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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRush Limbaugh: Filibuster reform is like rape
Talk about false equivalency.
The misogynistic and vile Rush Limbaugh said something misogynistic and vile on Friday.
Here it is (emphasis mine):
Lets forget the Senate for a minute. Lets say, lets take 10 people in a room and theyre a group. And the room is made up of six men and four women. OK? The group has a rule that the men cannot rape the women. The group also has a rule that says any rule that will be changed must require six votes, of the 10, to change the rule. Every now and then, some lunatic in the group proposes to change the rule to allow women to be raped. But they never were able to get six votes for it. There were always the four women voting against it and they always found two guys. Well, the guy that kept proposing that women be raped finally got tired of it, and he was in the majority and he was one that [said], You know what? Were going to change the rule. Now all we need is five. And well, you cant do that. Yes we are. Were the majority. Were changing the rule. And then they vote. Can the women be raped? Well, all it would take then is half of the room. You can change the rule to say three. You can change the rule to say three people want it, its going to happen. Theres no rule. When the majority can change the rules there arent any.
http://www.salon.com/2013/11/22/rush_limbaugh_filibuster_reform_is_like_rape/
dlwickham
(3,316 posts)or even listen to anything he says
I just lost IQ points after reading this crap
dlwickham
(3,316 posts)I can't tell if he's serious or if it's just satire
I'm half expecting for him to say on his last show that everything he's said during his career has been horseshit and it's been some sort of experiment to see how stupid people truly are
Deep13
(39,154 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)... a giant, flaming, Nazi gasbag.
I'll never tire of that line.
Deep13
(39,154 posts)The Hindenberg was a very useful thing before it exploded.
malaise
(267,784 posts)Asshole!
TheCowsCameHome
(40,161 posts)SERIESLY!?!?
malaise
(267,784 posts)pscot
(21,023 posts)He's a psychopath with a mental age of 14
TheCowsCameHome
(40,161 posts)He is such a worthless blob of flesh.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)LuvNewcastle
(16,820 posts)Kinda nasty, but funny as hell!
CBHagman
(16,968 posts)If there were enough pressure on the corporation and the advertisers and the stations -- and it can be done; it just takes a sea change in society -- nothing like this would be on the air. If Tex Antoine could be fired decades ago, Limbaugh's time is approaching.
kentuck
(110,947 posts)Rush is fishing for an explanation for his dittoheads - any explanation.
zbdent
(35,392 posts)wasn't he pushing the rape, er, "nuclear option" back in 2005?
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)wtf already?
sad-cafe
(1,277 posts)he sure obsesses over it.
LuvNewcastle
(16,820 posts)kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)If he is saying anything, that there should be no rule against rape without a supermajority.
MurrayDelph
(5,278 posts)when he's doing it?
Spirochete
(5,264 posts)about rape. Wonder why that is...