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Rush Limbaugh And Joe Scarborough, Will They Ever Evolve?
Wow, true credits to the male species. Yes they're just two know it all blowhards, but the truly scary thought is that anyone in their male audience might approve of this crap and think the way they do..
__________________Like someone said in the comments "OK women This is what the far right thinks of you. Shut up stay pregnant, barefoot and dont bother your pretty little heads with all that complicated man stuff. This is even uglier than it seems on the surface" http://mediamatters.org/items/200612010005 On the November 30 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, host Rush Limbaugh proclaimed: My "cat's taught me more about women, than anything my whole life" LIMBAUGH: My cat -- here's how you can get fooled. My cat comes to me when she wants to be fed. I have learned this. I accept it for what it is. Many people in my position would think my cat's coming to me because she loves me. Well, she likes me, and she is attached, but she comes to me when she wants to be fed. And after I feed her -- guess what -- she's off to wherever she wants to be in the house, until the next time she gets hungry. She's smart enough to know she can't feed herself. She's actually a very smart cat. She gets loved. She gets adoration. She gets petted. She gets fed. And she doesn't have to do anything for it, which is why I say this cat's taught me more about women, than anything my whole life. But we put voices in their mouths. SCARBOROUGH: Of course, Rachel, of course Danny is talking about the president of the United States. But we're getting so much politics on The View. Shouldn't this be a program at this time of the year about how to make Christmas balls out of popcorn and pine cones? SKLAR: Oh, I don't know, Joe. Were you recently appointed the head of programming for The View? [laughter] SCARBOROUGH: No. SKLAR: This should be a program about putting popcorn on pine cones? I'm just going to forget you said that. SCARBOROUGH: Come on -- it is a dayside show for women. It is -- SKLAR: Why shouldn't they talk about politics? SCARBOROUGH: It is -- come on. |
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Rush is just cranky because he has to pay for it.
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Sucks to have Rush Limbaugh's sex appeal, I guess.
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Rush misses the drugs.
and obviously needs the Viagra. |
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You know what really ticks me off? Michael Richards and Mel Gibson say incredibly racist stuff and it causes an uproar (and rightly so), but when media figures like Limbaugh and Scarborough make sexist remarks, hardly anybody pays attention.
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So you can be from the Stone Age and still get a nationally syndicated radio show in the US? Wow.
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I guess sexism is still one of the most accepted prejudices. Yippee! In fact, many might not even consider it to be a prejudice. Yes you can be from the Stone Age and have a show like that, and get lots o' similarly minded male listeners-and I would imagine perhaps a few females who for whatever reason are of that mindset too. But alas, Rush and Joe are only kidding and joking. I forgot to laugh. |
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So if I'm a sexist can I finally get a job??? My own show even?
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And nobody's life changes at all? I wouldn't be so quick to thoroughly discard the influence someone with a nationally syndicated show can have upon a sizeable listenership.
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Comparing members of the opposite sex to domestic animals is always a bad idea--some will find such comments amusing, but personally I'm never entirely sure how seriously people who make these comparisons intend them and I think a lot of people aren't, which is reason enough to avoid them. But BonosSaint is right that it sounds like Rush was more annoyed that he "has to pay for it" lol.
I'm not familiar with Joe Scarborough and Rachel Sklar (or Limbaugh either really, for that matter) but it sounds like he may have been trying to take a dig at her specifically? Pathetically cheap shot if that's the case. I don't know that I'd compare these comments to Richards or Gibson, though--those were extremely vulgar, verbally violent episodes, and that has much to do with why they garnered the amount of attention they did. Both had made more "subtly" questionable comments in similar vein in the past that didn't attract much press at all. In any case, unfortunately it will probably always be easier to get away with "subtly" sexist comments because the dichotomy in question involves roughly 50% of the population and cuts across other social polarizations (race, class, etc.), making it easier to rationalize such thinking as benign and banal, "popular wisdom" etc. (So no, probably Limbaugh and Scarborough will never evolve.) Quote:
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I'm usually all about being open minded to others' ideas, but I feel like insitutions like that are poisonous and perpetuate sexist behavior and traditional gender roles. I think what bothers me most is like what you said, that women are OKAY with it! |
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BJU is kind of preaching to the choir though there, aren't they? I mean, if you're looking for progressive attitudes there you're probably looking in the wrong place--their raison d'etre is pretty much in-your-face the opposite.
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This is true, but since it is an institution of higher education, that scares me about a possibility of a growing influence.
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