s2a, where is you contempt for the attacks on Conservative women? The left even attacked their children. David Letterman come to mind. While I see outrage for racist and sexist comments made on the right, the left seems to get a free pass as long as they focus on Conservative women. I on the other hand don't like any attacks period by either side. It is wrong and an apology should not be enough.
If you would care to specify any pointed attacks lend by public (presumably "liberal") figures cast upon otherwise private citizen..."Conservative women", I'd be pleased to attempt some sort of contemptuous outrage for you
Who are the victims you allege are the recipients of this moral turpitude? What are the nature of these "attacks", and from whence do they come?
"Conservative Women" is a fairly 10,000 mile wide brush stroke...
I condone no personalized attacks of any kind against any undeserving individual that has invited no scrutiny of opinion in like manner. Period.
But honestly, I don't even know what a "Conservative woman" is even supposed to exemplify, or represent in your mind's eye. Is a woman that works in a automobile manufacturing plant as a
union laborer that espouses a pro-life perspective towards abortion, while supporting equal pay for equal skill and labor, yet anti-death penalty...and believes that contraceptives should be covered by insurance plans through her employer...and thinks that gun ownership should never be regulated by local government, but believes strongly that schools, roads, bridges,sewers, fire fighting and police protection are and should be the responsibility of all citizens in the collection of taxes by that very same government as essential, but wishes to see an element of compassion and fairness for her non-native immigrant parents, while seeking some help in the costs of college tuition for her growing kids, and the rising costs of heath care of her indigent relatives that have no coverage...yet is concerned about the national debt that all will inherit and must cope with in the future...
...is what
kind of woman exactly?
Is that woman a "conservative", a "liberal", a "moderate", or what?
What defines with any specificity and surety what a "Conservative woman" decidedly represents?
Is is possible that satire and mockery of ANY extreme position by ANY person that espouses a firmly held point of view that ignores any/all other rational contingencies concomitant with any complex issue therefore deserves to be exposed (and even derided) for the vapid and heedless view it potentially purports to represent as a "value"( be it "conservative" or "liberal")? Sometimes, and it's a dirty job (though not always unrewarding), to point a big fat finger at "stupid", and call it what it is. It's not rude, it's a responsibility. "Opinions" can often be valid, but "philosophical perspectives" can most frequently be deconstructed as founded in visceral hate, local "culture", and, and indoctrinate religious/"family values" (ie., "I was raised this way").
I'll confess a certain ingrained bias. When people speak with absolute certainty upon any topic that's predicated primarily upon a personalized bias, prejudice, or singular self-interest as a matter of their vociferously espoused and proclaimed "values"; and the proffered rationale as support is founded upon within their own ignorance, fear, or outright stupidity... both invite and deserve whatever informed (or crass) criticisms they engender, from whatever corner of the ideological spectrum that cares to reply in kind.
Bottom line? Rush was, is, and will likely continue to be a little more than a big, fat, biased, prejudiced, and willfully ignorant hypocritical bigot that says painfully stupid things to an audience of like-minded sycophantic peers. So be it. There are literally millions more Americans just like him. or even worse...
And there are others with microphones and egos that presume to have or seek as large an audience that he dares to speak for/represent himself. So be it.
Stupid is as stupid does, and stupid only wins any argument as long as the rest of us remain silent. Only bigger and louder stupid sometimes defeats smaller and squeaky stupid. Rote rhetoric and generalities are just a tad more elevated than bald-faced stupid... so lets get down and dirty being one step level up from that sad measure, and instead put forward claims and assertions of specificity and substance, shall we?
I think people here can rise up enough to lend better example