Rush Limbaugh has gone too far, and must be taken off the air after he compared Harry Reid’s use of the nuclear option to raping women.
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LIMBAUGH: 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 any.
Conservatives in their endless self pity always compare whatever is happening to their white privileged selves to the worst things that can happen to a human being. Sarah Palin recently compared the national debt to slavery, but there was something particularly vile and vicious in Limbaugh’s comparison. His hatred of women reveals itself in the ugliest ways possible.
Republicans being denied the ability to gridlock the Senate by filibustering nominees is absolutely nothing like rape. Rand Paul will never suffer physical and mental trauma because he can’t filibuster an Obama nominee. Ted Cruz’s life has not been forever altered because he now has vote yes or no on judicial nominations.
Not a single life will be ruined because Republican senators will have to do one tiny bit of their job. Changing a rule in the Senate is nothing like rape, but the fact that Limbaugh thinks it is demonstrated how out of touch with reality he is.
Rush Limbaugh adds nothing to the public discourse. He is a scourge and a stain on our nation’s political dialogue. There is a difference between free speech and hate speech, and Rush Limbaugh is peddling in hate.
Limbaugh’s comments today were the last straw. He should no longer be allowed to pollute the airwaves with the raw sewage that spews out of his mouth. America is better than Rush Limbaugh. It is time to get this hatemonger off the air.
Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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