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Controversial Comic Backs Out of Media Correspondents‘ Dinner Following Van Susteren’s Call for Boycott Over Sexist Remarks

Following Greta van Susteren’s call for a boycott of the annual Radio & TV Correspondents’ Dinner for inviting comedian Louis C.K. — who Van Susteren dubbed a “pig,” and who has been known to call Sarah Palin a c–t — C.K. has reportedly backed out of the dinner, saying he “just didn’t want to do it anymore.” His tweet about the subject follows:

Louis C.K. Pulls Out of Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner After Greta Van Susteren Attacks HimIt is unknown whether Van Susteren’s blistering blog post on the subject, headlined “I refuse to go to the Radio and Television correspondents’ dinner — no one should go,” was the cause of the cancellation. You can read several passages of it below:

The headliner of this year’s Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner is “comedian” Louis C.K. Comedian? I don’t think so. Pig? yes.

He uses filthy language about women…..yes, the C word…and yes, even to describe a woman candidate for Vice President of the United States. It isn’t just Governor Palin he denigrates. He denigrates all women and looks to the crowd to laugh.

I refuse to show any support for this guy or for the Radio and Television Correspondents Association Dinner Committee who hired him. I think the organization that hired him is just as bad as he is. It is no secret that he denigrates women.

FreeRepublic’s Kristin Taylor thinks this Van Susteren post was probably involved:

Taylor calls this afternoon with a different interpretation: ”That’s a cop-out,” he said. “But it’s a polite, professional way of withdrawing.”

Taylor also said C.K. should never have been invited in the first place, and attributed the invitation to the liberal bias of the Washington media.

“It’s because he said those things about Sarah Palin that the D.C. media thought it was OK,” he argued. “If he had said those things about Michelle Obama, no way in hell he would’ve been invited.”

However, some say Van Susteren’s attack was unwarranted. Over at Laughspin, Dylan P. Gadino accuses Van Susteren of not doing enough research on the topic before attacking the comedian:

There sure is more, Greta. And maybe you should’ve actually listened to “more” – that is, if you listened to anything at all — before demonizing a man for a few crass comments he made on a radio show. That’s right, folks. These aren’t even lines from his act. It’s all from an appearance on SiriusXM’s Opie and Anthony Show from December of 2010; it came a few days after his now-infamous drunken airplane tweeting, when he typed a series of gibberish and incredibly silly (and surely blue) jokes about Sarah Palin. And by the way, he later told GQ he regretted typing those things.

Is Louis C.K. a misunderstood comedian who made a series of off-color gaffes? Or was his withdrawal completely warranted? Weigh in below.

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  • Jenny Lind
    Posted on March 9, 2012 at 9:27pm

    I am as right wing as it gets, but honestly, the left isn’t the only ones name calling, there is plenty of it right here on this blog. Don’t blame it on the trolls either. Both sides are guilty of name calling and making crude remarks about women on the left and right and none of it is good. Are we looking at the motes in their eyes and forgetting the log in our own? I get very upset at what is said right here on a hopefully conservative blog, some days it gets so bad I just log off. Maybe, just maybe this whole thing will make everyone rethink what they type in here. I don’t know about all of you, but I want my family to respect what I say about politics and what’s going on in the world. There are some really fine minds, genuinely funny and interesting people on this blog, but I really believe it needs a tune up of being less crude and disrespectfull. There’s plenty to say without name calling, isn’t there?

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  • heavyduty
    Posted on March 9, 2012 at 9:15pm

    First you have to be funny to be a comedian.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on March 9, 2012 at 10:28pm

      I’ve tried a couple of times to watch his show. I’ve discovered that the funniest parts are already in the commercials. The remainder is mind numbingly dull.

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    • lukerw
      Posted on March 10, 2012 at 9:43am

      I cannot watch Greta… as she can be dumb as a rock on Economics and the Obama Agenda, Liberal and Progressive, and arrogant… but, she does have balls…

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    • icebergslim27
      Posted on March 10, 2012 at 12:29pm

      Let me guess, only you know funny?

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  • mountainmover101
    Posted on March 9, 2012 at 9:15pm

    This isn’t news first off. He isn’t funny. Only shallow uneducated people would find his brand of humor entertaining.

