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Subscribe to RSSHouse Speaker John Boehner distanced himself on Friday from Rush Limbaugh, calling the conservative radio host's words toward a women's rights advocate "inappropriate."
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House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, talks about a lunch meeting with President Obama to deal with rising gasoline prices, at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 29, 2012.
Amid a growing media firestorm over comments Wednesday by Limbaugh toward Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown Law student who testified before a Democratic panel on the use of contraception, Washington's top Republicans said through a spokesman that Limbaugh was wrong.
"The speaker obviously believes the use of those words was inappropriate, as is trying to raise money off the situation," Boehner spokesman Michael Steel said in a statement.
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The comment refers to Democratic fundraising efforts related to Limbaugh's comments, in which he called Fluke a "slut." Fluke had been asked to testify about the policy of Georgetown University, a Catholic college, toward covering contraception for students. Her testimony came amid a controversy in Washington in recent weeks regarding the extent to which religious institutions should be required to cover contraceptive services as part of their insurance policies, despite moral objectives to contraception.
"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," Limbaugh said on his show. "What does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute."
His comments quickly became political fodder for House Democrats, whose leader, California Rep. Nancy Pelosi, decried Limbaugh's comments as "outside the circle of civilized discussion and that unmask the strong disrespect for women held by some in this country." The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee additionally sought donations as a result of the outrage.
"I think my reaction was the reaction that a lot of women have had when, historically, they've been called these types of names and that really I think ... and that was initially, to be stunned by it, but then to quickly feel outraged and very upset by it," Fluke said about Limbaugh's remarks Friday on the TODAY show.
Sandra Fluke, the birth control activist called a "slut" and "prostitute" by conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh, talks to TODAY's Matt Lauer about Limbaugh's comments and the failure of a GOP-sponsored amendment that would have allowed employers to opt out of providing contraception in health plans.
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Well, Rush wins again.
You people don't get it and you never will.
Talk about free advertising for his show.
Rush has a radio show. His job is to get people to listen. You all are so easy to tweak, it's pathetic.
If you think that his sponsors are going to give up 20 million listeners a week, en masse, your nuts.
Foor every one that may leave, and there won't be many, 5 more are standing in line witing to take their place.
Rushs' listeners are educated conservatives with money to spend. The kind of people Corporations tend to like.
So by calling a woman a 'slut', that was an appeal to my logical side?
What kind of people enjoy listening to the hate filled filth that comes out of Limpballs pie hole?
Wait... I know... misogynists like WCA who want to keep a boot on the neck of women!
The excuses for this POS are beyond amazing!
I enjoy Rush and will continue to listen! While Susan Flake is an idiot, he might of used different words... but hope he doesn't back down.
You only need to hear her remarks to understand what Rush is referring to.... 'slut'- maybe not, 'bimbo'- most certainly!
"You all are so easy to tweak, it's pathetic."
LOL... getting attention by calling someone he doesn't even know (or even any details about her personal life) a slut isn't going to make me want to watch his show. He's an uneducated fat blowhard who spouts nonsense have the time. Doctor shopping, pill popping... dirtbag.
"While Susan Flake is an idiot"
Why do you call her that? For supporting birth control and that insurance pays for it? I wonder if you republicans would rather pay for an unwanted child if someone did not use birth control. We thought you hated welfare.
Is it just that you want all babies born even the ones that are unexpected and possibly not wanted? Aren't there enough people on the planet for you already?
Contraception...pills/condoms are far less expensive than a baby.
No, Obama wins again.. but you knew that
Why is the right not outraged over erectile dysfunction medicines being covered by health care programs? Why is the right not outraged over the barrage of advertising for these products daily? No mention from any of the holier than thou righties about this license to have sex when obviously your body is saying no. Why doesn't the man just put the Viagra pill between his legs and deal with it. Now that is a visual I don't want to imagine.
God bless this country and the freedom of choice. You may enjoy Rush. You may also enjoy picking your boogers and eating them. They are intellectual equivalents. Neither are something I indulge in.
Please don't take my opinion personal. It would be amusingly ironic if you did.
RL represents everything that divides us. He's like a 7th grader with a microphone. I don't understand why so many follow him.....but then, there's a lot of people out there that act like 7th graders.
All this stunt did was reinforce the fact that Rush is part of a dying breed. To demean women because you have different beliefs is petty and will only hurt him in the long run. Not to mention upset many potential women voters this year...
It'll be a good day when Rush retires.
Well Patrick, I'm guessing you know very little about Rush.
Because if you think you can "watch" his show, you're going to get kind of tired of staring at your radio.
So tell me where and how you were able to form that opinion of him.
Is it from "Watching" his radio show?
Only idiots listen to this blowhard, his listeners are racists, rednecks and common white trash.
Any other spineless members of the GOP leadership going to step up and denounce this fat ass that spews santorum from his mouth.
crickets and more crickets
You didn't answer my question WCA.
If his viewers are so educated, why does he need to use derogatory remarks to elicit an emotional response? He should just be able to appeal to their logic, correct?
@White Collar Auto
it may be free advertising, but this is how it starts.
remember glenn beck's comments on fox and friends that ultimately made fox news to actually subsidize and lose money on his show?
kind of the same thing happened to karen handel at komen.
sure, any press is good press, i suppose, but limbaugh is a charlatan who makes money out of destroying our political dialog. i dont begrudge him, of course not. he, like many of his conservative pundit friends, believe in free market. and the idea behind a free market is making money. laws, ethics, morals, doing the right thing are hardly part of the equation.
but in the words of limbaugh, hypocrisy is a good thing because it lets you know that there are still rules that people expect to be followed. just, you know, not him.
Are you sure Rush wasn't talking about carrot top? She's been known to frequent truck stops for 'complimentary' boilermakers in the past?
miked-332794,
How does testifying about medical care for ovarian cysts and endometriosis make someone an idiot?
Tell your story to Don Imas. He got fired for "remarks", remember?
Or keels over...
Nothing to add to the conversation; certainly not taking a stand on behalf of Mr. Limbaugh ... so, sniping for sport?
For the sake of argument.
Ruken, he is in the business of controversial topics, that's why. He utters a single word and has you and the rest of the left heads exploding.
Why do you all give him the power to upset you so much?
Tell you what, at the end of the day, come back to this thread and see how many comments are on it compared to the rest of todays "Serious" threads.
For a group of people that have posted here many times that Rush is irrelevant, it sure doesn't seem that way today.
Rush is a bimbo ... as are the people who listen to him so if the shoe fits, wear it. Educated trailer trash? ... hmmm interesting concept
Only a Republican would stand in line for something that is free. For every 1 Rush Junkie and there are many... there are 100 that hate him, so Rush loses again if you ask me.
The only reason Rush is on loan from God as he claims is because even God can't stand him.
You skirted the question. One would usually think that talking about controversial topics would imply the use of real facts to assert one's claim.
Rush just decided it was more effective to use derogatory remarks.
So I say again, if his audience is so educated that they'd respond better to facts, why did he need to use inflammatory remarks to make his point?
Rush is very good at what he does! You only need to see the libbies get in a hissy fit like they are now to prove that point.
Thanks Rush..... keep on giving the liberals wedgies like you have for so many years! lmao!
People are now talking about Rush, a radio talk show host. He has definately secured is job for years. A radio show nobody talks about is the one no one listens to.
I don't know why Boehner or any other Republican has to say anything about it other than if you don't like it you can turn the radio off! The country is still a free country, I turned off the State of my campaign speach by Obama, are liberals just too lazy to hit the off button on their radio?
No YSJW, just pointing out that Patrick seems to have formed an opinion of Rush Limbaugh without ever having listened to his radio show.
Surely you can see a problem with that?
This is the Limbaugh Meme: Say something incendiary, and after a tsunami of criticism, pretend you were deliberately tweaking liberals and the press, and that you weren't really serious, and wink wink your listeners "get it" and everyone else is just thin-skinned and/or stupid.
It's old, it's tired, and it's over. Limbaugh is the Father Coughlin of our time, and he shall go down in history as the villain he is.
I'm sorry lol Rush Limbaugh appeals to someone educated? No his appeal is to blue collar republicans that love to raise hell. It always has been.
The same kind of intellectually challenged and hate filled people that give you high fives for your hate filled posts here on newsvine.
At least one sponsor has jumped off the crazy train, White collar.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/02/rush-limbaugh-sleep-train-sandra-fluke-slut_n_1315900.html
"If you think that his sponsors are going to give up 20 million listeners a week, en masse, your nuts." Were you talking about legumes?
A boot on the neck of women - hahahahaha
Maybe you should spend your extra time in life you have for outrage on how Islam treats its women - and try to encourage an American policy with some balls that would do something about that, instead of wasting your time on manufactured issues and false outrage. As others have noted Limbaugh needs ears - thats how he makes a living. He has ZERO policy making authority and calling people who listen names is not going to get you what you want, whatever the heck it is.
As a conservative I can tell you one thing - I do not care what you do with your body. Ok? Thats it. You can screw like a rabbit, or be celibate, I simply do not care. That said - you don't pay for my fancy tequila which is how I deal with my stress at the end of the week, so why should I pay for your DECISION or YOUR body? You want an abortion - ok fine. Go get one. As a conservative I don't care - it should be legal. You should understand and be able to deal with the emotional consequences of doing that. If not - I don't want to pay for your stupid therapy either.
Most conservatives find this issue, like that of 'gay' marriage, tiresome. STFU about it already, No one wants to make your abortions or your birth control pills illegal; we just don't want to pay for your sexual choices. Fair enough? Its not about YOUR vagina, its about my wallet. . .
Sorry for the double post I posted to the wrong spot.
WCA Rush did democrats a huge favor, this young lady was on the today show and the money is pouring in to democrats, the image of such a smart, nice young lady being called a slut by the mouthpiece of the republican party has got women of all ages outraged, not to mention protective dads, and grandads. Rush just iced the cake with regard to the republicans respect for women and issues that directly affect them. What a political gift from Rush to democratic candidates across the board, thanks Rush keep up the good work.
I'm waiting for the same "outrage" with regards to Julian Assange......oops, I mean Bill Maher....same same
Post #1 hits the nail on the head......congrats looney libs, you just made Rush buttloads more money!!!....lol
****popcorn****?????
It's because Rush is an outspoken Conservative, and the incumbents don't want to be affiliated with someone who makes these remarks.
It's actually better for their campaigns if they do this.
There's a big difference between "inappropriate" and "unacceptable".
But the GOP just doesn't get it.
They're gonna get it, though.
Only 249 days to November 6.
I read Susan Flakes comments and so did my daughter (both in college). We all agreed her comments did invite ridicule, Rush just may have taken it a tad to far. But what he said pales in comparison to the remarks at FR about Breibart's death yesterday... shameful!
If there are more people that means more money to the 1% they make money is so many different ways you could not imagine, they even make money if We take a crap ...........
Thank you for the gift, Rush!
Never thought you cared so much.
OBAMA
BIDEN
2012
What would your wallet rather pay for? The birth control or the children that spawn without it?
Because one of the two is going to happen. One of those choices is also vastly cheaper.
Seems odd that nobody has brought up the fact that a huge percentage of women that use birth control are married! Guess wing-nut women don't according to Rush-like advocates. Guess they have to stay barefoot and pregnant or they'll be damned to hell for eternity (or at least until their husband is gone).
That is a point. All his hate mongering does get him a lot of free advertising. It doesn't change the fact that he's a disgusting hate filled windbag who deserves to be Santorumed all over
Comanchedriver, do you pay for other peoples health insurance? You certainly do not contribute a red cent to mine. Don't pretend to worry about what you pay for, when you don't pay for it anyway.
Here is a list of advertisers for the Oxycontin addicted bull@!$%# artist;
Pro Flowers
Sleep Train
Domino's Pizza
Lending Tree
Life Quotes
e-Harmony
OnStar
Hotwire Corporate Headquarters
CARBONITE, Inc.
Select Comfort
The Neptune Society of Northern California
Oreck Corporation
Mid-West Life Insurance Co. Tennessee
AutoZone Inc.
Mission Pharmacal (Citrical)
LegalZoom
Blue-Emu
Citrix Online (GoToMyPC)
American Forces Network
Thanks, Feisty - I was wondering who the enablers are for Lardbag. Guess I'll have to let AutoZone know I'm not gonna be picking up those parts this weekend after all.
The GOP has a bad case of electile dysfunction.
And it's getting worse by the day.
Rush doesn't care ....
His wallet is fat ....
Obama / Biden out in 2012 ....
"What kind of people enjoy listening to the hate filled filth that comes out of Limpballs pie hole?"
Republicans.....
Sh*tty pizza supporting a sh*tty radio host. Now there's a surprise.
WCA is typical of the type of people who listen to Limbaugh and watch Hannity, O'Reilly and Beck on Fox News. They are mainly uneducated, ignorant, gullible and misinformed mob-think rabble. These are people who need to be told what to think, because they can't do it for themselves.
Such mindless people are easy prey for the propagandists who spread disgusting lies about opposing candidates, and work them into a froth of fervor against any progressive programs that may benefit the citizens of the country because it might require them to pitch in and help somebody.
These people have been around for a long, long time. They were the rabble who called for Barabas the murderer to be released and let Jesus Christ die on the cross. In our time, Rush Limbaugh is their leader.
Thanks for the list, Fiesty. That is a pretty easy list of companies to boycott. Autozone might the tough one, but I'll manage. The rest - piece of cake.
You contention is basically semantics? I stand by my question ...
You don't seem to have a supportive stance for Mr. Limbaugh. Why are you here (in the particular thread), if NOT to be sniping?
At least Mr. Limbaugh can use the excuse of how well it pays. For you, well ... it just smacks of a desperate need for attention.
Comanche,
Fine, so I guess you believe that any prescription medication having to do with "what you do with your body" is fair game for insurers to refuse to cover? Like Viagra and Cialis, also having to do with "what you do with your body." Tit for tat. So to speak.
And where does the "you don't pay -- I don't pay" argument come from exactly? You don't pay my insurance premiums and I don't pay yours.
