{"id":185462,"date":"2014-11-11T19:58:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T00:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/11\/11\/rush-limbaugh-is-a-whiny-bitch-part-mmmmmmcmlxix\/"},"modified":"2014-11-11T19:58:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T00:58:00","slug":"rush-limbaugh-is-a-whiny-bitch-part-mmmmmmcmlxix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/11\/11\/rush-limbaugh-is-a-whiny-bitch-part-mmmmmmcmlxix\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush Limbaugh is a Whiny Bitch, Part MMMMMMCMLXIX"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 390px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"285\" id=\"video-iframe\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VR61a1lSJsY\" video width=\"380\"><\/iframe><br \/><i><\/i><\/div>\n<p>Yeah, he&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/rush-limbaugh-threatens-to-sue-democratic-congressional-campaign-committee-for-out-of-context-quotes-about-sexual-consent\/2014\/11\/10\/da5ffe30-68e8-11e4-b053-65cea7903f2e_story.html\">threatening to sue the DCCC over their use of his quotes in the last campaign<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Rush Limbaugh is hopping mad at the Democratic Party \u2014 but this time he\u2019s threatening to do more than just talk about it on the radio.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The conservative pundit is threatening to sue the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee for a series of fundraising e-mails that suggested Limbaugh was condoning campus rape in comments he made on his widely syndicated program on Sept. 15.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In a letter to the Washington-based organization intended for delivery Monday morning, Limbaugh\u2019s lawyer demanded a retraction and a public apology for the fundraising e-mails. The letter indicated Limbaugh will sue for defamation and business \u201cinterference\u201d if his demand isn\u2019t met.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">DCCC representatives were not available Monday; the organization\u2019s offices are closed for the Veterans Day holiday. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The legal threat is the result of DCCC fundraising appeals sent out in the wake of Limbaugh\u2019s on-air comments about a new policy at Ohio State University that instructs students to get verbal consent before having sex. The DCCC highlighted one particular sentence from his commentary \u2014 \u201cHow many of you guys .\u2009.\u2009. have learned that \u2018no\u2019 means \u2018yes\u2019 if you know how to spot it?\u201d \u2014 saying it was tantamount to condoning sexual assault.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The legal threat is the result of DCCC fundraising appeals sent out in the wake of Limbaugh\u2019s on-air comments about a new policy at Ohio State University that instructs students to get verbal consent before having sex. The DCCC highlighted one particular sentence from his commentary \u2014 \u201cHow many of you guys .\u2009.\u2009. have learned that \u2018no\u2019 means \u2018yes\u2019 if you know how to spot it?\u201d \u2014 saying it was tantamount to condoning sexual assault.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, well I listened to what he said, and even if he weren&#8217;t a public figure, this would be laughed out of court, because, in the United States, the truth is always a defense against accusations of libel and slander.<\/p>\n<p>As a public figure, there is no evidence of malice or a reckless disregard for the truth in this.<\/p>\n<p>Also, considering how the DCCC did no November 4, why the f%$# would Limbaugh, who is Republican to his core want to force the Democratic party to change its strategy?<\/p>\n<p>Seriously Rush, take one for the team, and man up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, he&#8217;s threatening to sue the DCCC over their use of his quotes in the last campaign: Rush Limbaugh is hopping mad at the Democratic Party \u2014 but this time he\u2019s threatening to do more than just talk about it on the radio.The conservative pundit is threatening to sue the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,972,1064,978,1145,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-justice","category-media","category-politics","category-sexism","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}