How apropos.
Last night, Keith Olbermann played clips of Rush Limbaugh discussing the Edwards affair on his radio program. Witness the glory, at around 1:50:
Rush:
We've been told that Elizabeth Edwards is smarter than John Edwards, that's part of the puff pieces on them that we've seen. Ergo, if Elizabeth Edwards is smarter than John Edwards, is it likely that she thinks she knows better than he does what his speeches ought to contain, and what kind of things he ought to be doing strategy-wise in the campaign. If she is smarter than he is, could it have been her decision to keep going with the campaign?
In other words, could it be that she doesn't shut up?
Now that's as far as I'm going to go...
It just seems to me that Edwards might be attracted to a woman ...ahem... whose mouth did something other than talk.
My my, doesn't this sound familiar. Let's combine these two very similar ideologies into one, just for fun.
You see, Elizabeth Edwards is "not the "typical" female who mostly enjoys playing the traditional Western feminine role in relationships, such as a bit of male gallantry or (heaven forbid!) letting the man order for you at a restaurant." She didn't " want a man to be a MAN," with "the cajones to be decisive."
And so what did she get? What she deserved, son: a cheating husband (and God smiting her with breast cancer for being uppity, though the mechanics aren't clear, since yapping humorless harpies are not really women. When checking Elizabeth's slacks, it's not "sure there's a vajayjay in there." No wonder he strayed, to a real woman.).
Elizabeth kept yapping and yapping. She wanted to contribute to the decision-making, instead of "occasionally letting a man feel like a man by allowing him to flex his inner caveman," and so it's really her fault he strayed to a more "typical," "traditional" woman, one with little brains or career of her own, who was more amenable to sucking with her mouth than smarting off to the man of the house.
So, the lesson is, ladies: make sure to be stupid and have no opinions (or, if you are afflicted with opinionitis, just shush and smile and pretend to be stupid), and allow the man to feel like "a MAN," which evidently means not talking and giving blow jobs. Otherwise he'll cheat on you. The end.
Yup, I think I'm going to go trade in my law degree for some bananas to practice on. Look, I'm ending sentences with prepositions, I'm getting dumber already.
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Stellaa, it's true. As we've already noted, Hillary and Obama have really brought out the closeted racists and sexists, and seeing this, regular folks think it's okay to come out of the racist/sexist closet also.
He just yaps on and on and on, and never shuts up. Maybe his wives wanted something else, too.
Madame B.: Don't worry about the sentence-ending prepositions. No less a stylist than Jane Austen has been known to end a sentence here and there with a preposition.
I just reread (some of) the thread and your discussion with T & D's husband. He is truly baiting you, don't you think?
Back to Elizabeth: This is a travesty to my way of thinking. HOW DARE HE SAY THAT??? I have been inflamed ever since my husband told me about it this morning.
Nothing is sacred anymore -- absolutely nothing. I imagine that people like Rush Limbaugh figure that if THEY don't say it, the internet will get a one-up on them.
So, what -- I am sick to death of the media battle for their share of the muck market. Words have power. Good manners and common decency cannot be demanded of a country's press corps, radio broadcasts, and the MSM. They do not own the airwaves, however, but are given license to use them. Just like our Congress, nothing about the MSM is working as it was designed to according to the ideals of those settling the goals for a great nation.
I am ashamed and appalled on a daily basis how good people are treated. WOMEN are the MAJORITY of the population in this country. Do we need to have a third wave of ACTIVE battling for women's rights. Or, do we just need to clean house of BushCO, and then work to change the mindset of the press.
Is there realistically anything that can be done about this public abuse of women?? Something needs to change.
Lisa, is he baiting? He said that he holds those opinions earnestly. I think what i find most infuriating, and i'm sure he's aware of this, far more than his opinions about women or his baiting, is that he deleted 2 of my comments. i've deleted one comment in my whole blogging life -- deleting comments just to try to assert your power over them, it's really low pathetic. i have to hand it to sally that she never deleted my comments, i commend her for that.
As for the way women are talked about, women need to stand up for themselves more. It would be great of every woman on TV said, not in a whiny or victim way, just really firmly siad, this is completely unacceptable. It would be great if a female CEO at Limbaugh's company told him what she thought, maybe fired him. As more and more women are the ones paying for dinner, women's tolerance of this kind of stuff will decrease, they will punish it, and the derogatory remarks will decrease.
Sorry, Rushie, but your cock is attached to your body, therefore what you do with it is YOUR responsibility, not anyone else's.
LOW ROAD ALERT: Then again, if you need Viagara to get your privates to stand at attention, I can see how you might start to feel like you don't have any control .....
(and to think I am only 24% evil...)
Did his largely conservative and elderly audience really enjoy the blowjob reference?
I swear his audience is completely worthless, except to advertisers.
What is really odd is that Ms. Edwards has always come across as supportive of her husband. It is not like she was known to undermine him.
I think Rush just wanted to fit that last line into his program and stretched the story to fit it. Pathetic.
Did I mention that his audience is worthless?
BTW, when I used to work in the restaurant business, my pet peeve was when a man would order for his date. He acted like he was being all chivlarous or something. I never found her to be very impressed. Excuse me, operable larynx here. Also, I somehow missed the vayjayjay thing. Can someone clue me in?
I'm tired of witnessing the victimized wife standing behind her man with Valium-dazed eyes (at least Ms. Edwards didn't show up for that).
Slida Spitzer was the final straw.
Message to Slida:
You have 3 daughters, the oldest of whom is 18 years old. Let me point out this is only 4 years younger than the trollop your husband spent tens of thousands of your girl’s future college educations on.
