{"id":7705,"date":"2012-03-02T17:30:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T21:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synchrosecrets.com\/synchrosecrets\/?p=7705"},"modified":"2012-03-25T19:09:21","modified_gmt":"2012-03-25T23:09:21","slug":"rush-limbaugh-and-the-handmaids-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/?p=7705","title":{"rendered":"Rush Limbaugh and the Handmaid’s Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Take a look at this man. Look closely. What do you see?<\/p>\n

Here are the facts. Rush Limbaugh has a radio audience estimated to be 20 million. He reportedly makes upward of $35,000,000 a year. He lives in Palm Beach with his fourth wife.\u00a0 He is the mouthpiece of the Republican party, but has never been elected to office. He has made his millions as a hate monger and his most recent hate speeches have been directed toward women.<\/p>\n

Recently, Georgetown University law student, Sandra Fluke, was turned away from a Congressional committee (of five men) when she sought to offer her testimony about a fried who lost an ovary because she was denied birth control pills by her insurance company. As a result of her being turned away from testifying to the committee, the media picked up on the story and she is now something of a spoke person about a heinous movement- the banning of contraception.<\/p>\n

Limbaugh called her a “slut” and a “prostitute<\/a>” for publicly advocating that employers cover contraception in their health plans.\u00a0 He’s employing the oldest trick in the book \u2013 ridiculing the representative of a group \u2013in this instance, a rather large group, women<\/em> \u2013 in an attempt to silence them.<\/p>\n

Back in 1692, in Salem Massachusetts, 19 men and women who had been convicted of witchcraft were taken to Gallows Hills, a denuded slope\u00a0 near Salem, to be hung. Another man of 80 plus years was crushed to death beneath heavy rocks and stones for refusing to submit to a trial on witchcraft charges. Hundreds of others faced witchcraft charges, and 88 percent of them were women. Women judged by men.<\/em><\/p>\n

In retrospect, the Salem trials are often referred to as a case \u201cmass hysteria.\u201d In the 21st<\/sup> century, the kind of incendiary rhetoric against women that has been part of the Republican primary might be compared to a kind of mass hysteria propagated by individuals \u2013 mostly men \u2013 who are apparently threatened by the foothold women have gained since the 1960s and 70s. It seems to be part of an emerging paradigm \u2013 confront these old, profoundly outdated attitudes, deal with them, and move on.<\/p>\n

But Limbaugh personifies how the old paradigm clings to what has worked\u00a0 in the past \u2013 hate mongering, trying to instill fear and more fear \u2013 and was referred to by one news moderator as \u201ctoo big to fail.\u201d Heard that one before, right? About the banks.<\/p>\n

Limbaugh has an employer \u2013 Clear Channel \u2013 and they should fire this bovine blowhard. But guess what, one of the primary owners of Clear Channel is\u00a0 Bain Capitol,<\/a> the company that Mitt Romney, \u00a0Repub candidate and the paragon of flip-floppers \u2013 ran for so many years. Romney, though now retired from Bain, supposedly still owns a financial stake in the company.<\/p>\n

Clear Channel owns more radio shows in the U.S. – 850 \u2013 than any other entity.\u00a0\u00a0 They not only host bovine Rush, but all the other hate mongers as well, like Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck \u2013 who are\/were employees of Fox News.<\/p>\n

So, if Rush\u2019s radio audience of 20 million is any indication of the numbers that still cling to the old paradigm of racism, intolerance, inequality, and white male, heterosexual dominance (yeah, no surprise, they also denounce gays), then we\u2019ve got a ways to go as a nation.<\/p>\n

Fox News owner Rupert Murdock seems on a downward spin with \u00a0the dishonesty and amoral practices of his British rags. But how do you counteract someone like Limbaugh? Well, first of all, you laugh, you laugh hysterically at everything he says. A mindset as dark as his can\u2019t endure laughter or ridicule. Then you look within and ask how you can be an agent of change in the world. \u00a0You might write to Clear Channel <\/a>and demand that Rush be fired. Or you might instruct your cable channel to remove Fox News from your package.\u00a0 Or you might \u00a0just ignore the issue completely. After all, when our attention is removed from something, it becomes less powerful.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m well past the years of childbearing and would probably opt for ignoring all this rhetoric if I didn\u2019t have a 22-year-old daughter whose health may be impacted by the extreme ideas being put forth by Republicans in many states. Once you grant an insurance company or an employer, pharmacist or physician the right to deny treatment<\/a> because they are \u201cmorally against\u201d that treatment,\u00a0 you are entering dangerous territory. Democracy goes south, the right to make your own choices about your body is delegated to politics, you are living smack in the middle of The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/a>. No, thanks.<\/p>\n

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It appears that the Obama administration has responded to Limbaugh. The president also called <\/a>the young woman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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