Posted on 03/05/2012 5:53:53 PM PST by raptor22
When the left savages the right, it's OK. When America's top conservative questions why taxpayers must subsidize the sex life of a coed, the sky falls in. Bill Maher, call your office.
When the late, great Andrew Breitbart was asked in a Twitter conversation whether he'd apologize for his website's posting of a video of a speech by Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod that led to her forced resignation, Breitbart replied, "Apologize for what?"
Breitbart knew the sensitivities and the hypocrisy of the left when their sacred cows and double standards were under attack.
Hell hath no fury, he knew, like a liberal whose dogma stands exposed. He wondered why those on the right always had to apologize for saying liberal emperors had no clothes, when the left never had to apologize for anything no matter how outrageous or offensive.
Rush Limbaugh, the usually unapologetic conservative pundit, has apologized for using language to describe Sandra Fluke, a 23-year-old Georgetown University law student whose resume reads more like that of a political activist than a victimized student. He labeled his description "insulting."
On the other hand, one wonders what words would apply to a law student in need of $3,000 worth of taxpayer-paid contraceptives as she learns how to handle briefs, no pun intended.
Limbaugh's apology came after advertisers began withdrawing their sponsorship. It is their right to do so, and one appreciates that conservatives have often organized boycotts of sponsors of programs whose content they find questionable.
Classier Than The Critics
Even Rush felt it was the right thing to do, showing more class than the critics of him or other conservative leaders. Yet criticizing the mindset that says it's perfectly normal and acceptable for a coed to demand $3,000 of taxpayer-paid contraceptives at the same time the government...
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“But did you notice that none of those examples had anything to do with Fluke having sex or needing contraception? And that’s what Rush Limbaugh kept saying Fluke ‘testified” to.”
What evidence is there that Sarah Palin has a Chinese family living in her c**t? Such is show business.
you nailed it.
She doesn’t need the contraception, yet her life’s work is agitating for abortion and contraception “rights”.
This is about attacking the Church.
She deliberately enrolled at Georgetown for the purpose of attacking it.
She certainly tried to project the image that she was talking about every Jane or Jill, who could get the Pill at about a tenth of the quoted budget — SANS insurance.
You “oh, woe” too much, as though you were Fluke’s own lawyer. Rush’s indiscretions or lack thereof are not what prevent or cause the manuscript of the First Amendment to keep existing in its helium filled case in Washington, DC.
On another thread/board/discussion, it is asserted that she is not 23, either -- more like 30? Anyone have info on this?
I take this as that she had been 23 when she began to go to school. Not that she is 23 now.
It seems a certainly incautious and uncommon mistake for Rush to make.
Is there any possibility that there is a lot more here that Rush was reacting to, stuff that was kept out of sight, and that he fell into a deadfall-trap set for him and other conservative commentators?
Obama's done this before with the Man's Country stuff and the Birth Certificate/documents business, taunting Rush under the radar to attack him, so that Obama could play injured majesty and damage Rush's (or whosever) credibility by, to borrow from Wm. F. Buckley, "producing the dog alive."
Since this started, I've learned that this was quite precisely a political "information operation" -- a propaganda setpiece, Alinskyite "guerrilla theater" on a larger stage -- set in motion, if one poster is correct, by Nancy Pelosi. Did Pelosi ask Fluke to testify? And is Fluke 30 not 23, and is she a political provocateuse from the git?
That might explain Rush's going nuclear on her -- pulling a disingenuous Alinskyite black-propaganda operation to help the Regime jam up the Catholic Church over its stand on abortion, sterilization, and birth control.
Excuse me. Maher said nasty things about Governor Sarah Palin every time he opened his mouth. Maher's mouth seems to have been formed for the purpose of saying foul things.
I only remember one particularly nasty epithet. Which is why people here can source it.
I think Sarah Palin deserved respect because she's a human being. I don't understand your fascination with adding "Governor" and "candidate for the second highest office in the land." I think Sarah Palin deserved respect because she's a fine and decent person and a woman to boot.
I'm curious - do you think she deserved extra respect because she was "also a candidate for the second highest office in the land"?
