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Double Standard on Misoginist Attacks
Original post made by Double Standard, Atherton: West Atherton, on Mar 7, 2012
But liberals such as Bill Maher and Ed Shultz have made far more egregious verbal assaults on women and the liberal press gave them a pass. So it seems if a misogynistic verbal assault is on a conservative woman then that is acceptable but if it is on a liberal woman then the perpetrator should be excoriated.
Kirsten Powers, who work in President Clinton's Administration as the Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Public Affairs, to her credit exposed this Liberal hypocrisy. To watch the Kirsten Powers video click here.
Web Link
BTW, Kirsten Powers was also a Gerogetown Law student.
Comments (79)
a resident of Atherton: other
on Mar 7, 2012 at 2:36 pm
"and the liberal press gave them a pass. "
No. Schultz was vilified and offered an unqualified apology. Rush's pseudo-apology was inane, then he blames his misogynist behavior on the left.
Ed Shultz is a jerk. Rush goes many levels beyond him.
But typical to see a post here blaming it all on the liberal media.
That is mostly owned by large corporations.
a resident of another community
on Mar 7, 2012 at 2:41 pm
Yes, but Limbaugh NEVER said ANYTHING about GINGRICH or EDWARDS.
Gin Rich did unspeakable things to his ex-wives just as Edwards did.
Do not be so quick to defend the tasteless Limbaugh who, even though not on heavy drugs, never states facts which have experts as Maher and Jon Stewart. They have guests from all political parties.
Jon and Maher seem to have your attention rather than defending what is tantamount to Limbaugh's bathroom wall scribblings.
Even the weak presidential hopeful,Romney, the money waster,glossed over the issue.Would he do the same thing to world leaders if he ever had a chance to be elected. ha!
a resident of another community
on Mar 7, 2012 at 2:47 pm
You defenders of Limbaugh's bad taste always go back to Clinton and Monica and that is a dead horse.
I didn't realize that Kirsten Powers was a Gerogetown Law Student.
Didn't Sarah Palin go there also?
a resident of Atherton: other
on Mar 7, 2012 at 3:05 pm
If Rick Santorum had repudiated Rush in Ohio, he would have won it last night.
As is, Santorum lost women because of his medieval policies towards women's health care - look at the exit polls.
Rush just exacerbated the whole thing for Santorum by ranting for three days, keeping Rick's medieval policies in the limelight. Amazing the whole thing about contraception being covered by insurance, all the while Rush's massive doses of Viagara are covered by insurance (see the arrest for the 45 100mg V pills Web Link )
Can't blame the guy. All that hard core drug use involving Oxycontin (thousands of pills, want a link?) leaves his thing so it needs a lot of help.
Good thing his insurance covers his V pills.
No hypocrisy with Rush.
Lucky Rush. Getting paid to have sex, by his own words. As frightening as that image is.
a resident of Atherton: other
on Mar 7, 2012 at 3:17 pm
Rush said: "Marriage is about raising children. That is the purpose of the institution."
He's on at least his 4th marriage.
How many kids?
$400 million Rush makes off the fools that listen to a convicted drug addict. They're so brainwashed they come on here and their only defense for Rush is to attack someone else.
a resident of Woodside: other
on Mar 7, 2012 at 4:11 pm
I'm pretty sure the liberal press would have spelled the word as misogynist not "misoginist".
a resident of Menlo Park: Stanford Hills
on Mar 7, 2012 at 7:13 pm
Bill Maher and Ed Shultz always get passes. The left wing press and news media are hypocrites. Everyone who make sexually degrading comments about women should be criticized. But Liberal newspapers and news media love it when misogynistic remarks are made about conservative women. It makes their day. Chris Matthews gets a thrill up his leg.
Limbaugh was correctly criticized. But Maher and Shultz used langauge that was far more degrading than anything Limbaugh has ever said and not a peep was heard from the liberal media. They even do it to their own.
They demeaned Hillary and mocked her when she rean against Obama fro the Democratic Party Presidential nomination. Well folks Hillary Clinton could have a pre-frontal lobotomy and she would run circles around Obama. She is far smarter than he will ever be and is probably smarter than her husband too. She would have been a decent president. But the far left press went gaga over a genuine socialist they had to do everything they could from letting a mere liberal get elected. You get more truth reading Pravda than reading the New York Times.
a resident of Atherton: other
on Mar 8, 2012 at 9:13 am
"You get more truth reading Pravda than reading the New York Times."
Upon what world do you reside?
You wrote 200 words, 4 of them were on topic: Limbaugh was correctly criticized. The rest is rambling deflection from Rush's misogyny, loss of advertisers, and failure of the crop of presidential candidates to take a stand against hate speech.
Schultz and Maher are jerks. Rush stands above them all. The world recognizes that.
That's why his show was filled with PSA ads yesterday - advertisers dropping like flies.
a resident of Atherton: other
on Mar 8, 2012 at 4:45 pm
Wonder if Pravda is reporting about Rushbo's show today?
On WABC, arguably one of the most important stations around...
A total of 86 ads aired during WABC's broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show today
77 of those ads were public service announcements donated free of charge by the Ad Council
Of the nine paid spots that ran, seven were from companies that have said they have taken steps to ensure their ads no longer air during the program
WABC's online feed included about 5:33 of dead air when ads would normally have run.
77 of 86 are PSA'a - wow, Rushbo is SO CHARITABLE!!!
Who knew he's running a non-PROFIT?
a resident of Menlo Park: Stanford Hills
on Mar 8, 2012 at 5:51 pm
Lost 77 of 86 ad spots for today's show - wow! That's huge, someone is losing a ton of money.
Maybe someone should take a collection for the poor addict.
a resident of Atherton: Lindenwood
on Mar 9, 2012 at 10:06 am
Rush Limbaugh is a major spokesman for the Republican party. He receives major funding from Mitt Romney's company (Bain Capital) and speaks frequently at major Republican conventions. All the Republican candidates listen to what he says.
Bill Maher and Ed Shultz are nobodies. Does anyone really take them seriously?
a resident of another community
on Mar 9, 2012 at 2:03 pm
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a resident of Menlo Park: Allied Arts/Stanford Park
on Mar 9, 2012 at 3:04 pm
There should be more of a standard in the press (national and local) and these threads to attack ideas but not individuals. The real problem with Rush was his sexist attack labeling a young woman and his perverted insistence that videos be shown of private acts he imagined.
I do not condone the behavior of Bill Clinton, Edwards, Gingrich, or the language used by Maher on occasion. However, I do not remember "liberal" men make the same kind of ad hominem attacks on women as Limbaugh and Fox News commentators, and certainly haven't seen the same kind of hypocrisy as Gingrich, Hyde, et al showed impeaching Clinton for the same things they themselves were guilty of.
a resident of Menlo Park: Stanford Hills
on Mar 9, 2012 at 3:17 pm
awwwww, Newt just wanted an open marriage so he could be with his 2nd wife and Calista.
Makes you wonder if Calista recognizes that this marriage of hers is also an open marriage.
re standards - if you have standards, one side or the other would object on freedom of speech grounds. Take a look at the old Fairness Doctrine.
Want to force programs to offer an opposing view on every show?
Although I found it odd that last Tuesday, liberal MSNBC had on McCains 2008 campaign manager and a former RNC chair.
Think Fox would have on Howard Dean (former DNC chair) and David Axelrod (2008 dem campaign manager) to sit down on their panel for hours on end to speak freely on all subjects without someone like Andrea Makris' abuser demanding mic control?
Me neither.
a resident of Menlo Park: Stanford Hills
on Mar 9, 2012 at 3:19 pm
Odd yes. Also enjoyable. Meant to say both republicans were a lot of fun to listen to on the panel. Gave as good as they took (and they took!)
Look forward to seeing Gamechanger on hbo this week.
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on Mar 9, 2012 at 4:08 pm
Double Standard on MISOGYNIST Attacks.
You want to know why no one calls the liberals on it? Cause the people who would call the liberals on it are the conservatives, and they don't see a problem with misogyny, so of course they don't make a big stink about it.
Of course, I have yet to hear a liberal pundit out and out call someone a slut on air. Yet you have this from Rush. [potion removed.] I heard liberals say disparaging things about women, but they tend to have more tact, and subtlety than conservatives. You can get away it if you don't say it out right.
Although, this is all quite ridiculous as the first amendment should allow Rush to say whatever he wants about people. If it offends you, then don't listen, don't give money to his advertisers.
