There are no plans to remove Rush Limbaugh's radio program from Armed Forces Radio Network, according to Pentagon spokesman George Little. But that hasn't stopped more than 9,000 (at this writing) people from signing an online petition to remove Limbaugh's program from taxpayer-funded airwaves, according to the Marine Corps Times.
The petition, aimed at Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and the Obama administration, reads in part:
[Limbaugh's] remarks this week were well beyond the pale of what should be broadcast to our military and their families, supported with our tax dollars.
We have a moral objection to our tax dollars being used for such a purpose.
In addition, a group of female Iraq War veterans have issued their own call to Armed Forces Radio Network to remove Limbaugh from its airwaves. Their statement reads in part:
Rush Limbaugh has a freedom of speech and can say what he wants, but in light of his horribly misogynistic comments, American Forces Radio should no longer give him a platform. Our entire military depends on troops respecting each other - women and men. There simply can be no place on military airwaves for sentiments that would undermine that respect.
