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Rush Limbaugh loses it again: Al Gore's network is the "blowjob" network

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Via Atrios. Contact the FCC , folks. Let's give these folks some of their own deceny medicine, eh?

LIMBAUGH: When does he start up this stupid little network? August? Yip yip yip yahoo. You know what Gore said about this? It's going to be liberal. It's going to reflect the point of view of young people.

What the hell is that, Al? What the hell is the point of view of young people? Blow jobs, that's what they're doing out there. They're out there getting oral sex all day long, that's what they're talking about. That's the point of view they can't wait that your boss,

Al made sure that's become the number one sport in high school today. So, I guess you're going to have a BJ network out there, Al, is that what you're going to do? You're going to call your network the oral sex channel out there, start competing with MTV?

No, it's not going to have any of this stuff out there, folks, it's going to be talking about liberalism, no, no, no, that's not what we're about. Classic cannot even admit who he is.

:lol :lol :lol
 

Nerevar

they call me "Man Gravy".
I think he's back to being hopped up on drugs. I don't think that quote even makes sense.
 

explodet

Member
The only way I thought I'd see "Al Gore" and "blowjobs" in the same train of thought is with "Bill Clinton" also being mentioned.

Thanks Rush, for proving me wrong.
 
audio: RUSH AND BLOWJOBS

and his "apology",
"I am going to apologize not for saying what I said, but I'm going to apologize if it offended anybody. I never apologize for what I say, but if some of you were offended by a graphic term involving actions committed by BILL CLINTON and MONICA LEWINSKY that have now spread to AMERICA's high schools, I apologize. I meant to say 'oral sex' throughout, but the guttural term escaped my pouty lips in a moment of pure, unbridled passion. The staff was so stunned and so scared today they didn't dare hit the delete button, the deedle button, and so it got out there..."

As with all conservatives, i.e., Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, DeLay, Martinez... the buck stops at the STAFF. :lol
 

sc0la

Unconfirmed Member
Wait.. Blowjobs didn't exist in high school before monica and bill? I was pretty sure I got some before then too..
 

Phoenix

Member
He's talking about blowjobs like they are a disease. Sex in any form is sex and its been going on in our schools since we've had schools. Anyone who doesn't realize that is either looking at the world with blinders on or didn't ever have sex then, now, or ever will in the future.
 

Diablos

Member
What he said made absolutely no sense whatsoever.

And I'm sick and tired of people blaming the increase in oral sex and cheating over the past years on President Clinton. Jesus H. Christ. I think people instead use it as an excuse. Now it's much easier to say that responsible, religious adults still cheat, but people like Clinton were a bad influence on their decision to do so. That's bullshit. When you're an adult, you have a pretty good idea on where you stand. Blaming the President for motivation to cheat or want oral sex makes no sense whatsoever. As for young kids and teens that learned about the whole ordeal... peer pressure and pop culture (and oh yeah, don't forget that like almost all of the free porn websites have blowjob clips galore) more than likely had the biggest influence. I remember most kids not even caring about what he did when it was all the rage; everyone was sick of hearing about it.

The media has an obligation to shut up when they go too far, and they never do. Recently, Schaivo is an example of this, but Clinton/Lewinsky is the classic one. Conservatives cry like they're babies wanting to suck on their mother's breast because the President, who is supposed to set such a good example, cheated on his wife. Yeah, that's a horrible thing, I'm not going to even argue that. But there was no need to talk about it every single day, to dig deeper and deeper into meaningless details that will never change what Clinton did. What the media forgets (or ultimately, doesn't care about) is that by doing this you are exposing the youth - the ones you are supposed to set such a good example for - to the same facts day in and day out, constantly reminding them of what the President did. No one could change what he did. Yes conservatives, I know you're thinking "but that's what they're doing to Bush today!" But remember: it's not like Clinton went to war for no good reason and had lives lost for a cause that may never be completely fufilled! Clinton, his family, and Monica were the only ones caught up in this. In a parallel universe, Ann Coulter would say "when Clinton lied, no one died". What the media could have done was put an end to making such a big deal out of it on daily basis for what seemed like an eternity, and stopped playing out the future stating that he then set SUCH a bad example that it will change the way many people approach and handle relationships. Be careful what you predict; actually, that word shouldn't even be used for right-wing journalists and news anchors. They WANT it to happen so they can say "ha, we're right" 5 or 10 years down the road when an awful lot of people forgot about how they started brainwashing everyone into thinking the country is somehow doomed because Clinton cheated on his wife.