The other cute thing about Rush's apology, it wasn't to the people he hurt, it was to the advertisers. The only thing he's sorry for is [portion removed] off the advertisers.
a resident of Menlo Park: Stanford Hills
on Mar 10, 2012 at 6:21 am
The uproar over the Georgetown law student, Sandra Fluke, who testified before Congress on contraception, comes as no surprise. Contraception, like abortion, should be between the individual, their conscience, and health care provider, with no government involvement.
However, the Obama Adminstration wants goverment intrusion into every aspect of people's personal lives- including making hard working taxpayers pay for well healed law students' recreation.
What shows the Sandra Fluke issue to be a farce and setup is that the president saw fit to interject himself into the discussion and come to her defense.
Was this just to get the president more face time on TV, to continue a distraction from his ineptness on the job, or the fact he has no pressing problems to contend with such as Iran, the economy, wars, and out-of-control federal debt?
President Obama is a community organizer, debater, and fighter. He is not a Leader by any realistic measure.
To borrow from Budd Schulberg it is not results but internecine warfare is "What Makes Obama Run".
There is no other explanation for voting "present" so many times as a state senator. If he votes yea or nay he has to take a position. The president is more comfortable at the center of the fray dividing and keeping the fight alive, not producing tangible results.
Remember that in November.
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Mar 10, 2012 at 8:28 am
Teh Sandra Fluke issue is a "setup?" How do you figure? Wouldn't that require Rush to make these statements at the request of Obama? Rush shot his big mouth off as he usually does. This time he was taken to task for his disgusting comments. Setup. Riiiiiight.
a resident of Atherton: other
on Mar 10, 2012 at 10:59 am
"hard working taxpayers pay for well healed law students' recreation"
The taxpayers aren't paying for Flukes healthcare needs any more than they are paying for Rush's, or your, Viagra. It's the insurance plan. Insurance companies love paying for the pill. It keeps their profits up. Viagra is another story.
"President Obama is a community organizer"
The most prevalent right wing radio slight to our American President. Well, the world has some news for the right wing radio junkies - your world is about to change. Premier is taking a huge hit:
"Premiere Networks, which distributes Limbaugh as well as a host of other right-wing talkers, sent an email out to its affiliates early Friday listing 98 large corporations that have requested their ads appear only on "programs free of content that you know are deemed to be offensive or controversial (for example, Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, Tom Leykis, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity).""
Web Link
Censorship? No. The free market at work.
"But this latest controversy comes at a particularly difficult time for right-wing talk radio. They are playing to a (sometimes literally) dying demographic. Rush & Co. rate best among old, white males. They have been steadily losing women and young listeners, who are alienated by the angry, negative, obsessive approach to political conservations. Add to that the fact that women ages 24–55 are the prize advertising demographic, and you have a perfect storm emerging after Limbaugh's Sandra Fluke comments."
Web Link
a resident of Menlo Park: Sharon Heights
on Mar 10, 2012 at 1:24 pm
What is wrong with you liberals? Medical insurance is for illnesses and diseases not for recreation. Guys, if you got ED then don't expect medical insurance to put lead in your pencil. And Sandra Flake, the same goes for you. What makes you think that medical insurance should cover contraception. Buy your own contraception and quit your whining.
When I went to college I took out college loans, work part time and in the summers worked full time. I did not expect anyone to provide me with recreation on the taxpayers' dime.
Now everyone knows that Sandra Fluke was a shill for the Obama administration to get the fertile women's vote. It was her good luck that Limbaugh was a big a pig as Bill Maher and Ed Shultz; but not a big a pig as Bill Clinton who used the oval office to engage in the type of sex that does not get women pregnant with a woman almost as young as his daughter.
Limbaugh is as irrelevant as Maher and Schultz. They only appeal to the crudest people. No one gives a damn about any of them except right wing and left wing extremists.
And if Maher wants to piss away a million dollars on a president who isn't going to get re-elected that's his business. Its a free country (provided Obama does not get a second term).
Now liberals go back to listening to a Tom Hanks infomercial on how great Obama is and right wingers go back to listening to Limbaugh argue how we should have a theocracy that would be the envy of the Taliban.
a resident of Atherton: other
on Mar 10, 2012 at 3:22 pm
This forum needs a LIKE button. Nicely said, Whisky Tango.
a resident of Atherton: other
on Mar 10, 2012 at 6:05 pm
"What makes you think that medical insurance should cover contraception. "
Insurance companies love providing it. The alternative is higher medical costs to the insurance companies.
You have something against the free market?
As far as irrelevance ("rush is irrelevant") you are correct, only rapidly becoming more so as evidenced this week. Good job Rush!
a resident of Woodside: other
on Mar 10, 2012 at 7:25 pm
WT. Like.
a resident of another community
on Mar 10, 2012 at 9:54 pm
This "story" -- placed on the Almanac Online 10 days after the "event" -- is here SIMPLY to generate some acrimonious letters between the usual Left/Right readers.
Resist this manipulation.
Wait for a debate on a substantive issue.
a resident of Menlo Park: Stanford Hills
on Mar 11, 2012 at 2:23 pm
Typical man, whiskey tango - "What is wrong with you liberals? Medical insurance is for illnesses and diseases not for recreation. "
Women health issues being decided by a panel of men. Get a woman up there testifying about the beneficial use of hormones for a variety of issues (including cysts in all the wrong places) and she is labeled in the most offensive manner. (Whiskey) wants Rush Limbaugh's voyeur tape after Rush is done. Disgusting.
Then the foolish claim that taxpayer money is involved with private health insurance plans. I don't get the connection. Then they bring up Clinton.
Could spend paragraphs dissecting this gem "When I went to college I took out college loans" and "I did not expect anyone to provide me with recreation on the taxpayers' dime."
Start with student loans being much higher now than when this (Whiskey Tango) went to school, go back to the taxpayer issue which I still do not understand, or how about Intimacy for this (Whiskey Tango) being mere "recreation." [Portion removed.]
Obama not reelected. Hmmmm. The GOP lost women by 13 points last time even with a strong woman on the ticket. If the Republicans keep up the war on women with record numbers of abortion restrictions across the country and their talking points on other women health issues - it will be a blowout in November.
Men making predictions about a woman's voting issues is about as effective as a panel on contraception composed of priests.
a resident of Woodside: other
on Mar 11, 2012 at 4:56 pm
Mom makes good points (as does the unfortunately named WTF).
I can understand both sides of this issue. Some people believe that contraception is an issue of personal responsibility. Ms. Fluke is a 30 year old law student attending Georgetown School of Law where tuition is $25,000 a year - with rent, food and books, it probably costs her nearly $40,000 a year to attend. In this era of government deficits, is it too much to ask this future lawyer to take responsibility for $10 a month for her contraceptives (condoms, oc's, etc)? Using your logic, should insurance companies also provide men with condoms?
Yes, I know that contraceptives are cheaper than pregnancy. BELIEVE ME, I KNOW. And healthy food is cheaper than heart attacks.
I do have an objection to government requiring employers to carry certain insurance coverages. Some employers can only afford to offer "bare bones" coverage; some offer Cadillac packages. Shouldn't this be an economic decision?
All you are doing is forcing these employers to say "the heck with it" and let the employees get their insurance from the government pool. Then again, perhaps this is the objective.
So the question is should contraception be a mandate or does this fall into the realm of personal responsibility? It's a good question. I don't believe it a war on women - although this is a politically convenient claim - it is the mandate that is the issue.
a resident of Atherton: Lindenwood
on Mar 11, 2012 at 5:17 pm
POGO makes his usual cogent statement unfortunately Limbaugh did not but rather launched an unprincipled attack on women rather than engaging in a thoughtful debate on the mandate. It is useful to note that the mandate to offer contraception does not require anyone to use contraception. And there us sound logic in public expenditures to support preventative RXs like nicotine patches and statins so why not the option of contraceptives? And how in the world do the mandate opponents justify covering Viagra which does not prevent anything?
a resident of another community
on Mar 11, 2012 at 5:42 pm
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a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Mar 11, 2012 at 6:51 pm
Posted by R.Gordon, a resident of another community, 1 hour ago
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I'm Shocked! Shocked I tell you!
a resident of Woodside: other
on Mar 12, 2012 at 7:29 am
We already have significant PUBLIC expenditures for contraceptives. Free contraceptives are readily available... literally for the asking.
The issue at hand is about mandates that insurance companies provide this - and having employers pay for it.
I don't think I could be more "pro-choice" and pro-free contraceptives if I tried. But I still believe that mandating that an employer must provide that type of benefit to an employee goes well beyond sound public policy. Why not mandate that they provide healthy food and personal trainers? It will certainly save lots of money in the long run.