As for Rush, in addition to being a talk show host, he is the opinion leader of the Republican Party. Reps are afraid of him and kowtow to him, the recent past is littered with those who called him on his outrageous behavior and then had to kneel down and recant.
And, just like marriage equality, this is NOT a manufactured issue. It is one that appeals to a certain segment of the population and is used to drive the way they vote. I'm with you, though in that I think we agree that the country should be discussing real issues, not birth control.
real (1.35) -- question for you please.
above your post is one from News For Dumb FUX (1.1) that says:
Or keels over...
is her statement about a human being dying either "inappropriate" or "unacceptable"?
Exactly. But being pissed off about not getting free @!$%# just doesn't stir up the emotions like throwing around "war on womens rights" "anti-abortion republicans" etc etc ad nauseum
People need to stop getting their knickers in a twist over what a hypocritical, drug addicted, loud mouth has to say....he is like a two year old throwing a tantrum, the more attention you pay to him the more he acts out...and he has the right to speak his mind, he is just playing everyone who gets all upset over his comments.
Q. What's the difference between Rush Limbaugh and the Hindenburg?
A. One is a flaming Nazi gasbag and the other was a dirigible.
Rush said out loud what Republicans believe: Any unmarried woman who needs birth control is a slut. The GOP believes that every woman should be a virgin on her wedding day and that married women don't need birth control because they should be having babies. That's what the birth control controversy is all about.
Like the dear, recently departed Mr. Breitbart, Mr. Limburger is mosly a grown-up kid who stomps in mud-puddles and glories in covering everyone else with s---.
I can't possibly think less of Limburger and his followers - the term "dittohead" calls to mind someone who has not thought about what's been said(and maybe not about much else either).
Some people wouldn't define him as a human being.
The goal is to get him off the air. I do not use anything from his sponsors already nor do I listen to his show. But I can write to all my Washington and state congressmen and the radio stations in my state that carry his show and let them know I consider him to be destructive to all women and all sensible people in the USA.
Ruken,
"So by calling a woman a 'slut', that was an appeal to my logical side?"
I agree. I don't see any logical connection between a woman's advocating contraception and being a slut. Don't married women also use contraception?
TITILLATING, sensational, irreverent rants by Rush Limbaugh add NOTHING to productive commentary.
It's totally appropriate - prescription drug overdoses are up in this country.
The POS could always grab a cold one with his Oxycontin and take a nice hot bath!
Get your Elected Representative to press charges against Rush for Slandering a Federal witness. We have witness protecton laws in this country. I am not a Lawyer but Rush has gone over the edge by attacking a Federal Witness.
Uh huh. Highly educated conservatives who have nothing else to do but sit and listen to AM radio all day.
Feisty Redhead Roselle, IL
Or keels over...
Weebles wobble but they don't fall down...
Well to be honest, I was more referring to how it's like people using the N-word to describe African Americans or the F-word to describe male homosexuals aren't exactly using logic. They're basically trying to stir up hate.
Feisty Redhead Roselle, IL - The uneducated kind. The man is an embarrassment to humanity.
I know a great number of Rush fans; they are neither of those things.
idiot was inappropriat Miked, but otherwise I agree with you!
"Inappropriate"? Really, Boehner? How about low down, disgusting, vile, evil, etc., etc. Boehner is the weakest Speaker in history. He bows to him masters and drinks till his nose is too red.
I hope Ms. Fluke has a shark for a lawyer who sues his fat white ass off!
Isn't Limbo the guy who was busted re-entering the country after a social visit to the Dominican Republic with somebody's else's prescription for viagra? What does that make him?
I'll give Boehner credit for at least saying something. His statement lacks a strong message however.
Well, how about hearing from a WOMAN who is a Conserative, who listens to Rush, and who is tired of PAYING FOR EVERYTHING FOR EVERYBODY IN THIS COUNTRY!!! If this young lady can afford to go to Georgetown's Law School in the first place, then she can do like I had to do when I was growing up and going to college and like all of my friends had to do when they were going to college if they were not married already. GO TO THE DOCTOR OR THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT AND GET A PRESCRIPTION AND PAY FOR IT YOUR SELF!!!!! You have Planned Parenthood now, go there and get it!! I know that they are GIVING IT AWAY FREE to the 6th GRADERS out in CALIFORNIA where my daughter lives!! So I'm sure she can get it for free!!!!
I am disabled now because of an accident at my last place of employment, which was the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT!!! I HAVE TO FIGHT TOOTH AND NAIL JUST TO GET MY BENEFITS THROUGH WORKERS COMP. So please, STOP WHINING about wanting CONTRACEPTIVES for FREE. As a matter of fact, go to the drug store and buy a pack of CONDOMS and keep them in your purse. They work pretty good and their cost is minimal, I'm sure you can find enough aluminum cans to recycle to get the money to purchase them and that way you'll be doing 2 things to help this country. One, you'll be recycling and 2 you'll be keeping our deficit down by the Government not having to fund your free contraceptives!
Rush limpbags is a tool of the right wingers who panders to the lowest common denominator of American society. He is a misogynist, racist, liar, drug addict, hypocrite and fool. Anyone who listens to him lacks the ability to think critically and probably votes against there own best interests. I have listened to him before and he adds NOTHING to the national discourse other than hatred and partisanship which destroys this country. He takes his orders from those who would like to see this country become a test case for a modern feudal society where the wealthy own most of it and treat the middle class like indentured servants.
AMF rush limpbag sheeple
That's a beautiful example of how some on the left process information then turn around and spew the same @!$%#.
hyp·o·crite
/ˈhɪpəkrɪt/ Show Spelled[hip-uh-krit] Show IPA
noun
1.
a person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess, especially a person whose actions belie stated beliefs.
2.
a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, especially one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.
I agree - he evidently wanted to draw attention to his show.. What better way to advertise than say something provocative and inflammatory. Unfortunately, there is no way to prevent people from responding to something so degrading so this tactic will almost always work....
comanchedriver
HA,HA... I love it. " It's not about your vagina, it's about my wallet." I'm going to make it a bumper sticker. with your permission.
Comanchedriver
"No one wants to make your abortions or your birth control pills illegal; we just don't want to pay for your sexual choices. Fair enough? Its not about YOUR vagina, its about my wallet. . ."
Let me explain how insurance works. first it is not paid for with tax dollars. second you don't pay for my insurance. I pay for it. As a student I pay for it through my tuition, and an employee I pay for it with my labor, it is part of my pay. Same as you.
Now comes the tricky part. We all pay for each others medical care. that is how insurance works. we make an agreement when we buy insurance to subsidize everyone else's medical costs in return they subsidize ours. The insurance company's hope is that not everyone has medical needs at the same time. so I expect you to subsidize my wifes birth control pills and I will subsidize your life saving liver transplant.
It would really be nice if you would learn the facts and think for yourself and stop just following the propaganda of the right wing. It would be nice to have intelligent discourse, instead of having to disput halfbaked comments.
Sweet!
Cannonballer figured out how to use a dictionary!
Gold star for you little dude!
At least someone is taking the first step towards an education! ☺
This is ridiculous. Why is it SO HARD to just call it what it is? The girl wants to sleep around with multiple partners AND have the government subsidize it. Anyone would call that being a SLUT. Here is another news flash. Most people think that behaviour is WRONG and doesnt lead to healthy,lasting relationships, male or female.
To Comanchedriver. I agree that we should be talking about other issues. However it's almost always conservatives that bring these issues up.
I don't want to pay for disease's and injury's caused by obesity, cigarette smoking, drug use, and drinking... I certainly don't want to pay for any problems caused by self medicating with fancy tequila.
I've listened to Rush Limbaugh for over 40 years - mostly because I have family members who insist on listening to him, or he is on before or after a ballgame. He is a Sophist - his arguments only use the facts that benefit his own point of view. He is not intellectually sharp - he often contradicts himself within the same show. He is an ELITIST - insulting not only women, but people of every race, religion, and educational background - they exist for him to make himself sound smart and important. This is the mindset of people who listen to his program - and that's why so many uneducated and unemployed people listen to his garbage - it gives them a narrative that makes them feel better about themselves because they believe what he does.
If this were any other radio personality - these comments would have gotten him a one way ticket off the air. People shouldn't just turn him off or ignore him - they should e-mail every company that advertises on his program and ask them if his attitude towards women is shared by their company, and tell them that they will no longer do business with them.
It has nothing to do with your wallet unless you pay for her health insurance. How about this for a bumber sticker "I want smaller government, small enough to fit in your vagina and govern from there"
A similar statement could be said about your posts Redhead. Just sayin....
Is it hard to breathe up there on that hypocrite pedistal?
Dont, Boehner and some other GOP reps are always going to Limbaugh for advice, so what does that show of their leadership.
Hey, ScoMata:
Great comment! The mouths outraged at Rush here are the same mouths that daily spew ugly, foul, hateful crap at Limbaugh and conservatives in general on this and similar sites. They can dish it out anytime, but can't take it worth a damn.
Fantom -- Didn't realize they listened. So if true they are not leaders at all. My mistake. It's frightening to think they listen to this guy! Yikes.
Limpballs is an idiot of the highest magnitude... the virulent kind that not only is stupid and disrespectful but also spreads hate and ignorance like a virus. Shame on him, an obese pig addicted to drugs has a lot of gall to call someone a slut for taking birth control!
Did I miss something? Did republicans make that Italian cruise ship captain the head of the RNC.
lol, hey White Collar, get a clue. The Democrats are going to use this for fundraising - that's exactly why Boehner said he thought it was inappropriate to use this to raise money. Pelosi loves it when he makes inflammatory comments - it simply drives people away from the Republican party since it makes it easy to paint them as extremists. "Easy to tweak", lol...
Comanchedriver
NO... it's not fair... because we all PAY FOR YOU!
I can tell by your picture that you are overweight. Obesity is the leading cause of rising medical costs and it is a lifestyle choice. Why do we have to PAY for YOUR lifestyle choice?
You look like you have kids, which WE helped PAY for. Having children is a choice. Why do we have to pay for YOUR CHOICE?
It's not about your fat stomach or your worthless kids... its about MY WALLET. So why the f*** do I have to pay for your fat medical problems and kids? It was your choice to live that life.
This is what it all comes down to, paying indirectly through insurance plans for the choices of someone else. If YOU don't have to pay for birth control, then WE don't have to pay for your medical problems associated with weight gain or having kids. Your problems are not my responsibility.
DCIA,
As Forrest said earlier in his post, this it the nail in the coffin of the tea party(formerly known as the GOP).
Rush as their spokesperson on am radio is revealing what they will do to promote their agenda.
I hope the young woman and her family sue him.
I hope all his sponsors cancel their advertising. I will boycott their products. I will write my Congresswoman and Senators.
As a woman I will not be silent when it comes to woman baiting, surrlious remarks just to make a poliical point.
Am reposting the collapsed comment above. I am really not sure what it takes to have a comment collapsed and maybe this will be collapsed but while I detest Rush and his ilk, I have to agree with the comment and would have posted one similar as I do understand that it's only SHOW BUSINESS. And this is the show business that millions of Americans clamor to listen too. I think I even saw a reality TV program where there is a process server going around serving eviction notices to forclosed on homeowners. Forget the likes of intelligent TV and radio programming, sponsers don't want to pay for it and the communcations companies want to put anything worth while on pay cable or computer servers and starve PBS and call it anti American. I can even believe that Rush probably calls up his other outrageous TV and radio buddies, like Stern, and says something like, "hey did do see the ratings when I called that woman a slut? I think I might even get a $100,000.00 bonus this week if I calculated the terms of my contract right. How about you, are you getting any attention. If not I have some ideas of how you can really ruffle some feathers and send your income into the stratosphere. I admit I actually listened to Rush a few times around 1995, but I got the message really quick that it was not worth using the electric to hear him and haven't since. If others did the same he would be gone. But like the 1st post said, this IS what the public wants and they are getting it. It's just that simple.
Northstar -- Well said. I concur and will do what I can as well. Girl power at it's finest. ; )
NorthstarDFL and Dont_carry_it_all
There is a Boycott Rush page on facebook, as well as a link to a petition towards his advertisers. One has already pulled from his program. Sign it so we can send this hypocrite packing.
THANK YOU, Boehner. Rush Limbaugh is a loser. The people who like to associate themselves with him are losers and faux conservatives.
There is nothing wrong with conservatism. What FIRST READ will show you, however, is a bunch of people who like to represent themselves as conservatives and liberals, and are really just sociopaths. Look at the spew on this page, demonizing the opposition and all that matters is you can see a bunch of hateful people more like each other in their hate than anyone who is a thinking liberal or conservative.
I don't consider angry posts from ecoterrorists liberals. The only people who like to call ecoterrorists liberals are the people who are ecoterrorists themselves and conservatives who like to paint them as such for their own benefit.
Rush is a skank, like Lindsey Lohan. He's actually not a conservative. He's just a person who tells people to go to jail for abusing perscription drugs, all while abusing those drugs himself. He's an ass and makes money off of people too stupid to separate him from conservatives. If you like to associate yourself with that, you just go right ahead. Meanwhile, people with brains are already moving on from this.
by the 'logic' exhibited by WAC and Pride and Joy,
Feisty must really be on a roll, eh? I mean she types it and you all rush to collapse her,...
Keep up the good work, Feisty. Congrats on eliciting such passion!
remember everybody, BOYCOTT RUSH!
write e-mails to all of the companies that advertise on his show telling them how you refuse to use their products/services as long as they advertise on this drug-addict idiots show.
just look at what the right-wing christian taliban groups have been successful in killing when something doesn't fit their agenda of religious conquest and suppression of dissent
It's real simple, how many women if some jerk called you, or your daughter a slut, would expect your husband to punch him in the nose, any man that has a set, should get between the republican party and their wives and daughters right quick because it's go time!
I remember years ago when Rush Limpbag was just getting into radio and was at a station in Sacramento Ca. The station had billboards that read " Now there's an airbag for your cars radio... Rush Limbaugh at 2:00 PM!" Sadly nothing's changed in 30 or so years. I too know many people who listen to his show. To a man they are uneducated, ignorant, racist, and have low paying jobs. Listening to the fools on here stating they are somehow paying for this woman's health insurance just proves my point.
