How long will the FCC let Rush Limbaugh incite violence?

[LuckyTheDog]

It'd getting pretty obvious to me that Rush is giving his audience a "wink and nod" message intended to encourage them to start some rioting -- without saying that directly.

Rush sings about how he "dreams of rioting" in Denver, while also saying (wink, wink) that he OF COURSE isn't CALLING for such a thing. Sure. But Rush also knows that it only takes a few nutty Dittoheads to do a lot of damage.

A couple of guys dressed as cops could shoot some folks. Or, they could make some false reports to the cops to get them to make a mistake. heck, they could even do a kind of mini "Reichstag fire" kind of thing.

Rush knows there are dozens of things his loyal listeners could do. And he knows that if only a few of his listeners get the "wrong message," he could get the riot he wants. And if it comes out that his followers started it? Well, then Rush will be able to sit back and say "Oh, my, I NEVER wanted that! Tsk, tsk!"

Why is the FCC allowing him to get away with that?

:mad:

[Swamp Rat]

1. Until Bushler is out of office.

Then they are going to change their tune.

[Kitty Herder]

2. I'm beginning to think the FCC isn't quite objective.

[LuckyTheDog]

3. Ya think? (nt)

[Kitty Herder]

6. Yeah. Just a little, tiny bit unobjective.

:sarcasm: (In case you didn't catch the invisible :sarcasm: in my first post.)

[izquierdista]

4. Rwandan radio

He is no different from the war criminal broadcasting calls for genocide against the "Tutsi cockroaches". He needs to be called to task for it.

[ColbertWatcher]

20. Thank you!

The Rush followers are Hutu-wannabes!

[conscious evolution]

26. Great comparison

Hopefully he will also face a War Crimes Tribunal like the media personalities of Rwanda.

[AlCzervik]

5. until he flashes a nipple on tv and even then i wouldn't count on them doing anything.

[Kitty Herder]

7. Eww... Icky thought.

[KharmaTrain]

8. Cause The FCC Is A Joke...

It has no jurisdiction over a network radio show...only the stations that carry him. He's protected by the first ammendment...and you can yell fire in a crowded theater...just don't be seen inside the theater or with the match...Rushbo has neither. Now, if there is violence and someone says "Rush made me do it"...then we're into a different realm. Chicago PD couldn't arrest the '68 protestors before they arrived, only after the riots occured.

And...Rushbo always has his fall-back...he's an "entertainter"...he's not a newsperson or management.

The FCC is another partisan and totally inept govermnent agency more likely to help Rushbo's corporate buddies not punish them...especially in an election year.

[Ptah]

15. It was a police riot, not a protester riot.

Subsequently, the Walker Report to the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention
of Violence assigned blame for the mayhem in the streets to the police force,
calling the violence a "police riot.<23>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Democratic_National_Convention_Protests

[KharmaTrain]

16. That's Not The Point...

Yes...I was here in Chicago in August, 1968...and knew people who were gassed and arrested. It was a police riot.

The point is that Hoffman and others were advocating taking to the streets in Chicago prior to the convention but were not arrested for what they were saying...just as you can't press charges against Rushbo (no matter how I'd love to see someone try) as inciting a riot until there's an actual riot.

The OP wondered why the FCC can't take action against Rushbo...other than them being highly politicized and inept...and that's that damn thing called "freedom of speech". It when that speech turns into action that it crosses the line.

[Ptah]

19. It was an ugly attempt to suppress Hoffman and others.

Incited by the mayor, I believe.

[KharmaTrain]

21. Hoffman Embarassed Daley

I could say both Abby and Julius J....but prior to the convention I'm sure Daley had no clue who Abby Hoffman or any of the others that would show up in Grant Park. Daley wanted the convention to be his crowning glory and when those dirty fuckin' hippies started to mess up his party, he turned the CPD loose (not that many needed that much prodding)

Now if you want a better example of suppression...look into the Days of Rage riot that happen a year later.

[jedr]

9. Only if he teams up with Howard Stern;

Then they'll destroy him.

