Rush was wrong by being conservative and saying it. If we were liberal, he could have called her a C*unt and no one have noticed.
I have no doubt that before Rush said anything, he and his staff had planning meetings. Here they would discuss how to handle it in a way that entertained while, at the same time, kept or expanded listenership. They would have brainstormed what-if scenarios. They would have discussed using inflammatory remarks with a final goal in mind. And after all was said and done, they chose to go with the inflammatory accusation followed by the apology.
The real question is, was the apology part of the plan, or did they grossly miscalculate where the original remarks took us? I suspect it is the former, but the next couple of weeks will tell.
This woman clearly deserved to be attacked for her testimony on two grounds. First, she misrepresented the cost of birth control. Target has pointed out it has a store very near the campus where birth control pills only cost $9/month. She claimed they cost nearly $100. She could/should have been attacked as deliberately misrepresenting the cost of birth control to Congress and the public for political gain.
Second, she should have been attacked as an example of exactly why making it free is such a terrible idea. As an aspiring lawyer, she should know that your representative of your class should support your argument. But her personal circumstances and testimony was the opposite. She and her law school friends weren't unable to afford BC because of the cost. They actually were able to afford it and did pay for it themselves. They just wanted to spend that money on something else, and therefore wanted it subsidized. Imagine that --- people going to one of the best, more expensive law schools in the country, rather likely to end up as part of the 1%, expecting a $9/month handout so they can spend more money on concerts, beer, or other luxuries. Ridiculous.
But rather than hammer her on those grounds, which make her unsympathetic, Rush chose the slut route. Stupid.
Did rush slip up in the language he used which allowed his opponents an unnecessary opening to demagogue? Sure he did. The next question is what can be done to change the terms of the debate away from rush’s language and back to the stupid policy this woman was pushing. We need to get off defense and back on offense.
To even ask the question is to fall into the leftists’ trap.
As I understand it, lots of insurance companies cover the cost of Viagra. Given that, I don’t think it is so odd—or in any way an indicator of “sluttiness”—for women to want prescription birth control to be covered as well.
The rightful question is whether and how much the federal government should be mandating what health insurance coverages.
IMO Rush was crass and offensive and he significantly hurt the conservative cause, because he both took the attention for the week running up to Super Tuesday off of Obama and the economy and he about finished up the Democrats’ work to get moderate, independent and casual Democrat woman voters fired up against the GOP for November.
Between Santorum and Rush, much of the Democrats’ work was effectively done for them.
I know that I’m in the distinct minority on FR for holding such opinions, but so it goes.
If fluke wants to talk like a slut or back a position that makes it easier for women to be sluts, then she is a slut. Rush was right.
The liberal socialists believe that freedom of speech only applies to them. They wish death on conservatives, call us sluts, whore, teabaggers, astroturf, wish us to be raped. The minute a conservative uses the same words they go insane.
Liberals do not own the country and we can say what we please when we please. They better get used to it.
While I chuckled and thought what he had to say was true, I’m afraid ol’ Rushy broke one of his own rules. “Don’t beat up on a girl.”
Since young women are having sex with abandon, the word, ‘slut’ no longer applies to anyone. Now, the word-of-the-day is hook-ups! Women go on the prowl to hook-up, and if they don’t find the right guy, the night is considered a failure. Of course, they don’t label themselves sluts...
Rush....the word slut or whore was right. It was the reference that was, let’s say...misplaced. Fluke is and was a whore for the reason of prostituting herself for the big spenders on Capitol Hill. Plain and simple. The little tramp got her 15 minutes of fame and maybe got to sleep with some hot guy that suddenly was attracked to her fleeting fame. But really, she sold herself to a cause for cheap, fleeting fame.
The Judges on an Opinion Test are the MSM Liberals who sit on the High Court of Public Opinion.
They alone have the power to flunk anyone who states, or writes, an opinion that is their very own. (One of the few tests where this is true).
The rulings by these High-Poo-Bah Judges are always swift, absolute and final.
BTW, aren’t these Judges rulings also opinions that are subject to THE TRUTH SQUAD here on Free Republic?
Telling the world a popular activity is sinful will not be without consequence.
Hey, one guy got nailed to a tree just for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change.
Liberal women should put a $20 dollar bill in a large jar each time they have sex and then drop off said FULL jar to the the Center for Disease Control.
Well I just tried to say this in a vanity post, but it seems to have been ionized.
I think Rush should team up with Glenn Beck, and throw the weight of his technical and financial wherewithall behind GBTV. Perhaps even a controlling interest.
End run around the left. Speak directly to people.
Imagine Rush’s 20 million listeners and his resources, teaming up with Glenn’s new network.
The MSM would become a sideline.
Rush made what amounted to an offhand comment about Fluke near the end of his show on Wednesday, To Paraphrase "Ms. Fluke wants you to pay for her to have sex. So what to you call someone like wants to be paid to have sex? A slut? A prostitute?
That was it. At this point he had left himself enough wiggle room so if the SHTF, he would have an out by saying he didn't call Ms. Fluke a slut and a prostitute. He said that someone who wants to be paid for sex is a slut or a prostitute.
Well predictably the left tries to make a big deal over it. So what does Rush do? He gets back on the air Thursday and doubles down on everything he said the day before, leaving no doubt this time he thinks she is a slut and prostitute. Plus he takes if farther by adding comments about her spending so much time on her back, and being so sore she could barely walk to get to the hearing.
Which brings us to the big question? Why instead of trying to get out when he first slipped into the stew-pot, did Rush decide to swim a few laps instead? He's been through things like this before, he knew what was going to happen? Then strangest of all, after going all in and doubling down on what he said Wednesday on both Thursday and Friday. Rush folds like hotel sheet on Saturday afternoon.
Anyone who leeches off the taxpayers esecially for something as ridiculous as birth control is a slut.
Leftists spent much of last year organizing “Slut Walks” for “reproductive rights,” and now they claim the right to be offended by the term. Can’t have it both ways.
You are off a bit here, 30 year-old woman (no girl) says she is and will continue to have sex and demands that I pay for her birth control but also her abortion pill, should she "forget to take the birth control pill."
I'm not demanding that she pay for my choice, why should I be forced to pay for hers?
This is not only unconstitutional but immoral in a real world but in one envisioned by Orwell, it not only is reasonable but now mandatory, according to the left and more and more of the "sheeple!"
NEITHER