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End the Occupation! Teacher Threatens Arrest of Obama-Criticizing Student

Reported in the Blaze today, complete with a recording by a fast-thinking student:

Teacher: “You will not disrespect the president of the United States in this classroom.”

Student: “I’ll say what I want.”

Teacher: “Not about him, you won’t!” ...

Student: “Whenever Bush was president, everybody talked sh-t about him.”

Teacher: “Because he was sh-tty.”

END THE OCCUPATION! LIBERALS OUT OF THE SCHOOLS NOW!!!

 

Liberal Fascism: School Fined $15k for Operative Soda Machine

Jonathon Seidl at The Blaze reports:

A Utah high school is learning the hard way that the government is serious about nudging students away from food it doesn’t want them to consume. Davis High School in the Salt Lake City area is having to fork over a whopping $15,000 in fines to the Feds because it accidentally sold soda through a vending machine during lunch.

Federal law requires the school to turn off its soda machines during the lunch period, which is 47 minutes a day. And Davis High school did turn off the machines in the lunch room. However, the school didn‘t realize that there was another machine in the school bookstore that wasn’t being turned off. And when the food police realized it, the school was hit with a $0.75 fine per student for the duration of the offense.

Now the school is going to have to cut money to fine arts programs to make up the cost.

This one's for the "keep your laws off my body!!!" crowd.  Why do I say this? Because that's how illiberals debate the abortion issue: "My body, my choice!!!" they shout in self-righteous indignation. Maybe they shout it so loud so as to drown out the sound of the tiny living heart beating inside them, but anyway isn't it funny that for the same illiberals, "my body, my choice!!!" doesn't seem to apply to busybody leftist food fascists fining schools in Utah, banning Happy Meals in San Francisco, or outlawing trans-fats and salt in New York City.

You're hypocrites, all of you.

This is what happens when the federal government gets drunk on its own power. Now ask yourself: Did you vote for this and, more importantly, will you again?

 

Chris Matthews Bombs on 'Jeopardy!' After Repeatedly Mocking Palin for How She'd Do | NewsBusters.org

This is delicious.

Chris Matthews Bombs on 'Jeopardy!' After Repeatedly Mocking Palin for How She'd Do

Elizabeth Warren Roundup

I haven't posted much, if any, about this opportunistic far-left character since she bashed "factory owners" for having the nerve to be successful. With revelations that Ms. Warren cashed in on her being 1/32 Cherokee (which may not even be true), here's the latest from the right-osphere:

Learn from Elizabeth Warren.

I think the attacks against Elizabeth Warren, who pretended to be an American Indian to advance her career, are wrong.  To the contrary, she simply did what we all should be doing!  She sabotaged America's racist affirmative action regime, or -- the term I prefer to call it -- America's affirmative apartheid.

She should be our role model.  We should all do the same thing she did and proclaim ourselves members of whichever fashionable list of preferred "minorities" the racists administering affirmative apartheid happen to be promoting this week. ...

The problem has to do with the most common error in social science: the superstitious belief in "natural homogeneity."  This is the ridiculous belief in the axiom holding that, in the absence of discrimination, every single demographic and ethnic group in society should have numerical representation in all things, in all professions and all salary classes, proportionate to their numbers in the population.  Thus, according to this superstition, any departure from perfect numerical homogeneity in "representation" must be due to discrimination.  Never any need actually to document or prove discrimination.  The statistical disparity is all the proof needed.

Meanwhile ... from Althouse:

Catching up on the news about Elizabeth Warren.

1. "The University of Pennsylvania, where Warren worked from 1987 to 1994, listed her as a minority in a 'Minority Equity Report.'  The report comes after Harvard Law School claimed Warren as a diversity hire in 1996."

2. "There is nothing left of the claim that Elizabeth Warren is 1/32 Cherokee. The documentary sources have been debunked, and the genealogist and genealogical society which originated the story and upon whom the Warren campaign relies are not talking." 

