Dent: Let's Drop the "Incendiary Rhetoric"

Last Saturday, I posted a blog about Rush Limbaugh's misogynistic attack aimed at a third-year Georgetown law student. One of you used it as an opportunity to attack Lehigh Valley Congressman Charlie Dent. Anonymously, of course. "Your boy Dent has not called on Rush to apologize. Nothing like leading from the back."

That's an interesting accusation, especially since Dent's last Congressional opponent refused to take a stand on Obamacare until after the Bill had already passed.

As it turns out, and unknown to me until just a few moments ago, Dent did take a position on this issue that Sunday. "Rush Limbaugh's remarks were beyond inappropriate and need to be repudiated. They were over the top, outrageous and insulting. His apology is appropriate and I hope it will put an end to this sordid matter."

Dent also asks all of us, whether on the left or right, to drop the "incendiary rhetoric."

In the meantime, Media Matters reports that 46 advertisers have dropped Limbaugh.

Are Birth Control Users Sluts?

According to ABC, this is what radio entertainer Rush Limbaugh said about a thirty-year old law student who testified before Congress in support of government subsidies for contraceptives.

“So Miss Fluke, and the rest of you Feminazis, here’s the deal. If we are going to pay for your contraceptives, and thus pay for you to have sex. We want something for it. We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch.”

“Three thousand dollars for birth control in three years? … They’re admitting before congressional committee that they’re having so much sex they can’t afford the birth control pills!”

“What does it say about the college co-ed Sandra Fluke, who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex, what does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She’s having so much sex she can’t afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex. What does that make us? We’re the pimps.”

Limbaugh is apparently unaware that birth control pills, which are prescription only, cost between $80 and $100 per month. They are also used for women who have excessive cramping, bleeding or ovarian cysts. This was one of the points made by the law student. Limbaugh's remarks are obviously both uninformed and misogynistic. House Speaker John Boehner has also called them "inappropriate."

He has refused to apologize.

Some advertisers have begun pulling their ads, according to The Moderate Voice. Reddit has a list of his remaining sponsors.

Why not let them know how you feel?

In addition to Limbaugh's sponsors, why not also contact Newtalk 790 WAEB? Here's two phone numbers: Studio: 610-720-7900 - News Hotline: 610-439-1092. You can also email Program Director Criag Stevens at craigstevens@clearchannel.com.

Voice of the Republican Party

RNC Chair Michael Steele attempted to dismiss the importance of conservative talk radio last weekend. "Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer. His whole thing is entertainment. Yes, it's incendiary. Yes, it's ugly." Within a matter of days, Steele was apologizing and claimed to have "enormous respect" for Limbaugh's "leadership."

I see. Here's what this Republican leader says about race, women and other issues (quotes verified from BlackPlanet, Wikiquote, Meaningful Distraction):

Race

Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?

Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.

The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.

They oughta change Black History Month to Black Progress Month and start measuring it.

They’re 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?

Take that bone out of your nose and call me back (to an African American female caller).

Women

We're not sexists, we're chauvinists — we're male chauvinist pigs, and we're happy to be because we think that's what men were destined to be. We think that's what women want.

John Edwards' Affair

It just seems to me that Edwards might be attracted to a woman whose mouth did something other than talk…

Parkinson's Disease

He is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He's moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act... This is really shameless of Michael J Fox. Either he didn't take his medication or he's acting.

If Limbaugh is indeed the voice of the Republican party, it will continue to implode.