But... Obama did not return the $million from hate speaker Bill Maher. And...David Axelrod just agreed to appear on Maher's show. That's sounds like presidential endorsement of misogyny and should be "called out" Don;t ya think?
. On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com> wrote: > > It isn't a matter of "shutting them up". Much as I may dislike Rush > Limbaugh, I'm not petitioning Congress to never allow him to appear on > an FCC-licensed radio station or anything. > > You call people out and say, "this isn't ok". You use your power of > speech help make it known that this sort of thing, in your opinion, is > not acceptable. And the more people that speak up, the louder that > message becomes. Currently, there is a loud enough and large enough > set of voices out there expressing their disapproval of Limbaugh that > things are changing. Will it change the nature of his discourse on his > program long term? Will it change the nature of discourse in general > in the media long term? I don't know. I can hope but then again, > Limbaugh has been through this particular gauntlet many times before > and obviously there has been no long term change in his behavior. We > shall see. > > As for Rhodes, I really don't know enough about her to say much of > anything categorical. If this type of violent rhetoric is her norm, it > sounds pretty egregious. It also sounds like she has already been > kicked off at least one network, so perhaps the disapproval of her is > already working to marginalize her vitriol. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:348326 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
