Rush Limbaugh - Official Thread

[Punch]

Re: Rush Limbaugh is the health of America

Foreshadowing.

 

[actinanass]

Re: Rush Limbaugh is the health of America

I thought Rush wasn't important anymore?

 

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Rush Limbaugh Speaks to Reporters in Hawaii About His Chest Pains

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Rush Limbaugh spoke with reporters today in Hawaii about the chest pains he experienced on Wednesday that resulted in him being rushed to the hospital.

 

[thoughtone]

Re: Rush Limbaugh Speaks to Reporters in Hawaii About His Chest Pains

This was just a stunt to highlight bought off corporatist’s capitalist pig Limbaugh’s feeble attempt, last ditch effort to try and thwart the impending insurance legislation. . Why would dope head Limbaugh follow President Obama to Hawaii? The insurance lobby is sparing no expense as a last ditch effort to try and stop it.

 

[hocjo2626]

Re: Rush Limbaugh Speaks to Reporters in Hawaii About His Chest Pains

WELL WHOOPTY FUCKING' DO FOR YOU YA' BALD-EAGLE LOOKING BITCH. GETTING CHEST PAINS AND DON'T KNOW WHAT CAUSED'EM.....HUMMMMMMMMMMM...........THE PAINS DIDN'T HAPPEN FOR NOTHING.....

 

[actinanass]

Rush Limbaugh on Pelosi March 14,2010

RUSH: Pelosi was talking about how artists and photographers will now be able to quit their jobs if we pass health care. (laughing) This is what they're fighting for.

PELOSI: Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or, eh, a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance, or that people could start a business and be entrepreneurial and take risk but not [be] job-locked because a child has asthma or someone in the family is bipolar. You name it. Any condition is job-blocking.

RUSH: So this is what the Democrats are fighting for. They're fighting for you not to have a job and still have health care so you can pursue your entrepreneurial risk of writing, painting, taking pictures. It's just such a pain in the rear end to have to have a job. It's so damn mean of this country to require people to have a job. It stifles people. It stifles creativity and economic growth to require people to have a job, to have health care. What a country. Man, are we horribly rotten mean to people. So Pelosi says go ahead, health care will allow people to quit their jobs and write, take pictures and paint while the rest of us work to pay for it. While the rest of us work to pay for these... never mind.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: Now, I want to play this sound bite again from Nancy Pelosi. This is what Democrats are fighting for. Nancy Pelosi, this idiot Pelosi, thinks this country is Woodstock or Moscow or something. Listen to this.

PELOSI: Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or, eh, a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance, or that people could start a business and be entrepreneurial and take risk but not [be] job-locked because a child has asthma or someone in the family is bipolar. You name it. Any condition is job-blocking.

RUSH: So they're fighting for people to be able to quit work while the rest of us pay for their health care while they go out and be artists and photographers and tend to bipolar kids with asthma or what have you, and we're going to pay for this. This idiot thinks this is Woodstock. I mean, it's right out of the San Francisco mentality. It's just breathtaking here.
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RUSH: I still can't get over this sound bite number four. Listen to this again.

PELOSI: Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or, eh, a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance, or that people could start a business and be entrepreneurial and take risk but not [be] job-locked because a child has asthma or someone in the family is bipolar. You name it. Any condition is job-blocking.

RUSH: At least one of Pelosi's 25 kids or however many she has is a documentary filmmaker. One of her kids is a documentary filmmaker. I forget her name. (interruption) Yeah, it's the one that hassled and tailed Bush around during the 2000 campaign. (laughing) She really... I mean, she thinks of the country as Woodstock or as San Francisco.

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RUSH: Folks, we can time travel. Remember how I opened this program. In Greece, austerity cutbacks coming to a state near you, by the way. The media walked off the job to join the protest. Even uniformed police walked off the job to join the protest in uniform. Now, if you live in five or six states, probably more, you're not going to get your income tax refund this year for many, many months. All the while, you have to watch Washington pass health care reform, which is going to add to your taxes like you can't believe. They're going to be taking more money from you, denying you your overpayment, your refund at the state level, and guess what? Another reason why we will not hear the words health care reform after if Obama signs it is because what's up next? Immigration, amnesty and what does that mean? That means adding 25 million illegals to the health care rolls paid for by all of us, except for those who want to quit their jobs to become artists and filmmakers while the rest of us pay for their health care benefits. Why don't we just give them food and water, too, in addition to health care, if they're going to quit their jobs to follow their dream.