And finally ... Preach it, brother Zo. "Spitting Bull" - love it!

Articles: Elizabeth Warren's Whiter Shade of Pale

Articles: Elizabeth Warren's Whiter Shade of Pale.

The seediness of Elizabeth Warren's claim to be Native American naturally follows from the lockstep leftist demand for "social justice."  The term, in fact, means the opposite of what it purports to: social justice means simply injustice, just like politically correct science is really anti-science.  It has been used by some of the creepiest characters in American politics, like Father Coughlin.

The reason this nonsense persists is because it is, like nearly everything that the left touches, a racket.  It provides payoffs for those types who play along: the brutal cadre; the union thug; the political boss; or, in Warren's case, the academic dilettante. ...

What Elizabeth Warren, who would fit seamlessly into a campus cocktail party or bridge club, did is play the game of social justice simply to benefit herself alone -- to secure a safe and comfortable place in the public sector.  Not only is Elizabeth Warren just white, but in the words of the old Procul Harem song, she is "a whiter shade of pale."

Julia lives!

Julia lives!

Sensible Liberal: Jon Lovitz

I think actor Jon Lovitz has been mugged by reality!

Over the weekend the self-described liberal Democrat and Obama voter, had some harsh and profanity-laced words for President Golden Calf.

Click here for story and audio [LANGUAGE WARNING].

But my question isn't what took Jon Lovitz so long to realize Obama was trouble. My question is why is the rest of Hollywood still so freaking clueless???

 

Belated Listen & Learn: Mark Levin on Obama's "Silver Spoon" Remark (4/18/12)

Finally finished trimming this important clip from Mark Levin one week ago, responding to Obama's obnoxious "silver spoon" comments. Listen to the Great One tear the Class-Warmongerer-in-Chief a new one:

 [Edited for commercials, long pauses, and other extraneous content]

Download clip here

Five Ways to Save the Earth (and Expose Leftist Hypocrisy)

Five Ways to Save the Earth (and Expose Leftist Hypocrisy).

Good economists - HUMAN EVENTS

Good economists - HUMAN EVENTS.

It's difficult to be a good economist and simultaneously be perceived as compassionate. To be a good economist, one has to deal with reality. To appear compassionate, often one has to avoid unpleasant questions, use "caring" terminology and view reality as optional.

Another Day, Another Administration Witch Hunt - HUMAN EVENTS

Another Day, Another Administration Witch Hunt - HUMAN EVENTS.

So many imaginary villains and so little time.

Trayvon Martin: Just Another Leftist Pawn

As a father, I weep for the parents of Trayvon Martin and can't even imagine what they are going through right now.

But as an American citizen and human being, I am appalled by what the Left has done with this tragic shooting. The lies being spread by black "leaders," the pandering by President Hope&Change, the hate being spread by Obama's friends the New Black Panthers and the unabashed refusal of Obama's (in)Justice Department to do one damn thing about it. Websites dedicated to finding and killing a private citizen, George Zimmerman. The tweeting of said private citizen's (wrong!) addresses by Obama-connected Hollywood celebrities. The error-filled reporting, doctored photos, and deliberate editing of 9-1-1 tapes by the mainstream media.

Actual photo                            MSM's photo

The rash of stores being ransacked, yet more Occupy destruction, and violent attacks by blacks against non-blacks all around the country after this story went national.

I am just appalled.

Do not think for one second that President Hope&Change, the professional race hustlers Jackson and Sharpton, the opportunistic clowns in the Black Congressional Caucus, or the hateful Hollywood Left like Spike Lee give one rat's ass about Trayvon Martin. The only reason his death made national news -- a whole month after his shooting, by the way -- is because he has exactly the same thing in common with Sandra Fluke. And Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. And Debbie Bosanek (Who? I know, right?). And Crystal Mangum (Who? I know, right?). And that is: they are pawns. They are pawns used simply to score political points and to advance their political agenda.

