[Gertie Keddle]

Rush waiting for Bill Clinton to call Sandra Fluke to see if she’s OK
Posted by The Right Scoop The Right Scoop on March 2nd, 2012 in Politics
Excerpt:

When I heard this in the car I died laughing. Apparently Obama has now called Sandra Fluke, heroine of the left, to she if she’s OK after having been ‘attacked’ by Rush. Oh man that is hilarious. Rush reacts to it on-air.

Amid his reaction though, Rush makes a great point. He says that he has been asked why he was so insulting to Fluke. He responded by making the point that his whole “free contraception” movement, on top of the “rich aren’t paying their fair share” movement is highly insulting to him. He likened it to a woman he didn’t know knocking on his door asking for money for contraception because she wanted to go and have sex with 3 guys that evening. Rush explains:

“Where is it written that when all of a sudden if you want something and don’t have the money for it, somebody else has to pay for it. I think the whole notion of being insulted here – there are a lot of us insulted by this whole idea that is growing throughout the Obama administration, that the people who make this country work are somehow doing their fair share, not paying their fair share, that we have to be punished even more. Here’s the latest example of it.”

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[RapaNui]

Gertie Keddle, on 02 March 2012 - 04:05 PM, said:

Rush waiting for Bill Clinton to call Sandra Fluke to see if she’s OK
Posted by The Right Scoop The Right Scoop on March 2nd, 2012 in Politics
Excerpt:

When I heard this in the car I died laughing. Apparently Obama has now called Sandra Fluke, heroine of the left, to she if she’s OK after having been ‘attacked’ by Rush. Oh man that is hilarious. Rush reacts to it on-air.

I'm surprised Obama didn't get put through right to voicemail when he called. If this gal is as "active" as she claims, you'd think she'd be, uh, "indisposed" most of the time and wouldn't be able to take a phone call !

[satellite66]

Maybe someone should tell Fluke about Cindy Sheehan. We know what happens to people when the left is done using them.

[Gertie Keddle]

Bill won't call, she's too old for him.


Sandra Fluke’s Appearance Is No Fluke
Posted by Just a Grunt on Mar 02, 2012 at 10:49 am
Jammie Wearing Fool
Excerpt:

For me the interesting part of the story is the ever-evolving “coed”. I put that in quotes because in the beginning she was described as a Georgetown law student. It was then revealed that prior to attending Georgetown she was an active women’s right advocate. In one of her first interviews she is quoted as talking about how she reviewed Georgetown’s insurance policy prior to committing to attend, and seeing that it didn’t cover contraceptive services, she decided to attend with the express purpose of battling this policy. During this time, she was described as a 23-year-old coed. Magically, at the same time Congress is debating the forced coverage of contraception, she appears and is even brought to Capitol Hill to testify. This morning, in an interview with Matt Lauer on the Today show, it was revealed that she is 30 years old, NOT the 23 that had been reported all along.

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[Gertie Keddle]

Sandra Fluke Does Not Speak for Me

Mar 2, 2012 by Angela Morabito
Sandra Fluke Does Not Speak for Me
The College Conservative
Excerpt:

I’m a proud Georgetown woman upset about another Georgetown woman who may have no pride at all. How else do you explain - Ms. Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown Law student, now famous for testimony she never gave – jumping up to talk about her sex life (with the Senate Minority Leader and with the liberal media) and ask for the cost of her sex life to be subsidized by other students at a Jesuit School?

Sandra Fluke was declined the privilege (a privilege, not a right) of testifying in front of a Senate Committee on the proposed contraceptive mandate.

Her name was submitted too late to be admitted to testify. She’s not a lawyer. She’s not a member of the clergy – crucial for a hearing on religious freedom, wouldn’t you say? That’s what Representative Issa said. Her one claim to fame in the reproductive health care debate is…drumroll, please…being a student club leader! You go, Sandra! Hang those posters girl. Wear out those Sharpies.

Me? I love me some extracurricular involvement. The difference between Sandra and me is that I don’t think it qualifies me to speak in front of Congress. ”The Chair calls to the stand the captains of the intramural ultimate frisbee team!”

Having been told by Congress to more or less shut up and go home, Sandra found a sympathetic ear in Nancy Pelosi. She is not going to find one on the Georgetown Campus. She is wildly out of step.

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Sandra Fluke doesn’t speak for me. Or for Georgetown.

She doesn’t speak for those of us who worked hard to be able to choose to come to a great institution with a great tradition of faith and scholarship. She certainly can’t speak for the Jesuits who dedicated their lives to God and Education with a long established set of rules. There are only ten of them, and Ms. Fluke would do well to give them a quick read.

If she wants a more liberal sex life, she can go to Syracuse. (Syracuse, I must apologize – but we are in March and basketball matters – sorry you got caught up in this.)