I am a moderate republican and I will not listen to Rush Limbaugh's program any more than I would listen to Howard Stern's. They are both cut from the same shock jock cloth.
White Collar Auto.......you said:
Rush Limbaugh is a prominent leader within the GOPeaParty. He even gives you folks your marching orders (i.e. Operation Chaos in 2008). Therefore, Rush Limbaugh is a proxy for the GOPeaParty. This situation will persist unless and until the majority within the GOPeaParty either stop listening to and/or agreeing with his outrageous comments and flawed observations.
So, whether you like it or not, Rush Limbaugh has become symbolic of your party. His belligerent, bigoted, arrogant, sexist, neo-fascist, amoral character is now firmly associated with your GOPeaParty.
We (democrats) feel about Limbaugh much as a prosecutor feels about a serially convicted felon brought forth as a character witness for the defense. We despise him, of course. But, we are happy he is proffered because his obviously vile nature serves OUR case.
You also said:
Actually White Collar Auto, it is YOU who does not "get it". Rush Limbaugh is a liability for the GOPeaParty. We (democrats) understand and exploit that. You folks stumble on wondering why a growing majority views your party and its mascots with disdain and even contempt.
But, here is an opportunity for you to disassociate YOURself from Limbaugh's self-serving remarks. Please, tell us now if you agree with Limbaugh's characterization of Ms. Fluke.
BTW---All the good news regarding our domestic automobile industry must be difficult for you to bear. No doubt this is particularly irksome since it comes after (and because) your incompetent generation was shown the door (by President Obama).
I'll tell you what Ian. Why don't you go through every one of my posts here and tell me if I supported his comments or not.
Maybe you'll learn something.
WHAT???? Boehner did not bow down to his ideological leader, the self-professed physician of conservative medicine and indoctrination??????? The earth must have just shifted another 2 degrees off of its axis.
White Collar Auto: He's already lost one sponsor/advertiser and is about ready to lose the second one (ProFlowers). Faux News and Limbaugh are just NOT that important and have a limited amount of listeners....it's not like it's a MAJOR radio station....I mean, really???
I AM A REPUBLICAN, and a conservative, and a middle aged white guy, any my wife is a homemaker raising our planned children, and neither my wife nor I were virgins when we married, and all the other things that are strikes against me (per the partisan left & right statements above).
My wife was on birth control - right up until my vasectomy. Oh yea, I also voted for Obama in 2008! Man, are we screwed up!!!!!
Let's cut the crap about how all republicans are bad and all democrats are good. It is impossible to lump 1/2 of America into one group, and the other 1/2 in another group. What you really want is a fight with ANYONE who disagrees with you. Get over yourselves!
By the way, the other advertiser who dropped out was SleepTrain.....and more are coming!
Ahhh, just a LUCKY guess on Rush's part about this girl. Now SHE IS CASHING IN!
Rush listeners are what now? Educated conservatives with money to spend? I've got family down in Rush land Tennessee, and once you remove the refrigerators, cars and rust rv's from the yard, you've pretty much halved their net worth.
It must be REAL bad if even Boehner says something. Where's Romney or Santorum or Newt on this? Just another nail in the GOP coffin. The silence is deafening.
BOYCOTT ALL HIS SPONSORS... NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm not to defending that Douche bag but isn't that "the pot calling the kettle black" Feisty?
I once worked for a radio station that carried his show. That means, all day long in my office, I could hear what was on the air. I am familiar with his illogical rants and anger towards anyone that disagrees. He has always been a bigot but people love the drama. Some even think he knows what he is talking about....very scary! Bottom line, his desperate attempt to get attention may have backfired this time. He has now alienated at least half the population and shown his advertisers that he is a ticking timebomb.
Concernedone---how do you look at yourself in the mirror! LOL! Thanks for the pespective!
"You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good". Breitbart is dead - GOOD. Please Limbaugh, do us a favor so we can repeat this Ms. Davis line with your name in it.
http://www.bettedavisonline.com/quotes.html
What's that? Make Republicans look bad? Because he is very good at doing that.
Michael Moore in disguise I bet.
All played by Fred Savage.
Haha! I'm giggling IRL.
That whole headline is a trip... 'sleep train pulls' just sounds suggestive to me for some reason. The "fluke slut firestorm" part is my favorite though. Sounds like a bar band.
Slut Firestorm sounds like a fragrance from Axe.
DAMNIT FEISTY! I wanted an Oreck...guess I'll have to go with the Dyson now.
I just moved away from the town Rush is from. He is actually considered pretty liberal there. Glad to say I'm in Austin, TX now. It is much more reasonable here. I think of Rush as the right's Howard Stern, just not as talented. He is just a radio character and you shouldn't let him get under your skin. His ratings will go down when the nazis fade back into the background to lick their wounds for another 10 or 20 years...not to worry.
Rush Limbaugh is a two bit Drug Addict,who is like X-lax,likes to start sh** and keep sh** going because that's all he knows.
Thank God I have a logical and rational gf... I told her that she will no longer get flowers from ProFlowers because of their sponsorship of Rush, and she completely agreed.
Thanks Rush, you just saved me money because I no longer need to spend money on one of your sponsors.
That's pretty much the definition of a forum troll, except sometimes it's also that their arguments are so incredibly stupid that they try to pretend they are actually just trolling instead of admitting that they are wrong.
Two sponsors have already pulled their ads from the pompous A— _
[Foor every one that may leave, and there won't be many, 5 more are standing in line witing to take their place.]
BAAAHAWHWHWHWHWWWWWAAAA.....just like Glenn Beck, right WhiteCollarIdiot?
You really know you've lost the battle when you have to stick up for Rush Limbaugh!
Cut your losses, WC...it's time...
Feisty, you poppin' viagras again? You post like you got a woodie for Rush..lol..Why do all the far-left lib's get their panties in a bunch over him anyway? I hear his voice for a fraction of a second on the radio and I switch the station. Amazed the guy is still around, I guess lot's of lib's like getting a "Rush" off his comments. Ignore him and he might just go away, but then who would you love to bash next?
I'm sure Rush will still be bragging about his ratings as he gets Republicans unelected in November.
White Collar Auto
"You all are so easy to tweak, it's pathetic"
Rush Limbaugh's own followers refer to themselves as "dittoheads".
I know which of those two groups that I (and any person capable of logical thought) consider more gullible & easily manipulated- and they're pretty easy to spot when they're glued to their radios.
Woodwz123 " The girl wants to sleep around with multiple partners AND have the government subsidize it."
You obviously did not listen to her testimony. She said she has 1 partner, and she never said she wanted anyone to subsidize it. She said she wants the University to offer a plan that covers birth control. She very clearly said THE STUDENTS PAY FOR THEIR OWN HEALTH INSURANCE. The University does NOT subsidize the student health plan. Both Rush and you made up stuff about her and vilify her for YOUR story about her. In my opinion that s*cks, and you should both be ashamed. I understand that Rush has no capacity for shame, but what about you?
that's why Rushs followers are called "dittoheads" (they call themselves that) they have no ability to think for themselves and need a drug addict, community college dropout to tell them how to think. shame doesn't even enter the equation when you have no ability to think for yourself like a dittohead
[I'm sure Rush will still be bragging about his ratings as he gets Republicans unelected in November.]
Don't think Rush will last 'till November...he's way overdue to pull a Breitbart...Satan is just playing with him a little longer.
...any day now...any day...
Anybody want to place bets on how long it will be before the Oompah Loompah starts crying and crawls in to lick Limbaugh's boots while begging for forgiveness?
Rushbaugh calling someone a slut who wants to use birth control,.... I just don't get it.
On the other hand, there are interesting facts supporting the assertion that Rushbaugh is a,... well,:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/rush-limbaughs-dominican-stag-party
The Dominican Republic is apparently one of the foremost destinations for those into young boys, or who want to be.
I am somewhat conservative fiscally anyway. I would like to mandate people like Rush's forced sterilization to prevent the next generation of idiot.
I would hope that this woman would get a good lawyer and sue both Rush and the radio station he is on...tthis should be an outrage to us all....it will be interesting now to see just how many republicans back away from the likes of Rush and his radio station.
Limbaugh's hateful ravings are shameful. It is unconscionable that any rational person would willingly listen to his show. The best course of action would be to identify Limbaugh's sponsors and write emails and letters to them informing them that you will not use, purchase, or recommend their products as long as they support the hate-monger Rush Limbaugh.
Shame on him and shame on his listeners!
Where is Cantor's comment on this? I bet if Lintballs used the term, "Jew Slut", Cantor would be all over this like ribs on a Trojan.
INDYREADER! I have been wanting to put that out there for so long. It is a long standing rumor back in MO that did things like that in Malaysia as well... I have no proof so I didn't bring it up, but now I'm glad that you did, because it has been rumored for YEARS.
Well, if you think about it...
What do you call a women who is promiscuous, who desires to have sex outside of marriage? I'd say you'd call her a slut! What's wrong with calling a spade a spade?
The larger question is, why does this women feel that I should pay for her personal choices? If she chooses to sleep around, she should deal with the consequences. Perhaps it would be cheaper if she employed the "aspirin between the legs" method and just stop sleeping around with men.
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John, birth control has many other uses than just preventing pregnancy. I have friends that have to take it to control fibroids or bleeding. It is something that should be covered by insurance. Viagra, however, can be taken off as far as I'm concerned. There are mechanical ways to get a stiffy....
whitecollar Quite the contrary, Rush has become the greatest gift the Democratic party could ever hope for. PRICELESS!
why do you feel I should pay for your effing viagra through my medical insurance premiums?
she has one boyfriend. sorry but that is not "promiscous"
sex outside of marriage? why are you trying to FORCE your religious crap upon others?
While I don't expect anything different on a liberal website like MSNBC, it's like watching lemmings dive into the sea. I would wager that the majority of the comments are by people that have never listened to Rush, and think that Comedy Central has a news program with Jon Stewart. Taken in context, Rush was asking a question. Ms Fluke is an activist with an agenda, that is being used as a useful idiot by Nancy Pelosi and the Obama administration. She chose to attend a Catholic University, knowing full well that contraception was not covered. Her claim that it cost $3000 for 3 years of birth control is ludicrous. Go to any Planned Parenthood facility and birth control is either cheap or free. $1000 a year for condoms would make her a very busy young lady with little time for her schoolwork. Like the OWS'ers, a bunch of whiners who never lived in the real world, but have six figure educations, complaining about having to pay their own way.
Your not but she is. In 2013 everyone is required to pay for health insurance. Either through less pay as employers pay more for insurance or through direct purchase of an individual plan. A single person plan runs between 1,200 and 6,000 per year. Birth control costs between 180 and 600 per year. The health insurance cost is higher than the cost of birth control pills. It is a farce to call birth control pills a freebie.
Lets suppose the government mandated that everyone pay Comcast and Verizon for phone, cable tv, and a high speed internet connection package. Lets say your neighbor requests that Comcast provide a Spanish channel as part of the package. Would you trash your neighbor on national TV/Radio and call your neighbor is a thief because he wanted to watch the Spanish channel which is part of the package he paid for?
I question the GOP approach on this issue. Why choose women's birth control as the item to protest? Also why push employers mandate and not the individual mandate? As far as religious believes go I know some American citizens who do not believe in American medicine at all. They believe in herbal remedies only. However, I do not see you fighting for their individual right to not to purchase a health insurance plan for themselves that they will never use. I do not see you fighting for an employee to get paid additional money if they opt out of the health insurance their company provides so they can purchase a plan they can use.
Nope all I see is another attempt to control women.
I am a woman myself and I have already gotten the run around because I stated that a lack of medicine for endometriosis resulted in a miscarriage of my niece and nephew. I was told that birth control pills were not a medicine to treat endometriosis. I was told I was lying because the treatment for endometriosis it is hormonal therapy which is just another word for birth control pills. I was even told that my mom killed her grandchildren by asking for birth control pills instead of hormonal therapy. Note I was not even accusing the insurance company or employer as being at fault. I simply said that the tone that the men folk take about these issues is causing more harm than good. Even after this conversation with conservative men, I have watched men on the conservative side such as Rush Limbaugh trash woman after woman for being a slut looking for sex.
I am an independent who is a fiscal conservative. I generally go conservative, but I was laughing my but off watching Rachel Maddow last night. I apologize to all the other women out there for not being vocal enough to the conservative men about their rudeness. No one deserves this crap. Santorum is off my list. I am still watching Romney, Gingrich, and Paul but I will see how they react to these men before I make decisions.
I think boehner is inappropriate. He looks like he just crapped himself in the picture... I don't think Rush is going to lose anything. So one no-name sponsor that I've never heard of pulls support. Whoop-d do. The dems, and Pelosi, are just trying to make Fluke into a martyr. How do you have $3000 dollars to spend on contraceptives in law school? Why is Fluke trying to get a privately funded, religious, organization to pay for contraceptives when Planned parenting is 3 miles from Georgia town university? How are you paying $60,000 a year in tuition and $3000 dollars in contraceptives anyway? In addition to contraceptives, they want their insurer to write them a blank check to cover any type of contraceptive they want. Get out of here! If you can't afford protection stop having sex!
If she is paying 60,000 in tuition which includes a student health plan, then she has effectively paid through a higher tuition the cost of the health plan. If birth control is included in that insurance plan as required by the Affordable Health Care act and birth control actually costs more (which I am not sure it does for an insurance company) then the cost of the student health plan increases (or decrease) which in effect changes the cost of tuition.
What is disingenuous about the
attack is that it is about Fluke (a woman) defending why she needs birth control. It is ridiculous that she has to defend why birth control is morally acceptable. I also find the notion that she is getting something for free obnoxious. She is not. She is paying for the student health plan through her tuition cost. It is a bundled in hidden cost to her.
Instead of attacking Fluke on why she needs birth control, why not go after a system that forces her to pay extra tuition for a health plan that is not optimal for her through her through higher student tuition costs? Why didn't the school allow her to deduct the cost of the student health care plan from her tuition so she could choose a plan which included birth control? Why are the health plans negotiated by employers and institutions lower in price than individual purchased plans? Are health plans negotiated by employers and institutions a lower price?