That said, if an employer WANTS to provide it, that's fine - it's their business. We have employers who provide everything from free lunches to free dry cleaning.
a resident of Woodside: other
on Mar 12, 2012 at 3:15 pm
"The issue at hand is about mandates that insurance companies provide this - and having employers pay for it."
Choose one or the other. One's at least defensible on libertarian grounds, if not any other way. The other is indefensible.
a resident of another community
on Mar 13, 2012 at 9:28 am
R.GORDON is a registered user.
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a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on Mar 13, 2012 at 10:57 am
Congratulations to everyone for being so distracted by this story, that you ignored world events that actually mattered.
Good job Rush, you took one for the team like a champ!
You also managed to splash some mud on Romney so he looks like a less attractive candidate.
Also, in case you hadn't noticed, the republicans DON'T want to win this election. And why would they? A collapse is coming, and they want to blame it on Obama. You honestly mean to tell me people like Newt, Santorum, and Rick Perry were the best the Repubs could come up with?
a resident of Woodside: other
on Mar 13, 2012 at 11:40 am
Leave it to "Some Guy" to claim women's health issues, reproductive freedom and intelligent family planning are the opposite of "events that actually mattered."
"Some Guy" - ask your mom, wife or daughters about that.
"You honestly mean to tell me people like Newt, Santorum, and Rick Perry were the best the Repubs could come up with?"
It's a fact. That's who ran, been in all the papers - the best we had to offer.
Are you claiming there are better candidates? If so - who? And why didn't they run?
Inquiring minds want to know....
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Mar 13, 2012 at 2:54 pm
Government can say gay marriage is illegal. Government can say a woman cannot have an abortion that her uterus is property of the government. Government can make corporations people.
But don't require people to carry insurance. That is wrong.
This is what today's Republicans call a platform.
Real Republicans like Reagan or GHWB are like Native Americans. You may see one or two and appreciate the historical impact they had on our country, but you will never see more than one or two at a time. They are that rare.
And this is from a Democrat. I long for the respectful and admirable debates between us.
a resident of Menlo Park: University Heights
on Mar 13, 2012 at 3:28 pm
Regarding the core issue: If we didn't base our healthcare system on an antiquated employer-centered paradigm, the whole question of who should cover what would be moot. We also wouldn't have 40 million people without insurance and thousands of policyholders going bankrupt every year because of inadequate coverage and insurer rescissions. They do it much better elsewhere.
Regarding the unfairness of the media coverage: Mr. Limbaugh, who is worth more than $600 million, is in it for the money. Mr. Maher and Mr. Shultz are in it for the money. Fox News and the rest of the corporate media (including Pravda, nowadays) are in it for the money. Who said capitalism is supposed to be fair?
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Mar 13, 2012 at 7:02 pm
You are absolutely correct about employer paid healthcare insurance. It got started as a "perq" and somehow came to be expected. Let people buy their own insurance. Bump their pay up to what you are willing to contribute, if anything, but that's it. Part of the reason for insanely escalating health care costs is the availability of money. Reduce it and costs will by necessity come down.
As to capitalism being fair. No one says it should be. What Rush is experiencing is the downside to free speach. You can say anything you want, but you better be prepared for the reaction.
a resident of Woodside: other
on Mar 14, 2012 at 10:11 am
Well, I'm waiting for a response from "some guy".... lookie lookie lookie who just took a turn against women and women's healthcare:
"Planned Parenthood, we're going to get rid of that."
Web Link
He was for Planned Parenthood before he was against it, much like his positions on every other issue. If he were to become president, rating his progress would be fascinating - on every issue, he can say he fulfilled a promise, or others can say he broke a promise on the very same issue by looking at his flip, or at his flop.
One wonders how Mitt Romney expects to be president without women voting for him.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Mar 14, 2012 at 1:04 pm
FACT: "1 in 3 women have reported struggling to afford birth control." Web Link
Society benefits when women can choose if and when they have children. With access to birth control, the women are happier and more productive and their children grow up better adjusted & educated and become more productive citizens.
Without access to birth control, women have more abortions, more unwanted children, less productive & less happy lives. Their unwanted children will be less happy, less educated, less productive.
Considering the full costs of not making birth control available to all women who need it, we would be penny wise and pound foolish. Don't let ideology blind you to common sense.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Mar 14, 2012 at 1:18 pm
Interesting Facts from the Planned Parenthood site linked above:
71 percent of all voters, including men and women, say prescription birth control should be included as preventive health care services, covered without any out-of-pocket costs.
This includes three in five male voters (60 percent) and four out of five female voters (81 percent).
Seven in 10 Republican women (72 percent) said that birth control should be included as preventive health care, covered without any out-of-pocket costs.
77 percent of Catholic women voters said that birth control should be covered as preventive health care without any out-of-pocket costs.
a resident of Menlo Park: University Heights
on Mar 14, 2012 at 4:35 pm
Where is this all going? This just in, from Statespress:
>>The Arizona Senate Judiciary Committee voted 6-2 Monday to endorse a controversial bill that would allow Arizona employers the right to deny health insurance coverage for contraceptives based on religious objections. Arizona House Bill 2625, authored by Majority Whip Debbie Lesko, R-Glendale, would permit employers to ask their employees for proof of medical prescription if they seek contraceptives for non-reproductive purposes, such as hormone control or acne treatment. "My whole legislation is about our First Amendment rights and freedom of religion," Lesko said.<<
So the legislation would allow ANY employer to vet female employees' medical prescriptions on "religious" grounds--and perhaps fire them as a result. Is this freedom of religion, or is it rather an establishment of religion through the backdoor?
Again, with a single-payer healthcare system that isn't dependent on the whims of employers, this sort of abuse wouldn't be an issue.
a resident of Menlo Park: Allied Arts/Stanford Park
on Mar 16, 2012 at 9:13 am
Interference in a woman's private decision, in consultation with her health care provider, about the best medical care for her health issues, is outrageous. Neither her employer nor a governmental agency should have any involvement.
What is not interference is the requirement for insurance companies to offer employer-based coverage for women's health treatment, including birth control pills that could be prescribed for a number of reasons. The actual prescription and the use of these is optional, not required, by the requirement to offer such care.
Many in this thread are correct - far too many "conservatives" dislike government requirements unless it either helps them (think tax breaks for the 1%, outdated subsidies for certain types of businesses that don't need them) or subjugates women.
a resident of Menlo Park: Stanford Hills
on Mar 16, 2012 at 9:45 am
This thread has gotten a bit off topic. The topic was the double standard on misogynistic attacks where people on the left such as Bill Maher and Ed Shultz can call women c**t, right wing sl*t with the approval and admiration of their following. Where Keith Olbermann can call for someone to take Secretary of State Clinton into a room and beat the crap out of her.
No one should get a pass on misogynistic attacks. Yet the left feel it is perfectly acceptable for one of their own to do so even to their own.
Kirsten Powers, a Democrat who worked in the Clinton Administration, wrote an article describing this hypocrisy. Not only is it hypocritical it sends a signal that it is OK to degrade women.
Please read her article by clicking here
Web Link
By the way I saw no conservatives defending Rush Limbaugh for his sexually degrading remarks. Yet liberals have on numerous occasions applauded, cheered and otherwise shown strong approval of Bill Maher for his sexually degrading and misogynistic remarks.
And Rush Limbaugh is no more the de facto leader of the Republican Party than Bill Maher is the de facto leader of the Democratic Party. I don't know where liberals come up with such nonsense.
a resident of Menlo Park: Allied Arts/Stanford Park
on Mar 16, 2012 at 10:18 am
As a proud liberal, I do not condone attacks on women from anyone. But, please, Rush Limbaugh's rants and this recent attack on Ms Fluke telling her to post videos of her sex life go way way beyond what Maher and others have said about women.
Maher brings onto his show people like Ann Coulter, and he shows respect that I don't think Limbaugh ever has or would. Maher certainly is not the leader of the Democratic party, and his show is only once a week for part of the year. Limbaugh fills the airwaves for hours on end every week. There's a difference. And, again, standards matter. I don't agree with everything Maher says, but his comments are a far cry from Limbaugh.
a resident of Menlo Park: Stanford Hills
on Mar 16, 2012 at 11:28 am
That is the difference between liberals and conservatives. Liberals will rationalize misogynistic comments from their own and claim that what the liberal did is not as bad as what the conservative did.
Conservatives excoriated Limbaugh for his misogynstic comments and then excoriated liberals for their hypocrisy.
What Limbaugh did was very bad. What Maher, Shultz, and Olvermann do on a regular basis is very bad also. There is no degree of malevalence. All their behavior is equally reprehensible. But for some reason, in the liberals' minds, if a liberal makes a misogynistic about a conservative then that is acceptable. And judging by the reactions of Maher's audience it is more than acceptable it is encouraged and applauded.
