{"id":9903,"date":"2012-03-12T16:52:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T20:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=9903"},"modified":"2012-03-22T16:54:27","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T20:54:27","slug":"payne-shut-up-levin-argued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/payne-shut-up-levin-argued","title":{"rendered":"Payne: Shut up, Levin argued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Carl Levin and his fellow senators haven&#8217;t passed a budget in three years. No wonder. Michigan&#8217;s senior senator is tending to more important things &#8211; like trying to boot Rush Limbaugh off Armed Services Radio for the talk show host&#8217;s infamous derogatory comments about a Georgetown student activist &#8211; comments that Limbaugh has since apologized for.<\/p>\n<p>But apologies aren&#8217;t enough for Levin. El Rushbo must be shut up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would hope the people that run it (Armed Forces Network) see just how offensive this is and drop it,&#8221; Levin old CNN in joining former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm in the anti- Limbaugh fatwa.<\/p>\n<p>The demand puts Levin &amp; Co. to the left of even Bill Maher, the Democrats&#8217; favorite misogynist comedian. Maher &#8211; unapologetic and no doubt spooked about using similar language about female Republican candidates &#8211; asked for tolerance last week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hate to defend #Rush Limbaugh but he apologized, liberals looking bad not accepting. Also hate intimidation by sponsor pullout,&#8221; Maher tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>The MSM has tried to gate-keep news that the Left has set the standard of coarse language towards women, But in the alternative media age, the news is getting out. Maher&#8217;s fears were realized this week as Fox News exposed comic Louis C.K. &#8211; another in a long line of lefties who have made an art of disparaging righty women &#8211; who subsequently\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-503544_162-57394556-503544\/louis-c.k-pulls-out-of-reporter-dinner-after-criticism\/\">withdrew from<\/a>\u00a0the Radio and Television Correspondent&#8217;s Dinner.<\/p>\n<p>The RTCA Dinner is an MSM institution and sometimes attended by Obama. Wouldn&#8217;t want to make the boss uncomfortable.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Carl Levin and his fellow senators haven&#8217;t passed a budget in three years. No wonder. Michigan&#8217;s senior senator is tending to more important things &#8211; like trying to boot Rush Limbaugh off Armed Services Radio for the talk show host&#8217;s infamous derogatory comments about a Georgetown student activist &#8211; comments that Limbaugh has since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,87],"tags":[1232],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9904,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9903\/revisions\/9904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}