Sandra doesn’t even speak for all skanks! She only speaks for the skanks who don’t want to take responsibility for their choices. That’s a tiny group of people. Hey Sandra! How about next Saturday night, you come hang out with me and my gay boyfriends! Your hair will look fabulous and you’ll get to see great musical theatre! Oh, and odds of you getting pregnant? Zero percent.

Even the oh-so-left HuffPo called Sandra out on her media sluttery: ”Fluke got the stage all to herself and was hailed as a hero by the crowd and Democratic lawmakers on the panel, all of whom rushed to appear on camera with her at the end. “Excuse me. I’d love to get a picture with our star,” Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) said as she pushed her way through the packed room to Fluke.” Star of what? Star of the bedroom sex tape? When did Georgetown Law start admitting Kardashians?

Sandra, we might be on the same campus, but we are not on the same planet.

Sandra told some sob stories about how contraception isn’t covered by the Jesuit institution we attend. (Maybe they don’t cover it because, you know, they’re a Jesuit institution. Religious freedom? Anyone? Bueller?)

A student group called Plan A H*yas for Choice staged a demonstration against the university health plan last year, duct taping their mouths and chaining themselves to the statue of Georgetown’s founder on the university’s front lawn. Then, a funny thing happened – nothing. We left them there. Now Sandra has chained herself to the sinking ship of Pelosi Liberalism. She will always be remembered as a Welfare Condom Queen.

Let’s talk priorities here. It costs over $23,000 for a year at Georgetown Law. Sandra, are you telling us that you can afford that but cannot afford your own contraception? Really? Math was never my strong suit, but something about Sandra’s accounting just doesn’t seem right.

No one forced Sandra to come to Georgetown. And now that she has, Sandra does not have to depend on the university health plan. She could walk down the street to CVS and get some contraception herself. Or, go to an off-campus, non-university doctor and pay for it out of pocket. (Or, you know…maybe not have so much sex that it puts her in financial peril?)

Funny how the same side that cries “Get your rosaries off my ovaries” is the same side saying, “on second thought…please pay for me to have all the sex I want!” The people who espouse “pro-choice” “values” are the same people who say religious institutions have no right to choose.

Imagine if someone else had asked the government to cover a different activity. Let’s say I want to go rock climbing. It’s my body and my choice and I want to climb all the cliffs I can! Imagine if I went to the government and asked it to pay for helmets and ropes and band-aids I’ll need to safely climb rocks every day of my life. What would everyone say?

“It’s your choice to do that- no one’s forcing you to scale cliffs. So, either quit it or pay for it yourself!”

This is the reaction we should have had to Sandra Fluke.

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Gertie Keddle, on 02 March 2012 - 04:36 PM, said:

Bill won't call, she's too old for him.


Sandra Fluke’s Appearance Is No Fluke
Posted by Just a Grunt on Mar 02, 2012 at 10:49 am
Jammie Wearing Fool
Excerpt:

For me the interesting part of the story is the ever-evolving “coed”. I put that in quotes because in the beginning she was described as a Georgetown law student. It was then revealed that prior to attending Georgetown she was an active women’s right advocate. In one of her first interviews she is quoted as talking about how she reviewed Georgetown’s insurance policy prior to committing to attend, and seeing that it didn’t cover contraceptive services, she decided to attend with the express purpose of battling this policy. During this time, she was described as a 23-year-old coed. Magically, at the same time Congress is debating the forced coverage of contraception, she appears and is even brought to Capitol Hill to testify. This morning, in an interview with Matt Lauer on the Today show, it was revealed that she is 30 years old, NOT the 23 that had been reported all along.

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30 and still a student???

She must be REALLY SMART being in college for so long....

[Ticked@TinselTown]

The TOday Show web page on MSNBC has an article that says ' Woman called "slut" is "outraged"' and has her picture frozen there so you can watch her one woman iterview to explain her shock and outrage over Rush's comments.

There are 600+ comments attached to the article and there seems to be alot of 'community collapsed' posts that may have been pro Rush noted on there.

Further, if this woman's platform to get freebie contraception is that it should be part of her participation at Georgetown then she must think she enrolled at Screw U instead of a bastion of education. She's the one that put her sex life out there for the world to peruse as a justification for her demand that birth control be paid for by neither of the parties enjoying the sex.

Own it, Sandra. You're the one who put yourself out there to become a figurehead and to be a lightning rod for this cause and you put your own personal, should be private business right out there for all the public to peruse and poke around.

Again, I say own it. You forced people to look at your sexual behaviors as a means of getting what you wanted and if you don't like what they have to say, then keep it to yourself next time around.

