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In reply to the discussion: I've been gone a few days swamped at work and this is what I come back to? [View all]fascisthunter
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I've been gone a few days swamped at work and this is what I come back to? [View all]
Nuclear Unicorn
Mar 2012
OP
I was pissed at Maher among other things for telling us Rush apologized, get over it.
roguevalley
Mar 2012
#14
maher is not guilty of only one crude on liner. and i agree, not comparable to limbaughs 3 day
seabeyond
Mar 2012
#5
i agree with all you say. that is the thing. if he had called her just a slut and prostitute, that
seabeyond
Mar 2012
#7
I disagree. The C word should never be used. It is objectively offensive and sexist. nt
Liquorice
Mar 2012
#23
I know how I feel when a man calls me a c. Clearly that's what I meant. It is
Liquorice
Mar 2012
#86
All you had to do was Google Bill Maher and anti-science. It's not hard, but here are some examples.
HuckleB
Mar 2012
#90
When Bill Maher can command the course of the Democratic party, then you'll have a point.
baldguy
Mar 2012
#17
You quoted me at length and still misinterpreted (or distorted) what I wrote
Nuclear Unicorn
Mar 2012
#41
People who enable sexism are not better than the sexists they make excuses for.
Nuclear Unicorn
Mar 2012
#53
Let the Rude Pundit call conservative women CUNTS though? You'll have dozens here defending him.
cherokeeprogressive
Mar 2012
#19
I've seen the name around and chose not to click -- because of the name.
Nuclear Unicorn
Mar 2012
#32
Allow me to sum up your critics: "Only RUSHBOT infiltrators protest sexist remarks from the Left!"
Zalatix
Mar 2012
#35
Well, so far the defense of false equivalency is so shallow as to be laughable
Nuclear Unicorn
Mar 2012
#49
so, all the years i have criticized and called out the mahers, sterns, flints,
seabeyond
Mar 2012
#66
i agree with that, too. another thing, a continual statement that either moore or maher
seabeyond
Mar 2012
#76
I get what you're saying and agree - not sure if the comparison works this time though
TBF
Mar 2012
#37
the paragraph is perfect. it isnt about being comparable. it is about being consistent. nt
seabeyond
Mar 2012
#42
Not boycotting someone is NOT giving him a pass. There IS something inbetween.
Honeycombe8
Mar 2012
#44
that is where so much is going wrong in the discussion. limbaugh and maher are not the same.
seabeyond
Mar 2012
#57
Has anyone in this forum boycotted the anti-semitic, domestic abuser, vile language Mel Gibson?
Honeycombe8
Mar 2012
#47
I dunno. If Rush was a doctrinaire liberal would he have been as strongly condemned?
Nuclear Unicorn
Mar 2012
#55
i do get heartened seeing the number of people that have their line of appropriate
seabeyond
Mar 2012
#70