Rush Limabaugh vs. Sandra Fluke

[Obama 2012 1,714]

Anyone paying attention to this?

I find this amusing when you look at the context of the whole thing.

Looks like the left-wing media took something and ran with it once again.

[TBoneTX 45,303]

Rush will be OK, si man.

[james&olya 1,121]

Anyone paying attention to this?

I find this amusing when you look at the context of the whole thing.

Looks like the left-wing media took something and ran with it once again.

There is nothing left-wing or right-wing about it. Successful companies are about making money, not dabbling in politics. They will do what gets them customers and they have shown by their actions the widespread revulsion at Limbaugh's cruel and vile comments. Business is business!

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

I'm very surprised there is no defamation lawsuit. If someone called me a prostitute I certainly would sue.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

There is nothing left-wing or right-wing about it. Successful companies are about making money, not dabbling in politics. They will do what gets them customers and they have shown by their actions the widespread revulsion at Limbaugh's cruel and vile comments. Business is business!

how were they cruel? Have you READ the transcripts as related to her testimony?

There's nothing cruel here at all.

I'm very surprised there is no defamation lawsuit. If someone called me a prostitute I certainly would sue.

Again, have you read the transcripts?

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

how were they cruel? Have you READ the transcripts as related to her testimony?

There's nothing cruel here at all.

Again, have you read the transcripts?

Show me in her transcripts where she states she receives money for sex.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/02/29/butt_sisters_are_safe_from_newt_and_rick

RUSH: All the way back in the late 1960s, maybe '70 or early '70. That's The Jimmy Castor Bunch, The Troglodytes, and... (interruption) He died a few weeks ago? I did not know that. I had not heard that. What about The Bunch? The Bunch is still around, but Jimmy Castor passed away. Well, that's where the Butt Sisters were born, Bertha Butt and her sisters. And it all happened on January 7th, New Hampshire. That that you just heard -- that image of Republicans -- was born, once again, on January 7th. And that image has been burnished and it has been flourishing ever since. And since that time, President Obama has mandated that the Pope give away birth control pills and practically perform abortions. (interruption)

I know. I said "practically" that the Pope give away birth control pills and perform abortions. "Practically," I said. It's what I said! There have been congressional hearings on whether or not the president has the right to mandate such things -- and he does not. He's violating the Constitution -- and in those congressional hearings, women ran out, claiming they were not allowed to speak as the Republicans, led by Darrell Issa, wanted to take away their pills. Which nobody has ever said, since January 7th, they wanted to do. The Butt Sisters are safe. And then there is this story from the Cybercast News Service. Here's it is. February 29th, Leap Day:

"A Georgetown co-ed told Rep. Nancy Pelosi's hearing that the women in her law school program are having so much sex that they're going broke, so you and I should pay for their birth control. Speaking at a hearing held by Pelosi to tout Pres. Obama's mandate that virtually every health insurance plan cover the full cost of contraception and abortion-inducing products, Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke said that it's too expensive to have sex in law school without mandated insurance coverage. Apparently, four out of every ten co-eds are having so much sex that it's hard to make ends meet if they have to pay for their own contraception, Fluke's research shows."

Can you imagine if you're her parents how proud of Sandra Fluke you would be? Your daughter goes up to a congressional hearing conducted by the Botox-filled Nancy Pelosi and testifies she's having so much sex she can't afford her own birth control pills and she agrees that Obama should provide them, or the Pope. "'Forty percent of the female students at Georgetown Law reported to us that they struggled financially as a result of this policy (Georgetown student insurance not covering contraception), Fluke reported. It costs a female student $3,000 to have protected sex over the course of her three-year stint in law school, according to her calculations.

"'Without insurance coverage, contraception, as you know, can cost a woman over $3,000 during law school,' Fluke told the hearing. $3,000 for birth control in three years? That's a thousand dollars a year of sex -- and, she wants us to pay for it." All of this just since January 7th. Just since January 7th. You guys who are thinking you're not gonna go to college? Let me just say one thing to you: Georgetown. They're admitting before congressional committee that they're having so much sex they can't afford the birth control pills! That's all you gotta come up with. And all of this is the Republicans' fault. Sandra Fluke, one of the Butt Sisters, is being dragged out of law school by the hair. Wait 'til Rick Santorum hears about this. Wait 'til Gingrich hears about this! What do you think they'll do? They'll put a stop to this right away! They'll head over that university and they'll stop it!