This was your brilliant Harvard law school educated chance to let your girls know, and the rest of the world, that you would be skipping the humiliating press conference that ironically ended up focusing more on you than your gutless selfish sex-addicted husband. It could have gone something like this:
“Girls, like you, I’m in complete and total shock. I will not be attending your father’s press conference because I refuse to be the sacrificial lamb for a man who promised to be faithful to me...and to you. He made this mess and he needs to clean it up for himself. Instead, I will be with the three of you and we will will figure out a plan to get through this together, with or without him.”
Now, Slida, if you had shown up at the press conference with a smile and a frying pan strategically poised over his narcissistic pin-sized head, you would have had the women of the world dancing in the street.
But you did show up and blew the chance to say, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore."
As for Elizabeth Edwards, she has more serious matters to attend to...like young children and metastatic cancer.
If ya'll will recall, Senator Clinton was criticized (and still is) in a similar fashion regarding President Clinton's infidelities.
It is a very popular meme and integral to the overweening male privilege that prevails in our society. Men are supposed to bag younger, hotter babes because their wives get all frigid and stuff and don't provide enthusiastic services as is the male right to receive.
Echidne of the Snakes beat Oblermann to the punch with a post from Tuesday titled: What Women Have Mouths For
It can be found at:
http://echidneofthesnakes.blogspot.com/2008_08_01_archive.html#3815199142807499869
The commenters there get into some unsavory aspects of Rush's sex life. I had no idea he was a sex tourist pederast. Wonder if it's true?
I suspect that if an alternative radio station were to tell those "truths" about Rush, they would be fined by the FCC.
She's one smart lady and their political union has been effective and powerful. She wasn't going to let his addiction (which has nothing to do with her) get in HER way.
And, I have always said -- Why should Hillary suffer? Also, I think intellectually and socially they are very well matched. She had to know he was a sex addict -- she made compromises. Again, I fault Maureen Dowd and the rest of the press for taking and running with the Monica Lewinsky issue. Should have never happened. Along with sooooo much more since then...
In that vein, I dated a sex addict in college. I didn't KNOW he was a sex addict until we broke up. He is very like Bill Clinton -- has that same aura, sly crooked smile, and LOTS of charisma. I was a simple smal town girl when I arrived at my freshman hall. Ten steps and one quick glance later, I was smitten by my Billy...for awhile anyway...I am hoping he will join OS eventually. He has LOTS of great stories to tell. (I eventually forgave him in case you were wondering.)
It's a little sad that only one man (neilpaul) stands in solidarity with us ladies on this one, but at least we have one!
PF asks: "Also, I somehow missed the vayjayjay thing. Can someone clue me in? "
ACleverGuy (yeah, i know, right?!) on the above-linked post, when challenged by me, implied that because i'm obnoxious bitch who stood up to his bullshit, i'm not a real woman. He wrote: "BTW, check inside your slacks. You sure there's a vajayjay in there?"
And then, just to add a touch of class, he called my boyfriend "testicularly challenged" because I earn more than he does. Let me assure all of you that my boyfriend is locked in the basement where I routinely whip him and castrate him (repeatedly, yes), and I only let him out so he can cook and clean the house and pleasure me.
Oooohhh, I want one of those -- does he want to come to Florida to work on his tan? :)
So, you know, I think i need to whip him some more to eliminate this pesky trait.
And btw, ACLEVERGUY, you're welcome to post here, you don't need to post on another thread. I promise I won't delete your comments or close down comments, like you did. :)
I loathe Limbaugh...and like Neil, I cannot imagine how people can stomach him...and even identify themselves as ditto heads and think that's a good thing.
I really think at times my visceral hatred of Limbaugh diminishes me somewhat, and then I hear through a snippet some soundbite that enrages me all over again.
I loved that Letterman had him on as a guest and said to his face, in effect, that he is full of shit...here's a bit of the transcript:
LETTERMAN: Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night and just think to yourself, "I am just full of hot gas?" Do you know what I mean? And of course --
(Audience cheers and applauds)
LIMBAUGH: Dave, let me tell you something.
LETTERMAN: No, I mean that, of course -- but you know what I'm saying. Do you ever think, "I'm just fooling people"?
and here's another tidbit for Jeff/OpenJeff on his google searching:
I wish Rush would just shut the fuck up.
He should not be allowed to open his mouth and say jack about any woman either.
I'm getting quite the education reading up on Rush's alleged sexual proclivities. The internetz is not kind.
4. And finally, criticism of Elizabeth:
* What was she wearing during the press conference
* She obviously was not "taking care of his needs" (though Dr. Laura might cut her some slack due to the breast cancer)
* How could she stay with him... "If I were her.... "
* She must be a coniving shrew who simply doesn't want to lose her sugar daddy.
* Yadda yadda yadda.
While Limbaugh's comments were disgusting and abhorrent, I find the criticism of women equally distasteful. The criticism that says "if I were her... " and 2nd guessing the spouse that chooses to stay with her husband.
Get the fuck over yourselves.
Cheers.
Re: Limbaugh - he *used* to make me angry. Now I read/hear stuff like that and I just feel....soiled. What is up with that perennial constipated expression of his? Is there a rabbit stuck up there, or what?
Think the scene in Little Nicky when Harvey Keitel as the Devil (jr) -- with Rodney Dangerfield as Lucifer(sr) -- sodomizes Hitler with a pineapple. Note that Hitler is in a French Maid's uniform at the time.