Posted on 03/05/2012 1:02:35 PM PST by SeekAndFind
While Laura Ingraham waits for an encouraging call from the president to compensate for MSNBC’s Ed Schultz calling her a “slut,” “reproductive justice” activist Sandra Fluke rejects Rush Limbaugh’s sincere expression of regret for calling her the same:
The Georgetown law student who drew an apology from Rush Limbaugh this weekend after the conservative radio host called her a “slut” on his show said that his public apology wasn’t sufficient during an appearance on ABC’s “The View” today.
“I don’t think that a statement like this issued, saying that his choice of words was not the best, changes anything, and especially when that statement is issued when he’s under significant pressure from his sponsors who have begun to pull their support,” said the 30-year-old student, Sandra Fluke. …
Fluke said she has not heard from Limbaugh personally but added that she’s not hoping to speak with him.
“The statements he’s made about me over the air are personal enough, so I’d rather not have a personal phone call with him,” Fluke said.
Fluke has the luxury to reject his apology in large part because she has the support not only of the president himself, but of big-name advertisers who have exerted bully-like pressure on Limbaugh. (Even The View’s Whoopi Goldberg said she found the speed with which they were willing to abandon the radio host to be disturbing!)
At this point, while it’s plausible that Rush apologized solely because he’s losing sponsors (as Fluke suggested), it’s also plausible that he has genuinely repented of his word choice. Limbaugh not only said he was sorry with a statement online, but he also opened his show today — his first on-air appearance since advertisers began to pull their support for his program — with a repeat apology, in which he made it clear that he violated his own personal broadcasting standards. In fact, he took a full 30 minutes to explain the entire episode to his listeners, including an explanation for why his advertisers left him (h/t The Right Scoop):
Ed said this weekend he thinks Rush was right to apologize, but I’m not so sure. He was wrong to use the word “slut” in the first place — it’s just a disgusting word that’s better left unsaid and Rush’s use of it conveniently played into the leftist narrative that conservative men are misogynistic (i.e. it was both tasteless and strategically stupid of Rush to say it) — but his apology makes it seem as though he did something wrong by expressing his opinion about a legitimate subject of national commentary.
Folks have made the argument that Rush’s “personal attack” was somehow different than similar name-calling directed to the likes of Laura Ingraham, Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann. The argument typically goes something like this: Sarah Palin et. al. are public figures, while Sandra Fluke is a private citizen. But, in this instance, Fluke isn’t exactly a “private citizen.” She’s a seasoned activist who introduced the subject of Georgetown law students’ sex lives to the national debate about the Obama administration’s religious-liberty-violating contraception mandate.
Indeed, her unwillingness to accept Rush’s apology underscores that she’s far from a naive private individual who unexpectedly found herself at the center of a national controversy; she made it clear by her remarks on The View that she’s prepared to stoke this controversy as long as she derives a benefit from it. As long as advertisers continue to withdraw support for Limbaugh and the left continues to rally around Ms. Fluke, she’ll milk his remarks for all they’re worth.
The answer: Let’s stop giving Fluke the benefit of this controversy. Let’s keep the focus where it belongs and patiently continue to correct the misimpression (a.k.a. lie) that conservatives want to ban contraception. Nobody wants to ban contraception, but the Obama administration does want to force religious employers who object to contraception on religious grounds to pay for employee health insurance that includes coverage for contraception. It’s to that mandate that conservatives are politically opposed. Some conservatives are also personally opposed to contraception and to sexual promiscuity — but they’re not seeking to change the culture through the government. It’s progressives who prescribe government solutions to cultural ills and, in the process, jeopardize important freedoms.
I agree.
If Ms. Fluke is as sexually active as her testimony before Congress suggests, I’m wondering if she has any STDs, and if so, how many does she have? How many of her past sexual partners are looking into getting tested I wonder?
The dirty little secret that mizz Fluke is hiding is that she is not really a slut, but actually frigid and sexually confused.