Bottom line: Peer pressure, the Internet, and pop culture had a lot more to do with kids running around performing oral sex and cheating on their boyfriends/girlfriends than Clinton *ever* will. As for older people that are married or more serious? They're using Clinton as a weak excuse for those people. We live in a society where a lot of us are selfish, money-hungry, overambitious loons that are way too gimme gimme to be tied down to one person for the rest of their lives. It's our culture. It has been this way long before Clinton walked into the White House to take on the role as President. These morbidly obese 50-60+ year old conservative hacks know next to nothing about the youth of today, they're too old and on top of that they don't pay any attention. Yet somehow they're qualified to label Clinton as the instigator. I'm sick of this crap.
 

Ristamar

Member
Well, I guess if Al and Rushie meet halfway and team up, they'll become an unstoppable bipartisan media monster, enthralling the youthful masses that are all doped up while giving head.
 
I'd better hear some uproar from the religious right about this. If they are as principled as they contend they are, then surely they wouldn't give Rush a pass for participating in the same kind of semantic debauchery that they constantly deride the pagan liberals for evoking. You either have a standard of judgment that applies to all people or you have no standard at all...so I better hear a shitstorm headed in the EIB Network's direction from the same people who caused the stink over the Superbowl, Stern, etc etc..
 
Ned Flanders said:
I'd better hear some uproar from the religious right about this. If they are as principled as they contend they are, then surely they wouldn't give Rush a pass for participating in the same kind of semantic debauchery that they constantly deride the pagan liberals for evoking. You either have a standard of judgment that applies to all people or you have no standard at all...so I better hear a shitstorm headed in the EIB Network's direction from the same people who caused the stink over the Superbowl, Stern, etc etc..
Heh I know there's been a call on liberal blogs to pester the FCC about the blowjob comment a la Concerned Women of America. Just imagine if they two joined forces.
 

SpeedingUptoStop

will totally Facebook friend you! *giggle* *LOL*
The blowjob network. How could anybody think that was gonna go over well with the FCC?! I'm suprised this guy still has a job.

If all the kids are getting blowjobs these days, I guess I'm not considered a kid anymore :( .
 

scorcho

testicles on a cold fall morning
SteveMeister said:
It's good to know Rush has his finger on the pulse of today's youth culture.
lips. he has his lips on the pulse of today's youth culture.
 
The date and time of the broadcast. Under federal law, if the FCC assesses a monetary forfeiture against a broadcast station for violation of a rule, it must specify the date the violation occurred. Accordingly, it is important that complainants provide the date the material in question was broadcast. A broadcaster’s right to air indecent or profane speech is protected between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. Consequently, the FCC must know the time of day that the material was broadcast.

The call sign of the station involved.
I don't even know when it airs/what station the show airs on locally. is there a way to search affiliates to find said information?
 

AntoneM

Member
were was I when all these blowjobs were being handed... err, given out in school? Why was I alwyas sick on surprise blowjob day?
 

ge-man

Member
I like the patronizing tone towards young people. Aren't they the suckers the GOP want to sell their agenda to? Aren't these supposedly out of control youths the ones they are counting on to continue their grip on the country? Rush better watch his step before the GOP gets to him, not just the FCC.
 