And, to steal a great line from a very funny movie, anyone who bought that Sandra was a 23 year old co-ed strikes me as just mentally deficient enough to have voted for bo-bo in 2008.

She is one of the most shot out looking 23 year olds I've ever seen.

[Joe the Pagan]

[tilly]

Joe the Pagan, on 02 March 2012 - 06:10 PM, said:

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Joe the Pagan, on 02 March 2012 - 06:10 PM, said:

It's pretty obvious that she has little time in the morning to do something with that mop on her head. Must have been a rough night...

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Ticked@TinselTown, on 02 March 2012 - 05:56 PM, said:

The TOday Show web page on MSNBC has an article that says ' Woman called "slut" is "outraged"' and has her picture frozen there so you can watch her one woman iterview to explain her shock and outrage over Rush's comments.

There are 600+ comments attached to the article and there seems to be alot of 'community collapsed' posts that may have been pro Rush noted on there.

Further, if this woman's platform to get freebie contraception is that it should be part of her participation at Georgetown then she must think she enrolled at Screw U instead of a bastion of education. She's the one that put her sex life out there for the world to peruse as a justification for her demand that birth control be paid for by neither of the parties enjoying the sex.

Own it, Sandra. You're the one who put yourself out there to become a figurehead and to be a lightning rod for this cause and you put your own personal, should be private business right out there for all the public to peruse and poke around.

Again, I say own it. You forced people to look at your sexual behaviors as a means of getting what you wanted and if you don't like what they have to say, then keep it to yourself next time around.

And, to steal a great line from a very funny movie, anyone who bought that Sandra was a 23 year old co-ed strikes me as just mentally deficient enough to have voted for bo-bo in 2008.

She is one of the most shot out looking 23 year olds I've ever seen.

It's time for this skank to finally graduate, get a freakin' job and pay for her own damned contraception. I mean 30!?!?! C'mon, it's time to move on to the real world already and MAKE YOUR OWN WAY instead of relying on others to pay for your sorry ass.

People like this wench and her entitlement mentality really piss me off.

[spt]

Ok a 30 year old on a college campus having lots of sex. So how old are all the boys she is having sex with? Do they know she is 30? or is she lying to them and saying she is younger?

[erp]

She is a plant.

But seriously, what the hell has happened to this country that this women even gets a voice? She is asking us to pay for her contraception so she can have worry free sex. And this administration thinks this is a winning issue? WTF?

[erp]

BTW, my bet is Bill already tapped that. Heck, he was most likely the reference for Obama to use her.

[xtremeright]

As someone far more sophisticated than I said on another blog: If you want me out of your sex life, then stop demanding I subsidize it.

[Ticked@TinselTown]

Slang, on 02 March 2012 - 07:06 PM, said:

She is a plant.
But seriously, what the hell has happened to this country that this women even gets a voice? She is asking us to pay for her contraception so she can have worry free sex. And this administration thinks this is a winning issue? WTF?

Would she be a ficus?

As to your question, the answer is the same for nearly every 'expert' that this administration puts out there to win over the masses.

It serves their purpose to single out the 'average person' who is 'objective' and 'has no agenda' to speak to lawmakers and sway the voters.

They don't have to be an expert in anything but being able to fool the gullible and we know that bo-bo voters always vote present in that category.

[Wag-a-Muffin (D)]

Ticked@TinselTown, on 02 March 2012 - 07:17 PM, said:

Would she be a ficus?

Maybe a Citharexylum (fiddlewood), Cornus (dogwood,)Dieffenbachia (dumb cane, mother-in-law's tongue,) or Cymbalaria (ivy-leaved toadflax)

[Sheela]

I consider myself a feminist in the most classic sense, but sadly the modern feminist has twisted what was once a movement about empowering women to live the life they want to live and having attitudes that command respect from others, to empowering women to be victims, to feel like they're second class citizens, to look for reasons to be offended by everyone and everything, and to be ENTITLED to respect regardless of whether or not they have any self-respect. So all sides of this non-issue have been driving me insane for weeks.

1. She's a law student, not an undergrad. Lots of people go to undergrad, work in the real world for a few years, and then go to grad school after they've figured out what they want to do. So being 30 and a 3rd year law student is far from unheard of. My uncle was in his late 40s when he went to medical school, for crying out loud!

2. Does any one really care about promiscuous women anymore? The only people I know who throw around childish terms like "slut" and "whore" are immature frat boys, jealous men who aren't getting laid, and jealous girls who can't meet men. Most well-adjusted guys I know don't care about a woman's sexual history so as long as it doesn't involve cheating, diseases, children, or any form of emotional baggage. If a girl's genuinely happy and confident about her life decisions, who cares? I have no idea what Sandra genuinely feels about herself, but I don't know why people are criticizing her for having a sex life. It's a red herring and a distraction from the real problem...