The Left claims that Trayvon Martin is a victim of persistent white racism (even though the shooter George Zimmerman was half Hispanic, half white) and that blacks are being "hunted down like dogs". Despite substantiation that emotion-based claim, thousands have taken to the streets and even to the floor of Congress in hoodies to stand in solidarity with this purported victim of white racism!

But what of the thousands of blacks who are killed by other blacks and minorities every year? 

Rich Lowry at National Review Online spells out the Martin shooting issue well:

The Murders That Don’t Count 
In America, the lives of young black people are cheap, unless they happen to fit the right agenda.

Everything about the Trayvon Martin case is a matter of contention. About this, though, there should be no doubt: If Martin had been shot by a black classmate, if he had been caught in a random crossfire, if he had looked at a gang member the wrong way, his death would have been relegated to the back pages of the local newspaper. Not a cause, not even a curiosity: Just another dead young black man. Nothing to see here. Please, move on.

Jesse Jackson is right that “blacks are under attack.” According to a 2005 FBI report, blacks accounted for 13 percent of the population and 49 percent of all homicide victims. In 93 percent of the cases, the killer was black. Half of the victims were ages 17 to 29. That works out to 4,000 murders of young blacks in one year, overwhelmingly at the hands of other blacks. In the communities where these killings occur there is, to put it in Jackson’s inimitable terms, no justice and no peace.

There is no comparable epidemic of half-Hispanic neighborhood-watch volunteers like George Zimmerman shooting young black men. Nor is there an epidemic of cops doing the same. Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute notes that in New York City, there were nine civilian victims of police gunfire last year, whereas there were “several hundred black homicide victims in the city, almost all shot by other blacks or Hispanics, none of them given substantial press coverage.”

An allegedly racially motivated killing, though, gins up the outrage machine in a way the routine murder of young blacks doesn’t. Cable-TV outlets get to host fiery debates. Chin-stroking commentators get to urge more “dialogue.” Black leaders get to relive the glory of a civil-rights cause that won its major victories decades ago when it took real courage to be on the front lines. And everybody gets to evade the intraracial mayhem that blights the country’s inner cities.

An injustice may well have been done in the handling of the Martin shooting, but let’s not fool ourselves. Zimmerman could be arrested, convicted, and hanged tomorrow, and it will have no effect on the lives of young black people in communities beset by social disorder. Whatever happens to Zimmerman, the drip-drip of spilled blood will continue, all but ignored except in the police blotter. In America, the lives of young black people are cheap, unless they happen to fit the right agenda.

One such example of a minority victim unusable as Leftist political fodder is Aliyah Shell, age 6. She was killed St. Patrick's Day weekend while sitting on her Chicago porch with her grandmother, caught in the crossfire of a gang shooting. The Chicago Tribune writes:

From Jan. 1 through Sunday [Mar. 18], homicides soared 42 percent, to 94 from 66 a year earlier, according to a police spokeswoman. ... That continues a troubling trend that started in the last quarter of 2011. Police say gangs are to blame for much of the violence, including Aliyah's killing.

This leaves blogger Doug Ross to wonder:

So where are the professional race-baiters like Al "Not So" Sharpton and Jesse Jerkson? Where is MSNBS, ABS, CBS and NBS Nightly News? Where are the New Black Panthers and the other thugs seeking to profit from Trayvon Martin's death?

They don't give a crap about Aliyah Shell, or the hundreds of others killed and wounded every year in Obama's hometown of Chicago.

No, they care only about fomenting hatred, division and dissent.

P.J. Salvatore at Breitbart.com picks it up from there, arguing that the exploitation of Trayvon Martin's death by the Left has all the familiar political motives:

“If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.” 

Why? Why would the president weigh in on this specific case at this specific time? 

It’s not about wrong or right. It’s not about justice. It’s not about Trayvon Martin.  

“The despair is there; now it’s up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.”- Saul Alinsky

An interesting quote to consider, from the man who shaped the minds of those who shaped President Obama.