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    • ArgumentumAdAbsurdum
      Posted on March 9, 2012 at 9:24pm

      yeh hes no Larry the Cable Guy, a thinking man’s comic.

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    • jeanr
      Posted on March 9, 2012 at 10:06pm

      I prefer a show with a laughtrack. Then I know how to react to everything.

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on March 10, 2012 at 12:50pm

      As far as I am concerned, he and anybody can vomit into a glass and drink it. I don’t care. If you don‘t like it don’t watch. People do not have a right to not be offended by having the right to silence the offender. Tough Sheeeeeet people. Get over it. And that includes calling women cv nts and blacks “anything”( they get offended if you ask them what time it is).White guys are called everything under the sun and you don’t hear us whining like babys. I will never subscribe to the censor nazis PC crap. Never.

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  • Scrubmaster
    Posted on March 9, 2012 at 9:10pm

    I have listened to Louie C.K. for many years and if you listen to him he slams both Dems and Reps.
    Fox news is starting to act like the filth at CNN. As usual Freedom of Speech loses. Both parties hate it.

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    • cgent47
      Posted on March 9, 2012 at 9:22pm

      I don’t know how you were raised but calling women names like C%$#, T$%&, B$@&% is not funny. I don‘t like liberal women and would never stoop to calling them names just because I don’t agree with them. That goes for Rush also. As Bill would say Wise Up!

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    • DoomsdayProphet
      Posted on March 9, 2012 at 9:42pm

      Names nothing more than names. If it offends you maybe look inside yourself and see why. Call me what you want. Put your hands on me and we have issues.

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    • gobnait
      Posted on March 9, 2012 at 11:38pm

      You’re missing the entire point. Liberals have overplayed their hand this time and conservatives are shining the mirror of truth of their hypocrisy. Conservatives outnumber liberals by a two to one margin and have had enough of leftist crap. Mess with ANYONE’S freedom of speech (re: Limbaugh) or religion (re: Obama vs Catholics) and you’ve gone too far. We will not be shouted down and we will win.

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    • jcizarter
      Posted on March 10, 2012 at 12:39am

      Freedom of speech is still a right, just like my right to complain about a comedian who degrades women. My freedom is not to watch this comedian. His freedom is to keep up what he is doing, but I do not have to watch or attend.

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  • desert buckeye
    Posted on March 9, 2012 at 9:08pm

    People! We need to personally boycott everything on the left. This is all these people understand. If we hurt their wallets, we can shut down some of these attacks. The left is the biggest threat to our freedoms.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on March 10, 2012 at 1:47pm

      “People! We need to personally boycott everything on the left. ‘

      Yes. Spot on.

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  • Vernon Black
    Posted on March 9, 2012 at 9:01pm

    LISTEN TO ME YOUNG PEOPLE!!!…Next year I’ll be 60 yrs old, and in a weird way, I’m proud of that…For ALL of my politically aware life the Leftist Democrats have controlled the debate because they controlled the MEDIA….No More!!!….The internet is the GREAT EQUALIZER and thank GOD for Fox News, and Rush the Left doesn’t control much anymore!! There is hope for the Country!

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on March 9, 2012 at 10:43pm

      Vernon, you and I are in the same boat, and I whole heartedly agree with you. One little point though. I find the media to be the Democrat’s groveling lackeys.

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  • welloddyfriggindah
    Posted on March 9, 2012 at 9:00pm

    …Dude’s a punk and a creep; needs his arse kicked…I hate the double standards with this – as much as when I find myself living double standards…uh…like right now!

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  • neverending
    Posted on March 9, 2012 at 8:54pm

    Can’t help but think there is more to the reason for him cancelling then remarks from Greta. Since when do these filthy jerks ever back down? Don‘t even know him but can’t imagine he is any worse then Sykes – talk about a filthy mouth. Basically they all swim in the same sewer.

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    • bitterclinger
      Posted on March 9, 2012 at 9:37pm

      So Louis of the Big Mouth can’t take the heat, huh? If he believes what he said and tweeted, why’s he so shy about appearing in front of his peeps? Could it be that he actually has some shame?

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    • neverending
      Posted on March 9, 2012 at 11:27pm

      @bitterclinger – I just don’t think they even know what shame is or morals for that matter.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on March 10, 2012 at 9:41am

      C.K. Louis did a bit where he said the RCC was solely set up as a pedophilia ring.

