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MMFA: Limbaugh To Sarah Jessica Parker: “Sarah, Eat Something, Will You?”
Rush Limbaugh revived the ridiculous attack that President Obama “doesn’t have time” and is “too busy” to attend his daily intelligence briefings, claiming that “other priorities,” like his re-election campaign and fundraising, are taking precedence over national security. In doing so, he also took a shot at actress Sarah Jessica Parker, an Obama supporter, for her appearance.
As we wrote on Thursday, and as Limbaugh himself noted, Obama receives national security briefings in other ways throughout his day, including reading the daily briefs and meeting with members of his Cabinet and national security experts.
While discussing the issue with a caller, Limbaugh purported to list the many fundraisers Obama is attending, including “Jay-Z fundraisers” and Vogue editor “Anna Wintour fundraisers” and “what’s her face, Sarah Jessica Parker.” He then interjected: “Sarah, eat something, will you?” before mentioning actor/director George Clooney.
Limbaugh has been heavily criticized for his decades-long misogynistic attacks on women. If you’ll recall, it is his personal attacks on Sandra Fluke that resulted in mass advertiser exodus and millions of dollars in lost revenue.
Mitt Romney this weekend stumped alongside televangelist Pat Robertson, not minding Robertson’s legacy of incendiary, insensitive, heartless and apocalyptic rhetoric that has gotten him in trouble in the past. Apparently, Robertson’s own CBN has become aware of Robertson’s problematic statements, and may even be editing his controversial claims out of episode archives.
“Well, you could become a Muslim and you could beat her,” Robertson responded. “This man’s got to stand up to her and he can’t let her get away with this stuff,” Robertson continued, “I don’t think we condone wife-beating these days but something has got to be done.”
He later said the woman is a “rebellious child” and pondered if she has psychological problems. Robertson told the viewer that since he “can’t divorce her according to the Scripture, so I say: move to Saudi Arabia.”
From the 09.10.2012 edition of CBN’s The 700 Club:
h/t: Brian Tashman at RWW
This morning, regular Fox News and CNBC guest and Mitt Romney surrogate Donald Trump tweeted that Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington “is unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man- he made a good decision.”
.@ariannahuff is unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man- he made a good decision.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 28, 2012
Trump makes weekly guest appearances on Fox News’ Fox & Friends and on CNBC’s Squawk Box. He often uses those appearances to offer baseless conspiracy theories about President Obama. Indeed, CNBC.com has noted that Trump “has been at the forefront of the ‘birther’ movement — those who question whether Obama was born in the U.S.”
YOU’RE FIRED, Donald!
h/t: MMFA
FLASHBACK: Savage dubs MSNBC “ More Snotty Nonsense By Chicks“
Hey, didn’t Whiner Savage once used to be on MSNBC?
Dan Riehl is a right-wing blogger who posts regularly at Breitbart.com. Today on Twitter, he attacked Salon.com editor at large Joan Walsh with references to oral sex:
Riehl regularly says ugly things:
Conservative Blogger Riehl: Cain Is A “Jive Talking Huckster”
Right-wing sexism: Meghan McCain attacked as a “self-indulgent set of mega-breasts”
h/t: MMFA
Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke condemned Hustler magazine on Wednesday for publishing a fake pornographic image of conservative commentator S.E. Cupp.
The Blaze first reported that Hustler had published the fake image, which depicted Cupp with a penis in her mouth. Beside the picture, a brief paragraph attacked Cupp for her “dumb ideas like defunding Planned Parenthood.”
“It’s a doctored photo, so it’s not like I’m embarrassed because I performed this act and they caught it on film,” Cupp told The Blaze founder Glenn Beck. “It’s embarrassing because, as you said, it will be out there forever. The fact that I work really hard, and am an Ivy League educated young woman with a pretty good job doesn’t really matter when you look at a photo like this.”