Well I have news for you
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Mar 16, 2012 at 11:59 am
I am a liberal. I am a flaming liberal. I condemn all misogyny, all hypocrisy, all stupidity, all incivility. From the liberals, from the conservatives, from the stupid. There. Does that satisfy you?
a resident of Woodside: other
on Mar 16, 2012 at 12:32 pm
Disappointed in the Press - "Conservatives excoriated Limbaugh for his misogynstic comments"
That's great, maybe you can help me since you are such an expert!!
Please find me the quotes from Mitt Romney and Rick Santorium excoriating Limpbaugh in the 3 days following Rush's hate speech comments. As one of them is the presumptive leader of the Republican Party, I'm sure they boldly stepped forward to immediately excoriate such despicable speech. I'm sure they would not have mealymouthed their way through it by saying something pitifully weak and impudent like saying it was a "poor choice of words" after Rush called her a slut and asked for a sex tape.
I can't seem to find them and you seem to know everything.
Please find me the quotes from Mitt Romney and Rick Santorium excoriating Limpbaugh in the 3 days following Rush's hate speech comments.
Take your time. I'll wait.
Thank you for your kindness in helping. You are such a strong man.
a resident of Woodside: other
on Mar 16, 2012 at 12:40 pm
Oh, dear me. Silly old fool!
All I can find is the weak, limp impudent phrase from Mitt on Rush calling a law student a slut and requesting her to post a sex video...
Mitt Romney: "It's not the language I would have used."
I need a strong conservative man like Disappointed to find proof for his claim: "Conservatives excoriated Limbaugh for his misogynstic comments"
Please find the Republican Party's presumptive leader's quotes excoriating Rush Limpbaugh. I'll settle for one from Mitt and one from Rick Santorium. I have trouble using the Google machine with his name.
It give little old me the vapors.
I'm so helpless.
Thank you, dear.
a resident of Menlo Park: Stanford Hills
on Mar 16, 2012 at 5:39 pm
A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner on Friday March 2 said the top Republican condemns a controversial comment made by conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh.
Carly Fiorina (National Republican Senatorial Committee Vice-Chairman) : "That language is insulting, in my opinion"
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ): Limbaugh's Comments Are "Unacceptable In Every Way."
Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA): "Rush Limbaugh's Comments Are Reprehensible. He Should Apologize."
No Democrat leaders have condmened Ed Shultz, Bill Maher, or Keith Olbermann for their sexually degrading remarks toward women. The Democratic Leadership gives a free ride to liberals to make misogynisitic remarks about Republican women and in Keith Olbermann's case about a prominent democrat woman if she happens to be running against a socialist for the presidential nomination for the democratic party.
a resident of Woodside: other
on Mar 17, 2012 at 10:15 am
Disappointed: So you have no answer to my request? What did Rick and Mitt so to excoriate Rush?
"Please find me the quotes from Mitt Romney and Rick Santorium excoriating Limpbaugh in the 3 days following Rush's hate speech comments. As one of them is the presumptive leader of the Republican Party, I'm sure they boldly stepped forward to immediately excoriate such despicable speech. I'm sure they would not have mealymouthed their way through it by saying something pitifully weak and impudent like saying it was a "poor choice of words" after Rush called her a slut and asked for a sex tape.
I can't seem to find them and you seem to know everything."
a resident of Woodside: other
on Mar 17, 2012 at 10:36 am
I'll play your game of diverting attention away from Rush Limbaugh's terrible remarks, since you can't answer my request above. And I thought you were such a strong, smart man! Silly old me.
Bill Maher is a comedian (though I neither care for him nor find him funny.) He is not recognized by the Democrat party nor ever honored as a member. He says many reviled things, as do too many supposed 'comedians' these days.
Rush is the voice of the conservative movement - few Republicans ever hold him accountable.
Where is the tape of the Speaker of the House excoriating him? A statement from an aide is not "excoriation." The Speaker is arguably the leader of the Republican Party until Mitt is nominated. Oh, dear me, I found it, what you where referring to:
"CNN: Boehner hits Limbaugh's comments as 'inappropriate'"
My dear, dear Disappointed; perhaps you should review the definitions of the words: 'inappropriate' & 'excoriate'. I fear you are a tiny bit confused as to the meanings of those words.
- Ronald Reagan told Rush Limbaugh : "Now that I've retired from active politics, I don't mind that you've become the number-one, voice for conservatism in our country."
- A Republican representative once placed a tribute to Limbaugh in the Congressional Record.
- The freshman Republican class of 1994 made Limbaugh an honorary member of their class.
I do believe we are all best served by condemning Rush Limbaugh's remarks and not try to make him look better by Disappointed's fabrications or deflection upon some very rude statements by meaningless comments a couple years ago.
Have a nice St Pat's, my dear. I'm sure you can download some of those newfangled pod-casts of your boy Rush to keep you occupied the rest of the weekend. I hear those pod-casts are like his radio show this week.
Few, if any, advertisers.
a resident of Woodside: other
on Mar 17, 2012 at 10:39 am
'meaningless comments ' should have been "meaningless comedians"
I regret my lack of accurate review prior to submitting my comments, mine eyes aren't what they used to be.
a resident of Menlo Park: Stanford Hills
on Mar 17, 2012 at 11:50 am
Dear Dorothy,
1. Rush Limbaugh is not the de facto leader of the Republican Party. He is no more the de facto leader of the Republican Party than Bill Maher is of the Democratic Party
2. Democrats give fellow Democrats a pass when it comes to misogynistic comments towards Republican women. And it is OK for Democrats to go after Secretary of State Clinton. After all she was a mere liberal getting in the way of getting a bonafide socialist elected to hte Presidency.
3. At least some Republicans condemn Limbaugh for his remarks. Where are the Democrats comdemnation of Bill Maher for calling Sarah Palin a c**t or for making crude references that her 14 year old daughter was having sex with a baseball player twice her age? There are not any. That is because when it comes to misogynistic comments the Democrats are hypocrites.
a resident of Woodside: other
on Mar 17, 2012 at 12:24 pm
Dearest Disappointed:
You seem to be quite happy comparing Rush with a vulgar, distasteful, unfunny 'comedian'. Delighted we can gain agreement!
You have yet to prove your claim of Republican leaders excoriating Rush: "Conservatives excoriated Limbaugh for his misogynstic comments"
There has been zero excoriation from the leaders that matter: The Republican Speaker of the House (said: 'inappropriate') nor either of the presumptive leaders of the Republican party (Mitt 'not the language I would have used' Romney or Rick Santorum.) So let's let your claim of Conservative Excoriation rest, shall we?
"He is no more the de facto leader of the Republican Party than Bill Maher is of the Democratic Party" Despite the listed Congressional honors or President Reagan's thoughts to the contrary? One knows without debate that Rush means far more to the conservative movement than the distasteful Mahler does to any liberal movement. To claim otherwise is rather silly, even you must agree.
If you don't agree, I would be happy to match you quote for quote on support for Rush. In my silly little old quiver, I have quotes from Pat Buchanan and other movement icons, both President Bush's, President Reagan, former Chairmen of the RNC and almost untold House and Senate members. I shan't bore you with all their man-blubbering, suffice to say there appears to be an inordinate amount of love and respect for a man with several mugshots posted online for his indiscretions with pharmaceuticals.
You insist on bringing up rather unrelated items such as an unwed teenage mother (the only one to stand on a nomination stage of a family values party, to my knowledge) dating a ball player. Dearest Disappointed, if you continue on this path of seeking every Bogeyman to bolster your attempts to excuse the inexcusable, I fear you will soon be reaching back to Mr Clinton and his affair, or even further back to my time, when Mr Kennedy had several infamous dalliances.
Is that what you require? Using strong historical men to prove either you or Rush are indeed Real Men? I'm so confused as to your inadequate methods of defending Rush, bordering on 'two wrongs make a right'.
Yes dear, you have been quite inadequate thus far, but please, continue to enlighten me with your vast historical knowledge. It's been a lonely day, I delight in your company.
a resident of Menlo Park: Sharon Heights
on Mar 17, 2012 at 1:28 pm
Rush Limbaugh has a small following from the Far Right. It is the Pat Buchanan crowd who adores Rush. Most moderate Republicans see him for what he is. That is xenophobic, homophobic, racially intolerant bigot.
Moderate Republicans are quite embarrassed by Mr. Limbaugh because he creates the misperception that most Republicans are like him. Nothing could be further from the truth. His values are not ours.
