What if it were your daughter?

[kpete]

WED MAR 14, 2012 AT 08:01 PM PDT
Classic dittohead LTE and my response
bykbmanFollow

What if it were your daughter?

Suppose your daughter felt strongly about an issue, so strongly that she testified before Congress on that issue. I bet you'd be pretty proud of her, even if you disagreed with her position, you'd be proud of her standing up for herself and speaking out. Now suppose that as her price for speaking out she was dragged through the mud incessantly for three days by a right wing radio talker, called a slut and a prostitute, attacked in 52 separate instances. Suppose further that every single thing that this talker claimed she said was untrue, that he completely fabricated a false version of her testimony from whole cloth.

This is why Rush Limbaugh is losing advertisers. In my calls to advertisers on his show I have never mentioned the idea of a boycott. I simply ask if they are comfortable having their company's image associated with Mr. Limbaugh's hate speech. And make no mistake, that is exactly what this is, hate speech. The effects of this on our community are evident in Wednesday's letter from James T. Bryant. In a very short letter he uses the phrases, "idiot lib media," "moron liberals," "brain-dead left," and, " that cesspool of ignorance, intolerance, dishonesty and racism that makes up our idiot left."

This is the level of political discourse that Mr. Limbaugh's hate speech has created in our country. These are the kinds of attitudes towards those who disagree on policy that Mr. Limbaugh's approach to politics create. His opponents are not simply people who disagree, they're sluts and idiots and brain-dead, etc. How long will we continue to allow our airwaves to be polluted with this kind of hateful talk? Apparently some of his local advertisers would rather upset some of Rush's (far, far fewer than 30 million) listeners than continue supporting this kind of hatred. Good for them!


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/14/1074533/-Classic-dittohead-LTE-and-my-response

[bluesbassman]

1. Great comment to the article at Daily Kos: Not just "what if it were your daughter"...

The question I think we need to be asking advertisers is, "What if it were your employee?"

"If your employee called a customer a slut or a whore or asked her for a video of herself having sex, how long would that person stay employed with you? How long would you expect your customer to continue doing business with you?"

And in a way, Rush is the employee of his advertisers...isn't he?

Intended to be a factual statement.

by ipsos on Thu Mar 15, 2012 at 08:03:15 AM PDT

[krispos42]

2. K&R n/t

[Doc Holliday]

3. I said it from the outset.

Nothing has happened to change my mind about it.

If Lunchbox had said this shit about my daughter, I'd punch him right in his fat fucking face, and then whale on him until his bodyguards pulled me off him.

I guess I'm only a wimpy, ineffectual liberal some of the time.

[Liberalynn]

4. Excellent response!

[saras]

5. Not allowed to answer either question, either on DU or in public

[Zoeisright]

6. Limpballs is all about projection.

He and Rove are two puking peas in a pod.