I guess someone doesn't think he's funny

Why should I be outraged by the comments of ignorant celebrities?

I thought the Left deplored the hatemongers of the Right who stir up hypertension and outrage with their manufactured scandals. I'm sure most Democrats have objected to the tactics of right-wing bloggers who cherrypick a remark or two and offer it up as representative of the Left. How is this article any different? Are the remarks of talking heads really worthy of an emotional response?

It's not that I agree with the quotes. They are "outrageous". But over the Christmas holiday and the so-called war against it, I've reflected on the anger and disgust I've felt while reading about these skirmishes in the culture wars.

The left-wing blogosphere is becoming a mirror image of the Right wingnuts they despise.

Attractive women always had better access to society through marriage. Feminism enabled less attractive women to gain power through non-sexual means.

Salon would be less of a paradoy of a knee-jerk feminista bitch-rag if it acknowledged some basic truths about the world -- and stopped posting inflammatory, men-are-all-worthless-pigs material.

You didn't give Rush coal in his stocking- you gave him a smile! What better could a guy like him want for Christmas then to piss off feminists with his silly (and lame) words - I can hear his show now:

"Yes folks, those puffed up dykes over at Broodsheet are outraged by my words, outraged, folks, outraged! Now I'm scared.. Can you see them, these ugly feminazi lesbos, with their underarm and leg hair standing at end (ha ha), their humourless lips pursed in an eternal grimmace - outraged, by little ol' me..."

Save the outrage, please for outrageous news. Rush Limbaugh spouting off nonsense is par for the course - it's like getting outraged at a snow storm for all that snow it keeps dumping...

>> "Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society." >>

WRONG

Women didn't want access INTO the mainstream of society (despite what you think most women were already there, plain and pretty--remember all those plain men needed mates). We embraced feminism because it gave us options OUT of the rigid limitations of mainstream society.

Mainstream society had one rigid definition of a woman's role and we wanted OUT of that limiting society, not IN.

Feminism increasd equality and expanded everyone's choices.

the guy's a drug addict; can you really know when it's the sober Rush talking and when it's the drugs talking?

when their friends are no longer running the country and when the opposing side gets as much television and radio time. Until then, articles like this remind us what we're up against.

What a horrible idea, A Single Man Speaks--women managing to live their lives even if you don't approve of their looks.

Totally, cosmicmojo. Rush is addicted to the legal, controlled, pharmaceutical equivalent of heroin. He obtains it illegally in mass quantities in order to feed his habit. His show isn't live. He nods off all day and the producer just takes the least crazy sounding parts (everything he says is crazy) and runs them all together in one big tape. Nothing Druggie Limbaugh says makes any sense. And it's the tragic, stupid, unenlightened segment of our society who listens to him and actually buys what he says. His remarks are so bizarre that it's a mystery how anyone can take anything he says seriously.

The people didn't "re"-elect (you have to have been elected the first time in order to get "re"-elected) our idiot pResident; the hacks at Faux News and the right wing radio cabal made sure he served a second term. Plain and simple.

Rush is an irrelevant loser.

Under the laws of this country (and if you don't like 'em, advocate to change 'em, I'm no fan of the electoral college either), Bush was elected both times. The only way he wasn't elected the first time is if you use vote count criteria in Florida that _weren't in place at the time_. As for the second run, clear majorities in the electoral and popular vote. You don't like it, I don't like it, but we get nowhere by complaining about it. If you want someone to blame, don't go after Faux News, go after the Gore and Kerry campaigns for being so bloody inept (especially Gore - a VP of a popular president with a strong economy, in peacetime, has ZERO excuse not to win).

Bush 43 was APPOINTED to his position in 2000, not elected. Call the Supreme Court's decision whatever you want, but what happened basically amounted to installing King George in the White House.

Anyway, you're missing the larger point. Lies from Faux News and the right-wing radio cabal were mass marketed on a grand scale, many of which were fed to the media directly from King George's cast and crew. And that helped Bush's campaigns immensely both times. It doesn't matter how skillfully or horribly a candidate campaigns. If voters choose to believe lies about a candidate, or lies about the issues (9/11, the "war" on terror, etc) then everything else is moot.

The right-wing media hacks say ridiculous things all the time. They continue to repeat their lies until people believe them. Much the same way Bush 43 keeps repeating himself so the dumber segment of society will believe him. And it works, apparently.

"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth." FDR, 1939

Quoting: "The left-wing blogosphere is becoming a mirror image of the Right wingnuts they despise."

It's about time.

Fame was invented to get ugly dudes women much more attractive than themselves?

Radio was invented so people even too unattractive for polical tv could do similar?

Or possibly it was the money economy that was invented for that purpose, but whatever.

I don't bag on Limbaugh for being a drug addict, he's a hypocrite, something much worse IMO. In a decent world, he'd be able to score all the heroin he wants without having to trouble his hired help and then get good, government-funded treatment to dry out when it starts affecting him in ways he doesn't like. Of course, he spends all day long making sure a decent world doesn't come about.

I'll say one thing for the man, he's good at his job. Al Franken needs to be forced to listen to Limbaugh every day until he learns how to talk on the radio. Then maybe we'll get somewhere.