"I don’t think Rush Limbaugh should be stifled. I don’t agree with him, but he has every right to his opinion no matter how (expletive) that opinion is. And I think it’s a terrible trend that when anybody in this country says anything that you don’t like, you try to get rid of him. You know what, you don’t like Rush Limbaugh, then don’t listen to him.
"He’s been on 25 years, you know what this guy’s all about. He gave an apology. That’s it. It should be over. It bothers me the way that liberals cannot let this go."
Limbaugh did not give an apology. He was defiant and did not apologize for the many disparaging and false remarks about Sandra Fluke. If Maher doesn't grasp that, he's an idiot. If he does know the so-called apology was bogus, then he's a liar.
Maher is a coward with no integrity. Setting the Limbaugh issue aside, on his last two shows he ran videos made by Alexandra Pelosi, and both were crap. The first one presented a wildly unrepresentative portrait of Mississippians - rednecks, no teeth, living in squalor - as a way of making that southern state and Republicans look foolish. The second video was of New York "Welfare Queens" (Pelosi's terminology - inherited from Ronald Reagan), and it was also unrepresentative. It was mostly black guys outside a welfare office saying that they want their food stamps or government check. Those people were off-putting, to be sure, but that's not how you argue for or against a policy. You can damn any policy by finding offensive people within the system. And while those in New York appeared to be abusing the program from what they said on camera, the reality might be strikingly different. They might have been talking macho for appearances sake. I don’t see how it was any different from the James O’Keefe videos.
After the Pelosi New York Video was aired, Maher was strutting about how great and objective he is by showing offensive portraits of rednecks and blacks on relief. Was it journalism? Pelosi herself said she was showing "stereotypes", making it come off as nothing more than an opportunity for comfortable people (Maher and his HBO audience) to look way down their noses at those less fortunate. That's ugly. Then he made sure to tell his audience that he and Alexandra were "not racists". Thanks, Bill. I guess self-proclaimed non-racism means it's got to be true.
As to Pelosi's technique. Maybe next time she should go to the county mental health center and interview crazypeople to see if they can make a compelling case for them getting treatment and support. They can't do it? Oh, too bad. But they are losers, don't you know.
As to the cowardice. Those two videos that Maher had on his show - videos where people of limited ability fail to make their case and therefore invalidate whatever program or positions they are associated with - that's what Maher did in his movie Religulous.
I'm an atheist, but when I see Maher "debating" the existence of god with a passel of simple-minded people, that's not demonstrating integrity. It's an opportunity to ridicule those he doesn't agree with. Maher gets cheap wins but avoids the hard work of challenging top-flight theologians.
Then there's his whole vaccination-skepticism which makes you wonder how his mind works.
Maher is smug, snide, and not very smart. He's the kind of "progressive" we don't want on our side.
Ugh. The cringe-worthy backslapping Maher indulges in at the end there is sickening. It's so brave of a multi-millionaire heir to mock poor people who vote for her mother's party. This is why Democrats have been losing the votes of working people since 1966, because they pander to wealthy idiots who want to deny "welfare queens" their tax money and heap disdain on anyone accepting public assistance. How is someone who genuinely needs food stamps, that's millions and millions of people today, supposed to feel when Alexandra Pelosi uses these limited stereotypes to characterize $70 billion worth of public aid recipients?
Over at thegraph.com, Brooks Bayne has uncovered Fluke's connection to Jews, Marxism, Obama's bank bailout, Jews, Jewish immigrants, anti-Americanism, Jewish foundations, the AFL-CIO, Manhattan (where lots of Jews live), and the dreaded "social justice".
All from simply dating a guy!
Here is a diagram showing the nefarious connections as outlined in the expose:
Probably the most interesting "connection" is Sandra's boyfriend's grandfather (or great-uncle) ran manufacturing in New Bedford, which was where Samuel Gompers was once active and who founded the AFL-CIO, a Marxist outfit.
Oh, and her boyfriend's father sports a red hat - and we all know what that means!
This is a classic example of conservatives poking into the personal lives of opponents. Very much like when Michelle Malkin snooped on the Frost family.
UPDATE2: All of the so called outrages (Marxist, anti-American, Obama bank bailout, socialist, Zionist) apply to people other than any of the Mutterperls. It's like, why bother with the family? Just write a post complaining about the villainous Brandeis, Gompers, and Volker.