      I wish he would have been at the correspondents dinner. We could make hay out of it & Obama & the Democrats could lose the Catholic vote.

      Maybe they still will. Why did the Obama White House pick C.K.? Because they love him& think like him

      Louis CK learns about the Catholic Church
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VABSoHYQr6k

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  • G.E.R
    Posted on March 9, 2012 at 8:46pm

    Between growing up around Joseph McCarthy, her self described ambulance chasing attorney husband, and belonging to The Church of Scientology. Greta is mentally f@#ked up

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  • Want our country back
    Posted on March 9, 2012 at 8:44pm

    Thank you for your comments…. let’s finally band together and stop this insanity. I think that filthy rap should be banned or censored. We have crossed that dangerous line of what should be acceptable and there is no turning back…… until now. I love going to the movies but they are pushing the envelope for the ‘shock’ factor so it’s no longer entertainment.

    I feel that all these little stories are simply a distraction from all the serious issues happening right before our eyes…. We need to stay focused on what this administration is doing to screw us on a daily basis and not get tied up in the fluking weeds.

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  • cookcountypatriot
    Posted on March 9, 2012 at 8:39pm

    he,s a progressive white slave…..he knew it was acceptable to attack a conservative woman…he got his winks and nods from his masters and most of all his paycheck…he,s a pig and the nazi,s on the left are silent, because if you dont goose step to thier tune,you dont count….usefull idiots like this turd will be crawlling of thier holes now trying to impress thier masters…lol and to think these weaklings sell thier souls to be progressive white slaves!

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  • TRONINTHEMORNING
    Posted on March 9, 2012 at 8:39pm

    Had Michelle Malkin on my radio show today and she was very clear on the double standard this libs have. She, Ingraham, Palin; all deserve many an apology from these less-than-pigs. At least pigs are intelligent. Libs don’t seem to be.

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  • LegendaryPeanut
    Posted on March 9, 2012 at 8:38pm

    In my opinion, people who post on the blaze should use spell checker. Perhaps even context of the word checker. Either way, if you troll EVERY SINGLE post on the Blaze, and have to post something about it. At least learn how to spell properly. Lose means to forget it, or it is lost. Loose means it is jiggly, wiggly or can be taken out easily. If you emphasize words with capitalization, then you should triple check to make sure you don’t look like a fool. Oh and let’s not forget, a man who has 2 ears and 1 mouth is supposed to listen twice as much as he speaks. However if you go off that analogy, then you DO have 2 hands so you can type twice as much. Either way, try to not look like an idiot while doing it.

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    • smokeyridgerunner
      Posted on March 9, 2012 at 8:59pm

      They get so mad they forget how to spell, this happens to everyone.

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    • angelcat
      Posted on March 9, 2012 at 9:11pm

      I’m a stickler for spelling and grammar, but even I find when I am passionate or type too fast I make errors that I don’t catch until after I have sent the message – and there is no edit capability. Granted if it happens in every sentence every time it is probably not an error and some remedial grammar and spelling might be in order. Besides, for those who are under 30, grammar and spelling probably weren’t taught in many public schools. They were considered to hinder creativity and that they would be picked up later in life. Consequently, we have many younger people, even teachers, who are poor spellers and know little about grammar rules. I know. They were in my classroom asking for my help.

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    • Tooler17
      Posted on March 9, 2012 at 9:24pm

      Hey guy. In your rant about people not using proper spelling, or context, you neglected to put a comma after the word “however”. Way to go professor dipfart.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on March 9, 2012 at 9:56pm

      @LegendaryPeanut
      Hello, oh most renowned spell checker of the Planet. You might want to spell check “Jiggly” and replace it with “Jingly”? Just saying… u reep wat u sew…. PEBKAC!

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on March 9, 2012 at 10:07pm

      @LegendaryPeanut
      Also… it’s “The Blaze” and not “the blaze”, you ID Ten T PEBKAC’er. Get a life and then do something with it. You certainly are messing up here with all your grammar junk.

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    • LegendaryPeanut
      Posted on March 10, 2012 at 12:26am

      I want everybody to go to you tube. Look up ol greg. That is how I envision all of you. Proper spelling or not motha licka. You old greg and you have a ….. you get the picture.

