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sasha031 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 01:00 PM
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Beck and Limbaugh Call Sen. Mary Landrieu A Whore Because She
Voted for Healthcare

On their respective radio shows today Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh went on the attack against Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) because she voted for advancing the healthcare debate forward in the Senate. Instead of criticizing her position on the bill, both Beck and Limbaugh took the lowest possible road by calling a female US senator a prostitute.

Here is the audio of Beck courtesy of Media Matters:
http://www.politicususa.com/en/Beck-Limbaugh-Landrieu
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frazzled Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 01:08 PM
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1. Well, they're detestable: doesn't mean we should be
Ed Schultz did the right thing by offering to suspend himself with no pay for a week.
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 01:08 PM
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2. No doubt there's a double standard...nt
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 01:09 PM
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3. They should be ashamed
and something should be done about it. Why aren't we protesting it?

I don't like it when either side uses that language. There should always be a penalty for taking the lowest road.
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and-justice-for-all Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 01:11 PM
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4. But Ed Shultz is the asshole.....
:eyes:
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Warren Stupidity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 01:14 PM
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5. Holding breath until they are suspended....
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 01:21 PM
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 02:16 PM
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15. But there has been. Don't we count for something?
Doesn't the fact that we widdled away the vast majority of Glen Beck's sponsers mean something? Through our diligence we got most of the major sponsers to drop the Beck show.

Doesn't the fact that Rush Limbaugh's viewership has turned down by 33% in the past 6 months? People are getting turned off by his rantings.

Trust me, we are impacting these cretins.
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provis99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 02:25 PM
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17. there's no proof that Limbaugh's ratings fell at all.
As has been previously mentioned, the format of collecting ratings changed to reflect a more accurate method.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 02:37 PM
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19. The fact that he can't get a show on cable also proves he's scum
Last time he was a regular on a mainstream TV station was his stint at ESPN's Sunday night football. That lasted 5 weeks until he made racist remarks towards Black Quarterbacks and Coaches in the NFL; calling out Donovan McNabb.
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OHdem10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 01:27 PM
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7. There is a double standard and there will be a double standard
Edited on Thu May-26-11 01:30 PM by OHdem10
until the Democrats can show as much unity and willingness
to go to bat for each other as Republicans do.

Neither Rush Beck or one of my favoires Big Ed look
very good.

The difference is criticize a Republican and the whole
party comes down on you like a ton of bricks.


ADDED: People like Rush and Beck pay no attention to
a call out. They just plow forward. Republicans tend
to treat criticism like water on a duck"s back.
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femrap Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 01:52 PM
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8. When are they going to
be put in the corner w/ the dunce cap??????
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 01:52 PM
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9. They should be suspended for that -- but they won't be.
And that has nothing to do with what Landrieu is.
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Dawson Leery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 01:56 PM
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10. The "professional left" has one strength.
They know how to beat up on their own.

Again, Mike Savage openly calls for violence against gays and minorities, yet he has never faced a suspension (or forced to grovel) for it.
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PatSeg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 02:40 PM
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20. We don't operate like they do
We hold our politicians and media spokespeople accountable for their behavior. When people like Ed Schulz, Rachel Maddow, or Keith Olbermann made mistakes on air, they apologized (not the "if my words offended you" nonapology).

Just because the other side doesn't live UP to our standards, doesn't mean we need to live DOWN to theirs.
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JitterbugPerfume Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 01:58 PM
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11. we are better than them
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ProudToBeBlueInRhody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 02:07 PM
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12. But that's okay
Republican are allowed to be politically incorrect.
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Shagbark Hickory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 02:08 PM
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13. And he's right too. She is.
Edited on Thu May-26-11 02:08 PM by Shagbark Hickory
A whore to lobbiests.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 02:14 PM
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14. How many sponsers does Glenn Beck have left
How about the fact that Limbaugh has loss 33% of his listeners in the last 6 months.

They are held accountable in a way more damaging then a week unpaid suspension.
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provis99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 02:24 PM
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16. yeah but no one on DU complained about that.
When the right wing does it,its ok on DU.
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polmaven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 03:59 PM
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22. Oh, grow up!!!
No, no one at DU thinks it is "ok" when the right wing does it. But we have no ability to influience what happens to them. We do have some influence when our own do it. I do NOT want to sink to the level of that kind of misogyny.
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 02:27 PM
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18. This isn't grade six. Our side is better than that.
Ed suspended himself and apologized.
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DancingFool Donating Member (9 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 03:04 PM
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21. Lots of Big Ed condemnation here. But Limbaugh and Beck? Not so much.
This is why liberals lose so much. They eat their own while appeasing those would rather see them dead.
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bobbolink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 04:09 PM
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26. LOL
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DancingFool Donating Member (9 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 11:31 PM
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29. it wasn't my intent to entertain you, but i'm really pleased that i was able to so.
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Enthusiast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-27-11 06:04 AM
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30. We loath Limbaugh and Beck.
They have received constant criticism from DUers as long as I can remember.
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bobbolink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 04:02 PM
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23. Just saw the same term used here on DU... twice today.
It is obviously acceptable to term women this way now.

As someone posted today, we just need to stop whining.

Yup, that'll do it. :wtf:
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lightningandsnow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 04:03 PM
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24. It's possible for it to be wrong no matter who does it.
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sufrommich Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 04:03 PM
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25. They get away with it because they're scum and their audience
likes it that way. Why is that so hard to understand?
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Stuckinthebush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 04:13 PM
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27. Yeah, that's wrong too
They should be ashamed of themselves.

Ed too. Didn't he apologize? If so, good. Now we can move on.
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slay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 08:56 PM
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28. And they were both suspended without pay right? RIGHT??
oh fuck it - we all know there is such a double standard when it comes to those assholes it's not even funny.
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