It's not a liberal counterpart to FoxNews, though. Here's the press release:

Set to Launch August 1, Independent Venture Will Be First National Television
Network Created For, By and With an 18-34 Year-Old Audience;
Google Zeitgeist Data Used to Produce News Feature, 'Google Current'

SAN FRANCISCO, April 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Offering a glimpse of the
independent network first announced at last year's National Cable &
Telecommunications Association convention, former Vice President Al Gore and
entrepreneur Joel Hyatt, joined by executives and on-air talent, revealed this
morning that the name of the new venture, formerly known as INdTV, will be
Current. The unveiling of the much-anticipated network's positioning, logo
and prototype programming reel took place at a press conference in Current's
San Francisco headquarters during NCTA '05.
The first national network created by, for and with an 18-34 year-old
audience, Current will offer 24 hours of programming in a unique, short-form
content format when it premieres August 1. Current will invite audiences to
move beyond their roles as viewers to become active collaborators, encouraging
them to help shape the network's content and fulfill its mission -- to serve
as a TV platform where the voices of young adults can be heard.
"The Internet opened a floodgate for young people whose passions are
finally being heard, but TV hasn't followed suit. Young adults have a
powerful voice, but you can't hear that voice on television ... yet," said
Gore, who serves as the network's chairman of the board. "We intend to change
that with Current, giving those who crave the empowerment of the Web the same
opportunity for expression on television. We want to transform the television
medium itself, giving a national platform to those who are hungry to help
create the TV they want to watch."
The participatory model of Current marks a giant leap in seven decades of
television. "Until now, the notion of viewer participation has been limited
to sending a tape to 'America's Funniest Home Videos,' calling an interview
show, taking part in an instant poll, or voting someone off an island," added
Gore. "We're creating a powerful new brand of television that doesn't treat
audiences as merely viewers, but as collaborators."
Promising a slate of programming that's smart, fun and fearless (as a
truly independent network), Current seeks to cater to the Internet
generation's need for choice and control. Reflective of its name, it will
serve up the most current information on the people, places and happenings of
interest to viewers 18-34, a demographic that no longer relates to traditional
news.
Taking its cues from their media consumption habits, Current will offer
short-form programming in the TV equivalent of an iPod shuffle. Its "pods"
will be 15-second to five-minute segments that range from the hottest trends
in technology, fashion, television, music and videogames, to pressing issues
such as the environment, relationships, spirituality, finance, politics and
parenting, subjects that young adults can rarely find on television. Pod
segments include "Current Playlist" (music for the digital generation),
"Current Parent" (advice to first-timers), "Current Gigs" (career
guidance) and "Current Soul" (trends in spiritual awakening). Drawing from
audience submissions are such pods as "Current Courage" (profiles of heroism
and altruism), "Current Video" (video clips from the next Spielbergs or Spike
Jonzes) and "Current Rant" (inviting viewers to let off steam).
"Google Current," built using samplings of popular Google search data,
including from Google Zeitgeist, complements the free-flowing pod format with
news updates each half-hour. Thirty seconds to three minutes in length, these
segments buck conventional news practices by reporting not on what media
editors decide is "news," but on the topics people are actually searching for
right now. So news isn't what the network thinks you should know, but what
the world is searching to learn.
"We're pleased to collaborate with the entire Current team to help this
network make the world's information more accessible," said Sergey Brin,
Google's co-founder and president of Technology. "Current is an exciting new
direction for TV programming that enables any viewer to have the opportunity
to broadcast their video to the world," said Larry Page, Google's co-founder
and president of Products.
Guided by young hosts set in a club-like atmosphere, Current's free-
flowing programming will include both professionally produced segments and
viewer-created content. Current viewers will be able to easily upload their
own segments through the network's online "Current Studio," available through
the website (http://www.current.tv). These submissions will be assessed and ranked
by other viewers, potentially voting the best ones onto the air. To
facilitate their participation, Current also plans to launch a comprehensive
online training program developed by some of the best young creatives in the