However that type of reasoning would be a logical response for a fiscal conservative that is not trying to dictate everyone's morality. Instead the response is to attack the woman and put her on trial for requiring birth control in the first place.
First, it's not an attack on Fluke. What's disingenuous is the fact that those were the figures mentioned by Sandra Fluke as possible costs for contraceptives during law school. Fluke is never explicitly mentioned. The question posed is how, if you're paying 60,000 in tuition, you have $3000 to spend on contraceptives? If it's covered in the cost of tuition – and student health care plan --then why does it cost $3000? Apparently, it's an out of pocket expense.
As to the matter of it being optimal, sex is not a necessity. If you're getting $3000 dollars worth of contraceptives you're having a lot of sex. GeorgiaTown is a law school, so sex is extra curricular activity. Also, you can't argue that the expense of birth control merits religious organization include it in a health care plan. There's plenty of less expensive options to include abstinence.
Fluke presented a need for birth control, but the point is that sex isn't necessary to go through law school. It's not a natural hazard,and in the case of consensual sex, the responsibility falls on the student.
You don't buy an insurance policy hoping to use it. It's coverage, just in case. Contraceptives are premeditated. Who uses birth control unintentionally? As with any insurance coverage, the person being insured will only have to pay a deductible. Given that the majority of the cost will fall on the tax
payer, it is in essence freeloading.
Instead of making a religious organization capitulate, she could have gone to federally funded planned parenting and got a plan from them. Making Georgia-town pay for it essentially says they're okay with premarital sex, which is morally unacceptable. No one is arguing the merits of birth control, but rather Georgia town having to pay for it. Why should Georgia town have to negotiate at all for an activity it doesn't condone? So, you think it's right to force a religious institution pay to cover sexual escapades? Instead of trying to demonize conservatives, why aren't you asking why liberals can't accept responsibility?
Rywaker:
I have no problem with someone being prescribed something to address a medical condition. I do have a problem with someone demanding that we all pay for her birth control pills so she can simply have sex. If you wish to engage in sexual intercourse, then why should I have to pay for your decisions? I enjoy eating USDA Prime steaks at Mortons. Let's say it costs up to $3,000 a year for me to do this? Shouldn't the US Goverment then provide me with a free dinning card at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse to allow me to engage in this behavior?
Danwill:
I'm not trying to FORCE my beliefs on anyone. I'm just stating my beliefs. Why are YOU trying to force YOUR beliefs on others by demanding that WE pay for YOUR decisions? Takingmiddleground
I'm pretty sure this debate began not by the GOP but by George Stepenopholis during the Republican Debate in January, where out of the blue he posed a question to Mitt Romney on limiting birth control. It was such a weird and out of place question, having nothing to do wiht the current matters at hand that it seems quite odd. However now it's more clear that Stepehophils, a former Democratic White House Senior Adviser to President Clinton, now masquerading as a Journalist, was probably assisting the Democrats in helping to frame a campaign issue for Obama. Sure, Rush Limbaugh's comments were sort of stupid, but the main premise is valid. If Fluke wants to have sex, then she should deal with the costs. I like to ski, so why don't taxpayers buy my Lift Ticket? If I don't go skiing, I might become obese with the associated health costs so the cost of a Lift Ticket is cheaper than paying my mounting medical bills, right?
Also, here's a novel an inexpensive method of family planning... Keep your knees pressed together!
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Really its not an attack on Fluke? It is not a judgement call of her behavior? The 3000 pays for a lot of sex comment alone shows lack of knowledge about how women's birth control works and everything it is used for. I should not have to make the following counter statements. Birth control is same cost for women regardless of how much or little they have sex. Birth control is also used to regulate menstrual cycles and menstrual cycles are not an extracurricular activity.
What she stated was that the "student health plan" she had prior to the Affordable Health Care act did not cover the cost of birth control after the Affordable Health Care act it would be covered by the student health plan.
My questions go to conditions prior to the Affordable Health Care Act.
I would also argue that health plans already pay for the side effects of the sex extracurricular activities. STDs treatment and pregnancy are currently covered as medical conditions. So even the sex extracurricular activity is bunk.
John, you are trying to force your religious beliefs on people. We have religious freedom in this country. Besides, insurance companies would rather pay for birth control than foot the bill for child birth... I'm sorry no one wants to play bible with you, but we just can't force religion on people in this country...
No, those are Fluke's figures on the possible cost of Birth Control for a woman in law school. Birth control is a large umbrella covering a wide spectrum, which has many differing uses. Since the health care law doesn't just cover 'the pill' we must include contraceptives. Therefore, your assumption is that all methods of birth control, to include condoms, will only be used to control a woman's menstruation cycle? This does not follow that. That's also assuming that the only use of birth control will be menstruation regulation. If you're going to school to study law then sex, rather than menstruation, is extracurricular activity.
The argument brought forth by Fluke was that her friend was unable to pay a $100 out-of-pocket expense, stopped taking birth control, and developed an ovarian cyst. The problem is that experts disagree on using birth control to regulate an ovarian cyst, a sac of fluid in the uterus, as it may shrink on it's own over time. How are we to assume that Fluke was referring to that time of the month rather than an ovarian cyst?
Whether or not a health plan covers a std is moot, they're not all mandated to. This whole thing begins with the blunt amendment, which would have specified that religious organizations, such as Georgiatown, would have the option of choosing what they did or didn't cover. Now, the health care act is mandating they cover it anyway. I'm sure Fluke could have found a better health plan, which covered birth control; Planned Parenting is 3 miles from her campus, yet she's making Georgiatown do it, which goes against their moral standard.
WOW...a stroke of genius...what do you think was his first clue? This arrogant, hypocritical mouthpiece has been using this type of hateful, devisive, vitriol and personal attacks for years...maybe Boehner is worried about the political ramifications of this deceptive, hypocritical "Christian pretender"'s latest hate filled outburst?
WCA..."Rush wins"???
Rush is the pied piper leading right-wingers off a cliff!
We owe him a huge debt of gratitude for galvanizing apathetic voters against authoritarian conservatives.
Women-- and a lot of men too-- are going to go to the polls in record numbers to vote out the misogynistic Republicans who want to control American access to healthcare.
Come back here on November 6 and tell us who won, OK?
Rywaker:
It's not a religious issue, it's more of a moral issue. However, I have NO problems if you and Ms. Fluke want to procreate like animals in heat, just don't demand that I pay for your birth control or the consequences of your action.
If you and Fluke wish to screw around, then do so on your own dime, not mine!
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Why he called her a slut beats me. She looks more like a lesbo to me.
John-2006106
The main premise is not valid. The main premise is that she is not paying for her health insurance which in 2013 will include birth control coverage.
I did not see anywhere in the Affordable Health Care Act any place where anyone gets the health insurance for free. As a matter of fact they get to pay a fine to the government if they do not pay for health insurance. Health insurance for an single individual is somewhere between 1,200-or up per year currently and will go higher in 2013. Fluke testified that cost of birth control was as high as 1,000 per year (3,000 over 3 years). The cost of health insurance more than pays for the cost of birth control.
As far as
Show me how an employee is not earning their pay or how a student is not paying their way. I still have not seen it. If as an employer I pay my employee cash, and that employee buys something I do not agree with. I am not entitled to take the employee to court for steeling my money or violating my freedom of belief.
I actually do not agree with the Affordable Health Care Act because it does not provide any mechanism for keeping costs down with competition. However, I am not going to run around screaming that people who are purchasing an overpriced health insurance plan are steeling or looking for freebies because they are using a part of the over priced health insurance that actually keep the price of the health insurance down a little bit.
@Middleground.
I'm not sure how you're under the impression that Fluke is paying for health insurance. She's on a public interest scholarship. Fluke is mainly a pawn here, so I won't go on over her. The issue is whether or not a religious organization should have to pay for contraceptives of students.
Fluke said:
I'll bet she was.
Fluke cited that her friend was using birth control as a means to control an ovarian cyst, which is disagreed on by experts. If she couldn't afford $100 for birth control I don't know how she could afford the hospital bill. Also, why didn't she go to planned parenting? The issue is that a religious organization will have to pay for any kind of contraceptive.
First question: If you're paying 60,000 in tuition, how do you have $3000 to spend on contraceptives in law school in the first place? Is it really going to impoverish you? That's $83 a month. Their textbooks probably cost 3 times that. $3000 dollars is an out-of-pocket expense for the forty percent of students who were uninsured. It's foolish to assume those forty percent of students used birth control to menstruation. What ever happened to tampons? And what evil is Fluke fighting? The blunt amendment.
Oh my god, they can't exempt religious organizations *Gasp* what will Obama do? If only religious organizations are exempt then how does that give employers the right to deny health care coverage? Oh wait, this is liberals we're talking about here.
@ItsWhatItIs
Here is a link to the Public Interest Scholars Program which is a partial scholarship not a full one to cover tuition. So yes she is still paying for her degree which I get the impression from comments made includes the health insurance. From her blurb on Georgetown's site she seems to also be paying back that scholarship by volunteering to help out others in the domestic violence situations. I had a few friends growing up who would have been appreciative of her help in the area of domestic violence. I do not question whether she has paid for her health insurance.
As you pointed out though,
Exactly my point. Can a religious college or university claim that they are paying for any part of a student's health insurance if they are charging that student money for attending the school and having the health plan?
I believe whether it is or is not a treatment is up to the women's doctor to decide. That is after all what the doctor went to school for isn't it?
Let's see could it be that planned parenthood is under constant funding attacks: GOP proposal to cut planned parenthood funding, Susan G Koman cuts planned parenthood funding, another GOP proposal to cut planned parenthood funding. If the GOP stops its attack on planned parenthood funding then I will be happy to allow this argument as a valid one. After all planned parenthood funding was signed into law by President Nixon a Republican.
Spoken like someone who knows nothing about women's birth control. A tampon does not control how often and when menstruation occurs. The women's hormone based birth control does.
Here is the a link to the full text of the blunt amendment. I have to say after reading this that it is definitely is not limited in scope to birth control. It looks like an attempt to reject anything based on moral beliefs. I know a 2 year old cancer patient whose parents paid for health insurance through a company plan. They thought the plan covered all conditions. However they were told the company plan does not cover chemotherapy. This is the type of behavior the Affordable Health Care act was trying to fix and the blunt amendment is attempting to add it back in.
My employer offers a good plan for me, but seeing how some employers are trying to redefine medicine I am wondering if employer based insurance is the best option for all individuals in the US. My liberal friends think this means we should lean toward a single payer option, but I do not have that mindset yet. I do wonder if there is a different way to fix that problem though. What if you required company plans to provide employees of the company with information about what the plan does not cover and what it does cover and for how much. Then you require companies that offer plans to pay employees cash in lieu of the health plan if an employee opts out so the employee has the option of purchasing a plan that meets their needs both medically and financially. Tie that in with requiring hospitals, doctors, and other care providers being required to post their charges up front. With all that information it would be pretty easier for IT to tie it together to show individuals whether they have a plan the covers what they need and add in competitive pricing.
Honestly, Rush did her an incredible favor.
If he didn't say what he did, much less people would be concerned or be aware of the topic "insured contraception".
Correct. This whole thing worked out very badly for Limbaugh and the GOP.
White Collar Auto.....you said:
That's hardly necessary. Here's what you said just above:
As usual, you don't think very far ahead. Now, we all know that Rush knuckled under to the mass exodus of his sponsors. It is incredible that you could not see this coming.
It was humiliating for Rush and those (i.e. YOU) that attempted to spin his poor judgment. How many times must you paint yourself into corners before you learn?
Quote of the day -
“[House Speaker John] Boehner comes out and says Rush’s language was inappropriate. Using the salad fork for your entrée, that’s inappropriate. Not this stuff,” Will said. “And it was depressing because what it indicates is that the Republican leaders are afraid of Rush Limbaugh. They want to bomb Iran, but they’re afraid of Rush Limbaugh.”
George Will
Blunt Amendment CoSponsors:
Sen Ayotte, Kelly [NH] - 2/9/2012
Sen Barrasso, John [WY] - 2/9/2012
Sen Boozman, John [AR] - 2/9/2012
Sen Coats, Daniel [IN] - 2/9/2012
Sen Cornyn, John [TX] - 2/9/2012
Sen Graham, Lindsey [SC] - 2/9/2012
Sen Hatch, Orrin G. [UT] - 2/9/2012
Sen Hoeven, John [ND] - 2/9/2012
Sen Isakson, Johnny [GA] - 2/16/2012
Sen Johanns, Mike [NE] - 2/9/2012
Sen Kyl, Jon [AZ] - 2/9/2012
Sen Lugar, Richard G. [IN] - 2/9/2012
Sen McCain, John [AZ] - 2/9/2012
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Sen Portman, Rob [OH] - 2/15/2012
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Sen Rubio, Marco [FL] - 2/9/2012
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LOL. No, I do not think Rush did Miss Fluke any favors. I am just tired of people being treated like crap. I at least feel a little more at peace now. It took me a while to realize how much of a loss my niece and nephew were even though I never meet them. I apologize if I am ranting.
Overweight? My BMI is 24 . . . I dare say Cialis and Viagra are not in my medicine cabinet. . .
As for how insurance works - if I use a drug and do not pay for it completely, it is subsidized by everyone else paying for that insurance.
If you get 'free birth control' or free abortions - who pays? The insurance company? Yeah right. Which means everyone else paying for that insurance subsidizes it.
When and if we go to Obamacare, if they give out free birth control pills, it does not matter which insurer I use, I am paying for it. This is NOT a disease people - SEX is not a disease. Pregnancy - is not a disease.
Insurance should pay for disease.
Is this really this hard to figure out? Its not about free stuff - which it apparently is. There is NO free stuff - someone somewhere pays for your free stuff. I don;t get free stuff. I did not get a special $1000 tax rebate in 2008 - we had to pay for it. We don't get the full benefit of the childrens exemption, we make too much. We pay 52% of our income in taxes. 15.6% for FICA and SSI. 9% to the State. 31% to the feds, sales tax, real estate tax, insurance premium tax, excise tax, fuel tax, and taxes on the taxes. So when you give over half your damn income to the government - enough is enough.