You don't see mainstream Republicans cheering Libaugh on. You do, however, see Democrats cheering Bill Maher on, and gleefully laughing when he makes misogynistic remarks against Republican women. Not only are Democrats not condemning Maher they are joining in unseemly misogynistic behavior
a resident of Woodside: other
on Mar 17, 2012 at 2:03 pm
As I understand our modern culture, I don't see politicians excoriating comedians or actors much since the lovely Dan Quayle addressed Murphy Brown.
Interesting statement: "You don't see mainstream Republicans cheering Libaugh on. You do, however, see Democrats cheering Bill Maher on, and gleefully laughing when he makes misogynistic remarks against Republican women."
I don't see the leaders of the Republican Party excoriating Rush, despite the insistence otherwise of my dear friend Disappointed. Can you help enlighten me with examples of Democratic leaders "cheering on" the uncouth comedian?
You may have missed my comment on the knitting bag (quiver was an overstatement, an artifact of my younger athletic days) of comments supporting Rush by the likes of many Buchanan and other conservative movement icons, both President Bush's, President Reagan, former chairmen of the RNC and almost untold House and Senate members.
Excuse me for being a little risque after my post midday meal apertif, but when it comes to your quotes of Democratic leaders cheering on the comedian and my quotes of Republican leaders supporting Rush, well dear, I'll show you mine if you show me yours.
I suspect I'm far better prepared to do so in that area than you, Mr Foxtrot.
Good day to you, as I amble on to my afternoon respite.
Oh, one last curiosity - who would you claim to be moderate leaders of today's Republican party? Or even Republicans who are moderate leaders? They seem as rare as discussion of a Reagan Democrat these days. Please help me understand if you have the time.
a resident of another community
on Mar 17, 2012 at 3:25 pm
Dorothy rocks. She spanks that silly argument about Rush being okay because some entertainers said bad things also.
a resident of Woodside: other
on Mar 17, 2012 at 5:59 pm
The only thing this thread proves is how willing people are to forgive or ignore bad behavior when they are sympathetic to the perpetrator's political views.
It's not exactly newsworthy, but it is noteworthy... to everyone.
a resident of Menlo Park: Stanford Hills
on Mar 17, 2012 at 7:37 pm
No one ever said that Rush Limbaugh's behavior was excusable because Democrats have been doing the same thing. All that was pointed out was that Republicans never gave an excuse for Limbaugh's egregious behavior while Democrats look the other way when one of their own engages in the same behavior. It's a bit hypocritical for Democrats to give a pass to their own while excoriating a Republican for doing the same thing.
I am glad that advertisers are walking. Limbaugh does nothing but tarnish the Republican brand. He's an uncouth gutter snipe like Maher, Schultz, and Olbermann.
As punishment they all should be forced to listen to Al Gore speeches for hours on end. But that may be in violation of the 1954 Geneva Conventions and the Helsinki Accords on Human Rights
a resident of Woodside: other
on Mar 18, 2012 at 12:37 pm
Mr Disappointed:
You have yet to validate many of your claims, skipping my most current request: "Can you help enlighten me with examples of Democratic leaders "cheering on" the uncouth comedian?"
Also looking forward to the quotes you claim you have of Republican leaders excoriating Mt Limbaugh, starting with the Speaker, Romney and Santorum.
"As punishment they all should be forced to listen to Al Gore speeches for hours on end."
A delightful idea!! We can all start with the speech Mr Gore gave criticizing the plan to invade Iraq, a powerful and foretelling speech. Those on the right used reviews such as "Al must be off his meds" and some such.
Let's review with the benefit of hindsight - who was correct about Iraq? That would be Mr Gore, of course. Actually listening to his speech on Iraq instead of merely belittling the man would have saved thousands of lives and trillions of dollars, along with many other benefits.
So many thanks for the delightful idea of reviewing Mr Gore's speeches! You are indeed prescient - those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it.
a resident of Menlo Park: Stanford Hills
on Mar 18, 2012 at 2:48 pm
Are you talking about the Al Gore who travels the world in his private Gulfstream V and whose Nashville mansion consumes 20 times the energy of his neighbors? Not to mention is big limos and Santa Barbara Home that is over 9,000 square feet. He preaches reducing the carbon footprint and while he is not trying to solicit sex from a Portland Masseuse he is making a huge carbon footprint.
a resident of Woodside: other
on Mar 18, 2012 at 3:04 pm
My dear Disappointed:
You have yet to validate many of your claims, skipping my most current request: "Can you help enlighten me with examples of Democratic leaders "cheering on" the uncouth comedian?"
Also looking forward to the quotes you claim you have of Republican leaders excoriating Mt Limbaugh, starting with the Speaker, Romney and Santorum.
You originally deflected to Mr Gore's speeches and then when one of his greatest contributions in speech is highlighted, you deflect again. While I have enjoyed our discussion, you have a disconcerting habit of not proving your claims, of deflecting to some other tangent. While you are consistent with that tactic, you are not very good at it. This lessens your impact.
Do try to stay focused, Mr Disappointed.
a resident of Menlo Park: Stanford Hills
on Mar 18, 2012 at 8:43 pm
What Dorotny ignores is the consistent misogyny of many prominent, mainstream liberals against conservative women.
In fact, while one is hard pressed to find another conservative in the mainstream besides Limbaugh who has attacked a liberal woman in such vulgar sexual terms, finding incidents of vulgar sexual slurs against conservative woman is, unfortunately, as easy as gathering low-hanging fruit. Daily Beast columnist Kristin Powers has provided two excellent columns on the hypocrisy of liberals:
Web Link
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Although he has strong competition, Bill Maher rates pretty high on the liberal misogyny meter. (I want to digress here to state I don't want Maher, or any of his hostile-to-women colleagues fired, or suffer organized efforts to have employers or advertisers fire them. That should be the job of audiences.) But the hypocrisy level of how liberals treat Maher and others is amazing.
Case in point: President Barack Obama's chief adviser, David Axelrod, has appropriately condemned Rush Limbaugh and even criticized Mitt Romney for insufficient outrage. Yet, Axelrod is planning to be a future guest on Maher's HBO show. Some of Maher's remarks include calling Sarah Palin a "twat" and using "MILF," a sexually vulger term, to describe Palin and Rep. Michele Bachmann.
Suggestions that an Obama-supporting superPAC, Priorities USA, return a $1 million donation from Maher were described as "crazy" by Bill Burton who runs the superPAC.
Web Link
Let me agree with Mr. Burton that it is "crazy" that the money be returned. In his own way, Burton is being candid. The truth is that for a long time, a sufficient number of Democrats, whether described as liberals, leftists or progressives, have not only approved of the misogyny of Maher and others against conservative women, they've chortled at the jokes, cheered enthusiastically, and passed them on.
a resident of Woodside: other
on Mar 18, 2012 at 9:34 pm
"What Dorotny ignores"
My oh my, before we get to what I perhaps have ignored, or refuting your new claims in another attempt at deflection, lets review that our dear Disappointed is ignoring his own false claims:
You have yet to validate many of your claims, skipping my most current request: "Can you help enlighten me with examples of Democratic leaders "cheering on" the uncouth comedian?"
Also looking forward to the quotes you claim you have of Republican leaders excoriating Mt Limbaugh, starting with the Speaker, Romney and Santorum."
Dearest Disappointed - once your wild claims have been proven false, why would I desire to read more unrelated claims?
Attempting to convince women, in this day of Govs. Rick Perry and Bob McDonnell and their trans-vaginal probes, that Liberals are anti-women and Republicans are nothing but respectful in their forced probing of women's private areas in an unnecessary medical procedure is a tall order indeed.
Mr Limbaugh's request for sex videos and obscenities about a student make your path more difficult.
Please address your claims above, dear.
a resident of Atherton: West Atherton
on Mar 19, 2012 at 10:32 am
There's a great article in the American Spectator regarding President Obama's double standard for misogynist behavior.
To read about the Obama hypocrisy please click here.
Web Link
a resident of another community
on Mar 19, 2012 at 4:54 pm
Dorothy the Excoriator!!!
Way to go, girl!!
The best these losers have is to bring up Bill Maher. What an admission!
Too bad they can't respond to the lady's requests. Blubber, blubber, Bill Maher, blubber, Al GOre, blubber, blubber...
Al Gore?!?
At least they're off the canard that contraception cost taxpayers money.
- it doesn't, in most of these instance, it's provided by insurance companies, not costing the Feds or taxpayers anything
- insurance plans without contraception provide more risk to the insurer, so the plans cost more
a resident of Atherton: West Atherton
on Mar 20, 2012 at 7:23 am
President Obama and his Democrat cohorts, including elected officials and liberal media sycophants, are telling us there's a "War on Women."
