Offensive Is Nothing New: Rush Limbaugh's 5 Worst Remarks

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http://www.alternet.org/story/154420/off...t_remarks/

From the article:

Quote:Has Rush Limbaugh finally gone too far?

Despite a notably insincere apology for calling Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke a “slut” and a “prostitute” for the crime of using birth control pills, Limbaugh is shedding advertisers like mad. As of Monday evening, nine companies—including AOL, the parent company of the Huffington Post-- have stopped buying time on Limbaugh's radio show, and at least a couple say they have severed ties with the program permanently.

Even Republican presidential candidates have issued tepid condemnations of Limbaugh's rant. Mitt Romney, whose private equity firm Bain Capital is one of the owners of Clear Channel – which owns and broadcasts Premiere Radio Networks, the company that syndicates Limbaugh's show -- told reporters, “I’ll just say this, which is, it’s not the language I would have used,” before quickly changing the subject back to Tuesday's primaries. Democrats quickly pounced on Romney's wimpy repudiation, but none of them bothered to point out the presidential candidate's profit motive in Rush's program.

But it's not like Rush doesn't have a history of saying incendiary, awful things and making personal attacks. Young women are clearly a favorite target of the right-wing shock jock, who's gone after three presidents' daughters and splashed enough racism, sexism, homophobia and just plain nastiness around the airwaves to offend just about anyone.

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The list follows farther in the article, but the fact that Rush is still on the air is the major point. As a white male in general, and a white male mainstay of the rabid RW, he has gotten away with statements that have gotten those that are not members of that prized demographic fired, fined, and worse. Arsenio Hall's dig at then-President Bush, Sr. helped hasten his show's already downhill ratings and eventual cancellation. Isaiah Washington's use of a gay slur on the set of "Grey's Anatomy" got him fired and a rapid departure from the show. The examples are legion.

If fairness is to be the norm, then everyone should be, and must be, held to the same standard. Rush should have been off the air years ago, because it's the right thing to do, not just because he has accumulated enough bad credits over the years and everyone has had enough. We can't call it equality when some are more equal than others.

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You're right, he should have been off the air long ago.