[font size=+10]The RW is hyping the false equivalency to cover Limbaugh's ass.[/font]

smoke and mirrors.

Viewed objectively, they are just the 'left auxiliary' of the hate-radio Republican Wurlitzer....

I am a Ma'am.

It is just about Beelzebub's bed-time here.

pimp the Right-Wing Line to note that Maher IS a misogynistic prick.

Has Maher done things and said things that are misogynistic? Certainly. Does that make him a "misogynistic prick"? Certainly not. Maher may be a womanizer. He may use misogynistic slurs when referring to people he doesn't like, but he doesn't stand up every day and speak against women's rights, and in fact the opposite is closer to reality. The portly drug addict didn't just use a few misogynistic slurs. He has a long history of expressing hate against women and working against their interests. That's the reason for the outrage against him. This isn't just a one time event. It's just one more example of his extreme and deplorable behavior. Putting Maher in the same boat as Limbaugh is just ridiculous. There is no comparison between the two.

I didn't "put him in the same boat as Limbaugh", but I still think he's a misogynist prick.

Catagorizing women you don't agree with politically "cunt" or a "twat" puts you in that category, IMO.

For the same reasons I don't hear liberals calling people like Herman Cain a "dumb nigger",

I don't like or personally tolerate people who call Michelle Bachman or Sarah Palin "dumb cunts".

It's not that I LIKE them, it's that GENDER, like race, has ZERO to do with their polilics.

Remember sexism always works both ways.

I wouldn't call you sexist or a misandrist just because you use the term "prick", but you should understand it's on the exact same level as the other two words you mentioned. For the same reason I'm not going to condemn Maher. It's pretty obvious Limbaugh doesn't see women as equals. I don't get that impression from Maher.

When one group is dominant, as in white vs. black, the epithets thrown

at the weak by the powerful are far more potent and destructive.

Sexism, like racism only "works both ways" when both groups are equal.

My definitions for sexism isn't biased towards one gender the same way my definitions towards racism isn't biased towards one race. If both sexes aren't treated equally, then there will never be equality.

If you try to use your definitions in the workplace, you're going to to be wrong. The federal standards towards gender based discrimination don't favor one gender over the other either or one race over another.

It IS, however, the way that I think.

The federal standards in the workplace,

are not pertinent to this discussion, IMO.

It would not have been a month ago; it might not be so still a month from now. Right now it is, however. 'Maher does this too!' is the chosen defense of the rightist scum, and to join in their chorus is simply to swell it and lend a patina of reasonableness to it. Nothing which can interfere with the focus of the blow on Limbaugh should be done at present, by anyone on the left. It is not just in comedy that timing is everything....

I am on Democratic Underground, not a "rightist scum" board...I don't even "visit" such boards,

When I have seen attacks on Maher on "open boards", I distinguish Rush as different

and more "liable" than Rush, due to Rush's position as "head" of the Repuke party

and to the fact of Rush attacking a "private" citizen, as opposed to Maher's attacking "public" citizens.

Due to these facts, I am in no way joining "their chorus".

Maher and Taibbi are not on the public airwaves with shows that are shown to the American armed forces. Their voices reach a much smaller portion of the public than Limbaugh's.

Personally, I've never liked Maher or watched him regularly. I read Taibbi rarely when someone here posts a link to an article and seen him a few times on political talk shows. I don't go out of my way to learn what either are saying.

On the other hand, even though I have never listened willingly to Limbaugh's show, his words are constantly replayed on all kinds of media outlets or quoted in print. For an "entertainer" he gets a huge amount of attention in the political sphere.

details as he did, he is knowingly harassing them - he's done it for years- he knows he is sending the teabagging dittoheads to investigate and hound them.

"Limbaughism" should become a term for out right hatred of ones country.
For instance, the Palin friends that want to secede from our Nation would be "Limbaughites"

i am all for calling out limbaugh and taking his ass down. i have never said what he did to the woman in those three days is the same as anyone else. this is what makes him unique and what allows the ability for his down fall.

years of misogynist comments from the man resulted in nothing. no repercussion. just like years of misogynist comments from maher results in no repercussion. that is what is being said. when maher spends three days making outrageous comments about one particular woman that has nothing to do with anything, is when we can say they are comparable.

can YOU stop shifting the argument.

Thanks for the thread, ProSense.