Women vets want Limbaugh off of AFN
By CHRIS CARROLL
Published: March 5, 2012
WASHINGTON - Advertisers have been bailing on conservative talk radio king Rush Limbaugh since his caustic comments about a female student, and now a progressive veterans group is taking aim, urging the Pentagon to kick Limbaugh off American Forces Network airwaves.
In a statement circulated by the Democratic-leaning veterans political group VoteVets.org, four female veterans argue he has no place on military airwaves.
“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,” said the statement, attributed to Iraq veterans Miranda Norman, Kayla Williams, Robin Eckstein and Katherine Scheirman. “Our entire military depends on troops respecting each other - women and men.”
Limbaugh drew fire after saying a student who advocated free contraception before Congress, along with women like her, are “sluts” and “prostitutes” who want “to be paid for having sex.”
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Does Rush Limbaugh think military women are "sluts" too?
Petition to pull Limbaugh off AFN gathers steam
ReplyDeleteBy Rick Maze - Staff writer
Posted : Friday Mar 9, 2012 17:24:58 EST
A petition drive to get conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh banned from Armed Forces Network radio has collected more than 19,300 online signatures in five days, and appears well on the way toward acquiring the 25,000 signatures required by April 3 to get the White House to directly address the issue.
The petition was launched Sunday after Limbaugh repeatedly mocked a Georgetown University Law School student over three days, calling her a “slut” and a “prostitute” because she advocated that birth control be covered by employer health insurance. The petition is registered at the White House’s We The People website.
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2012/03/military-rush-limbaugh-petition-armed-forces-network-030912w/