Yes, he’s a misogynistic bastard, but what’s really idiotic, is that he thinks birth control pills cost more if you’re having more sex. Does he think women have to pop a pill before each screw? Has he ever even seen a birth control pill blister-pack? He’s been married four times, for god’s sake… and he has no children. Has he ever even seen his wives take the pill?
Sheesh. What an idiot.
He doesn’t think this.
But his listeners do.
Frankly I think you skipped the best part:
I suppose, if you were of a mind to contort yourself out of fairness to Rush Limbaugh of all people, you could interpret that as “every month she has sex she has to buy birth control pills, and every time she has sex she has ensure condom use (possibly at her own expense), ergo the more she has sex the more she has to pay. If she can’t afford it then she’s having so much sex she can’t afford the contraception!”
But that’s a dangerous road; I wouldn’t recommend it. Rush Limbaugh is … well, hopeless.
I think its a good idea you’ve got here. If you are going to discuss his faults, you should start with the least repulsive and gag-inducing. He is amazingly ill-informed. Yes, start small, because you won’t get halfway down the list before you’re begging for brain bleach.
Ah Rush. Spoken like a man who’s only ever gotten sex by paying.
Fuck him. Fuck his goat-felching parents for having him. Fuck Fox for employing him. Fuck anybody who listens to him. Fuck anybody who looks like him. And fuck his dog for staying with him.
I was wondering how long this would take to show up here.
Insurance companies being mandated to cover birth control = paying her to have sex? Rush, you make my brain hurt. I never realized he was anti-birth control, but I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.
And a dude who has his Viagra covered by insurance is a … ?
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Really? Because I pit Rush Limbaugh’s ***mother ***for being an idiot about birth control.
The $3000 figure was from Fluke. I was wondering about the breakdown of that. That works out to $1000/yr or about $2.70/day, which seems like a lot. Is that realistic? It seems really high to me.
Well, that’s less than 70 cents per roll in the hay, which seems pretty cheap to me.
It depends on whether or not you’re insured (which was, as I recally, the whole frigging point of her appearance) and we’ve gone around with this one lately. More details here.
Think about what people pay for other prescription drugs.
They cost about one tenth of that figure, because they’re already heavily subsidized by the government through Planned Parenthood. And if you’re poor, they’re covered by Medicaid.
I really don’t think anyone should be fucking Rush Limbaugh. Not literally anyway.
Got some evidence for that? My daughter’s pills are $30 per month with insurance, which is about a dollar per day, which is, well… considerably more than 1/10 of the stated $2.70.
Also, not everyone lives near a Planned Parenthood. Even in the greater Boston area where they ARE common, it’s at least a two-subway-line ride for me.
Would it surprise you to learn that all prescriptions cost more without insurance? That is what she was comparing, the cost without insurance. Insurance companies get huge discounts on pharmaceuticals.
Right. That’s why I’m questioning Hyperelastic’s assertion. If the pills were $30 WITH insurance, they’d obviously be more without it. And even with insurance, it still cost more than Hyper said.
No longer a supporter of Rush, I do have to interject that one of his mottos and MO is ‘demonstrating absurdity with absurdity’
His point is people should pay their own way (My aside: appears like a nice system when you are a multi-millionaire), instead of taking tax money. This is just a absurde counter example (woman being hores) to what he sees as absurde (His money taken and given to other people who are unable/unwilling to pay for it themselves).
So really nothing to see here, move along. After all if you get riled up, Rush has won the argument.
OK, sorry.
What I love is the next day instead of apologizing he said the following:
Personally, I think that this is an excellent idea. I think that whenever a Republican male wants to have sex and the woman is not intending to conceive, she should put an aspirin between her knees instead of having sex. I support Mr. Limbaugh’s wife doing the same. How long do you think the men of this country would hold out if the choice were abstinence except for actual conception or paying for birth control for women and actually having sex? In fact, I would wager that if the choice were between only sex with condoms or for procreation, even within a committed relationship and paying for birth control, most men would opt to pay for birth control.
How about it Mr. Limbaugh? Are you willing to put your money where your mouth is and forsake all nonprocreative sex?