Hey, everybody! Rush Limbaugh has issued a gracious apology for his attacks on Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown law student who testified before congress on the costs of birth control. Here it is:
For over 20 years, I have illustrated the absurd with absurdity, three hours a day, five days a week. In this instance, I chose the wrong words in my analogy of the situation. I did not mean a personal attack on Ms. Fluke.
After a long paragraph in which he basically repeats his original argument about birth control, such as it was, this time without directly referencing Fluke, he continues:
My choice of words was not the best, and in the attempt to be humorous, I created a national stir. I sincerely apologize to Ms. Fluke for the insulting word choices.
Uh, “I chose the wrong words in my analogy of the situation???”
“My choice of words was not the best??”
Here’s what he originally said:
So Miss Fluke, and the rest of you Feminazis, here’s the deal. If we are going to pay for your contraceptives, and thus pay for you to have sex. We want something for it. … We want you post the videos online so we can all watch.
He also called her a “prostitute.”
So let me rewrite that for you, with some nicer words this time:
So my dearest Miss Fluke, and the rest of those who share a love of feminism and the tenets of National Socialism, I would like to present to you a most intriguing proposition: If we are called upon to help finance your purchase of medical treatment and/or various and sundry items designed to prevent pregnancy, and thus to provide financial support to you as you make sweet, tender non-procreative love with your beloved, we humbly request something in return for our investment. To wit, we would like you to memorialize your lovemaking in video format, and for you to graciously place this video tribute on the Internet so we may share in the pleasure of enjoying these tender moments.
Oh, and instead of “prostitute,” why not refer to her as a “courtesan?”
Yeah, that’s not really any better. (And for some reason you still think taxpayers are paying for birth control, when in fact the issue is insurance coverage.)
In an attempt to be humorous, I would like to suggest to you, Mr. Limbaugh, that you stuff your apology up your ass, you worthless piece of shit.
I do not, of course, mean that as a personal attack.
An oldie but a goodie:
Fair bit of fattism in the lyrics, but fuck it, it’s Rush.
@kiki:
So problematic… but dammit it was well done.
@NWO: So the solution to all of your life’s problems is if no one has any sex ever?
Does Rush still not know that the Pill is beneficial to women’s reproductive health, or is he still on the “one Pill per fuck” mentality? Do your research you ignorant ass!
@Viscaria :
Some people think he has very little heterosexual experience and he’s a closeted gay. He’s like Roissy/Heartiste or other MRAs when they talk about contraception – and these guys are probably closeted gay
http://www.berthoudrecorder.com/2012/03/03/is-rush-limbaugh-gay/
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Could we not do that thing where we randomly decide that conservative people who piss us off are gay, please? Not only does Team Queer not want Limbaugh, there’s something awfully homophobic about the whole process whereby this sort of faux-outing is framed as an accusation. It’s not a queer-friendly social narrative at all.
I disagree with the “worthless piece of shit” comment. I mean, come on now! Just a piece?? He’s a big steaming pile of shit!
I really, really hate the “sex without consequences” argument, mostly because it only makes sense if you think all sex should result in a pregnancy. Many, many people who do not use birth control don’t always get pregnant when they have sex. For instance, off the top of my head: lesbians, women who have been through menopause, women who are sterile/have fertility problems, transgender women, gay guys. I’m sure I’m missing a few other groups of people in there. I’ve had unprotected PIV sex before and not gotten pregnant. Would they say that heterosexual couples who are into anal as “having sex without consequences”?
Plus, using birth control is an action, and the consequence is pregnancy-free sex. I see nothing wrong with this. Too bad that apparently a lot of other people do, because sex is just plain fun. Of course, I think of sex as a wholesome fun activity rather than something anyone needs to be ashamed of.
Nothing he said was incorrect. If she wants other people to pay for her recreational sexual activities then she is a prostitute. Rush is only apologizing due to the Alinsky tactics used against him. They bully advertisers into dropping their ads. The Marxist-leftists HATE HATE HATE free speech.