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    • LegendaryPeanut
      Posted on March 10, 2012 at 4:43am

      See there… Somebody got the message I was trying to put out there! You made my night without me having to spend any money lmao. Let me try a Glenn Beck here…. *Starts crying* America I’m just asking the questions… I’m not giving any answers, I am just trying to ask a question, do your own research. Glad you did your research on Ol’ Gregg. I might just change my name to iTroll if its available

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    • Quiata
      Posted on March 10, 2012 at 6:16am

      Too bad for you that spell-checker does not detect run-on sentences or evaluate grammatical usage.

      But to add to your list:

      “it’s” = “it is” whereas the possessive form is “its”

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    • Quiata
      Posted on March 10, 2012 at 6:26am

      Sorry, Mr.Peanut, my bad: I meant “sentence fragments” in your case. I guess I was in too much of a hurry. =P

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    • ron2win
      Posted on March 10, 2012 at 8:42am

      I think emotions has something to do with the spelling .plus the fact it is not possible to see you post in its entirety before you post it.I go over mine but still manage to miss something.It is not a big deal.It’s the idea that matters ,not the delivery.

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    • goldivox
      Posted on March 10, 2012 at 2:43pm

      hmmm…. spell checker won’t help when wrong words are used which have been spelled correctly. Than all weave bin effected for uh gov’t “education” – see? Almost unintelligible, isn’t it? Both sides seems to share this malady.

      It seems as though no one is taught critical thinking these days – how to think; only what to think.

      Does anyone, aside from the lemmings, truly believe an advocate of infanticide without regard to sex (i.e. male or female) who began his career destroying a politically sympathetic women’s career to gain office really cares about civility? This whole contrived flap has nothing to do with “contraception” – not at $1000 per year! The entire press conference (disguised as a congressional hearing) was intended to provide cover for an assault on religious liberty (and irreligious liberty as well).

      I think Limbaugh’s initial mistake was in assuming the high cost cited was indicative of frequency of activity – “having so much sex they can’t afford it”. By Monday we all had a clearer picture of who Sandra Fluke was (though I’m still puzzled by the pronunciation of fl-uh-k from that spelling) and what she had been brought before the camera’s to do.

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  • momprayn
    Posted on March 9, 2012 at 8:30pm

    Misunderstood? No, Greta and the rest of us understand very well. Good for you Greta! Yes, we all must start taking notable stands – our apathy and past nonconfrontational mindset must go. As long as it’s true and needs to be known, say it (in a respectful, but firm, nonapologetic way)- take action, whatever.

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  • Daveed
    Posted on March 9, 2012 at 8:26pm

    Yeah Greta. If the rascist NOW will not speak up for “ALL” women, we American Conservative Women must stand together and stand up for ourselves against this onslought of depravity the wacko liberals pretend is Comedic. It is out and out attack on Mothers, daughters, babies, Aunts, Grandmas, daughter-in-laws, girls, female cousins. If one sector wants to call their women Ho’s, that is their business, but I would TELL those men unless they stop, they will date other men who do not call their women filthy names. Clean up the rap crap. Women are sacred, they need to behave like and be treated like it. If they do not act like it, then they will continued to be treated like 2nd class citizens and sex objects. WOMEN DEMAND MORE!!!!!

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  • wordweaver
    Posted on March 9, 2012 at 8:20pm

    I have no use for comics who must stoop to filthy language and denigrating various categories of people to gain laughs. They rank lowest on the skill scale in my book. It takes real skill to craft a clean comedy act.

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    • tucsonthomas
      Posted on March 9, 2012 at 8:37pm

      You hit the nail on the head. A good comic doesn’t need to use that kind of language.

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  • TH30PH1LUS
    Posted on March 9, 2012 at 8:10pm

    Shine a light and the roaches will scurry.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on March 10, 2012 at 9:45am

      Why did the Obama White House pick C.K.? Because they love him& think like him

      Louis CK learns about the Catholic Church

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VABSoHYQr6k

      I actually like this one. It is not true, but there were enough priests to make this plausible. Priests have the same rate as the generally public or less. But we expect them to be way better.

      I suspect C.K. doesn’t want the RCC to be better so much as gone.