How much should I 'allowed' to keep? CanI keep half of what I make? Please? Is that 'fair?'
wrong, insurance should use whatever is most cost effective to prevent both disease and expense. prevention of disease is far less costly than curing it, prevention of unwanted pregnancy is far less costly than paying for it
birth control prevents unwanted births and the costs associate with care from prenatal to young adulthood. not to mention the completely legitimate uses of certain birth control pills for true medical conditions.
but it is a considerable cost for the insurance company which has to pay for said pregnancy, pre-natal care, birth, medical care afterwards, etc.
of course, you can't even consider those little details since it doesn't fit your political agenda
John, john john john...the hormone that we call birth control is used for many other things than just keeping women from ovulating, or however it works. It is a hormone that can help women with several other problems. You are just not getting that. That hormone is used to control cramping and bleeding, and a very very painful, harmful condition called endomitriosis. It is medicine used for women's reproductive health. It is medicine. Women need it to stay healthy. Can I be any more clear? There are more uses than birth control. Understand?
Whatever. If he didn't hurt his cause by making a fool out of himself (which he probably did, right?), he certainly didn't help it. I doubt his comments convinced anyone to join his side.
Talk about a half-assed repudiation!
Wonder why Boehner couldn't come out and speak those words himself?
He has zero problem flapping his gums before the cameras any other time!
Any bets how long it takes before Boehner is on his knees kissing the fat freaks ring?
He was on a smoke break.
RUSH is a disgusting piece of crap. Anything that comes out of his mouth is crap. He is as bad as Bill O'Reilly...just runs off at the mouth. This is a perfect example of the mentality in this country about women. It is truly sad and frightening that it has come to this. You don't want WIC or welfare, but you don't want to provide contraception and think abortions are wrong. Can't have it both ways. I hope this lady files a defamation suit against him or slander. One way or the other RUSH will get his. Karma is very real. Just wish it would hurry.
I wonder why it took so much pressure from others before Boehner had his *spokesperson* (couldn't even bring himself to say it) say that Limbaugh's words were inappropriate? I have to seriously doubt his sincerity.
Well if you think about it they have nothing to lose at this point, come 2012 they just could be using their second amendment rights to end it all, because most of the GOP will not be employed ..... LOL
Why do 'politicians' R or D or whatever, have to distance themselves from an entertainer?
Does that mean we can now insist that democrat congress critters denounce rappers who denigrate women and call each other @!$%# [see - I used the word because they do - ooops - look he used 'the' word - how long will it take this comment to be collapsed?]
What the F does it matter what Limbaugh says and why do Republicans have to jump because some other idiot says they must denounce the rhetoric? And then we have idiots who somehow think the apology is 'worded properly.' Give me an F'ing break.
I call on the Democrats to denounce all the anti-American rants of any Hollywood type who gave them money. Obama needs to denounce Alec Baldwin for breaking the law, and being an azzhole. Pelosi and Reid need to denounce N.W.A for their racist anti-police rants encouraging violence against police officers and public officials . . .
What was the response to that demand? We can't control what other people say or do. . .. point made. Get a life.
Boehner's hold on power is so fragile that unless the GOP/T caucus leadership is both figuratively and literally in back of him, he doesn't make his own statements.
Let's see: Rush commits this particular offense on Wednesday, Democrats complain on Wednesday and Thursday, even turning it into a fundraising situation, and Boehner responds -- through a spokesperson -- on Friday. Don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows on this lack of a timely and meaningful response.
News For Dumb FUX (2) -- since you chose to respond to a portion of the speaker's statement are you suggesting that exploitation of the woman for democrat fund raising purposes is ok?
Feisty.....Where's your popcorn on this one? All piled up under your couch potato a$$??
Is it Election Day 7:AM Tuesday morning, November 6th yet?......can't wait..............
Maybe if he sheds a few tears while kissing RL's a$$ all will be forgiven.
Comanchedriver - If you noticed Boehner only said the comments were inappropriate. The media classifed the statement as distancing himself from the comments thereby establishing that a connection existed in the first place.
He'll walk back his comments before the day is out. They can't stand up to this sad, sad person. The gop is sunk as a party. The use of that type of language to describe a yound lady that he doesn't even know is disgusting and vile. I hope that she sues him and his radio station for defamation. Why do republicans think that they're the only people who pay taxes, especially when we all know that they use as many loopholes as possible to get out of paying them? Now we know why he has to buy wives. So who's the slut?
N.W.A. lol that group was gone a LONG time ago.Most of those guys are so commercial now it isn't even funny.
Chris Gilliard - Rush is not associated with the GOP by anything more than the little card in his wallet that says he's registered to vote as a Republican. He is a private citizen stating his views on his private radio program. Granted his views are demented to say the least they are, however, not the views of every Republican.
"What the F does it matter what Limbaugh says and why do Republicans have to jump"
Boehner's attempt at distancing himself from Rush's comments is affirmation of the huge amount of heat the republican party is receiving from their own members and constituents. As I said the money is pouring in to democratic coffers across the board, Rush has a huge audience, he has gifted democrats with the equivalent of a free public service announcement. He did a lot of political damage to his own party that's why Boehner has to address it and the fact that he is addressing it proves just how much damage he did. Thanks Rush who knew you would come through for Obama and democrats in such grand fashion.
Spot on Forrest!
Because they realize a substantial number of their constituents pay attention to what the "entertainers" are saying. In the case of Rush Limbaugh, that information is presented under the auspices of being a right-wing pundit.
You're f*cking with me. Seriously. What is the connection between "rappers" and the Democrat party? Moreover, can you name a single rapper who holds the same sway over a large demographic of voters as Rush Limbaugh?
How bite-sized does it need to be for you?
You're false outrage is really, really amusing.
Your ranting actually didn't really make any point. Cue the false outrage, take two!
I just love the interview of Rush by David Letterman back in 1993...
"Do you ever wake yourself up in the middle of the night and say I'm full of hot gas?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJpebtIXROw
It occurs to me that Old Rush has not only p!ssed off all women but he has p!ssed off a 3rd year law student at Georgetown and by extension the whole University Law Dept. Best thing that could happen is for this young lady to let that Curly Wolf loose. She might just end up owning Old Rush and his Caribbean Mansion. Just a thought there Betty. Don't get mad get even.
WCA - Limbaugh's listeners are low class, uneducated buffoons, sorry I probably hurt your feelings. His listening audience has been steadily declining and he is no longer of any importance to anyone. And, now, he is hurting the GOP more than he is helping them. The only reason he is getting press right now is because he made sure he was so over the top that other media reported on it. Well educated Republicans (and there are a few left) do not listen to the likes of this drug addict. Even they are above Limbaugh.
TO: White Collar Auto who wrote:
I can't see anything at all that "Rush wins", unless it's an award for making the biggest fool out of himself.
I would also very much appreciate it if Republicans would continue their hate filled attacks against women, Hispanics, minorities, gays, and everyone else because doing so will only increase Democrats chances of not only holding on to the White House, but gaining a Democratic majority in both houses come November.
Thank you Republicans for being so callous, classless, and clueless.
Obama / Biden 2012
American Girl-724855
He wins higher ratings and more far right wing fascist listeners of course! They love him. He is entertainment for them. Boycott his sponsors. That's where it will hurt this pig.
Hey Mike, I'm listening to Rush as I write this.....bwahahaha!
spider-737231
Not surprising at all. I knew that with this pearl of dog @!$%# he puked out he would draw more of the dregs of this once great society out. Your support is appreciated by Herr Streicher I'm sure.
SS: I take it you listen to Rush. There for you must be with the uneducated buffoons.
I like listening to him. It's cheap entertainment, and i like a good laugh from time to time.
Boehner couldn't get enough alcohol in him to control his twitchy lip, an obvious sign of trying to keep from busting up laughing at his own lies. He tried, but then he couldn't stand up.
...and Rush knows sluts and prostitutes.....personally, ....come on, LOOK at him. Who else do you think would cuddle up to that mass of hate-filled, putrid smelling, lip dripping moron?
I hope the lawyers are lining up. I hope her father is a peaceful man. Then again, I hope she has a couple of big brothers...That should be his FCC license right there.
TO: spider-737231 who wrote:
I surprised you have the balz to admit it, but it does match nicely with my "callous, classless and clueless" comment (bwahahaha!).
Now we know where you get your hate speech.
Obama / Biden 2012
IR,
Great point.
The president of Georgetown has made a public statement condemning Rush's remarks. I am sure the law school
will take care of their own. Lot of alummi of that law school are very good lawyers.
American Girl -- But when you fight their rhetoric with rhetoric they run with no where to hide. : )
Keep on keeping on em!
spider - I don't think it is surprising to anyone that you are listening to Rush. The only surprising thing would be if you weren't.
Hey spider, tell Rush to prove he doesn't have sex only with prostitutes....tell him to post the tape.....
btw - be glad to send him all the arsenic he wants.....
Rush Limbaugh's comment is absolutely deplorable. I am appalled at him and his behavior. I don't listen to the man, never have. I wish he would go off the air....
How in the world does the off-color & inappropriate comment by a very opinionated shock jock become a brouhaha at the government level? As far as our congress should be concerned, Limbaugh is a private citizen exercising his freedom of speech & that, if he offended the woman, the issue should be between Limbaugh, Fluke & their attorneys. Limbaugh is in no way an official spokesman for the Republican Party or Tea Party. He has opinions, as we all do, & he gets paid to share them at his own risk. GET OVER IT!!
FXSTC he is the spokesman for GOP. Boehmer has call him for advice.
The real problem with limpballs (just giving him the respect he is due) is that he is the mouthpiece for the republican party. Whatever he says become the talking point for faux for the day.
Does faux repeat everything you say as a private citizen?
What about when Boehner called Limpy on the air for all of us to hear to ask his advise and then Boehner did what Limpy told him to do. Yep just another private citizen.
Hey John....."thats white of you".
There's a big difference between "inappropriate" and "unacceptable".
But the GOP just doesn't get it.
They're gonna get it, though.
Only 249 days to November 6.
If Rush is what "educated conservatives with money to spend" are listening to, what in the world must the dumb conservative with no money be listening to?? I guess they get Beck?
It is shocking how many self-described "conservatives" or "Republicans" have bought into the extreme positions now espoused by the GOP. But I am an old guy (68) so I remember.
1) Go read the 1956 GOP Platform.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25838#axzz1nzQD3FNU
2) This was the platform of the Republican Party for Eisenhower's second term. Eisenhower was an incumbent and extremely popular, so his re-election was pretty much a shoo-in. For this reason, the GOP would be able to include some positions that it might not have included in the 1952 election. At that time the GOP was the "Party of Lincoln" and Eisenhower got around 70%+ of the African-American vote. (We don't know about Latinos because they were still "white" then.) The GOP was 60%-40% more popular with women because of its championing of women's rights (including reproductive rights.) Gays were virtually 100% Republican (remember the Log Cabin Republicans?) The GOP was popular with youth, mostly because of its stance on social issues such as support for Social Security and Medicare. You frequently heard the GOP described as the "big tent" because it could find good ground for both the wealthy and civil rights marchers.
3) But along came Lyndon Johnson and all that changed. When he signed the Civil Rights Act, he said, "I am giving the South to the Republican Party for forty years." The GOP smelled blood in the water and made a hugely bad decision: they decided, quite coldly, to fold the big tent and do whatever it took to move white Southerners from the Democratic to the Republican Party en masse. But first, some occupants of the big tent had to be evicted to make room for the white Southerners. Gays were some of the first to be thrown out. By the time of the Stonewall riots in 1969, the GOP was solidly lodged with anti-Gay forces and the Log Cabin Republicans became a sham. Somewhat cynically, the GOP assured the African -Americans in the party that noting would change while telling white Southerners that everything would change. Even the dumbest people in the world will compare notes on things like this. The GOP had to come out swinging and make sure that every American well knew that Blacks were no longer welcome in the GOP. Women were even more problematic and it this is where the abortion issue came into play. The message went out that women were welcome as long as they toed the party line, but otherwise, all bets on womens' rights gained with contraception in the 1950's were not going to be offset by a long and contentious public debate on how much women were willing to give up without much of a fight. It turned out that they were willing to give up quite a bit. Latinos were just babies thrown out with the bath water. So you ended up with a GOP that is far-right, white, male, and would consider a mainstream Republican of 1956 as being far to the left of Obama.
4) To pretend that people like Limbaugh do not speak for the Republican Party is just idle speculation that is contradicted by past actions. People like Limbaugh and Beck and Rove are the real voice of the GOP. It is they who are not hobbled by voters who might actually research an issue. It is they who can say things that are politicallin incorrect in order to pander to the madding crowd. It is they who really believe that it is possible, and actually necessary to cut 1.2 million jobs in order to achieve full employment. The GOP is NOT the party of women, NOT a party of minorities, NOT a party for equity among diverse citizenry, and NOT a party that wants to see this country advance if it means that they will not benefit politically.
I have contact with a lot of well-educated foreigners and I always tell them that this is not a multi-party democracy as it advertises itself. It is a Republic run for the personal profit of its elected officials. The country has three parties: a) The Republican Party or Conservatives who are basically southern white males and their political cohort. About 15% of registered voters. The Democratic Party or Liberals or Progressives are basically the remnants of the 1960-70's social consciousness movement. About 15% of voters. And c) Independents who are either single-issue voters or who do not completely subscribe to either party in toto. They are about 60% of voters. (The remaining 10% don't count, but can occasionally throw an election away as a spoiler.) And our politics work like a car: The Republicans are the brakes --- the people who say "No!" to anything that does not pass the white southern male evangelical sniff test. But that's all they can do -- stop things. The Democrats are like the engine --- all about go, go, go. They are classical cynics who believe that no matter how well you do, you can always do better. But once they get the car going, they depend on the Republicans to be the brakes. But it is the Independents who are the steering wheel and the throttle. They decide where the country will go and how fast it will get there. The only problem with Independents is that they are sort of "El Caminos" who can't quite make up their minds most of the time (just as the El Camino could not decide if it was a car or a pickup truck.) But for our three-party system to work, all three sectors need to be in working order and govern through construct and compromise.