Back in the Depression in Hollywood do you remember the movie Holiday starring Cary Grant? Old, old movie. During the Depression they made movie after movie all about dropping out of the capitalist system to find yourself. Yes, you can look it up. All kinds of movies. Just drop out during the Depression, see what capitalism has done for you, just drop out and find yourself. So history repeats, cycles repeat, and it's all out there. So the question now, if this thing passes, Obama signs it and nobody wants it, what happens? Let's go to Greece. What happens? And then who joins who? I, for one, am going to be fascinated to watch.
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RUSH: Listen to Pelosi again. Oh! I got a note from my buddy Vince Flynn when he heard this. Let me find it. I want to print it out real quick. Vince has an interesting story about this. Here's Pelosi. This is from last night on MessNBC.

PELOSI: Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or, eh, a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance, or that people could start a business and be entrepreneurial and take risk but not [be] job-locked because a child has asthma or someone in the family is bipolar. You name it. Any condition is job-blocking.

RUSH: I get angrier each time I hear it. So quit work. Indulge your fantasies. Become an artist or documentarian, photographer, what have you -- and let the rest of us pay for your health care bill. And, by the way, while you're out there finding yourself, if you happen to get pregnant and want to have an abortion, no worries! We'll pay for that, too. But I want to focus on something here. "Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance." Now, one of the things that Obama has promised is that you will not lose your coverage. If you like it, you'll be able to keep it. Here is Pelosi admitting: If you're able to quit your job and have "free," quote-unquote, health coverage, who is hell is providing it for you? Government.

Pelosi inasmuch as confirmed single-payer, public option, universal health care in this quote, while she's attempting to establish solidarity with the nation's freeloaders! She's encouraging the freeloaders to freeload. Isn't it such a shame that this country requires people to work to have health care? How inhumane is that? So we're going to enable you to quit! If you want to dabble sitting there writing things, taking pictures or painting garbage that nobody will ever be able to understand, go for it! And we'll give you your health care. And, by the way, when the 25 million illegals get amnesty? Hey, they're going to join you! We'll be paying their health care too. All the while the states are withholding your income tax refunds. All of this is your money. It's mind-boggling.

In Detroit, they're going to level the place just like Mao did. They're going to level blighted areas and turn it into farms, and they're going to tell people where they have to move. It's amazing. Vince Flynn sent me a note. "You know, Rush, when I was writing my first novel a friend told me I should apply for a grant from the government that was offered to support starving artists. I can't tell you how much this deeply offended me. I told her in very clear language..." and I know what Vince Flynn clear language is. "I told her in very clear language that I thought it was ridiculous to think that other Americans ought to pay for me to chase my dream. Anybody who understands pride and self-determination gets this. So I bartended at night, I wrote during the day, and I paid for my own damn insurance. I didn't expect anybody else to pick it up for me, and now we've got the Speaker of the House encouraging people to just check out!"

Just move to Haight-Ashbury. Just be done with it. Move out there and start painting murals or whatever you want to do, and all of your neighbors will come up and pay for your health care for you.
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RUSH: Oliver in Wichita. Great to have you on the program. Nice to have you here.

CALLER: Thank you very much. Thank you for doing the work, and I think you're more of a journalist than anybody else out there.

RUSH: Well, be careful, because I laugh, and journalists don't smile.

CALLER: Well, I know. I know you always say you're an entertainer, but I think you're more of a journalist because what you're saying I believe to be the truth.

RUSH: I appreciate that. Thank you very much.

CALLER: Well, here are the facts. I'm 27 years old. I've been on the taxpaying workforce for ten years. I've been living on my own for nine years. Everything I've ever bought I've earned, even health care. I mean, I've paid myself with cash. The only debt I have alone is my car. My point is, I'm an artist. I trained for three years at the Actor's Lab here in Wichita, Kansas, with Tracy Sloat to be an actor. I wanted to be an actor since I was five, and I paid for that tuition with my own money. I would love to move to New York and I would love to pursue my craft full time, but I'm not going to do so until I can save up the money making an honest living to do that -- and even when I move there, I will even get a job to supplement my income because savings, like a stimulus, does not last forever. I don't know why Pelosi would even say something like that. I mean, I wish she would stop to pursue art.

RUSH: (laughing)

CALLER: You know, it would be terrible for the art community, but it would be great for our country.