Now consider Obama’s former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel’s notorious statement: “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” 

The meaning is the same. It is calculating and it is dangerous, part of a bigger picture--a multi-faceted war to divide America for the sole purpose of securing Obama's re-election and subsequent radical social change. 

Look at the contrived conflicts on the left wing's political chessboard:

Move 1   Occupy Wall Street: the (self-appointed) 99% versus the 1% 

Move 2   Contraceptive/abortifacient mandates: government versus religion

Move 3   Sandra Fluke: women versus conservatives (supposedly)

And now…

Move 4   Trayvon Martin: black versus "white" (so-called)

This is not complicated. President Obama is organizing. It’s that simple, and it’s straight out of the radical playbook:

“Once you organize people, they’ll keep advancing from issue to issue toward the ultimate objective: people power. We’ll not only give them a cause, we’ll make life goddamn exciting for them again — life instead of existence. We’ll turn them on...” – Saul Alinsky

This is not about Trayvon Martin. This is about divide and conquer. Hope and Change has been replaced with Us vs. Them. This about pitting Americans against Americans.

Yup.

Interestingly, all the people I mentioned above -- Martin, Fluke, Bosanek, etc. -- are extremely flawed specimens in the Left's utopian tinkering with America. Every one of their stories concocted and promulgated by the Left -- including our own preisdent! -- false apart after just a mere examination of the actual facts.

But the Left is allergic to facts. Facts prevent them from "fundamentally transforming" America, as one particular president has put it. So they use these "victims" all the same. The rewrite history just as quickly as history occurs. They point fingers at imaginary culprits (e.g., Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, right-wing Islamophoooobia, right-wing homophoooobia, etc.).

And millions of Americans buy in to their fallacious stories because the Left knows that enough Americans have been dumbed down enough to believe anything they are told.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying Trayvon Martin deserved to get shot or even that George Zimmerman is not guilty of a crime! But let's face facts: Despite the attempts of the mainstream media to paint him as a boy scout, he had multiple suspensions from school and was clearly well-steeped in the drug-filled, profanity-laced, sex-abusing, bling-sporting gangsta thug lifestyle that has claimed many a young African-American's life.

This is where we are, folks: A country where blacks are at war with whites, women with men, Muslims vs. non-Muslims, the 99% with the 1%, the uninsured vs. the insured, etc. There is rioting in the streets from Manhattan to Oakland. This is Obama's America. And don't tell me for a second that he does not love this. He and his closest relations have purposely opened up this can of worms. What better way to distract the populace while he and his administration continue to tear down the foundations of this republic bit by precious bit.

Just above P.J Salvatore argued that "Hope and Change has been replaced with Us vs. Them." I disagree: Hope and Change is and has always been Us vs. Them.

Welcome to the future, suckers.

Gas Prices Hurting Obama in ... Blue Jersey?

I've been disturbed, but not surprised, by the Obamedia's coverage of gas prices. The same media who blasted George W. Bush on a seemingly hourly basis for the gas prices of the time -- which was a fraction of what they are now! -- are providing cover for their messiah on fuel costs and are doing virtually nothing to challenge his most inane excuses for them.

Last night, unable to sleep and not interested in anything on the tube, I turned on the local NJ talk station and sure host Ray Rossi was discussing the skyrocketing gas prices. When he announced on the website was a poll asking whether these prices would affect Obama's reelection chances, I went to check it out: 

Gas Giving You Agita? – Is Obama O’Bummed Out? [POLL]
By: Ray Rossi  |  3/28/12

My gas station just went up 10 cents a gallon in one day!

Things aren’t good, expecially since prices nationwide are closing in on $4 a gallon, according to a AAA survey out today.

Why is that?

Well, there are any number of reasons.

Seems as though every time we turn around, there’s a new reason given.

A few weeks back, Lou Dobbs told Bill O’Reilly that it had to do with the global market, and the fact that even though we drill as much as we do, we still export the refined product overseas to other emerging economies.

