Are you certain?
A lot of his comments sounded like he was saying she was super-promiscuous. He called her "the Georgetown student who went before a congressional committee and said she's having so much sex, she's going broke buying contraceptives."
He said "She's having so much sex she can't afford the contraception.'
He claimed she said "I'm going broke having sex!" (and since the birth control pill is paid by the month, he meant she was using a lot of condoms).
He asked Fluke who bought her condoms in the sixth grade.
He said "I know what her virtue is. She's having so much sex that she's going broke! There's no question about her virtue."
Those are only a portion of his statements.
I'm leaving out the parts about how she said she was having so much sex she couldn't walk and things like that. By the way, Rush Limbaugh has removed the transcripts of his comments about Fluke from the 2/29 and 3/1 broadcasts.
I think a fair read of what Rush Limbaugh said is that she was promiscuous.
Rush really blew this one.
A conservative man should always strive to be a gentleman, even when dealing with women who are not ladies.
“I think a fair read of what Rush Limbaugh said is that she was promiscuous.”
Not if you read it IN CONTEXT!
If he really thought she was a slut, or super-promiscuous, it wouldn’t be funny. It would be sad. The reason he was laughing was because the idea was so ridiculous.
Yes, if you take individual sentences out of a 3 hour broadcast, you can make it mean almost anything. But if he really thought that Fluke and others at Georgetown were having 1-2000 episodes of sex every year, then it would VALIDATE her testimony rather than refute it.
He used absurdity to highlight absurdity - as he always does. The idea that a coed in law school has time for sex 5 times a day is absurd - thus the idea that a coed in law school needs the government to help her pay for her birth control is absurd.
The first absurdity (she has sex over 1,000 times each year) reveals the second absurdity (she needs help paying for birth control). The first is a funny mental image, but the fact that the idea is ridiculous means her testimony and her argument for sponsored birth control was ridiculous.
I think Rush apologized because it became obvious that people didn’t appreciate the irony. Hard as it is for me to believe, they didn’t realize that the idea of a law school coed having sex well in excess of 1,000 times a year is ridiculous.
What has shocked me is that so many on FreeRepublic also didn’t catch the point...