It is looking more and more that the Repiblicans have staked out positions in this country that are untenable because they only have the support of the 15% and 20% more from the Independents. If you look at poll after poll, the Republicans are time and time again taking the 30% position in issues that are 30%-90% splits. What genius decided that it was a good idea to refight the disastrous biirth control battles of the 1950's? What brilliant strategist determined that everyone support "personhood"? What truly in-touch politician decided that NASCAR fans should adore him because he knows several NASCAR team owners? What clear thinker decided that gays were unfit to be Republicans when gays are some of the most politically active demographics in existence? This list just goes on and on. But does no one in the GOP see what they are doing to themselves?
What I find most remarkable about this story is that the Republican leadership, at its highest level, has to respond to comments made by a radio talk show host.
What is going on!?
Chris 749391 You are spot on. I have given up om the old GOP ever coming back to reality and do what is right for America. The hatred the teaparty (Koch bro., Rove,et al backed) have brought to the Republican party has torn this country apart. They are out to self destruct and take our country with them. I have never voted a straight party ticket in over 35 years, but this year I will...and it won't be for My Former party.
"Inappropriate" is insufficient. Other word choices? Inexcusable, unacceptable, not a reflection of Republican values? Nope. "Inappropriate" is the weakest, least objectionable word he could find to utter while patting Limbaugh on the back.
Women will stop this war on women. Women = majority of registered voters. Women = majority of registered voters who actually vote.
Obama/Biden 2012....the rest of you go home.
Listen to Chris 749391 and Gramma because with age comes wisdom.
Boehner ought to complain that Dems are using this for fundraising. I, for one, am sending the Democratic Party a donation "on behalf of Sandra Fluke" for that very same reason. If Republicans don't want this to happen they should more than just "distance" themselves from Rush Limbaugh, they should vehemently reject him and his nation-dividing, hate-filled commentary.
If Boehner called something I said "inappropriate" I'd reevaluate my life.
Rush Limbaugh needs to be fired. Enough of this loudmouthed gas-bag.
So weeme, who's going to fire him?
Cause I'm pretty sure he's self employed.
Just another low information post, par for the course on First Read.
he's not self employed. His show is distributed by Premier Radio Networks.
Thanks. Will be contacting them too.
Oh my GOD! I soooo agree with you! It's time for Rush to be put down! Besides, for a man who's been married 4 times, all of which produced 0 offspring (Thank GOD), he's obviously been using contraception! Oh no! Now I've done it! The idea of Rush having......having....."relations" (I can't even bring myself to say or type it), puts my stomach on edge! It's just another case of the pot calling the kettle.....slut!
Rush Limberger! BE GONE!
It's his damn show, for God's sake.
Do you think PRN can fire him?
You people really can't be this dumb, can you?
You call them NDD, and get a list of his sponsors so you can boycott them as well.
I'm sure that will make a big deifference.
EVERYONE has a boss, WCA. EVERYONE. And only the really stupid don't know that. And his bosses would the sponsors, radio stations that carry his shows, those that distribute it, and people who listen.
He has gone too far.
And only the truly disingenuous defend him.
PRN can stop broadcasting his show.
Without a broadcaster for his show, it's essentially the same thing as firing.
Sure they can Ruken.
Sure they can.
O.K. WCA, if it's perfectly fine for any radio host to say whatever he wants to draw an audience, then the same goes for any weekly network program. Let them say or do anything (why stop as just speech) they can. And I bet you'll be the first to bitch when someone says something you don't like.
And really, people don't have to line up to listen to radio. I'm pretty sure the airwaves are still free.
The hatred the left wing shows toward Limbaugh has him laughing all the way to the bank. Limbaugh strives on controversy and there is no way his show will be canceled because he brings in to much money for the stations that carry his show.
Get a life, Limbaugh is not a political leader, he has the right to say what he wants, if someone don't like him don't listen to him.
BTW, maybe some of the women on here can answer a question for me. What cost the most money, birth control bills or condoms? What if the insurance companies, if they have to provide free contraceptives, just issued condoms in lieu of the bill? Condoms would appear the better of the two, because condoms also protect against STDs as well as pregnancies. Where the bill only protects against pregnancies, and not at the 100% rate.
SFCrest - A condom can not shrink an ovarian cyst or regulate menstration. Women have real issues when it comes to thier reproductive system. Imagine if a man were denied access to medication for the prostate? If that ever happens I hope thier are a panel of 5 women to judge that and a loud mouth radio person to call any man that wanted it a pu$$y.
Birth control has other uses besides preventing pregnancy.
I'm sure some of the lady posters here (who know more about the pill) will elaborate for me.
Fox fired Glenn Beck, you start losing sponsors they will drop him. He makes them money though, and he has always been a grotesque pig so I fail to see how this is any different. If you don't like him, do what I do, turn it off.
WCA is the typical Limbaugh fan, cheering his blatant mommy issues on. I wonder when he rapes some poor "slut" on his show if they would cheer that too. I know some educated republicans, none of whom listen to that trash.
King, I don't understand you "line up" comment.
Rush owns the EIB Radio Company. It's a lot different from network TeeVee. As long as Rush doesn't cross the FCC anything he's says is 1st Amendment stuff, right?
Howard Stern once had a very successful public radio show, saying all kinds of controversial things.
Did you want him kicked off the air?
Why does the left hate the 1st ammendment so much?
By the way WCA, you must have your masters degree or your doctorate? I mean obviously you are claiming his fans are educated...
Holy Crap Jan, "Rapes some poor slut on his show"?
You need to take a deep breath and relax.
I am afraid your head is about to explode.
WCA, funny everything the left tries to say you try to censor WCA. You are such a hypocrite, if you don't like the lies MSN tells you, why don't you go to Fox lies and read that instead.
The birth control pill is made of hormones. It helps with regulating the monthly cycle, migraines, ovarian cysts and many other things. The condom prevents pregnancy and protects against STDs. How about they both are covered, like Viagra, which only does one thing...provides the erection. Tired of the 'hold an aspirin between the legs' mentality. Why is it ok for men to engage in sex and not women. I don't get it. Tired of being controlled by men. Rush went too far again. Remember Rush is Reich. Call the FCC and complain, boycott his sponsors and be sure and let Premier Radio Network know your plans. If enough people raise enough he**, maybe something will change.
WCA, its that mentality that has 1 in 3 women in this country sexually abused at some point in her life. When its your daughter, would you appreciate what he said to this woman? They need to stop calling it contraceptives because obviously neanderthals don't understand the broad spectrum of uses.
Since you are so brilliant, you should realize the corporate sponsors will drop him if they get enough negative attention. There are plenty of mediums for advertising and honestly talk radio is a joke.
Jan, the educated republicans know what he's saying, I know, and I don't listen to him. As he's singing their song they need to do something, such as tell him to get lost that would be a start, and furthermore, say it publicly.
True. But this article wasn't about Limbaugh; it was about a Republican (Boehner) finally sort of saying Limbaugh's remarks were not appropriate. It's the first time a member of the GOP kinda disagreed with this filth. Through a spokesperson, not in person, of course; gives him some deniability.
Well lets see the show runs on sponsors which is advertising now how many of them were offended by that SLUT comment, that will determine if he will still have a job or not, not you me or the station makes that decision but a whole bunch of consumers ......... So if he get down on his knees and starts to kiss some serious azz then We know won't We.
Yes the republicans are doing their best to get Obama reelected, 52% of the average elections are women. The more they antagonize us, the more they are gathering. This really is just completely stupid and the liberal media is using it very effectively.
Oh boo hoo. How many of you little liberal blow hards have called a person, no matter which sex, who was overly proud of their numerous sexual encounters a slut. NOOOOOOO. I'm sorry how perfect you all are in your own little heads, your little self righteous notions. You all can name call, but no one else can. remember Bush being a Nazi, but you all get all up in arms about being called Communists. Again boo hoo. For those who don't understand business, since most of you probably don't have jobs. He is self employeed. PRN is a broadcasting distributer, they don't pay him nor control his material. As long as he is in complience with broadcasting codes and ethics no station will remove him as long as they bring in the advertising dollars. Go ahead and contact his sponsors, they'll kiss your rear on the phone and laugh at you when you hang up. He brings in money to them and they are in business to make a profit, and that is what they care about. And if a sponsor would happen to leave, do you think there are not many more waiting in the wings to get the chance to have their name uttered to the largest audience in the nation over the radio airwaves? My point is if this young female, I will not call her a lady because ladies don't brag about how much sex they get only sluts and whores do, did not want to be opened up to possible name calling she should have kept her mouth shut, in more than one instance probably, along with other parts of her anatomy.
kevmc61474-
I must have missed the the segment in which you claim she bragged. Your female relatives must be especially proud of you.
You're wearing your bigotry on your sleeve just FYI.
Limbaugh's show is syndicated by Premier Radio. Premiere Radio is a subsidiary of ClearChannel Media and Entertainment. ClearChannel is owned by Bain Capital, and we all know who is still a passive partner in Bain Capital.
Apparently he also said she should post video of herself having sex on the web. Isn't it illegal to attempt to solicit someone for immoral purposes? This pervert needs to go to jail.
Rush's sponsors are being bombarded by complaints about his comments. If he loses any more sponsors (he's already lost at least one), he will be fired. ClearChannel will only tolerate Rush as long as he's bringing in those advertising dollars. As soon as he becomes a financial liability, he'll be history, just like any other media personality.
sfcret - do you ever think to engage your brain (assuming you have one) prior to shooting off your mouth? Many women take birth control pills for medical reasons (I had to because of a condition that put me in the emergency room twice). Your lack of intelligence is only matched by your utter lack of integrity.
And, Rush's show can be cancelled. It has been declining in listeners for a while now and his continuing embarrassment may well be the end of his show. Will another station choose to air it - undoubtedly - because there will always be fools who listen to this hot air bag and get some amusement from him.
Did you even read the testimony? No one mentioned that this should be covered for pregnancy control. She stated the medical treatments using contraceptive medications should be covered. Rush made it up the whole thing (big suprise).
You've got to admit that Limbaugh sure knows how to tweak the left. As usual, the people who write about him don't listen to him. As such, they can only comment on what others write about him, which is always twisted into something other than what it is.
So, the left wants to get Limbaugh off the air. Funny thing about freedom for the left, they are only in favor of it if you agree with them. I've often suggested that if the left wants their point of view heard that they ought to put out their own talk radio shows. The fact is that they have and no one listens to them. So, the only way they can do that is to call it "news" and put it on TV stations like NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN and MSNBC.
As to Limbaugh's comments here, he was merely pointing out, in a way that was guaranteed to tweak the left, that Fluke's testimony amounted to "she wants to have sex but she doesn't want to get pregnant. It costs money to have contraception and she wants someone else to pay for it." Thus, the easy tweak comment is that she wants others to pay for her to have sex. Now, that is what a prostitute does. Have someone pay her to have sex. When looked at that way, it is quite funny.
On the issue of contraceptives vs. viagra, there is no doubt that there is a definite male bias here. But not for the reason people like to think. The idea of contraceptives is so someone can participate in a natural act without facing the natural consequences of the act. Sorry, but that is not what people buy insurance for. The idea of viagra is that the "normal" male condition is that they can have erections. Thus, when they can't, something isn't functioning as it should, thus insurance is used to "correct" this abnormal condition. Now, when it comes to the reality of these situations, a different picture appears. The fact is that the pill is used for a lot more things than merely birth control. But, since it is also a contraceptive, it is difficult for insurance companies to determine the real purpose, thus they may deny coverage. Personally, while it may be understandable, I do believe it is most likely the situation of penny-wise, pound foolish. It's a heck of a lot cheaper to buy the contraceptive than it is to pay for the child birth and subsequent health care.
On the issue of viagra: The fact is that 99.9% of all such medications prescribed shouldn't be covered by insurance. The reason is that it is a "cure" for ED. The fact is that 99.9% of men who get the drug don't have ED. From the beginning it was pointed out that ED is when a man can't get an erection. That means that he can't do it himself, he doesn't get them when he sleeps, nada, zippo. That really covers very few men. Obviously, I've never used the stuff, so I wouldn't know if the "experience" is any different than without it. But, I can certainly understand that men can have a hard time if they are on drugs, alcohol, medications, etc. or are just plain in a bad relationship. Guilt probably makes it harder to get it up is you are doing it with someone other than your spouse.
As to the issue of the church. This is definitely where the government has gone to far. Everyone knows the Catholic Church's stance on the issue of contraception. Everyone who works for the organization knows their viewpoint and usually accepts them, even if they disagree. Thus, if you want to have insurance with such coverage you are free to work somewhere else. The church shouldn't be forced to cover it. Anyone who buys Obama's distorted argument that he isn't making the church provide the coverage, he is making the insurance companies provide if for free is either ignorant or a fool. All insurance companies price their products based on what they are anticipating paying out. No business owner is going to willfully pay something out of their own pockets just for the heck of it.
That being said, yes, Fluke came across as someone who just wants to have sex but also wants someone else to pay to make sure she doesn't get pregnant. Rush made that point very effectively and the all the criticism is silly.
Better to be a wino than a whiner!
yes witch (perfect name btw) he caused the left to raise its head BUT he pissed off alot of women. ALOT. I would bet that some conservative women of this country now are rethinking any idea of voting repugnant , I mean republican.
the republican war on birth control and civil rights is so last century. but wait, thats exactly where they want to lead us. or further.
PROUD TO BE EVERYTHING THE RIGHT WING HATES!!!!