Now we hear from Tom Kloza, who’s the chief analyst at the Oil Price Information Service in Wall Township saying…. it has everything to do with April 1st and some terminals switching from winter gasoline which is a lot cheaper than summer grade fuel” .

He also goes on to say that “oil got up to close $130 a barrel and now it is coming down a bit now that countries are making contingency plans for dealing with tensions in Iran…all leading to the crude market internationally is calming down a bit.

Ok, I won’t hold my breath for that.

Here came the poll:

But with all that, do you feel this will not only hurt at the pump, but hurt the President’s chances of reelection.

What say you?

The Posse wants to know.

Will rising gas prices hurt President Obama's chances of reelection in the fall?

Now, before voting (in the affirmative), I was expecting to see results in the 50/50 area. After all, NJ is a blue state and at least half our residents are still in love with modern history's most failed president. Needless to say, I was surprised by the results (clipped the morning after at 8:00 AM):

It should be noted that this, of course, is an unscientific poll. It's also extremely important to note that one was allowed to vote more than once, and that non-NJ residents were able to vote. So, for all I know, someone who really dislikes Obama and doesn't even live in the Garden State hit the top choice several times. But ... the callers to last night's show were primarily NJ residents and critics of Obama outnumbered supporters by about 2-1.

What do you think?

 

Vid of the Day: Rick Santorum Smacks Down NYT "Reporter" Jeff Zeleny

Yesterday in Wisconsin, NY Slimes "reporter" Jeff Zeleny got a much-deserved smackdown by Rick Santorum [h/t Noel Sheppard at NewsBusters]:

ZELENY: “You said that Mitt Romney was the worst Republican in the country – is that true?"

SANTORUM: “What speech did you listen to? Stop lying! ... I said he was the worst Republican to run on the issue of ObamaCare, and that’s what I was talking about. I have said uniquely, for every speech I give, he is uniquely disqualified to run against Barack Obama on the issue of health care. ... Would you guys quit distorting what I’m saying?” 

ZELENY: “Do you think he is the worst Republican?”

SANTORUM: To run against Barack Obama on the issue of health care, because he fashioned the blueprint. I've been saying it in every speech. Quit distorting our words. If I see it, it's bulls—t. C'mon man, what are you doing?"

ZELENY: “Who’s distorting your words?”

SANTORUM: “You did by asking me that question.”

ZELENY: “You sound upset about something, Senator.”

SANTORUM: “I’m upset when the media distorts what I say. Yeah, I am. I do get upset. ... Because you knew exactly what I was saying, and you misrepresented it. ... Are you guys in the business of reporting the truth, or are you here to try to spin and make news? Stop it. ... You know, you guys don’t care about the truth at all, do you? You really don’t. Asking that question shows me you don’t care at all about the truth.”

Of coure, because the lib media can't take a less-than-subtle hint, all that's going to be recorded in this exchange is that (1) Santorum used a curse word and (2) Santorum's flared temper makes him unworthy for the presidency.

What will (deliberately) get lost in the story is that Santorum was 1000% correct: Zeleny and his Obamedia sycophants don't report news; they spin new and make news. They report news that benefits Democrats and that hurts Republicans. Period. Rick Santorum pwned Jeff Zeleny last night and good for him!

Liberal Media Bias: NY Slimes Gives Opinion Space to ... [UPDATED 3/24]

Bill Maher?

It seems the perpetual offender is not edgy enough to be given space on the Opinion page to challenge the demand that "offenders" need to apologize.

I will say that Maher is right in general: People need to stop being offended, and the so-called offenders should not worry about apologizing.

But let's make no mistake here: The very culprits in creating a culture of the perpetually offended ARE the very people who write for the NY Slimes! I.e., the politically correct illiberal left! 

It's the illiberal left that has created the free-speech-eroding culture of political correctness, supported "hate crime" legislation, cheered on campus "speech codes," and welcomed "The New Civility."

