GREEN BAY – Conservative talking head Rush Limbaugh spent much of last week making ugly comments about college student Sandra Fluke, calling her a “slut” and a “prostitute”, for having the guts to want to testify before Congress. Besides the ugly language, it did not seem to bother him that he did not know what he, or she, was talking about. He just seemed to want to bully a woman, a private citizen at that, to run up his ratings.
Rush Limbaugh makes a living making outrageous comments on the public airwaves. Normally, the rest of us don’t care what he says. He’s just trying to get attention, and to pay attention is to play into his hand. He is playing to a small group of people who want to listen to someone say on the air the ugly things they are too afraid to say themselves.
But this time he went too far, way over the line. Because this is the kind of thing that Joe McCarthy did, and you have to stand up to a bully right away or they will just keep coming.
You should not have to be a woman to be outraged. Women have been bullied by the s-word and “your parents would be ashamed” line for years and are especially sensitive to what Rush was doing. But the rest of us, who have wives and daughters and granddaughters should be equally upset. I want every woman in my life to feel free to speak their mind and not fear bullies like Rush Limbaugh.
Which gets us to the final point. I would not presume to tell anyone what to say, but below is a list of the radio stations that carry Rush Limbaugh’s show in Wisconsin. I urge everyone who shares my outrage to contact the one or two nearest you and tell them, in your own words, that you would not listen to their station or advertisements so long as they carry Rush Limbaugh’s show.
They use your public airwaves, and you have the right to let them know when you think someone goes way over the line.
Market Station Freq Air Time
Ashland WATW-AM 1400 MoFr 11a2p
Eagle River WERL-AM 950 MoFr 11a2p
Green Bay WTAQ-FM 97.5 MoFr 11a2p
Green Bay WTAQ-AM 1360 M-F 11a-2p
La Crosse WIZM-AM 1410 M-F 11a-2p
Madison WIBA-AM 1310 M-F 11a-2p
Menomonie WMEQ-AM 880 MoFr 11a2p
Milwaukee WISN-AM 1130 M-F 11a-2p
Oshkosh WOSH-AM 1490 M-F 11a-2p
Park Falls WPFP-AM 980 M-F 11a-2p
Rudolph WSAU-FM 99.9 M-F 11a-2p
Sheboygan WHBL-AM 1330 M-F 12p-3p
Shell Lake WCSW-AM 940 MoFr 11a2p
Superior WDSM-AM 710 M-F 11a-2p
Wausau WSAU-AM 550 M-F 11a-2p