It is Visions the Socialist Utopia that gets her nether regions moist.
So, you think Rush lied in his monolog today? I think he sincerely apologized to this loser leftist because he has scruples and character where Ms Fluke and the left are proving they have none!
A liver fluke is a parasite and so is she -- for subsidizing her fornication, no less!
Another POS libtard that needs to reduce her CO2 output.
This Fluke slut is still in the news?
America in its current sad state of sexual looseness, welcomes anything that makes it look better. Obviously I do not mean every single soul in America, but there’s a large subset that cheers for a Fluke. And it’s not because contraception is so horribly expensive, but because now getting endorsed by Uncle Sam is seen as almost as good as getting endorsed by God.
Ya know, maybe this was an insult to sluts. Maybe more sluts are honest than Sandra Fluke gives them credit for.
She is certainly a prostitute metaphorically speaking — a political prostitute. No matter what her own literal love life is like.
I do agree that Rush took the high road, if belatedly. It remains undocumented what sort of literal sex life Fluke has — whether she is a slut in the most literal sense. For all we know, she might be utterly frigid and is taking the Pill only in a vain hope. But she is a political prostitute, she is a sympathizer to literal sluts, and she is an advocate for taxpayer subsidy of literal sluts.
Rush has class. This “woman” ain’t got no class.
He ought to consider publicly extending her an invitation to be on the show anyhow... the classier Rush gets, the more it emphasizes her lack of class.
Lets face it, the right must be perfect at every turn or else. While the left can be sluts and we cannot judge. FUBO
TRexy says:
For the women who want free contraceptives, why don’t they just do what Rush Limbaugh’s sponsors did, “PULL OUT”!
MadMax asks: If Law School student Susan Fluke wants $3,000 worth of contraceptives, and plans to use them, when does she have time to study?
Confuscious says: “I thought a Fluke was either a fish or an anomally”
to which an old Japanese philospher replied, “Re this woman, Fluke you, you cheap skate”
(For those who don’t know your fish, a Fluke and a Skate are flat types of fish/rays).
We FRpers are always willing to educate the unwashed on the Left.
Here we go again with the nasty, man hating feminazis claiming to speak for women. She does not speak for me.
Thanks for adding that a “fluke” is a parasite too.
I think this really sums up Susan Fluke. She is a parasite on the taxpayers of America. That is why she is the new heroine of the Democrats/Left.
They love “parasites”, “welfare queens”, promiscuous girls/women who have numerous children by numerous men without marrying any of them, and then getting taxpayer money to house, feed, educate and clothe them.
Yes, Susan Fluke is the perfect feminist parasite, and if you’ve ever seen a liver fluke, it has hooks in its mouth that dig into you and you cannot get them out.
SOMEBODY POST A PICTURE OF FLUKE AND A LIVER FLUKE NEXT TO EACH OTHER, AND CAPTION THEM, THE “PERFECT OBAMA WOMAN”.
Maybe someone can also put a picture of Michele and Fluke next to each other. Caption it, “The wookie and her fluke” - “the new Democratic women”.
Uh, uh, uh!
It’s hard to watch this without puking:
I just hate the way greasy liberals phrase things:
She said “...women who have been UNABLE TO ACCESS contraceptives as a result of the lack of insurance coverage...”
“UNABLE TO ACCESS???” WTF^2??
I think she should be saying “too cheap to buy” (they have costly iPhone plans no doubt, but can’t “access” contraceptives)? Give me a break, libtard.
She’s presenting this as if some bogeyman/strawman is blocking her so-called “access” to contraceptives. What a slick sales job these liberals do.
“ACCESS” is such a cowardly liberal code word for entitlement accessories that someone else “should” pay for.
Greedy liberals at it again..
Here’s the MSNBC Ed Schultz clip calling Laura Ingraham a SLUT:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLeGQr9TK6g
Spread this around, folks!
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