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Grassy Knoll

(10,118 posts)
Thu Mar 1, 2012, 02:35 AM Mar 2012

Rush Limbaugh: Sandra Fluke, Woman Denied Right To Speak At Contraception Hearing, A 'Slut'

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Source: Huffingtonpost

Rush Limbaugh called the woman who was denied the right to speak at a controversial contraception hearing a "slut" on Wednesday.

Sandra Fluke, a student at Georgetown Law School, was supposed to be the Democratic witness at a Congressional hearing about the Obama administration's contraception policy. However, Darrell Issa, the committee chair at the hearing, prevented her from speaking, while only allowing a series of men to testify about the policy. Fluke eventually spoke to a Democratic hearing, and talked about the need for birth control for both reproductive and broader medical reasons. She mentioned in particular a friend of hers who needed contraception to prevent the growth of cysts.

To Limbaugh, though, Fluke was just promoting casual sex.

"Can you imagine if you were her parents how proud...you would be?" he said. "Your daughter ... testifies she's having so much sex she can't afford her own birth control pills and she wants President Obama to provide them, or the Pope."

He continued:

"What does it say about the college co-ed Susan Fluke [sic] who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex -- what does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She's having so much sex she can't afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex."

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/29/rush-limbaugh-sandra-fluke-slut_n_1311640.html?1330555118

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Rush Limbaugh: Sandra Fluke, Woman Denied Right To Speak At Contraception Hearing, A 'Slut' (Original Post) Grassy Knoll Mar 2012 OP
What does it say about her, he asks? DeSwiss Mar 2012 #1
Total women haters libodem Mar 2012 #3
" Now I'm not saying she's a gold digger" Grassy Knoll Mar 2012 #4
He didnt just called her a "slut" - he called her a "prostitute". The implication couldnt be more.. Pachamama Mar 2012 #2
Locking. LBN Dupe. Tx4obama Mar 2012 #5
 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
1. What does it say about her, he asks?
Thu Mar 1, 2012, 02:49 AM
Mar 2012



- That she reminds you of someone?

K&R

libodem

(19,288 posts)
3. Total women haters
Thu Mar 1, 2012, 03:08 AM
Mar 2012

Misogynist doesn't begin to cover it. Promoting shame and disgust how novel.

Grassy Knoll

(10,118 posts)
4. " Now I'm not saying she's a gold digger"
Thu Mar 1, 2012, 03:10 AM
Mar 2012

'But she aint messin with no broke winger' (get down girl,go ahead, get down)

Pachamama

(17,561 posts)
2. He didnt just called her a "slut" - he called her a "prostitute". The implication couldnt be more..
Thu Mar 1, 2012, 02:58 AM
Mar 2012

....clear where this sick fat basterd is going ... That any woman who is on birth control or wants to be on birth control is engaging in "casual sex" and is loose and is a slut and prostitute.

Make no mistake....they hate women and are threatened by women and there is truly a full on assault on women's rights, women's health and women's roles.

Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
5. Locking. LBN Dupe.
Thu Mar 1, 2012, 03:11 AM
Mar 2012

Previously posted in LBN here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/101463878

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