They'll spy on Sandra Fluke and interrupt her in mid-coitus, and then they'll make 'em get married.

They'll make 'em get married and then make 'em have those babies and make 'em have 10,000 babies and then stay home...

Listening to The Troglodytes by The Jimmy Castor Bunch!

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RUSH: What does it say about the college co-ed Sandra Fluke, who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex, what does that make her? It makes her a #######, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She's having so much sex she can't afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex. What does that make us? We're the pimps. (interruption) The johns? We would be the johns? No! We're not the johns. (interruption) Yeah, that's right. Pimp's not the right word. Okay, so she's not a #######. She's "round heeled." I take it back.

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RUSH: Well, I guess now we know why Bill Clinton went to Georgetown and why Hillary went to Wellesley. Well, all the sex going on at Georgetown. Sandra Fluke. So much sex going on, they can't afford birth control pills. She said that to Nancy Pelosi yesterday. Pelosi probably said, "Have you heard what Botox costs? I can relate!"

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[SMOKE 1,426]

Anyone paying attention to this?

nope. too busy watching the new paint in garage dry.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

Show me in her transcripts where she states she receives money for sex.

Read his comments.

He's calling her a prostitute for wanting the taxpayers to pay for her contraception. It's called making a point using entertainment. Anyone who's ever listened to Rush knows this.

He's making the point that if taxpayers are footing the bill, then we are the pimps and they're the prostitutes. It's an overbloated statement to make a bigger point.

Her testimony made it sound like these girls had no choice but to spend $3,000 in their college term and they were hurting because of it, etc...

[james&olya 1,121]

how were they cruel? Have you READ the transcripts as related to her testimony?

There's nothing cruel here at all.

Again, have you read the transcripts?

I am not saying anything about her testimony and how she was treated there. We are talking about Rush Limbaugh's slanderous, vile, and obscene attacks on this woman. There can be no justification for such nastiness, especially when it appears to be motivated purely by partisan politics and playing to the RWNJ tea party fringe!

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

Read his comments.

He's calling her a prostitute for wanting the taxpayers to pay for her contraception. It's called making a point using entertainment. Anyone who's ever listened to Rush knows this.

He's making the point that if taxpayers are footing the bill, then we are the pimps and they're the prostitutes. It's an overbloated statement to make a bigger point.

Her testimony made it sound like these girls had no choice but to spend $3,000 in their college term and they were hurting because of it, etc...

Except the logic he uses makes no sense. How can the tax payers paying for contraception turn her into a prostitute.

Edited March 5, 2012 by Sousuke

[Obama 2012 1,714]

I am not saying anything about her testimony and how she was treated there. We are talking about Rush Limbaugh's slanderous, vile, and obscene attacks on this woman. There can be no justification for such nastiness, especially when it appears to be motivated purely by partisan politics and playing to the RWNJ tea party fringe!

you do realize that her testimony was partisan politics as well, right?

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

Read his comments.

He's calling her a prostitute for wanting the taxpayers to pay for her contraception. It's called making a point using

She wants her employerto pay for her contraception via her health insurance policy.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

Except the logic he uses makes no sense. How can the tax payers paying for contraception turn her into a prostitute.

It's a damn entertainment/shock statement making a bigger point and he's actually right.

If the taxpayers are footing the bill so she can have sex the way she wants to, then she's earning money to have said sex, and is a prostitute!

[james&olya 1,121]

Read his comments.

He's calling her a prostitute for wanting the taxpayers to pay for her contraception. It's called making a point using entertainment. Anyone who's ever listened to Rush knows this.

He's making the point that if taxpayers are footing the bill, then we are the pimps and they're the prostitutes. It's an overbloated statement to make a bigger point.

Her testimony made it sound like these girls had no choice but to spend $3,000 in their college term and they were hurting because of it, etc...

So you are 'entertained' by this vile slander? Overbloated doesn't begin to describe it!

Her testimony was about a friend that was taking these medications for a specific medical problem, not for contraception. Though I would not feel any differently about Limbaugh's comments if the issue were only contraception.

And a point you and many others may have have missed along the way. Paying for contraceptives is much cheaper for the insurance company and the tax-payer than paying for costs associated with pregnancy and child-birth! The underlying controversy really is more about the catholic church attempting to use the power of government to force compliance with their moral code when they have been unable to get their own parishioners to toe the line otherwise.