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March 08, 2012 10:40 PM UTC
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Limbaugh has weathered controversy before. They’re not going to simply bail on him now. He’s the number one radio personality in America, and he has been for decades. Only committing a major crime can take someone like this off the air.
That said, he’s never going to fully recover from this. Even if he steps up his contrition, sponsors are going to consider him as more of a risk. He will either really watch what he says from now on (a change that, if he could do it, must feel humiliating to a guy like him), or he’s eventually going to do it again.
Rush is the epitome of the Old Boys Network. The privileged upper class white man whom believes that our birth circumstances are a fair way of determining our station in life. He has expressed racist, sexist, and classist views for decades, because women, people of color, and anyone not born with a silver spoon is inherently inferior to him. (He won’t offend working class whites, but those on the top have had centuries of experience with that. Making women and minorities feel like equals, while actually regarding them as inferior, is still something they’re trying to get right.) He simply let that be too clear this time, because sexism among the right is at high tide now. But it’s always there.
. . . he gets a pass on all that stuff too.
Remember the ‘logical’ basis of his rant. Sandra Fluke was having so much sex that she was going broke buying birth control. Surely some of the ditto-heads are married to women. Wouldn’t they know that birth control pills are taken once a day – not each time? Where does Rush get a pass to spread false information about birth control?
What pure, corporate claptrap.
The issue is not the “right” of anyone to speak their mind – not Rush, not his detractors. Having a radio show is not a right. It’s a matter of the free market* – people listen to Rush because they find him compelling, for one reason or another, and enough of them do it to make it worth the while for Clearchannel and all the stations that carry him.
If millions angrily demand that he cease broadcasting, and put pressure on the stations by tuning out and boycotting the sponsors he still has, Rush’s freedom of speech isn’t affected one bit. He could just make youtube videos and still get his word out there. Or print pamphlets. Or anything.
No one is calling for his arrest. No one is calling for him to be put away and denied the ability to speak his mind. This is simply social pressure. And social pressure is not unconstitutional.
Oh, and “sincere” and “heartfelt?” Give me a fucking break. I know a fauxpology when I read or hear one. “Absurdist humor?” Limbaugh, like most conservatives, is capable only of vicious humor, where the point is to put and keep someone down. His humor is meant to reinforce unfair social norms, just as his commentary is meant to oversimplify, obfuscate, and distract, so that right wing policies that benefit only a few gain the support of the many. Absurd, yes, but absurdist is too intellectual for his audience. He’s not one of the Coen brothers.
* Dwyer, our resident talk radio obsessive, will probably take issue with this characterization, since the airwaves belong to the public, at least legally. So let me pre-emptively acknowledge that point.
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. . . KOA provides everything thing from the far-right all the way over to the ultra-far, batshit-crazy right. (Although admittedly they lean a lot more towards the latter.) They cover that entire wide spectrum of their listener’s interests.