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on March 9, 2012 at 8:08pm

    I happen to like Louis CK. Funny guy. I think this PC crap is getting out of hand, but I do like how now the libs have to fake walking on eggshells for a while.

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    • IndyGuy
      Posted on March 9, 2012 at 8:12pm

      Headline:GLORIA GOES WILD: ARREST LIMBAUGH FOR HIS SPEECH!……It’s called free speech….Bitch…

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    • IndyGuy
      Posted on March 9, 2012 at 8:20pm

      Come and get me…Bitch…

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on March 9, 2012 at 8:28pm

      The left needs to realize, what power they want for their side, can be used by the otherside when they are the minority.

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    • ModerationIsBest
      Posted on March 9, 2012 at 8:38pm

      Free speech is dead.

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on March 9, 2012 at 8:53pm

      Free Speech is only for Progressive Liberal DEMOCRAT”S. Saul Alinsky said so.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on March 9, 2012 at 8:54pm

      Hey MOD,

      No, free speech is not dead.

      But people have to understand that what they say, may bring consequences.

      And you can say what you like, but others do not have to listen, or care what you have to say.

      He says what he says, Greta said what she said, the chips fall where they may.

      That’s life life in grown-up land.

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  • Want our country back
    Posted on March 9, 2012 at 8:08pm

    Thank you Greta for taking a stand… it‘s about time that we actually ’reacted’ to evil. I was so ashamed of the woman of America who chose to sit quietly or worse, to laugh while they called Sarah the vile names they did. NOTHING justifies this attack on any woman. I would NEVER defend their right to say that to anybody… for any reason. They hide behind ‘they’re comedians’. Oh you think that’s funny.. well Maher, tell us some filthy funny things about your mother…. we’ll all have a good laugh…

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    • jhaydeng
      Posted on March 9, 2012 at 8:17pm

      It’s called cringe humor. These comedians talk about the most uncomfortable topics and try to make them light. It makes you cringe…get it! Mostly they talk about themselves, but sometimes….

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  • jungle J
    Posted on March 9, 2012 at 8:08pm

    and the mentally ill progressives in the crowd laugh..only the sane understand.

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  • palerider54
    Posted on March 9, 2012 at 8:05pm

    I have lost a lot of so called friends because of the same policy Greta uses.

    When asked to buy something “hot” or stolen I look them right in the eye and tell them that anyone who would knowingly buy or sell something they knew was stolen, should be hung with the same rope they hang the thief with.

    This so called comedian is no better or worse than the POS that tried to hire him.
    They both should be hung with the same rope.

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    • jeanr
      Posted on March 9, 2012 at 10:07pm

      Maybe you should stop hanging them everytime they disagree with you.

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  • rojotx
    Posted on March 9, 2012 at 8:04pm

    Withdraw doesn’t cut it! He should have been cut by the committee!

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  • Smokey_Bojangles
    Posted on March 9, 2012 at 8:04pm

    Yet Rush is Still being Crucified for calling someone who went before congress and said she had to much sex to afford her $9 birth control a slut.

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    • RedDawn2012
      Posted on March 9, 2012 at 8:26pm

      I’m no Rush fan, but Rush was right on with this one. Fluke is a rabid leftist feminist in the style of Margaret Sanger – a monster worthy of Rush’s terminology and worse. His only mistake was apologizing.

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    • jamforpresident
      Posted on March 10, 2012 at 7:24am

      “Yet Rush is Still being Crucified for calling someone who went before congress and said she had to much sex to afford her $9 birth control a slut.”

      Because using birth control does not mean you are a slut.

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  • LeadNotFollow
    Posted on March 9, 2012 at 8:02pm

    …
    Louis C.K should have never been invited.
    Glad that Greta called him out.

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    • GeorgieJo
      Posted on March 9, 2012 at 10:03pm

      Never heard of this guy but thanks Greta!!!

      OMG 2012

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  • Bluenose177
    Posted on March 9, 2012 at 7:59pm

    isn’t it amazing how people “regret” saying stuff after they get called out on it? Still no word on Barry giving the money back to misogynist Maher

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    • ArgumentumAdAbsurdum
      Posted on March 9, 2012 at 8:19pm

      Maher gave his money to the SuperPac, Obama couldnt give back the money anymore than Romney or Gingrinch can return money given to their superpacs.

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