And now the NY Slimes, the media mecca of illiberal leftism is giving a forum to an illiberal leftist to decry such practices? Who the hell do they think they're fooling? You think the Slimes writers are even going to follow Maher's advice?

But here's the kicker. In the middle of the op-ed Maher writes:

The right side of America is mad at President Obama because he hugged the late Derrick Bell, a law professor who believed we live in a racist country, 22 years ago; the left side of America is mad at Rush Limbaugh for seemingly proving him right.

Hey Maher, go f**k yourself. 

And for that I will not apologize.

UPDATE 3/24:

At least the NYT was intellectually honest enough to post this response by two Democrat women to Maher's inane piece:

We’re both women who have worked in Democratic politics and the media for decades and find Bill Maher’s misogynist treatment of women candidates deeply disturbing. Coincidentally we both hail from Alaska — where women are treated as equals — so perhaps our threshold for this kind of behavior is less than here in the Lower 48.

Mr. Maher has implicitly attempted to tie his own demeaning attacks on women to the unrelated issue of partisan-motivated fake outrage, which we agree is tiring. While others have been held to account for their sexism, Mr. Maher remains unrepentant for his attacks on women in public life.

How can we expect women to run for office when they are essentially told to “lighten up about” and accept misogynist attacks? The Women’s Media Center has found that such attacks on women candidates have a measurable negative effect on how voters view them.

Our message to Mr. Maher and his ilk is: Please start apologizing.

PENNY LEE
KIRSTEN POWERS
Washington, March 23, 2012

You go, girls.

Conversation with a Latino Independent

This morning I had a conversation with an acquaintance from work. Having immigrated here from Costa Rica in the 70's while still in his teens, "Rosario" is the head custodian. While talking politics, he shared some comments on politics and current issues that were contradictory with themselves-- at least to me.

Rosario is the consummate independent. He is extremely opinionated; he's just never hitched his wagon to any political party and looks at each politician and issue in isolation. (For this reason I describe him as an "independent" rather than "moderate" because, as I see it, a moderate is someone who's too uninformed, uncommitted, or indifferent to pick a side of an issue and ultimately jumps on the popular bandwagon.) 

He's voted for George W. Bush, but he also voted for Barack Obama. Understandably, he leans toward candidates whose policies are favorable to Latinos. For whatever reason, he believed the Republican fit that description in 2004, the Democrat in 2008. I can respect that.

If at this point you'd accuse Rosario of being a political chameleon, here's where it get really interesting.

First and foremost, he emphasized he came to the U.S. legally and proudly considers himself an American. He and his wife both work hard, pay their bills on time, and expect not one red cent of welfare from the government. He loathes those who come over here for nothing other than to collect welfare checks, commit crimes, and feed off the system while never integrating themselves or their families in the American system. He speaks fluent English, although with a strong accent, and his young son, who I've met, speaks perfect English as well.

Based on all this, one would think -- as I did -- that Rosario is the type of Latino-American who despises illegal immigrants, supports the efforts of Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and admires politicians like Cuban American Senator Marco Rubio.

Wrong!

Rosario is a strong proponent of the DREAM Act and is disgusted with any politician who opposes it -- especially Marco Rubio. He argued that Rubio doesn't represent him or many Hispanics.

He considers Joe Arpaio an abusive thug and even told me about an instance when he handcuffed a Hispanic woman to her hospital bed while in labor (an incident I couldn't believe happened but it apparently did). 

The last thing Rosario said is the most discouraging of all: While he believes the U.S. is the most humane and civil nation in the world, he believes that whites in America have and still do suffer from a sense of superiority over non-whites. He sees it where he lives; he's the only non-white in his community and senses his white neighbors look at him and his family with suspicion.

So here is a man who is living the American dream for himself and his family. He has the diligence and integrity to come to the U.S. legally, to pull himself up from his bootstraps without taking a dime from the government, and presumably teaching his child the same work ethic. These are Republican ethics. (That's not, of course, to say that Democrats don't behave this way, but it's sure not the way Democrat politicians look for in their electorate).