RUSH: You're great! How old are you? How old are you, Oliver? Right, you're twenty-seven. When you tell people that you have paid your own way on all these things, are they proud or do they think you're "out of touch" and you don't know what life is really like in this country anymore?

CALLER: They think I'm proud, and they actually say, "I don't know anybody like you." (laughing)

RUSH: Yeah.

CALLER: They're usually adults. Actually, a son that works for the owners of the company I work for, he recently just got on unemployment. He quit the job to get unemployment to get about $460 a week, and he doesn't know why everybody doesn't get on unemployment so they can go to school or hang out. He wants to go, like, on a vacation every single month. He's in Cancun right now. He doesn't get why people don't do that. I'm like, "Well, because some people understand what this country was made and founded on."

RUSH: Oliver, have you ever said to this guy, "Zeke," or whatever his name is, "Zeke, have you ever stopped to think that it's people like me paying you to do nothing like this? Have you ever stopped to think that maybe you are stealing from everybody? You're capable of getting a job and you refuse to do it. You're going on vacation. Does it ever occur to you that it's people like me who are making it possible for you, and you don't even say 'thanks'?"

CALLER: Yeah. I've said that to other people. I didn't say it to him because things are tenuous at my job right now. He's the owner's son. And to be honest I was just in the position to lose my job and collect unemployment.

RUSH: Wait a second!

CALLER: But I fought really hard to keep it.

RUSH: Hold it!

CALLER: So that I didn't have to get unemployment.

RUSH: He's the owner's son?

CALLER: He's the owner's son, and he has quit every job there, like every department, to go to another one because he complained about it. He doesn't like it. He didn't like what it was about and everything. But he complained and everything. And they gave him another job, another job, another job to be here. Now he just quit to take unemployment because he wasn't making enough money.

RUSH: Good Lord.

CALLER: I'm afraid I'm going to lose my job (crosstalk) now.

RUSH: He doesn't even have the courage to sponge off his own father! He's got to sponge off the rest of us. This really offends me. The owner's kid quits every job and then signs up for unemployment. He ought to be sponging off his own dad! I know you can't say that; your job's tenuous. This guy really has no character. Zilch, zero. Nada.
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RUSH: Lynn in Delaware. Great to have you on the program.

CALLER: Hi. Are you there?

RUSH: Yeah, right here.

CALLER: Such a joy to talk to you.

RUSH: Thank you very much.

CALLER: I just wanted to say that I think Pelousy is speaking to the lowest common denominator of our society. And I loved the e-mail from Vince Flynn. I think he speaks for more of us than Pelosi in our pride in our country, and I completely agree with you that the outrage over this healthcare bill will not wait until November. The Tea Party Express is already on the road, and by April 15th it's going to make last year's protests with over a million people --

RUSH: The tea Parties are having rallies all over the country, one in Georgia, one over in Tampa on April 15th, tax day. They're going to have tens of thousands of people at these things. So, Snerdley, if you want to send in a report on how the Democrat Party has totally destroyed the black family as a human rights violation, do it. And if you want to send in a report that the Democrat Party is lining up seasoned citizens to have their health circumstances reviewed by death panels, feel free. Go right ahead. Just sign it Bo Snerdley when you send it in there, because citizens can do this.
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[QueEx]

Re: Rush Limbaugh on Pelosi March 14,2010

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October 05, 2010


Rush Limbaugh on Tuesday added to his already long list of verbal slams on President Barack Obama, calling the president a “jackass.”

The conservative talk show host also called Obama an “economic ignoramus” and an “idiot” – all in the context of a Limbaugh rant on why the Bush tax cuts should be extended for all taxpayers, including the richest Americans.

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http://www.politico.com/blogs/onmedia/1010/Limbaughs_latest_Obama_slam.html

 

[actinanass]

Still on it huh?

 

[thoughtone]

Re: Rush Limbaugh is the health of America

I thought Rush wasn't important anymore?

So you are saying Beck has taken over his mantle?

 

[QueEx]

Still on it huh?

Yep. Thought you may have needed more hate derived anti-Obama fodder. Apparently, I was right.

QueEx

 

[actinanass]

So you are saying Beck has taken over his mantle?

Yep. Thought you may have needed more hate derived anti-Obama fodder. Apparently, I was right.

QueEx

I don't remember me saying that Beck is anything. It's like you putting Moveon.org against the Huffington Post. Hell they are on the same team....

