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Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Department of Defense cares more about Rush's freedom of speech than military women?

Rush Limbaugh can say whatever he wants because people have had the courage to stand up and fight for every American to have that right. While they do have a right to say what they want, the rest of the population has a right to not listen or use their own rights to oppose them. Military women right now are very upset over Rush's views and rightly so. Why is the Department of Defense allowing this to go on when they also pay to cover Military women Rush seems to think are sluts?

I don't think Rush should be "taken off the air" and this should be left up to his listeners. The difference is Armed Forces Radio is the GOVERNMENT!

58 minutes ago
More Limbaugh stations, advertisers jump ship

Posted by
CNN Political Unit
(CNN) – A second radio station said it was dropping Rush Limbaugh's radio program Tuesday, calling the conservative host's incendiary comments last week about a law student "unacceptable."

Pittsfield, Massachusetts radio station 1420 AM WBEC, one of hundreds of stations nationwide that carry "The Rush Limbaugh Show," dropped the program from its lineup, according to station general manager Peter Barry. He said the decision was made Monday, and was based upon comments Limbaugh made last week regarding Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke, "which we found unacceptable."

On Monday, Pentagon press secretary George Little said the Defense Department had no plans to stop broadcasting Rush Limbaugh's show to service members on the American Forces Network. Limbaugh's show is part of the Defense Department's policy to broadcast shows that "reflect a wide range" of opinion, Little said.

Little said he had "not heard" of any review of whether Limbaugh's show remains suitable for broadcast after the controversy surrounding Limbaugh. Little also said he could not immediately say what the standards are for whether certain broadcasts are considered suitable by the Defense Department.

VoteVets.org, a veterans advocacy organization, released a statement from female service members calling on Defense Department to stop airing "The Rush Limbaugh Show" on the American Forces Network.

"Rush Limbaugh has a freedom of speech and can say what he wants, but in light of his horribly misogynistic comments, American Forces Radio should no longer give him a platform," the statement said. "Our entire military depends on troops respecting each other – women and men. There simply can be no place on military airwaves for sentiments that would undermine that respect."
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