Yet his recent voting patten and positions on issues are blatantly Democrat.

This isn't the first minority American to exhibit this split personality -- hell, look at many blacks and my fellow American Jews. 

My friend Rosario should be a Republican; he's the type of immigrant that makes America work. But as long as he sees America as a place of "white superiority" and sees opposition to the DREAM Act as inhumane, it seems he's not going to be voting that way for a while.

What could Republicans do to reach out to hard-working proud minority Americans like Rosario?

Articles: The Left's Schadenfreude Fraud

Articles: The Left's Schadenfreude Fraud.

Some New Vids: The Great One and a Great American

Everyone should watch this video taken at the Reagan Library last Friday. It is Mark Levin at last Friday's book signing -- Levin's last for his latest book "Ameritopia."

There is also this young up-and-coming great American by the name of Kira Davis. She's the one whose "Apology" video went viral last month. Here she is again doing a "Smart Phone Smart Minute". Go get 'em, Kira!

Sensible Liberal: Bill Maher (Well, Sorta) and Kirsten Powers

I'm just letting you I still think Bill Maher is an un-funny foul-mouthed G~d-hating dimwit and he's probably just covering his own rear end. But he does deserve props for devoting time on his Friday show to defend Rush Limbaugh's free speech and call on offended liberals to chillax:

“I got crap from both the left and the right this week because — OK, let me address the left first, because I found this more disheartening,” Maher said. “They were very mad at me because I tweeted that people like Rush Limbaugh — who I absolutely disagree with, I’ve never said a good word about him, I did a whole monologue about what an asshole he was only a week ago — but I said I don’t like it that people are made to disappear when they say something or people try to make them disappear when they say something you don’t like. That’s America. Sometimes you’re made to feel uncomfortable, OK?” ...

“Can we put this in perspective?” Maher said. “No one died. A guy made a bad joke, a bad joke because a — it was a disgusting sentiment that he was evoking and also because it wasn’t even a joke. It’s a stupid fat fuck who is not funny and it annoys me that people who cannot keep two disparate thoughts in their own mind lump me in together with him and say I’m defending him. I’m not defending him. I’m defending living in a country where people don’t have to be afraid that they might go out of the bounds for one minute. Do we all want to be talking like White House spokesmen?” ...

“Let me give you a quote from the ACLU, liberals,” he said. “[T]he ACLU — what more liberal bastion is there than that? ‘It is easy to defend freedom of speech when the message is something that many find reasonable, but the defense of freedom of speech is more critical when the message is something that most people find repulsive.’ We’re looking at you, Rush Limbaugh. But you know what? I would rather put up with Rush Limbaugh and live in a country where we all do have freedom of speech. And the people who I’ve heard say, when they put pressure on his sponsors, the system is working. No it’s not. That’s the system being manipulated. I lived through that 10 years ago.” ...

Maher also reasoned that neither he nor Rush were "misogynist," but merely "potty-mouths." He then offered a cool apology for making statements about Sarah Palin that were construed as anti-woman.

Liberal Democrat Kirsten Powers also wrote an op-ed, not to defend Rush, but to point out there are plenty of liberal men who also owe women apologies for their remarks.

But even though Powers was right not to exonerate liberals, I think Maher is right in that neither he nor Rush were misogynistic, just foul mouths.

Let's be honest though: Maher uses more foul language in one hour than Rush in a year.

P.S. For the record, at 6:43 PM on Saturday, March 10, Rush has 1,042,063 Facebook fans.

Stocks of Companies That Withdrew From Rush Start to Fall [UPDATE]

The stock price of Carbonite, AOL, Citrix, and Select Comfort all fell after they withdrew advertising from El Rushbo's show. Story at AcuteMedia.

That's what happens when you cave to leftist bullies.

UPDATE: 3/6 - Carbonite plummets even further.