PEORIA -- Blogger Bill Dennis has begun a movement to boycott Rush Limbaugh's show on the radio station WMBD in Peoria.
That show has an astounding list of advertisers, which includes the Peoria County nursing home, Bel Wood, Here's the list, together with email addresses of the Peoria County Board members where you can email them with a complaint.
UPDATE 3/9/12: Peoria County Board member Allen Mayer emailed me to say the county has requested that it's ad not run during Rush's program, and station agreed to honor the request.
Though I often disagree with Dennis, especially his sexist 'eye candy' features, and his personal attacks on people like PJS reporter Steve Tarter, who works hard and needs public support, not attacks, Dennis, like a stopped clock, is correct on this issue.
That's because Limbaugh is truly an idiot, and his opinions cannot be trusted. He obviously believes, or did believe, that taking birth control pills is like taking Viagra. What a moron!
No wonder he's been married four times. I hope his ex-wives took him for lots of $$$$ when they left him.
Limbaugh is part of the war on women raging throughout the USA. It's even come to blue-state Illinois, with bills in Springfield that would make abortions harder to get and more expensive than they already are.
Medicaid already pays for half of all births in Illinois. Apparently the right wing politicians want to increase that to 75 percent, when they put abortion out of reach for most women because of the expense, or lack of availability.
Abortion and birth control are basic to liberty for women. They prevent health issues (pregnancy can lead to the mother's death!) and are eessential in today's world so women can survive independent of male support if necessary.
Servitude, indeed, slavery, is the ultimate unspoken goal of men when they try to deny birth control and abortion to women through the force of law or regulation.
Here's an online petition against this anti-woman stuff in Springfield.
The ultimate message here is NEVER vote for an anti-choice candidate for any office, however lowly. Like Aaron Schock, that person might rise quickly to a position of real power and try to take away female liberty and rights.
Meanwhile let's drive Rush off the Peoria radio airways.
The great program Democracy Now can replace him, and it's free to radio stations from Pacificia. It already runs at the awful hour of 7 a.m. on WAZU-FM, 90.7 but needs a better time slot in Peoria. There are other great free radio shows, as well, that WMBD can run.
Flush Rush!
-- Elaine Hopkins
Just wondering if you're aware of all misogynist things said by Bill Maher, Ed Schultz and others against conservative women. Calling them twats, cunts and sluts...
Were you outraged then??
Posted by: Vonster | March 08, 2012 at 12:04 PM
Those were women in politics or public life and NO I dont like it. I even stopped watching Olbermann, Matthews and others during the 08 campaign because of their treatment of Hillary Clinton.
But -- Susan F is a private citizen, not in politics or the media, and that makes Rush worse than the others.
Posted by: Elaine Hopkins | March 08, 2012 at 02:10 PM
No, Susan is a 30 year old self-described activist. Stop parsing. You can't have it both ways.
Posted by: Vonster | March 08, 2012 at 03:22 PM
Elaine - You really think it is OK to call a woman in public service a cunt? Disrespect is disrespect. Stop splitting hairs. It's very unbecoming for a woman who is all about fairness and equality. And in regards to the "free" liberal radio program you suggest they substitute for Rush, why do you suppose its free? Don't think for a moment they wouldn't sell it for a quarter if they could get it.
Posted by: GOPer | March 08, 2012 at 03:23 PM
Wow -- how fascinating that the right wing defends this vile talk! Women take note: these are your enemies.
I don't defend this by anyone, but Rush deserves whatever happens to him for many, many reasons, especially the latest slime.
Posted by: Elaine Hopkins | March 08, 2012 at 04:16 PM
I'm not defending any of it. I'm pointing out your duplicity.
Posted by: Vonster | March 08, 2012 at 04:30 PM
How did I defend vile talk? On the contrary I condemned ALL vile talk - something which apparently you are not willing to do! What a perfect example of a Lib hearing only what she wants to hear.
Posted by: GOPer | March 08, 2012 at 05:18 PM
Hey folks -- notice the personal attacks? I'm duplicitious, somehow.
Go away, Rush lovers. Enjoy his errors, his vile talk, and know that you are on the downside of history.
Posted by: Elaine Hopkins | March 08, 2012 at 06:13 PM
Duplicity again, Elaine. You engage in personal attacks but then decry them. Embarrassing.
Posted by: Vonster | March 08, 2012 at 06:47 PM
Elaine - it is clear you are only having a conversation with yourself. I'll go now and find a wall to talk to.
Posted by: GOPer | March 08, 2012 at 07:56 PM
How fascinating. When did I become the issue instead of Rush?
However I can see your mind is made up and talking to your side is talking to a wall.
People don't listen until they are ready to hear.
I am on the side of women's rights and freedom. You apparently are not, and attack those who are, and defend those who seek to subjugate women.
You wont change your minds until you have significant life experiences, if then.
Until then, stop the personal attacks and focus on the issues using logic and science, not emotion to lead you.
Posted by: Elaine Hopkins | March 08, 2012 at 08:47 PM
1) You have to step back, look at bigger issue. Rush would have slammed this lady no matter what subject, because he actually didn't see or hear her whole testimony. (he does have hearing problems, btw).
2)Ms. Fluke spoke on the need for INSURANCE companies (not taxpayers) to cover contraceptive medication for those women who need it because of medical problems (too much menstrual flow is one, I know a female who has that problem). Ms. Fluke was speaking on behalf of a friend who needed it to prevent ovarian cysts, if I recall correctly. But the Big Rush always takes audio clips, spins them his own way ("what he/she/they are really saying is....). Yes, I know the Left takes Right comments out of context too.
3)As far as Maher, and Schulze..you have to pay a subscription to HBO to see Maher's show...and you have to subscribe to dish or cable to see Ed Schulze. Limbaugh can be heard on any radio 3 hours a day, 5 days a week. When Schulze made those damning comments, I read where he apologized on-air, took himself off the air for a week without pay. Think the Big Rush would go a week without pay?
Posted by: Dennis in Peoria | March 08, 2012 at 10:54 PM
You're trying rationalize your duplicity while at the same time not really hearing what we're saying. Is that cognitive dissonance?
Posted by: Vonster | March 09, 2012 at 11:34 AM
My duplicity? Since when I am the issue here?
Why are you changing the subject from Rush's words and tactics?
I guess because they can't be defended.
To attack the messenger is the tactic of a bully.
Posted by: Elaine Hopkins | March 09, 2012 at 08:54 PM
By posting you made it about you. DON'T YOU GET IT ELAINE???
Posted by: vonster | March 09, 2012 at 09:25 PM
By commenting, you make it about YOU, Vonster. But I am too polite to say what I really think about you, aside from 'get a life.'
Posted by: Elaine Hopkins | March 10, 2012 at 08:17 AM
Cognitive dissonance, Elaine. Sad.
Posted by: Vonster | March 11, 2012 at 03:35 PM
No, V.
Actually you are just recycling GOP talking points channeled through Rush. I dunno what that's called, but I'll try to think of something.
Posted by: Elaine Hopkins | March 11, 2012 at 04:48 PM
No, Elaine. You're justrecycling your anti- Rush talking points. We're not defending Rush, just pointing out your duplicity.
Posted by: Vonster | March 11, 2012 at 06:27 PM
I dont recycle anyone's talking points, I use my own. Your points, though sound just like what I hear and read elsewhere.
If you agreed with me you wouldn't be commenting.
Posted by: Elaine Hopkins | March 12, 2012 at 12:05 AM