Que, I listens to Rush everyday. While you are stuck on the jackass comment, you missed what really could be a worst insult. Rush has been the believer of the theory that all of this is all in Obama's plans. That is why health care was a bigger issue than giving incentives to businesses to create more jobs. Thus, why unemployment is still at 9%. In all reality, that's more insulting than calling Obama a "jackass". It was all cool with Obama used that on Kanye, but since Rush said it about him...OH IT'S SOOO DISRESPECTFUL. GTFOHWTS!!!!

 

[thoughtone]

I don't remember me saying that Beck is anything. It's like you putting Moveon.org against the Huffington Post. Hell they are on the same team....

Que, I listens to Rush everyday. While you are stuck on the jackass comment, you missed what really could be a worst insult. Rush has been the believer of the theory that all of this is all in Obama's plans. That is why health care was a bigger issue than giving incentives to businesses to create more jobs. Thus, why unemployment is still at 9%. In all reality, that's more insulting than calling Obama a "jackass". It was all cool with Obama used that on Kanye, but since Rush said it about him...OH IT'S SOOO DISRESPECTFUL. GTFOHWTS!!!!

It's like you putting Moveon.org against the Huffington Post.

I have no idea how or why you used this comparison to Limbaugh? You continue to pull statements out of your ass.

In all reality, that's more insulting than calling Obama a "jackass".

GW lovers were all up in arms when he was ruining things by saying his detractors showed no respect for GW or the presidency. Now you defend this racist. You have absolutely no shame!

 

[QueEx]

Que, I listens to Rush everyday. While you are stuck on the jackass comment, you missed what really could be a worst insult. Rush has been the believer of the theory that all of this is all in Obama's plans. That is why health care was a bigger issue than giving incentives to businesses to create more jobs. Thus, why unemployment is still at 9%. In all reality, that's more insulting than calling Obama a "jackass". It was all cool with Obama used that on Kanye, but since Rush said it about him...OH IT'S SOOO DISRESPECTFUL. GTFOHWTS!!!!

Bro, I'm not surprised by anything Limpbaugh says nor am I surprised by anything his followers believe. I find it appalling that a person of his stature with the ability to influence thousands, perhaps millions, to want the President to fail, at whatever cost, and propagandizes daily towards that end, simply because of his self-serving views, at the expense of everyone and everything else. Some American. Likewise, I find incredible those who follow him, everyday.

QueEx

 

[thoughtone]

Bro, I'm not surprised by anything Limpbaugh says nor am I surprised by anything his followers believe. I find it appalling that a person of his stature with the ability to influence thousands, perhaps millions, to want the President to fail, at whatever cost, and propagandizes daily towards that end, simply because of his self-serving views, at the expense of everyone and everything else. Some American. Likewise, I find incredible those who follow him, everyday.

QueEx

want the President

How patriotic!

 

[actinanass]

I have no idea how or why you used this comparison to Limbaugh? You continue to pull statements out of your ass.




GW lovers were all up in arms when he was ruining things by saying his detractors showed no respect for GW or the presidency. Now you defend this racist. You have absolutely no shame!

Bro, I'm not surprised by anything Limpbaugh says nor am I surprised by anything his followers believe. I find it appalling that a person of his stature with the ability to influence thousands, perhaps millions, to want the President to fail, at whatever cost, and propagandizes daily towards that end, simply because of his self-serving views, at the expense of everyone and everything else. Some American. Likewise, I find incredible those who follow him, everyday.

QueEx

How patriotic!

1. Oh! I forgot, Moveon.org is one of your "credible" political sources. How dare I put moveon.org within the same sentence with the likes of Rush Limbaugh, and Glenn Beck!!!

2. Is everyone racist if they criticize Obama's actions? It seems like the people who don't listen to his show, that gets information from "credible" news sources are the only ones who claim that this man is a racist. I'm still trying to find the smoking gun so I can quit listening to Rush. I'm still waiting on that day too...

3. Influence? I guess we all suppose to agree with EVERYTHING Obama is trying to do. People are more mad at this congress than at Obama. In fact, if Obama would work for the will of the PEOPLE on some issues *...jobs come in mind* Rush wouldn't be a big deal like after 96. If you are wondering how RUSH has the ability to "influence" so many listeners, you might need to ask why are so many people listening to him in the first place? Trust me, race isn't a big deal like you think it is...