According to President Obama, using the term "slut" is "horrible."
So why did President Obama not object to his wife's appearance on David Letterman's show last night? Michelle Obama's appearance on the David Letterman Show was tacit White House approval of David Letterman's misogynistic remarks. Even David Alexrod can't spin that.
to take a walk down memory lane--In June 2009, Letterman did a "Top Ten list" on Sarah Palin's trip to New York.
10. Visited New York landmarks she normally only sees from Alaska
9. Laughed at all the crazy-looking foreigners entering the U.N.
8. Made moose jerky on Rachael Ray
7. Keyed Tina Fey's car
6. After a wink and a nod, ended up with a kilo of crack
5. Made coat out of New York City rat pelts
4. Sat in for Kelly Ripa. Regis couldn't tell the difference.
3. Finally met one of those Jewish people Mel Gibson's always talking about
2. Bought makeup from Bloomingdale's to update her "slutty flight attendant" look
1. Especially enjoyed not appearing on Letterman
The "Bought makeup from Bloomingdale's to update her 'slutty flight attendant' look" is particularly relevant since Obama was so deeply troubled by Rush Limbaugh's on-air comments about political activist and 30-year-old Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke.
Letterman not only insulted Sarah Palin. He took a shot at flight attendants.
No problem for Obama. No problem for Michelle.
And this was not the first time Letterman made misogynistic remarks. Letterman has spent years verbally viciously assaulting Sarah Palin and her children, with impunity for the most part.
David Letterman, a 63 year old man said about Sarah Palin who the night before took her 14 year old daughter Willow to a yankee game:
"One awkward moment for Sarah Palin at the Yankee game -- During the seventh inning her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez"
To see the misogynistic film (You have to see the lobster commercial first)clip click here
Web Link
It is perfectly OK with the Obamas for one of their die hard Democrat Supporters, David Letterman, to talk about raping the daughter of a Republican.
Obama, Michelle, and the Democrats are in a bind.
If they are going to run around caterwauling about this "War on Women," they have to be consistent.
Letterman shouldn't get a pass. Bill Maher shouldn't get a pass. Jon Stewart shouldn't get a pass and neith should Rush Limbaugh.
President Obama and his wife Michelle are hypocrites.
a resident of Woodside: other
on Mar 20, 2012 at 8:50 am
The postings on this thread only continue to prove that people are willing to forgive or ignore bad behavior when they are sympathetic to the perpetrator's political views.
And yes, I'm talking to you.
a resident of Woodside: other
on Mar 20, 2012 at 9:06 am
Oh my, dear disappointed, there is a phrase a polite lady shouldn't use, but suffice to say, you seem to have your undergarments in disarray.
"Letterman shouldn't get a pass. Bill Maher shouldn't get a pass. Jon Stewart shouldn't get a pass and neith should Rush Limbaugh. "
One of these is not like the others.
Three are entertainers.
One is called, by the top tier of the Republican party hierarchy over the years "you've become the number-one, voice for conservatism in our country" (R Reagan) and worshiped accordingly. The hypocrisy is they have not denounced Rush after lauding him for decades. You've spent a dozen words mildly chastising Rush and thousands to deflect from his barbaric statements, comparing him to vulgar comedians.
Dear me, it seems that your blinders won't let you see what 90% of Limbaugh's advertisers have viewed quite clearly.
But march on to entertainers, however vulgar, at your insistence we shall! I don't approve of vulgarities addressed to men or women, nor our Presidents. Shall we denounce the Tea Party signs that step over the edge and all those that support the tea Party? The terrible jokes about President Bush's inability to speak clearly on occasion?
Shall we compile a list of Republicans that have been with Mr Letterman? Mitt Romney and the rest of the presidential field have all fought to appear on Mr Letterman's show - Cain, Huntsman etc..
a resident of Atherton: West Atherton
on Mar 20, 2012 at 11:09 am
You must be confused. Rush Limbaugh is not connected to the Republican party whereas David Brock of Media Matters takes marching orders from his benefactor George Soros and White House operatives.
Limbaugh expouses far right wing views, that are endorsed by two soon to be losers Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich. The mainstream Republican candidate, and the eventual nominee in Tampa Florida, Governor Mitt Romney is not part of the Rush Limbaugh clique. Governor Romney is a focused and accomplished Republican leader who was elected Governor in the most liberal State in this country-- Massachusetts.
So we are going to have a contest with Governor Romney running against President Obama who has accumulated more debt in just over 3 years than George W. Bush did in a enrire 8 years as President!
When the young under 30 voters realize that Barack Obama has bankrupted their future by saddling them with such huge debts that they will be the first generation with a lower standard of living than their parents, they will bolt and vote for Governor Romney. They are not going to be fooled twice by President Obama's unctuous disingenuous rhetoric.
But Dorothy you can take solace in Obama winning California. I hope that makes you feel better.
I am going to feel much better when on November 6 I see President Elect Romney garnering over 300 electoral votes.
Turn out the lights the party's over. Only 231 days until America votes thumbs down on Obama's disastrous experiment with socialism.
a resident of Woodside: other
on Mar 20, 2012 at 11:32 am
Dearest double standard:
Rush has been praised by virtually all Republican leaders, including the last three presidents, honored by House resolutions and scores of House and Senate members, chairmen of the Republican National Committee and on and on. I have asked before, would you like the instances and quotes? The few that have crossed Mr Limbaugh have soon crawled forward to beg mercy.
I personally have taken that as an affront to Republican voters of a more moderate temperament.
Are we are now done with your Letterman comment, you graciously offer yet another attempt to deflect from Rush Limbaugh's awful statements? You seem to now want to deflect to something entirely different.
[Portion removed.]
You brought up Governor Romney. As said before, the Governor's remarks about the despicable language used by Rush along with the request for a sex video: "It's not the language I would have used."
If, as you claim, there is no respect for Mr Limbaugh, why wouldn't the good Governor Romney have said something with a little more spine?
Both you, I and most proper Americans have agreed about the egregious statements by Rush, yet Mr Romney doesn't seem bothered at all.
"It's not the language I would have used."
Yet again, I am perplexed.
a resident of Woodside: other
on Mar 20, 2012 at 11:36 am
"But Dorothy you can take solace in Obama winning California."
I believe I have not addressed the president, nor the Democrat party above. Please do not be so brash as to assign your fantastic thoughts or assumptions to me without proper discussion thereof. Even though based on your writings, it appears to be yet another trivial deflection, I ask you to honor me by not assigning assumptions.
Thank you.
a resident of Atherton: West Atherton
on Mar 23, 2012 at 12:51 pm
This film clip shows the misogynistic comments by the likes of Ed Shultz, David Letterman, Tom Hanks, Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, and Bill Maher.
Liberals are hypocrites. The amount of misogynistic comments by liberals in the media far outpace those from conservatives in the media, yet they act as if conservatives are the only ones who do this. The facts are that conservatives engage in misogynistic speech far less frequently than liberals.
Web Link
a resident of another community
on Apr 23, 2012 at 3:26 pm
Rush doesn't want you to be able to review his comments on the law student, from whom he requests a sex video.
His comments (53 separate comments over three days) were spliced together and put on youtube. Rush rushed to have his lawyers remove the video. Web Link
See the banned video: Web Link
Rush - it's called the First Amendment.
Also called Fair Use.
Maybe next time Rush should shut his trap instead of calling a student a sl** and asking for her to make him a sex video.
Maybe next time, Governor Rmoney will find a better way to condemn it than saying it was a "poor choice of words" after Rush called her a sl**.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Apr 23, 2012 at 4:11 pm
I never had the stomach to watch Rush in action (or listen to him for that matter after my curiosity got the better of me and I tuned in a couple of times), but I watched this video aghast in spite of my stomach turning in revulsion. Posting images of this fat clown in every bedroom in America would be the most effective form of birth control ever invented.
a resident of another community
on Apr 23, 2012 at 4:39 pm
"Posting images of this fat clown"
No offense to clowns, one trusts....
a resident of Atherton: other
on Apr 24, 2012 at 11:19 am
Ann Romney weighs in, trying to appear sympathetic to women who work, only she has as many unforced errors as her husband....
"Romney alluded to the fact that not all women can stay at home saying, "I love the fact that there are women out there who don't have a choice and they must go to work and they still have to raise the kids."
Love women not having a choice?
a resident of Atherton: other
on Jan 30, 2017 at 6:29 pm
First they came for the unions
Then they came for the Muslims
Are women next?
