{"id":1318,"date":"2012-03-06T23:37:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T06:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2012-03-06T23:37:08","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T06:37:08","slug":"boss-limhogg-endears-self-to-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=1318","title":{"rendered":"Boss Limhogg Endears Self to Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Controversial, conservative radio talk show host and unofficial Republican party boss, Rush &#8216;Boss Limhogg&#8217; Limbaugh, has opened his large mouth and gotten himself in hot water with women <em>again<\/em>. Last week, Limhogg went on a misogynistic rant against Georgetown law student, Sandra Fluke, who testified before a House Democratic Steering and Policy committee about the financial burden of contraception for female law students. Boss Limhogg called her a &#8216;slut&#8217; and a &#8216;prostitute&#8217; amongst other slurs on his show provoking outrage from many, including more centrist Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Limhogg&#8217;s radio show has <a title=\"Rush Limbaugh\u2019s Advertisers Facing Social Media Firestorm\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/media\/2012\/03\/02\/436852\/rush-limbaugh-advertisers\/\" target=\"_blank\">lost a slew of sponsors<\/a>. Does this spell the end of Boss Limhogg? Are you kidding?! This man is a conservative icon in the Republican party.\u00a0 Although he &#8216;apologized&#8217; to Fluke, he&#8217;s still ranting against her and women in general. This has happened tons of times before in the past twenty years. Look for nothing to change. After all, he is Boss Limhogg. We think <a title=\"Limbaugh And The Right-Wing Nervous Breakdown\" href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/201203050003\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a> over at Media Matters presents the Republicans relationship with Limhogg succinctly.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1320\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1320\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=1320\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1320\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1320\" title=\"bosslimhoggwomen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bosslimhoggwomen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bosslimhoggwomen.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bosslimhoggwomen-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1320\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unofficial GOP leader and female connoisseur, Boss Limhogg, reflects on the status of women in America.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Controversial, conservative radio talk show host and unofficial Republican party boss, Rush &#8216;Boss Limhogg&#8217; Limbaugh, has opened his large mouth and gotten himself in hot water with women again. Last week, Limhogg went on a misogynistic rant against Georgetown law student, Sandra Fluke, who testified before a House Democratic Steering and Policy committee about the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=1318\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Boss Limhogg Endears Self to Women&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,8,3],"tags":[247,244,22,434,9,243,199,433,21,98,19,432],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1332,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/1332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}