Please don't even use the word "patriotic". You hated everything Bush stand for, and still do. At least I give an out for Obama. You "thought" would never give Bush any credit.

 

[thoughtone]

1. Oh! I forgot, Moveon.org is one of your "credible" political sources. How dare I put moveon.org within the same sentence with the likes of Rush Limbaugh, and Glenn Beck!!!

2. Is everyone racist if they criticize Obama's actions? It seems like the people who don't listen to his show, that gets information from "credible" news sources are the only ones who claim that this man is a racist. I'm still trying to find the smoking gun so I can quit listening to Rush. I'm still waiting on that day too...

3. Influence? I guess we all suppose to agree with EVERYTHING Obama is trying to do. People are more mad at this congress than at Obama. In fact, if Obama would work for the will of the PEOPLE on some issues *...jobs come in mind* Rush wouldn't be a big deal like after 96. If you are wondering how RUSH has the ability to "influence" so many listeners, you might need to ask why are so many people listening to him in the first place? Trust me, race isn't a big deal like you think it is...

Please don't even use the word "patriotic". You hated everything Bush stand for, and still do. At least I give an out for Obama. You "thought" would never give Bush any credit.

Oh! I forgot, Moveon.org is one of your "credible" political sources.

...and Limbaugh is yours?

 

[actinanass]

...and Limbaugh is yours?

I put limbaugh in there with moveon.org and the Huffington post. Only because we all know that it's slanted. Credibility is the thing of the past. It's all about what opinions you have, and how you present it.

 

[thoughtone]

I put limbaugh in there with moveon.org and the Huffington post. Only because we all know that it's slanted. Credibility is the thing of the past. It's all about what opinions you have, and how you present it.

How do/did you form your opinions?

 

[actinanass]

How do/did you form your opinions?

I have a very politically opinionated family. I grew up listening to political debates. The only thing people like Rush has accomplished is that they provide confirmation to the beliefs that I've already possessed.

 

[thoughtone]

I have a very politically opinionated family. I grew up listening to political debates. The only thing people like Rush has accomplished is that they provide confirmation to the beliefs that I've already possessed.

My family is politically opinionated. I have many differing views from them. Beliefs are not facts. What books have you, do you read? What world experiences have you had? Confirming beliefs doesn't get you any closer to the truth. Now I know why you don't believe in science.

 

[QueEx]

<font size="3">Que, I listens [sic] to Rush everyday . . .</font size>

<font size=”3">I put limbaugh in there with moveon.org and the Huffington post. Only because we all know that it's slanted.

Credibility is the thing of the past.

It's all about what opinions you have, and how you present it.

<font size="3">Now I understand why you think the way that you do.

QueEx</font size>

 

[Greed]

<font size="3">Now I understand why you think the way that you do.

QueEx</font size>

Independent of good or bad, he is definitely right. In the modern world reality isn't objective. Reality is now majority-rule, so just tell people what they want to hear. Like spending makes you richer.

 

[QueEx]

I don't think I'm of this "modern world."

QueEx

 

[Greed]

Yea you are. You'll suffer along with the rest of us. Love it.

 

[thoughtone]

Independent of good or bad, he is definitely right. In the modern world reality isn't objective. Reality is now majority-rule, so just tell people what they want to hear. Like spending makes you richer.

In the modern world reality isn't objective. Reality is now majority-rule, so

Reality is what CEOs deem is in their interests, right?

Like spending makes you richer

Spending on lobbyists.

 

[Greed]

Reality is what CEOs deem is in their interests, right?



Spending on lobbyists.

You're right. That's why you should be against big government because invariably it is taken over by big business.

 

[QueEx]

Yea you are. You'll suffer along with the rest of us. Love it.

You're right; I am and I do/will.

RE:

Independent of good or bad, he is definitely right. In the modern world reality isn't objective. Reality is now majority-rule, so just tell people what they want to hear. Like spending makes you richer.

But I believe (perhaps as everyone else does) that my view of reality is based on the objective evidence, influenced of course, by my life's baggage and my particular idiosyncracies. But a lot of the opinion I hear, doesn't appear to be based in the first instance upon much objectivity, as skewed as that may be by our individual experiences and perceptions.


QueEx

 

[actinanass]

My family is politically opinionated. I have many differing views from them. Beliefs are not facts. What books have you, do you read? What world experiences have you had? Confirming beliefs doesn't get you any closer to the truth. Now I know why you don't believe in science.