industry. It will provide expert-led modules on storytelling, shooting and
editing, effectively teaching anyone with a digital video camera and computer
how to produce segments. Through this first-of-its-kind online training
program, the network seeks to cultivate a national, and eventually global,
coterie of "Current Journalists" (CJs).
In May 2004, Current laid the foundation for its national presence when
the company's founders acquired Newsworld International (NWI), a 24-hour
channel dedicated to global news produced by The Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation. Current will build on NWI's reach into nearly 20 million
subscriber households in the U.S. with carriage agreements on DirecTV's "Total
Choice" tier, Time Warner Cable's basic digital tier, and Comcast systems in
key markets.
Current is led by a talented executive team with deep experience in
television news, entertainment, business, finance, advertising sales,
marketing and youth culture. They include: Al Gore (Chairman of the Board),
the former two-term Vice President who brings a lifetime of experience in
public policy, technology and media to the network, leading Administration
policies on telecommunications and actively championing causes such as the
growth of the Internet; Joel Hyatt (Chief Executive Officer), recognized by
Business Week as one of the top 50 business leaders in the country for his
entrepreneurial ventures Hyatt Legal Services, which provided low-cost
services to families, and Hyatt Legal Plans, which became America's largest
provider of employer-sponsored group legal plans (acquired by Met Life in
1997); Mark Goldman (Chief Operating Officer), a former MCA Television
executive recruited by News Corp. to launch Sky Latin America Partners,
overseeing branding and programming strategies, the construction of its
digital broadcast facility and over $700 million of financing transactions;
David Neuman (President, Programming), a former NBC executive in charge of
comedy including "The Cosby Show," "Cheers" and "Family Ties," subsequently
president of programming for Channel One, president of Walt Disney Television
and Touchstone Television and, most recently, chief programming officer at
CNN, spearheading the revamping of the network's primetime strategy and the
hiring of Anderson Cooper, Soledad O'Brien and Paula Zahn; Anne Kallin Zehren
(President, Sales and Marketing), who as launch publisher of the award-winning
Teen People built it into the fastest-ever magazine to reach profitability and
one of the fastest growing magazines of all time, previously serving as
associate publisher of marketing of Glamour, director of marketing at
Newsweek, and director of corporate/employee communications at NBC; and Joanna
Drake Earl (Senior VP, Online Studio), who advised the heads of Hollywood's
leading studios and Silicon Valley's most powerful tech firms as a management
consultant with Booz Allen & Hamilton, also serving as vice president of media
partnerships for a broadband startup and heading the content strategy group
for the digital entertainment systems company MOXI, now Digeo.
Among Current's young on-air talent is Gotham Chopra (host of "Current
Soul," an exploration of spirituality from a young perspective), a former
Channel One News anchor who has reported from around the world and interviewed
leaders including Bill Clinton and the Dalai Lama, wrote three published works
including the comic book Bulletproof Monk (serving as executive producer of
the film adaptation), and was called one of the "most powerful and
influential" South Asians worth watching by Newsweek; Conor Knighton (host &
associate producer of Google Current), who, while pursuing a degree in film
studies and writing from Yale, wrote for the books division of the Yale Daily
News and created much-ballyhooed sketch comedy, subsequently heading to L.A.
to pursue a career in television, acting in various film and TV roles, working
as a freelance writer and proving his esoteric knowledge by winning $13,400 on
the game show "Pyramid"; and Laura Ling (news producer and on-air host), an
award-winning producer whose work for Channel One News took her to more than
two-dozen, sometimes war-torn countries (receiving unprecedented access from
the Chinese government to look at China's growing AIDS epidemic), also serving
as co-creator of the MTV issue-oriented documentary series "Breaking It Down,"
and producing other hard-hitting segments for ABC's "Nightline," NBC, the WB
and PBS.
Given its innovative mission to breed a new species of TV, network co-
founder Joel Hyatt recognizes the wisdom of Orson Welles, who once said,
"Don't give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought
was possible." Hyatt adds, "Young people believe it isn't possible to
participate in the creation of television because the medium is not accessible
to them. And traditional TV networks aren't willing or able to empower their
viewers. Current is unleashing the creativity of young people, enabling their
voice to be heard and their stories to be shared. What's possible just got a
lot more exciting."