[TheCowsCameHome]

10. The fat Coward-in-Chief, safely hidden away in WPB, Florida

Notice how he never gets too close to any dangerous situation.

Fat worthless bastard.

[L. Coyote]

11. Today he was addressing women and mentioned every inch of his perfect naked body!

Yeah, he really has what it takes to convince women to become Rs. ROFLMAO!

Let him babble. "Bush's Brain on Drugs" is the best friend Dems have!! Transparent idiocy, Herr Commandante Chaos!!

Meanwhile, I developed a new understanding of the usage R. It stands for RACISTS!!!

On edit. There are toooo few radio stations when traveling Eastern Montana. Take your own tunes folks!!

[MadMaddie]

12. I think that we as American citizens need to start filing complaints

with the FCC and we need to start hammering them with the complaints.

Also, we need to start looking at each state that he broadcasts in and look at the state laws about inciting violence, we need to start filing complaints with our local law inforcement.

Finally, we need to look at voter tampering laws in each state, I honestly believe he has broken the laws by encouraging people to switch party's to damage his opponants.

It's time for the chickens to come home to roost (even if they are on oxycontin).

Start using your local and state laws to prevent what could be bloodshed. That's all.

[leftofthedial]

13. forever

if you're a repuke, you can do almost anything

[burythehatchet]

14. never. it is up to us.

[Zorra]

17. This is the Bu*hworld FCC. Only liberals can be policed, prosecuted and fined.

Conservatives have license to do whatever they want.

[rdenney]

24. Just like former KGO talk-radio show host, Bernie Ward. Rush can use "cabbage" to buy illegal dope..

supposedly for his "pain", but a few pictures sent over the internet during a research project into child-porn, and they throw the kitchen sink at Ward, because he is a progressive democrat, not a right-tard shill like RL.

[Frank Cannon]

28. "Research project into child porn"? Excuse me?

How many of these "research projects" we hear about actually result in some sort of scholarship? I'm sure Pete Townshend's book on the subject is due out any day now.

And why would anyone need to "research" child porn? I don't hear about anyone robbing banks to "research" that subject.

[rdenney]

32. Was Rush researching the effects of Oxycontin? Point is they both broke the law, but only one is ...

going to prison for breaking the law: A Democrat who spoke out against *.

[Frank Cannon]

33. True. True. (n/t)

[mitchum]

18. Until they have to pry a teenage boy's cock from his cold dead hands

That piece of shit gets a pass on everything

[DeepModem Mom]

22. K&R

[samsingh]

23. rush is a traitor to america. why does he hate america?

[LuckyTheDog]

30. Operation Chaos is anti-American

It is anti-American to its core.

[Perry Logan]

25. There's no doubt in my mind: the left and right are going to fight.

I'm sure the right and left are going to come to blows. It will be 20% of degenerate whites versus the rest of the country.

[Frank Cannon]

27. Make no mistake, Rush Limbaugh is destined for a humiliating end

I believe that most prominent RW criminals will probably get away scot-free from paying in some fashion for their crimes. But not Rush. The man is far too reckless and arrogant. He made himself DEAF from his drug use, for crying out loud.

When Rush's number comes up, it will be bad and embarrassing. Something like being discovered by law enforcement, dead of a popper-induced heart attack, in the bed of a teenaged boy.

[KSinTX]

29. As long as it lets Roseanne Barr do it? nt

[jmowreader]

31. I have no problem with Rush inciting violence, so long as he's there for it

Come on. Give the man a nice big bottle of hillbilly heroin, take him to the site of the DNC and play his futile ravings over huge speakers for all to hear.

There'll be violence, but does thirty thousand people killing Rush Limbaugh with their bare hands count as the violence Rush wanted in Denver?

[LuckyTheDog]

34. He will get a deferment

He'll say the old anal cyst is acting up again.

[SlingBlade]

35. I agree with this statement 100 %

"It'd getting pretty obvious to me that Rush is giving his audience a "wink and nod" message intended to encourage them to start some rioting -- without saying that directly"

The Brown Shirts have been issued their orders.