Or Jews?
They already told us what they think of Jews this week, on Holocaust Remembrance Day,
Mitt's looking pretty good, by comparison.
a resident of Woodside: other
on Feb 1, 2017 at 2:31 pm
Nothing from back then says "misogynist" like Trump and his admitted serial sexual assualts. Limbaugh was/is terrible, but Trump set new 'standards'.
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Wed, 12 May 2010 13:13:33 +0100
-inrange()- won't work as you want because the address is a string variable. I can think of two strategies here:
1. Use -split- to split into string and numeric components; then put them together again with a comma inserted.
2. Use regular expression functions.
3. Find the spaces with -strpos()- and stop when you reach the first space preceded by a number.
There is some programming needed in each case.
Tomas Lind
I have (in principle) a dataset that looks like this with an id-variable and
a text-variable with addresses. Unfortunately there are often several
addresses in the same variable. I have to split these into one variable for
the first address, another for the second and so on.
id address
1 Stockholm xroad 12 London yroad10
2 London zroad 31
3 Helsinki rroad 1 Oslo sroad 123 Berlin troad 13
Each address ends with a number. My idea is to put in a parsing "," in the
empty space after the number (to be able to use -split parse-. Like this.
id address
1 Stockholm xroad,12 London yroad10
2 London zroad 31,
3 Helsinki rroad 1,Oslo sroad123,Berlin troad 13
One idea to do this is to use something like (if we rename the
address-variable to a shorter name, x).
replace x[i]="," if x[`i' - 1]==inrange(0, x[`i'], 9) & x[`i']==" "
I´m not sure about how to work out the details to get this into work. Any
help is welcome to put the commas into place. Other ideas are also welcome.
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I am going to make some brood boxes this winter and decided to experiment with wood other than pine. I am going to make a few cedar, catalpa, and maybe sassafras boxes and seal them with exterior water base polyurethane to let the wood grains show.
The cedar I have is planed 3 sides and rough on one side. Since I have already had a problem with moths, I hope the cedar will help with that. I am building stands and bottoms out of the cedar and going to try a cedar cover. While observing bees landing on the hive, I noticed that slick surfaces cause them to lose their grip and slide off the box. I was thinking rough side out for everything to give them a good gripping surface. But it would look better smooth side out. What will they do with the rough side on the inside? Will I have more problems with bur comb and other stuff if I put the rough side in?


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keeps feet from slipping off pedals
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from New Mexico
About Me Casual/ Recreational
Comments about Nashbar Steel Toe Clips:
I've used plastic toe clips before and they break after being out in the sun. I'm hoping these metal toe clips will last a lot longer.
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The vertical space for your shoe (toes) is severly limited when first installed (and I have very small feet.)I hope they will stretch/bend enough to not put pressure on the toe area. If it does, they'll be fine.
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Works great on my TerraTrike Rambler recumbent trike
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I like these
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I like these since I can bend them to fit my size 14 Keenes which I wear for year-round commuting. They will rust after awhile, so you may want to spray them with lacquer to help them last longer. They could benefit from a spacer if you have larger feet.
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Nashbar used to sell toe clips made by Wellgo. I will be comparing these to the toe clips made by Wellgo. The ones being reviewed have no brand name but they were made in Taiwan. They are sold as "Medium/Large" but they are smaller than the toe clips made by Wellgo. This matters to me because I wear shoes which are tall and wide. Also these toe clips have only one slot for the strap; the toe clips made by Wellgo had two slots.
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They are a good value. However, be prepared to spend some time installing as the hardware and room to work is quite small. I'd also suggest using lock tite (blue kind). And you might want to remember buying straps as these do not come with them. I felt so very retro after using but am hoping to gain effeciency to make up for lack of training for Katy Trail....
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I use it everyday. It should come with set, not just the clips by itself.
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I didn't want to spend the money on new pedals and shoes yet so I went for these. I've never liked the black plastic kind...they look bad. These are completely functional, look great, and at the price you can't do better. Highly recommend if you need to keep your feet in place but aren't ready for clips.
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I bought those clips to replace the plastic clips I used so far. I did not use the screws the pedals came with. Instead I used the very fine working screw and plastic anchors the plastic clips were attached with. I like that I could shape the clips to not pinch my toes. Plastic clips cannot be shaped. I did not like that they really feel to short. I just added a spacer of about 3 mm. Should be better now, but I fear another 3 mm would be best. All in all, if you have shoe size 9, the y will work.
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(Nov. 1, 2006)--A search committee seeking a new UTSA vice president for student affairs selected four finalists to meet with students, faculty and staff in public forums set for Nov. 7-10.
Today's headlines
- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
- UTSA begins new way-finding sign installation this summer at Main Campus
- USA Today: UTSA long jumper Tyler Williamson rescues three-year-old boy
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The finalists (in order of their campus visits) include Richard Padilla (University of Texas at El Paso), Charles Fey (University of Maryland - Baltimore County), Esther Peralez (Metropolitan State University) and Gage Paine (Trinity University).
See brief bios of the candidates below.
The public forums, which are open to the UTSA community, will be 1:30-2:15 p.m., Nov. 7-10 in the University Center Laurel Room (2.01.28) on the 1604 Campus.
The candidates and their meeting days are:
- Richard Padilla -- Tuesday, Nov. 7
- Charles Fey -- Wednesday, Nov. 8
- Esther Peralez -- Thursday, Nov. 9
- Gage Paine -- Friday, Nov. 10
"Each of the candidates demonstrates a passion for students and commitment to providing the finest support services to help students be successful," said Sonia Martinez, UTSA vice president for university advancement and chair of the student affairs search committee.
"I encourage all members of the university community, particularly students, to participate in the public forums," Martinez added. "The feedback provided will help us recruit an individual who can lead the student affairs program to higher levels of excellence."
For more information, call (210) 458-4131.
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Richard Padilla has been vice president for student affairs at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) since 1994. Before working at UTEP, he served at the University of Houston from 1982 to 1988 as an area coordinator in residence life, assistant dean of students and associate dean of students. At the University of Houston - Downtown he was dean of students (1988-1994).
Padilla has a doctorate in higher education administration from the University of Houston, a master of divinity degree from Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, and a bachelor's degree in English from Bellarmine College in Louisville, Ky. Additionally, he completed Harvard's Management Development Program.
Charles Fey has served as vice president for student affairs at the University of Maryland - Baltimore County, since July 1997. He earned a doctorate in education from Texas A&M University. At Pennsylvania State University, he earned a master of education degree in counselor education and bachelor's degree in liberal arts, general arts and sciences.
He has published articles and papers on student development initiatives, integrating ethics in curricula, management skills and professional development needs. He has delivered presentations on monitoring and assessing student learning, balance and perspective in the workweek, civic responsibility as a way of learning and thinking, and trends, challenges and opportunities for faculty.
Esther Peralez currently is vice president for student affairs at Metropolitan State University. She has served in a number of administrative positions over 23 years, including dean of students and university advising. She co-facilitated the Student Affairs Integrated Co-location Initiative with Minneapolis Technical and Community College to support retention and graduation of underrepresented students.
Peralez earned a doctorate in educational administration at University of Minnesota, a master of education degree from Montana State University - Billings and a bachelor of science degree from Rocky Mountain College (Montana). She began her career as a teacher for the Migrant Education Project (Oregon), and at the University of Minnesota was director of student services and special assistant to the vice president for student development and athletics.
Gage Paine serves as vice president for student affairs at Trinity University in San Antonio. Previously, she was associate vice president for student affairs and dean of student life at Southern Methodist University in Dallas (1997-2000) and associate dean of students at the University of Texas at Austin in the areas of judicial affairs and disability services (1986-1997).
She holds a jurisdoctorate degree from Texas Tech and a Ph.D. in educational administration from UT Austin. Her dissertation focused on the impact of public policy on organization development in disability services. Paine has presented workshops at numerous statewide and national conferences on topics such as the Americans with Disabilities Act, sexual harassment, hazing and legal issues in higher education.


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Naomi is with her hot beast of a Russian billionaire boyfriend on his yacht in the South of France. Here they are, on a run with their trainer, before heading back onto the boat where they get stretched by the trainer, after which they quickly return to hard work, in swimwear, lounging on the deck.
If I were her then, I wouldn't want to walk up two flights of stairs either. Naomi is being sued by Moodform Mission because she bailed on their 12 year fragrance contract. Apparently she was lazy and greedy (the best combination, non?) and once backed out of a promotional appearance in Australia because the lift wasn't in service and she'd have to take herself up the stairs. The Moodform people also say that she was temperamental, never on time, and when angry, would use a bottle for a weapon. Not sure if she was double fisting her attacks with her cell phone.
