10 Acts of Madness By Right Wingers This Week -- Limbaugh's Rape Fantasies Edition

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http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/10-acts-madness-right-wingers-week-limbaughs-rape-fantasies-edition



1. Rush Limbaugh managed to compare the change in the filibuster rule to rape

We have a sneaking suspicion that Rush Limbaugh is looking for an excuse to talk about rape. Just a hunch. Sure enough, a rape analogy popped into this profoundly misogynistic man’s mind to explain his objection to the change in the filibuster rule. Here he is, playing the role of what he, and his gullible listeners think, is an eminently reasonable man:

“Let’s forget the Senate for a minute. Let’s say, let’s take 10 people in a room and they’re a group. And the room is made up of six men and four women. OK? The group has a rule that the men cannot rape the women. The group also has a rule that says any rule that will be changed must require six votes, of the 10, to change the rule. Every now and then, some lunatic in the group proposes to change the rule to allow women to be raped. But they never were able to get six votes for it. There were always the four women voting against it and they always found two guys. Well, the guy that kept proposing that women be raped finally got tired of it, and he was in the majority and he was one that [said], ‘You know what? We’re going to change the rule. Now all we need is five.' And well, ‘you can’t do that.’ ‘Yes we are. We’re the majority. We’re changing the rule.’ And then they vote. Can the women be raped? Well, all it would take then is half of the room. You can change the rule to say three. You can change the rule to say three people want it, it’s going to happen. There’s no rule. When the majority can change the rules there aren’t anything.”

***SNIP

3. Climate denying group compares U.N. talks about climate change to the Holocaust—immediately after saying there’s no comparison

We know what you’re thinking. Oh no they di-int. Well, oh yeah, they did. But first, the head of the rabidly anti-science Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), wrote in a fundraising email unearthed by DeSmogBlog that nothing can be compared to what happened during the Holocaust at Aushwitz and Birkenau, which he had just visited. Certainly not the climate negotiations currently taking place in Poland.

“There simply is no parallel,” he wrote.

OK then, that’s that. Can’t be compared. Not going to do it.

“Surely, the political and policy battles we are fighting cannot even begin to compare to the horrors represented by those camps,” he affirmed.

Yes, yes. Why would anyone even go there?

And yet, having said he mustn’t, go there he does:

“Yet such examples from history are instructive to show just how far otherwise-civilized people can descend when they are gripped by false ideologies and twisted utopian ambitions.


***WHAT A WEEK.

[Warren DeMontague]

1. He must REALLY hate the way the House is run, then.

[onethatcares]

2. when did

5 become the majority of ten? Apparently he's beginning to suffer from Al Capone syndrome in my opinion.