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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFrum: "Are we being fair to Rush L.?"
http://www.davidfrum.com/Interesting comments from one of the few intelligent Republican commentators (see link and scroll down for his rationale to support these points):
"Point 1: Even by the rough standards of cable/talk radio/digital talk, Limbaugh's verbal abuse of Sandra Fluke set a new kind of low. I can't recall anything as brutal, ugly and deliberate ever being said by such a prominent person and so emphatically repeated. This was not a case of a bad "word choice." It was a brutally sexualized accusation, against a specific person, prolonged over three days.
Point 2: The cases that conservatives cite as somehow equivalent to Limbaugh's tirade against Fluke by and large did bring consequences for their authors...
Point 3: Limbaugh's place in American public life is in no way comparable to that of David Letterman, Bill Maher or Ed Schultz...
Point 4: Most fundamentally, why the impulse to counter one outrageous stunt by rummaging through the archives in search of some supposedly offsetting outrageous stunt? Why not respond to an indecent act on its own terms, and then -- if there's another indecency later -- react to that too, and on its own terms?..."
MindMover
(5,016 posts)but I think this time.....well lets just say.....the fat lady has gotten up to sing....
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/41483660@N04/6560675479/" title="fat+lady+sings by pbmus, on Flickr"><img src="" width="500" height="310" alt="fat+lady+sings"></a>
Schema Thing
(10,283 posts)orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)The first time I actually listened to 'Marbles in my mouth' 1993 he was comparing African American funerals and white ones and that though white people cry and grieve ,black people want to crawl in the casket and become spastic.The GLEE I heard in his voice as outraged people were given two seconds and hung up on ,only to hear another victimized person thwarted mid-word ,brought my heart rate to the point I've never listened to him in that context ,as in his show again.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)is there a direct link?
csziggy
(34,137 posts)I just used the Google "search this site" and that phrase did not come up on the site once. When I searched the internet with Google to find it, the only hits were the OP.
If the poster weren't a long time DUer I'd think they were trying to drive traffic to David Frum's site. Maybe it was there and was removed?
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)I went to several sites to catch up on news, and the Frum article was linked on a front page of some famous news site.
spooky3
(34,466 posts)You had to click two links to get to it. I don't know why the Frum site doesn't provide a direct link. A poster at mediamatters.org mentioned this piece.
If you read the points I quoted, which were pretty critical of the limpbag, I think it's pretty clear i wasn't interested in driving traffic to a Republican. Anyway, glad you eventually found it.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)csziggy
(34,137 posts)And abbreviating Limbaugh's last name screwed up the search.
Frum though is still a Republican tool:
It is the bottom of the barrel of shock talk.
And the good news is that from the bottom of the barrel, there is nowhere to go but up.
He seems to think that although Limbaugh was piggish, because he apologized, he can make a come back. I hope David Frum is wrong about this as he is about so many other things.