As usual the Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto makes an excellent point. He commends Kirsten Powers for noting the misogyny on the left and observes that no one has asked the stars of NBC why they haven’t apologized:
But Schultz, Olbermann and Matthews are especially worthy of note because at the time of their offending comments they all worked for NBC (Schultz and Matthews still do). We haven’t heard anyone demand that respectable NBC personalities like Tom Brokaw, Andrea Mitchell and Brian Williams denounce their colleagues’ indecent, misogynistic rants. Yet the left has been hectoring Republican politicians to repudiate Limbaugh, even though he has no formal connection to them or the party: “The GOP Can No Longer Avoid Its Rush Limbaugh Problem,” the Washington Post editorialized last week.
The explanation for the double standard is obvious: The attack on Limbaugh is not primarily about establishing or enforcing standards of decency and respect for women. Rather, it is an any-weapon-at-hand assault by a liberal elite desperately trying to maintain its grip on cultural power. “It matters more to society what a person with a big following says than what a person with a small following says,” Timothy Noah of The New Republic acknowledges. The problem with Limbaugh isn’t that he’s occasionally coarse, it’s that he has a big following.
Hector them.
“The attack on Limbaugh is not primarily about establishing or enforcing standards of decency and respect for women.”
I have no repsect for people that are trying to use the power of government to steal my money and/or subject me to tyrannical and unconstitutional laws, whether they’re male or female.
And I will NOT treat them in a civil manner.
So, they might as well get used to it. Because that’s how it’s going to be.
I think that Rush is right when he says he allowed himself to be drop down a level. He may not have known it on Saturday when he apologized, but in apologizing he has brought back all the memories of the left’s incivility and it is getting more attention now than when people like Schultz, Olbermann, Matthews and Maher made their original comments. I love a good backfire and Miss Fluke is a backfire.
Should Rush have had to apologize or us apologize for him? I dunno? Was the word slut an accurate descriptor? Lessee.
1. slut – a dirty untidy woman, a slovenly woman, trollop, slattern
slob, sloven, slovenly person, pig – a coarse obnoxious person
2. slut – a woman adulterer.
Syn. adulteress, fornicatress, hussy, loose woman, strumpet, trollop, jade
Loose woman. Fornicatress. Loose woman. Hussy. Isn’t that what she was advocating so stridently for? And that others should pay for it for her. And that we should not be allowed religious objections?
Seems like Rush had no reason to apologize. He should have stuck to his guns.
The American Progressives of the 1930s adored the fascism of the Nazis. And Mussolini was their hero. An icon of the new, modern man his motto was everything within the state nothing outside the state. Woodrow Wilson was the first American President who espoused openly fascistic views. Obama walks in Wilsons Progressive foot stepsand he has plenty of company on the Democrat left.
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