“That’s satire,” Larry Flynt, the publisher of the pornographic magazine, told The Blaze. “I’m able to publish this because of the Supreme Court case I won in 1984, Flynt v. Falwell.”
Via The Huffington Post: “An Ohio-based radio DJ who ignited controversy last week after telling a concerned father he should “get one of your friends to screw your daughter straight” has apologized for his comments. The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) notes that Dominic Dieter, the host of the popular “Rover’s Morning Glory” on Cleveland’s WMMS 100.7 FM radio (The Buzzard), issued an on-air apology for his statements this morning…”.* Ana Kasparian, Cenk Uygur, and Jayar Jackson break it down on The Young Turks.
Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, a Fox News contributor, tea party activist and personal friend of Sean Hannity’s said in a sermon recently published to YouTube that America’s greatest mistake was allowing women the right to vote, adding that back in “the good old days, men knew that women are crazy and they knew how to deal with them.”
In the video, published to YouTube in March, Peterson explains that he believes women simply can’t handle “anything,” and that in his experience, “You walk up to them with a issue, they freak out right away. They go nuts. They get mad. They get upset, just like that. They have no patience because it’s not in their nature. They don’t have love. They don’t have love.”
Despite his statements being online for more than a month, Hannity welcomed Peterson on his show last Tuesday to castigate the Obama administration over “taking credit” for the Osama bin Laden assassination — but the segment didn’t exactly go as planned.
In his March sermon, Peterson adds thatSandra Fluke, a Georgetown Law student who recently spoke to a House Democratic hearing on contraception coverage, was actually revealing “all the sex” college students are having. “It’s really all about maintaining the freedom to kill babies in the womb,” he says. “Women are now degraded. Women have no shame.”
At roughly 8:30 into his 12-minute sermon, he doubles down, amazingly, saying that he believes America went wrong when it gave women the right to vote.
“I think that one of the greatest mistakes America made was to allow women the opportunity to vote,” Peterson says. “We should’ve never turned this over to women. And these women are voting in the wrong people. They’re voting in people who are evil who agrees with them who’re gonna take us down this pathway of destruction.”
Peterson, founder of the conservative religious group Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny (BOND), appeared on the Fox News Channel on May 1, more than a month after giving his controversial sermon. Fox News host Kirsten Powers even confronted Peterson about his “mysogynistic” speech and challenged Hannity to repudiate it, but the Republican opinion host did not, and instead gave Peterson a platform to denounce “liberal, women policies.”
That may not be a surprise, however: Hannity has hosted Peterson numerous times and even serves on BOND’s advisory board. “BOND continues to fight the good fight standing for the values of God, family, and country, and are deserving of our support,” he said, according to the group.
‘Fuck You Greg Gutfeld’ - Ana Kasparian of TYT on Fox Host’s NOW Remarks (by TheYoungTurks)
And Ana Kasparian is right. Greg Gutfeld, it’s time to go jackin’ it in San Diego!
(via Limbaugh Calls Female CNN Anchors “ Clucking Hens“)
The only clucking hen is you, Rush. Does Robin Meade have to spank you, Mr. Sexistbaugh?!
(via MMFA: CNN’s Dana Loesch And The Bullying Campaign Against Sandra Fluke)
Amid the controversy over Rush Limbaugh’s misogynistic attacks on Sandra Fluke, CNN contributor Dana Loesch has aggressively pursued the right-wing campaign to bully the Georgetown law student. After announcing that she would call Fluke “whatever I want,” Loesch has called Fluke a “nympho” and used her radio show and posts at Big Journalism to claim that Fluke “embarrass[ed] herself and her sex by … discussing about how she has a huge inability to control her sexual urges.”