This is just part of the Democrat party being divisive. They like to claim that Republicans are but it’s the Democrats who are divisive. I saw that they were raising money on this by calling it a “war on women” and I about spit out my Dr. Pepper. “War on women”… LOLZ go look at a list of the REAL war casualties. Go look at the list of casualties in industrial accidents. Go look at the life expectancy difference. I wonder how someone can call this a “war on women” and not the be least bit embarrassed or ashamed.
No personal accountability. No responsibility. No consequences. That’s what WOMEN want. Apparently spending only 75% of health care resources on women is a “war”.
@AbsintheDextrous.
I second all this.
From the perspective of someone who is failing to get pregnant through unprotected PIV sex, it’s just doubly bad to try to force people who don’t want to have children to do so, since it means they’re all (hypothetically) having kids they don’t want, whereas I can’t have the one(s) I do want.
Birth control is good for children. It makes them more likely to have a family that can take care of them physically and emotionally. (nothing guaranteed, but it helps)
Rant about anti-socialists: As someone who would have literally died at age 14 without massive surgery and hospitalization, when people say health insurance is bad because they have to pay for people who don’t contribute, I hear “you should have died.” When presenting this argument, it turns out that some of them actually mean that. I think they are bad people.
I’m sure I’m missing a few other groups of people in there.
Most notably for understanding the whole matter, there is a massive group that never gets pregnant from sex: men.
@AbsintheDextrous:
Wouldn’t surprise me.
I googled the question “why should sex be saved for marriage?” What I got back was, roughly:
– Sex is super-duper awesome splendor beautiful magic, so only do it with one person
– You get to avoid all of the guilt that is instilled in you by your upbringing telling you that sex is actually terrible
– You can avoid terrible disease, and pregnancy, which contraception only does a teeny-tiny bit to help mitigate
So, sex is bad because sex is bad, but actually sex is good (in fact, the best thing ever). Having more sex is bad because it can cause more disease, but don’t use contraception/protection because that will lead to more sex and sex is bad. Talk about mixed messages and circular reasoning…
I’m having a really hard time getting words out on all of this… You say sex before marriage leads to less intimacy and more divorce? If people weren’t marrying so that they’d have permission from their social sphere to have sex, they wouldn’t be divorcing each other once they realized that it isn’t the super amazing awesome spectacular thing they were told it was (after the first month or so anyway). You say that sex is dangerous and you might catch something or accidentally make a baby? That’s what contraception is for! You say that you shouldn’t use contraception because it makes sex consequence free? Why is it that sex needs to have consequences? Because sex is bad?! No wait, it’s actually good, but it will be less good if you have more, so don’t have any? *pulls hair out*
Cis men.
Point of clarification: cis men. It’s still a massive group, of course.
ninja’d
I was just thinking… anyone who’s paying attention and knows how stuff works knows that this is not about Your Tax Money going to pay for slutty sluts to slut it up. But let’s flip it around for a moment, and address it on their terms.
I work for the government (cue shrieking and wailing.) I am not on hormonal birth control, but I do use condoms, which are relatively cost-proportional to the amount of sex one has (or plans/hopes to have). Because I am a slutty slut who sluts, in the past 12 months I have had close personal experience with four different condom-encased penises (although, to be fair, in many cases those were not condoms I had paid for. But still.) I hope, in the relatively near future, to increase that count to five. Everyone who pays sales tax or property tax within the jurisdiction I work for (which is basically everyone who lives here) is, in some sense, contributing to my salary. Which I use to pay for condoms (among other things). So there are several hundred thousand tax payers who are, in fact, paying for me to have sex.
And what I would like to know is, what’s the big deal? What do you propose to do about it? Should our annual citizen survey, which we use to gauge resident satisfaction with things like road quality and public safety, include a section in which people can weigh in on what I and my fellow employees can use our money on? Should it be up for a public vote whether I should be allowed to pay more money for organic vegetables, or whether I have to select my clothes based on where they were made, in order for taxpayers not to indirectly fund sweatshop labor?
