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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHere is my question: Do we even want Rush Limbaugh off the air?
Don't get me wrong; I'll take great pleasure in seeing him panicking. I also feel horrible for Ms Fluke and George Town students for being insulted over and over by this degenerate piece of trash.
BUT, Rush Limbaugh represents the core of GOP; he speaks for them. Who better to represent GOP and conservatism than this drug abusing, woman hating, loud mouth, ignorant, obnoxious, ignorant piece of work? True, he may be hurtful to some people sometimes; but what better way to personify GOP base than this train-wreck?
warrior1
(12,325 posts)Lil Missy
(17,865 posts)Vincardog
(20,234 posts)1620rock
(2,218 posts)Vincardog
(20,234 posts)bitchkitty
(7,349 posts)da_decider
(104 posts)He'll just be represented by another obnoxious clown.
demmiblue
(36,873 posts)da_decider
(104 posts)I am not sure anymore. Don't you think Rush Limbaugh is terrifying GOP? Listen, as much as I like Bill Maher (and I am not comparing Maher to Limbaugh), I don't want Bill Maher on ABC or CBS. He is THE reason I have HBO, but he turns off the independents (non liberals) if he is exposed to general public.
Siwsan
(26,286 posts)I want him utterly and totally humiliated. And, unemployed.
mr_liberal
(1,017 posts)is that he has hurt his own party, and his own party wants him shut up.
It may be part of the reason all these businesses and stations are dropping him, its because the powers that be in the republican party aren't offering him any support behind the scenes.
The GOP establishment is quietly enjoying that this is happening.
IggleDoer
(1,186 posts)There he can spew his bile all he wants and become as irrelevant as "Dr Laura."
cynatnite
(31,011 posts)Uh, yeah, I think so.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)The damage this vile human being has done to American society is incalculable.
spin
(17,493 posts)and insure they vote for Obama.
I say let this bellicose bastard continue his ranting. He'll do more to insure Democrats win in November than one billion dollars of advertisements on TV.
If your enemy is busy shooting himself in the foot why stop him?
Johonny
(20,868 posts)there are whole radio stations that's whole day is set up to run his show. The other idiots don't pull half the ratings he does. These station lose money now but billionaires prop them up to push the RUSH RW propaganda. Without Rush I think the RW radio media empire would be seriously hurt. People like Rush are a dime a dozen on hate radio, but no one seems to get the national audience of Rush. Bill O for instance bombed out trying national radio.
ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts)1620rock
(2,218 posts)bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)If he were to be chased off the air (very unlikely) then there would be a mad scramble among all the other conservative hosts to take his place.
Exen Trik
(103 posts)He is the perfect example of the worst of the GOP. And now it's time we make an example out of him.
wandy
(3,539 posts)For now the howlings of the insulting pig-boy and the ravings of a religious fanatic (santorum), only help show moderates what an insane world this might become. At least for the time being their carrings on serve our end. We need calmey ask the undecided if this is the world they wish for their children.
With any luck by November the nation will be so sick and tired of right wing fear, bigotry and hate that most will see behind the curtain.
How many moderate republicns do you think Rush has offended this last week?
BumRushDaShow
(129,266 posts)And he is just the start. There are dozens of RW lunatics still left on the air like:
1.) Savage Weiner
2.) Neil buffoon Boortz
3.) Mark Levin
4.) Glen BecKKK
5.) Bill O'Lielly
6.) Sean Handmedown
7.) Don Imus
and on and on
Aerows
(39,961 posts)They are terrified.
That said? Yes, I want him off of the air, and I can't wait to hear a man complain that he got taken off of the air, because that identifies him as a woman hater.
da_decider
(104 posts)I guess the pleasure of him getting sacked is too joyous to be passed. I agree, lets get the SOB of the air.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)certainot
(9,090 posts)before he and his wannabes swiftboated our candidates, stopped hillary-care, lied us into bush, clarence thomas, iraq, wall street and media deregulation, educated the teabaggers, etc.
the sooner he's gone and the talk radio monopoly is broken we can get back to a real democracy.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)I don't think someone should be paid that amount of money to spew his hate.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)on the air everyday saying the N word over and over just to remind people how ugly racists can be?
varelse
(4,062 posts)thanks for asking.
sfpcjock
(1,936 posts)Huckabee is next in the interregnum. He can't be that bad.
Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)and low information voters. He puts ideas in the heads of those who are already ready to explode.
His hateful rhetoric leaves people like Gabby Giffords in it's wake.
His hateful rhetoric leaves people like Dr. Tiller in it's wake.
So excuse me...YES limbags needs to go. He serves no useful purpose.
calimary
(81,389 posts)Yes. We want that fat fuck OFF the air. You want that hate-spewing neanderthal mouthbreathing misogynist to be allowed to stay ON? All that does is to continue to validate the weasels who listen to them, and give them cover and respectability because he's the biggest thing on the air and he's saying what they're thinking. And he's giving them more negative, deceitful, hateful ideas and then the validation for telling him "megadittos."
What better than to present the opposing army with its idol's head on the ol' metaphorical pike (figuratively speaking that is)? If you want to deal the enemy a meaningful blow, disrupt their communication lines. Make a significant dent in their smooth operations. Put a kink in their chain, or snip a loop or two.
I wanna make sure EVERYBODY sees this thread, 'cause here's HOW to accomplish the above:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002374653
How to fight back at the local radio, with insights from a former radio person. As one of those, myself, I can vouch for the good ideas in it. I have personally personally witnessed how effective these strategies can be.
truebrit71
(20,805 posts)That porcine sack of shit has been allowed to get away with broadcasting his ignorant, racist, hate-filled bile for far too long now....the day he's off the air will STILL be a day too late imho...
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)....but I do care he gets paid so handsomly for it.
I don't know if the two can be separated. Therefore, he probably needs to get booted.
If he's willing to keep going for lets say the same paycheck as the average salary in the USA , I think it would be perfectly fine to keep him spouting RW talking points and for DU to keep refudiating him.