I do not understand the hate for Rush and the support for Fluke by average, non-political women.
2 observations:
FAR too many people took Bush=Hitler seriously.
The Bar will NOT turn a wommyn down, not unless they have an extra few million $ lying around;)
I didn’t see her and I didn’t hear him. I do know that Rush could have used the word “orange” and his political opponents would try to make political hay from it.
Newt had a good response to the whole thing, much to the interviewer’s dismay
http://www.youtube.com/v/w52fkRLl8AU
I think Rush was aggravated by the left’s disgusting comments about Breibart’s death, Maher calling Sarah Palin the c word and on and on until he said fair’s fair.
I don’t think that much damage has been done. Fluker is a Cindy Sheenan. America things she’s a gold digging slut.
Could it be a hypothetical where she was talking about frequent use of the abortion pill by some female students?
That would be consistent with Rush’s joke about more sex cost more $$$ for more birth control. I am not saying that I know what Rush was referencing.
Dems count on making the distinction between conception prevention pills and pregnancy termination pills be blurred in the average voters minds when they use the term ‘birth control’.
And the Republicans are doing what to combat this stupidity? Where are they taking up what amounts to a non-issue? where are they calling the Democrats on the carpet by discussing high gas prices, high unemployment and high numbers of Americans receiving food stamps and other social welfare programs?
Good article.
The REAL ISSUE issue is being LOST and Rush is the reason.
The REAL ISSUE could have been a watershed moment for the Republican candidates. Rush completely sucked the wind out the Republican campaign. Some of the candidates were trying to make the point he lost ... which could have had a very decisive outcome in the election.
But no, it is more importnat for ONE person to have some fun at another individuals expense than to MAKE AN IMPORTANT POINT and have it resonate and possibly change the outcome of PPACA (Obamacare) and at the same time hurt Obama’s chances at re-election.
Let’s face it. Rush makes more money if Obama wins.
Make of that what you will.
I'm also sick of the way the Republican candidates have let the message drift into bashing each other (Romney obviously the worst offender) rather than bashing Obama.
At this point I've decided to pretty much ignore politics until after the Republican convention...no point in raising my blood pressure over it.
With clueless "friends" like you, conservatives don't need any other enemies.
I appreciate your argument. One thing you might want to correct — since Fluke didn’t actually testify at a real hearing (it was a fake hearing, one of those gatherings where democrats get together and pretend to hold a hearing where only their side talks), she was never under oath, so she wouldn’t commit perjury by lying.
This may be why, when the republicans offered to allow the democrats to call her as a witness at the real hearing, the democrats ended up choosing a different witness, and then cancelling that witness as well.
But, she talked about six select women. One of them was a woman who was raped and, in Fluke's words, didn't seek medical care:
"even to be examined or tested for sexually transmitted infections because she thought insurance wasn’t going to cover something like that, something that was related to a woman’s reproductive health."
Laughable, right? The woman's problem wasn't that she didn't have contraception paid for by Georgetown; the woman's problem was that she was stupid. Contraception doesn't fix stupid.
Rush could have had a field day with that.
But he didn't. He went on and on about how much sex Fluke claimed she was having - three guys a night, and so on, when Fluke never mentioned her own sex life or use of contraception.
And Fluke said a married coed at Georgetown couldn't afford prescription contraception. We know, and Rush could have told the world, that it's available for $9 to $15 a month, generic. But Rush said that Fluke was buying condoms in the sixth grade, and that she was a prostitute.
And Fluke claimed that a woman had a medical condition and her doctors prescribed a contraceptive to treat it, but the evil insurance company personally interviewed the woman and decided that she wanted to have sex, and that was the reason for the contraceptive, so they denied coverage.
Can you imagine El-Rushmo riffing on that? It would be hilarious. But he didn't. He talking about how Fluke was base and immoral to be telling the world she was having sex with so many men.
Rush completely missed the mark twice. Fluke threw him softballs. He didn't even swing at them. And then he made up all of these things she supposedly said about her own sex life, and called her a slut as a result, when she never mentioned her sex life, the cost of her own contraceptives, or whether she was even on or needed contraception.
Does that make sense?
That's still too short-sighted. This is not a war on religion, it's a war on freedom. Why should only religious organizations have an exemption? Why should a Catholic owner of a secular business be compelled to provide birth control? Heck, why should an atheist owner of a secular business be compelled to provide birth control?