The companies who advertise on the Rush Limbaugh show employ thousands of people who do not even get involved with politics and may not necessarily agree with Limbaugh. To create a boycott that could cost innocent people there jobs is not only agregious but its unamerican. The last five years have created conditions for a firestorm of boycotts over illegal immigration all over the country, how is a boycott helpful to thousands of people who are punished for something they did not know about or had no control over. Home depot was boycotted over gay issues, Walmart was boycotted over hiring discrimination practices, Target was boycotted because of non-support for the Salvation Army bell ringers. Isn't a boycott a destructive way to highlight the need for a change that does not satisfy a given group. When the cure is worse than the illness why would any rational person want to harm innocent people in the process of opposing someone who is doing his what he is being paid to do and that is to describe the goodness of the conservaties and denigrate the socialist democrats. Isn't that exactly what Keith Olbermann does on MSNBC. If you are a democrat or a secularist that does not believe the Catholic religiion has a right to exercise their religious ideology, why would you listen to Limbaugh and get upset. Boycotts are damaging to many innocent people and when a boycott is conducted by any group it is nothing more than revenge and retaliation because other people do not share your values. If I thought I spent 29 years in the military to protect a bunch of whiny cowards who would boycott innocent fellow americans just to slam one individual, I would have give my enlistment a second thought. When you fire a missile from a drone to make a kill on an Al Qeada operative more often than not many innocent people are killed. This is called collateral damage by the Whitehouse administration. So while you may be able to brag about how you took some big mouth radio conservative down, understand you have done serious collateral damage to many innocent folks.
connmick: You might want to get out of the hotbed of liberalism and visit real people. The only women who are pissed off at Limbaugh are those who are always pissed off anyway. Unless you are of the gimme everything for free variety, a lot of women are pissed off that this country is going down the tubes and we are losing our freedoms. The economy is in the tank. The libs have done absolutely nothing to help, and in fact are actively making things worse by running up the deficit to pay off Obama supporters. Men are being turned into wimps. I love my kids, but the idea that they would sit on their butts complaining rather than going out and doing something about it is foreign to me, and fortunately my kids. I've seen way too many kids who are living with Mommy and Daddy so they can be supported. They may drive fancy cars and get their daily dose of Starbuck's, but they are doing nothing to take care of themselves. My kids grew up and learned to flip burgers, clean toilets and every other job the left thinks of as despicable. They learned some valuable lessons, ones that the left doesn't teach. First, they learned that there is no shame in rolling up your sleeves and doing grunt work. Second, if you don't want to spend the rest of your life doing such grunt work, then you work harder at doing the grunt work, take pride in what you do and work to improve yourself. In other words, you don't rely on someone else, but on yourself.
When they dated they learned not to fall for people who sit around and complain about their lot in life. They've found themselves usually hanging around with an older, more responsible crowd. So far, they are still "under the radar" of the left. They do know that as they get more successful that they will be entering the vilified and people will start complaining about them because they have money and how unfair it is that they were so "fortunate" to just happen to have the luck of the draw in life. It's all BS of course, but they've already seen it and know what to expect. Quite frankly, I'm proud of them. Sure, they are still friends with some who didn't "make it." But, they've learned to tell these friends that if they don't like where they are in life, then do something about it. Waiting around for the government to help turns into one heck of a long wait.
Bottom line is that out in the real world people are getting sick and tired of the whining of those who won't help themselves. If contraceptives is a big priority in your life and you do not want to get pregnant, then work a few extra hours to pay for it or search around to find someone to give it to you, or, alter you behavior.
Witchrunner,
Nobody is saying that people shouldn't be self-motivated or self-disciplined. But to say that there isn't a real need for (some) of these programs is asinine. If we don't help people have access to birth control, we'll have more unwanted pregnancies, which means either more abortions or more children that families can't afford (read: welfare). Both of those outcomes are anathema to conservatives. Providing birth control is the most cost effective way to avoid these two outcomes. People aren't going to stop having sex just because birth control isn't available.
And I didn't even mention all the other uses of contraception, other than preventing pregnancy.
Guys...guys...guys...stop beating up on the WhiteCollarIdiot...you're gonna make him cry.
hchris: As you are aware, things don't exist in a vacuum. That's why I pointed out the direction the country has been heading and the mentality that has become predominant on the left. I pointed out that insurance company refusal to cover birth control may be penny-wise, pound foolish. But, that should be their decision. If the Catholic Church doesn't want to cover something like birth control because they are against it, then they shouldn't be forced to do it. Just because some people perceive a "need" doesn't mean that everyone else should be forced to pay for it whether they want to or not. This is what we are talking about. The reason government has gotten so big is because those in power come out with an explanation that they know will appeal to some sense of "ok, that sounds good" type of feeling. China, Cuba, the Soviet Union and the rest of the dictators of the world spew out the same stuff. There's a reason why those countries lake in productivity and innovation. Things get taken care of for you then you lose motivation to do things for yourself. This isn't just about birth control.
Heck, I tell the libs the same thing that I tell the conservs. For the libs, if you think there is a "need" for a service, by all means, set up whatever charities you want and contribute to them and get others to contribute so you can meet those needs. I tell the conservs that if they want to stop abortions, rather than just saying "no abortions" they should be setting up organizations that will take care of women while they are pregnant and will pay the costs and jump through the legal procedures for those who want to adopt. Their attitude is that all they are interested in is making sure the baby is born. What happens after the baby is born? Not their concern. You don't win people over with that attitude and you do a lot of damage to babies who are born and not wanted. It works both ways. My point is that the government shouldn't be dictating anything like this. Why, because it's only fine if you agree. Plus, and most importantly, what has made America so great is the limits the Constitution places on government. It's being ignored left and right by dems and repubs. Keep it up and the US will be nothing like it has been, and that is not good.
We all just got a Boehner.
A college student got insulted and bullied by a millionaire RWNJ pervert hours ago and the speaker of the house is just condemning his behavior.........too late Bonehead. As for Rush, keep it up for your match is coming.
pen -- intriguing, can you share who the "match" is?
I definitely would not want to be the one to verify this.
BOO HOO Boehnor really had no choice because the lamestream media would have found a way to make his mother look illigitimate if they could, after all Limbaugh insulted a liberal in Nancy Pelosi's presence. That's verboten. Only liberals can call conservatives Nazi's so you have to understand the rule of double standards. Having said that it was inappropriate to say slut, the word should have been promiscous young lady. It was obvious that Luke was at the Congressional hearing to express an opinion to justift the Obamacare ruling by HHS. I listened to the C-Span broadcast on T.V. and it was like a hearing on a sex story. Mrs. Luke was describing her sexual activity needs like she had been coached for the contraceptive show and tell. Mrs Luke was not the least bit bashful and was being used by the left to justify the Presidents decision to violate the rights of the Catholic church during a Congressional hearing. Thousands of Catholic hospitals and charities will begin downsizing out of existance because catholic teachings will not allow abortion or use of contraceptives. The majority of Catholics agree with the teachings of the church, but many do not abide by the churches teachings, however it still remains an issue of the 1st amendment right of religious belief.
howe, she said she had ONE sexual partner. is that being "a promiscuous young lady"?
The Fat pig.
Hopefully he will drop dead of a Heart attack and do us all a flavor.
The fact is that people like this actually make a chunk of Money of this kind of BS is appalling .
They make it because "educated" WASPs give him the money. Now there is an oxymoran - using the word "educated" with anything having to do with Rushian Limpnuts.
Limbaugh is off his meds again!
And back on the Oxycontin!
hopefully not the viagra, though
But if he wanted, it is covered by his insurance, I am sure of that. He is a moron.
I find it very interesting the hatred you promote through your posts is no less than what Limbaugh promotes through his show. Do you actually think anyone should take you serious when you write what you write?
Anyone with commonsense knows this issue being thrown about isn't about health, it's about choice and the govenment making that choice for you as oppose to you making that choice. Quit being nannied by the government, grow up and become responsible adults. Either keep your legs shut (men, keep you member in your pants,) or pay for the contraceptive needed to prevent babies if you are not wanting to have babies! I as a taxpayer, should not have to pay for your contraceptive if you decide to have sex.
If you are taking contraceptives as a medically prescribed treatment for health reasons, that may be a different matter. I sure it can be produced under a generic name specific to the prescription so that the majority of people who believe as I do can live with the false impression that there is some control on it's destribution and that I'm not paying for some else's safe sex.
As I have said in other comment. Tax dollars don't pay for health coverage ( I don't think women over 65 are really worried about birth control) . But even if they did, that is if we had universal health care, health insurance is an agreement between us to subsidize each others health care. Do you want me to review everyone of your health choices, I don't think so. If you want to argue that birth control isn't a health issue, then it is just as easy to argue that providing an erection isn't a health issue. But the point is participating in health insurance is agreeing to not interfer with my health choices and I won't interfer in yours.
And to care that arguement even furthar. The right seems to want to claim some rights about their tax dollars. I don't want my tax dollars spent on this or that. Well I don't want my tax dollars spent on what you want it spent on, so we make an agreement a compromise. You can get what you want to a certain extent and I can get what I want. The country isn't all about you
Madison Terry - you don't know what you are talking about. When you are taking the pill for medical reasons, nothing else can be substituted. Clearly you should not speak about things you have no knowledge of.
Madison - even if you believe that on a core level and with all your heart and soul...it's too late. The Republican/Tea Party has taken this too far. What's more they've doubled-down. Look at many of the State laws passed by Republican majorities regarding reproductive issues. Come November the American People won't forget.
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto to Ogata Taketora on January 9, 1942.
Madison Terry is a man missing his Viagra pills. I was on the pill while I was celibate for years! Why? Because I had an ovarian cyst and the doctors advised me to take them. Cyst gone, pain gone. It's not just to prevent pregnancy people. Get a real life and educate yourselves.
Limbaugh is a recognized expert on pharmaceuticals - just ask the rehab center where he spent some time. I suppose that made him believe he was qualified to speak about medical coverage for birth control (actually, birth control medications do much more than just prevent unwanted pregnancies - many women, especially younger women, need them for menstral cycle problems, as any legitimate doctor will tell you.
"Inappropriate". What's the matter, Boehner, scared of the cretin? It is a hell of a lot more than inappropriate, and I am waiting to see you cowards stand up to that bully once and for all. How long before Boehner goes crawling to Windbag for forgiveness? And at long last, when will you on the right QUIT DEFENDING THE P.O.S?
And you, WCA. Shame on YOU! That it is about ratings and getting people to listen is some kind of excuse? Are you FREAKING kidding me? That little Rushie is giggling about this like a moronic two year old that he got attention is a reason to KEEP LISTENING TO HIM! You don't mind that he called your wife and every other woman a SLUT!
No. Not this time. Decency will win. Time to boycott anyone who sponsors that creep.
Rush makes his money on dross like this. He knows how to play the part very well. He's the adult version of a toddler slamming their head against the wall. The more we pay attention when he acts out, the more fame and money he gets. The solution is to ignore him to a slow painful media death. Life is too short to get worked up about an a-hole with a mic. In fact, I'm going to stop posting now and go outside.
NDD....it is always the same with these cretins, say whatever, the more outrageous the better, the bigger the lie the better, and then eventually someone like Mr Milquetoast Boehner, says inappropriate. Or if I offended anyone, I didn't mean it, or I was only joking. NO.....y'all meant it. If you didn't mean it or if you felt it inappropriate.....you wouldn't have said or done it.
ENOUGH, any decent person knows limits or should, and if you dont know or forget, we women in this country will keep reminding you.
Those of you who defend this kind of behaviour are insulting your own mothers (everyone has one) your wives, your daughters, your sisters, and any female in your lives.
Stay strong Women.
GBM: apparently, the lesson taught to the Susan B Komen foundation about what happens when you attack women's rights was not learned by that idiot, Rush.
why shoud we have to pay for her to have sex,when people want money for sex their is a name for her.
Apparently not NDD....but its been just 24 hrs, already the President has called Sandra Fluke, inquiring if she is OK. The President of Georgetown U. has put out a statement denouncing Limbaugh, this is only beginning. As I told my bishop when I wrote to complain about this whole controversy, this is a war you will not win. Nor will they, they severely underestimate the strength of the women on this topic. The power of the sisterhood covers many stripes.
Question,
I understand the outrage, Rush is a professional and he should act like one. My question is regarding Sara Palin, back when she was in the spotlight and the vicious attacks that the media and people here at FR laid on her. How was that OK?
As a women I was appalled by many of the comments made about her. Regardless of her political affiliation, doesn't she deserve to be treated like every one else? You don't have to like her, but the attacks where far worst then the name Rush used on Fluke.
Neither should be tolerated.
FYI - I am not a fan of Sara Palin
carlyss man - why is it men can't read? Nowhere did she say she wanted people to pay so she could have sex. You've clearly been listening to Rush - need to get a brain so you can think for yourself!
carlyss man, go back to school, learn to read and then improve your comprehension skills. As has been pointed out over and over, taking the pill is not just about contraception - it is about hormone regulation which can impact a whole suite of things - which I won't go into as you wouldn't understand. Viagra - which is covered - has one purpose only - to get men an erection so they can have sex. Now who are the sluts??
Both Limpballs and Boehner are like slinkies. They serve no useful purpose, but it's fun to watch when you push them down the stairs
Yeah, but "weebles wobble but they don't fall down". It'll take a REALLY big push to get Limpy rolling.
Was Limbaugh supposed to be funny?
What!? The GOP is finally seeing the RL is an idiot. Geez you guys are thick headed. RL is a bully and a jerk. Sure he is entitled to his views.....but he is wrong.....so much of the time. Hate is his driver. He doesnt understand individuality or choice. People have different views.....doesnt make them a slut or a whore. RL is done.
He only said it was "inappropriate". That's the same response he'd give to his grandchild for saying the word s*** in his presence. They're all too afraid to confront Limburger because he has a microphone and an audience.
boehner didn't do very much there... he can't, because [limp] baugh would tear him a new one before the day was over. nothing would make eric cantor happier, who himself is just sitting back waiting to take full advantage of an outpouring of wrath aimed directly at boehner for going [too strongely] against their party's god.
He's a Fascist! what do you expect from a tea bag right wing moral midget fraction of a man.
You need to look up the word. Fascism is State control. Tea Partiers are for individual freedom. The Left has more fascistic tendencies than the Right. (See GM, Health Care, Solyndra, et al.) A word doesn't mean what you want it to.
Franksam, for those republicans who don't know what a definition is or how to find one on the internet:
Fascism---1. An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.
Fascism---2. (in general use) Extreme right-wing, authoritarian, or intolerant views or practices.
The need to lie is so strong in republicans, that they even try to change the definition of words to suit their lying rants.
I think you mean socialism. Why would we need fascism when Socialism is MUCH more effective.