The thing about my salary is that I earn it, with my labor, and upon doing so it becomes mine. Once that initial transaction – my labor for the government’s money – is complete, it stops being the government’s (and thus the taxpayers’) money. And the same goes for my insurance, which is another form of compensation for my labor (I am very fortunate in that I do not pay toward my premiums, but it’s still part of the payment I receive for my work.) If I were on hormonal bc, it wouldn’t be the taxpayers paying for it, it would be me paying for it, because I earned it, it’s mine, I paid for it with my work.
It’s like people are so obsessed with the idea of controlling women, they forget how money actually works. Maybe this is what happens when you say that a woman’s vagina is equivalent to a man’s wallet?
OwnSlave, I hear you! In fact:
– Why should I have to pay for other people’s lung cancer? They made the choice to smoke, or work in the coal mine, or heat with wood stoves, or be born to people who smoked, or…
– Why should I have to pay for other people’s tooth care? They made the choice to eat sweets, or drink soda, or not drink enough milk as children, or have kids themselves, or…
– Why should I have to pay for other people’s car accidents? They were the bad drivers, or else they were hit by bad drivers, or…
Screw insurance! Everyone pay for themselves for everything! Society doesn’t need healthy people! Epidemics of disease are just fine by me! Aaaaah!
Yes! Definitely. Last year, I went about six months unemployed. When I finally got a job, it wasn’t exactly what I wanted. Five weeks into that job, I fell off a ladder and dislocated my left shoulder. Thanks to Canada’s health system, I was in a hospital for three days, and the irregularities that showed up in my spine on the CT scan were checked with an MRI. It turned out to not be necessary, but if I had to consider the costs myself, given that I had no money from being unemployed for so long, I would have had to risk paralysis. Now I’m looking for a job that I actually do want, where I can put my engineering degree to good use. Socializing health care and education are not costs, they’re investments.
Also, Starskita, I’m sorry to hear about your troubles.
Leave it to NWO to not know how communism works or doesn’t work. Time to update those encyclopedias, Slaveboy.
Let’s try talking a little slower NWO.
SHE IS NOT ASKING FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO PAY FOR HER BC. SHE WANTS HER INSURANCE COMPANY TO INCLUDE HER BC IN HER INSURANCE PLAN, THAT SHE PAYS FOR.
Now, if this is still too *brrrrr* socialist for you, then I’m sure you are also in favor of removing viagra and vasectomies from the coverage because you are outraged that women should pay just so that some man can fuck without consequences, or even fuck at all.
Word.
@nwoslave: watch how this works:
Canadian Gov’t:
– gives my parents a little bit of money each month for each one of their kids
– pays for my mom’s LIVE SAVING cancer treatments
– pays for surgery to correct my life threatening birth defect, and to rehabilitate me after surgery
– gives my parent’s kids money to go to school
– gives my dad EI when he gets laid off
My Family:
– pays taxes
– pays into EI
– paid back all their student loans plus the interest
– has four University-educated children
– who all have much higher paying jobs than my parents ever dreamed of
– pay way more taxes than the average Canadian, thanks to our increased incomes
Thus, the government *invested* in my family, gave them loads of assistance and money and incentive to become more productive citizens, and therefor makes even more money off us than if they had let my mother die of cancer, or let my family go broke during the recession or me choke to death as an infant due to my birth defect.
Socialism is alive and kicking up here in the Great White North because it *works*.
SOCIALISM. SOCIALISM. OOOGA BOOGA, nwoslave SOCIALISM!! IT’S RIGHT ABOVE YOU! ENJOY YOUR SOCIALIST HAT!
See, Slavey, what you call “socialism” is what the rest of us call “not being an asshole.”
Fucking social contract, how does it work?
@CassandraSays :
Nobody say that Rush Limbaugh is just gay. People say he’s closeted gay and it’s been proven by a few studies that many homophobic men are closeted gay :
Men display more homophobic attitudes when feeling insecure about their masculinity
And there is a 1996 University of Georgia experiment that proves some homophobes are closeted gays.
And some homophobic men are straight–so what? Does that mean their homophobia is more legitimate?
The whole “a yucky person must be gay” thing trades in homophobia. Limbaugh’s sexuality is completely irrelevant to this. He’s a bad straight person or a bad gay person and I don’t care, he’s a bad person.