Ebay censors my criticism of Limbaugh on board

[adigal]

saying that is was profanity, vulgarity, hate speech, disruptive, or hostile comments,
interpersonal disputes, or threats of violence in a post. An ebay worker named Karen censored it after receiving a complaint from a right winger and took it off while the right wingers on the board say horrendous things about liberals every single day. So - was I hostile and disruptive??? Thanks!

Here was my post:

"I am always amazed at how the right wing (and I WAS a republican
>until 4 years ago) justifies ANY behavior by one of their hate-
>filled heroes. Rush: 3 failed marriages, gets caught with Viagra
>coming back from South America, (HELLO - don't any of you wonder WHY
>he had to go to South America to do what he did?? Do
>illegal "activities," or maybe underage, girls and/or boys come to
>mind at all????)He's not married, so he must have been having
>unholy, unChristian sex. And the phony soldiers? The caller said to
>him that soldiers who disagree with the war are "phony soldiers,"
>and Rush agreed, AND repeated it. You can't find it on his website,
>because he took it off! Hilarious!!! You true believers should turn
>off Fox Entertainment Channel and watch a real news station for a
>change so you can see what is really going on. (And who came up with
>the name of the morning show "Fox and Friends"? It is like "Barney
>and Friends" that my sons used to watch, but not as intelligent.)
>That 24% of our nation is still so brainwashed by the right wing is
>terrifying, however. I think you need to be un-brainwashed. But you
>like supporting the haters - the people who hate gays, hate
>immigrants, hate blacks, hate the poor, hate the sick. Thank God you
>are in the toilet, and going down. Hopefully, the hate-filled
>republican party will be a footnote in history in a few years.
>
>Oh, and "preapproved bidders" for Rush's letter auction? Must be
>Hannity and Savage shilling for him. I think ebay needs to
>investigate."

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

1. This is a conundrum wrapped in an enigma.

Why was the post flagged? :shrug: MKJ

on edit, LOL, BTW.

[tammywammy]

2. I would think implying that Rush is a pedophile

could easily be considered disruptive or hostile.

[cali]

4. yep. that's it in a nutshell n/t

[adigal]

5. Jeez, I thought I was just pointing out the obvious

Why else would he have to go to South America for his fun with Viagra. Seriously, I just can't fathom any other reason.

[Canuckistanian]

11. Thailand would have been too obvious

Besides, he couldn't fly his private jet there (for maximum discretion).

[tammywammy]

13. So you have proof that that's why he went there?

Please I'd like to see the link.

[adigal]

17. You tell me why he went if not for that?

Viagra
South America
Private plane
Drugs in another name.

Please.

[tammywammy]

18. Maybe he picked up a girl there

I've had plenty of friends go to the Dominican Republic and they aren't pedophiles either.

edited to add: I'd still like to see proof, not just your opinion.

[adigal]

20. I was voicing my opinion on the Hypocrite's trip

And how old are the girls your nice friends go there for???

[tammywammy]

25. I never said my friends go there for sex

Be it with adults or children, so you can stop that right now.

I find accusing anyone of pedophilia without proof to be disgusting.

[adigal]

26. You just said your friends went there for girls and then edited

it out, which I find disgusting.

[tammywammy]

33. No, I didn't

This is what I posted:

"I've had plenty of friends go to the Dominican Republic and they aren't pedophiles either.

edited to add: I'd still like to see proof, not just your opinion."


I edited my post as noted only to add the second line. Just because someone goes to the Dominican Republic doesn't mean they're pedophiles. I would never say my friends went there to have sex with children, since that would be a lie.

What I said was that Rush could have met an adult in DR. There are adult women. Maybe he went to an adult whore house. Since you seem to know so much about his sexual preferences, I'd still like you to post proof that he's an actual pedophile.

[adigal]

36. OK, now you are not being truthful - you said friends went

there for girls. I did not imagine this or make it up. Whatever.

[tammywammy]

40. Actually you did imagine it/make it up

I would never say that because it isn't true. What I edited my post was only to add in the line after "edited to add."
Notice how the edit was at the exact same time as my post, I posted the first sentence then immediately edited it to add the second sentence.

So, yeah you're making it up.

[renie408]

28. Wow, you are just full of nasty insinuations. n/t

[adigal]

31. I'm sorry - are you a big fan of Rush's so that you are

uncomfortable asking what he was doing down there with Viagra. Remember, this is the man who calls us godless and immoral every day.

[renie408]

35. Are you crazy that you jump to assumptions with no evidence?

See, I am not a fan of Rush's, but I am also not a fan of calling somebody a pedophile because they went out of the country. That is called THINKING.

You should try it.

[adigal]

39. Out of the country, with Viagra, to a country well known

for all sorts of nefarious deeds going on.

C'mon, lots of people believed this when it happened. It was spoken of freely, on blogs and by people in the "real" world. At the least, the critic of us godless liberals was having unmarried relations, while calling us immoral.

[renie408]

42. That is some fucked up logic.

Rush is an asshole, so that makes it OK to imply that he is a pedophile with zero proof?

Jesus. You oughtta think about switching sides. You would fit right in.

