Limbaugh blames Dems for making birth-control issue political

[babylonsister]

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/213867-limbaugh-blames-dems-for-turning-contraception-into-political-issue

Limbaugh blames Dems for making birth-control issue political
By Daniel Strauss - 03/02/12 02:35 PM ET


Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh blamed Democrats for turning contraception into a political issue to scare Americans away from the Republican Party.

"The Democrats need these planks to scare voters about the Republican Party," Limbaugh said on his radio show Friday. "Contraception is the replacement plank for abortion in the Democrat Party platform. That's what's happening here in a political sense."

Limbaugh's comments came a little more than an hour after President Obama called Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown student at the center of a growing controversy over the administration's new new rule on birth control, to express support for her. The whole episode began after Fluke gave testimony at a congressional hearing before Congress in which she expressed support for the Obama administration's contraception mandate, which requires insurers for certain religious institutions to provide contraceptive care without a co-pay.

In response, Limbaugh called Fluke a "slut." Since then Democrats have worked to tie Republicans to Limbaugh's comments.

Earlier on Friday the president of Georgetown University sent a letter out to the school calling for civil discourse in discussing the topic and said some of the negative response to Fluke's testimony has been "vitriolic, and a misrepresentation of the position of the student."

[tblue]

1. Of course he does.

Putrid freak.

[denverbill]

2. I just emailed Proflowers, who I have used several times, to tell them I'm through.

There are plenty of florists who don't support disgusting pigs like Limbaugh.

[denverbill]

11. Proflowers emailed me back.

"We spend our advertising dollars across a wide spectrum of media channels. The views and opinions of the media outlets and personalities we advertise with are not necessarily those of our company. "

My reply:
It's good to know that Proflowers will support with their advertising dollars any kind of whacked-out mental case with a radio following. It's also good to know that if I start a neo-Nazi party and get a radio program advocating the extermination of Jews and blacks, I'll be able to count on your advertising support, since you can disavow yourself of my views simply by saying my views aren't necessarily your views.

Frankly, that's the lamest excuse you could possibly offer.

Please remove me from all your mailing lists and don't bother replying.

[Happyhippychick]

3. Nothing scares Americans away from the GOP more that Blimpo

[lpbk2713]

4. Same old story --- they have a phobia when it comes to accountability.

They are the first ones to take credit for someone else's work and
when it comes to taking blame they are all about pointing fingers.

[Rex]

5. BUT he is the one that BROUGHT IT UP!!!!

GOD...why do you punish us like this? What did we do to deserve people like Gush and Dick Cheney?

[saras]

10. Buy from their businesses, mainly. If we'd gotten off of cars in the seventies...

[TroglodyteScholar]

12. Actually, I'm pretty sure this was Santorum's issue.

Amazing that these assholes are bold enough to pretend the "liberal media" made this an issue.

[Rex]

13. I can't believe they can keep from laughing on the air

when they say the liberal media is to blame! They are very good actors imo. Just shitty people.

[C_U_L8R]

6. It wasn't even an issue

until these nasty f@ckface republicans started messing with it

[IcyPeas]

7. "Conservative radio host"

is much too nice of a description of that vile fuckwit blowhard

[Loudmxr]

8. I disagee with Rush. It is the women. Because they don't like being called sluts.

Just a little hint dude.

[MiniMe]

9. Rush is a dirty old man

He wants to watch so he can pleasure himelf