Sandra Fluke/Rush Limbaugh controversy

[Crazedclerkthe2nd]

Summary: A university student named Sandra Fluke testified before congress the other day about the high cost of birth control, saying she and other students are having difficulty paying for it.

Rush Limbaugh (and some other notable right wing commentators) for some reason interpreted this as: "OMG! This woman is having so much sex she's going broke buying birth control and now she wants TAXPAYERS to pay so she can keep having sex!"

Limbaugh dialed up the rhetoric further by openly calling Fluke a prostitute and a slut on his show.

Fluke responded to Limbaugh and basically said he's a piece of trash.

Two advertisers today pulled their ads for Limbaugh's radio show. More may follow.

President Obama called Fluke yesterday and thanked her for standing up for women's rights.

On top of that, here's the real kicker: Aside from the fact Rush Limbaugh apparently has no damn clue how birth control works, Fluke was actually appearing before congress to speak on behalf of a friend who uses birth control to manage a medical issue.

[Silverharp]

Limbaugh struck back today saying that people need to lighten up.
I foresee him hemorrhaging sponsors as fast as Beck did before he was pulled from Fox

[mikoyan29]

Let's see, Limbaugh has been married what four times? He had a drug addiction. And that's what we know about. And he has the gall to call her a slut? Perhaps he should read that section in the New Testament about getting stoned. Pompous douchebag.

[HYHYBT]

"Slut" isn't as bad as "prostitute." I wonder why the former is getting more attention.

To think I used to listen to his show regularly, back in the mid 90's... I often didn't agree then either, but as best I can remember, he at least sounded *sane.*

[Greenday]

"Slut" isn't as bad as "prostitute." I wonder why the former is getting more attention.

I'm going to have to disagree. Being a slut is worse.

[jackfaire]

I'm going to have to disagree. Being a slut is worse.

*nods* Especially in the mind of someone like Limbaugh.

Prostitute gets a certain level of respect, "Well your giving something you hate doing to everyone but at least your smart enough to charge for it"

Versus

"you dumb slut you hate having sex (oh did I mention they think women don't like sex) and yet your giving it away for free your so stupid"

[Rebel]

Slut is worse because it's basically saying that the woman lets any guy fuck her for no reason except that she likes sex. Which is bad because women are only ever supposed to have sex to make babies

A prostitute is bad, but at least she's doing it for money. She has a reason to have sex beyond babies. She's still a despicable person but not as much if she was fucking just for pleasure.

People like Rush Limbaugh think women are simple minded morons who need to be told what to do by the more intelligent men-folk. We don't really need Birth Control, we just think we do.

And the fact that Rush equates Birth Control with porn astounds me. I've been taking BC since I was 13 and I have never felt any desire to film myself having sex with men (and women) I've just met for money. It's even more telling that Rush either doesn't know or doesn't believe that BC is used for other medical conditions beyond preventing babies from forming.
I assume he got all of his information about sex and women from Pro-life celibate priests and badly done dub-con porn.

[Gravekeeper]

Dickfist has doubled down and said Fluke has "Boyfriend's lined up around the block". You know, waiting their turn. Because she's such a slut. Is he *trying * to get sued for defamation?

At this point the only way he could possibly become any more of a diseased cancerous growth in the very rectum of the human race is if he joined Westboro or Al-Qaeda.

[lordlundar]

You know, I keep hearing about these people who have hit bedrock then ask for a drill, but I never thought I'd see one.

[Akasa]

Well he "apologized." Fake apology IMO. Its a "Oh shit I've lost 5 of my sponsors and more are thinking of leaving, I better say something to keep them!"

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/03...-sandra-fluke/

[XCashier]

On top of that, here's the real kicker: Aside from the fact Rush Limbaugh apparently has no damn clue how birth control works, Fluke was actually appearing before congress to speak on behalf of a friend who uses birth control to manage a medical issue.

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's the willfully ignorant. Rush does not know how birth control works, nor does he want to know. He does not want to know how it not only prevents pregnancy, it also alleviates cramps, mood swings and a host of other problems. However, taking the pill involves a woman making a decision about her own body, therefore, it is evil and cannot be allowed in his own happy little male-centric world.

Yeah, bite me, Limbaugh, you pathetic little troll.

[mikoyan29]

Limbaugh also said we should throw the book at drug offenders...that is until he became one.

[Talon]

And despite his apologetic non-apology, Carbonite has dropped him.

Oh noes, now how is Jabba the Rush going to imprison Han Solo without carbonite?

[blas87]

Just give it time, Rush will end up the same way Beck did when his tin foil hat got the best of him.

Neither of those two know when to just shut. the. fuck. up.

[Gravekeeper]

Just give it time, Rush will end up the same way Beck did when his tin foil hat got the best of him.

That'll be rich. Forcing Rush into an internet only service like Beck. Beck's audience can use the Internet ( If Free Republic is any indication ). Rush's audience thinks the Internet is some sort of witchcraft that will turn them gay if they log into windows while a woman is menstrating nearby.