[Dave From Canada]

62. Maybe he thought he might hook up at a resort with someone. Because of his money, there's probably

a lot of women who throw themselves at him, as gross as that is to imagine.

[cali]

43. bwahahaha. Too funny.

and just what are you so obsessed with limbaugh? And who gives a shit what he call us? Some of actually think that throwing around unfounded allegations is stupid and unproductive. That's hardly an indication that we like limbaugh. But way to go throwing out nasty and gratuitous insults.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

12. Yes, of course. That mystery is solved.

Anyway, the post nicely mimics the RW rant style.

MKJ

[adigal]

19. Thanks! Democrats certainly need to toughen up

and speak about the truth. Just like last night, and Bush enjoying the war, and you know it is true, because the repubs are all screaming.

You can keep the white gloves on, but it hasn't served our nation too well since the Clinton impeachment, has it??? Above all, be polite. It is much more important than hatred, war and killing.

[renie408]

27. Yeah. NO. You can't call somebody a pedophile because they are a jerk.

And did I miss something? What is it about going to South America that automatically triggers your pedophile radar?

[adigal]

29. I know we have lost lots of rights, but I didn't realize free speech

was one of them.

Limbaugh was caught with Viagra, coming back from the Dominican. Why Viagra, and why the Dominican Republic??

Gotta go - nice chatting.

[tammywammy]

37. Except that your speech was censored

by a business not the government.

[adigal]

41. True, so one can choose to not do business with

that business anymore, can't one? And one can share that the free speech was censored, can't one?

[renie408]

44. I think the key word here is 'one'.

Go ahead and take your business elsewhere. I am thinking that is going to hurt you more than eBay.

[renie408]

38. You are a psycho nutjob married to a pedophile who actually LIVED in the Dominican Republic

There, I just exercised my free speech.

But SEEEE, it doesn't work that way. The right of free speech does not give you the right to make unfounded claims about other people. That would be SLANDER or, in this case since it is written, LIBEL. You don't have the right to libel someone.

And no, it hasn't been remotely nice. I feel like I need to take a shower now.

[adigal]

45. Prove it is libel - and I don't particularly care what you say

since it is so obviously untrue. I am not a psycho nut job, my husband is not a pedophile - he never went to the Dominican for a weekend with Viagra.

And if I get sued, I can say I was just kidding. Just like you just did after you said this to me too. Enjoy your shower!!

[renie408]

48. I think you forgot the 'nahney nahney boo boo' part. And I was not kidding about you being

a psycho nutjob. THAT I have proof of.

I have no way of knowing what your husband's sexual preferences are.

[adigal]

52. Why are you bothering with a psycho nutjob, then?

Go be productive with other sane enablers of the right wing.

[renie408]

53. Hold on, I have to finish IMing with Karl Rove. n/t

[Dave From Canada]

63. My "favourite", is the new phenomenon, that every asshat must be gay. Because no one straight could

possibly be that much of jerk. I've noticed that as a common theme in this forum regarding many of the right wing wackos. That secretly they're homosexual. Maybe they're just assholes, plain and simple. I know, I know, crazy thought.

[babylonsister]

3. The truth obviously hurt- - someone, who then complained. I hope lots

of people read your criticism before it was banished! :thumbsup:

[adigal]

7. I bet they got that off real fast!! The hypocrisy of

the right wingers is breathtaking.

[cali]

8. I don't see how accusing rush of pedophilia

constitutes the truth. May be, but no evidence is provided.

[adigal]

10. So, logically, why does he have to go to South America

with his Viagra? Why not use it here?

[tammywammy]

15. When did the Dominican Republic become South America?

Or are you referring to something else?

[adigal]

24. Sorry about my geography error. How is that

different?? The Dominican is known for lots of disgusting stuff going that would need Viagra. And I know because my husband lived there for 6 months and saw it.

[renie408]

32. OH MY GOD!! Your husband is a PEDOPHILE!! n/t

[adigal]

47. Slander!!! Libel!! You just slandered and libeled my husband!!

I am calling my lawyer!!

[renie408]

49. Well, hell, you are the one who said he had been to the Dominican Republic. I thought everybody knew

that was tantamount to being caught red handed with a five year old.

[mitchtv]

60. The DR has lots of beautiful resorts

and loads of beautiful people. As far as I know it is a perfectly respectable place to vacation, finest of beaches, also a good place to party and find coke(might well be his reason to visit)

[renie408]

51. When did the Dominican Republic become pedophile Central?

Or South America, for that matter?

Gee, is EVERYBODY who both takes Viagra AND goes to South America a pedophile?

[cali]

21. When did you stop beating your wife?

Do you realized how many men his age take Viagra and travel without their wives to SA? Who knows? Perhaps he was visiting adult whore houses while there, or perhaps he was meeting someone or hoped to meet a hot repuke chick at his hotel. Or, as you suggest, maybe he's a pedophile, but that's just speculation without even a shred of evidence. In any case I don't think it was SA, but the Dominican Republic.