http://www.current.tv/
 
Diablos said:
Sounds interesting.
'Cept... I wonder how many cable companies are gonna want to add it to their lineup?
They're replacing Newsworld International... the cable news channel that I do watch when I use the TV for news. >_<

They probably have some other deals going on too.
 

Rorschach

Member
Blow jobs, that's what they're doing out there. They're out there getting oral sex all day long, that's what they're talking about. That's the point of view they can't wait that your boss
I dunno about you guys, but he has me pegged.
 

StoOgE

First tragedy, then farce.
Diablos said:
Sounds interesting.
'Cept... I wonder how many cable companies are gonna want to add it to their lineup?

IIRC its news world international getting repackaged. So most allready have it.
 

Shinobi

Member
Ned Flanders said:
I'd better hear some uproar from the religious right about this. If they are as principled as they contend they are, then surely they wouldn't give Rush a pass for participating in the same kind of semantic debauchery that they constantly deride the pagan liberals for evoking. You either have a standard of judgment that applies to all people or you have no standard at all...so I better hear a shitstorm headed in the EIB Network's direction from the same people who caused the stink over the Superbowl, Stern, etc etc..

Did you hear any outcry from those people when the Oprah Winfrey show had a discussion on salad tossing? I sure as fuck didn't. It'll be no different here...morality only matters when it furthers an agenda.
 

bjork

Member
Shinobi said:
Oprah Winfrey salad tossing?

Oprah05.jpg


"Shin let me toss you"
 

etiolate

Banned
Liberal News has Blowjobs

Foxnews has dildo phonesex

.... and Oxygen has salad tossing.


Food Network wins.






And yeah theres always been teenage sex, but oral sex has increased since big willy style. We should have all known it was going to happen. It's still ridiculous to start spouting off about BJTV.
 

MetatronM

Unconfirmed Member
I'm still trying to figure out what the hell Rush's point was in the first place. Honestly, I can't even begin to tell you what kind of point he was trying to make. Then again, I'm trying to think this through rationally, which is, I suppose, why I don't have a nationally syndicated masturbatory radio talk show.
 
etiolate said:
And yeah theres always been teenage sex, but oral sex has increased since big willy style. We should have all known it was going to happen.

There's a big difference between something actually increasing and the admittance of something increasing.
 

etiolate

Banned
Sean ConnerOWN3D said:
There's a big difference between something actually increasing and the admittance of something increasing.


Yeah, but from my memories of being a teenager I don't think its just the admitting it that has increased. Girls were very hesistant towards giving head when I was that age. There was always the double standard and the extreme pressure on boys to have sex. Then oral sex became this middle ground for the double standard, which it wasn't before.
 
etiolate said:
Yeah, but from my memories of being a teenager I don't think its just the admitting it that has increased. Girls were very hesistant towards giving head when I was that age. There was always the double standard and the extreme pressure on boys to have sex. Then oral sex became this middle ground for the double standard, which it wasn't before.

Yeah, but can you really say, just because of your experiences as a teenager, that not only are most teenagers different now but also that it's all changed directly because of Clinton's actions? That is, of course, ignoring every other factor it could possibly be.

Just out of curiousity, how old are you?
 

Manics

Banned
Anyone wanna take bets Rush gets caught getting a public blowjob somewhere soon? That would be poetic justice at it's best.
 

Nerevar

they call me "Man Gravy".
etiolate said:
25, I was a senior when the whole Clinton thing was big.

I dont' know about you, but I'm 24, and I know girls who were giving head in middle school. Trying to draw any causation between an increase in oral sex and the Bill Clinton / Monica Lewinsky "event" is ridiculous and retarded.
 
Nerevar said:
I dont' know about you, but I'm 24, and I know girls who were giving head in middle school. Trying to draw any causation between an increase in oral sex and the Bill Clinton / Monica Lewinsky "event" is ridiculous and retarded.

Yeah, what he said! I very much doubt that any teenagers paid even enough attention to the president, let alone adore the man enough to say "Wow, I'm going to do everything he does! And I mean everything."
 

levious

That throwing stick stunt of yours has boomeranged on us.
I'm 28 and the whole BJ as a means to maintain virgin status came around way before my time... nothing's changed much, just like most things in the world, we just hear EVERY story now thanks to the internet.
 
etiolate said:
And yeah theres always been teenage sex, but oral sex has increased since big willy style. We should have all known it was going to happen. It's still ridiculous to start spouting off about BJTV.

Is this an actual theory of yours? On what could you possibly base it?
 
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