It's actually surprising that THIS is the controversy
that's starting to make Limbaugh's sponsors think twice about giving him advertising dollars. Don't get me wrong, I think what he said was terrible, and he fully deserves the shitstorm that's raining down over his head, but--Hasn't he been saying stuff on the air for years that's just as bad or worse? Why was this the straw that broke that camel's back?
I can only guess that when you alienate a demographic that's potentially over 50% of the market, the repercussions are much severe than usual.
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and his ego couldn't let it go. He has always gotten away with it, but this time, we have learned how to use the internets to let our collective voices be heard. As a women, I'm just plain sick of all this shit. When these neanderthals get a uterus, they can have an opinion. My hubby, who is not a neanderthal, agrees with me, and that's good enough 
for DECADES their plan has been to inundate their sworn enemies (anyone sympathetic in any way to the democratic party, or anyone presenting any slight threat to their pursuit of total power) with any and every sort of contumely, vilification (true or not), character assassination, in order to paint their unloyal opposition in the poorest light possible.....
remember, Rove and his ilk, both before and after, studied and employed the works of Bernays and Goebbels (probably Ellul, too), to turn the public against any who stood in their way>>>total destruction, total war, winning at ANY cost
they did this with the "anything that sticks" to the wall technique. whatever filthy lie they tell every single day is spewed out there in concert with their myriad outlets, and most answers, tepid as they usually are, are either ingnored or ridiculed by the media powers that be.
they almost always get away with it, but in their increasingly desperate straights now, given the possibility that the economy is ''recovering'' enough to take away their main chief attack point against Obama, they find themselves flailing about, trying to find SOMEthing, ANYthing that will allow them to turn public against him just enough to get their designated spokesmodel back into the whitehouse.
it's fun to watch, but the collateral damage to real people is nauseating.
the eerie coincidence of the corporeal demise of one of the right's most obnoxious proponents of this tactic, and the (much hoped for) public demise of the spiritual symbol of today's hideously twisted version of the GOP cancer, is a step in the right direction, a step away from the
Business Plot, McCarthy, JFK (sorry coincidence theorists), COINTELPRO, both October Surprises, Iran-Contra, Election Thefts ca. 2000 and 2004, and the countless other conspiracies against the constitution that lie at the core of the Republican political philosophy.
people are starting, finally, to wise up, and it would seem that the new media is finally starting to have some effect against that of the old. for the first time the lies don't always make it all the way around the world before the truth pulls on its boots. let's hope this trend continues, and it's not too late
http://www.fcrn.org.uk/research-library/climate-change/science-background/too-late-stop-dangerous-climate-change
we're so scuh-rood.....
hold on...forgot this:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/bender2.html
from Freud's nephew, the godfather of modern PR:
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country… We are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized… "
