Female Veterans Call for American Forces Network to Drop Rush Limbaugh

[brooklynite]

Source: Vote Vets

Washington, DC - The largest progressive group of veterans in America, VoteVets.org, is today releasing a statement from three female Iraq war veterans calling on Rush Limbaugh's show to stop being broadcast by the American Forces Network (AFN). The veterans pointed to recent controversial statements made by Limbaugh about Sandra Fluke, and women who use birth control, calling them "sluts" and "prostitutes." AFN is owned and operated by the Department of Defense, funded with taxpayer dollars, and accessible to troops serving overseas.

Miranda Norman (who is a VoteVets.org Senior Advisor), Kayla Williams, and Robin Eckstein, all Iraq War Veterans, and Katherine Scheirman, former chief of medical operations for the U.S. Air Forces in Europe at Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany said the following:

"Rush Limbaugh has a freedom of speech and can say what he wants, but in light of his horribly misogynistic comments, American Forces Radio should no longer give him a platform. Our entire military depends on troops respecting each other - women and men. There simply can be no place on military airwaves for sentiments that would undermine that respect. When many of our female troops use birth control, for Limbaugh to say they are "sluts" and "prostitutes" is beyond the pale. It isn't just disrespectful to our women serving our country, but it's language that goes against everything that makes our military work. Again, we swore to uphold our Constitution, including the freedom of speech, and would not take that away from anyone - even Limbaugh. But that does not mean AFN should broadcast him. In fact, it shouldn't."


Read more: http://votevets.org/news/releases?id=0486

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I've seen a number of posts here by people who've published letters on this issue, but I don't think the issue of Female Servicewomen or Vets has come up as much as it should.

[Inuca]

1. I hope this gets traction n/t

[xtraxritical]

6. I emailed DoD a couple of days ago

and got a very noncommittal response. I hope this, coming from female soldiers, gets a lot more traction.

[pinto]

2. "respect", "beyond the pale", "disrespectful"

Great statement.

[DURHAM D]

3. YEAH !

[Happyhippychick]

4. You go ladies! Kick some serious Rush boo-tay!

[longship]

5. More, please

Rushbo's really stuck his foot in it. Today he blamed the "liberals".

[maindawg]

7. enough hate speach already

as an American, I have long been offended by the fact that the fat drug addicted sex tourist bigot has been broadcast on Armed forces airwaves. I will sign any petition to voice my concerns.

[Ruby the Liberal]

8. Excellent statement.

[sarge43]

9. I wonder if a service woman was at a dispensery picking up her BCPs and

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the Limbaugh's shit was blasting out of the radio. Nice.

JC in an APC, there are field and flag grade officers using BCPs. Let's hear it again about good order, discipline, unit cohesion and morale.

If a subordinate had called this noncom a slut and prostitute, I'd have his reproductive unit for earrings.

[kag]

31. Nicely put!

Well done, Sarge.

[ladywnch]

10. I remember just a few weeks ago some female republican blowhard was saying how it was "inevitable"

that female soldiers would be raped by their male commrads..........well, with a steady diet of Rush's kind of 'respect for women', yeah, I guess she is right. IT IS INEVITABLE !!!!

[nolabear]

11. Support Our Troops!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

12. Is it Armed Forces Network (AFN)? Or Armed Forces Media (AFM)?

I want to get it right when I write my representative, senators, and president.

[sarge43]

13. Defense Media Activity. AFN comes under it.

http://www.dma.mil

[War Pigs]

27. thanks sarge this 6 year navy boiler tech just sent his two cents worth!!!

these people need to be shamed into doing the right thing. its not about balance with him, that fuckhead bob dornan pushed for him before he was shown the door many years ago!!

[MADem]

29. American Forces Radio and Television Service, fondly called "Eh-Farts"

Here's their webpage, FYI: http://afrts.dodmedia.osd.mil/

[carol1]

14. He disrepects the Command in Chief

How can AFN carry this bag of gas. Not only does he make vile remarks about women, but he disrespects the President; he played that awful song, Barrack, the Magic Negro not too long ago. When Clinton was out Pres. and he was making fun of Chelsa who was just a child then. That is low down to make fun of an innocent child and worse to bad mouth the president and worse for AFN to play his shows.

[sarcasmo]

36. +1

[nanabugg]

15. Now you're talking!!! nt

[Uncle Joe]

16. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, brooklynite.

[Carolina]

17. now we're talking:

"... we swore to uphold our Constitution, including the freedom of speech, and would not take that away from anyone - even Limbaugh. But that does not mean AFN should broadcast him. In fact, it shouldn't."

[muntrv]

18. Excellent! Our tax dollars pay for his whiney teabaggin' ass!

[Auntie Bush]

19. I thought AFN already said they wouldn't drop Limballs. Sad!

[randome]

20. Insulting our troops is treasonous!

Say what you will about the stupid wars and 'actions' we are involved in but to insult the men and women who are in harm's way should not be tolerated by the Pentagon.

[awoke_in_2003]

23. while insulting our troops is disgusting...

it is not treasonous. To the OP- big K&R

[randome]

25. Okay, I got a little carried away.

Or, we can take a page from the Republican handbook -it doesn't have to be true, it just needs to SOUND awful! Or maybe not.

[awoke_in_2003]

35. "Okay, I got a little carried away"...

I understand, it happens to me sometimes, too

[burrowowl]

21. Great Statement!

"Rush Limbaugh has a freedom of speech and can say what he wants, but in light of his horribly misogynistic comments, American Forces Radio should no longer give him a platform. Our entire military depends on troops respecting each other - women and men. There simply can be no place on military airwaves for sentiments that would undermine that respect. When many of our female troops use birth control, for Limbaugh to say they are "sluts" and "prostitutes" is beyond the pale. It isn't just disrespectful to our women serving our country, but it's language that goes against everything that makes our military work. Again, we swore to uphold our Constitution, including the freedom of speech, and would not take that away from anyone - even Limbaugh. But that does not mean AFN should broadcast him. In fact, it shouldn't."

[Overseas]

22. So glad to hear it. He really hurts our image overseas.

[alfredo]

24. Rush pits American against American.

I don't want my tax money subsidizing Rush.

[MrMickeysMom]

26. Absolutely RIGHT...

Women have a lot of shit to put up with in this military, and Limbaugh is forced across those airwaves. It's not like anyone asked for Limbaugh to he piped in.

I hope this thing goes all the way, damn it.

[SeattleVet]

28. AFN Facebook page is here:

https://www.facebook.com/myAFN

How they can feed this hatemonger to the troops is beyond me. Here they are giving free airtime to a guy who, on a daily basis, slams and denigrates the Commander in Chief. If an active duty troop said 1/10th of what he does they would be called on the carpet and punished. How can they continue to let him spew his anti-American, anti-woman garbage?

[era veteran]

30. I have questioned his AFN spot for several years

Maybe this time they will drop the miserable POS.
edited to add email to AFN
...This Vietnam Era veteran would like to see this hate mongering liar, drug addict, draft dodging chickenhawk taken off AFN now.
Not right to politicize American service members with this hate.
Your budget is too big if you can afford to pay this hater with MY TAX DOLLARS.
Thanks and hoping you do the right thing today.....

[Liberalynn]

32. Heroines

each and every one!

[katty]

33. keep the pressure ON!

great

[AllyCat]

34. So I wonder if Rush will call them sluts too.

I, for one, call them heroes in many senses of the word.