT by LRS ("This is silly! It can't be! It can't be!!" "Oh yes it is! I said you wouldn't know the joint.")
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To: The Great RJ

The problem with socialism is that pretty soon you run out of other people


11 posted on 03/14/2012 10:40:26 AM PDT by Mi-kha-el ((There is no Pravda in Izvestiya and no Izvestiya in Pravda.))
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Liars. Rush was making a clear joke. Maher was clearly calling names. There was no real humor in a man just calling a woman a c word. Nothing. It caused laughter by sycophants who hate the woman in question.

Rush made a full on funny: hey, you want to be paid by us (taxpayers) to have sex! Doesn’t that make you a slut, a prostitute, by definition?? A joke!

And remember that the argument is not and never was “denying women birth control.”. The argument was religious freedom, and the unconstitutionality of forcing a religion to go against their tenets.

Anyone who falls for the Obama subterfuge, the switching of the subject matter like a quick game of cups is STUPID. Or evil.


12 posted on 03/14/2012 10:40:41 AM PDT by Yaelle (Santorum 2012 - we need a STEADY conservative President)
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To: mbarker12474

“A United States Congresswoman calling for cancelling the first amendment.”

Yep, liberals are fascists. And I love her reasoning about wanting to take Rush off the air because he’s the de facto head of the Republican party! Of course, Rush isn’t the head of the Republican party, but this clown of a congresswoman thinks the more politically influential the opposition is it’s a better case for taking away his First Amendment rights. This sorry excuse of a politician would probably act like the Stalinists who sent opposition leaders to work camps if she thought she could get away with it.


13 posted on 03/14/2012 10:41:04 AM PDT by AtlasStalled
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Damage Control...

they let the Maher out of the box and the sting of double-standard is careening back at them like a boomerang...

all those dem robots are now spouting “does not compute... does not compute...”

where’s Roddy Piper with those sunglasses?


14 posted on 03/14/2012 10:42:43 AM PDT by hkusp40
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To: Free ThinkerNY

My favorite excuse is the one I heard (I think it came from Chucky Schumer) that Maher is on late at night so it’s okay....

Yes folks, it’s okay to be a misogynist as long as it’s after the local news...


15 posted on 03/14/2012 10:42:43 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Rep. Shelly, I’ll write this slowly so that you can read it...

SHOVE IT UP YOUR SMELLY OBAMA.


16 posted on 03/14/2012 10:43:00 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Free ThinkerNY
...what Rush Limbaugh does, who pretty much calls the shots in the Republican Party,"

Why do dumbass liberal dems think Rush calls the shots in the repub party?

These lefties are insane ignoramuses!

17 posted on 03/14/2012 10:43:39 AM PDT by sirchtruth (Freedom is not free)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"has nothing to do with the First Amendment" and everything to do with defending women from demeaning remarks. "

So Maher's remarks were not demeaning to women?

18 posted on 03/14/2012 10:44:33 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

“Yes folks, it’s okay to be a misogynist as long as it’s after the local news...”

it’s in the owner’s manual


19 posted on 03/14/2012 10:47:40 AM PDT by hkusp40
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Ah yes, Shelley Berkley (D-NV)...

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at her finest (for real)!!

20 posted on 03/14/2012 10:47:42 AM PDT by harpu ( "...it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for someone you're not!")
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