Discussion: Limbaugh Threatens Suit Over Dems Using His Rape Rant To Fundraise

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Typical Republican response: Taken out of context.

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He’s a gonna git him one of them thar “Trial Lawyers.”

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““In the letter, Glaser said that if the DSCC does not apologize for and retract the emails, Limbaugh will sue the committee.””

She won’t sue because she can’t. If she was going to so she would not damage her case with crap talk like that.

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Please proceed, Mr. Limbaugh. Seeing you swear to “tell the whole truth and nothing but…” would make my decade.

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BTW, “retracting” emails is pretty much an impossibility, eh?

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I hate to side with the fat man, but it seems like he, or rather his lawyers are in the right on this one. The phrase, “‘no’ means ‘yes’ if you know how to spot it,” is taken out of context, and was not an expression of Limbaugh’s own opinion, which was ‘no’ means ‘yes’ is no longer acceptable. Besides, Limbaugh’s lawyers are sharp (he can afford the very best) and they wouldn’t be this far out in front unless they thought they had a sure thing.

This is basically a garden variety “cease and desist” letter (albeit a fairly elaborate one), and these customarily call for a retraction and apology coupled with the threat of legal action. It looks like the DSCC is in over their heads (again), and they’d do well to pull back on this one because it’s not a winner for them.

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Would someone please inform Limbaugh that the law does not work that way. He cannot, as a public figure, sue over someone using snippets of his work. That constitutes “fair use”.

Of course, if things continue the way they are, the GOP will pass laws making “fair use” illegal for everyone but them.

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You could be right but then again, Donald Sterling could pay the best attorneys and we know how that turned out for him.

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The DSCC took Limbaugh’s words out of context and smeared him with it?

Wow, that’s just … neat!

Way to go, DSCC. Nice to see Limbaugh on the other side of that tactic for once.

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Yeah, but Donald Sterling was in the wrong, and everyone knew it, even him.

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Political speech gets more protection than commercial speech does, a fact that Limbaugh is well aware of, as he would have been off the air long ago if his own words weren’t broadcast with that extra protection.

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It is time for the Democratic Party to stop being so damn afraid and scared and start punching back. It feels as if they don’t want to get their hands dirty.

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“They lied about his words. They quoted something specific and out of context, and it is a lie.”

Well, takes one to know one I suppose.

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Rush Limbaugh BROADCASTED his rant PUBLICLY on radio. His words are in the public sphere. How could he sue? And emails are also like launched rockets that cannot be called back.
I don’t see how Limbaugh would have a case.

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Why Rush, aren’t cons supposed to be anti-litigiousness?

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How does one retract an email? Once sent it’s out of the senders control.

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The irony is amazing. Rush is the king of taking phrases out of context.

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Loophole - if he joined the Society of Friends, he’d only have to affirm.
Though I can’t think of any Monthly Meeting that would let him in. Maybe East Whittier?

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So it’s OK for Limbaugh to spend 3 days of his radio show a couple of years ago attacking Sandra Fluke, who at the time was a college student, in the most vile terms I’ve ever heard on public airwaves but heaven forbid someone would use his words off the air in a way he didn’t like.
There are no words in English, or any other human language that adequately describe the depravity, the despicable nature of this man. I wish there were. Generally I don’t use vile language in a public forum such as this but right now I am sorely tempted.

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