Posted on 03/01/2012 3:48:59 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Pelosi: Limbaugh's 'vicious attacks' on student uncivilized By Mike Lillis - 02/29/12 08:23 PM ET
House Democrats went after Rush Limbaugh Wednesday for his attacks on a university student who recently testified before Congress on women's reproductive health.
Limbaugh on Wednesday called Georgetown Law Center student Sandra Fluke a "slut" and a "prostitute" for her support of the Obama administration's new birth-control mandate.
Behind House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the Democrats said Limbaugh's remarks were uncivilized and misogynistic. They're asking Republican leaders to denounce the popular conservative radio host.
Limbaugh's attacks, the Democrats said, "are outside the circle of civilized discussion and … unmask the strong disrespect for women held by some in this country."
"We call upon the Republican leaders in the House to condemn these vicious attacks on Ms. Fluke, which are in response to her testimony to the Congress," they added.
Aside from Pelosi, Democratic Reps. Louise Slaughter (N.Y.), Rosa DeLauro (Conn.), Carolyn Maloney (N.Y.), Elijah Cummings (Md.) and Diana DeGette (Col.) – as well as Del. Eleanor Holmes-Norton (D.C.) – endorsed the message.
Fluke has become something of an unwitting celebrity on Capitol Hill this month after Republicans on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee denied the Democrats' request to have her testify on Obama's new birth control mandate. Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) argued that the policy concerns religious freedom, not reproductive health.
Democrats pounced, hoping to portray the Republicans as out-of-touch with women's healthcare needs. To highlight the saga, Democratic leaders had Fluke discuss the issue last week before the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee.
That testimony led Limbaugh to claim Wednesday that Fluke "wants to be paid to have sex."
"What does it say about the college co-ed Susan [sic] Fluke who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex? What does that make her?" Limbaugh asked. "It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute.
"She wants to be paid to have sex," he added. "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."
Pelosi and the Democrats are hoping such statements from conservatives will help them with Independent voters – particularly women – in November.
"Democrats will always stand up for women’s health and women’s voices,” their statement concludes.
ARRRRGHHHH.....
You owe me a keyboard! Damned near choked to death on a mouthful of coffee. Spit up all over the screen too... although I think that actually improved the image.
I heard that segment on Rush’s show. He was 100% dead-on right. It’s amazing how this sense of entitlement for anything and everything has a death grip on so many supposedly intelligent people.
DeLauro’s face would cause water to back up in the toilet.
Uuuuuhhhh, that would be “destroyed..”
Fluke’s bio page. Who would want to eff that thing anyway? Her paying $3000 a year of our tax dollars for Birth Control is just wishful thinking IMHO. LOL.
http://www.law.georgetown.edu/pils/scholars.htm
Pass the chlamydia virus please, hold the crab lice./s
Who would want that as a mother of one’s children? Yuck!
” The Beast of Yucca Flats”
: )
Ah, you make a great point... I’d like to see a write up on “The Tyranny of Victimhood” ain’t got time right now to do it myself... the only way to really fight against the Tyrannies the left foists upon us is to accurately dismantle them, analyze them, then show them for what they are, tools of the left to manipulate the masses, then draw a line in the sand and say HELL NO, NOT HERE, NOT NOW, NOT EVER!!!
Yeah, I remember something like that now.
Damn work! Occasionally I have to answer the phone, etc and miss the important things.
over target = flak
Pelosi’s response confirms Libaugh hit it out of the ballpark with his comments calling her a slut and a prostitute. Hooray for Rush!
Rush is right.
"welcome to the party pal"
fair game...and Rush didn't miss...
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