I hope not. I made a lot of jokes about Joe Biden during the election, and I said a lot of rude things. I plan to do so if he's on the ticket in 2012.
She's 30. She got her B.S. from Cornell in 2003 and then went to work before returning to law school.
You'll love this. Her B.S. from Cornell is in Policy Analysis & Management and Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies.
Nancy Pelosi may have used this woman as a red rag, to trap Rush and others. Sure worked. We owe Nancy.
There really arent any.
This is the only reference I can find - and I suspect the source of the mis-information about her age.
Basically and NBC reporter made a fact check mistake and called her 23.
I suspect - since she was originally scheduled to testify on Feb 23 - somehow, some numbers got mixed up.
I think a public comparison of radio talk show hosts is in order.
I don't know. There's so much that defines explanation.
Fluke's presentation was straight out of the Democrat playbook. She came on as a witness and told all of these carefully planned stories about women and contraception (she specifically started by saying she was telling their stories, not hers).
She picked the extreme stories to make her point - like a woman whose doctors said she needed a certain oral contraceptive to treat a medical condition that Fluke named, but allegedly the insurance company interviewed the woman and decided she really wanted the pills so she could have sex, so they denied coverage.
Outlandish, right? We could all have a field day with that.
Another story was about (get this one) a woman who was raped and didn't seek medical treatment because she knew contraception wasn't covered, so she figured anything having to do with her ya-ya and male parts wasn't going to be covered by insurance.
Can you imagine Rush Limbaugh tearing that story apart?
But . . . he didn't.
He started talking about Fluke saying she was having so much sex she couldn't pay for it. What? And then he got more and more outrageous. How she was having sex with three guys. And buying condoms in the sixth grade.
Rush! Bring up the lady who wouldn't seek medical help for a rape!
So Rush names Fluke and says she's a slut because she's having so much sex (Rush, she never mentioned her sex life or her own contraception - bring up the married lady Fluke talked about, who said she couldn't fit contraception into her budget).
So . . . conservatives are repeating what Rush claims Fluke said about her sex life and swearing that Fluke said it. And that they heard it. And that Rush was justified in calling Fluke a prostitute, because Fluke talked about all of her sex.
Whoa, talk about making your own reality.
And if you suggest otherwise on here, you're attacked. Why are you bringing this up! Rush was right! Rush told the truth! Rush never mentioned her by name (riiiiiiiight). This is just like when Schultz called Ingraham a bad name (that was bad, but we expect a higher standard out of our people on the right, and Schultz didn't make up a bunch of things that Ingraham supposedly said, which people now believe, so it's a little different). Stop talking about it! It's okay when our people defame their people! Ethics are situational!
At points she did. But she told the stories of six specific women. You've heard these presentations by Democrat activists a thousand times, where they find some citizen who was aggrieved and hold them out as the reason to change a law.
A group of activists worked a long time to assemble or create these case studies or example. The student with polycystic ovarian syndrome, or the student with endometriosis.
I was cross-eyed over Fluke's claims about a student who was raped but didn't seek medical attention because she knew contraception wasn't covered by her health plan and figured that anything having to do with her ya-ya and male parts wouldn't be covered. That sounds like a case of stupidity, and no health plan treats stupidity. I was cross-eyed over the married student who couldn't fit contraception into her budget (in that case, it really would be the $9 or $15/month choice, unless the lady had special needs).
I wouldn't be surprised. She certainly began to attack the policy the moment she was accepted. At Cornell, she was a member of Students Acting for Gender Equality (SAGE) and she attending demonstrations for abortion rights and other 'women's rights.' There are reports that she protested a pro-life display.
Thank you for supplying it. I bookmarked it and will do my best always to reference Maher's multiple twisted remarks.
You may have to keep me refreshed. I doubt the media will do it and I don't give Maher the time of day.
I am, on many issues; you may wish to add me to your prayer concerns.
I call Joe Biden an 'idiot" (although on that one, truth may be a defense). However, if called out about it, I'd say I'm sorry and it's not appropriate. And I would mean it. I wouldn't defend my statement on the grounds that's it's okay for me to say it because "I'm a conservative, so my insults get special protection."
That's where there's a difference and where there is no hypocrisy on this issue.
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