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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow to spin shit.
Limbaugh first thrust himself into the center of the contraception debate on Wednesday when he called Fluke a "slut" on his radio show for arguing to Congress that the expense for her birth control should be covered by her employer's health care plan.
Well no, she argued that all women should have access to birth control through their insurance, as the health care law requires, and that this access should not be taken away to accommodate religious nutbags. (My words, not hers.)
Her is some of what she did say:
I felt insulted, not for myself, but for the women I wanted to represent, the women whose stories I wanted to convey to the committee and the women who were silenced," Fluke said. "There were not women there who were affected by this policy."
And some commentary about her testimony:
Flukes testimony fell squarely on the womens-health side of the ledger. The former president of Georgetown Law Students for Reproductive Justice described student polling that showed broad support for contraceptive coverage. She also told the stories of two friends who she said had been harmed by the Jesuit universitys policy against contraceptive coverage. One 32-year-old student, she said, had lost an ovary to polycystic ovarian syndrome last year after her insurer refused to cover the hormonal birth control pills that kept the disease at bay, and is now experiencing symptoms of early menopause. Another woman, she said, had opted not to seek care of disease screening after a rape, because she assumed all womens sexual health services would not be covered.
This is the message that not requiring coverage of contraception sends, Fluke said. A womans reproductive health care isnt a necessity, isnt a priority.
And then here is ABC's best effort to spin shit into gold:
As the Senate voted down a Republican effort that would have allowed employers not to cover contraception in their health plans, Limbaugh enraged the left by saying that Fluke was "having so much sex she can't afford her own birth control pills and she agrees that Obama should provide them, or the pope."
Thursday night, a bomb squad was called to Limbaugh's house to investigate a suspicious package that was determined to contain nothing harmful. Limbaugh said on his show today that "it would send chills up your spine if I were to tell you what the package actually contained."
Enraged the LEFT? The "bomb" that was not a bomb? Really?
Hey fuck you ABC.
Shit spinning ref: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/rush-limbaugh-democrats-demonizing-sex-comments/story?id=15834374#.T1FJV_GPU6s
A reasonable attempt at what used to known as journalism: http://www.nationaljournal.com/healthcare/-women-are-energized-witness-tells-contraception-hearing-20120223
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Warren Stupidity
Mar 2012
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and abc just vomits up his spin on it while deciding that only 'the left' is enraged
Warren Stupidity
Mar 2012
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Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)1. So tell people what the package actually contained, Rush, you shitstain.
ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts)2. Probably a drug-laced fruitcake
No. Wait. That's who it was left for.
drm604
(16,230 posts)7. ROFL
drm604
(16,230 posts)3. I read somewhere that the guy who sent it
said that it was a "business opportunity" and that he was sorry for all of the trouble.
What kind of business opportunity would send chills up your spine? Rush is full of crap. I hope the sender comes forward and says what it was. I'm guessing it was some kind of electric contraption that the guy wanted Rush to invest in.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)4. and abc just vomits up his spin on it while deciding that only 'the left' is enraged
while of course leaving out the part where he demanded porno tapes.
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)5. That's what I read, too. Which is why it is ridiculous and pathetic for him to not discuss it.
nanabugg
(2,198 posts)6. Wen you spin sh*t, it blows back in your face and you end up smelling like....
you got it!!