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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,063 posts)
Fri Nov 22, 2013, 09:46 PM Nov 2013

Rush 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):


Let’s forget the Senate for a minute. Let’s say, let’s take 10 people in a room and they’re 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? We’re going to change the rule. Now all we need is five.” And well, ‘you can’t do that.’ ‘Yes we are. We’re the majority. We’re 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, it’s going to happen. There’s no rule. When the majority can change the rules there aren’t any.


http://www.salon.com/2013/11/22/rush_limbaugh_filibuster_reform_is_like_rape/

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Rush Limbaugh: Filibuster reform is like rape (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2013 OP
how fucked in the head do you have to be to believe anything Rush says dlwickham Nov 2013 #1
Lol CFLDem Nov 2013 #12
he throws this shit out there and people lap it up dlwickham Nov 2013 #19
Turns out the only thing that is not like rape, is rape. nt Deep13 Nov 2013 #2
And Rush Limbaugh is like the Hindenberg ... Scuba Nov 2013 #3
Hey, come on now! Deep13 Nov 2013 #7
Is he back on drugs? malaise Nov 2013 #4
Was he ever off of them? TheCowsCameHome Nov 2013 #14
Good question malaise Nov 2013 #15
What a nasty piece of work he is pscot Nov 2013 #5
Seriously, who gives a fuck what he says? TheCowsCameHome Nov 2013 #6
What about simulated filibuster reform porn? Codeine Nov 2013 #8
LMAO. I see what you did there. arcane1 Nov 2013 #16
I'm imagining Harry Reid as a filibuster reform porn star. LuvNewcastle Nov 2013 #21
It'll be a great day when things like this aren't used to make money. CBHagman Nov 2013 #9
Very telling. kentuck Nov 2013 #10
That means that Rush is for rape when Republicans are doing it ... zbdent Nov 2013 #11
these fuckers are obsessed with rape. they talk abou9t it daily. elehhhhna Nov 2013 #13
wonder if el-rushbo has raped? sad-cafe Nov 2013 #17
Next Hannity will talk about Democrats in their Rape Rooms. LuvNewcastle Nov 2013 #22
And Rush's mouth is like a toilet. nt kelliekat44 Nov 2013 #18
So he seems to be saying treestar Nov 2013 #20
He thinks it's a good thing MurrayDelph Nov 2013 #23
He sure seems to know a lot Spirochete Nov 2013 #24

dlwickham

(3,316 posts)
1. how fucked in the head do you have to be to believe anything Rush says
Fri Nov 22, 2013, 09:48 PM
Nov 2013

or even listen to anything he says

I just lost IQ points after reading this crap

dlwickham

(3,316 posts)
19. he throws this shit out there and people lap it up
Sat Nov 23, 2013, 11:07 AM
Nov 2013

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

 

Scuba

(53,475 posts)
3. And Rush Limbaugh is like the Hindenberg ...
Fri Nov 22, 2013, 09:50 PM
Nov 2013

... a giant, flaming, Nazi gasbag.
















I'll never tire of that line.

CBHagman

(16,968 posts)
9. It'll be a great day when things like this aren't used to make money.
Fri Nov 22, 2013, 10:00 PM
Nov 2013

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.

zbdent

(35,392 posts)
11. That means that Rush is for rape when Republicans are doing it ...
Fri Nov 22, 2013, 10:08 PM
Nov 2013

wasn't he pushing the rape, er, "nuclear option" back in 2005?

treestar

(82,383 posts)
20. So he seems to be saying
Sat Nov 23, 2013, 12:12 PM
Nov 2013

If he is saying anything, that there should be no rule against rape without a supermajority.

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