Promoting prostitution is illegal, and doing it over the airwaves takes it to the Federal level. Doing it on a show that children are exposed to and now he's committed a whole slew of pedophilia crimes. Why has he not been arrested?
Maher does what a comedian does--he stands on a stage in front of an audience, tells short jokes and waits for the laugh, and sits on Letterman or Leno for interviews while cracking political jokes. Limbaugh is afraid of the public because he knows they dislike him. He never goes on anyone else's show. He rarely appears with anyone on his own show--other than his own narcissistic self. His short-lived TV show, in which he NEVER had even one guest because he's too dumb to hold up his side of a debate so he never debates, had such bad ratings that stations relegated it to midnight. When he was cancelled he cried that his ratings were caused by the time slot. Everyone knew it was the other way around, but this propaganda still appears in his Wikipedia article.
the key difference is (of course) Sarah Palin is a public figure while Sandra Fluke isn't. Going on a 3 day misogynistic bender and then shirking personal responsibility and blaming the Left for his actions in a feeble apology isn't playing well with the Right, Left, Independents, and especially women. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/73621.html STOMP
Limbaugh is an idiot, and always has been. He is a comedian, his 3 hour monologues are his "standup." Still, you cannot deny the unequal treatment of Limbaugh (the rage!) vs. Maher and many others on the left who have said equally nasty things about people. Sandra Fluke is a public figure, she just doesn't get the press that a Palin does.
Yes. I once was scanning the radio stations in the car and had to pull over I was laughing so hard. He had done a Weird Al sort of remake of "they're coming to take me away" (by Napolean XIV) in Ross Perot's voice. This was during the 1988 or 1992 election. [video=youtube;hnzHtm1jhL4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnzHtm1jhL4[/video]
Sandra Fluke is a known political activist who took part in a fake 'Congressional hearing' led by Nancy Pelosi. She's a political operative, plain and simple, and her anecdotal tales about anonymous classmates at the fake hearing were an embarrassment. Limbaugh is a buffoon, but the selective outrage by leftists is the apex of hypocrisy.
Yeah, I don't think that's good enough, Denny. Don Imus, okay, you can call him one, or at least a humorist, but Limbaugh isn't a comedian.
Not only is this Fluke chick a political operative, she's also stupid. $1000, $114, it's just too much to spend when you're shelling out $65k for your J.D. from Georgetown! http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203370604577263281305035966.html?mod=rss_opinion_main
I always saw him as like Johnny Carson. A comedian who draws his monologue from current events. Just because you say he isn't a comedian doesn't make it so. I've heard him do NFL game picks. "The Bears will beat the Dolphins because bears eat fish." http://paulshanklin.com/aboutpaul.html
[video=youtube;5hw549HZr7c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hw549HZr7c[/video] [video=youtube;OD0jeBhCjz0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD0jeBhCjz0[/video] [video=youtube;AU2vPm29J_4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU2vPm29J_4[/video]
Yeah that comparison is valid... I've never seen or heard anyone call Limbaugh a comedian. A clown, maybe, but not in the context you're using. You are the first. You want me to prove he isn't one? How does that work?
I don't consider Bill Maher on his talk show or Limbaugh on his talk show funny, but they are similar in how they approach their jobs. They are bombastic clowns who say outrageous things for a living. Whether or not they're comedians is up to the audience, isn't it? Unless there is some official 'comedian' label that one must earn or buy in order to be considered a comedian?
Performing comedy? Saying funny things on occasion doesn't not a comedian make. Anyone with a sense of humor, even one as fucked as Rush's, would qualify. I'm just not comfortable with equating guys like Limbaugh to comedians who have 20+ years of stand up and comedy specials on their resumes, political leanings aside. The Maher/Limbaugh comparison is something the cons are pushing right now for some absurd reason, as if Maher was a powerful liberal figure of anywhere near the humongous stature of Limbaugh's (see, I guess speeds is a comedian too). Look at Rush's wiki page and the instances of the words comedy, humor, and satire are zero. Joke comes up once describing him making light of being caught with erection pills. Comedian comes up once in reference to Al Franken.
Rush Limbaugh does voice impersonations. [video=youtube;oDlUZ-E88j8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDlUZ-E88j8[/video]
There are two possibilities: 1. Rush is not comedian, because he does not view himself as one and does not present himself as one 2. Rush is a comedian, which means a large part of the conservative movement in the US takes serious policy prescription and political beliefs from a comedian