With yet another setback, Romney increases his delegate lead over opponents:
That's been the story for weeks.
He will be in trouble if Santorum gets to be the non-Romney. Also, don't be surprised to see Republican poo-bahs warming up to Santorum. He has improved significantly as a campaigner and as a result, the elite/establishment opinion might think he wouldn't be a complete disaster as the nominee - a position they currently hold. Or contrarywise, they might see Romney has demonstrated how weak he is by barely beating, or losing to, Santorum despite spending ten times as much.
Ninety-eight major advertisers—including Ford and Geico—will no longer air spots on Premiere Networks’ ‘offensive’ programs. Insiders say the loss will rock right-wing talk radio.
Premiere Networks, which distributes Limbaugh as well as a host of other right-wing talkers, sent an email out to its affiliates early Friday listing 98 large corporations that have requested their ads appear only on “programs free of content that you know are deemed to be offensive or controversial (for example, Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, Tom Leykis, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity).”
"I descended to [the left's] level when I used those two words to describe Sandra Fluke," Limbaugh said. "I've always tried to maintain a very high degree of integrity and independence on this program. Nevertheless, those two words were inappropriate. They were uncalled for. They distracted from the point that I was actually trying to make, and I again sincerely apologize to Ms. Fluke for using those two words to describe her. I do not think she is either of those two words. I did not think last week that she is either of those two words."
So, the rest of the stuff holds. In addition, Limbaugh had more negative things to say about Fluke, which appear to be completely unsubstantiated (e.g. Fluke is a "30-year old activist after years of a career championing birth control issues")
I have never seen a sustained attack on a private citizen by a powerful figure like this. I've read about Joe McCarthy and how he used the hearings to harass a lot of small fry, That's the closest I can find to what we are witnessing today.
Bravely bold Sir Romney rode forth from his mansion. He was not afraid to speak, O brave Sir Romney! He was not at all afraid to challenge Sir Limbaugh, Brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Romney!
When Limbaugh called a girl a slut, He bravely kept his brave mouth shut, Yes, brave Sir Romney said nothing, For three brave days he said nothing. Bravest of the brave, Sir Romney!
Red Cross will put you up in a hotel for a couple days but it's going to take several months to get your house rebuilt and Red Cross is only there in the immediate aftermath emergency situation. So, that is where Fema comes in, if you have insurance, Fema will pay some of what the insurance would have paid up front and then when your insurance settlement comes in you can pay it back if insurance actually covers it. That way you can get workers going immediately instead of waiting for a claim to process. A lot of insurance companies won't even give you the go ahead to start work until a full investigation is done. Unless you have it written into your policy, they wont cover long term displacement either.
You know those FEMA trailers in the news? That is for you to live in while they are fixing your house, at no cost. If Federal Aid is requested, they can get those trailers set up within a week. In Iowa they had them set up before the water receded from the flood (3 days).
They also set up centers where if you need food or emergency SBA loans they set up a big tent where everyone is in one spot. FEMA may get a bad rap, but if you have ever been in a situation where you needed them, they are a major blessing.
This is what will be denied the citizens of Ohio.
This is the Tea Party philosophy at work.
It's also terrible optics. For the last week the news has lead with stories about tornadoes destroying towns. About 80% of Moscow, Ohio, was destroyed or damaged. It's hard to see what Kasich is trying to accomplish here. Stiff-arm Obama in some way (since saying no the the feds is kind of a way of saying no to the president).
From his show one year ago, about the protests in Wisconsin:
It's just a bunch of rabble-rousers and so forth, plus union thugs join together in creating a pigsty -- and we know that they create pigsties, especially compared to Tea Party rallies. You look at any public grounds where these people have been: The trash is littered everywhere, trash cans are overturned, beer cans, bong pipes. Hell, it's all over there. The Tea Party people, you don't find anything. Not even a discarded tissue. Hell, these leftist protesters, leave Kotex! Used Kotex, everything is littering the sidewalks and the streets. It doesn't matter. It's the height of pigsty-ism.
All women are unclean*, filthy, disgusting, etc.
*Those first 4 words were once used by Jay Leno in a very short segment about a serial killer who keeps writing that line in a notebook kept by the side of the bed.
