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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
Spence, I'm going to focus on this one absurdity.
You're saying that Rush's use of the word slut, is worse than Maher's use of the word c*nt, because Rush has a wider audience?
Spence, do you listen to what comes out of your mouth? What you're saying is, freedom of speech is inversely proportional to the size of the audience? What's the logic behind that? Exactly how big does one's audience have to be, before he is obligated to be a gentleman? 1 million? 2 million?
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How can someone with a love of mathematics lack a basic ability to understand a simple formula?
Maher made a rude quip about someone who was making a career out of being in the spotlight mostly through destructive means. It was heard by relatively few people, and Maher isn't seen as a leader of the Left.
Limbaugh ridicules a woman who's gained a small amount of visibility through constructive means,
ridicules her for hours about her sexuality, much of which was made up. He has millions of people listening and is seen as a leader of the Right.
There is no parity here.
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I'm no expert on campaign finance laws, but it's curious that's NOT what the white house is saying. I heard Jay Carney say that they weren't asking the superPac to give the money back, not that they were prohibited by law from telling the PAC to give the money back.
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Obama can't legally tell them to return the money. The most he could do is make a public statement and hope they listen.
But even that isn't called for in this situation. It would set a precedent impossible to uphold.
Did you see how hard Mitt Romney was working to stand beside Ted Nugent the other week? Would you like me to post some of the things he's said???
-spence