[babylonsister]

22. You're right, though there have been rumors. But that is not evidence. nt

[adigal]

59. Google Jeff Christie n/t

[pretzel4gore]

6. ebay too?

the nazipoohs are everywhere, but for some reason i thought ebay was reflective, but apparently they only reflect the nazipoohs among us. Please keep on airing your treatment by ebay- maybe ebay should know bush is going, and limbah-humbug is gone, and knee jerk pro fascist actions like this will never be forgotten, nor forgiven

[adigal]

9. One would think ebay would want to keep Bush from destroying

the middle class, no??? Because if we go, then their business goes, too. And Limbaugh is a major enemy of the middle and lower classes.

[Speck Tater]

14. A privately owned forum can censor whomever they choose.

Don't like it? Go to a different forum to air your views.

[adigal]

16. The Republicans say terrible things on that forum

all of the time. There is not fairness there. How about all of the Democrats decide to take our business elsewhere, too? Ebay would collapse overnight, so they had better be fair to the progressives, too.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

30. Ola, mi amiga. Un momento, por favor.

Que pasa?

:shrug: MKJ

[pretzel4gore]

34. you almost sound sympathetic to limbah-humbug

that vile little man has been warring on your country (that's if you're from WSA...er USA) since the early years of reaganomics, so there's no reason to defend him even if he's wrongly accused. For example, the accusation that he, and not Cain, killed Abel the Good, is just over exhuberant fun....no malice intended, though limbah was easily capable of it, you got to admit...

[angrycarpenter]

23. Hating the right = hating America

The rational views expressed so freely here are Hate speech in the world of commerce.

[in_cog_ni_to]

46. Are the posters in the Ebay forums still a bunch of RWers?

I use to post there until I found DU.:loveya: They were truly brainwashed!

[adigal]

50. It seems like there are a few sane ones, but mostly

really radical right wingers. My post must have pushed them over the edge. I figure they will ban me soon.

[rasputin1952]

54. The thing about Limbaugh is that he is consistently hypocritical...

He has done just about everything he accuses others of doing, and then refuses to discuss his own "situations".

As Jeff Christie, he was arrested for soliciting sex from a minor male; that makes him, de facto, at least being accused of being a pedophile.Conviction, to my knowledge,did not come into the picture, but there are other instances where Limbaugh has crossed lines defending his own creepy behavior.

Two of his three former wives are said to have taken large monetary settlements to remain "quiet" about several ventures he has been involved with. Since they, so far, have remained quiet, it is hard to go after facts. But three divorces can show me one thing, he is not the "marrying kind". He speaks as though he has a deep dislike of women in general, and I find it difficult to believe he would be a "good" husband in any case. He has a rotten soul, and regardless of his preferences, women do not appear to be among them.

4Put in a nutshell, Limbaugh is simply a miserable human being. He tries to torch anyone who disagrees with him, and then cries like a two year old when caught or called on for doing the same thing. He's a five year old in a 55 year old's body.

He, like bush, has failed at everything he has attempted, with one exception. With bush it was making money off of a minor role in a Major League Baseball team, with Limbaugh, it is this thing he calls infotainment. He never expresses that he was fired from every other job he has had, to include selling hot dogs in Kansas City. If he didn't own a major portion, if not all of his show, he would have been canned long ago.

Limbaugh is just canned crap, it pays him well, and he cares not a whit about anyone but himself. I figure that in time, more will come out about his escapades, someone will talk...and it won't be pretty.

[adigal]

57. That's right, the Jeff Christie situation was a major

reason people mentioned for thinking some funny business was going on with his trip to the Dominican.

He is a sociopath, and an evil man. Last night he mocked that little 12 year old boy with the SCHIP situation, using a high voice and making fun of his plea to keep the program going. Evil. Evil. Evil.

Thanks for the reminder.

[rasputin1952]

64. I don't care about Limbaugh's sexuality per se...but I find it

particularly noxious that he has the gall to to tell others how to live their lives and his is a complete wreck.

He is indeed a sociopath, and virtually everything he says is projection on his part. her is a miserable specimen of humanity, and how he can't see that one cannot "smear" someone and not expect the same in return is beyond me. He's whining about people slashing away at him with "smears", and in the next sentence, brings out some garbage about "Dick Turban"...:wtf:

The "phony soldiers" bit, the recent attacks on kids, the attacks on Murtha, (and to think Murtha stood next to God according to Limbaugh when Murtha supported the war...:eyes: )...It is just sickening.


I truly believe he fears and loathes women, and his 3 failed marriages seem to back up my thoughts on that.

[Canuckistanian]

55. Well, it was a WEE bit inflammatory

But of course, NOTHING compared to the insults The RWers heap on us DAILY.

We all know what the score is.

But it's better to wait for actual proof before spouting one's mouth off in a private forum.

[adigal]

58. Google Jeff Christie n/t

[Canuckistanian]

61. Yes, I know about the "Jeff Christie" days

But it still resides in the "unverified" files in any serious journalist's files.

Not that I don't believe it, but I haven't seen any corroborating evidence.

I'm sort of a Limbaughologist. I've listened to him for YEARS. It's almost an obsession. He's like a massive car crash on an Interstate. You can't look away, yet you're shocked at what you see.

[Ian David]

56. eBay can go eFuck themselves. n/t