We do live in the 21st century, right? Is it 2012? By some of the commentaries, regarding women, being made by some presidential candidates and now, Rush Limbaugh, it almost seems like we’re living in the 19th century, when women didn’t have many rights at all.
Sandra Fluke spoke before Congress in support of President Obama’s birth control regulation, and how it should be included as part of health insurance. Rush Limbaugh lambasted her on his radio program and compared her to a slut and prostitute. He later “apologized” (not really) by saying, “My choice of words was not the best, and in the attempt to be humorous, I created a national stir.” I did not know that calling this young woman a slut or prostitute would be considered humorous. Mr. Limbaugh’s arrogance is shameful. What’s also shameful is that he still has a venue where he can continue to degrade people when he doesn’t agree with them, and not suffer any consequences.
Maria Acevedo
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This is how deep in the sewer the conservative movement has ventured. And it's why Obama will win in November.
I just love how everyone's first reaction when life throws them a curve is to sue. No wonder why the courts and the taxpayers money is wasted.
Your statement to sue is just another example of how the "progressive" crowd attempts to limit free speech. It's almost as bad as Gloria Alred's calling for Rush to be arrested for his statements. Sometimes I wonder if i'm living in 1930's Germany.
As for the root issue of religiously affiliated institutions being mandated to offer contraceptive benefits as a part of their health plans, in a perfect world the market would handle this and not the government. If all female employees (and sympathetic male employees) of catholic hospitals, schools, etc. either didn’t apply for jobs there or quit as a result of the these organization's archaic and backwards beliefs, then I imagine these organizations might be forced to catch up to the 21st century. Of course that’s an unlikely scenario, hence the mandate.
Maria, you got this all wrong. She spoke in front of a bogus committee hearing, intentionally set up to make the Republicans look bad and give the president a chance to improve his horrid poll numbers with the female demographic (all those moms who've been losing their homes and jobs are finally catching on to him, and the young college girls are much more concerned with other things this political season).
Not only that, your wording neglects to explain how this woman was up there DEMANDING that taxpayers pay for her birth control or at the very least that Obama use the power of the government to force private insurers to pay, which only drives costs up and besides that goes against every tenet of a free society.
Quit thinking on such small and petty terms lady. This is bigger than whether you get your Yaz each month for free. By the way, if you're a liberal who wants to get free pills, you go get them at Planned Parenthood, provided by charities that fund it (there you go, supporters of Komen). You're basically giving your money one way or another. Nothing is free. Start taking responsibility for your own bodies! This is what I did and this is what I taught my daughters. And yes, if that had been them up there (and it would not have been) I'd have been terribly disappointed. The entitlement mentality has permeated our world to the extent I fear we are doomed. What's next? Will you people demand we provide your botox too, your tanning bed time?
You're also ignoring the fact that her whole testimony was about the uses of birth control that do not have a sex component, such as for treatment of ovarian cysts.
That'll teach em, right, you guardians of free speech!
By their non-factual comments, it's obvious Maria and the Last Ga Dem have not listened to Rush Limbaugh this last week. Likely never.
What's funny is that at least two of the advertisers that pulled from Rush's show, Sleep Number Beds and the computer backup company, are now advertising on FOX News Channel. The lesson here, Last Ga. Dem, is that companies need to advertize to conservatives because they are the demographic that actually keeps business going. What a bunch of hypocrits you all are!
Gotta love the libs. Their oh so correct contemporary thinking and calls for civility extend only so far as they agree with what you have to say (or what they think you have/would say).
Sadly, most libs don't even actually listen to what people they disagree with say. The libtards rely on other libtards to tell them who to be outraged about/hate/offended by, etc.
I didn't say that it was okay that the left wants to take away Rush's venues and sponsors.
I said that Limbaugh has suffered enough damage from the fallout after his poorly-thought out comments and there is no need for the left to be totally slash-and-burn in trying to silence Rush and anyone who opposes their agenda.
On his HBO show Maher uses the c-word and terms like "boob" to denigrate women he disagrees with.
Is the president in the process of drafting a speech stating why this, too, is revolting and unacceptable? Is the above Maria upset that he hasn't yet -- and probably won't? And that the liberal mainstream media isn't demanding it?
The real thing we should be discussing is Obama's continued break from reality when it comes to the cost of gasoline. Just watch him on this topic. Or his lack of a housing policy. How many women and children have been forced from their homes because his one program was a miserable failure?
Limbaugh has suffered very severe consequences in that as of Midnight Eastern Standard Time on Thursday the Rush Limbaugh Show has reportedly lost close to 50 major high-dollar sponsors.
With the loss of numerous major advertisers, tens-of-millions in advertising revenues and hundreds-of-stations around the country being pressured by left-wing interest groups to drop Rush's program, the point has been proved that Limbaugh's comments towards Ms. Fluke were clearly inappropriate.
Limbaugh has just as much of a right to speak his opinion as Ms. Fluke did on Capitol Hill and everyone has the right to disagree with Limbaugh and demand that sponsors drop their ads.
But getting sponsors to yank their ads from his show just does not seem to be enough by the left who has been feigning to see Rush yanked off of the air and silenced completely so that they can more easily advance their socialist agenda much less resistance.
Rush has suffered enough for his mistakes, there is no need for the left to continue on their slash-and-burn crusade to silence all dissent against their socialist agenda.