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There's a nice irony when an art project that sets out to help people let go becomes a runaway train.
But if Frank Warren is bothered about spending his working days trapped in a basement with the discarded private hells of total strangers, he's hiding it well.
Then again, his website, PostSecret, has been going for 10 years with no signs of wrinkles. The global phenomenon involves people writing their secrets anonymously on a postcard and sending them to Warren.
In a decade he's attracted nigh on 600 million views, won a stack of awards - including 2012 Weblog of the Year - and imitators, and has established himself as the rarest kind of agony aunt, the one who offers no answers at all.
Every Sunday, he sticks the postcards online for the whole world to see. His only request is that the secrets be true and that they've never been told before.
Other than that the floor is yours to spill whatever you like, be it sexual, pathological or whimsical.
If the world has a secular confessor, Warren is probably it. He talks of his site as staying pure so as to serve a higher purpose, a notion that mostly means rejecting any advertising, aside from a single link to a suicide prevention site - a cause he has raised US$1000,000 (NZ$1190,000) for.
Ordinarily the secrets he receives are told via decorated postcard, but lately people have begun queuing up to declare them in front of a paying audience.
As you'd imagine the contents of his mailbag can be as powerful as they are weighty. His basement is dominated by a growing pyramid of postcards which he reckons would weigh an easy tonne - he has never counted them, but there must be hundreds of thousands, several more hundreds arriving every week.
"I can hear them creaking," he says from his Maryland home.
"They're just behind me, every postcard I've ever been sent and I've read every single one of them. It's a personal commitment and I think that's how I've earned the trust of strangers. That really is my home address on my website and books... even if that's much to my wife's chagrin."
Just how strongly he now personifies PostSecret was shown by the email he was opening when I called.
It had been sent by a woman who had driven 960km to attend his last event, two days previously. Her sister died four years ago and while sorting out her belongings she'd found an unsent postcard addressed to Warren - reading PostSecret was their Sunday ritual so she decided to hand it over personally.
The email linked to a YouTube message, which he played as I listened.
Which is the thing about his work, it's as voyeuristic as it is anything else and I felt rather uncomfortable listening to her teary thanks for providing a forum where she could let go and move on: "Thank you for helping me heal," she said in closing. He's since posted it on his twitter feed.
People can think whatever they like about his work, says Warren. It's an art project first and foremost, so all reactions are acceptable.
Where it all stems from is hard to say. Warren keeps his own secrets to himself, thank you very much, although he does sneak one of his own into each his books.
He will admit to his fair share of troubles and during his university days became tied up with a Pentecostal church that did a fine line in tongues, testifying and rapturous running up and down the aisle: "I never could speak in tongues, but I learned a lot about personal testimony."
After the suicide of a close friend 10 years ago, Warren volunteered as a helpline counsellor. That experience has helped him deal with the more painful messages.
Instead of seeing them as burdens, he says he feels a "solidarity" with the sender.
As for his art, he says he has a strong - and secret - connection to postcards and experimented with several ways of using them before kicking off PostSecret. One saw him, every Sunday (another constant in his work), tossing a bottle into a lake where The Blair Witch Project was filmed.
Each had a postcard hanging inside. "I'd write these cryptic messages like 'instead of looking for answers discover why you're asking the question' and then leave them to be discovered."
Gradually, as more bottles turned up, their mystery grew until they made the Washington Post and then national television. What on earth did they mean? If the answer was slightly deflating their success only encouraged him to go further.
Then he struck on the idea of getting people to send him postcards instead, so he started handing out thousands of blank cards and inviting people to send anonymous secrets which he'd put online. PostSecret went live on January 1, 2005, perfectly timed for the world's growing love for personal online exposure."I think it's art but didn't see myself as an artist. I was the curator, an entrepreneur, a suburban dad. I never really hoped to achieve anything, so I was really shocked at how it resonated with so many people. I never had any ambition to lead it anywhere; actually I think one of the reasons it has grown the way it has is that I've let it lead me... like with the live PostSecret events, I feel like they have evolved to the point where they are the highest manifestation of the whole concept. I have to go through a definite process to make everyone feel safe and willing to speak, but when it works I get so much satisfaction from it. It feels really meaningful, liberating."
Warren had been reluctant to move into the real world - for one thing he's terrified of public speaking, but he eventually felt he had no choice.
"That was definitely a point where I felt like I had to make a full commitment, I'd become known as the PostSecret guy and I had been aware of that transition happening. It took about a year as I sold my business and went full-time. My wife, she didn't understand so much to start with, now she really likes it."
Though he still refuses to commercialise his website, Warren's books and travelling roadshow do provide an income, although not without a few unexpected side effects.
Making public your home address brings its own obvious challenges - unusual visitors are not uncommon, but he won't go into details - while the nature of what he's being sent has aroused the interest of the FBI and scholars. His long-suffering mailwoman, Cathy, has a following all of her own, even if her efforts have not stopped mail being misdirected to his neighbours: "In a strange way it's like our whole community is coming along for the ride as well," says Warren.
His work was success followed by success until he launched his PostSecret mobile phone app. Between September and December 2011 anyone who bought it could post 100 per cent anonymous secrets and then comment on others' without fear of being identified.
At its peak Warren was fielding 10 secrets every minute, 24 hours a day, from all over the world along with a constant flood of comments.
As you'd guess, your usual internet gutter dwellers came along for the ride to attack, threaten and abuse. A team of volunteers stepped up to monitor all incoming submissions, but the workload proved overwhelming. "No, it didn't go as I'd planned, you can't control who has an app and who uses it and we found the potential for harm when you bring a whole lot of strangers together like that is too much. So it had a short, brilliant life and then we killed it. I won't be trying again."
And that's about all Warren knows of his future. Otherwise he doesn't know what will come next or how he would even go about stopping the train. PostSecret remains as popular as ever; the event he's bringing to Auckland on April 12, and his exhibitions, have given it new life and a means of making money. His difficulty is the degree to which he is identified with it. Would people have the same trust with someone else in charge? Could he even hand it on to someone else? And what would he do with all the postcards?
He really has no idea.
No matter, he's far from ready to give up his window into the human condition."It's definitely made me more open to accepting people's behaviour. We cover a very wide spectrum, but what I see week after week is people searching for that one person they can tell their secrets too. It's a search for that intimacy and the desire to unburden ourselves - I think that's common to everyone at some level - and I think there is something very powerful in finding the words and the image to express a secret. It's about taking ownership, and, yes, it's anonymous but sometimes it can turn out that the most important person you need to tell is yourself."
Which raises the inevitable question: How does he know the secrets are true?
He doesn't care. He even doubts if a lie can be completely false. Let's call it Warren's Law and put it in a bottle: Even when given total freedom to lie you will still reveal truth. Why choose that particular lie? Why take that tone? Why that subject?
Regardless, he says, truth or otherwise makes no difference in terms of it's impact on the reader. The PostSecret chatroom is still reeling from a post last month regarding one woman's rape experience - it wasn't only what she wrote, it was also the way she had decorated her postcard. It outraged, shocked, educated and validated in equal measure.
Warren fretted long and hard over whether to run it or not, but says the ongoing reaction, including from health professionals, more than justified his decision and proved the power of a small piece of cardboard.
"It showed how subversive PostSecret is. You open it up expecting one thing, then the rug will be pulled out from under you, your thinking is fired off in new directions and new connections are made. I believe it's a one-off, and it still feels like what I should be doing."
Frank Warren will host a live PostSecret event at Sky City Theatre on April 12.


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We use high-in-protein and low-in-fat silken tofu and a bit of rice instead of heavy cream to thicken this French-inspired tomato soup. Topped with a melted-cheese crostini, it's almost like getting your grilled cheese and tomato soup all in one.
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For our second Never Sleeps event with Hornitos Tequila, we pulled into Dallas with 2013 Playmate of the Year Raquel Pomplun on our arm and a party in celebration of the multicolor aesthetic of Mexican folk art on our mind. After assembling an army of acrobats, dancers and DJs, we put the word out on the streets of the Big D that we were in town and ready for a good time, and the city responded in full force. Welcoming the local in-crowd of bartenders, mixologists and party scenesters for an event unlike any other, our girls served up samples of not just any tequila, but Hornitos' range of plata, anejo and Limeshot tequila beverages. As always, we brought some the party back for you to enjoy with some sexy photo and video action.
Watch the video below to catch up on the action, as the graceful and sexy acrobats entertain the crowds, and Raquel Pomplun shmoozes with all of her eager fans.