Fluke Testified About The Health Benefits Of Contraceptive Coverage
Fluke Testified About A Student Who Needed Contraceptive Medicine To Treat Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. From Fluke’s testimony before Democratic members of Congress:
In sixty-five percent of cases, our female students were interrogated by insurance representatives and university medical staff about why they needed these prescriptions and whether they were lying about their symptoms. For my friend, and 20% of women in her situation, she never got the insurance company to cover her prescription, despite verification of her illness from her doctor. Her claim was denied repeatedly on the assumption that she really wanted the birth control to prevent pregnancy. She’s gay, so clearly polycystic ovarian syndrome was a much more urgent concern than accidental pregnancy. [Fluke testimony viaMedia Matters, 2/23/12]
For the truth about Sandra Fluke’s testimony, click here
Loesch Bullies Sandra Fluke By Calling Her “Whatever I Want”
Loesch: “If You Expect Me To Pay Higher Insurance Premiums To Cover Your ‘Free’ Birth Control, I Can Call You Whatever I Want.” On March 3, Loesch posted numerous comments on her Twitter account about Fluke’s testimony and the controversy over Limbaugh’s misogynistic attacks:
[Dana Loesch’s Twitter account, 3/3/12; Daily Kos, 3/4/12]
Loesch Falsely Accused Fluke Of “Discussing About How She Has A Huge Inability To Control Her Sexual Urges.” Loesch addressed the controversy surrounding Limbaugh’s misogynistic attacks on Fluke during the March 7 edition of her radio show, saying:
LOESCH: As the mother of sons, if I had a daughter who decided to embarrass herself and her sex by going before members of Congress on national television and discussing about how she has a huge inability to control her sexual urges, and thus needs a bailout, she needs individuals to pay higher insurance premiums so she can have free contraception at her university at which she is going by way of public funds apparently, that would to me would be more embarrassing than the act of what she’s doing being called out for what it is listed as in the dictionary. That’s just the hard truth of the matter.
Back in the days when women acted better in public, and they didn’t go and discuss about how they had an absolute insatiable sexual appetite that needs a thousand dollars a year in order to prevent pregnancy, people did that because there was a consequence to talking about your sex life to such an extent publicly on national television. And apparently all those inhibitions are out the window. Nothing is sacred anymore and thus nothing is attractive or alluring, because everything is trashy, and I think Fluke’s testimony before members of Congress has contributed to that. [KFTK, The Dana Show, 3/7/12]
Loesch: Fluke Was “Embarrassing Herself Before Congress By Testifying That She Simply Cannot Stop Getting It On.” In a March 2 Big Journalism post Loesch wrote:
More have admonished Limbaugh’s description of Sandra Fluke than admonished a 30 year-old woman embarrassing herself before congress by testifying that she simply cannot stop getting it on and her inability to control her urges constitutes infringing upon everyone else for a bailout. [Big Journalism, 3/2/12]
Loesch: Fluke “Wants To Be Able To Be As Promiscuous As She Wants To Be.” During the March 2 edition her radio show, Loesch responded to a caller who said that Fluke should “change her career and go work at the Mustang Ranch out there in Vegas,” and said:
LOESCH: Oh my gosh. That could be — you know, I’m telling you, she’s worried about money apparently instead of going and asking for the government. But see that’s — and, Mike, I appreciate your call — it comes down because she doesn’t want to have to pay her own bills, because she’s an independent woman. She’s an independent woman like that Destiny’s Child song, but she doesn’t want to take care of all of her own business, because that’s what independent women do. Independent women expect the government, which is characterized as the old cartoon Uncle Sam, to take care of their financial needs. She wants to be able to be as promiscuous as she wants to be, and all of the accoutrements that go along with that, she wants those to be financed by the government, because that’s what independent women do. [KFTK, The Dana Show, 3/2/12]