First of all, how does science get thrown in this conversation?

Secondly, you don't believe in SCIENCE. Believing means that I have faith that science is the absolute truth in how the world works. I don't see things in absolutes. What I do believe in is that there should healthy balance between my faith, and the use of science. In other words, it would be foolish to put one over the other.

Finally, what does it matter what books I've read *not saying I haven't any books*? Anything I state, you will criticize. I would say this, however, the foundation in which my beliefs were established were from listening to older, hard working, male role models from all races.

 

[thoughtone]

bump

 

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Opening statement from Georgetown Law Center student Sandra Fluke before the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committe on women's health and contraception. She was blocked from testifying at a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee the previous week on the 2010 health care law regulation requiring employers and insurers provide contraception coverage to their employees. The first panel of that hearing only had men as witnesses. See the complete hearing with Fluke here: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/HealthandC

 

[MASTERBAKER]

Re: Sandra Fluke Opening Statement (C-SPAN)

Calling for All College Sluts

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[thoughtone]

source: CBS News


Limbaugh apologizes to Sandra Fluke


Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh apologized to women's contraception activist Sandra Fluke for his "insulting word choices" after calling her a "slut" and a "prostitute" after her testimony before Congress.

"My choice of words was not the best, and in the attempt to be humorous, I created a national stir. I sincerely apologize to Ms. Fluke for the insulting word choices," Limbaugh said in a statement released on his website Saturday.

Limbaugh's statements caused a firestorm, leading Congressional Democrats to challenge Republican leadership to "repudiate" Limbaugh's remarks; it prompted a phone call by President Obama to Fluke, the Georgetown University law student, to offer her support; and presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum were forced to make statement about Limbaugh's comments.


The storm not only swirled around Limbaugh, he began to feel some of the impact, too. After his statements and subsequent public reaction, three advertisers, including two mattress companies, pulled their ads from his radio program.


<!--pagebreak-->Although he apologized, in the same statement the fiery radio host called Fluke's testimony before a mock Congressional hearing "absurd."

"I think it is absolutely absurd that during these very serious political times, we are discussing personal sexual recreational activities before members of Congress," he wrote, but he added: "I chose the wrong words in my analogy of the situation. I did not mean a personal attack on Ms. Fluke."

On his radio show on February 29, Limbaugh elevated the debate to the next level when he said: "What does it say about the college co-ed Sandra Fluke, who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex? What does that make her?"

"It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute."

"She wants to be paid to have sex," Limbaugh continued on his radio program. "She's having so much sex she can't afford the contraception."

The point Limbaugh said he was trying to make was that taxpayers' dollars should not be used for contraception coverage.


Limbaugh was referring to Fluke's testimony before the Democrat-organized mock hearing after being cut from the witness list by Republican leadership at an official hearing on the president's recent decision to require insurance companies provide contraception coverage for employees of religious-affiliated institutions.

Her testimony did not talk about sex at the hearing but discussed the importance of birth control coverage for Georgetown University Law School students for family planning and health reasons.

Fluke told CBS News that Limbaugh's incendiary comments are meant to "silence" women.

"It's an attempt to silence women. That's really what it's about, if we're called these names, then we'll go away and we won't demand the health care we deserve and we need and I think women have proven those folks wrong," said Fluke.

 

[QueEx]

Re: Limbaugh Rooting for Planet to Explode

damn you love being pulled offsides by Rush.

. . . you think maybe Rush got pulled offsides, this time - - on a "Fluke" play

 

[actinanass]

My thoughts on what Rush said.

When I heard the statement, the first thing that came into my mind was "the media will run with this one". I would say this, the fact that we have women, who would run to a congressional hearing, asking for someone to pay their birth control is more offending than what rush said.

Rush did go over the line on his comments *knowing how sensitive this world is*.

BTW, why the fuck would Imus talk down on Rush when Rush's comment was in context with the subject he was talking about. Rush was talking about the birth control debate. Imus just said some racist shit that had nothing to do with the game. I'm sure there's more people who would listen to what Rush said, and think "Really? This girl really wants us to pay for her birth control?".

Rush should have never used the sex tape analogy. That's what made it "offensive".

 

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I'm sure there's more people who would listen to what Rush said, and think "Really? This girl really wants us to pay for her birth control?".

That is a supremely wild assumption.