Pepco, the electric utility, is also an advertiser but I can’t say I’m willing to go without electricity.

(EDIT: My apologies to Mr. Limbaugh and/or his webmaster. It has been FIVE days, not four.)

How about the L.R.A., where do they fit on the “real Christian” scale?

It’s nearly impossible for a more liberal counter weight to get any traction. Air America just sounded shrill and too black and white to get a sufficient audience, even though shrill and B&W are two key tools of the far right noise machine. Liberals generally (anarchists and Daily Kos aside) don’t bite for form over substance as willingly. And yet, liberals and progressives have thousands of outlets on the internet that go a long way towards offsetting the extreme right’s messages for the converted.

The difficulty is how to reach the converted on the other side and get them to accept that the message is actually against their best interests, short and long run. The left needs a better strategy on propaganda with targeted messages to minorities, and the poor, and, increasingly, the middle class. OWS has some value for this; just the 99% vs 1% is powerful. But it doesn’t translate into political action easily. At least not on the level of “Taxes BAD” which gets people to oppose all taxes rather than focus on inequitable or destructive ones. 

Loath Limbaugh all you want. Fantasize his death (something I am prone to do too), but don’t confuse that with counter action. So, any suggestions as to actual things to do?

“Pro-life” only applies to the unborn, everyone else is s.o.l.

 To quote Bill Easterly, roughly .01% of the African population died per year from wars or genocide in the past 4 decades. This is still horrible, but it’s worth pointing out that something close to 99.9% are *not* being killed in horrible ways, and are living difficult, but peaceful lives.

Creating simple narratives about a diverse and complicated continent creates the kind of environment where people like Limbaugh can spout off whatever they want about Africa because no one knows any better. 

I do hope that her response will bring much deserved attention to her story and cause.

I think Lobster said it yesterday, Rush has become a cartoon of himself as an over-the-top conservative. Its basically just like Stephen Colbert – only we know Colbert is joking (probably). Rush has become a parody. He is nothing more than entertainment, and just like other aweful entertainers, one you should just ignore. They thrive on attention – ANY attention. Whole websites calling for and illustrating his evisceration just lets him tally up the numbers of people who know his name and are shouting it out.

also, i called my congress-critter (i live in anna eschoo’s district) to complain that the american forces network (which is funded through the DoD) is advertising on limbaugh’s program. call your congressperson ( check out https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml if you don’t have their contact info handy) and tell them you think this is a bad use of US taxpayers’ money.

cheers!

Please, show some mercy for that shameless blowhard. He has nothing to live for but his hate, swollen ego and thirty million dollars a year.