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Carbonite didn't pull ads from Ed Schultz ("Laura I. a talk slut")

raccoonradio

raccoonradio

Double standard?

Carbonite didn't pull its ads from the Ed Schultz show, even though he referred to a conservative host as a "talk slut" http://communities.washingtontimes....-insulting-carbonite-liberal-double-standard/

>>We might argue that Fluke is a young co-ed, and therefor off-limits for this type of media attack, while Ingraham is a media personality. But that isn't quite the whole story

Limbaugh has 10 times as many listeners as Schultz...CEO of Carbonite not exactly a conservative.
 
The MSNBC propagandists and the Fox Propagandists are one in the same they market to unstable paranoid people and their lobbyists. they are far wings.
 
raccoonradio said:
Double standard?

Carbonite didn't pull its ads from the Ed Schultz show, even though he referred to a conservative host as a "talk slut"
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There's a huge difference. Schultz was contrite almost immediately - perhaps his wife/producer was giving him that "look" through the studio window. Secondly, his was a one-time slip, for which he apologized on the air and personally by phone. Third, he took himself off his own radio show, where he committed the offense, for a week, and he was also suspended from MSNBC.

Limbaugh, on the other hand, kept it up for three days; only after sponsors started pulling their ads did he issue a so-called "apology", maybe after being leaned on by a bunch of Clear Channel execs and corporate lawyers. His apology in effect says "I wish I had found other words to insult Ms. Fluke". His business is words, and he knew exactly what he was saying.

Yes, there most certainly is a double standard - Limbaugh is still on the air.

As for Laura Ingraham, who was rightly offended by Mr Schultz's language: where is her complaint about Limbaugh and her defense of Ms. Fluke?

And where are the station owners and program directors, who have the editorial freedom to set standards for their airwaves? If they have mothers, wives, daughters and granddaughters, how can they even look them in the eye?
 
Ed Schulz called (a very public person) Ingrham, a "talk slut". What does that mean exactly? It was just a gratuitous nonsensical name to call her, with no real sexual implication. He then took it upon himself to apologize THE NEXT DAY on BOTH his radio & TV shows, even though he only said it on his radio show.

Limbaugh, on the other hand, completely mischaracterized and fabricated the material content of a private citizens testimony and went on to insinuate that she's having sex with lots of people. If that's not slander, I don't know what is.
 
raccoonradio said:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...-apology-liberal-men-need-to-follow-suit.html

Misogynists can also have names like Olbermann, Schultz, Taibbi, Matthews, etc. Where was the similar outrage?
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I am familiar only with Olbermann, not the others, and can say that he insults females politically but to my knowledge does not demean them as women.

There is a significant difference between calling a female a "political prostitute" and just a "prostitute".....multiple times. Not to mention that Rush also misquoted Sandra Fluke as well.
 
Columnist E. J. Dionne makes many broadcast appearances as a "contributor" both on radio and T.V.

Tonight he commented that over the weekend he had been at an event with the head of Carbonite and the two of them had some conversation about this whole Fluke-Limbaugh debacle. The head of Carbonite has a daughter or daughters about the same age as Ms. Fluke. He thought about how he would feel if someone "dissed" his daughter the way Ms. Fluke was. He decided his company would not continue to be a team member with an entity (The Rush machine) that would subject any young woman to such treatment.

Freedom of expression, it turns out, is a TWO-WAY STREET isn't it.
 
The Scarlet Letter

Limbaugh's point-of-no-return was the crack about the online sex video.

Even-in-jest, ADVOCATING porn tattoos him with a Scarlet Letter to religious folk.

"Talent on-loan-from God-uh" has been recalled by The Lender.
 
Limbaugh went on for 3 or four days and escalated, ED said he was sorry immediately. Maher is on cable TV not Broadcast radio. Cable, the Net and Satellite is different from broadcast radio during the day. Look at Stern, Alex Bennett, etc. It seems to make a difference for some reason. Public vs private. Airwaves are public, the satellites and the Net are private.
 
MC said:
Limbaugh went on for 3 or four days and escalated, ED said he was sorry immediately. Maher is on cable TV not Broadcast radio. Cable, the Net and Satellite is different from broadcast radio during the day. Look at Stern, Alex Bennett, etc. It seems to make a difference for some reason. Public vs private. Airwaves are public, the satellites and the Net are private.
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I think it makes a difference only to the level of profanity used as to whether the medium is broadcast OTA or subscription cable/satellite. Maher's use of the seven forbidden words would make it impossible for him to be on OTA radio or TV. OTA broadcasters are correctly held to a more strict standard.

The utterances of a host calling someone personal offensive names is akin to slander if not true and the medium should not matter.
 
There are THREE good reasons why Mahr gets away with it and Limbaugh doesn't:

1) Limbaugh is on public airwaves, Maher is on subscription cable.
2) Limbaugh has advertisers to lose, Maher does not.
3) Limbaugh used a fabrication as the basis for a slanderous comment about a woman testifying before congress, while Maher called one of THE most public women around, a c-word, which is not implying anything about her sexual behavior. He just pointed out that she IS a c-word, and if pressed in court, I'm sure he could prove it. :)
 
Re: The Scarlet Letter

Holland Cooke said:
Limbaugh's point-of-no-return was the crack about the online sex video.

Even-in-jest, ADVOCATING porn tattoos him with a Scarlet Letter to religious folk.

"Talent on-loan-from God-uh" has been recalled by The Lender.
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...Didn't Rush say that (Oh , I've forgotten the name now , though I can still picture - Ahu Gibrab (right spelling ?????????)) Ahu Gibrab was " just like a good old-fashioned porno " or similar ?????????
" Talk slut " is a jokily-modified term , no ?????????
 
jas2525 said:
1) Limbaugh is on public airwaves, Maher is on subscription cable.
2) Limbaugh has advertisers to lose, Maher does not.
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Maher may not have advertisers to lose, but if HBO starts bleeding subscribers because of him, the effect is basically the same.
 
mescutia said:
jas2525 said:
1) Limbaugh is on public airwaves, Maher is on subscription cable.
2) Limbaugh has advertisers to lose, Maher does not.
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Maher may not have advertisers to lose, but if HBO starts bleeding subscribers because of him, the effect is basically the same.
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So, go after him. Let's see how far you get. You can't make excuses for a broadcaster who dragged a private person's name and reputation through the mud by using false information about her testimony before a congressional committee by using the Johnny did it to excuse. That is, unless you're 5 years old
 
R.F. Burns said:

Maher may not have advertisers to lose, but if HBO starts bleeding subscribers because of him, the effect is basically the same.
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So, go after him. Let's see how far you get.
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Seeing as how I'm not personally subscribed to HBO, I don't need to. Also, I was just making an observation, not threatening to start an anti-Maher campaign or anything.
 
Tweet I just saw...

"Of the 69 ads that ran on Rush Limbaugh on WABC (a big station), 39 of them were unpaid public service announcements."
 
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