Loesch: Is Sandra Fluke “Just Going Out And Buying Abortions?” During the March 2 edition of her radio show, Loesch responded to a caller who questioned the cost of contraceptives and said:
LOESCH: That’s the whole — 3,000 — $1,000 a year. Is she just going out and buying abortions? I mean, are the prophylactics with the pills she’s taking, are they made with like gold flake à la Dave Chappelle’s ballin’ skit from Chappelle’s Show. I don’t get it. [KFTK, The Dana Show, 3/2/12]
Loesch: Fluke Is “Doing It More Than She’s Studying In Law School. … They Act Like They’re Nymphos.” On her radio show, Loesch said of Fluke: “She’s doing it more than she’s studying in law school. Is that why our — is that why law sucks lately? Is that why we’re having such a problem in our courts?” Loesch also said, “They act like they’re nymphos. That’s what they act like.” [KFTK, The Dana Show, 2/28/12]
Loesch: Fluke “Is Likely Not Having Monogamous Sex With The Same Man Approximately 2.74 Times A Day, Every Day, For Three Straight Years.” From Loesch’s March 2 Big Journalism post:
More at DanaBusted.blogspot.comInstead of projecting surrogate modesty towards Fluke, they project it towards Limbaugh, who is calling the truth for what it is. Fluke, a 30 year-old (presented as a 23 year-old college coed by the media) women’s activist/professional student, is likely not having monogamous sex with the same man approximately 2.74 times a day, every day, for three straight years (in order to satisfy the calculations about which she felt confident enough to present during a congressional testimony). If she is, kudos! But promiscuity is not the hallmark of a virtuous woman. Is it Limbaugh’s fault for pointing it out or Fluke’s fault for the behavior? It’s a rhetorical question and the answer proved Limbaugh’s entire point.
The real war on women is being perpetuated upon us by our own sex; women who seek to place us under the control of a pimp-daddy government by demanding it cover all our needs, in exchange for control, or force private entities to do so in its stead. [Big Journalism, 3/2/12]
Between 1989 and 1991 Rush Limbaugh went on a series of lectures he described as the “Rush To Excellence Tour.” Limbaugh, then a newly launched national radio host, used the tour to promote himself and his ideas.
In tapes of these performances that Media Matters acquired, it’s clear that despite the recent controversy over Limbaugh’s misogynist and sexist comments, those themes have been part of his act for several decades.
Rush To Excellence Tour ‘89
Limbaugh attacked Surgeon General C. Everett Koop’s recommendation that condoms be used as a preventative measure against AIDS, explaining that one of the best way to prevent AIDS is “do not ask another man to bend over and make love at the exit point. That’s what you don’t do.”
Describing protesters outside the event, Limbaugh said that “feminism was established so that unattractive ugly broads could have easy access to the mainstream.” He went on to describe them as a “bunch of cows.”
Rush To Excellence Tour ‘90
Twenty-two days before Limbaugh’s performance homeless rights advocate Mitch Snyder committed suicide. During his show, Limbaugh said Snyder had “assumed room temperature recently.”
Limbaugh went on to mock Snyder, dedicating his performance with singer Clarence “Frogman” Henry of “Ain’t Got No Home” to the advocate.
Rush To Excellence Tour ‘91
Limbaugh joked about a law firm attempting to hire a female associate and choosing the best candidate on the basis of “biggest boobs.”
As Media Matters has previously detailed, Limbaugh has a long history of working in concert with Republican politicians and elected officials.
In this video from the “National Conservative Forum” on July 27, 1991, former Reagan education secretary and George H.W. Bush drug czar Bill Bennett “pays tribute” to Limbaugh as “a national resource.”
Dear Sexistbaugh: I hope you assume room temperature for what you have done to our nation, by poisoning it with your venom against anyone who disagrees with your worldview.
h/t: MMFA
See Also:
Limbaugh’s televised hate speech
Limbaugh’s habitual dishonesty
Limbaugh’s Influence On Republican Politics
Limbaugh’s usage of “feminazi”
Limbaugh’s attacks on suffering people
Limbaugh’s attacks on Immigrants
Limbaugh’s attacks on the LGBTQ community
Limbaugh’s attacks on the Poor
Limbaugh’s 15 worst comments since 2004
Limbaugh’s sexist and misogynistic attacks