This just shows how the GOP has managed over the years to get the un-informed to vote against their best wishes. The GOP method is to demonize...Obama is a secret Mulsim, a snob, the woman is a slut, etc, etc. A few years ago, before Rush was married (for the what time?), he was stopped by officials at the Miami airport, coming back from the DR with over a hundred Viagra pills. He was single at the time...so why does he need Viagra? What a hypocrite!!! He wanted to lynch anyone using illegal drugs yet he "shopped" around for his oxycontin. And 20 million listen to this guy every day? To quote the British officer in "The Bridge over the River Kwai" at the end of the film..."madness, madness I say, madness" Fiesty, you rock!!!
Rush Limbaugh's comments were inappropriate and Catholics who don't believe in their religion are hypocrites. If the Pope speaks for God and you disagree with him, then why in the world are you a Catholic? Limbaugh is wrong and Catholic's who continually choose to ignore their Pope are hypocrites. Is the Catholic Church the one true Church of God on this earth or is it not? If it isn't, then why do you belong to it?
"is the Catholic Church the one true Church of God...
No. It is not.
floridamom1......the Pope is still a man and like any other man or woman he isn't perfect. Being the Pope doesn't mean he knows exactly what God's will is.
So, I thought Catholic doctrine was that the Pope is "infallible." Doesn't that mean he tells his believers what God's will is? That's the way the Bishops act. If the Pope says divorce, contraception and abortion are all sins, then they are. Arent' they?
In any case, I'm not Catholic and the Pope doesn't give me my marching orders. And he shouldn't be able to order American women around at all.
The Pope has also said that governments have a responsibility to provide universal healthcare for all their citizens. Wonder how Catholic Holy Roller Santorum took that?
What is the catholic church's view of Viagra? It seems to me that viagra is marketed on TV ads primarily towards middle-aged men who are experiencing a NATURAL diminution of potency for their age, and who are in relationships with women their own age who are most likely almost menopausal. I thought the church position was that sex is for procreation. How are these middle-aged or older couples having sex to produce children? If the man can't get it up, shouldn't they just be accepting that as God's will, and concentrate on developing love instead of lust? Why is this a medical condition requiring medication and treatment and not just a life stage? If it's a mental health issue due to low self esteem, then other conditions should be covered that lead to low self esteem. Things like having a big nose or breasts too small, or too much belly fat. Or they could just buy a shiny new red sports car.
Meanwhile, hormone therapy for real medical conditions is either verboten or optional.
I notice that not one of the apologists for RL has answered the Viagra question. So here I go again: "Why is viagra for men a legitimate prescription drug, while hormone therapy for women is not?"
What Limbaugh said about this woman pales in comparison to what liberal commentators are saying about Andrew Breitbart. The liberal filter at MSNBC and the rest of the major news outlets is designed to incite the left and not much else.
Right on lukewarm.
Think of all the things that were said about Sarah Palin and were repeated and repeated on this very site. What's the difference? Why is there a double standard?
"Slut"..."whore"..."prostitute"...Sarah Palin was called many things but I don't ever recall these words being used.
Breitbart was a total a-hole. If you don't get that, you're too far gone for anyone to care what you think.
Good point lukewarm. That's the problem with politics today - it's all about hate. Forget about respecting one another - that's a thing of the past.
Politicians try and keep their "bases" fired up by using over-the-top rhetoric and attacks. The problem is that the impact is only short term and people become numb to it. As a result, they have to escalate it to a new level the next time around. The results are plain to see - both sides hate each other and refuse to listen or compromise.
As I see it, the right uses this more often than the left. That being said, there are a couple of the left who can be pretty nasty too.
I don't care for Palin but I never called her any names, except maybe stupid.
dirt, there are two major differences between what RL did and what people write on this site say about Sarah Palin:
1) she was a public figure and therefore fair game to criticism by ... the public
2) the comments about Palin were made by private citizens on a comment board. not by a syndicated broadcaster with millions of listeners. Rush Limbaugh just opened himself up for a libel suit and I hope the young lady brings it and wins it.
Oh, please! If I hear that worn-out baloney about the "liberal media" one more time, I'll lose my lunch. For God's sake, get a new tune! Anyone who still actually believes the mainstream media is liberal need only read what it's been writing about Obama for the better part of his presidency. He has been pilloried by the MSM more times than I can recall, and in every case, he's taken it with grace and rebuffed it with intellect.
The problem is that the conservatives who make most of the noise are either idiots, blowhards, extremists or all of the above. The MSM just finds it hard to say anything positive about them because everything about their tactics is negative. Hatred, bigotry and narrowmindedness pretty much define the conservative approach these days, and this just doesn't make for very good press.
miked-332 The lady is in law school at Georgetown, yea I bet she's a bimbo.
She probably has more smarts than you will ever have
but not smart enough to know to go to the liberal sacred shrine, Planned Parenthood, where they give birth control away for free! People are acting like women have never had access to birth control. What a crock!
Gee, Dirt, I thought your ilk didn't want to pay for others' birth control. Yet you have a problem with this woman wanting the insurance SHE pays for to cover it, while telling her to go to PP, which is TAX PAYER FUNDED .... yeah, you guys are smart, alright .... snicker snicker snicker
Georgetown is a Catholic school.
The "victim" in question knew that. She is a plant.
Open your eyes.
RB LOL
Hey dirt - what do you know about Planned Parenthood?
Obviously not enough to know that they charge a sliding scale - things are not "free" unless you have no income. But I suppose you are also "smart" enough to know exactly what this young lady earns?
Yeah, that's the GOP definition of "smart" - making it up as you go along and acting like it's the gospel truth.
Probably because the man is a deaf idiot and couldn't even hear what was being said in the debate. Oh yeah, by the way, his hearing loss is related to his abuse of hydrocodone painkillers. Look it up.
Yet another reason why Boehner needs to go. What a libtard.
Boehner is a conservative.
So a citizen comes forth to have her voice heard in the public debate, and suggesting that it might be inappropirate to call her a "slut" and a "prostitute" makes one a liberal? This your problem, you people just keep drawing the circle in tighter around yourselves, and it is no way to affect change in a Democracy. I can't wait until November to watch what's left of you people all curled up in the corner in the fetal position, wearing tin foil hats and mumbling to yourselves while sucking your thumb.
Ray, the GOP are like the Native American version of tying a wet piece of cow hide strip around a person's neck in that when it dries and shrinks the throat is closed off. So let them keep up with the nonsensical and vitriolic bantering, they'll be quieted soon enough come election day.
What kind of people enjoy listening to the hate filled filth that comes out of Limpballs pie hole?
^ Rush is a sore loser. He always goes on a tirade whenever the GOP's Neanderthal agenda is defeated.
I only have heard sound bites from Rush...and that is way too much for me...Instead of using his platform for good he uses it for hate....sad
Ha Rush did democrats a huge favor, this young lady was on the today show and the money is pouring in to democrats, the image of such a smart, nice young lady being called a slut by the mouthpiece of the republican party has got women of all ages outraged, not to mention protective dads, and grandads. Rush just iced the cake with regard to the republicans respect for women and issues that directly affect them. What a political gift from Rush to democratic candidates across the board, thanks Rush keep up the good work.
And we appreciate it :-)
I know all the monikers that Rush has, being the mouth piece for the Republicans, evangelizing for the right wing in American politics and all, but I can't imagine even the hardest core right wing wacko would want to be aligned with this blow hard.
What a pathetic creep Rush Limbaugh is and a vivid definition of what is wrong with the divisive American politics of today.
Rush, you are defiantly part of the problem and now where near any part of a solution.
Fishy, you have no idea what your talking about. Why don't you let Sandra come over and reach her hand into your pockets and pull a few bills for her rubbers....she may even give you a receipt and big "thank you" for her Saturday evening interlope. Unfortunately, she won't let you participate....isn't that a nutcracker?
You are so right...She should suit his pants off for defram because he singled her out, labeling her as a slut among other things and asked her and other women to post him a sex tape....sad, back on pills, I say.
As a law student at a reputable university, she would likely find a considerable amount of high-powered legal muscle ready to help her sue the bejabbers out of that bloated, drug-addicted, viagra-popping, cigar-huffing, no-good son of a bitch. I hope she does, too.
Anyone who watched the testimony knows the picture of Fluke has been photoshopped by msnbc...she looked as if she would have no need for contraceptives .
I'd hit it. She's smart, and she's sassy.
Smart? Not!
Not if she really thought it appropriate to go before the US Congress and whine about how her "friends" were going broke because their birth-control pills were so expensive (and really thought whe would not get called names for it). She did not look very "smart" to me in front of that microphone.
I'll give you "sassy" since she did have the balls to do it, but it was a ridiculous stunt.
Ididn't,
What do you look like, Buster?
maybe she´s easy
Today Boehner calls remarks inappropriate. Tomorrow Boehner, take back his statement against Rush. After Rush slams Boehner, on his radio show.
Boehner today proved a favorite theory of my grandmother...."even a stopped clock is right twice a day."
Boehner is a right wing conservative nut job in many respects, but I tend to believe he has a heart and it is that heart that puts him at odds with a growing sector of his party called the Tea Party and Jim Demitt. I feel Boehner is what little is left of George Bush's compassionate conservatism. By the way GWB, abandoned CC in favor of Karl Rove's kill the nation to win an election conservatism.
Don't kid yourself, what compassionate conservatism? Bush, Boehner or any of the rest of republicans could not care less what happens to the people.
We can't have jobs, because Boehner has to protect the rich 1%, where is the compassion in that?
The republicans want to kill heath care so they can pay for more tax cuts for the rich like Romney and rich corporations. Sounds so compassionate.
Take from the poor to give to the rich, republican compassion working to do what it does best.
Right you are, they always say they want smaller government, but are the party that does everything they can to make the government bigger. They take away your rights and anything that may benefit the poor or middle class, while giving to the rich. They attack women, women's health, education and public schools. They attack voter rights, collective bargaining and the list just goes on while they at all cost continue to give to billionaires and the oil companies as gas prices continue to rise. They want you to believe it's all President Obama's fault..., all of this stepping on the necks of the poor while giving to the rich is the republican solution and fix!
Oh my....how could we Liberals be so stupid? Why would we not see this obvious fix for the poor and middle class, that need health insurance, the right to vote without a poll tax, education for our kids even if we can't afford to home school them because we have to physically work for a living, women's (52% of the population) health and birth control, I guess republican women are not allowed to have an opinion on this matter or they never ever used birth control right? Wow we really must be some dumb liberals, not to see the logic in this, cheaper to have unwanted kids huh..., brilliant!
Yeah, I'd agree: I think Boehner actually has a heart in there somewhere (like The Grinch), and he really wants to do what he thinks is "right" for America, despite being completely wrong on how to do that... Give him some credit for at least acknowledging the remarks are at LEAST inappropriate. Remember, he's going to face a backlash from hell from the rest of his party for even saying that.
I disagree: Boehner does not have a heart. He said, baldly, (and I bet he wishes he had never said it out loud in front of witnesses) that his entire goal was to make sure Obama was a one term president. Nothing about statesmanship, legislating, creating good policy. Nada. Just get the reins of power back into Republican hands. And until we do, we stall and filibuster and stonewall. And misdirect to non-issues like religion and birthplace. And weep. And ask Limbaugh for advice.
His real problem is that even he can see that the public face of the republican party is devolving into that of a drooling idiot. Independents and liberals were blind-sided by Rove's playbook of dragging the body politic into the bedroom on the laughably called "defense of marriage" issue, because nasty as politics is, we did not ever expect them to sink so low. Once the win-at-any-cost benchmark was established, there was no high or solid moral ground from which to persuade about anything. They put themselves on the slippery slope to irrelevancy. This is to say nothing about the internal inconsistencies of the republican playbook.
Oh, well. It will all be over soon.
Obama/Biden 2012
The idea of a President who can shoot a decent left handed in jump shot is so cool. Obama 2012
To all the uneducated slim brains who listen to this fat slob of a man and help him make millions good to ya dukes. Hope you enjoy this flat slob because he is an unethical, coward bastard I have ever seen. i would never listen to his station even if you paid me. A fat slob is a f??ing slob which ever way you look at him and I hope he dies soon from a heart attack. Capiche!!!
I hope your mother and father gets cancer and dies a horribly painful death.
Hey, if it is good enough for you to hurl such insults I guess it is good enough for me. Right?
Here! Here! I am getting really sick of reading all this hate-filled vitriol from these supposedly "progressive" "compassionate" liberals.
You guys need to just get over Rush (and yourselves). He can say anyting he wants. If he thinks it was ridiculous for Sandra Fluke to go before congress and complain that her casual sex (and that of her friends) was not being subsidized then he has the right to say so (and I TOTALLY agree). Calling her a "slut" was probably a calculated move to generate the buzz that it has.
I would have called her a very silly little girl, but probably not a slut.
Peace OUT!
Its odd that you think Rush Limbaugh can say anything he wants, you don't yell fire in a theater ifthere isn't one and there are many times when stepping over the line is not only inappropriate, but is a hate crime and that is what Limbaugh has committed. The Republican leadership if it had any testicles would come out and comdemn it as not only inappropriate, but as hate speech. His comments had nothing to do with the actual content of her testimony, instead it was another pull it out of his ass fabrication designed to drive his hate mongering audience to new hights of insanity, and there is no other word for it, it is insanity. The insurance industry decided more than 40 years ago that it was more cost effective to provide prescription contraceptives than to pay for a woman to go full term pregnancy and delivery, tey are businesses that report annually and if you look at the cost of doctor visits, prescriptions, hospital delivery and stay, the costs are astronomical when compared to the cost of providing co-pay contraception benefits. What was testified vefore congress by Ms. Fluke was several examples of where contraceptives were beneficial to a woman's reproductive and general health, to label her a slut as Limbaugh did because his agenda is not about telling the truth but putting his version of conservatism back into power goes way beyond the pale, he is a serial pathological liar and its time he is banned from the airways, this is no longer a free speech issue.
hey willie jenkins, he was talking about Rush, not you or Rush's pea-brained followers
I hope rush goes the way of that lying sack of spit breitbart