I’m glad Rush said what he did. No, seriously I am. I don’t want him to apologize and I don’t want him to shut up. He’s the only conservative pundit out there is who isn’t afraid to be real about the misogynistic elephant in the room. People (especially women) of all political persuasions need to pay attention to what he’s saying and realize that he’s not just speaking for himself. He’s saying what’s on the mind of everyone who actually thinks insurance converage for BC pills is an issue worth crying over. This has nothing to do with religious freedom. This is about the Republican party disregarding women’s health and well-being to score political points. By any means necessary.
I applaud that he put it out there so starkly, so indefensibly. Brazen slut. Brazen indeed, Rush. The only thing more brazen that calling a Fluke a slut would be calling Obama a nigger.
Your question reminds me of something I posted in a thread a while back about conservative opposition to abortion. This is my opinion on where the handwringing is coming from:
It would not surprise me to find out Rush had done exactly that. He’s the sort of idiot who exists solely to make Republicans like Chris Christie look classy by comparison.
Oh yes, that woman made brazen overtures, with a gilt-edged guarantee. She had a golden glint in her eye and a silver voice with a counterfeit ring. Just melt her down and you’ll reveal a lump of lead, cold as steel, here, where a woman’s heart should be! (cheep cheep cheep cheep cheep cheep).
So, where can I find a list of his sponsors so I can notify them of my intent to vote with my dollars? Without, ya know, actually delving into his website.
I actually started that thread. The cheapest price for birth control is $9 a month for generic birth control pills at Wal-mart or Target. I still don’t understand why there aren’t birth control pills available on the $4 generic menu. I also noticed that in Spain you can buy birth control over the counter. I don’t understand why it requires a doctor prescription.
Look at the efforts by the religious right to get the stuff BANNED altogether. Look at Rush’s poisonous attitude towards women, and the slightly less venomous words of Santorum, and Romney, and O’Reilly, and many others who won’t speak out against them; and realize that it is people enmeshed in this conservative cultural environment who make the rules, and you can reason out why they’re not easier to get.
I’m not surprised at the number of dittoheads on the comments on Facebook sites for news links and for products that have pulled advertising are furious that Rush “was forced to apologize”.
What does surprise me is how many of them are coming from women. Man, there are some truly hate filled right wing she-bitches out there who apparently agree with the birth control=slut analogy.
*There’s a movement afoot to boycott the sponsors who withdrew. Since Rush doesn’t have anything remotely like the 20 million listeners he claims (there’s lots of asterisks by that) I can’t imagine it making much of a dent.
*I’m always amazed at how many people, right and left, seem to think “the right to free speech” means “the right to say anything you want, no matter how incendiar, without any consequences whatsoever”.
I had to turn my head away: I was truly afraid that I was going to be sick, and I doubt that vomit would do my laptop any good.
The reptilian part of me reallyreallyreally wants all the bitches involved to be visited with the same condition as the subject — trebled, if possible. It probably wouldn’t teach them empathy, but it might teach them to keep their [checks forum] fucking mouths shut.
*I’m always amazed at how many people, right and left, seem to think “the right to free speech” means “the right to say anything you want, no matter how incendiar, without any consequences whatsoever”.
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I’m constantly amazed that the Constitution lovin’ Right doesn’t understand “free speech”. I always tell them free speech is about the government limiting your speech. It doesn’t protect you from public scorn. I assume you are pro ‘free market’. Let the market decide if they want to support Limbaugh’s comments. So far, the answer seems to be ‘no’.
What’s nuts is that in a few years, odds are, most of the little shits picking on her will be on birth control themselves. Voluntarily. Hope they choke on it.
I bet Rush tries to say he just said all that junk last week to get all the libs to listen to his show today.
I loved listening to him the day after Obama won the election. He had trouble formulating complete thoughts and just shook papers a lot. He was stunned and nearly speechless. LOL !
I’m having a tough time believing 16-year-old girls were talking about “that guy on the radio says you’re a slut!” I don’t know, that just feels incredibly fake to me.
I about fell out of my chair. Even allowing for the waves of sanity that have been breaking over Frum lately, it’s a stunner to hear that from anyone on the right.
Which in itself is a sad, sad commentary.
Meanwhile, advertisers are fleeing Rush in disgusted droves. See, for example, the comments by the head of Carbonite; it wasn’t just the economic hit that motivated his company to pull its advertising:
I think some skepticism is warranted, but more importantly, that it’s counterproductive to focus on the outliers who take birth control to treat a medical condition. The message should be that the vast majority of women use it for contraception, which doesn’t make them sluts---- and not “well, a few non-sluts use it too…”
It’s the same failed strategy used by the “fat acceptance” movement when they lamely focus on the tiny percentage of obese people with a glandular condition, or to a lesser extent by pot supporters who focus solely on medicinal marijuana (although that strategy seems to have succeeded, at least in California).