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Rush Limbaugh Isn’t the Only Media Misogynist
The Daily Beast
By Kirsten Powers
Mar 4, 2012
Rush Limbaugh Isn’t the Only Media Misogynist
But if Limbaugh’s actions demand a boycott—and they do—then what about the army of swine on the left?
During the 2008 election Ed Schultz said on his radio show that Sarah Palin set off a “bimbo alert.” He called Laura Ingraham a “right-wing slut.” (He later apologized.) He once even took to his blog to call yours truly a “bimbo” for the offense of quoting him accurately in a New York Post column.
Keith Olbermann has said that conservative commentator S.E. Cupp should have been aborted by her parents, apparently because he finds her having opinions offensive. He called Michelle Malkin a “mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick.” He found it newsworthy to discuss Carrie Prejean’s breasts on his MSNBC show. His solution for dealing with Hillary Clinton, who he thought should drop out of the presidential race, was to find “somebody who can take her into a room and only he comes out.” Olbermann now works for über-leftist and former Democratic vice president Al Gore at Current TV.
Left-wing darling Matt Taibbi wrote on his blog in 2009, “When I read [Malkin’s] stuff, I imagine her narrating her text, book-on-tape style, with a big, hairy set of balls in her mouth.” In a Rolling Stone article about Secretary of State Clinton, he referred to her “flabby arms.” When feminist writer Erica Jong criticized him for it, he responded by referring to Jong as an “800-year old sex novelist.” (Jong is almost 70, which apparently makes her an irrelevant human being.) In Taibbi’s profile of Congresswoman and presidential candidate Michele Bachmann he labeled her “batshit crazy.” (Oh, those “crazy” women with their hormones and all.)
During the 2008 election Ed Schultz said on his radio show that Sarah Palin set off a “bimbo alert.” He called Laura Ingraham a “right-wing slut.” (He later apologized.) He once even took to his blog to call yours truly a “bimbo” for the offense of quoting him accurately in a New York Post column.
Keith Olbermann has said that conservative commentator S.E. Cupp should have been aborted by her parents, apparently because he finds her having opinions offensive. He called Michelle Malkin a “mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick.” He found it newsworthy to discuss Carrie Prejean’s breasts on his MSNBC show. His solution for dealing with Hillary Clinton, who he thought should drop out of the presidential race, was to find “somebody who can take her into a room and only he comes out.” Olbermann now works for über-leftist and former Democratic vice president Al Gore at Current TV.
Left-wing darling Matt Taibbi wrote on his blog in 2009, “When I read [Malkin’s] stuff, I imagine her narrating her text, book-on-tape style, with a big, hairy set of balls in her mouth.” In a Rolling Stone article about Secretary of State Clinton, he referred to her “flabby arms.” When feminist writer Erica Jong criticized him for it, he responded by referring to Jong as an “800-year old sex novelist.” (Jong is almost 70, which apparently makes her an irrelevant human being.) In Taibbi’s profile of Congresswoman and presidential candidate Michele Bachmann he labeled her “batshit crazy.” (Oh, those “crazy” women with their hormones and all.)
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/03/04/rush-limbaugh-s-apology-liberal-men-need-to-follow-suit.html
The truth hurts. Just because they are on our side, that doesn't excuse their sexism and misogyny. We need to take a look in the mirror regarding our own left leaning media. We should demand better than this.
Rush Limbaugh is the nasty head of the misogynist pimple, and he well deserves the scorn he is recieving. But if one is honest and truly disgusted by his comments and behavior they cannot turn a blind eye to others in the media.
Please do not take my posting of this artice as a defense of Rush Limbaugh in any way. Take it in the spirit it was offered, which is the need to root out misogyny from all media. It needs to stop! Liberals, Progressives, Conservatives, Right Wingers, etc all need to stop the misogyny, it is 2012 and the time has come!
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I read him whenever I can, and I've never read any of the comments that this column refers to, though I don't doubt them.
As for the thing about Michelle Malkin ("...picture her with a pair of hairy balls in her mouth..."
while it's a vile image, I had to laugh. I despise Malkin, and I think she has done more to harm the cause of women's rights than Matt Taibbi could or would ever dream of doing.
Do we have to re-live runaway bride again?
Or have you all had enough Glen back to know that calling somebody batshit crazy isn't sexist?
Flabby arms? Is that like the pigboy rushho comments or calling McConnell a turtle? 