3. Who is stopping women from getting birth control? Oh wait... NO ONE! This entire issue has to do with religious freedom and the right of religious institutes to carry out their teachings as they see fit. From what I understand, they don't cover vasectomies either. WHERE IS THE MALE OUTRAGE OVER OPPRESSION?!? The powers that be are holding men down from consequence-free one night stands, man!!

4. Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer, not a politician. He's can't tax you, he can't send you to war, and he can't blow your hard earned dollars on some scam "green energy" corporation. Why is the left so obsessed with being outraged by this guy? Bill Maher says offensive things all the time but I don't see anyone on the right constantly calling for his head. He doesn't have any political power so no one sane cares.

5. The president calling up Sandra to make sure she's "OK" is by far the most condescending and self-righteous thing possible. Basically he's saying "I don't think you're strong enough to handle criticism, so I'm letting you know I'm here for your delicate feelings!" Thanks, Papa Obama for emotionally saving me from the Big Bad Mr. Limbaugh! EQUALITY!

Overall, women should be able to have sex with whoever they want at their own financial expense, this woman is an entitled moron who should've gone to another law school if spending 75 cents/condom was such a big deal she'd go to CONGRESS for help, Rush (while bombastic and rude, but isn't that why people listen?) has nothing to apologize for, and Obama is self-righteous and sexist for trying to console this woman.

This post has been edited by Sheela: 02 March 2012 - 09:04 PM

[zipndun]

Sheela, on 02 March 2012 - 09:03 PM, said:

I consider myself a feminist in the most classic sense, but sadly the modern feminist has twisted what was once a movement about empowering women to live the life they want to live and having attitudes that command respect from others, to empowering women to be victims, to feel like they're second class citizens, to look for reasons to be offended by everyone and everything, and to be ENTITLED to respect regardless of whether or not they have any self-respect. So all sides of this non-issue have been driving me insane for weeks.

1. She's a law student, not an undergrad. Lots of people go to undergrad, work in the real world for a few years, and then go to grad school after they've figured out what they want to do. So being 30 and a 3rd year law student is far from unheard of. My uncle was in his late 40s when he went to medical school, for crying out loud!

2. Does any one really care about promiscuous women anymore? The only people I know who throw around childish terms like "slut" and "whore" are immature frat boys, jealous men who aren't getting laid, and jealous girls who can't meet men. Most well-adjusted guys I know don't care about a woman's sexual history so as long as it doesn't involve cheating, diseases, children, or any form of emotional baggage. If a girl's genuinely happy and confident about her life decisions, who cares? I have no idea what Sandra genuinely feels about herself, but I don't know why people are criticizing her for having a sex life. It's a red herring and a distraction from the real problem...

3. Who is stopping women from getting birth control? Oh wait... NO ONE! This entire issue has to do with religious freedom and the right of religious institutes to carry out their teachings as they see fit. From what I understand, they don't cover vasectomies either. WHERE IS THE MALE OUTRAGE OVER OPPRESSION?!? The powers that be are holding men down from consequence-free one night stands, man!!

4. Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer, not a politician. He's can't tax you, he can't send you to war, and he can't blow your hard earned dollars on some scam "green energy" corporation. Why is the left so obsessed with being outraged by this guy? Bill Maher says offensive things all the time but I don't see anyone on the right constantly calling for his head. He doesn't have any political power so no one sane cares.

5. The president calling up Sandra to make sure she's "OK" is by far the most condescending and self-righteous thing possible. Basically he's saying "I don't think you're strong enough to handle criticism, so I'm letting you know I'm here for your delicate feelings!" Thanks, Papa Obama for emotionally saving me from the Big Bad Mr. Limbaugh! EQUALITY!

Overall, women should be able to have sex with whoever they want at their own financial expense, this woman is an entitled moron who should've gone to another law school if spending 75 cents/condom was such a big deal she'd go to CONGRESS for help, Rush (while bombastic and rude, but isn't that why people listen?) has nothing to apologize for, and Obama is self-righteous and sexist for trying to console this woman.

I tend to agree with most of your points.

However, I would like to point out to the bold, that if taken in context, Rush was just doing what he does. Showing absurdly by begin absurd. I'm a woman, and I heard him make the statement, and I about laughed my butt off. There was nothing rude in his analogy. The way he framed it, was priceless.

Good post though IMO..

[Ticked@TinselTown]

They showed her on the local news viewing the Rush quote and when she spoke to the woman interviewing her she was pushing that wide eyed innocent act and, as my grandma would say, butter wouldn't have melted in her mouth when she maintained that she was testifying that private insurance companies should pay for the contraceptives.

Really?