Today’s Real News
March 5, 2012
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Posted by Bob Lord While the political world follows the Rush Limbaugh horror show, today’s real news received precious little attention. This is positively stunning: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/05/1-percent-income-inequality_n_1321008.html So, in 2010, 93% of the income gains went to the top one percenters. The number by itself is staggering, but just a little analysis adds a lot … Read more
Fluke: Limbaugh’s non-apology apology ‘doesn’t change anything’
March 5, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
The Political Animal blog posts Limbaugh’s Advertisers: The Dead Enders:
ThinkProgress has been able to confirm only two advertisers that are still sticking with Rush Limbaugh. One is Lear Capital, one of those peddlers of gold coins common on talk radio. The other is an identity theft protection company called Lifelock. Turns out Lifelock has a rap sheet with the FTC, having paid $12 million in 2010 to settle false claims charges.
Meanwhile, via Hunter at the Daily Kos, a new Harris poll reveals Limbaugh to be the least liked “news personality” — even among Republicans! — on a list of 26.
Interestingly, one person is in the least liked top three for all three political parties. For Republicans, the three least liked current affairs personalities are Nancy Grace (25%), Rush Limbaugh (24%) and Chris Matthews (18%). For Democrats, the three news personalities that are the least favorite are Rush Limbaugh (66%), Bill O’Reilly (45%), and Sean Hannity (23%) while for Independents it is Rush Limbaugh (49%), Bill O’Reilly (31%) and Nancy Grace (25%).
Sandra Fluke was a guest on ABC's The View on Monday morning. She stated that Rush Limbaugh has not called her personally to apologize. "And let me be clear that I think his statements that he has made about me on the air have been personal enough so that I would rather not have a personal phone call from him."
“Why don’t we just start numbering the bills Goldwater 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 …?”
March 5, 2012
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by David Safier The Mesa City Council is upset with the Goldwater Institute for the bills it has written for Republican legislators that will handcuff cities. The Mesa City Council spent 75 minutes Thursday gnashing its teeth over a series of legislative bills that the city believes would usurp its ability to act in the … Read more
Limbaugh’s non-apology apology does not stop loss of advertisers
March 5, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
The titular leader of the modern-day Tea-Publican Party is the drug-adled hate monger Rush Limbaugh, a racist and misogynist demagogue who pollutes the airwaves of the nation with his vitriolic bile.
Limbaugh spent much of last week attacking a Georgetown University law student for having the temerity to exercise her First Amendment rights of free speech and to petition her government as a citizen of the United States regarding contraception coverage in health insurance policies. Several long-time advertisers on the Limbaugh show pulled their advertising in response to his outrageous misogynistic comments.
In reaction to the loss of his advertisers, not out of any genuine remorse or contrition for his outrageous comments, Rush Limbaugh issued a "statement" on Sunday that was a non-apology apology in an attempt to staunch the bleeding of his advertisers.
The Georgetown University law student, Sandra Fluke, testified about the 14% of pill users — 1.5 million women — who rely on them exclusively for noncontraceptive purposes. The study documenting this finding, “Beyond Birth Control: The Overlooked Benefits of Oral Contraceptive Pills,” by Rachel K. Jones of the Guttmacher Institute, also found that more than half (58%) of all pill users rely on the method, at least in part, for purposes other than pregnancy prevention — meaning that only 42% use the pill exclusively for contraceptive reasons. – Quick View (Google .pdf) of Sandra Fluke testimony.
The pill is basic health care for many women. It is not about sexual promiscuity. Nor did Sandra Fluke testify at all about her personal sexual life.
You would never know this from listening to the ignorant misogynist Rush Limbaugh, who engaged in the most vile personal attacks on this woman in a practice of right-wing media known as slut shaming. Here are just some of the misogynistic comments that Limbaugh made last week:
Enough With the Praise for Olympia
March 4, 2012
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Posted by Bob Lord I’ve really read and heard enough of the lionizing of Olympia Snowe for her so-called moderate views. We’re of course going to hear the same about Susan Collins when she retires. Olympia Snowe is no different from Ben Nelson or Evan Bayh or Blanche Lincoln. Each managed to win election in … Read more
The coming week…
March 4, 2012
By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings As usual, all committee agendas are subject to change without notice, and given that this is the Arizona legislature, many of them will change with as little notice as the lege can give. The two biggest new items up for consideration this week are matching supplemental appropriations … Read more
Enjoyably absurd comment about BASIS charters
March 4, 2012
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by David Safier I wrote a post yesterday about a quote from Michael Block, the man who started BASIS charter schools. Block said, "I would privatize the entire government school system." "Ccusd Watch" left a comment pointing out what a hypocrite I am because, while I criticized BASIS for educating top students, TUSD's University High … Read more
Illinois Nazi running as Tea-Publican for Congress denies Holocaust
March 4, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Where are Jake and Elwood when we need them?
Art Jones, who hopes to challenge Democrat Dan Lipinski in Illinois' 3rd Congressional District, neither denies nor repudiates his past affiliation with the neo-Nazi Party. Republican Congressional Candidate Says 'Holocaust Never Happened':
Arthur Jones, 64, a Lyons, IL, insurance salesman who organizes family-friendly, neo-Nazi events around Adolf Hitler’s birthday, hopes to be the Republican candidate chosen to run against Democratic Congressman Dan Lipinski in Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District.
“As far as I’m concerned, the Holocaust is nothing more than an international extortion racket by the Jews,” Jones said. “It’s the blackest lie in history. Millions of dollars are being made by Jews telling this tale of woe and misfortune in books, movies, plays and TV.
"The more survivors, the more lies that are told."
A member of the Nationalist Socialist Party in his younger days, Jones took part in the Nazis’ march on Chicago’s Marquette Park in 1978. While he doesn’t deny nor repudiate his “past affiliations,” he says he votes Republican “90 percent of the time.”
“Philosophically, I’m a National Socialist,” Jones said. “Officially, I don’t belong to any party except my own, the America First Committee.”
Well, for those Tea-Publicans in the GOP primary running against this Nazi, all you will need is this classic scene from The Blues Brothers (below the fold) for an ad:
