The American Spectator

Mike Hawk| 3.5.12 @ 6:35AM

Before the trolls get here, here is what Rush said.

RUSH: What does it say about the college co-ed Sandra Fluke, who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex, what does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. 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. What does that make us? We're the pimps. (interruption) The johns? We would be the johns? No! We're not the johns. (interruption) Yeah, that's right. Pimp's not the right word. Okay, so she's not a slut. She's "round heeled." I take it back.

Maybe he could have used a different word such as trollop, hussy, strumpet or tart. Ho is out, that wound be racist I suppose.

Timothy L. Pennell| 3.5.12 @ 7:30AM

She's a Slut. She said so, in Nancy Pelosi's make believe Committee. She said: "I am getting laid, so much, that I can't afford my Pills. I am putting out my *ss, so many times a week, that Birth Control is becoming out of reach. I am bent over so many Chairs, so many Pool Tables, and so many Ottomans. I spread my legs in so many beds, so many stairwells, and on the Hoods of so many cars at the Keg Parties, every week, that I need some to GIVE ME MONEY."

Apparently, you can tell by a Slut's eyes, when she is suffering from No Pilllitis. According to Daddy's little girl, she can SEE IT on the faces of other women on Campus. The blank stares that come from a lack of Penile Penetration. (Is that true, Alan? Can that really happen?)

How Dare Limbaugh! Women who get passed around at every party UNITE! We shall come over and overcome and am I using the word "Come" too many times?

We are at WAR with an Ideology. It has No God, and No Morals. It has No Standards and No Behavioral Restrictions. It is more CULT, than it is a Political Party. It has no concept of Mercy, and it never saw a BABY, that it didn't want to KILL.

And, now, the World's best known CHRISTIAN, is coming for the CHURCH. The biggest JESUS guy, anybody's ever seen, is going Pedal to the Medal, to Tear it all down, brick by brick. The man who told George Stephanopoulos that "The Muslim Call to Prayer, is the most beautiful sound in the world" is finally shown his TRUE COLOURS.

With each passing week, he crosses another Rubicon. He will No Longer seek out the Votes of White Working Families. He pronounces that Free Market Capitalism doesn't work. He pronounces that Free Market Capitalism has NEVER Worked. The STATE will feed your kids, from Now, on. High Gas Prices will be used to FORCE his will, upon us. We WILL buy his cars, and his cars, only. We WILL buy the Condoms and the IUD's so that all of the "SLUTS and WHORES For Obama" can keep on Slutting and Whoring, just like Immelt and Buffet, do.

"And I saw the BEAST rise from the Sea. And he was given a MOUTH, to speak Haughty and Blasphemous words. And he was allowed to exercise authority for forty two months." Revelation 13-5.

Every time I write it, it becomes more obvious.

Von Mises Jr.| 3.5.12 @ 7:53AM

"Right on, right on," as Rush would say, Mike and Timothy. Rush also always says "YOU DON'T WIN BY PLAYING DEFENSE!"

So here is what I am going to do:
I listen to Rush whenever I can on FREE AM RADIO. I am becoming a RUSH 24/7 SUBSCRIBER TODAY.
I give money to Heritage, Hillsdale and TEA Party candidates. I will now PAY for Rush entertainment. If many of us do this, it will help us keep him there for the country.

And I would suggest that businesses with conservative beliefs start to advertise with Rush. If competitors of these companies advertise with Rush, I will order their products. I would recommend next time you need to order something, consider Rush's new and existing spionsors first.
An email or call to these liberal sponsors will not do nearly as much as deleting their websites from your computer and vowing not to do business with them again.

DRed| 3.5.12 @ 8:51AM

Von, why is it okay for Rush to call a woman a slut for having the temerity to speak in public? She didn't put her sexual practices at issue. She didn't ask for money. This is really the kind of behavior you celebrate?

Vet665| 3.5.12 @ 9:17AM

Asking for free contraception is the same as asking for money. She can afford one of the most expensive law schools in the country but not the $30 birth control pills. She deserves to be mocked.

Grzmlyk| 3.5.12 @ 9:50AM

Wow. Some day I'd like to get a guided tour of the intellectual desert that is your brain.

Uh, fyi, she put her sexual practices at issue. Indeed, that was that ONLY issue. Not sure how you missed that. Maybe you thought she was there to protest Alar on apples?

And she asked for money. She wants government to pay for her sexual practices.

You obviously didn't catch this, but the reason she was there is that she wants free contraception. I understand liberal confusion when it comes to the causal universe, but, just so you know, contraception is only used in conjunction with sexual intercourse. Sexual intercourse is, in fact, a sexual practice.

So, because she has a right to have sex with whomever she likes, whenever she likes and how often she likes, I am supposed to pay for her birth control.

Oh, I know I know: Free really does mean "free" to a liberal. Everything should be free.

Except, of course, to evil businesspeople, evil Christians and the evil "one-percenters" (unless they pay lip service to liberal dogma). Not only should nothing be free to those evil bastards, but they should pick up the tab for everybody else's lifestyle choices.

And, for Fluke, the botom line is that she wants somebody else to pay for her recreation. Perhaps if she spent half as much time hitting the books as she admits to spending hitting the sheets, she might learn that the world does not begin and end with her.

Well, I enjoy skiing. I believe my equipment should be free. And who is going to pay for my golf clubs? You don't expect ME to pick up the tab for that, do you?

If you do, you are clearly a hater.

DRed| 3.5.12 @ 10:22AM

Well, that's depressing. Grzmlyk, you're a smart, well educated man. And you know absolutely nothing about birth control. Contraceptives have a host of medical uses that aren't connected with the actual act of intercourse. I know women who started taking contraceptives as young as 12 or 13 (at the advice of their doctor) and I can assure you it wasn't because they were sexually active.

Drunken Sailor| 3.5.12 @ 1:57PM

Maybe so but did those young girls you know or their parents expect the school to pick up the tab?

Did these young women not think to read up on the schools policies before joining? Or that a religous based school might have a problem paying for something that goes against their belief system?

Should we pay for Men's condoms to pay for and protect their sexual health? Oh wait, the libs already demand that too don't they?

DRed| 3.5.12 @ 2:20PM

I assume they expected their health insurance to cover it. But I really don't know, so I can't answer that.

I can see a religious school not wanting to pay for contraception. It's obviously a much trickier question. It's also hard to talk about when the most important conservative in America is busy trying to slut shame a woman for trying to discuss that very issue. Read Fluke's testimony-she wanted to ask Congress to not allow an amendment that would allow an employer or school to be able to refuse contraception for any reason (this includes treating medical conditions totally unrelated to sexual intercourse). Apparently, according to Rush and many of the readers here, this makes her a cock hungry slut looking to bend over for any man who gets close to her, which is reprehensible.

TrueBlue| 3.5.12 @ 5:15PM

DRed, but government forcing an employer, school, or any other organization to supply contraception they are then violating the rights of that organization. If she wants the school to provide contraception, she should go to a school that does so, not expect a school that SHOULD (given that it's supposedly a Catholic institution) be against its use to then go against those beliefs to supply it to others.

I don't care that she wants to use birth control. I only marginally care that she spends roughly $700 more a year on contraceptives that it should cost her, implying she has other activities. I care that she is standing up in defense of a mandate and law that rips the First Amendment rights away from American citizens.

Again, if she was only using the birth control for medical purposes she WOULD NOT HAVE RUN UP A $1000+ BILL!

DRed| 3.5.12 @ 6:09PM

You should figure out how oral contraceptives work before you talk about them.

Tea Party Jim| 3.6.12 @ 1:48PM

We do know. The pharmacist at her Target store said she can get a month's worth for $8. That's $96 a year. Even you could donate that money to her.

typical white woman| 3.6.12 @ 11:36PM

At Walmart it is only $5. for a month's worth.

MWK | 3.6.12 @ 8:04AM

Organizations don't have rights - people do. At least that is what I thought you all Republicans believe.

Charie| 3.19.12 @ 2:44PM

Which organization do you refer to?

FedSec| 3.5.12 @ 6:21PM

You may not pay for men's condoms, but you do pay for their Viagra. Or didn't you know?

FedSec| 3.5.12 @ 6:21PM

You may not pay for men's condoms, but you do pay for their Viagra. Or didn't you know?

TGH| 3.6.12 @ 1:52PM

No, we don't. Viagra is covered by the person's insurance and that person must pay part of the cost of the Viagra. Viagra is NOT free or paid for by the government.

TANSTAAFL| 3.5.12 @ 2:07PM

It's hard to actually even hold a simple conversation if there is a progressive anywhere in the dialogue. This non-contraceptive contraception theory is about as absurd as medical marijuana. Are there actually medicinal uses for marijuana? Quite certainly. Does that have a SINGLE thing to do with the majority of the medicinal-marijuana-use users? Probably not… (I’m thinking of “Rush Hour”…”I have Glaucoma…”) Are there non-contraceptive uses for contraception? Quite certainly. Does that have a SINGLE thing to do with Fluke’s appearance on Capitol Hill? Come on dred. You truly represent the reason no ratinal discourse can be achieved with liberals. We spend hours, decades and centuries stumbling over the absurd, unable to even simply get past the obvious into actual progress on anything.
“Without insurance coverage, contraception, as you know, can cost a woman over $3,000 during law school. For a lot of students who, like me, are on public interest scholarships, that’s practically an entire summer’s salary. 40% of the female students at Georgetown Law reported to us that they struggle financially as a result of this policy.”

I guess we are to believe that 40% of the female students at Georgetown Law suffer from polycystic ovarian syndrome. DRed, I don’t think we need to worry about the contraception debate, we need to look into the link between fracking operations in the Central Texas area and ovarian cysts!
On another note, I live close to Austin. I don’t care why this huge population of female law students is taking thousands of dollars worth of contraception because it’s going to be contraceptive nonetheless. So I’m wanting to get down there and mingle with this wealth of non-fertile opportunity!
I am now going to become a 24/7 Rush Supporter. Should have done so long ago, but I’m happy to now. And I fully intend to blacklist the blacklisters. Bye bye proflowers et al.

DRed| 3.5.12 @ 2:28PM

If you look at surveys of women who take oral contraceptives, the majority of women who take them do so for contraception, but a plurality say they also take them for non-contraceptive purposes (like, say, reducing the negative effects of their periods). So yes, I think the non-contraceptive reasons had a lot to do with Ms. Fluke's appearance, especially since the amendments congress was debating would have allowed an employer to only offer health insurance plans that didn't cover contraceptives taken for non-contraceptive reasons (like polycystic ovarian syndrome).

Have fun down in Austin. A word of advice before you go try to sleep with the law students at UT. Based on the ones I've known, you'll want to keep your 24/7 Rush Supporter membership a secret if you hope to get laid.

TANSTAAFL| 3.5.12 @ 2:46PM

Ahh... well said. I'll say whatever I have to say to get some... then I can go home and believe whatever I want. As long as I get what I want, everyone should be happy. Ironically, this isn't a lot unlike what the liberals are doing on this issue. Access to contraception is NOT at question here. There is more access to contraception here than most if not all other places on this planet. A woman's right to choose isn't threatened. Her access to contraception isn't threatened. Her opportunity to attend a school of her choice isn't threatened. Her right to boycott (not attend) a school that she disagrees with on an ideological level isn't threatened.

This school that she is attending has been around for quite some time long before the world was blessed with her presence due in no small part to the fact that she wasn't aborted long ago. And apparently the school has a reputation that caused her to want to attend, unless she was forced to attend by kidnappers against her will.

So there she is, voluntarily, at a school that has it's tradition and history and stated beliefs and she wants it to bow to her beliefs. Boycott the school and leave Fluke! (but wait for me to come down and get some first).

** And let me avoid future harassment in the future and state that NOWHERE in my dialogue have I actually asked for nor implied that I am looking for any sexual activity. I have simply said that I want to "get some" or that I want to mingle with a huge non-fertile female population which could certainly mean that I simply want to "get some" of that free non-contraceptive contraception... and that mingling with hot young females simply refers to my desire to talk shop with those of the opposite gender about knitting. Nowhere have I actually said I want to go down there and have sex.... Hey, this is easy.

lg| 3.5.12 @ 5:17PM

I was a UT law student and got smart enough to a) figure out that Walmart sells contraceptive pills for $5/month and b) stay as far away from progressive male students as possible -- they obviously weren't in my intellectual league. If Fluke is any indication, Georgetown needs to spend some $$ on remedial courses.

DRed| 3.5.12 @ 5:58PM

Well, you were probably also smart enough to realize that your UT mandated health insurance covered contraception, right?

Larry| 3.7.12 @ 4:05AM

DRed, you truly are, in the truest sense of the word, a complete dunderhead. There are very few real medical reasons to take or prescribe contraceptives and, as Cathy Ruse pointed out in the Wall Street Journal Tuesday, most medical insurance plans (including Georgetown's) cover those few and rare medical uses of contraceptives. So quit citing your phony issues over and over again, because you don't know what you are talking about.

As with abortion, you liberal trolls want the less common, less frequently occurring situations to be the basis for an entire general policy. Since you don't give any footnotes or links to these so-called "surveys" on contraception, I have to assume you've pulled them out of that mush pit you call your brain.

I have personally known NO women who use contraceptives for any purposes other than birth control, and I suspect there are very few out there. I also know ONE woman, in her late 30s at the time, who was foolish enough to take birth control pills - she suffered a stroke and had to be hospitalized. Fortunately, she recovered, but it was a profound lesson for her. So stop with the smug attitude about this issue, and start seeing it for what it is - a fraudulent issue - and get the hint that I, as a Federal taxpayer, am NOT going to pay for things that others choose to use that are NOT of the same medical importance as true health care.

Charie| 3.19.12 @ 2:47PM

The medical insurance will pay for any medically prescribed condition and that includes birth control pills. Contraception does not fall into that category.

MM| 3.5.12 @ 8:16PM

It's their CHOICE to pay more!

After all, it must be, nobody pays that.

But I don't really think Fluke is actually taking any.
She's got the maddow thing going minus skinny black glasses.

After reading a bio at http://dailycaller.com/2012/03.....dra-fluke/
I don't believe she is interested in men.

Trinacria| 3.5.12 @ 4:54PM

Name one FDA-approved medical indication for oral contraceptives for which there isn't a multitude of suitable FDA-approved therapies that are both efficacious and routinely reimbursed by Catholic sponsored health care plans.

The "contraceptives are medically necessary" argument is, in fact, a straw man that simply has no factual basis. Insurance companies routinely elect not to cover certain drugs - even those that are truly medically necessary - on the basis of cost or cost/benefit considerations. Ms. Fluke and her "compassionate" progressive friends are curiously silent, however, when it comes to these far more urgent and compelling cases. Know why? C'mon, sure you do...(hint: it's not really about women's health; think bigger picture).

Michelle| 3.5.12 @ 9:47PM

I've worked in the ob/gyn field for 17 years. While there are some other clinical indications for birth control pills, contraception is by the far the greatest reason for prescribing them.

Julie| 3.6.12 @ 3:09PM

Those who use it for medical reasons are covered. It's clear that it's the birth-control aspect was her focus. Beyond that, though, why should a private company be forced to cover medication that has, from its inception, been in direct conflict with its beliefs? This is not a company deciding that they don't believe in cancer drugs to duck a bill, it's a fundamental belief in place long before the drugs becamse available.

chet| 3.7.12 @ 11:06PM

DRed:
How do you know that Grzmlyk is a man. Sexist anyone?
Having read her “testimony”, I am at a loss to understand her argument, or yours.
1: As Fluke clearly states in her ‘testimony’, Georgetown does cover Birth Control Pills for medical reasons: “Her prescription is technically covered by Georgetown’s insurance because it’s not intended to prevent pregnancy.)
2: One can purchase birth control pills at Wal-Mart for less than $75 a year. Seems obvious that Fluke could not be referring to BCPs as the contraception costing her $1,000 a year.
Therefore, your argument regarding BCPs, as it relates to Fluke’s ‘testimony’, must be contextually incorrect.
However, contraceptives that would cost $1,000 a year would be about 9 (8.82) condoms a day from Wal-Mart. This implies a need of 3,220 condoms a year.
Considering the average American adult male has sex just 81 times a year (http://www.mensjournal.com/3-orgasms) and assuming that each man has sexual intercourse only with her, this would mean that 40 men alternate having sexual intercourse with her about 9 times a day (or every 2.72 hours), 356 days a year. Walt Chamberlain claimed to have sexual intercourse about every 17 hours for 20 years- and was roundly criticized. And he does not come close to the above figures…
Since I have no idea what is actually going on, why don’t you tell me what contraceptive are you or Fluke are, or could be, talking about, that would cost Fluke $1,000 a year. Contraceptive that would be used for contraceptive purposes only (keeping in mind that Georgetown covers non-contraceptive, medical usage of birth control meds)…
And, BTW, Fluke specifically states at the beginning of her ‘testimony’ that it is “Contraception” that costs $3,000 for three years – NOT the medical, non-contraceptive use of BCP that Georgetown covers…

karen| 3.5.12 @ 2:45PM

How come conservative males don't know anything about birth control? A pill is taken once a day, regardless of how often one has sex. One pill. Its not proportional.
I'm thinking none of you ever had sex with a women before.

TANSTAAFL| 3.5.12 @ 3:01PM

I'm not certain of that either. Can you send some pics and a phone number and if things look OK, perhaps we can get together and do your last sentence so that we can ensure that I have all of the information I need in order to have a position on the federal meddling in private matters... But pics first, send a link or something. My bar isn't high, just can't have a thingy really, but that part is non-negotiable. Thanks karen. ;)

Teaghan| 3.5.12 @ 3:02PM

Thank you Karen. I was about to say the same thing.

James Solbakken| 3.5.12 @ 3:59PM

"I'm thinking none of you ever had sex with a women before."
What you mean to say is most of us have not had sex with a prostitute before. And many who have regret it.

Von Mises Jr.| 3.5.12 @ 4:38PM

I have a metrosexual friend that would know about that. He likes to dance. He hugs all the girls and tells them how preety the smell.

Trinacria| 3.5.12 @ 4:55PM

Well, there was this one time back in West Virginia, but I'm not sure that one really counts (ewe know what I mean?)

jstwndring| 3.5.12 @ 5:09PM

"I'm thinking none of you ever had sex with a women before."

Actually, we practiced on you lefties with low self esteem in college. Later, we got serious and married someone we respected and could bring home to mom. Thanks! ;)

Trinacria| 3.5.12 @ 5:12PM

Amen, brother.

Seek| 3.7.12 @ 4:43PM

So there weren't any conservative women in college with whom you could practice? Or were they all virgins?

USSAlabama| 3.5.12 @ 6:01PM

Condoms, however, are free Karen.

Larry| 3.7.12 @ 4:08AM

I can call women dunderheads, too. I know, dear, that a woman has to take the pill once a day. That doesn't mean that I have to pay for it! And it doesn't mean that there is an "access" issue regarding contraceptives! If you want to use them, pay for them. Don't think it's your God-given right to take them.

Emily| 3.5.12 @ 5:50PM

I hate the idea of tax payers' money being used to fund recreational sex.

Von Mises Jr.| 3.5.12 @ 9:44AM

DRed, perhaps you already forgot the vile things that were said by the left about Sarah Palin and her daughter? There sex life became a national sepectacle, and all they did was talk about conservative issues.
Fluke voluntarilly announced how much she likes to suke and fluke. Nobody asked her. She is an activist that put her own bedroom antics out for everyone to see and discuss. And now she wants privacy???
That's not how the law or the media works. If you post on Facebutt a photo of yourself smoking crack, you can't sue your prospective employer for using the information in not hiring you.

DRed| 3.5.12 @ 10:38AM

When did Ms. Fluke volunteer how much she liked having sex (not that I feel that's a bad thing)? What bedroom antics did she discuss? I read her testimony and she didn't mention her own sexual practices a single time. So why are you calling her a slut?

TANSTAAFL| 3.5.12 @ 2:31PM

Can't get past the obvious. The emperor has no clothes fool. We will never get to actual progress like discussing personal responsibility, role of federal government or even something like legalizing prostitution which is a private act between two consenting adults... But not if we can't get past the fact that the emporer is naked my friend. Come join the rest of us in reality. Maybe try some medical pot.

DRed| 3.5.12 @ 2:36PM

The obvious fact is that she never once mentioned sex. Apparently, to right wingers, any woman who even talks about contraception in public must be banging loads of guys and deserves to be publicly shamed. It's funny, I thought this was a debate about religious liberty. What's obvious is that there's a significant segment of the conservative part of America that remains terrified of female sexuality. None of you can even explain how you know so much about Ms. Fluke's sexual habits. She sure didn't mention them. I keep asking-how do you know she's a slut?

TANSTAAFL| 3.5.12 @ 2:55PM

Tru dat! I'm forming an action committee right now to get to the bottom of these cysts at Georgetown Law! I'll set up a website for you all to visit and donate via PayPal. I love my Central Texas female non-fertile law students that have been disproportionately affected by ovarian disorders and will do everything I can to probe this situation. ;) But gimme some money first. Or better yet, I will go to Capitol Hill and request money from them since I know none of you right wing selfish extremists are going to be willing to pay for my personal activities in Austin Texas, even though I ASSURE you that my intentions are rock solid. Congress can just get your money for me, and instead of being called theft we can call it a federal program. :D

DRed| 3.5.12 @ 3:00PM

So, you think any woman who uses contraception deserves to be publicly called a slut? It blows me away that so many of you think that's defensible.

For what it's worth, Ms. Fluke isn't asking for a dime of your money either. So you can save it for your trip to Austin.

TANSTAAFL| 3.5.12 @ 3:10PM

Exactly, which is why I want to fund my Austin Area Ovarian Research Team (AAORT) through federal legislation which forces others (like insurance companies or rich conservatives) to pay for my activities. After all, if someone else has to pay for it, then it's free, except for those that pay for it. But they don't count because they are nobody-cares-about-them.

Furthermore, since Fluke isn't asking for a dime, why are we stopping at the narrow contraceptive medicines? All medications should be free. Do you not care about males? What about diabetics? Cancer treatments? Breast augmentations? (I love ta tas!) Penile enlargement? Free is free my friend. I still don't own a flat screen tv. Paying for my children's sports activities... There are injustices all around us. Some of us pay our way through life. Most of us want others to pay our way through life. It took me twenty years to "earn" the medical coverage I now enjoy. I could have just demanded it rather than worked for it... stupid me

Von Mises Jr.| 3.5.12 @ 3:18PM

Ms. Flake is a 30 year old Columbia University Social Studies lunatic that works full time as a feminazi who knew that Georgetown did not pay for contraception. She went there to change the policy as an activist. She is a community organizer!

Congressman Issa refused to let her be substituted at the last minute for Barry Lynn who failed to show. The hearing was a Democrat fraud and reported as legitimate. It was all a farse for kool-aid drinkers like you, and people too busy or stupid to know the truth.
She is not only a slut, she is a liar.

DRed| 3.5.12 @ 3:30PM

How do you know anything about her sexual habits, Von? I know you consider yourself some sort of conservative intellectual. Do you think all women who get contraceptives from the insurance companies that they pay to provide health insurance are sluts, and if so, why?

Also, she goes to Georgetown. If she went to Columbia there'd be no issue, because her health insurance would cover contraceptives.

Ariadnea| 3.5.12 @ 5:14PM

I am from Canada, and even I believe this debate is quite absurd. America is now facing astronomical debt and spending problem, yet you are talking about free contraception?

How stupid and idiotic can you people get when you believe the liberal propagandist media sell you a false narrative. I have not heard any politician spoke on banning contraception; the only thing I have heard is people should not be forced to pay for other people sexual choices and activities. One has all the freedom to choose to have free STDs and other sexual diseases but not at someone else's pimping and expense.

Even with Canada's public health care system contraception pills and other gadgets are not for free. And so you would know our public health care system is bursting at the seams. There is now active discussion in Canada in introducing private health care delivery to our system and other kinds of reform to unburden our overwhelmed system. Alternative health care like Rehabilitative Medicine are already privatized in the last few years, soon others might follow. Complete Socialized medicine is only good as short as it last; it is never sustainable in the long run as observed here in Canada. Learn our lessons well, look at other countries like Australia, Germany, and others for studying how to reform your health care. US health care do need reformation but with your debt and spending problem, socialized medicine is a sure way to your country's economic suicide. Your country is already closer to that destination with your constant debt ceiling increases. Wake up and mind the steering wheel!

Von Mises Jr.| 3.5.12 @ 6:03PM

I went to Quebec a couple summers ago, Ariadnea. There were 6 month waits for a doctor or test. Nobody wanted to go the emergency room since the liberals calling in sick for a few days were tying up the services. Eight plus hours wait.
They were about to implement aboout a $130 fee for immediate treatment.

But our liberals like DRed are fools. They think that they will have same day treatment and I should pay for it. I don't know you, but maybe you can tell BrainDead, how socialized medicine works.

Ariadnea| 3.5.12 @ 5:14PM

I am from Canada, and even I believe this debate is quite absurd. America is now facing astronomical debt and spending problem, yet you are talking about free contraception?

How stupid and idiotic can you people get when you believe the liberal propagandist media sell you a false narrative. I have not heard any politician spoke on banning contraception; the only thing I have heard is people should not be forced to pay for other people sexual choices and activities. One has all the freedom to choose to have free STDs and other sexual diseases but not at someone else's pimping and expense.

Even with Canada's public health care system contraception pills and other gadgets are not for free. And so you would know our public health care system is bursting at the seams. There is now active discussion in Canada in introducing private health care delivery to our system and other kinds of reform to unburden our overwhelmed system. Alternative health care like Rehabilitative Medicine are already privatized in the last few years, soon others might follow. Complete Socialized medicine is only good as short as it last; it is never sustainable in the long run as observed here in Canada. Learn our lessons well, look at other countries like Australia, Germany, and others for studying how to reform your health care. US health care do need reformation but with your debt and spending problem, socialized medicine is a sure way to your country's economic suicide. Your country is already closer to that destination with your constant debt ceiling increases. Wake up and mind the steering wheel!

Von Mises Jr.| 3.5.12 @ 4:44PM

ReDead, Ms Flake is a fluke. She graduated Columbia with some Womens Issues Degree and is a full-time femanazi. She went to Georgetown knowing they did not offer wubbas and planed to change that. She is a community organizer like Obuma.
She showed up at the last minute at a Issa Hearing and they tried to substitute her for Barry Lynn who didn't show up on purpose. When Issa said she could not testify since she had no credentials; they caused a scene. Then they had a mock hearing and made it look like she was a victim. She wants you to get a smaller apartment, so you can chip in for her boggie pills.
She is not only a slut, she is commie liar.

DRed| 3.5.12 @ 5:04PM

How do you know she's a slut, Von? It's a fairly simple question.

Here's another simple question-how is she asking me (or you) to pay for her pills? The insurance for Georgetown law students isn't paid for by the federal government.

jstwndring| 3.5.12 @ 5:31PM

Democrats know that they are in trouble over Obamacare as was evidenced in the 2010 elections and they need a "civil rights" issue to try to make it look like they are trying to save us. This entire contraceptive episode is an invented crisis to make socialized medicine look necessary. No one is denying Ms. Fluke, or, anyone else from getting as much in the way of contraceptives as they want. We are just saying we don't want to pay for it. Of course, those of you on the left know that you can't compete in the free market of ideas, so, you're gonna force us to pay. And, ultimately, we may. We'll see who wins in November.

USSAlabama| 3.5.12 @ 5:32PM

Because SHE said so.

Maybe not Federally funded, but if you think that forcing insurance to pay doesn't get passed on to consumers, you're just stupid.

Condoms are free.

Von Mises Jr.| 3.5.12 @ 10:34PM

DRip, when it is included in insurance premiums, you pay for it. Unless you are on Medicaid, in which case we are paying for everything for you already.

Larry| 3.7.12 @ 4:12AM

She did mention sex, so that is a lie on your part. Not necessarily in the sarcastic way that you might adopt in criticizing us conservatives, and not necessarily with complete personal reference to her own sexual activity.

I say it again - this is an issue of religious liberty. But it is also an issue of power - the power of government to continue to impose these economic mandates on various areas of personal behavior. It is the failure of Obamacare. But you refuse to see it that way, so for now you remain a dunderhead.

Charie| 3.19.12 @ 2:56PM

Considering the downside of birth control pills the fact that she uses them instead of condoms tells me that this isn't a once a month thing for her.

This is now all moot since we've found out all about Ms. Fluke. I'm just blowing off steam because this is 2 weeks after these posts. I do like to look back, though because it shows what unthinking dolts most liberals are.

Paul from SA| 3.5.12 @ 2:24PM

Nobody is calling her or anybody a slut for speaking. She's being called a slut because she is very promiscuous and wants free birth control.

The issue is not about women's health or secondary benefits of contraceptives.

She should pay for her own stuff.

That's it DRed.

She should pay for her own stuff.

Why didn't she complain about affording food, housing, tuition, gas, energy, etc? Just sex.

USSAlabama| 3.5.12 @ 5:35PM

Because she is a dem plant and said what they wanted.

Look her up. Over 20k twitter followers, and look who *they* are.
http://theconservativetreehous.....-activist/

She knows fully well that she could get condoms for free. Her resume proves it.

beebop2| 3.6.12 @ 5:37AM

What the heck is wrong with you? One person does not have the right to upset the FIRST AMENDMENT you fool. Please? Move somewhere where freedom is not a cause worth fighting for .... there are lots and lots of choices open to you.

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Vonnise| 3.5.12 @ 11:54PM

@Von Mises Jr, I hope you don't mind, I am going to copy and past some of your post onto my FB wall so my friends will see it. This is tooo good to let it get lost. It must be repeated and shared many times over. We must stand behind Rush. Your idea to join rush 24/7 is an excellent idea. I am going to do that tomorrow!!!

Jm| 3.6.12 @ 8:09AM

Hey people let's stay focused. The point here is to make these companies pay for there actions by taking our business else where. None of them lack competitors. What I want to read about here is people who have moved their business else were..

benny havens| 3.5.12 @ 8:44AM

Sean Hannity will be next when he shows the Breitbart tapes.

da monk| 3.5.12 @ 3:08PM

Pennell as in prejudiced. I bet you, if you have a wife, daughter, niece or aunt each of them at one time used controceptives which they received from their doctor or insurance company. Are they sluts, whores, roundheels. And how many children of single mothers have you aided?

Frank Sinclair| 3.5.12 @ 5:22PM

You are a paranoid psychopath.

Just as El Rushbo is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DIwNmFglEE

Goldwaterite| 3.6.12 @ 6:46PM

"Let me be clear, Ms. Fluke. Your parents should be so proud of you!"---Barack H. Obama

Devon| 3.7.12 @ 7:31PM

Wow, you are so far out there Timothy, I'm speechless.

You do know that abortion isn't about sadism, it's about the ability to control your own destiny and have the government out of your life right. No government should force pregnant people to bear children. That's an infringement on liberty.

TexasMom| 3.21.12 @ 2:37PM

Timothy, well said! Everything many of us think about Obama and the liberal machine you have described so wonderfully well.
You have the gift with words and the quote from Revelation 13-5 fits perfectly. I hope you keep contributing comments - Also hope there is a legion of us to battle this horror and we don't loose our will to fight.

Purp| 3.5.12 @ 2:02PM

He lied about what she testified on. It had nothing to do with her sex life. When she did testify in front of Democrats (Republicants only allowed men to testify about women's issues - interesting isn't it), she discussed how contraceptives are necessary for some 2 million women NOT to avoid pregnancy, but for relieving ovarian cyst formation, endometriosis and other medical issues that the hormones in contraceptives help.
But, of course, Rush lied to make news and controversy - and amazingly you all believe whatever the windbag says. Did you see her testimony?

TANSTAAFL| 3.5.12 @ 2:09PM

That's a lot of fricking cysts purp. Maybe female Georgetown students should switch to bottled water, or stop using cell phones... Somebody needs to get to the bottom of this Central Texas cyst problem!

Drunken Sailor| 3.5.12 @ 2:13PM

Your right, she discussed it for medical reasons. However she pulled a old liberal stunt by trying to make it seem that the majority of women take it for medical reasons. Just not so, in fact here is a study showing only 14 percent of woman take it for something unrelated to birth control.

http://news.health.ufl.edu/201.....raception/

Another link with the same numbers.
http://www.guttmacher.org/medi.....index.html

Julia| 3.5.12 @ 2:22PM

First off Purp, know your facts, Ms. Fluke DID NOT testify in front of an "official panel" of Republicans nor Democrats. Deranged Nancy Pelosi created her own setup to make the questioning look official. It was basically a room of "give me everything free, you pay not me, take from you not from me" free loaders. And second PURP, what the hell is doing at a Catholic university trying to get them to pay for contraceptives????? Oh, could it be that a Liberal education of worthless!!!!

da monk| 3.5.12 @ 3:14PM

Julia, baby, why was Ms Fluke not allowed to appear before the all male Issa committee? Isn't there someting wrong for an all male panal not to hear a womans point of view? I guess you do WHATEVER your husband demmands, that is if you have one.

ed| 3.5.12 @ 3:37PM

She was not allowed to appear because it had nothing to do with a women's point of view, it is about the government being able to tell a religious organization that they must supply birth control, even if it is against there beliefs. What scares the hell out of me is the amount of liberty that people are willing to give up .Sooner or later your party won't be in charge. and then the very people you hate and fear will have all control over you, and you gave it to them

DRed| 3.5.12 @ 3:44PM

How about we compromise, and say that the insurer has to pay for it?

Con Chef (NB)| 3.5.12 @ 4:30PM

Are you REALLY that stupid? You don't think that cost will be passed on to others? NOTHING is free, twit.

Drunken Sailor| 3.5.12 @ 4:32PM

With Obama care a mandate how is that a compromise?

Dear Catholic church,
The fine folks at the US Goverment will not make you pay for contraceptives. We will simply make your insurance company do it and trasfer the cost to your higher premiums.

Your Truly.
Obamanation.

DRed| 3.5.12 @ 4:56PM

Perhaps it won't make insurance premiums go up. After all, birth control is a lot cheaper than pregnancy. Seems like the kind of thing that would be a cost saver in the long run for insurance companies.

Trinacria| 3.5.12 @ 6:12PM

"After all, birth control is a lot cheaper than pregnancy. "

AH HA! I thought the whole argument was that it wasn't about BIRTH CONTROL but all the other non-contraceptive uses that are so vitally necessary to save our poor suffering women who might otherwise go untreated...

You see, you can't even keep up the charade long enough to advance your argument.

Trinacria| 3.5.12 @ 5:10PM

Oh Dear God; you truly don't get it; do you? Who do you think pays the insurer?

By the way, if you're comfortable with the government being allowed to mandate that a private company purchase a good or service at that company's expense and then provide said good or service to the public free of charge - it turns out that they've tried that a time or two throughout history and (perhaps you haven't heard) it had a rather less than jolly outcome.

DRed| 3.5.12 @ 5:27PM

Who pays the insurer? Well, that depends. Generally, your employer is going to pay a substantial proportion, and in return you get lower wages. Conceptually, the employee is still paying for their health insurance. It's a complicated subject. What's not complicated to me, is that a woman who thinks her insurance company should cover contraception is not a slut for doing so. Do we at least agree on that?

jstwndring| 3.5.12 @ 5:36PM

"Who pays the insurer?"

You do, in the form of lower pay. Increases in costs to employers/businesses get passed on to employees and customers. If the bottom line can't be maintained, the business ceases to be. This ain't charity.

DRed| 3.5.12 @ 5:59PM

So if I'm paying for insurance, why should my employers religious beliefs affect the coverage I get?

Trinacria| 3.5.12 @ 6:03PM

"What's not complicated to me, is that a woman who thinks her insurance company should cover contraception is not a slut for doing so. Do we at least agree on that?"

I don't know if she's a slut; I haven't had the pleasure. I do know, however, that a woman who expects a Catholic sponsored health insurance plan to provide oral contraceptives when she enrolled in said institution knowing a priori that (a) it is a Catholic (Jesuit) institution, (b) the Catholic Church morally objects to the use of artificial contraception, and (c) the health plan in which she would be participating as a student does not cover oral contraceptives (as clearly indicated in the health plan's prescription drug formulary) is:

a) foolish
b) disingenuous
c) clearly motivated by a progressive/liberal ideology

Frankly, I don't really care who called whom what (and, let's be honest, neither do you, really - otherwise you'd have the same visceral reaction to Ed Schultz referring to Ms. Ingram as a slut as you did to Rush characterizing Ms. Fluke thusly - yet curiously I see nary a word in your posts above rebuking Mr. Schultz). I leave the fake- moral-outrage-at-some-meaningless-verbal-insult schtick to the politically correct rent-a-protest crowd.

Von Mises Jr.| 3.5.12 @ 6:16PM

Obama does not have the Constitutional power to pass this mandate whether the Catholic Church or insurance companies pay for it. It is a violation of "Freedom of Speech" that is not apparently always available in the great country of Canada.

But DRedful probably gets $12 per hour as a troll, and all the hot dogs he can eat at OWS rallies.
We really don't give a crap what BrainDead thinks, but he is a useful idiot that serves a purpose, whether he realizes it or not.
He is losing good Democrat votes just as they must be appalled by the violence, rape, flag burning and crapping on police cars he and his friends, and his messiah Obuma are famous for. So let the fool talk. "Never interrupt your enemy when he is committing suicide."

DRed| 3.5.12 @ 6:19PM

Interestingly enough, Georgetown employee healthcare covers contraception (and even abortion). So much for the moral objection. It pisses me off when conservatives wrap themselves in the constitution (it's religious liberty at stake!) but then slut shame a woman for having the temerity to exercise her constitutionally protected right to petition her government. Do you really need me to tell you why women overwhelming vote for Democrats? It's 2012, not 1700. Women have sex. Deal with it.

Ed Schultz is a loudmouth jackass. Here's what I said last year, on this very website:

DRed| 5.25.11 @ 6:25PM

I think Ed Schultz is a big fat idiot, and he should be fired.

Trinacria| 3.5.12 @ 6:44PM

"Interestingly enough, Georgetown employee healthcare covers contraception (and even abortion). "

Source, please?

"Do you really need me to tell you why women overwhelming vote for Democrats? It's 2012, not 1700. Women have sex. Deal with it."

I hasten to note that I happen to be rather a fan of the fact that women have sex; indeed, it has on more than one occasion redounded to my extreme benefit. I am, therefore, quite happy to "deal with it", though surely I shant be expected to "pay for it" too!

DRed| 3.5.12 @ 7:00PM

Do you have health insurance? If so, you have been paying for it already.

DRed| 3.5.12 @ 7:09PM

oh, and here you go

http://www.projectsycamore.com.....OSVins.pdf

Trinacria| 3.5.12 @ 8:09PM

Negative, Kemosabe. Here's the issue: The government mandate for which Ms. Fluke is lobbying requires that all insurance companies provide oral contraceptives without a copay (i.e. the insured incurs zero cost). This mandate was advanced under the pretense that oral contraceptives are used for non-contraceptive indications and, as such, are medically necessary to ensure the health of women. However, oral contraceptives are not the only treatment for any of the non-contraceptive indications for which they are occasionally prescribed; indeed, there are many safe, effective, and FDA-approved therapeutic alternatives for each of these conditions. Curiously, the government has not mandated the provision of any of these therapies without a copay, despite the fact that they are medically necessary to ensure the health of women. Clearly, therefore, women's health is not the issue here - this is a not-so-cleverly-disguised campaign tactic designed to achieve precisely the response it has elicited from you (for all their faults, progressives have long since figured out how to use to their advantage the fact that 50% of the electorate has an IQ below the median).

Devon| 3.7.12 @ 7:35PM

Conservatives are morons on this issue. There's a big honking difference between contraception and religious liberty. Last I checked, contraception has nothing to do with religion. So how is mandating doctors to give out contraception an infringement on religious practice... It's not like anyone is telling you not to pray or go to church, or practice your religious freedoms. It doesn't even mention contraception in the Bible. So how is this even an issue for religious people, when it the idea they are fighting isn't even mentioned in the Bible.

chemman| 3.5.12 @ 7:00PM

The employee is paying for a portion of the risk pool. Everyone else who uses that particular risk pool is also paying for you. That is where the issue comes in. Most people have no issue with the medical necessity part which based on data is about 2% of women. The rest should pay for it themselves. BTW my spouse had to use BC for endometriosis for several years while I was in school. We paid for it out of pocket. I am sympathetic to those who need it for medical necessity but not for those who use it strictly as a contraceptive.

Ariadnea| 3.5.12 @ 7:20PM

What planet do you live? Where do you think insurers get their money to pay for this? Do you think money grows from trees, or from your septic tank, or perhaps from your toilet drains? Just in case you are one of those clueless indoctrinated Harvard graduates, let me spell it for you, insurers pay benefits from each of our pocket. The more coverage they are asked to cover, the higher our premiums become.

What kind of education you people down there’s having, that you are producing so many stupid and idiotic people like this?

Julie| 3.6.12 @ 3:17PM

For that particular woman, I will chip in to make sure she doesn't procreate.

DRed, I'm thinking you must be young, and haven't yet realized that there is no free lunch. Someone pays, always.

chemman| 3.5.12 @ 6:53PM

Math is difficult isn't it. With a population of over 310 million about 150 million are women. Of that roughly 100 million are in the age range to need contraceptives. 2 million then is 2%. She testified that 40% of the women at Georgetown law were financially strapped over purchasing contraceptives. What about the 40 -2 or 38%? They apparently aren't buying it for medical necessity. Or are you suggesting that Georgetown law has a disproportionate number of females with medical issue related to their reproductive systems. Even then 38% would be statistically unlikely.

Larry| 3.7.12 @ 4:17AM

The only lies being "purpatrated" are ones by you. It is as much about HER sex life as it is about all of the other women she claimed to be carrying "unhappy" looks on their faces (how she can read minds, I hardly know) on the Georgetown campus.

This pile of dung you claim to be the case about birth control pills is a relatively small amount of medical situations and, as I pointed out above to the dunderhead DRed, the medical uses you describe ARE, as Cathy Ruse described in WSJ on Tuesday, covered on most medical insurance, including Georgetown's health insurance!

Funny thing for you to be accusing conservatives of lying, you troll.

Devon| 3.7.12 @ 7:38PM

I'm perfectly fine with women having as much sex as they want. Let them enjoy themselves. The world is a much better place when people are allowed to enjoy life. I'm tired of conservative sadists wanting other people to be as miserable as possible, just so they can feel superior to others. Conservative = selfish.

Alan Brooks| 3.5.12 @ 5:59PM

Rush is very talented- but only as an entertainer. I laugh at his wit, but learn nothing new from EIB.
It is the same old Reagan Reagan Reagan.
Fact is, with Reagan gone, you guys are NOTHING.

You are History.

Trinacria| 3.5.12 @ 6:06PM

Finally, you have made a statement that is verifiably true. We are indeed history; the arch of the decline can be traced to January MMIX.

Alan Brooks| 3.5.12 @ 7:50PM

You will be gone, but we will remain,
and we will tear down your Confederate monuments.

.

The Road Warrior| 3.5.12 @ 8:54PM

And then you will begin to eat each other...

Alan Brooks| 3.5.12 @ 10:12PM

If that is so, it is worth it to get rid of you and your Confederate monuments.

Mark L| 3.6.12 @ 1:38AM

Alan oblivious you do not know history, it was the Democrats whom put those moments up. After all they a Republican president tooth and nail not to fight the south, I suppose you have no idea what a copper head Democrat is? Or whom the KKK was created to suppress, I will tell you, it was Blacks, Jews, Catholics and Republicans. From what I see today the Klan is alive and well. Democrats are working hard to suppress all those groups today and still believe in slavery after all expecting some else to pay for something you think you need and have the government force another person to pay for your consumption is slavery.

Larry| 3.7.12 @ 4:19AM

Ah, Alan Brooks pontificates on history! My old nemesis, you are nothing but historically (and histrionically) a fool. You haven't seen anything yet, wait for November 6, 2012.

aware| 3.5.12 @ 6:38AM

Lord, you and Limbaugh are not doing yourselves any favors by continuing to pick at this scab. Limbaugh is a shill for the Republican Party, like you. Once I liked him and listened, but now can hardly stand him.

Pecos Pete| 3.5.12 @ 6:48AM

aware: "...pick at this scab." Free speech is a scab?

As [ Mike Hawk ] said, the trolls are here and will attack and attack and attack.

Melvin| 3.5.12 @ 6:49AM

Oh save the sanctimonious crap for someplace else junior.
You cannot even come up with your own post but used old tired worn out Democrat talking points. "Shill for the Republican Party, I used to like him, Now I can't stand him."
You pious little pricks are nothing more that Fascist hypocrites. The filthy and vile crap your kind said about Sarah Palin, and Michele Bachman. Sorry bub or bubbette your halo is hanging down around your backside.
You want war, well your about to f-ing get it.

Ret. Marine| 3.5.12 @ 7:30AM

Boy you said it, if they only knew what We the Patriots have planned for them, they'd be singing a very different tune right about now. Sadly, most of them have been counting on these pathetic words for far too long, " hi I'm with the government, and I am here to help you" What are they going to do when we come for you, without the government's protection.

R Martin| 3.5.12 @ 8:26AM

I agree Melvin and Marine. Read the first sentence of the Declaration of Independence. We're getting very close to that point again.

ed| 3.5.12 @ 3:39PM

Please don't give them any info, as tempting as it is. let it be a big surprise.

III

Seek| 3.7.12 @ 4:49PM

This, I presume, is your idea of "civility." It's called making a death threat.

Mike Rogers| 3.5.12 @ 8:10AM

And THAT, ladies and gentlemen, is how a Fascist Brown Shirt talks.

jstwndring| 3.5.12 @ 5:39PM

The Brown shirts are always worn by political lefties. National Socialists monsters.

Devon| 3.7.12 @ 7:39PM

Lol, fascism was a right wing philosophy. Learn your history boy.

Teaghan| 3.5.12 @ 3:06PM

GO MELVIN!!!!!!

aware| 3.5.12 @ 6:36PM

You are the fascist. How could I, an anachro-capitalist be a freakin' fascist? Without the State how the hell is fascism even possible? Or socialism?

I'm as far to your right as you neocons are to progressives. I consider you to be leftists who accommodate growth of the State.

aware| 3.6.12 @ 6:41AM

Just then they came in sight of thirty or forty windmills that rise from that plain. And no sooner did Don Quixote see them that he said to his squire, "Fortune is guiding our affairs better than we ourselves could have wished. Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them. With their spoils we shall begin to be rich for this is a righteous war and the removal of so foul a brood from off the face of the earth is a service God will bless."

"What giants?" asked Sancho Panza.

Anybody here see my point in quoting this?

Mike Hawk| 3.5.12 @ 6:54AM

The first Moveon/ Occupy troll has showed up. aware, you a lying SofS just like the tramp Fluke.

aware| 3.5.12 @ 5:32PM

Like I told you before, the only "occupying" I do is as a small businessman(with the tax bill to prove it, pal) where I create jobs and happy customers.

I've been annoying neocons here for years, but I only noticed you recently. I'm no troll, Bud.

So now it's become a "save Rush" fight. Suppose you "win"? Then what? Laws repealed? Borrowing stopped? Hordes of regulators reigned in? Constitution dusted off?

What exactly is the point of this whole futile waste of time? Talk show hosts should remember that the tongue hangs more men than ropes. He was stupid to say it and I bet even he agrees with that.

It's even more stupid to give a moments slip this kind of attention. Your side looks worse every time it comes up. This is the kind of keystone cop moments that made me give up on conservatism as being able to really stem the tide of State control of everything.

Devon| 3.7.12 @ 7:41PM

Someone spoke the truth Mike. You mad bro?

Alan Brooks| 3.5.12 @ 6:02PM

Aware,
let them devour themselves next summer at the GOP convention like vultures fighting over carcasses.

Larry| 3.7.12 @ 4:20AM

You need to change your handle. Something more like "totally unaware and clueless."

aware| 3.7.12 @ 4:41PM

I'd rather talk to Moe.

jppc| 3.5.12 @ 6:43AM

Oh the hypocrisy.......Ol' Big Ears, aka, The One(termer) has actually used the vulgar term "tea bagger" as well as just weeks before liberal goddess Gaaaaaaaby Giffords was shot, told his illegal alien Mexican soldiers to "punish our enemies".

Where was the MSM covering our Marxist-Mooooslim in Chief?

Purp| 3.5.12 @ 2:03PM

What you consider news, they consider trash news.

jstwndring | 3.5.12 @ 5:41PM

Or, just an inconvenient truth. To bold to print. Little cowards that they are.

Questionman| 3.5.12 @ 9:32PM

Anyone who thinks "these people" are "Marxists" doesn't know what a Marxist is.

This is your brain on Rush.

Well done, dittohead racist.

Larry| 3.7.12 @ 4:22AM

I would be so interested in hearing what you define as a "Marxist." But don't waste your time, because people who talk like you do normally don't know what they are talking about. Your brain has certainly locked up on something, and it isn't intelligence.

TexasMom| 3.21.12 @ 2:44PM

Oh wise one, please describe a "Marxist" for my enlightenment if you please.......

John Daniel| 3.5.12 @ 6:52AM

Hooking up - without consequences - is apparently a constitutional right to be supported by the government dicta. There has been much discussion of boys who never become men and why should they when gratuitous sex comes without responsibilities? C.S. Lewis wrote about men without chests...maybe the distaff side is now men without penises. Rush is right!

Brian Mc| 3.5.12 @ 7:21AM

Good point, J.D.
If there was only one book that I would deem imperative for each and every American to read before the election, it would be "Mere Christianity" by the aforementioned C.S. Lewis.
Goodness must prevail: goodness WILL prevail.

Purp| 3.5.12 @ 2:05PM

Rush lied about what she testified on, and is oh so wrong. It had nothing to do with her sex life. When she did testify in front of Democrats (Republicants only allowed men to testify about women's issues - interesting isn't it), she discussed how contraceptives are necessary for some 2 million women NOT to avoid pregnancy, but for relieving ovarian cyst formation, endometriosis and other medical issues that the hormones in contraceptives help.
But, of course, Rush lied to make news and controversy - and surprise! you all believe it. Is that because you want to believe it, or because it's true? Did you hear her testimony? If not, you've been suckered by Rush again.

Teaghan| 3.5.12 @ 3:14PM

And you Purp, have been suckered by the leftist progressive media and party.
Rush will be just fine. This only makes more listen to his show and he has pleanty of adveritisers waiting in the wings. Looks like the others didn't need the business.

TANSTAAFL| 3.5.12 @ 3:18PM

I agree Purp! Support my cause! I am personally going to go attempt to probe each and every female that comprise the 40% population at Georgetown Law (if they are hot) and try to determine what the hell is going on down there to cause this epidemic outbreak of ovarian cysts. Water supply? I'll shower with them (if they're hot). Public restrooms? I'll probe them there as well, if they're hot. Excessive cell phone use? I'll Skype every one of them, if they're hot.

But Purp, I can't do this without financial help! Send money or I'll go to Congress and circumvent your rights!

fmm| 3.5.12 @ 4:29PM

sadly you won't need much money as there are very few HOT Georgetown law "students"

TANSTAAFL| 3.5.12 @ 4:59PM

Bummer! I'll bring my own beer then. Or if they are really frumpy, a bottle of rum.

wukong| 3.7.12 @ 2:03PM

Wrong!!!!
As a career military man with 20+ years of overseas experience I can assure you that Micky Gilley was right.

"The Flukes all get prettier at closing time."

Bill| 3.5.12 @ 6:35PM

Purp is so full of manure he rides around in a manure spreader pulled by a combine.

From the Desk of Media Matters| 3.5.12 @ 7:48PM

Pierre "Purp" Pelosi,

Stop embarrassing us. We are under assault and wish to avoid further ridicule.

Even our other bottom rung MM mindless parrots know there is no reason why MEDICAL INSURANCE should be part of any employee - employer relationship.

Even our other bottom rung MM mindless parrots know MEDICAL INSURANCE is a contingency for unforeseen calamities and is not for voluntary lifestyle choices whether they involve health or not.

Even our other bottom rung MM mindless parrots know PREGNANCY is not a DISEASE or any other unforeseen calamity.

Even our other bottom rung MM mindless parrots know there is no reason MEDICAL INSURANCE is not purchased by citizens just like AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE or HOMEOWNER'S INSURANCE or LIFE INSURANCE is purchased.

Even our other bottom rung MM mindless parrots know FORCING OTHER CITIZENS TO PAY FOR your stuff is despicable and the fact your teabagged jaw dislocation is both painful and expensive is not the problem of other citizens.

Even our other bottom rung MM mindless parrots know 49.5% of citizens DO NOT PAY income taxes.

Even our other bottom rung MM mindless parrots know over 70% of federal spending is for DEPENDENCE programs.

Even our other bottom rung MM mindless parrots know over 91 million citizens are DEPENDENT on government.

Even our other bottom rung MM mindless parrots know each taxpayer ALREADY OWES OVER ONE MILLION DOLLARS each.

Stop embarrassing us.

- MM staff

Moe Blotz| 3.5.12 @ 11:18PM

Is that Booger on MM staff?

From the Desk of Media Matters| 3.6.12 @ 11:58AM

No.

Even MM staff miss Booger.

PS: Pierre "Purp" Pelosi - Stop embarrassing us.

- MM staff

Clint| 3.5.12 @ 6:53AM

The Axelrod/Obama/ Pelosi Campaign Blame/Credit Game Is Damaged, Once Again By Messin' With Another Catholic Institution.

25 Percent Of American Voters Are Catholics, Half Of Them Women And A Significant Minority Are Hispanic Catholics.

The Left's Attempts To Mess With Catholics Is Creating A Catholic Backlash.

RCV| 3.5.12 @ 4:26PM

The majority of Catholic voters in Michigan rejected Santorum and chose Romney.

DRed| 3.5.12 @ 5:28PM

It's funny that the most Catholic candidate can't get Catholics to vote for him. I wonder what Ricky is doing wrong? Maybe it's because he ignores the church's teachings on labor unions and global warming? Or torture and aggressive war?

Reprobates & Charlatans Oh My| 3.5.12 @ 7:14PM

Maybe the Dreadful Vomitus will abate somewhat with a little perspective provided by this article:

www.onlinewsj.com/article/SB10.....TopOpinion

Maybe the Dreadful Vomitus will abate somewhat with a little perspective provided by this definition:

slut:
an immoral woman; one who commits adultery or fornication

Maybe the Dreadful Vomitus will abate somewhat with a little perspective provided by these numbers:

disposable income per capita:
$32,446

federal spending per recipient:
$32,748

www.heritage.org/research/repo.....government

And maybe there exists a liberal on this planet that isn't a dreadful reprobate and a dreadful charlatan spouting vomitus:

current number of known liberals with integrity on the planet = none

RCV| 3.7.12 @ 11:37AM

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.....

Reprobate Charlatan Vomitus| 3.7.12 @ 11:56AM

I don't change the current number of known liberals with integrity on the planet which this post verifies is still a confirmed none matters.

Larry| 3.7.12 @ 4:24AM

Um, we have a few more primaries to go before we can safely say that more Catholics are voting for Romney, please. Besides, even if more Catholics vote for Romney, troll, it is a damned sight better than voting for that fool Barack the Usurper.

TexasMom| 3.21.12 @ 2:48PM

These are "scary" times when I say I'd vote for beelzebub to get rid of Obama - that's how really terrible things happen. I remember thinking Kerry was bad.............there couldn't be a worse candidate - never dreamed how much worse it could get.

Pecos Pete| 3.5.12 @ 6:57AM

As I wrote in a post at the AS blog, this past Saturday morning I joined Rush's 24/7 using hard-earned dollars to let him know that there are people awake and aware who agree with and support him.

The advertisers who stopped advertising will suffer as their sales decline. They were advertising on Rush's radio program because doing so increased their business. They weren't dropping big bucks for advertising with Rush for the fun of it.

Other companies will step into the advertising slots opened up by these "drop-out" companies. Not because they support Rush, but because they know that his listeners buy stuff advertised on his program.

Claypoole| 3.5.12 @ 7:50AM

I have used Proflowers many times. I will not ever do business with them again.

Joellen| 3.5.12 @ 6:57AM

After you call these companies, do what I did, call Congressmen Boehner and insist that they back Rush and expose this blacklisting and intimidation from these marxist groups on the floor. Then call the radio affiliate that Rush is on and remind them that you are a loyal listener to Rush and you EXPECT them to have Rush's back and not be intimated by these left wing hacks. Then pass this article on to every single person you know and ask them to do the same. Remember we can be SILENT NO MORE!

Mr ED| 3.5.12 @ 7:38AM

I can pretty well guarantee you that no establishment Pubbie will dare go against the party czars and offer any support to Rush. The best you can hope for from the timorous check-pants types is silence. Rush has not climbed on board the Romney train so he will be left to twist in the wind by the self-serving aparatchiks of the party of stoopid, and that includes most of the Romney-at-all-costs amen chrous at Fox. Once again, our "leaders" will use the howling mob of the Left to their adavantage in the hope they will do the dirty work the party aparatchiks cannot do openly themselves.

Teaghan| 3.5.12 @ 7:55AM

The spineless Boehner has already condemmed Rush last week.

Devon| 3.7.12 @ 7:45PM

There's nothing spineless about taking on a blowhard bully. Besides, the anti-bullying crusade is in full swing. That sort of rhetoric is unacceptable in this day and age. Everyone should be polite, respectful, and civil. That is how you create a healthy society.

Melvin| 3.5.12 @ 7:02AM

Well there is one thing for sure that we cannot count on. The Progressive Republican Leadership. Barrack Obama has all but turned Boehner and the rest of the leadership into a bunch of gutless eunuchs. I would like to think that the Senate has a little more fire under em, but that is in serious question.
This bar room fight is going to have to be conducted by Conservatives. And a bar-fight it will be. No rules, bare knuckles, and not afraid to call the Liberal Democrat Fascist Party every stinking vile name in the book.
If you have been on the sideline, watching in bemusement as Conservatives voices have fallen one by one, well you better get off your tired ass and get up and fight back. "Oh, I much too civilized to engage in such disgusting behavior." Disgusting my Aunt Sally.
Well the Liberal Democrat fascists don't seem to be worried about being civilized and they want Conservatives to be removed from the face of the earth.
So get off yur ass and fight those Liberal Democrat Fascists bastards.

Brian Mc| 3.5.12 @ 7:14AM

I'm a bit interested to know why Rush did not see the connections concerning these sponsors and required this article to find out. Someone wasn't doing their homework. I doubt Rush would have wanted his listener's hard-earned pay going to the likes of Move-on and others mentioned.

I hope that all that come here today who have invested in the services provided by some of the sponsors call and cancel said service immediately. A case in point, once I found out more about Progressive Insurance the more I realized I needed to put my money elsewhere. Another step is to go to the website that deals in the liberal networks. I'll need to do a bit of research on-line to find them again but, it was eye-opening to say the least.

We must hit these manipulaters right between the eyes with our wallets...make them squirm a bit. This battle is just starting to heat up and we have yet to see daylight savings time. I hope as well that there are decent conservative businesses out there who immediately see this as an opportunity to sponsor Rush and leap at the chance; only time will tell.

Mike Rogers| 3.5.12 @ 8:14AM

Good points.
I will renew my subscriptions, and track down all businesses who ever quit advertising on Rush to ensure I don't accidentally do business with them.
And yes, I believe that Rush can afford to vet his advertisers and only take conservative firms.

Elle| 3.5.12 @ 2:46PM

Here some information about Sleep Number contacts.
As a previous customer I gave them my piece of mind. Please do the same.

Select Comfort Customer Service Support
P 1.800.472.7185 F 763.551.6951
customerservice@selectcomfort.com

Toll Free Line: 800-640-0651

RCV| 3.5.12 @ 4:27PM

Just signed up for Carbonite for myself and both my kids.

TANSTAAFL| 3.5.12 @ 5:05PM

Awesome RCV! Now go buy some flowers from ProFlowers and give them to your spouse and then go get some free contraception with some of that Obama money and have "activities" on the new bed from Sleep Number, then go sign up for AOL and send a msg to friends and family. If you can't afford all of this, give Quicken loans a call. If you get in any legal trouble during your adventures, check out Legal Zoom. Great job!

jondos| 3.5.12 @ 6:03PM

Hey, that is great news! Now if you can get all of your Occupy Wall Street friends to sign up, Carbonite might have a chance to survive. Good luck to you!

RCV| 3.5.12 @ 7:12PM

Rush has been hawking Carbonite for years, along with his favorite Sleep Number bed, and telling us how we can't live without those products, so I'm sure they'll survive just fine. As with most of the radio hawkers like Limbaugh, Prager and Hannity, they'll endorse any product that's given to them free and tell their gullible listeners what a fine company they are.

Evan3457| 3.5.12 @ 11:45PM

Just like leftist talk show hosts (if there are any), and THEIR sponsors (if they have any).

Larry| 3.7.12 @ 4:25AM

Oh yeah - they will survive. But so will Rush.

PC| 3.5.12 @ 7:15AM

Great article. Someone should check out the cars that these students at Georgetown drive who are demanding taxpayers finance their birth control. When Obama delivers the commencement address at Barnard, look around the parking lot at the vehicles of these well off students and ask why can't they afford birth control on their own dime if they can afford to drive such expensive vehicles.

Lawrence Boccardi| 3.5.12 @ 7:20AM

Rush doesn't need me to defend him. Two thoughts, however. I long ago shunned Legal Zoom. This is the very same Robert Shapiro, who gave us a free O.J. walking the streets, after he brutally murdered his wife and Robert Goldman. Secondly, without judging Ms. Fluke's activities, I need someone to explain by what policy do we pay for her, or anyone's, birth control as STUDENTS? Or, is there something I don't know about this?

Old Soldier| 3.5.12 @ 7:31AM

Defend Rush's free speech. Then, in the next media storm, do the hard thing and defend the free speech of people you despise. Defend Bill Maher, Al Sharpton, or whatever other despicable liberal gets in trouble. Defend Don Imus or whatever goofy radio jock who gets in trouble.

Don't let special interest groups silence anyone.

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 3.5.12 @ 7:35AM

On a political basis Rush crossed several third rail of politics at the same time and ended up like The Thing touching several electrodes and receiving the public equivalence of electrocution. Don't get me wrong. I agree with him and from what I have observed many millions of Americans do agree with him.

I wish a boycott of the advertisers works and it might have an impact. I used ProFlowers three times last year and just sent them an e-mail replete with the order numbers, telling them I will just call the local Florists directly now. This shows you there is a flaw in their business plan.

If you look at each of the services who left Limbaugh, there was a flaw in each of their business plans. In fact, there are many competitors to each service, in particular Carbonite, and these services may be hurting any way.

The lesson to be learned here is that it's a tough world and it won't be getting easier any time soon.

Within a few short months, gas will will be topping $4.25 a gallon and the public will be boycotting gas usage. They can't boycott gas so they will be boycotting gas usage.

No product or service is immune from the touch of politicians and it's amazing advertisers didn't bail on Rush Limbaugh a long time ago.

Rush has a fallback and it's called XM Radio.
He claims he doesn't want to do it, but he might not have a choice and he's smart enough to know that.

In the meantime, Rush will arise once again, more popular than ever.

Rush Limbaugh has the gift of seeing through every liberal ploy. The nation needs him. He will survive.

Melvin| 3.5.12 @ 7:45AM

Bill, when do we stop backing up. You mentioned that Rush might consider XM Radio. But this might be a survival tactic on Rush's part, but the mass appeal of him is still on radio.
If he would consider XM it would vastly reduce his listenership, but on the other hand it would be a boon for XM Radio.
Obama is smart, he has either had removed or seriously marginalized Conservative Talk show hosts.
Obama is more dangerous than anyone would have figured.
Bill, Conservatives need to stop backing up, and we need to come out fighting.

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 3.5.12 @ 8:14AM

I'm not suggesting you back up.

I'm talking about the fact that consumers will determine Rush's future and I think he will be OK.

Perhaps Rush will change his business model as a result and be more successful than ever.

Pecos Pete| 3.5.12 @ 8:02AM

Rush has another fall back ... streaming over the Internet.

Mike Rogers| 3.5.12 @ 8:21AM

I can think of a very good reason not to use XM (GM) satellite radio - one single "off" switch, as opposed to the Internet, where attempts to institute a "kill" switch are met with outrage from both sides of the aisle.
And, far from backing up, Ruch needs to denounce the cowardly leftist businesses who were happy to have his audience, but not willing to stand up and be counted.
He needs to call them out as frauds, and offer low starter rates to their most serious competitors, stat!
Bill HO, you called it - Carbonite in particular has a weak business model, and needs Rush more than he needs them. Cloud backup is growing like crazy, and there are many alternatives.

megapotamus| 3.5.12 @ 9:19AM

Yes, the boycotters are uniquely fragile. Carbonite, as a subscription service and the name leader in their field rely on marketing strength. Pro-flowers is a middle-man of dubious necessity and exorbitant cost. On the other hand, Limbaugh is, in per capita terms, the biggest thing in media by far. He's not going anywhere. So what if he temporarily drops his rates 5%, and I doubt that. In his one-man operation he generates audiences on par with network primetime TV for 15 hours a week. When THAT changes it might be time to panic. I was not disappointed in the apology per se but its tone. It's a tricky business but claiming the statements were not a personal attack would hold more water if he had stuck to "prostitute" because of the money changing hands, rather than "slut" not least because, frankly, I don't think she is having it off 2.74 times a day on average. It's a hoax and "prostitute" has a spectrum of meanings. Maybe it is Rush who should boycott these advertisers. I'm sure there are plenty of struggling businesses out there who would advertise if the rates were compromised just a bit. In any case it seems the most ads these days are by the campaigns with a large dose of PSAs about Going Green and signing up for Medicare. What's up with that? It is because of the audience. Besides being the largest in broadcast by far it is the age and political demo that the statist MUST co-opt. Listen to these bilious and mendacious bits of agit-prop. My fav is the one about little Billy who wants to go to the county fair but can't because Mum and Da are squandering dough by NOT buying $5 light bulbs or using a three year old dishwasher rather than replacing it. Even on its own terms this ad is a cheap lie. If savings ARE realized it is out at the end of these products service life, when Billy is more interested in moving out on his own than pony rides. THAT will then be prohibitively expensive. Heck, it is now! And no amount of austerity can make up for $8 gas. I would like to see Limbaugh decline and denounce these ads though he might not have much say locally. What if Rush cut his rates 10% for politically favored institutions? Or what if he raised them for dubious actors and just flat refused to do voice-overs for them? Would his income be cut 10%? No, I think clearly the demand is there but if it were, so what? I would like to see some of our own muckies take a little haircut here and there if it furthers the cause. On the websites, Levin is giving away what everyone else is selling. His message is more important than his next marginal dollar. Book sales are secondary to book penetration. But if Rush or the others are pushed from am radio, it is am that will die, not them.

megapotamus| 3.5.12 @ 9:20AM

Yes, the boycotters are uniquely fragile. Carbonite, as a subscription service and the name leader in their field rely on marketing strength. Pro-flowers is a middle-man of dubious necessity and exorbitant cost. On the other hand, Limbaugh is, in per capita terms, the biggest thing in media by far. He's not going anywhere. So what if he temporarily drops his rates 5%, and I doubt that. In his one-man operation he generates audiences on par with network primetime TV for 15 hours a week. When THAT changes it might be time to panic. I was not disappointed in the apology per se but its tone. It's a tricky business but claiming the statements were not a personal attack would hold more water if he had stuck to "prostitute" because of the money changing hands, rather than "slut" not least because, frankly, I don't think she is having it off 2.74 times a day on average. It's a hoax and "prostitute" has a spectrum of meanings. Maybe it is Rush who should boycott these advertisers. I'm sure there are plenty of struggling businesses out there who would advertise if the rates were compromised just a bit. In any case it seems the most ads these days are by the campaigns with a large dose of PSAs about Going Green and signing up for Medicare. What's up with that? It is because of the audience. Besides being the largest in broadcast by far it is the age and political demo that the statist MUST co-opt. Listen to these bilious and mendacious bits of agit-prop. My fav is the one about little Billy who wants to go to the county fair but can't because Mum and Da are squandering dough by NOT buying $5 light bulbs or using a three year old dishwasher rather than replacing it. Even on its own terms this ad is a cheap lie. If savings ARE realized it is out at the end of these products service life, when Billy is more interested in moving out on his own than pony rides. THAT will then be prohibitively expensive. Heck, it is now! And no amount of austerity can make up for $8 gas. I would like to see Limbaugh decline and denounce these ads though he might not have much say locally. What if Rush cut his rates 10% for politically favored institutions? Or what if he raised them for dubious actors and just flat refused to do voice-overs for them? Would his income be cut 10%? No, I think clearly the demand is there but if it were, so what? I would like to see some of our own muckies take a little haircut here and there if it furthers the cause. On the websites, Levin is giving away what everyone else is selling. His message is more important than his next marginal dollar. Book sales are secondary to book penetration. But if Rush or the others are pushed from am radio, it is am that will die, not them.

Redatheart| 3.5.12 @ 7:38AM

Rush listeners that have patronized these companies have played a huge role in their success. By the same token, the withdrawal of those same dollars can vastly contribute to their demise. It is fair to surmise that radio listeners of Hannity, Beck, Levine and others that for some unlikely reason also don't listen to Rush will also immediately cease and desist their patronization of these companies. Radical Leftists used Twitter to strong-arm advertisers and these companies that have been enjoying success thanks to wide exposure on the Limbaugh program caved. Good riddance. They just opened up ad space for true conservative organizations.

Thank you for revealing that Carbonite is actually connected to the Left. The sensitive identity info of conservatives probably was never protected.

Redatheart| 3.5.12 @ 7:57AM

Addendum to my comment:
Rush,
Loving you with half our hearts tied behind our backs, just to make it fair. We all stand with you, beside you, in front and behind you on this. You'll be stronger for this and a week from now, everybody will be talking about something else. Go forth and continue to do good.

John| 3.7.12 @ 12:35PM

Seriously creepy post.

Ken (Old Texican)| 3.5.12 @ 7:38AM

Rush has would-be sponsors literally waiting in line as we write.
I have checked the rates for adds on his show a while back...with him doing the add or someone else doing the add....the rates are astounding.

Maybe we can form a company maybe called "Rally for Rush" and chip in together to buy some adds.
Folks,
this is another of "them canaries in the coal mine".

If the communists can knock off Rush, youall better buy some more ammo along with wheat and beans.

Ken (Old Texican)| 3.5.12 @ 7:42AM

Jeffrey,
thank you for the contact info. on these companies
.....I will be calling them today.

I sent Rush an e-mail titled "$3,000 is about right"................ if you throw in a couple of abortions because the dumb broad forgot her pills.

Clint| 3.5.12 @ 7:44AM

Uh Oh !

" Sandra Fluke a 30 year old activist, not a 23 year

Fluke came to Georgetown University interested in contraceptive coverage: She researched the Jesuit college’s health plans for students before enrolling, and found that birth control was not included. “I decided I was absolutely not willing to compromise the quality of my education in exchange for my health care,” says Fluke, who has spent the past three years lobbying the administration to change its policy on the issue. The issue got the university president’s office last spring, where Georgetown declined to change its policy.

The Daily Caller reported that Fluke has a long history of activism:

Fluke attended Cornell University from 1999-2003, where she received a B.S. in Policy Analysis & Management and Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies.

While at Cornell, Fluke’s organized activities centered on the far-left feminist and gender equity movements. Fluke participated in rallies supporting abortion, protests against war in Iraq and efforts to recruit other womens’ rights activists to campus.

During that period, she gained experience engaging in disputes concerning abortion with religious organizations."

Melvin| 3.5.12 @ 7:48AM

Well, the wench just bit off more than she can chew. She will be exposed for the unholy bitch that she is.

Seek| 3.7.12 @ 4:54PM

You're a growler, not a thinker.

Doctor Right| 3.5.12 @ 4:10PM

Now THAT'S good information!!

Nicely done, Clint.

See? Insight.
It beats robo-posting every time.

OldChick| 3.5.12 @ 7:55AM

My response to some of the "in their own words venom", directed at Rush, Dana Loesch, etc....

So a washed-up druggie can tweak the smartest President ever! Good to know : )

vtwin| 3.5.12 @ 12:22PM

The smartest president ever? Is that the president who said "corpsemen"? Who campaigned in all 57 states? Who got the Olympics for Chicago? Who can't complete a coherent sentence if his teleprompter craps out? Who gave billions of YOUR dollars to Brazil so we could be a better customer (and Brazil decided to use YOUR money to drill for oil to sell to the Chinese)? That president? The president who's scholastic records are sealed from public view so we'll never know if he actually attended classes or not?
If this is a "smartest president" to you, you have exceptionally low standards.

Anthony| 3.5.12 @ 2:04PM

TAS is having computer problems again and emails are not properly assigned to the actual blogger. Big problem TAS!!!
Anyway, we know this has a positive side as vtwin has posted the only intelligent comment ever here today. See above.
Clearly this was not vtwin, and the person who posted it didn't know that vtwin's email address was what up when he/she responded.
Oh well, I'll cherish the moment that for one brief post, vtwin actually made sense!!!

Anthony| 3.5.12 @ 8:24AM

This is the totalitarian left in all their thugish glory. They wait for an inappropiate comment and pounce, and pounce and pounce.
Their whoreish allies in the MSM (can I still say that?) play the story up, taking their orders from the leftists in congress, who put this whining bitch up to this insane plea for free contraceptives, while attending Georgetown Law at $45,000 p/y.
She was a plant from the beginning, hell, we knew that instinctively.
I heard Rush's comments, they were tame, frankly. This woman is a disgrace, a leftist hack whose future is secure. As I said in a previous post, another Anita Hill has been born (oops, poor turn of phrase).
In the mean time, the real issue is not going away, the Catholic Church has finally woken up!!!
The time is getting close to do some serious ass kicking of the left.

gearjammer| 3.5.12 @ 8:24AM

I will join this boycott, but let me say how meager a list does Rush possess. The left media gets money from vitually every big corp we all buy from. The economic boycott is the best weapon-but what you call action is not much. The day 10 million cancel their cable or Fios is the day we truly hurt hurt the enemey. However, as I stated elsewhere Rush was wrong. The Gipper could have been tortured and yet would not have said anything so rude and uncouth about a women. The party of Larry Flynt and Gansta rappers is not who we are. and, do not call me namby pamby or weak. I was a medic in Viet Nam. You all are behaving like some GOP Lord of the Flies cult. We do not call women sluts. It was not funny. Your hero Rush has a bit of a dark side. He can be funny and right on. Calling Debbie Wasserman Schultz " blabber mouth " is funny. Calling her Debbie the filthy slut Schultz is not. Do you goons get the difference or not ? The past week also illustrates Limbaugh is not a political smart guy. Hours on this silly Fluke person ? Not a word on say gas prices ? The scandal gives the media another week at least to totally ignore Obama's problems and the havoc he has bought to us ? Once again some ask-is Limbaugh a democrat mole ?

Ken (Old Texican)| 3.5.12 @ 8:35AM

No wonder you are a truck-driver...gear-jammer.

You are too darned dumb to do anything else.

gearjammer| 3.5.12 @ 2:57PM

Your such a genius you ridiculous old fart. Go smoke a few more packs of Marlboros. Your a piece of crap .

Les Panek| 3.5.12 @ 8:31AM

Thank you, Mr. Lord. I've been flipping between Bill Bennet and the local guy this morning, fuming as I listen to them try to get as much of Rush's blood on their hands in faux moral indignation as they can. I am so tired of spineless cowards on the Right (Calling Speaker No-Broehner, you have a call on the kiddie phone). Add to that the untimely demise of one of the few real fighters on our side (RIP, Andrew), and I see a group of pusillanimous "wizards of smart" who lack the fortitude to stand guard over our liberties. They seem to resent those liberties, more than anything, as they cower from "that kind of rhetoric."

Perhaps it's time to turn our outrage from the other team to the one we're rooting for. Those sycophantic wimps only fear the other team and the threat of not being in the cool clique.

And they like all of that concentrated power too much to actually ever cut anything.

don woods| 3.5.12 @ 8:36AM

ACTS 9:18 Scales fell from there eyes. GOD BLESS YOU.

JimH| 3.5.12 @ 8:38AM

A few points:
Nothing wrong with blacklisting per se. It is a way for people to make their feelings known without dragging in the government. You may disagree with who or what is blacklisted. You are free to counter by supporting the blacklist victim or counter blacklisting the original participants.
Despite the media spin which conservatives have fallen for, this is not about sex. It is about any private entity being compelled to subsidize an activity that is viewed by that entity as wrong or immoral. I am curious. I’m sure some reader hear knows, Are religious based entities required to provide domestic partner coverage?
What El Rushbo should have gone after was this young woman’s sense of entitlement, not her morals. The Ditto heads may like it, but to many he just sounds like a bully and just gives the big O a chance to appear as if he cares while defending one of his own.

Mary| 3.5.12 @ 9:01AM

I support Rush. He will survive this and his audience will continue to support him. We do need to let these companies and the nation know that we will not support the fact that they are trying to silence free speech.

Why has no one in the lame stream media pointed out that this "taker" can get free birth control at Planned Parenthood. You know that organization that shakes the government down for millions of dollars every year. They also were just succesful in shaking down the Susan B Komen Foundation for millions. Why does she need to force the school insurance to pay when she can take her happy nappy ass to Planned Parenthood?

Why because the issue isn't birth control, it is control of our free speech and freedom of religious beliefs. The left is trying to change the argument. We have to come back and hit the head on with the facts and not back down.

Grock| 3.5.12 @ 9:24AM

The same reason I will not buy GE and will buy Johnsonville sausage, one must take a stand, careful the stone casters are loose.

Dave| 3.5.12 @ 9:27AM

Hang in there Rush! If there is any thought of taking you off the air there will be repercussions! The left doesn'tknow how many Teapartiers they hav woke up yet! The more dirt they throw the more stupidity they unveil! Rush is my Hero!!! There will be negative campaines done on those sponsors who are pulling out. Do not use the dopes! They drew first blood!

PolishKnight| 3.5.12 @ 9:35AM

The moment I read the apology on Drudge, I knew it was a big mistake. When leftists apologize, they aren't really apologizing. It's more like an explanation (see Bill Clinton's "apology") of why they are sorry that some people are such big babies about what they did. That's because they know how they behave when someone apologizes to them: It's an admission of weakness and they go straight for the jugular. If you're sorry, then you admit to wrongdoing and if you admit to wrongdoing, get out and pay up.

Rush had nothing to be sorry about. Compared to the left, he's amazingly polite and in addition, he didn't apply the slut label to the woman personally but clearly was referring to a logical consequence of her position. In addition, the left has for the past year engaged in "slut walks" where women bragged about the slut label in order to discredit it. The left and even Obama have used the vile term "teabagger" against conservatives without apology.

So in context and by the left's own behavior, he should have gone on the offensive and used the controversy to score more points and up ratings even further but now he's wounded. He'll probably recover but it wasn't a good idea. I hope he learned his lesson.

ncatty| 3.5.12 @ 2:45PM

Your analysis is correct. Once he made the apology, it was an admission of wrongdoing.

PolishKnight| 3.5.12 @ 3:08PM

Funny story: Last spring I made an illegal U-turn at the worst possible place: Right in front of a police setup to nab students at the local college.

I got pulled over and the first thing out of my mouth was: I'm sorry. I didn't see the sign (it's mounted in a weird place) and when I was already making the turn, just went through with it rather than risk doing something worse.

She laughed and let me off with a warning.

But when someone WANTS to write you a ticket, real bad, I can't imagine that's the best strategy...

PolishKnight| 3.5.12 @ 9:37AM

The moment I read the apology on Drudge, I knew it was a big mistake. When leftists apologize, they aren't really apologizing. It's more like an explanation (see Bill Clinton's "apology") of why they are sorry that some people are such big babies about what they did. That's because they know how they behave when someone apologizes to them: It's an admission of weakness and they go straight for the jugular. If you're sorry, then you admit to wrongdoing and if you admit to wrongdoing, get out and pay up.

Rush had nothing to be sorry about. Compared to the left, he's amazingly polite and in addition, he didn't apply the slut label to the woman personally but clearly was referring to a logical consequence of her position. In addition, the left has for the past year engaged in "slut walks" where women bragged about the slut label in order to discredit it. The left and even Obama have used the vile term "teabagger" against conservatives without apology.

So in context and by the left's own behavior, he should have gone on the offensive and used the controversy to score more points and up ratings even further but now he's wounded. He'll probably recover but it wasn't a good idea. I hope he learned his lesson.

Vern Crisler| 3.5.12 @ 9:45AM

Never apologize to the Left. Our new conservative slogan should be: "Remember Breitbart!"

squalis| 3.5.12 @ 10:06AM

I am quite dissappointed with Rush. Why? First, he actually took the bait and apologized when it was not necessary, and secondly, because he, of all people, must have believed there would be redemption for his un-sin.

I wish I used some of these products so I could join in the boycott. Rush...keep fighting for us and just as you have always done, stay true to your noble principles.

George S| 3.5.12 @ 10:07AM

The advertisers are only one side of the battle. The other, and more worrisome, enemy is the owner or owners of the radio stations Limbaugh broadcasts over. Would you think a Soros or a Buffet would consider it a waste of money to buy Clear Channel and substitute "Cooking with Bean Curd" for Rush at noon to 3:00?

Margaret Weber| 3.5.12 @ 10:11AM

Here is Dan Gilbert's assistant's direct telephone number - 313-373-7777. Call Quicken loans and let them know you are boycotting their company. They owe their success to Rush, shame on them!!

Jill Johnson| 3.5.12 @ 10:33AM

Hmmm ... what if everyone who signed up for Carbonite because of Rush switched to another service?

JimmyNashville| 3.5.12 @ 10:51AM

Rush was just being provocative and the media, as usual, spun it as they always do. This time their spin got a little traction... a little nick of blood in the water and there's your media feeding frenzy. I just signed up for his newsletter, Rush 24/7 website access and bought a case of Two if by Tea. I'll also be getting Lifelock if they make it through the day. Screw these guys.

Tommy Frisco| 3.5.12 @ 10:54AM

Rush's apology should have been to his listeners for not doing his homework before he started discussing Sandra Fluke. The real story here is that the Democrats and Sandra Fluke committed fraud by presenting her as an ordinary coed. An apology to her should have included the fact that she is an imposter.

On another note, this article points out the influence that venture and equity capital firms have on the businesses they manage. I continue to have concerns about Bain Capital purchasing Clear Channel Communications in 2008. Clear Channel owns Premiere Radio Networks which hosts almost all of conservative talk radio programs, including the Rush Limbaugh show. That may be where some of the heat on Rush Limbaugh is coming from.

rightasrain| 3.5.12 @ 11:09AM

I believe in Rush and listen to his show often, but I also believe in intellectual honesty and think Lord's essay contains some dishonesty and distortions. No one is suppressing Rush's First Amendment rights. He is free to stand on the street corner and say whatever he wants. But he does not have the "right" to have a radio show. He always was and always will be at the mercy of his sponsors. And these sponsors are exercising their right to walk with their money. I fully support a boycott but let's not pretend that anyone is trampling on Rush's rights. Moreover, Lord condemns these leftist corporate sponsors and yet they sponsored Rush's conservative show for many many years. Either they are not that leftist or they are making a purely business decision. Rush did our side a tremendous disservice by calling Fluke a slut and making her a victim. The Obama regime was losing the debate about religious freedom and now we have lost control of the message. Rush didn't call Fluke a phony, hypocrite, professional agitator, freeloader or moocher. He equated using contraception with being a slut, and many many women, as well as their parents, would and did vehemently disagree.

Brian Mc| 3.5.12 @ 2:06PM

You've misrepresented what he said or, you have been misinformed and both are dangerous. Rush never said that contraception equates with being a 'slut'.

If a woman requires that someone else cover the cost of their promiscuous and hedonistic tendencies at a weekly rate that would make a married couple envious, involving mulptiple partners that puts her at risk from evils inherent with the fact, what pray tell would you call her?

Mary| 3.5.12 @ 3:02PM

You are all wrong on two points
1. Her testimony was about a woman she knew who took birth control to control recurring ovarian cysts. She could no longer afford it and she developed a large cyst that had to be surgically removed along with her ovary. She never once mentioned sex or her taking birth control
2. She was asking that a private insurance company pay not the government or the public. It is to their benefit anyway because it costs them less than surgeries or pregnancies.

Todd S| 3.5.12 @ 4:26PM

Point number 1 is a red herring and you know it Mary. First of all birth control is nowhere near as expensive as costing $1,000 per year, care to argue that point? It is only going to cost that much if you screw it up and need an abortion or you are paying for condoms for several dozen males suitors. And it is absurd to say that most young unmarried women take birth control for non-sex related issues. Perhaps if it is a medical issue for the small percentage of those who take it for that reason, they can have a doctor's note to explain why insurance should cover it. But you know that is not what she was after, it is about free contraception for all religion be damned.

Your second point is a joke because Obamacare wants to mandate what all insurance companies have to cover. Do you really think there is a difference there? Why should a single student who is not sexually promiscuous have to pay more for insurance so other students can be? Nothing is for free but liberals want their approved lifestyles subsidized by everyone else.

I will say I think Rush went overboard with the slut talk where he should have stuck with exposing her as a liberal activist who wants the 1st amendment trampled on to fund her desires at everyone else's expense. I can't think of too many men that would want to jump in bed with her by the looks of her anyways.

rightasrain| 3.5.12 @ 3:08PM

I didn't misrepresent what Rush said. I've read both transcripts and it's called a logical inference, Brian. Never once did fluke mention her number of sex partners or frequency of sex or any of the other indicia of sluttiness. She said she couldn't afford her contraception and Rush called her a slut and a prostitute and asked her to post sex videos online. Ergo, Rush equates women on contraception and sluttiness. That is why we are losing the religious freedom and insurance mandates debate.

Todd S| 3.5.12 @ 4:40PM

$3,000 over three years? Most birth control is in the range of $15-$30 per month. I guess there are some specialized pills that cost significantly more but not sure why that is required. If there is some real health issue that requires such pills, I guess there is a case to be made but we know that is a very small majority, not the 40% she was talking about that is for sure. It is a campaign of deceit to make Republicans look like they are against women rights. What it is about is government control over all of us and forcing the liberal agenda down our throats. No citizen should be forced into any insurance plan where they are required to pay for the lifestyle choices of others.

rightasrain| 3.5.12 @ 5:23PM

It is a campaign of deceit. That's why Rush's comment hurt so much. Instead of focusing on insurance mandates and religious freedom, once again, we walked into the trap and now are painted as woman-haters. As for the $3000, it breaks down to about $80 per month over 3 years of law school. Sounds like too much to me but then again, Fluke's $3000 number is pretty much beside the point now that we're mired in "slutgate".

DRed| 3.5.12 @ 5:42PM

If you read any of the blatantly misogynistic posts following any of the articles about this controversy you'll see pretty easily that you're painting yourselves, quite accurately, as woman haters. Nobody forced Rush to spend 3 days making fun of Ms. Fluke.

Todd S| 3.5.12 @ 5:58PM

Whatever DRed, you got no credibility being the troll you are. Why should we pay for the bedroom habits of other people? That is the real issue, you liberals trying to get your approved hedonistic lifestyles subsidized. Go to your local drug store and get your condoms and birth control like the rest of us and stop your deceitful games. She has no business being there in the first place, a Pelosi plant.

DRed| 3.5.12 @ 6:06PM

Most people in America who get health care have contraceptives covered as part of their health insurance. So, the rest of you already get your contraceptives covered. I don't understand how conservatives can be so passionate about contraception but be so incredibly ignorant about it at the same time. You don't know how it works, you don't know what it does, and you don't know how people get it. Don't you guys have any women in your lives? Try talking to them.

Trinacria| 3.5.12 @ 6:58PM

Quick, DRed - look up - that thing soaring by overhead is the point.

Look, nobody objects to an insurance company making the decision to cover contraceptives; if a company chooses to offer a legal product to it's customers, it's their right to do so and I couldn't care less. However, when a government mandates that they provide a product to a customer - whether it's free contraception, free vaccines, free energy, free healthcare, or free anything - then we've got a problem. Know why? Google "Constitution" and get back to me with what you find...

Todd S| 3.5.12 @ 6:10PM

Notice this Fluke went on Ed Shultz's show to denounce Limbaugh, the same putz that called Laura Inraham a slut. Is there really no shame on the left? The answer to that is no of course though what would you expect from someone whining about having to purchase their own birth control. Speaking of misogynist, the wacko liberal hero Keith Olbermann puts Limbaugh to shame. A mashed up bag of meat with lipstick on it to describe a women whose politics he disagrees with, that is some class for you. Yet Al Gore is willing to pay him $10 million per year on a network no one watches and he lectures us about "sustainable capitalism", you can't make this stuff up.

Heibi| 3.5.12 @ 11:54AM

All I know is that any and all companies that canceled advertising with Rush will get absolutely ZERO business from me. Boycotts work in two directions. I believe the folks that threatened boycotts on companies doing business with Rush probably had no intention of using those companies simply because they did advertising on Rush's show in the first place.

RYANT.| 3.5.12 @ 12:00PM

Man, I'd heard that Jeffrey Lord was a lowlife, lying scumbag, but I didn't think he was a leftist emulating scumbag as well. Listen Jeff: I know you like to lie about Mitt Romney and slander good mainstream conservatives like him, but now you seek to intimidate these good conservative supporting companies, because Rush Limbaugh has lost his decency and commonsense?

You're going to intimidate these fine conservative talk radio supporting companies because they refuse to contribute to sleazy Rush Limbaugh anymore?

Way to emulate the dirty left Lord, you scumbag!

Tom| 3.5.12 @ 2:04PM

Triple unlike

Melvin| 3.5.12 @ 2:20PM

You lousy Communist.

don| 3.5.12 @ 2:44PM

Hey RYANT aka Nancy Pelosi,
Shouldn't you be passing 1000 page bills so we can see what is in them. By the way, you need to update your Prozac prescription.

Evan3457| 3.5.12 @ 11:54PM

If this is satire, it isn't very good.
If it is satire, it's moronic.

Evan3457| 3.5.12 @ 11:55PM

Sigh. 2nd line should say:

If it ISN'T satire, it's moronic.

Will in Indiana| 3.5.12 @ 1:05PM

I paid for a subscription to Rush 24/7, bought a package of blueberry tea, and wrote to Mozy that I will buy their computer data back up service if they advertise with Rush. I wrote to Carbonite that I would only do business with them if they restored their advertising, but now that I know they're in bed with the last Nazi George Soros, who took money from the Nazis to finger Jews for deportation, screw Carbonite. I'll never do business with them.

hardcard| 3.5.12 @ 2:02PM

hey georgetown fluke U

Clemmie| 3.5.12 @ 2:03PM

This was a fabulous article and I am going to contact each and everyone of these cowards and fight back. I hated bullies when I was a kid and I hate them now. Come on, kids--let's get going!

randyinrocklin| 3.5.12 @ 2:11PM

Just checked Carbonite stock (CARB) 52 week high approx $21.00 52 week low $9.10, now trading around $9.40. Looks like it's headed for a penny stock soon. What goes around comes around. Make my day!

Bob| 3.5.12 @ 2:16PM

It's amazing that his sponsors had so many connections to radical liberals and he didn't see it. It's almost as if they've been setting up for a long time, aggressively pushing out other honest sponsors by giving Rush's marketing team the most money, and then when the signal came from their liberal masters, these sponsors pulled the rug from Rush's feet. There are so many liberal connections when you follow the money trail, that this has to be a setup years in the making.

I, as a listener of Rush, will support him with donations. I won't allow them to censor Rush using money.

davidp| 3.5.12 @ 4:37PM

Bob-when do the little green men come down and visit. You win the award for the best nutty conspiracy theory of the day and that isnt an easy task. Usually it requires involvement by the trilateral commission but liberal advertisers waiting years to get Rush is pretty darn good. I check in tomorrow to see if you can beat this one.

Christina| 3.5.12 @ 2:18PM

Here's what Quicken told me. Pretty lame:
Christina: Actually, I am writing to protest against Quicken's operations to shut down free speech in America.
Christina: Quicken has cut off its advertising on the Rush Limbaugh show, one of my favorites.
Enrique Leon: Thank you for your feedback. We greatly appreciate it. Our decision to suspend advertising on the Rush Limbaugh show had nothing to do with taking sides, politics, or pressure from any group. It had to do with our firm conviction to “do the right thing.” His remarks, by any reasonable standard, were unnecessarily offensive. Treating everyone with respect, regardless of their views, is a belief we strongly hold true. It’s deeply rooted in our culture. We regularly advertise on over a dozen talk shows, representing political views across the spectrum. As we said, we don’t take sides. But we will respond, appropriately, when we feel obligated to do so. We now plan on getting back to business as usual and focusing on what we do best – helping Americans finance their homes.

bugless| 3.5.12 @ 2:20PM

Hmmm, I wondered whatever happened to David Friend after his part in the downfall of ARP Instruments in the late 1970s (anyone remember the ARP Avatar? -- what a disaster). Faux umbrage is soooo nauseating. I guess Carbonite doesn't need my business, nor do any of these other companies.

Northlite| 3.5.12 @ 2:31PM

Hey, before you jump on the boycott bandwagon: Think. Many of these companies have supported Rush for many years and probably would like to support him again. Many of these companies also support other conservative radio hosts. Do we really want to tell them that we don't want their support? All excepting Carbonite--good riddance to them. And God bless Rushie--when we take over, the first thing we will do is beatify Rush. He should be up there next to Moses and Jesus. The left is trying to nail him to the Cross.

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Maddox| 3.5.12 @ 2:45PM

The leaders of these businesses hope they will be among the chosen few spared, but the boot of the tyrants will be on their necks one day too. They will have been part of their own demise. Just like journalists, who believe they are elites, they will be wondering what happened.

Mom of 2| 3.5.12 @ 2:53PM

I'm probably not going to convince anyone here, but here goes:

There are other reasons to take birth control pills besides avoiding getting pregnant. Rush may not know this, but plenty of women do. It's a useful medical tool, because it mimics (and can help regulate) women's actual hormones, and it can make a great deal of difference in their lives. The difference between great pain and mental suffering and a normal life.

But you didn't hear about that from Rush. For him, it's all about someone's sex life - and not even his own.

By the way, the govt's insisting that religious institutions abide by the laws of the land - in this case that they provide insurance coverage for birth control - may seem wrong to you, but it has nothing to do with your taxes. Your taxes are not paying for Sandra Fluke's birth control, and neither are Rush's. Georgetown U is not a state college. But it is required, like many other organizations that get tax exemptions, to abide by American laws - including probably a few that even you guys would agree with, such as not being forced to work 60 hours a week or be fired without cause, healthy working conditions, etc. It's a nation of laws, after all - even for religious institutions.

Jack London| 3.5.12 @ 3:10PM

Don't worry - there are a few sane people here who appreciate facts. Sadly, most of them are sad old men who would rather fuel their masturbatory fantasies about young women having sex.

Bob| 3.5.12 @ 4:15PM

I guess being on the Media Matters payroll is the only criterion for sanity these days.

don| 3.5.12 @ 4:34PM

Jack ,
I appreciate facts when there presented to me. All she was doing was shoveling incoherent drivel. No one is stopping a 30 year old woman/student (why doesn't she get a job) buying her own birth control - she presented no argument or facts that she requires birth control for a health issue. What we oppose are progressive fascists like the yourselves forcing someone to pay for something she can well afford considering she is attending a school that costs more than the average salary of most Americans. As to your comment about old men and their fantasies I suspect you are projecting...your nom de guerre is a giveaway.

don| 3.5.12 @ 4:19PM

Are you serious? Should Catholic hospitals provide abortions too -- it's the law of the land, right? And as for not paying for it with our taxes? Again, are you serious? So just because we don't directly pay for something we should stand aside and allow the government to force X to pay for Y's birth control. Have you read the Bill of Rights? Are you in any way familiar with the concepts of limited government? One more time, just so you understand common sense. All churches are tax exempt so you think the feds should compel the Catholic church to ordain women priests, perform gay marriage (coming soon probably), perform abortions at Catholic hospitals. I'm sorry, how can you convince someone of your position when you are so uterrly clueless.

Joe Kizanu| 3.5.12 @ 2:59PM

Hahahaha! Rush is about to go down in flames. Your boycott won't even register a tick on those former sponsor's income statements. Let's face it, you conservatives had your time, from 1981 though 2011...there is no place for conservatism of this ilk in modern society. Who goes around calling women "sluts" because they want to use birth-control? Thank God the Tea Party has finally leveraged the GOP into an untenable position...it guarantees progressive improvements to our society for decades to come. Who could support American Taliban like Rick "only sex for procreation" Santorum? Do people really still believe our personal sex lives are the business of the government (or really anyone else for that matter)? Time for you gossping grannies to grow up and stop asking our government to enforce your brand of morality. Why don't you concentrate on enforcing those values at home, then we wouldn't have to worry about the epidemic of Republicans and conservatives being implicated in sex crimes (http://www.dkosopedia.com/wiki/Republican_Sex_Scandals). Meanwhile progressives like us will continue to fight for your rights to believe whatever you want, from the safety of your own home, and not from the statehouse. Hope you enjoyed your tenure, now it's on to reversing all of the ridiculous and anti-American policies created by the last 30 years of conservative tomfoolery.

PolishKnight| 3.5.12 @ 3:19PM

Joe,what a wonderfully convoluted load of stereotypical leftist sayings and positions. I love the term "progressive". Whatever happened to socialism or communism? Be proud of who you are but you can't. And progressive towards what? Western Europe? More like Detroit! And as the left bashes Christianity as backward, it embraces radical Islam. Hahaha!

In the meantime, the left are the biggest prudes in the universe. I remember when my parents laughed at Benny Hill yet now heterosexual men would get fired for even talking about that show in the workplace. Look at this thread: Rush is being bashed by leftists for saying the word "slut'? Remember the great line in SNL from the 70's? "Jane, you ignorant slut!" Yet now a 30 year old aging spinster going to law school needs smelling salts because Rush called her a slut. (I'd hate to see her defend a murder suspect!)

Indeed, there's a lot to criticize the right over but at least it's somewhat coherent. The left doesn't make any sense. It's just bashing their opponents and promising a happy utopia that isn't any better planned than the 71 virgins and raisin wine...

Seek| 3.7.12 @ 5:01PM

A 30-year-old woman is an "aging spinster?" I thought 30 was the new 20. Apparently, as you would have it, it's the new 50 -- at least if the woman is on the Left. For the record, there are plenty of conservative women over that age who haven't been married yet. I've known my share.

davelnaf| 3.5.12 @ 3:25PM

Joe, please, put down your cup of leftist Kool Aid for a moment. I know you lefties, suffering from terminal ignorance and amnesia about how American election campaigns usually go down can’t believe otherwise than that the Bamster is now a shoe-in for reelection. Dream on, oh one of the Kool Aid stained lips, Obama is going to lose and probably big and he will also bring down the rest of your party. Are you so delusional as to believe that the Mid-Terms were a fluke, like so many of your fellow dems and loons of the left have tried to convince themselves? Now, Joe, go back to your Kool-Aid and laugh along with Bill Mar and the rest of the inglorious left because deep down you the worst is yet to come.

PolishKnight| 3.5.12 @ 3:47PM

I want to be optimistic, but here's the situation: About 55% of Obama's supporters will vote Democrat and for him in particular because they're in it for the race based entitlements, government union benefits, welfare, and crony kickbacks (solyndra, goldman sachs, etc.)

Those voters don't care about ideology or the general state of the country one bit. They're in it to milk the system as long as it lasts. The cool aid drinking elitists that sometimes come around here are dying out like the Big Lebowski. They're useful idiots whose numbers are irrelevant.

As this country, and Western Europe, starts to look like Greece and Detroit, the electorate above won't care or if they do care, they'll just bash the opposition (Republicans) until they don't exist anymore.

Then the fun will start. How to divvy up goodies when there's nobody to take them from? Remember the battle between Hillary and Obama supporters? Imagine a remake of the Bosnian wars...

Evan3457| 3.5.12 @ 11:58PM

Rush isn't going anywhere. Too bad for you.

Liselle Cae| 3.5.12 @ 3:06PM

For all the people on hear decrying the idea of tax payer money going towards women being able to have sex without getting pregnant - I haven't heard or read a single thing about how tax payer money goes towards Viagra - a pill CLEARLY designed so men can have sex and has no redeeming value as anything else. Where are your words of "whore" or "man slut" for these men????? I'm just curious.

PolishKnight| 3.5.12 @ 3:10PM

I suspect many conservatives would agree that health care should be privatized and made more efficient via tort reform and competition and therefore make viagra more affordable without taxpayer funds. However... if taxpayer funds are going towards other medicines to correct medical dysfunctions such as sterility, hormonal replacement, etc. then why is viagra out of bounds?

Elle| 3.5.12 @ 3:31PM

I have not heard of men campaigning to force taxpayers to pay for Viagra.

Melvin| 3.5.12 @ 3:54PM

Outside the marriage the correct term is,
"Manwhore," being married it is called a husband.

davelnaf| 3.5.12 @ 3:09PM

I sincerely hope voters get out and vote against the dems and Obama this November to give the left the worst night of their entire collective, sorry, miserable lives. After that I hope the left lives in craven fear of what Obama will do after that slam dunk rejection. It will be a glorious thing to see: this lying, hypocritical bunch suffering for all the trouble they have caused this country.

PokeyBlow| 3.5.12 @ 3:10PM

What a silly man you are.

PokeyBlow| 3.5.12 @ 3:14PM

I honestly hope and pray republicans continue their "Sandra Fluke is a slut, just like Rush says" campaign.

I say, get every republican on record with support for, or a fearful refusal to condemn, Limbaugh's hateful comments. Very useful footage for those who care about America.

Mike Hawk| 3.5.12 @ 3:19PM

Why is the truth hateful. The witch is a phoney also a strumpet, whore, trollop, tart, tramp, a ho' , a punch board. Is that enough for you??

davelnaf| 3.5.12 @ 6:59PM

PokeyBlow, did that miracle leftist brain of your's completely erase the "slut" comments made by well known leftists commentators about Laura Ingraham or is it the ususal selective outrage?

Evan3457| 3.6.12 @ 12:01AM

How very leftidiot of you. Were you as angry about "hateful comments" when fellow leftidiot Bill Maher called Sarah Palin a vulgarism for a woman's private parts?

gearjammer| 3.5.12 @ 3:28PM

The answer of Georgetown and the Catholic Church is still NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO PILLS FOR YOU ! They have a legal right to do so. Get your ahole ACLU to persue this. Make our day those of us you now are laughing at.

Oldefarte| 3.5.12 @ 3:22PM

Jeffrey's editorial is extremely on target. Bravo, outstanding! I disagree only in the method of attacking these radical leftist and the historical attention to same. These subversives have for decades organized, plotted and spearheaded their political attacks on any/all opponents of their demonic liberal agendas; and in response the taxpayers of conservative and moderate persusion have simply rolled over and taken it as Braitbart accurately proclaimed. That is why we have usually lost elections and debates. Instead of Jeffrey's outstanding suggestions of phone numbers, email addresses etc on which to plant an counter attack, I'd suggest instead [or at least to supplement] simply an organized and concentrated economic/financial boycott of these companies and their products/services [which will more appropriately hit them in their bottom line profits by decreasing same]. Why make a phone call to an uncaring operator paid to ignore same when instead your purchasing a competitor's products/services will have a much greater effect? As Jeffrey apply provides a listing of these companies and their products/services, then so too should a request of all other cowardly advertisers be so published and disimenated to any/all possible viewers so that conservative and moderate taxpayers could fight back by their non purchases of these left-supporting companies' goods. Talk is great, but hitting them in their pocket books is even better!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Con Chef (NB)| 3.5.12 @ 3:38PM

This chick IS a slut. What else do you call someone who expects others to pay for her rubbers or anti baby pills so they can continue their promiscuity? By default, we ARE paying her to get laid. And WE'RE getting screwed as well, by having to pay higher premiums in order to provide "free" contraception to putanas.

davidp| 3.5.12 @ 4:48PM

What do you call someone who has a baby out of wedlock, goes on dancing with the stars and has a reality tv show?

Con Chef (NB)| 3.5.12 @ 4:57PM

Was she begging for free birth control at a Catholic university? Nope. Try again.

davidp| 3.5.12 @ 5:11PM

So the slut part isnt about having sex its about whether it is covered by insurance or not? So is Rush a slut because insurance covered his drug dependency?

Evan3457| 3.6.12 @ 12:02AM

No, because he pays for his own medical care. Ms. Fluke doesn't care to.

obadiah| 3.5.12 @ 3:39PM

The traitorous former advertisers must be destroyed!

How dare they criticize Rush for his humor.

It was funny to call Amy Carter a dog. We all laughed when he ridiculed Chelsea Clinton. This Sandra Fluke is a slut and a harlot. She should be laughed at, insulted and reviled on the walls of every boys bathroom in the country. No respect needed for lefties - they are fun objects of abuse.

davidp| 3.5.12 @ 4:26PM

Was Rush hooked on drugs when he made this joke or was he sitting at home with his 4th wife (wait maybe its 5th today) wanting to watch.

davidp| 3.5.12 @ 4:29PM

Here's a joke- Andrew Breitbart was walking done the street and dropped dead. We all laughed. Now dont go criticize my sense of humor or I will have to assume you are a lefty.

davidp| 3.5.12 @ 5:00PM

What would Andrew do? Walk down the street and die. Funny stuff, huh? Let me know when I get one you think is funny. I know you are laughing on the inside.

Evan3457| 3.6.12 @ 12:04AM

And when leftists call conservative women similar things, or even worse, are you just as offended? I doubt it.

Con Chef (NB)| 3.5.12 @ 3:39PM

Oh, & could someone tell me where the THRONGS of protesting women were BEFORE this idiotic situation was manufactured out of whole cloth? Funny, we never saw those protests, did we?

davidp| 3.5.12 @ 4:50PM

Wow, they werent protesting being called sluts until after Rush called them sluts. How could they not see that one coming?

Con Chef (NB)| 3.5.12 @ 4:59PM

This issue of "lack of contraception" access was woven a few weeks before Rush called the slut a slut. Try & keep up, Junior.

Again, where were all the throngs of women at Georgetown, BC, Holy Cross & Notre Dame kvetching about not having access to rubbers or birth control pills? Anyone? Bueller?

davidp| 3.5.12 @ 5:02PM

I think the outrage was about Rush and his drug addiction. I mean his comment. Until he spoke up it was a religious freedom vs. contraception issue. Not anymore.

John II| 3.5.12 @ 3:52PM

If I might elevate this discussion briefly by appeal to a larger issue subsuming the Fluke contretemps, I think it should be pointed out that Georgetown University is a slut. But don't let me get started explaining.

And now back to any Ridley Scott movie, always a reliable index on the condition of the culture: slick, technically adroit, cloyingly narcissistic, intellectually dishonest, morally vacant incoherence. Claustrophobic too.

Tommy Frisco| 3.5.12 @ 3:56PM

Sorry for being off topic, but I think this is important and I haven't seen the news spread around very much.

Romney is a liar. He has been saying, all through this primary, that RomneyCare is acceptable because it was implemented at the state level, but said he would repeal ObamaCare because it shouldn't be done at the federal level. Now, we learn that as ObamaCare was being debated, in the summer of 2009, Romney wrote an article in USA Today and went on Meet the Press encouraging Obama to copy what he did in Massachusettes (RomneyCare) for use at the federal level. The link to the Meet the Press interview can be found over at Red State.

I'll say it again, Mitt Romney is a bald-faced liar!

TexasMom| 3.21.12 @ 2:52PM

The only difference I see is racial and religious; Romney is white and a Mormon.

Freddie Fedup| 3.5.12 @ 4:04PM

I contacted the sponsors who pulled their ads from Rush's show. I have contacted my family and friends to the same.....I said that they should all be ashamed of themselves for letting a minority of hateful rhetoric dictate to the silent majority....I would like most people in this country to remember Thomas Jefferson's most apropos cautionary statement : When people fear the government it is tyranny, when government fears the people it is liberty.....this administration wants to silence the vanguard of freedom:Rush Limbaugh....we must not let him down....

davidp| 3.5.12 @ 4:10PM

As a strong conservative, I believe that there is no better advocate for morality then Rush. I assume that the drugs he was addicted to were not covered by his health insurance. So all is well. Too bad you cant get marriage insurance.

Bob| 3.5.12 @ 4:18PM

Watch out everyone, the Media Matters disinformation campaign is in full swing in the comments.

gofer| 3.7.12 @ 12:33AM

Time worn tactic of the left is to shut people up simply because they cannot win any open debate on facts or issues. They continually monitor the talk shows looking for any reason to shut them down. You can't get much more anti-American. That's why I left the Dems because they have been taken over by people who can't handle debate. It's ridicule of the type Alinsky taught. They are like immature children. They haven't quite matured emotionally as the book "The Liberal Mind" illustrated,which was written by a pyschiatrist.

There are still a lot of good dems, but they never get involved and really don't know what's going on or even what their party platform stands for....they simply buy the "party of the little guy". The only thing they know for sure is they hate "rich people."

Look what's going on here...they keep running around in circles stating the same thing over and over and over. Ignore them and their heads will explode like a child craving attention, they will scream even louder. Sad.

It's shocking to see "leaders" tell bald-faced lies which they would never get away with without media collusion. Stupid and ridiculous statements that woud embarrass a normal person but they revel with delight. I'm convinced they totally lack an "embarrassment" gene.

Con Chef (NB)| 3.5.12 @ 4:33PM

Yeah. I mean, who needs Rush when idiots like you laud Ted "I Hope You Can Swim Mary Jo" Kennedy as "The Lion of the Senate." I hear he's a fan of waitress samiches, along with Chris Dud. Hey, maybe those 2 used to have schlong measuring contests with Anthony Weenie.

davidp| 3.5.12 @ 5:03PM

wow a Ted Kennedy reference. Now that is not only relevant but so very timely.

Evan3457| 3.6.12 @ 12:09AM

As relevant and timely as referring to his drug addiction, now 6 years in the past. Tasty logic, there, Sherlock.

Evan3457| 3.6.12 @ 1:59AM

About as relevant and timely as referring to Rush' drug problems, now 6 years in the past. Tasty logic there, Sherlock.

davidp| 3.6.12 @ 4:42PM

once a drug addict always a drug addict.

gofer| 3.7.12 @ 12:36AM

You mean like O referring, in his book, to his boozing and drugging. You may be right. Maybe the reason he's hiding his college transcripts.

R Martin| 3.5.12 @ 4:11PM

One can only hope that Mr. Friend's daughters turn-out exactly like Ms. Fluke.

Notra Bumma| 3.5.12 @ 4:12PM

One observation about this Mr. Liu which sounds Chinese to me, is that most American born Chinese(ABC) are very much like the Americans with Jewish heritage. They are both very liberal/leftist, PC, and demoncrats. It must be the water they drink.

davidp| 3.5.12 @ 4:19PM

Notra-your name sounds like white trash so I can only assume that you have a high school education, 5 trailer trash kids and a wife who weighs 320 pounds. Just a guess. It must be the Mad Dog 20/20 they drink.

NetoChiGuy| 3.5.12 @ 4:15PM

If Ed Shultz calls Ann Coulter a sl*t, is there anyone watching to hear it?

Bob| 3.5.12 @ 4:17PM

Yes, and they're all cheering and clapping.

Simon Templar| 3.5.12 @ 4:19PM

OF,
When they receive millions of calls and emails they will be shitting proverbial bricks, so do not discourage contacting them. This is how things are tracked and reported. They do care and they will hear the outrage.

davidp| 3.5.12 @ 4:21PM

Yeah, millions of calls from idiots who think it is ok to call a young girl a slut. What planet do you live on?

Mike Hawk| 3.5.12 @ 6:10PM

Young girl???.. at 30 ... a professional feminist activist. Give me a break. She a trollop.

I bet you think Jon Liebowitz aka Stewart and Bill Maher are funny in their foul mouthed rants.

davidp| 3.6.12 @ 4:44PM

how old are you Mike Hawk aka asshole?

A little anti-sematic, are you?

Trollop, you must be from the 1930's. Going to the hootanny tonight?

Leveut| 3.5.12 @ 4:32PM

Ed Schultz? I thought The ED Show was about erectile dysfunction.

Simon Templar| 3.5.12 @ 4:33PM

You better talk to the hundreds of others from Shultz, to Cooper, to Bill Maher, to Olbermann to Hollywood, to a few dozen rappers, the music industry, most network journalist, the View cluckers, and half of the TV show producers, script writers, and artist that insult, defame, make fun enough, ridicule, slander, and use filthy perjoritives of conservatives, conservative women, tea party activist, and middle America. Better get going, you have a lot of work ahead. Be sure to contact all their sponsors.

You are nothing but a GD hypocritical liberal troll, davidp. If you listen to the transcript, he unlike Bill Murray did not call her a slut and say the words as Bill did, Palin is a slut. He made an analogy, made it clear that it was an analogy, and absurd analogy to demonstrate the absurdity for someone to demand others pay for her contraception so she can have, along with her classmates, sex, and sex outside of marriage, at a jesuit founded university and catholic institution. You better get started on those boycotts.

He did not equate using contraception with being a slut. Many married people use contraception. He equated someone who thinks it is ok and legitimate to demand others pay for their contraception with someone who thinks others should subsidize their sexual activity. There are only a few types of people who do this or think this.

He has every right to a show, his free speech, and his liberty say whatever he wants to say. You do not want to hear it, then as you liberals often say, turn it off and change the channel.

davidp| 3.5.12 @ 4:45PM

Bill Murray was in Caddyshack I think you mean Bill Maher.

Palin's daughter might have been better off if she had known what birth control was. Premarital sex which leads to a child. What do you call her?

"Many married people use contraceptives." Wow-breaking news.
I agree that he has the right to say anything he wants. So for instance if I say Andrew Breithbart was walking done the street and dropped dead but really only meant it as an analogy I guess you would laugh and say all is well.

Good luck with your million moron protest.

Simon Templar| 3.5.12 @ 5:06PM

davidp, what does the p stand for, pud!

I said Bill Mayer, asshole.
Yeah, what did you call Palin's daughter, hypocrite? Just that and more, ashole, as I recall.
What I call her is an underage child that was promiscous and made a grave error in judgement.
That because she was a child at the time. She was not demanding I pay for her contraception nor her child's welfare.

What do you call a grown woman who expects me and jesuit founded institution to pay her 1000 dollar a year contraception so she can have sex and her friends can freeload as well? I would call her a jackass and certainly not a victim.

No, you do not agree he has a right to anything, asshole liberal.

You would be describing exactly what happened to Breitbart. I wish that is all you bastard liberals had said. You did not. You jumped for glee and made comments that were disgusting and degrading to human life itself, you hypocritical liberal piece of shit.

Good luck with your million useful idiots that think we are going to pay for your contraception. Pay for it yourself, you filthy mooch.

Frank Sinclair| 3.5.12 @ 5:09PM

Hey Simon,

She wasn't demanding that you pay for her contraception. She wanted it included in the student health care plan which is underwritten by a PRIVATE insurance company.

Silly dittohead.

Simon Templar| 3.5.12 @ 5:30PM

Hey, asshole liberal liar, Frank Sinclair with the ability to boldly lie without blinking an eye.

These contaceptives do not grow on trees. My premiums go up to pay for this, moron. The expenses are also passed to the institution paying for this private insurance, moron. And soon with Obamacare coming, I will indeed be paying via my taxes for the others who demand free contraceptives, abortion pills, and everything else you think you are entitled to get.

You out here to agitate and aggravate and spew the most ridiculous non-sensical, illogical, unrealistic, innacurate absolute garbage so as to get us going and get us angry. Today, you got me.

Nobody owes you anything. Period.

spike59| 3.6.12 @ 4:39PM

and paid for by premiums paod to that insurance company by the Catholic Church...distinction without a difference

spike59| 3.6.12 @ 4:39PM

and paid for by premiums paid to that insurance company by the Catholic Church...distinction without a difference

davidp| 3.5.12 @ 5:20PM

Its not Bill Mayer or Bill Murray, it is Bill Maher. At least get your criticism correct.

I am starting to wonder if someone who thinks millions of people (not including Rush who acknowledged he was wrong) are going to rise up and complain was a little out of touch with reality but at least come up with the correct person you are referencing.

Very nice. You are right about bristol. I dont blame her I blame her parents. I am sure that is something we can agree on.

Was Rush's prescription drugs part of an insurance plan? If so, I assume we can also agree that is totally improper.

Simon Templar| 3.5.12 @ 6:00PM

For those that call themselves independent that are reading this thread, I would like to submit to you complete evidence that liberalism is truly a mental disorder.

This liberal pretends to desire a debate about these issues and the jackass can not even read what is right in front of his face and like a deranged person just keeps repeating lie after lie.

The idiot writes me, "Its not Bill Mayer or Bill Murray, it is Bill Maher. At least get your criticism correct."

This is what I wrote,
"You better talk to the hundreds of others from Shultz, to Cooper, to Bill Maher, to Olbermann to Hollywood, to a few dozen rappers, the music industry, most network journalist, the View cluckers, and half of the TV show producers, script writers, and artist that insult, defame, make fun enough, ridicule, slander, and use filthy perjoritives of conservatives....."

This is what liberals are....

I hope you also can recognize the misdirection of the argument technique which they are really fond of using as well. The false premises just never stop coming.

I hope you noticed the false information and misdirection of the issue at hand toward the person who has shamed the shameful.
The idea, and its an old rhetorical and lame technique, is to get you looking away from the offending person, Fluke and her ridiculous demands, and toward the criticizer and his past addiction with a prescription drug that he was in fact paying for himself as he does not have health insurance and pays for his own medical needs.

We also want to leave out the fact that he became addicted to these pain killers which his doctor gave him, that are highly addicted, because he was suffering for years with very bad pains in his back. No, you see it is better for them to call him an addict, pill popper, a criminal, and create the picture that he was sitting in a gutter and shooting heroine.

They will do this in the same breath defending the entitlement attitude of an adult woman who demands we pay for her sexual activity while attending a catholic institution, and if we object she will characterize us as hating women and they will do this without missing a beat. They will charge you with being unfair, mean, and calling her names and expect you to overlook all this.

Millions will complain and are at this very moment. What they are objecting to is the double satndard, hypocricy, and the political correctness. What are they objecting to is the crushing of free speech. What they are objecting to is the idea that they should pay for this and your demands that it be an entitlement. They do not give a rats ass about her sex life nor are interested in it and do not want to hear about it. That is the whole point.

davidp| 3.6.12 @ 1:53PM

Simon-here are accurate quotes from your somewhat crazy and hysterical posts:

3/5/12 at 433-"If you listen to the transcript, he unlike Bill Murray, did not call her a slut".

Actually I did listen to the transcript and he did call her a slut.

3/5/12 at 506- "I said Bill Mayer, asshole"

by the way I didnt say Rush as a criminal or pill popper. I said he was a drug addict. which he has admitted to.

I have no objection to him saying any crazy thing he wants to but that doesnt mean I also dont have the freedom (just like your imaginary millions) to talk to his advertisers and suggest they may not want to support a NaziNazi.
I applaud Rush's moral leadership on this issue, especially with his 4 wifes.

Finally, I am surprised catholic institutions have the time to take away from molesting 8 year old boys to make this a major area of concern for them.

D.MacDowell Blue| 3.5.12 @ 4:55PM

You should be ashamed of yourself--as should Rush Limbaugh. Not only for the vile language you so enthusiastically endorse, but for getting your facts wrong. Sandra Fluke advocates including birth control under her health insurance--a policy that btw includes VIAGRA. She tried to testify about a friend who was denied this prescription medication as treatment for her ovary cysts and had to undergo surgery as a result. In fact there are MANY medical reasons for issuing birth control pills. Nor is she asking the government to pay for it. Stop your lies. And stop thinking that saying women have sex is somehow a crime. That all this comes from a convicted drug addict (i.e. Limbaugh) makes it all the more deplorable.

TANSTAAFL| 3.5.12 @ 5:19PM

I've also heard that getting pregnant can bring at least temporary relief from ovarian cysts. And I'm also saying that under the right conditions I will help any woman achieve this (if she's hot). Now don't go hating on my just because I talk so freely about sex. Have an open mind. Nothing is free D.MacDowell Blue. Thus my name There Aint No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. twit
Now please pay for my male enhancement and for my wife's breast augmentation, cuz we went to the surgeon the other day and realized that these aren't free procedures and we were embarrassed and humiliated and walked away without what we wanted. And buy me a new car while your at it, so I can get to the fricken pharmacy to get my free contraception...

Well it's been fun for a day. ya'll have fun now hear??!!!

JJ| 3.5.12 @ 4:58PM

Interesting article but I find it strange that you did not mention Judge Andrew Napolitano...very strange!!

davidp| 3.5.12 @ 5:05PM

You are correct. Judge Napolitano is very strange.

Frank Sinclair| 3.5.12 @ 5:05PM

Rush is a parasite on common sense.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DIwNmFglEE

Kathleen3| 3.5.12 @ 5:08PM

This is so much more than a defense of Rush Limbaugh movement. It is standing up to the Progressive bullies who, if left unchallenged, will achieve their agenda of silencing speech and shredding the Constitution. Those who sit back and allow these Marxists to take over our country are complicit in its potential decimation.

Frank Sinclair| 3.5.12 @ 5:09PM

Paranoid, Party of one, your table is ready.

davidp| 3.5.12 @ 5:21PM

I havent heard the word Marxist is 20 years. Thanks for bringing a sense of humor to this discussion.

Frank Sinclair| 3.5.12 @ 5:25PM

Anyone who thinks "these people" are "Marxists" doesn't know what a Marxist is.

This is your brain on Rush.

Well done, dittohead.

TANSTAAFL| 3.5.12 @ 5:13PM

“One told us about how embarrassed and just powerless she felt when she was standing at the pharmacy counter and learned for the first time that contraception was not covered on her insurance and she had to turn and walk away because she couldn’t afford that prescription. Women like her have no choice but to go without contraception."
Now come check out my HELL!
“One told us about how embarrassed and just powerless he felt when he was standing at the electronics counter and learned for the first time that flat screen TV’s were not free and he had to turn and walk away because he couldn’t afford that tv. Men like him have no choice but to go without flat screen tv’s."

Mimi| 3.5.12 @ 5:14PM

It was just a matter of time befor the Dem's via Nan Fran brought us a consumer ( Ms. FLUKE) of the product they want to force the Catholic Church entities to supply.
This is really about the religious liberty and freedom of CONSCIENCE!...So much outrage must be diluted the isssue is BIG and getting POWERFUL and the Birth-control side show wom't penetrate the Monumental crossing of the divide that Obama made with the HHS EDICT.
Not only will he lose the Catholic vote....This will boil over and probably bring on his Impeachment...They NOW know well their grave error! , lack of judgement and pure take over, and poor timing. The seriousness of this EDICT and the REACTION of the Catholic Bishops is now disrupting town halls by Catholics and SIGNS! THE REAL ISSUE IS NOW On ITS WAY! & will be POWERFUL! Catholic Persecution...WOW!

Mary| 3.5.12 @ 5:23PM

Fluke is trying to get the insurance company to provide a drug that prevents cysts and seizures in some women. If they won't let it be prescribed for birth control they should at least let the women that need it for other medical reasons have it. And you call yourself Christian? Jesus would be horrified at your callousness.

Todd S| 3.5.12 @ 6:23PM

She wants to make contraception available to anyone for whatever reason under insurance, you are either deceitful or stupid to insist otherwise. Of course they find some bleeding heart story to push their agenda, that is how liberals work. She wanted herself covered and complained about the costs (which she lies about no doubt) and she did not have any cysts issues did she? At least be honest about what Obama wants to do, force Catholic institutions to cover all contraception needs for any reason under insurance. The so-called compromise is a farce.

Mary| 3.5.12 @ 6:43PM

Perhaps speaking to your greed will help. If the insurance companies do not prescribe birth control pills, they will have to pay for the surgeries and pregnancies caused by this lack of coverage. Therefore everyone's insurance fees go up. Common sense seems to have left the room on this website.

Trinacria| 3.5.12 @ 6:30PM

Seriously, Mary - this issue is a straw man; it isn't now nor was it ever intended to be about these other medical issues. Don't believe me? If the issue was about non-contraceptive indications, why would HHS Secretary Sebellius defend the mandate by claiming that the extra money spent on oral contraceptives would be justified by the extraordinary savings resulting from the decrease in unwanted pregnancies? And if the issue is truly about mandating coverage of medically necessary therapies, why the focus on oral contraceptives? My insurance company doesn't cover Viagra (sildenafil), and yet sildenafil is a safe, effective, and FDA-approved therapy for a LIFE THREATENING disease called pulmonary hypertension. Where's the moral outrage at insurance companies that don't cover sildenafil? C'mon, Mary - you're taking the bait on this one; don't make it so damn easy for 'em.

Mary| 3.5.12 @ 6:53PM

Your logic is absent. So you are saying that people that need this medicine for reasons other than birth control shouldn't get it? What if it was your daughter or wife that was sick? Just because they are a minority of users we should just throw them under the bus?

Trinacria| 3.5.12 @ 7:39PM

"So you are saying that people that need this medicine for reasons other than birth control shouldn't get it? What if it was your daughter or wife that was sick? Just because they are a minority of users we should just throw them under the bus?"

You see, Mary; you've taken the bait and accepted the logical fallacy that there are only 2 choices: the government mandates that the insurance company provides free medication (remember, the mandate requires that oral contraceptives be provided WITHOUT A CO-PAYMENT) or the patient suffers without treatment. This simply isn't true, and (with thanks for your kind invitation) I will gladly use the case of my own mother as an example. She was diagnosed last year with Stage IV (metastatic) ovarian cancer; unfortunately, her prescription plan didn't cover one of the chemotherapeutic agents and, while the second agent was "covered", my mother was responsible for a 20% copay.

In response to your question, "what would you do if it [were] your wife or your daughter that was sick?" - I would do precisely the same thing I did when my mother was sick - I took responsibility and I paid out of pocket. Before you recur to the inevitable "not everyone has the resources" argument, let me say that I didn't have them either. But I found them; I prioritized, I sacrificed, and I asked my siblings to sacrifice. In short, we took responsibility. What we didn't do was petition the government to make it someone else's responsibility.

By the way, let's not forget that the non-contraceptive indications for which oral contraceptives are occasionally prescribed (acne, cysts, pms) are all conditions for which there is a broad range of safe and effective therapeutic alternatives, virtually all of which are routinely covered under the typical prescription benefit plan (curiously, however, the government has not mandated that any of them be provided without a copay... why do you think that is?).

Finally, it's not without relevance to this spurious argument that the cost of oral contraceptives - many of which are available in generic form - is literally pennies per day. Let's stop framing the argument in terms of cost - it's really rather an insult to those like my mother who were facing truly unaffordable costs for life-saving therapies (surely you're not equating the $38,000/month cost of chemotherapy/biologics/antiemetics/ colony stimulating factors to the $30/month for "the pill"?).

Mary| 3.5.12 @ 7:55PM

"Before you recur to the inevitable "not everyone has the resources" argument, let me say that I didn't have them either. But I found them; I prioritized, I sacrificed, and I asked my siblings to sacrifice." In other words you did have the resources....

Trinacria| 3.5.12 @ 8:21PM

In other words, I TOOK RESPONSIBILITY AND DIDN'T BITCH AND MOAN AND EXPECT THE GOVERNMENT TO TAKE CARE OF ME OR MY RESPONSIBILITIES.

But let's accept your smart ass assertion ("in other words, you did have the resources..."), why do you think that is? Hint: PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY (you'll remember this one: He who will not work shall not eat...)

If you want to cling to the notion that we have an epidemic of women out there who can't afford the 99 cents/day to get access to oral contraceptives to treat their acne/pms/endometrial cysts and that the only resolution is for the government to mandate that companies provide these therapies free of charge (while continuing to maintain - curiously - that it isn't necessary to mandate the provision of non-contraceptive therapies used to treat these same conditions), knock yourself out, sister.

spike59| 3.6.12 @ 4:41PM

it's already covered for those reasons...try again

gofer| 3.7.12 @ 12:45AM

That's a false argument since medical reasons are already covered.

davidp| 3.5.12 @ 5:49PM

Mimi-I have only one question. How do you decide which words to CAPITALIZE? I would think IMPEACHMENT would have been in capital letters and maybe MONUMENTAL but dont really understand EDICT and HHS. Can you explain? Thanks.

Mimi| 3.5.12 @ 7:20PM

If you have been around I use capitals to make emphasis...The Catholic Bishops calling out the actions of a President is RARE !
Try to think in historical ways....This offense by "O" is so HORRIBLE against everything this country treasures its seriousness is now not truly understood by most....Those with God Blessed WISDOM does!!!

Mary| 3.5.12 @ 7:30PM

Georgetown offers birth control coverage to it's faculty members (it's in her testimony if any of you get a chance to read it). How come your not all in a tizzy about that. Boycott the university. Write the president of the college.

Davidp| 3.5.12 @ 7:54PM

How do the bishops hav etime to worry about Obama when there are so many little boys to molest.

Simon Templar| 3.5.12 @ 5:16PM

Well, we certainly have had the liberal trolls and the useful idiots out here this past week spinning every lie, distortion, and hypocritical, nonsensical position you could not even dream up if you were on some very serious bad drugs.

Just what is a liberal today?
It is a mentally disordered hypocritical liar that actually believes the insane distortions and lies it spews forth on a daily basis. It is a debased human being that thinks it has a divine right to tell everyone else on the planet what to think, say, and do and insist that others subsidize it.

davidp| 3.5.12 @ 5:27PM

What kind of bad drugs are you talking about? Not the kind that Rush is addicted to I hope. I applaud your well reasoned latest rant ( I mean posting). Just some advice. You dont need to refer to lies, distortions, hypocrisy in the first paragraph and then rehash it in the second. We get your well thought out point. I am just disappointed that you dont like Bill Murray. I dont know what he did to you.

I look forward to your next thoughtful response.

Simon Templar| 3.5.12 @ 6:19PM

I look forward to you next nonsensical liberal troll drool.

The problem with us conservatives is we keep expecting to have an "American" conversation and debate with you that involves some logic, rationality, and some resemblance of respect for truth and intellectual honesty. We do this over and over expecting a different result and probably is a testimony to a serious flaw in ourselves that we should really address.

Breitbart was not only right, he was our John the Baptist. He was our Moses leading us and showing us the way out of this desert.

There is no compromising, there is no place for reasoned discussion, there is no reason for accepting this double standard you created and fostered, there is no reason to take prisoners.

This week has actually been very enlightening because it has made this cyrstal clear.

Go away troll and play with your Obama doll.

Davidp| 3.5.12 @ 6:54PM

I know that you want a Conversation. That's why you call people,idiots,assholes and liars. I have to say that you truly elevate the conversation. Just like Rush.

Wow, John the baptist and Moses.

liberaltarian| 3.6.12 @ 6:20AM

your projecting again.

Diana | 3.5.12 @ 5:36PM

I didn't read the comments so forgive me if this has already been said...Could you print a list of companies who did NOT pull their advertising? The rally should include contacting them to thank them for their continued support and unwillingness to get drawn into the fray by the left.

Pa Thetic| 3.5.12 @ 5:38PM

As someone who considers themself as "not art of the 21%", I find what Rush did was horrible. The author also misses the point in comparing his free speeh rights to Fluke's; no-one restricted his 1st ammendment rights to say what he wants, any more than a KKK leader or a porn kingpin. But we as the public DO have our rights to also disagree and avow such atrocious language. It's m0re than a little disturbing now that this author suggests that the purchasing public evoke capitalism blackmail against these sponsors for them expressing their opinion by demonstrating their lack of compliance with this outlandish broadcast, not once but twice. Al Franken said it best years ago in his book: Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot.

Trinacria| 3.5.12 @ 6:17PM

Grow up. How about worrying about shit that really matters? We're all fed up with the fake moral outrage bit every time someone calls someone else a name. And where, by the way, is your outrage at Ed Schultz for calling Laura Ingram the same thing? Please, sell that shit somewhere else; we've got quite enough here....

Thomas Walsh| 3.5.12 @ 5:39PM

Good article,but I already sent emails and calls. We need to start blacklisting these companies openly. Instead of Sleepnumber buy Temperpedic for example.

davidp| 3.5.12 @ 5:51PM

Here is something I dont understand. The article and many of the posts are critical of liberals who decided to boycott advertisers on Rush but it seems perfectly fine for you all to boycott. Please explain the difference. Thanks.

Trinacria| 3.5.12 @ 6:19PM

Simple. The liberal creed: Do as I say, not as I do.

When one adopts an ideology based on feelings rather than logic, it should come as no surprise when such inconsistencies arise.

Simon Templar| 3.5.12 @ 6:27PM

You could not comprehend them, you are a liberal and a liar by nature. Waste of time. Get lost.

Maybe you could explain the difference in regards to why you defend your own to the death when they call our female candidates dumbfucks, sluts, and idiots and you do not demand that they go off the air, stop making their music, pull their sponsors, or boycott them.

You start doing the explaining liberal boy, or shut the fuck up and take your whining, lame, hypocritical bullshit somewhere else.

Yeah, you don't understand very much at all, do you?

Davidp| 3.5.12 @ 6:56PM

I appreciate your latest effort to raise the level of conversation.

Is it true Rush apologized 3 times? Must be losing lots of advertisers.

liberaltarian| 3.6.12 @ 6:23AM

you forgot your pills again this morning didnt you?

davidp| 3.6.12 @ 4:46PM

your getting a little more hysterical with every email. Better sit down and take your insurance covered heart medicine before you stroke out.

cathy| 3.5.12 @ 9:23PM

ever hear of action/reaction? Fight fire with fire?
eye for an eye?

cathy| 3.5.12 @ 9:23PM

ever hear of action/reaction? Fight fire with fire?
eye for an eye?

Davidp| 3.5.12 @ 7:06PM

Blacklisting. What's next, book burning?

daveisnotmyrealname| 3.5.12 @ 9:45PM

Pretty tame stuff huh? you liberals would be screaming death chants...wacko

Lucy Sensing| 3.5.12 @ 6:08PM

I have already written pro-flowers and teper-pedic
and now that I have the list I will write them. Thanks!

bhg| 3.5.12 @ 6:22PM

I think a better way would be for all of Rush fans,should send in 5 or 10 dollars each to his eib network so he doesnt need these pirates with his 5 million listeners and the rest of good conservatives we could raise enough for a sponsership by true Americans.As an aside my daughter used legal zombie for a simple bankruptcy and they are by far the worst company I have ever had any dealings with they lost her paperwork on 4 different occasions.After the 4th time I recieved a phone call from one of them saying they did not have paperwork that I copied and faxed personally (LIARS) it has taken almost a year and one half with no court date in sight.Please send money directly this would be a great way to tell all to FO.

Davidp| 3.5.12 @ 6:58PM

Good idea. What a bunch of suckers. He needs your money for his next divorce and his drugs.

ratonis| 3.5.12 @ 6:34PM

Rush Limbaugh had called her a slut,
And ev’ryone said “oh, but, but . . .”
Well she’s really a beauty
Not just a mere cutie,
With guys at her door—a real glut.

Miss Fluke is good looking, for sure!
For leftist women in media, a cure.
For most are true hags,
Or just wrinkled old bags,
That the media for some reason endure.

Mary| 3.5.12 @ 8:25PM

Because you seem so enamored of literature, I thought you might enjoy these recent Gawker headlines:
"Rush Limbaugh is a distended gout-ridden white supremacist who ruined his hearing with illegal prescription pain-killers."
"Rush Limbaugh Continues to Insatiably Screw Self as 12th Sponsor Flees" .... touche

Can't Fool Me...| 3.5.12 @ 7:05PM

OK, so Jeffrey Lord repeats Limbaugh's lies as a way of justifying his vile rant. Very impressive journalistic standards you have here American Spectator...

bhg| 3.5.12 @ 7:16PM

Daviddp I am not sure about the divorce but the drugs should be covered by insurance (free) right?

kkm| 3.5.12 @ 7:45PM

Last yr, thanks to Rush advertising, I sent Shari's Berries to my mother-in-law for Mothers Day. They are connected to ProFlowers. NO MORE SHARI'S BERRIES!!!

Ariadnea| 3.5.12 @ 7:49PM

I would encourage all of you to follow what Canada did to Chiquita in answering to these bullies. You need to respond and fight back, otherwise they will get emboldened and pick you one by one until no one is left to fight for your country and your rights and freedom.

In Canada, there was a successful boycott response against Chiquita. Thinking they could easily abuse polite Canadians without repercussions, Chiquita supplier of Bananas and Fresh express Salad with their other products initiated a boycott against Canada for our oil sands, in trying to please (gave in) and impress the Global Warmist crowds.

A fledgling lone conservative TV station (proud to be politically incorrect, probably much better than your FOX News) of less than a year named Sun News Network (http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca), led by Mr. Ezra Levant, fought against them by encouraging their viewers to boycott back CHIQUITA. Many viewers used social media to disseminate the message, and soon the usually slow riled Canadians were calling their grocery stores not to carry Chiquita Products (otherwise loss their patronage). Ordinary Canadians were minding their grocers' displays and discourage those who were uninformed from picking that particular brand. In a show of patriotism Canadian grocery employees, friends and their relatives urged their purchasing department to get their supplies from other brands instead. This went viral; soon every store was inundated with calls and messages. Chiquita's website was filled with angry Canadians. Until now Canadians were refusing to pick up Chiquita products.

If polite and slow riled Canadians can do this, why can't you bold and brave Americans? Take that as a challenge! By the by, now is not the time to be timid. By staying quiet, you are complicit to your own freedom and country's demise.

tom| 3.5.12 @ 7:53PM

I don't think miss fluke was looking for a handout from tax payers. she pays for her own med insurance like everyone else. she feel like the insurance she has should cover certain drugs. we all think that our insurance should cover the drugs we need
as far as rush the people who think he was over the top need to vote with their pocket book
dont buy items that rush sells on his shows
also send emails to the companies that still stand by him

bhg| 3.5.12 @ 8:04PM

DAVIDDP
Since this seems to be an apology type week for PC transgressions when will all of your view apologize to Warren Buffets administrative assistant calling her a secretary omg in the large corp I retired from I would have been sitting in HR for this type of comment.This is my first time posting on this site so perhaps I missed it but I think potus owes her a phone call also.

Davidp| 3.5.12 @ 8:12PM

You really think calling a law student is a pc transgression. I guess it would be ok to call your daughter a whore. Oops, that may not be appropriate but what the heck.

louise| 3.5.12 @ 8:16PM

Rush may have used words to describe this woman as a slut and a prostitute.....on the other hand....
Clinton made a young woman, Monica, a slut and a prostitute! He remained in the White House(there was no call for his removal) and, according to Barbara Bush today, is really chummy
with all the Bushes!! Go figure.

davidp| 3.6.12 @ 1:59PM

I didnt know someone could make a woman a slut and prostitute.

I do think there was a call for his removal. it was called impeachment. If I remember correctly the leader of the impeachment move was that man with high moral standards, Newt Gingrich.

bluecollarbytes| 3.5.12 @ 8:36PM

Speaking of Imus, who Rush defended during Imus's troubled times over his 'nappy-headed hos' comments- he calls Rush an 'insincere pig'.
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Rush will be fine as long as he continues to do it his way.

bluecollarbytes| 3.5.12 @ 8:39PM

Speaking of Imus, who Rush defended during Imus's troubled times over his 'nappy-headed hos' comments- he calls Rush an 'insincere pig'.
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Rush will be fine as long as he continues to do it his way.

Quitaque| 3.5.12 @ 8:51PM

We can also support Rush by going to Rush's website and signing up to be a Rush 24/7 member. You get access to archived shows, etc. and it costs about $ 8/month. You can cancel whenever you want. So spend
$8 to show advertizers that Rush has loyal listeners - and influence with the public.

davidp| 3.6.12 @ 2:00PM

Rush doesnt care about his listeners, he cares about his advertisers, but send him your hard earned money because he really needs it. Sucker.

spike59| 3.6.12 @ 4:44PM

and when, exactly, did it become the duty of a talk-show host to 'care about his listeners?' i can take care of myself, thanks...

davidp| 3.6.12 @ 4:48PM

Ditto. I forget that his listeners get offended when people indicate that his listeners are a bunch of ill educated cult followers.

pra53| 3.5.12 @ 8:58PM

I appreciate your article, and have emailed every one of the dropped advertisers telling them that I'm dropping them. I'm especially disappointed in carbonite which I DID have an account. I indicated that I will find another provider for backup services.

Victor Robert Martineau| 3.5.12 @ 9:10PM

In the article about Limbaugh the author said that Beck was driven from Fox by leftists. Beck says he left of his own volition. Was the author incorrect or was Beck telling an untruth?

Joe| 3.5.12 @ 9:17PM

This is not a religious liberty question, it is a health care question. If the church is going to go into the health insurance business, they must abide by the rules of the health insurance business. Jesus said it like this- "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's..."

Osamas Pajamas| 3.5.12 @ 10:59PM

Joe --- that's rot. Any investor should be able to offer insurance and state what he is willing and not willing to cover, and Uncle Scum can go phuq himself if he doesn't like it. There's too much "obedience" going on in America today and I advocate that the victims of government disobey the government, disobey the law, disobey the regulation, and disobey and disobey and disobey and do their very best to destroy this dictatorship --- to bring it crashing down in a pile of broken bones and blood and gray matter. Stop obeying. Stop obeying. Stop obeying.

daveisnotmyrealname| 3.5.12 @ 9:34PM

Yes, and while we're at it, we could rally behind Michael Savage. He's been banned from Britain for years, with no show of support from Rush or any of the other "conservatives".

Rusty| 3.5.12 @ 9:42PM

Great article - thank you for the research - I will contact the ones I have used in the PAST; never again will I use any of them again including AOL.
We have to take a stand now, for the new "Lion of the Right"!

sirbourbon| 3.5.12 @ 9:53PM

Lou Dobbs got fired from CNN---

Glenn Beck got canned from Fox. Their crime - being controversial.

But there was no petition drive to get their jobs back . Both of these controversial gentlemen went after the North American Union, the Federal Reserve on their show. Lou Dobbs was targetted by the national Council of The Race ( La Raza); bullets even struck his home but he never got a petition drive in his name!

Dobbs' daily exposures of the US homegrown organizations backing open borders got him into hot water. Nonetheless he kept on reporting about the Bush administration's Security and Prosperity Partnership with Mexico. That Mexico/US "security" partnership Lou exposed on his popular evening CNN broadcasts made the Bush people mighty uncomfortable.

That Dobbs would lose his job for exposing the plot to create a North American Union open border made him a target. But he went down fighting the bas****s without issuing an apology. But I suspect it was Dobbs' story on US aid (Dept.Of Energy grant) to Iran's nuclear program in 2004 under the Bush administration that got him fired:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4lB1Y4ZwfU

sirbourbon| 3.5.12 @ 9:56PM

Yes, Dobbs has guts and opened up topics that were taboo on the Rush Limbaugh show. Now Rush like a little girl apologizes to the very people, that hate his guts over a stupid issue.

Rush, you should have been controversial. You see, you might get fired over a nothing issue.

sirbourbon| 3.5.12 @ 9:56PM

Yes, Dobbs has guts and opened up topics that were taboo on the Rush Limbaugh show. Now Rush like a little girl apologizes to the very people, that hate his guts over a stupid issue.

Rush, you should have been controversial. You see, you might get fired over a nothing issue.

sirbourbon| 3.5.12 @ 10:02PM

Wouldn't your conscience be clear had you exposed Bush's lies connected to getting us into war with Iraq. Wouldn't you now be feeling better had you exposed Bush's betrayal on US sovereignty in his partnership agreement with this Council on Foreign Relations treachery called the North American Community (SPP)? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDG1IFBvpC8

Rush, you would be among real men that exposed Bush's aid to Iran in 2004 to help them build a nuclear power plant?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4lB1Y4ZwfU

Guy in Ohio| 3.5.12 @ 10:31PM

I'm way ahead of you. I already e-mailed Pro Flowers, told them I wouldn't be buying my flowers from them anymore, and requested that they remove my e-mail address from their list. I also contacted Carbonite, and told them that I had plans to use their services, but had changed my mind. This WILL cost these companies. It's time to fight back, and I'm going to do my part.

Guy in Ohio| 3.5.12 @ 10:31PM

I'm way ahead of you. I already e-mailed Pro Flowers, told them I wouldn't be buying my flowers from them anymore, and requested that they remove my e-mail address from their list. I also contacted Carbonite, and told them that I had plans to use their services, but had changed my mind. This WILL cost these companies. It's time to fight back, and I'm going to do my part.

Guy in Ohio| 3.5.12 @ 10:32PM

I'm way ahead of you. I already e-mailed Pro Flowers, told them I wouldn't be buying my flowers from them anymore, and requested that they remove my e-mail address from their list. I also contacted Carbonite, and told them that I had plans to use their services, but had changed my mind. This WILL cost these companies. It's time to fight back, and I'm going to do my part.

Guy in Ohio| 3.5.12 @ 10:34PM

I'm way ahead of you. I already e-mailed Pro Flowers, told them I wouldn't be buying my flowers from them anymore, and requested that they remove my e-mail address from their list. I also contacted Carbonite, and told them that I had plans to use their services, but had changed my mind. This WILL cost these companies. It's time to fight back, and I'm going to do my part.

Guy in Ohio| 3.5.12 @ 10:36PM

I'm way ahead of you. I already e-mailed Pro Flowers, told them I wouldn't be buying my flowers from them anymore, and requested that they remove my e-mail address from their list. I also contacted Carbonite, and told them that I had plans to use their services, but had changed my mind. This WILL cost these companies. It's time to fight back, and I'm going to do my part.

Guy in Ohio| 3.5.12 @ 10:44PM

I'm way ahead of you. I already e-mailed Pro Flowers, told them I wouldn't be buying my flowers from them anymore, and requested that they remove my e-mail address from their list. I also contacted Carbonite, and told them that I had plans to use their services, but had changed my mind. This WILL cost these companies. It's time to fight back, and I'm going to do my part.

Osamas Pajamas| 3.5.12 @ 10:49PM

Oh. By the way. If Rush has been using Carbonite to back-up his disc drives --- how does he know whether the top dogs at Carbonite haven't already copied everything on his drives in violation of his privacy, to use against him and his allies and all the rest of us? Carbonite probably is LOADED with lefty Democrat spies, spooks, and snoops, operating on behalf of Barak Hushpuppy OhBummer and the OhBummer Wrecking Crew, the Democrat National Committee, and all of those bloodsucking, tax-eating political gangsters who thrive under the Democrat umbrella.

Osamas Pajamas| 3.5.12 @ 10:52PM

Boycott Carbonite --- they're snoops copying everything on your drives and they're run by a bunch of leftist creeps.

Marvel Goose| 3.5.12 @ 10:56PM

Here is the email for direct contact to carbonite. I wish I had the service so I could cancel.

carbonite@mailnj.custhelp.com

sirbourbon| 3.5.12 @ 11:39PM

Rush isn't worth defending but the first amendment is. How many of you wrote congress to demand they vote against this anti-American bill>>>>The Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act? It is a direct attack on the first amendment. But you see, Rush Limbaugh, never mentioned it on his show. Lots of things the "entertainer" never mentioned and this millionare is in hot water over a stupid pill. Ha! what a joke that he may get his butt ash canned over that.

The occassions that he talked about illegal immigration he never mentioned the NAU. The other occasions he spoke to global warming he never once said we should get the H*** out of the UN. Here the UN's IPCC climate warmists had the world bambozzled on this idiotic non science issue and yes he went after them but he never went after the source - the UN.

Remember the 90's and Femi-Nazis, the homo bashing and I the "I used to believe in the conspiracy stuff for 6 months but then...."

Well, Rush wake up to the conspiracy that is using you to attack freedom of speech. Now you can spend all that money you made telling talk show listeners essentially nothing of substance.

clive| 3.6.12 @ 3:51AM

"Rush isn't worth defending but the first amendment is."

Except there is no violation of the first amendment. You should probably go back to school and find out, but this time I'll help you.

It only applies to the governments restriction of free speech.

The government isn't trying to restrict Rush. And actually the people in the Boycott aren't either. The 1st amendment doesn't guarantee you a job in saying whatever you want.

They are allowed to boycott, and the advertisers are allowed to listen to them, and Rush can still say whatever he wants. But he has to live with the consequences.

Wake up and learn what the 1st Amendment really entails before spouting off about free speech.

Sickening people don't even know the what the Constitution actually does.

Osamas Pajamas| 3.5.12 @ 11:46PM

So Rush called a spade a bloody shovel. So did Democrat Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Gleefully.

KariO| 3.6.12 @ 12:16AM

Oh please. To hear grown men and woman (a few) defending Mr. Limbaugh. If you'd like to see how a conservative commentator handles a misstep with class, please go visit Mr. Cal Thomas' webpage:
http://www.calthomas.com/index.php?news=3485.
This, dear audience, is a gentleman. No shouting, no pouting. No finger-pointing. A beacon of hope in our divided country.

Not a Useful Idiot| 3.6.12 @ 12:33AM

Great Article! Thank you! This is a live example of how the left targets and destroys. Sickening to learn the connections some of these companies have to Radical Left Groups and Communists. What was my 1st thought upon hearing the death of Andrew Breitbart? Well, It wasn't of natural causes. M-----. Will we ever know the truth? Probably not. Never, will I believe it was from natural causes! To all the Conservative Talk Show, TV Hosts,internet and Rag media, Thank you for all you have done and will continue to do for the good of the USA. Thank you for your service. And to our Brave Troops, past and present, thank you for your service!

owemysoul| 3.6.12 @ 12:36AM

great research. also tweet dws! her mouth is an abomination. will contact every advert & never buy from them again. Remember to infom them you have a good memory for progressive malcontents.

No money to progressive cos. Boycott and spread the discontent. proflower is lousy, sleep train gives u backaches, legal zoom doesn't hold up in court, whatever. truth in advertising.

We won't miss you Andrew!| 3.6.12 @ 1:04AM

I couldn't have been happier to learn of Breitbart's passing, hopefully that fat pig Rush is next. Conservatives are Aholes with a capital A!

John| 3.6.12 @ 3:35AM

You can always tell its a liberal just by what comes out of the mouths.. Nothing but sh**!!
Go sleep in you tent moron......

Tom| 3.6.12 @ 1:06AM

I love RUSH, and have listened for over 20 years BUT I have to say I was disappointed that almost all of Rush's advertisers were liberal companies.
I stopped using Progressive Insurance, GEICO Insurance, and AARP years ago, JUST BECAUSE THEY WERE LIBERAL. While what they did by leaving was wrong, you have to almost expect it from them............. after all... they are liberals.

vicki| 3.6.12 @ 1:10AM

Progressive Insurance is big democrat funder. Don't buy the product.

vicki| 3.6.12 @ 1:10AM

Progressive Insurance is big democrat funder. Don't buy the product.

vicki| 3.6.12 @ 1:11AM

Progressive Insurance is big democrat funder. Don't buy the product.

vicki| 3.6.12 @ 1:11AM

Progressive Insurance is big democrat funder. Don't buy the product.

vicki| 3.6.12 @ 1:11AM

Progressive Insurance is big democrat funder. Don't buy the product.

J| 3.6.12 @ 1:18AM

Really, after Rush Limbaugh want to masturbate to videos of your daughters?

sirbourbon| 3.6.12 @ 2:22AM

Ok, Rush was right in going after Ms. Fluke the feminist activist law student and he doesn't deserve getting the hatchet over calling her a woman of easy virtue. Is that what he called her? Maybe he should have called her the worse adjective in the book- a politician, or someone who abuses the taxpayers dollars. But hey, don't all politicians do that? Foreign aid, what's that except misappropriation of funds to foreign dictators so that they can buy prostitutes at US taxpayers expense, right?

Selweyn Duke a regular on Michael Savage radio show and a guest on Rush's show wrote the following:
"...Years ago you knew who the bad girls were, now you know who the good girls are. And the good boys get condemned for not pretending the bad girls are good.

"...law student Sandra Fluke ...said in front of Congress that financing rolls in the hay can be so expensive that it can be a burden on women in law school. So she wants you, dear taxpayer, to foot the bill for her contraception.

"Of course, in Fluke’s testimony, she didn’t literally say that she was having $1000-worth of sex a year. What she said was, 'Without insurance coverage, contraception can cost a woman over $3000 during law school. For a lot of students who, like me, are on public interest scholarships, that’s practically an entire summer’s salary.'

" Now, I’ll leave it to you to determine her implication, but I’ll say that if a female law student is engaging in so much sex that she’s spending a mint on birth-control, I wouldn’t reflexively assume she’s a slut.

"Because I’d wonder how she was working her way through law school.

"As for Fluke, slut or not, she is certainly something else: a slick political operative and willing Democrat human prop. Contrary to earlier reports, which portrayed her as a starry-eyed 23-year-old being picked on by a big bad powerful white guy, Fluke is actually a 30-year-old former president of Georgetown Law Students for Reproductive Justice. In other words, she’s an experienced feminist activist – and I suspect she relishes the attention.

"She also said in her testimony, 'Forty percent of female students at Georgetown Law report struggling financially as a result of this policy [no free birth-control]. One told us of how embarrassed and powerless she felt when she was standing at the pharmacy counter, learning for the first time that contraception wasn’t covered, and had to walk away because she couldn’t afford it. Women like her have no choice but to go without contraception.'

" Wow, and I thought it heart-wrenching hearing about South Americans living on garbage dumps or African child soldiers forced to shoot their mothers. But a female law student being left to finance her own decadent romps? I’ve now lost all faith in humanity.

"... Remember that copulation among unmarried people that requires birth control used to be called fornication; now they call it recreational sex. But it’s called “recreational” for a reason.

"...So the question is, why should taxpayers be forced to fund someone’s salacious conception of recreation?

"The problem is that the left has become so libertine that they treat sex as if it’s not only a survival need but a constitutional right. But their eye altering does alter all, and their askew conception of rights – and rights and wrongs – should be contracepted. In their way of thinking, calling a woman of easy virtue a slut is out of bounds, but calling a man who dares say the entitlement empress too often has no clothes a “sexist” is fine. They consider offering men and women equal benefits to be inequality if it doesn’t satisfy feminist desires. And in their way of thinking it’s not a violation of rights to force a private entity to pay for someone else’s birth-control at the end of a gun, but it is a violation of rights if someone doesn’t pay for your contraception for you."

http://www.themoralliberal.com.....-relevant/

gofer| 3.7.12 @ 12:50AM

Does anybody buy that someone can't afford 7 bucks a month for birth control that goes to Georgetown law school?? This sounds like something out of the Onion.

dadfly| 3.6.12 @ 3:14AM

already called and emailed boycott threats to pulling advertisers. will fax the faxable tommorrow.

John| 3.6.12 @ 3:30AM

Just stop buying their products..very simple.. Remember Liberals only spend other peoples money..so they won't be buying anything in the near future..from any of these company...and Ms. Fluke is a professional ....you decided what!!

clive| 3.6.12 @ 3:52AM

"Remember Liberals only spend other peoples money"

Lol, keep up the denial and think that and you'll be making the same idiotic assumptions so many others have.

clive| 3.6.12 @ 3:38AM

Your trying to add Moderates to 'your side' is laughable. Independents are the largest political base in America, and they shun the extremes in both parties.

clive| 3.6.12 @ 3:44AM

Btw love the hypocrisy in the cries of saving Rush in the name of 'free speech.' Free speech only applies to the Government restriction of speech. Yes Rush is free to say what he wants. But the public is free to choose to make their views heard to advertisers, and those advertisers are also free to reaction to that also.

And then you turn around and want to do the same thing you are complaining about to the advertisers.

beebop2| 3.6.12 @ 5:35AM

Two radio stations -- Hawaii and Mass -- have dropped the show. Can you provide a Clear Channel email so that I can express my support?

Pastor emeritus Nathan Bickel| 3.6.12 @ 5:55AM

Mr. Lord,

Thank you for providing the contact information about the former sponsors of Rush. I intend to send a couple of them a piece of my mind. Regarding two of them, and, maybe a copy of this online comment reply.

My wife and I have had a sleep number bed for a number of years, now. I'll tell you, it is not cracked up to what it is advertised to be. Rush, is better off for not advertising this business. Much of the advertising premise of the sleep number bed, is that each partner is able to have his / her own sleep number (comfort) setting. In reality, this is only a pipe dream assertion. Rarely, have we found, that the sleep number remains the same, come morning. Most always, the comfort setting changes, leaving us sore, upon rising in the morning. We think that it is the fluctuating barometric pressure that initiates the constant change.

In short, the sleep number bed manufacturer is dishonest with its advertising approach. I repeat - Rush Limbaugh is better off without this company sponsoring him. I expect, this year, we will be making a change and drag this uncomfortable (ever changing) bed out to the street curb to be carted off for the trash pick-up.

Also, my wife and I were seriously thinking of utilizing "Legal Zoom." However, after their fair weather acquaintance departure from Rush, we will avail ourselves of an attorney, even though we will probably have to pay more.

davidp| 3.6.12 @ 4:50PM

I love how everyone buys Rush's products, love them and then all of a sudden realize they really arent very good. When is Rush going to say I want everyone listening me to drink this kool aid I have prepared. This reply board will surely take a big time hit.

mysticjunon| 3.6.12 @ 6:05PM

try Civil Tree, they are Legal Zoom's competition

Keith Grant| 3.6.12 @ 7:02AM

It's Rush Limbaugh who is the bully. Thanks for listing the details of those sponsors. I will make a point of contacting each of them to congratulate them for standing up to one the nastiest psychopaths of our time. And if you really think conservatives outnumber people with compassion and common sense all I can say is wait until November.

gofer| 3.7.12 @ 12:55AM

Yeah, we heard that same braying the last election when leftists got "shellacked" as O confessed. Obamacare was a big driver behind that and things certainly haven't gotten better. "Whom the gods would destroy, they first make proud."

Ann Grebloski| 3.6.12 @ 7:08AM

Than you Mr. Lord! I need to send some birthday flowers today and I can tell you I won't be using Pro Flowers - not today, not tomorrow, not ever!

Susan Piercy | 3.6.12 @ 7:47AM

Ariadnea, you are spot on regarding the insane national conversation. Our debt and spending is off the chart and we are chatting about the '60s issue of birth control. Mark Steyn summed it up in one sentence,"Free condoms on the Titanic."

Pastor emeritus Nathan Bickel| 3.6.12 @ 8:06AM

Keith Grant: Re: Your 3.6.12 @ 7:02 AM comment,

If you are implying that the liberal left which supports abortion on demand, and American abortion genocide, is full of compassion and common sense, then, do yourself (and others) a big favor and check into the nearest mental health clinic. There must be something bereft upstairs for you, to insinuate that Conservatives are without compassion and common sense, and that those on the political left, are.

Your problem [thinking] is that you take too much stock in what the liberal left says, and dismiss what they actually, do. A case in point is how our White House occupier promotes hate-mongering with his agenda, policies and actions:

"Hate-monger:"

http://conservapedia.com/Hate-monger

Not only does Obama promote hate-mongering, he, (unlike Rush Limbaugh) promotes US citizens to be dependent upon unstable government. His approach is opposite to what Jesus Christ taught about individual responsibility. Go check out, (for instance) Christ's parable in the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 25:14-30. There you will find a corollary teaching which illustrates individual responsibility. Also, suggestive of this parable is that there is nothing amiss with free enterprise and growing one's money.

To suggest that Rush Limbaugh is anathema because he promotes what Christ promoted is, simply ludicrous!

davidp| 3.6.12 @ 4:51PM

Yes, Christ promoted four marriages and a serious drug addiction.

Pastor emeritus Nathan Bickel| 3.6.12 @ 8:06AM

Keith Grant: Re: Your 3.6.12 @ 7:02 AM comment,

If you are implying that the liberal left which supports abortion on demand, and American abortion genocide, is full of compassion and common sense, then, do yourself (and others) a big favor and check into the nearest mental health clinic. There must be something bereft upstairs for you, to insinuate that Conservatives are without compassion and common sense, and that those on the political left, are.

Your problem [thinking] is that you take too much stock in what the liberal left says, and dismiss what they actually, do. A case in point is how our White House occupier promotes hate-mongering with his agenda, policies and actions:

"Hate-monger:"

http://conservapedia.com/Hate-monger

Not only does Obama promote hate-mongering, he, (unlike Rush Limbaugh) promotes US citizens to be dependent upon unstable government. His approach is opposite to what Jesus Christ taught about individual responsibility. Go check out, (for instance) Christ's parable in the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 25:14-30. There you will find a corollary teaching which illustrates individual responsibility. Also, suggestive of this parable is that there is nothing amiss with free enterprise and growing one's money.

To suggest that Rush Limbaugh is anathema because he promotes what Christ promoted is, simply ludicrous!

DominoFrost| 3.6.12 @ 8:10AM

Wow. I suppose you know your audience, though. Nice short paragraphs for easy reading and lots of information left out make for a good conservative forwarded e-mail. Good job!

Wes Chapman| 3.6.12 @ 10:46AM

I appreciate the thoughtful and thorough vetting of these companies - I do have this question: if these companies have these connections, what is a conservative like Rush doing "sponsoring" them by connecting their brand to his name? Should he not have a priori to this event rejected their advertising money on principal?

AgeofReason| 3.6.12 @ 10:55AM

I cancelled my account with Carbonite. We are all Breitbarts now.

davidp| 3.6.12 @ 4:53PM

You mean you are all brain dead. Just expressing my first amendment rights.

R. Freedom| 3.6.12 @ 11:00AM

Good Lord(?), did you really give out the info on Limbaugh's sponsors? Why? So, people could bully them into doing what you think is best?

Why don't you get down from your journalistic bully pulpit, let people do as they will, and stop inciting them?

It's one thing to expose the bullies, it's quite another to become one. Let's take the high road.

Anonymous Bosch| 3.6.12 @ 11:10AM

Let me understand the chain of events here.

-Rush says something offensive, but the underlying point is that you shouldn't have to pay for things you're morally opposed to (still waiting for my refund on a decade of fruitless wars and unAmerican wiretapping from both parties, BTW)

-Sponsors withdraw of their own free will because they're now subsidizing a person who has said something they're morally opposed to

-You cry foul, circle the wagons, and raise the specter of "blacklisting*."

-the Irony Meter on my desk explodes, scarring me for life.

Sound right?

*Blacklisting, back here in the real world, being something hateful, mean, perpetually scared socially-conservative cattle from the "Greatest Generation" used to ruin the lives of people they didn't agree with politically, with the effectiveness and accuracy of a rusty battle axe used while blindfolded. If you're not smart enough to understand the difference between institutionalized blacklisting and voting with your dollar, the sock puppets and very small words I'd use to explain it to you would probably not help.

Or alternately maybe you're not intellectually honest enough to acknowledge the difference. I hadn't considered the possibility that you're just another lying scumbag like Rush, and I apologize for overestimating you thus.

Hera| 3.6.12 @ 11:42AM

Just got this tweet: has public relations email to send comments:
FemiSex: demand Zero Tolerance to S word! demand Carbonite defund ALL uses of S word, defund both Ed Schultz and Rush L! email adelaney@carbonite.com

Engelmann| 3.6.12 @ 11:47AM

This kind of blacklisting is easy to counter.

Rush and the other talk radio hosts should simply say "You bail from my program and you will not be allowed back. More than this, other talk show hosts have agreed that you boycott any of our programs and the others will not allow you on their programs, now or in the days, months and years to come".

Faced with chosing between the stark choice of advertising and no advertising, none would join in a boycott.

Scott Ryan| 3.6.12 @ 12:53PM

I think Rush will be ok without me. I am more concerned about the GOP elite media destroying the party of Lincoln.

Fox News decides who the GOP nominee is every primary season through flagrant manipulation and omission. Conservatives should launch a class action suit against Fox for journalistic malpractice.

THIS MORNING they had Larry Sabato telling impressionable listeners that 'Newt or Rick cannot win, they should drop out and a month from now everyone will know that Romney is the nominee.'

This is DAILY behavior from Fox. Meanwhile they ignore the MONUMENTAL revelation uncovered that Romney LIED ABOUT & COVERED UP the fact that he DID advocate the individual mandate at the federal level. If Fox had any integrity - Romney's campaign would rightfully be castrated by this news. Newt & Rick are not frauds, but if they were (hypothetically) and this ongoing lie was uncovered by EITHER of them - that is ALL we would be hearing about every 15 minutes on the hour. FOX has betrayed conservatives.

See my commentary - THE MURDOCH MEDIA'S JOURNALISTIC MALPRACTICE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....ure=colike

Carl Boren| 3.6.12 @ 2:17PM

Thanks for your informative and insightful article Rally for Rush. What is needed here is not so much a boycott but a redirection of doing business with the competitors of these people particularly Carbonite.

Carl Boren| 3.6.12 @ 2:18PM

Thanks for your informative and insightful article Rally for Rush. What is needed here is not so much a boycott but a redirection of doing business with the competitors of these people particularly Carbonite.

Juan Jose Morales-Castillo| 3.6.12 @ 2:30PM

To jcrew:
I am the son of an unwed mother, something that strongly influences my opinion of contraception and of the people who use it and abuse it.

Juan Jose Morales-Castillo| 3.6.12 @ 2:30PM

To jcrew:
I am the son of an unwed mother, something that strongly influences my opinion of contraception and of the people who use it and abuse it.

immaccon| 3.6.12 @ 2:45PM

When Limbaugh’s comments are put in the context of a media that shrugs off similar comments towards conservative women, I find it hard to even care. I am neither disturbed nor offended by Limbaugh's remarks. I am, however, offended by the hypocrisy of a media that pillories him but let’s even worse comments about conservative women by the likes of Olbermann, Maher, Schultz, etc.. go by unnoticed.
http://bit.ly/rushswaronwomen

John| 3.6.12 @ 2:48PM

"Conservatives outnumber the left in this country by two-to-one. If you add in moderates, that means 75 percent of the American people do not identify with the kind of people these sponsors are so publicly trying to appease."

That makes no sense whatsoever and implies that two fallacies that insult conservatives: a) every word that comes out of Rush's mouth is acceptable to conservatives, b) only liberals were offended by the terms Rush used.

The sponsors are "trying to appease" people of all political stripes who think its bogus for Rush to call ANY woman a slut on the air, the idea that this includes only liberals is ridiculous.

Rush may be a great entertainer, but he effed up in this instance and many conservatives were completely thrown by his remarks (my wife's grandmother comes to mind, a woman who has actively campaigned for every Republican presidential candidate since Nixon).

Let him take his lumps like a big boy.

DaPicayune| 3.6.12 @ 3:15PM

How touching, now defend Ed Schultz’s use of the word, and the fact that Fluke had no problem with his use of it to describe Laura Ingraham, nor Carboinite’s David Friend, who still advertises with the Ed Show. Hypocrite.

BTW, you must have missed Limbaugh’s apology.

This issue is Reagan, Rush, Dobbs, Beck, Imus, Buchanan, et al, being attacked for their Conservative free speech, not your sensibilities.

Go read Tucker Carlson’s excellent articles on Media Matters and their connection with Obama’s White House, maybe that will help, but you sound like a whining troll at this point.

John| 3.6.12 @ 3:51PM

I've got no sympathy for Shultz. Don't like him, never have.

I don't really know (or care) where else Carbonite advertises or what political ideology is most common among its executives. I guarantee you that the modal citizen, whether Republican, Democrat or other is also unconcerned with the political ideology of the executives of these (Rush abandoning) companies.

I agree the issue is not my sensibilities, I'm not sure what lead you to that conclusion. The central issue is this:

Most non-politically obsessed people (which is the majority of the electorate) don't endorse the "slut" comments, regardless of party/ideological affiliation. So basically, the whole discussion is a loser for the "conservative movement" and emotionally charged statements in defense of Rush's right to call women sluts , do not help the conservative cause.

Limbaugh's on the radio. His joke might have worked well in a living room with his buddies, not as well on the air when millions are listening.

If noticing the obvious makes me a whining troll, I'm guilty. However, if you think self-righteously defending use of the term "slut" for this woman (regardless of who she is), is a political winner, well, just keep f@&kin;' that chicken.

DaPicayune| 3.6.12 @ 5:45PM

I don't defend the use of the term, and pointed out that Rush apologized. I also pointed out the Left's hypocrisy in the use of it by Ed, which bothered Fluke not at all.

The bigger issue is the concerted effort by the Left to silence Conservative speech. As Breitbart said to CPAC, "We're not going to take it anymore!" The 40% of Conservatives and most of the 35% Mods are more concerned about that then the use of vulgar terms which both side throw out for ratings/effect.

Let the Left howl about Rush now as they desire, it will only create a larger audience to inform about their ways/means which are an assault on the 1st Amendment. This issue resonates.

John| 3.6.12 @ 8:04PM

"This issue resonates."

... for about 3% of the electorate (and there are no swing voters in that 3%).

You honestly think that "the left wing conspiracy" to shut down talk radio is a winning issue?

DaPicayune| 3.6.12 @ 3:15PM

How touching, now defend Ed Schultz’s use of the word, and the fact that Fluke had no problem with his use of it to describe Laura Ingraham, nor Carboinite’s David Friend, who still advertises with the Ed Show. Hypocrite.

BTW, you must have missed Limbaugh’s apology.

This issue is Reagan, Rush, Dobbs, Beck, Imus, Buchanan, et al, being attacked for their Conservative free speech, not your sensibilities.

Go read Tucker Carlson’s excellent articles on Media Matters and their connection with Obama’s White House, maybe that will help, but you sound like a whining troll at this point.

Patrick W. Murphy, Ph.D.| 3.6.12 @ 2:53PM

Yesterday I read an article that said quoted Carbonite as announcing in a PUBLIC filing that it was losing large amounts of money, had never made money, and expected not to make a profit any time soon. A commenter was kind enough to provide the email address of Mr. Friend, its head. I immediately wrote Mr. Friend and pointed out that I was a Carbonite client, but that I might not be one much longer if he did not start sponsoring Rush again. Boycott the boycotters!
This morning I called up a local Washington, DC, sponsor, Thompson Creek Windows, and said I would never buy one of their windows as long as they boycott Rush. I signed the email, and left a voicemessage for Thompson Creek, in the following manner: Patrick W. Murphy, Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University (you (Friend!) may have heard of that Ivy League school).
Of course, you are right. We should not the 20 percent of us who are declared liberals push around the 40 percent who are avowed conservatives. Enough is enough!
Pat Murphy

madnessofjack| 3.7.12 @ 6:58PM

Andrew Breitbart is here.

DaPicayune| 3.6.12 @ 2:56PM

Well, well, one Barack Obama has just jumped the shark minutes ago at his first Presser of the year by addressing this issue and guess whose card he played?

That’ right, Carbonite’s Mr. David Friend, by claiming that he’s concerned for his daughters growing up and being treated like Ms. Fluke in public discourse.

Sounds just like Lords’ apt description of Mr. Friend’s disingenuous behavior, eh?
Who knows, maybe this matter will end up before Rep Darrell Issa’s Investigation Committee, as Ms Fluke has perjured herself before Congress now in her testimony.

If it does, will Issa subpoena Barack Obama to investigate his role as a piling on, concerned Dad, or maybe something a bit more involving Media Matters in the WH, as is the case with David Friend?

I sure hope Andrew Breitbart is smiling down at the portends of this one. As he said: “We’re not going to take it anymore!”

And how nice, Barry, it’s only an election year. Sweet. Now, “Play Ball!”

davidp| 3.6.12 @ 4:57PM

You guys are so smart. Lets start an investigation by Issa investigating Obama because he showed concern as a father. Put it on national tv and watch Republicans approval go further down. Wait it cant go down any further.

Andrew is smiling up.

Geroge Collins| 3.6.12 @ 3:29PM

The outrage over Limbaugh's comments will cool, new advertisers will come onboard, and Mitt Romney will be elected President in November, 2012.

goldwater girl| 3.6.12 @ 3:33PM

Maybe I missed it, but why didn't Ms. Fluk's buddies at Planned Parenthood help out with birth control? I thought that was their purpose.

Gonein2013| 3.6.12 @ 3:34PM

The left are nothing but a bunch of hypocrites and I am sick of them bashing conservatives and letting slime balls like Al Sharpton, Bill Maher and their ilk say whatever they want to say with no repercussions. I support Rush 100% in this and to that end I cancelled my Pro-Flowers account and while I was considering a Sleep Number bed, I will not purchase one. I will use Mosey in lieu of Carbonite.

c. voorhees| 3.6.12 @ 3:35PM

Rush is going to get sued for millions for defamation. Be careful what you say because this law student is learning how to sue you too!

c. voorhees| 3.6.12 @ 3:35PM

Rush is going to get sued for millions for defamation. Be careful what you say because this law student is learning how to sue you too!

c. voorhees| 3.6.12 @ 3:35PM

Rush is going to get sued for millions for defamation. Be careful what you say because this law student is learning how to sue you too!

c. voorhees| 3.6.12 @ 3:35PM

Rush is going to get sued for millions for defamation. Be careful what you say because this law student is learning how to sue you too!

Gonein2013| 3.6.12 @ 3:59PM

@voorhees are you ADD? Just asking

WM1| 3.6.12 @ 5:54PM

Carbonite is losing money left and right. A few more lost customers and they will probably go out of business.

Victor Robert Martineau| 3.6.12 @ 6:16PM

My favorite comment about Rush; "A drug addled gas bag". My favorite thing about Rush; from the air he's a circle.

Aaron| 3.6.12 @ 6:21PM

Wow, what a conspiratorial article. So the CEOs of all these companies are closet liberals bent on silencing conservative speech forever. Right. Rather, I would say it's the market at work. The CEOs aren't the sole decision makers at these companies. Advertising decisions are recommended through a chain of command. I assume that a private business with a goal to make profits makes a calculation of what's more important - upsetting Rush Limbaugh listeners or upsetting the much larger market of young, single women, or any woman who uses birth control, some 90% of them at some point in their lives.

Especially in the case of a company like Proflowers - which exists for men to buy their girlfriends or wives pretty flowers, with one motivation for the purchase no doubt the hope of getting sex in the future.

This is the free market at work, folks. Live by it, die by it. No Obama official is pressuring Proflowers or Sleep Number. Their PR divisions are making this decision, probably rightly from their perspectives.

I would submit it doesn't have totally to do with the actual conservative speech. Rush was on a 3 day rant about Ms. Fluke. To me, it got to the point of verbal abuse. Saying her family should be ashamed of her, etc... This against someone who's not a public figure, or at least wasn't until Rush helped make her one. The democrats helped too, since they were the ones who arranged her testimony, but had Rush not made it an issue, no one would know her name.

It was an unwarranted verbal attack against a private citizen. It was rude and offensive, period, and largely self-inflicted by Rush, who went on about her for days. I wouldn't want my company associated with that either, especially if the products I'm trying to sell are "nice" ie: restful sleep, pretty gifts.

typical white woman| 3.7.12 @ 12:09AM

Aaron, the only and big mistake made by Rush and his staff is to not vet these advertisers before accepting them. He turned down advertisers before for reasons known to him or staff. Like I said in my own post, this is a great opportunity for the left to implement the Fairness Doctrine without actually doing so. Call me a conspiratrice but I am convinced that the WH sanctioned the entire activity. I knew that when the president went on The View the first time that he lacks accepted standards.

Facts are important| 3.7.12 @ 11:35AM

Isn't this tactic the same one used by Breitbart? Discredit the individual and remove their backers...put them out of buisness. Not just ACORN but NPR, Planned Parenthood, SF Congresswoman...etc. etc. etc. I think the "Left" has had enough and typical white women vote in larger numbers than men and they do most of the puchasing. They are tired of the perverted right wing attacks on women.

madnessofjack| 3.7.12 @ 7:03PM

you paragraph reads like word salad.
How about trying for some coherence.

LA Doc| 3.6.12 @ 6:55PM

One note about Citrix. Citrix developed a medical records system called EPIC that the hospital I work at recently integrated into their practice. It is widely regarded at my hospital as a piece of crap, to put it simply. It is poorly designed, poorly implemented, confusing and riddled with flaws. I would recommend that any hospital looking to buying a record-keeping system AVOID Citrix all costs. There are plenty cheaper and more user-friendly systems out there to choose from. Citrix is an absolutely terrible company with an absolutely terribel product.

Sue| 3.6.12 @ 7:01PM

I've been rallying for Rush. Made calls, wrote emails and when I found out AOL dumped Rush, I dumped them. And I've been a member about ten years.

I can't believe the out rage over someone speaking the truth. What a double standard.

madnessofjack| 3.7.12 @ 7:04PM

Andrew Breitbart is here.

AlexBoatwright | 3.6.12 @ 8:46PM

From: Sleep Number
Subject: Auto-Acknowledgement: non customer
Date: March 6, 2012 7:31:20 PM EST
Evidently, e-mailing my displeasure to these people mean nothing, as the above was their reply to me. I will remember them for the disrespect to Rush, as well as their disrespect to me, a "non customer"

Mae Owens| 3.6.12 @ 10:28PM

In this Critical Election Year, it is refreshing to hear someone speak out in terms you understand and tell it like it is. No, Taxpayers should never even be asked to pay for contraceptives. Abstinance is the answer!

davidp| 3.7.12 @ 2:50PM

the answer to what? Welcome to the 21st century.

Jim| 3.7.12 @ 2:57PM

Ppl like Mae don't even know what the birth control pill is! Mae do U know that pill is used for women who need hormone therapy? It used to treat medical conditions. Maybe they can get a pill to treat stupidity, if so, Mae, take it immediately!

POST American| 3.6.12 @ 11:00PM

---Limbaugh remains a front for the
stale Globalist Republican establishment.

He's taken NO sustained unflinching
stand AGAINST the unfolding CFR
RED China handover, TREASON
and EUGENICS OP. ----NONE.

As the 'uncanny' timeliness of Andrew
Breitbarts death is already being 'managed'
from public consciousness ----we have NO
time for CON-serving ' business as USE--YOU--ALL'.

NONE

typical white woman| 3.6.12 @ 11:56PM

Having read through a number of the comments above I am disappointed at most of the dumb exchanges between specific writers. Mired in self-serving comments they lost sight of the issue which is free speech and not birth control pills. The double standard from the left is and has been obvious for years, why even discuss it? The article's main point is the first amendment. It looks to me as though the White House fully sanctions the activities of the various far left websites for the simple reason that it can then leave the Fairness Doctrine as is. That way the Dems don't have to do anything and can preserve their standing as the public falls asleep again. Nothing to worry about the Fairness Doctrine, just let these left websites take care of via the corporate advertiser. As for myself, I wrote to SleepTrain and ProFlowers yesterday to say that my family will no longer do business with them. Shari's Berries which is part of ProFlowers isn't great anyway, three times I received berries that were mushy and unappetizing and I told my daughters not to order any more. So for us it is back to FTD for flower delivery and Costco for mattresses. SleepTrains foster children's program will also take a hit. In a way I am glad that Carbonite pulled out because I was getting close to buying into it. I hear from friends that Legal Zoom's product is nothing to crow about either. The only error Rush or his sales staff made is not to vet these advertisers before accepting them, especially since the CEOs of some of them donate money to far left organizations.

J. Conner| 3.7.12 @ 1:02AM

Thank you so much for writing this article supporting Rush. I agree with every thing that you so eloquently said. You are a person with integrity and courage, which is a rare quality in our world today.

Alex| 3.7.12 @ 3:49AM

Great article Jeffrey! Now lead by example and get rid of your AOL email address. They also boycotted Rush.

While we slept| 3.7.12 @ 10:25AM

Also communicated with Sheri's Berries, part of Pro Flowers brand package, and the female who responded to the issue of Free Speech raised in my Email simply commented "best regards" -- and then I received sales materials from four of their product lines, not just two.

The Real Problem: The Radical Left is exercising a muscular interpretation of Free Speech, using our free enterprise system to attack America, undermining the majority and silencing opposition. The only way to counter and roll back the attacks will be to engage in political commercialism--buy only from those you agree with, expose the hypocrisy demonstrated by the players (like in this fine article), rebuff those who attack your beliefs, and support only those who will take the struggle to broader audiences.

Real Solutions: Boycott the Leftist Companies, regularly advise them of their errors, promote their competitors and insist they advertise Conservative, and urge conservative media to vet their own advertisers so they won't be exposed to blackmail.

As a note, Glenn Beck radio advertisers currently includes both Carbonite and Legal Zoom, and I believe used to include Sheri's Berries.

This will not for the faint hearted.

David

Abu Nudnik| 3.7.12 @ 12:27PM

I'm going to retract what I said. I estimate my girlfriend and I had sex 1000 times in 3 years when we were that age. She says it's more often but I disagree (she forgets the days we weren't together or were fighting)... that means that she would have to have sex more than 3x a day. So Rush's comments aren't that far out of line and besides, who is to judge? Why has everyone got so picky anyway? Let him talk. You have an argument? Argue. What babies!

Resist We Much!| 3.7.12 @ 2:37PM

A Baker's Dozen of Facts on Ms Fluke

1. Ms Fluke admitted that Georgetown's insurance pays for birth control pills for non-contraceptive uses.

2. The contraceptive mandate does not apply to student health plans.

3. The topic of the hearing at which Ms Fluke wanted to testify was neither contraception nor insurance.

4. The subject was religious liberty.

5. Maerose Prizzi and her hairy-legged harridans wanted Ms Fluke to testify as a substitute for Rev. Barry Lynn, the President of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State when he had to pull out.

6. Rev. Lynn IS an expert on the subject (some may disagree with his position), but Ms Fluke IS NOT.

7. The panel was NOT all-male as the Democrats alleged. The warriors fighting against the Republicans so-called "War on Women" walked out before Dr. Laura Champion and Dr. Allison Garrett testified.

8. Ms Fluke did NOT testify before a Congressional panel.

9. Ms Fluke did NOT testify under oath.

10. Ms Fluke spoke to a Maerose Prizzi's weekly kaffe klatsch instead.

11. Ms Fluke believes in "free speech for me and not for thee" as she fought to silence pro-life groups at Cornell.

12. Ms Fluke not only believes that the Catholic Church -- not just religious institutions, hospitals, colleges, etc., -- should pay for contraception, she also believes that the government should be able to force it to pay for its employees' sex reassignment surgery.

13. On "The View," the alleged victim of "hate speech" directed millions of Americans to read about same at Media Matters, a purveyor in "hate speech," especially Anti-Semitism.

TGetReal| 3.7.12 @ 8:01PM

NO she believes she should be able to dictate not only how they should run their business But she believes she is so superior that she should be able to tell others what they should and should not believe in. Her way is right your way is bigoted.

If her beliefs are so much better why does she refuse to go to liberal universities?

TGetReal| 3.7.12 @ 7:42PM

Let me see here. I hear time and time again liberals bashing religious organizations especially the Catholic church. But low and behold not even God himself can separate this woman from this Catholic institution she criticizes so much. Could it be that the very morals they believe in got them to the status they now enjoy? Could it be those vary ideas make Catholic schools such a good choice even for the non believers. Or is that just to logical to accept? If you do not like the polices you can go to another school. The liberals would have you turn this country into Greece and then blame the very government they wanted to control it all.

Kayla| 3.8.12 @ 12:28AM

The issue of endometriosis and ovarian cysts in this situation are being milked for all they are worth by the liberal left, which is precious little when you get right down to it. To listen to Fluke, you'd think this whole issue of government-paid birth control is about preventing this disease. Far from it! Endometriosis affects only about 5-10% of all women. Of those women, there are many for whom birth control pills are not an issue due to health risks, side effects, etc. There many other ways of dealing with endometriosis than birth control pills, including other medications and surgery. So the actual number of all women who need birth control pills for this problem is very, very small. Probably at least 99% of all women who want the government and all insurance companies to provide them with birth control pills want them for one reason: Because they want to be able to have sex outside of marriage without getting pregnant. Do YOU sympathize with that? Because that is the truth they don't want to tell you.

Linda Robertson| 3.11.12 @ 11:01PM

Please provide your medical credentials.

Jerome from Layton| 3.8.12 @ 1:39AM

I guess Rush found out what happens when he accurately described Barbara Boxer's 25 cent friend. He got hit over the head with a bag full of quarters!

TGetReal| 3.8.12 @ 6:57AM

I guess more of that CHANGE. Well I call that a promise kept then. If our President was as focused on bringing jobs back, as he was satisfying the most liberal of his base with every social dream they could imagine coming true we would probably be sitting at 5% percent unemployment.
Going on 4 years and he has been working on health care for 2 years and less and less people are a happy with it. Yet instead of addressing those concerns, he thought it would be better to piss a bunch of people off by creating more law from the executive branch, to spend even more tax payer money, for no PROVEN medical benefit. Not even Bill went so far for so little gain.

Traci V| 3.8.12 @ 10:50AM

Thanks so much for including the contact information for the advertisers. I'd like to add that those who own websites and blogs that run Adsense can take it a step further - specifically BLOCK those same businesses (Carbonite and the like) from advertising on YOUR site. If you are an affiliate for any of these businesses, you can also stop promoting them as an affiliate. If enough folks do this, perhaps we can sting them in the wallet.

Julia Gordon| 3.8.12 @ 7:20PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slander
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....plpp_video

Julia Gordon| 3.8.12 @ 7:29PM

Limbaugh's transcript over 3 three days:

February 29, 2012:

“Susan Fluke … so much sex she can’t afford her own birth control pills.

“so much sex she can’t afford her own birth control pills

“$1000/yr for sex and she wants us to pay for it”

“too expensive to have sex in law school w/o mandated insurance coverage

college

“co-ed Sandra Fluke goes before a congressional committee and essentially says she must be paid to have sex. What does that make her?

“it makes her a slut right?

“it makes her a prostitute”

“she wants to be paid to have sex

“shes having so much sex she cant afford the contraception

“co-eds are having so much sex that its hard to make ends meet

“they’re admitting before a congressional committee they’re having so much sex they can't afford the Birth Control pills.

“”Susan Flake, Fluke … one of the butt sisters.

“well I guess we know why bill Clinton went to Georgetown

“Susan Fluke. So much sex going on they cant afford birth control pills. She said that to Nancy Pelosi yesterday

March 1, 2012:

“Susan, Sandra fluke whatever he name is, the Georgetown student who went before a Congressional Committee and said shes having so much sex shes going broke buying contraceptives.

“what would u call someone who wants us to pay for her to have sex ? what would you call that woman? You’d call ‘em a slut … a prostitute ..

“so much sex at Georgetown! …

“sex-crazed co eds going broke buying Birth Control

“having so much sex that they are going broke.

“what would you call that? So I called it what it is.

“they wanna have sex anytime with as many partners as whatever. There’s no limits on this.

“they’re going broke

“sexual habits of female law students @ Georgetown

“women in her law school program are having so much sex ..so..much…sex

“Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke said that its too expensive to have sex in law school

“4 out of every 10 coeds are having so much sex it’s hard to make ends meet if they have to pay for their own contraception

“the personal sexual desires and habits of everybody including women at Georgetown law

“the poor babes have to buy their own pills

“it’s $1000 a year for sex that she wants us to pay for. Now what does that make her?

“She wants us to buy her sex

“She wants us to pay for her sex

“Where do you think the insurance companies forced to cover this cost get the money to pay for these coeds to have sex ?”

“She and her coed classmates are having sex three times a day for 3 years straight

“Random hook-ups that these babes are encountering here … having sex nearly 3 times a day.

“wah wah wah (crying sound) I’m going broke having sex

“asking..for…us…to…pay..for..the…things…that..make…it…possible…for…her…to have sex…therefore we are paying…her…for having sex

“We are getting screwed. Even though we don’t meet her personally, what would you call this?

“Ms Fluke have you ever heard of NOT having sex?

Have you ever heard of not having sex so often?

“Ms 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. And I’ll tell you what it is. We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch.

“If we’re gonna have to pay for this, then we want something in return, Ms. Fluke, and that would be the videos of this sex posted online so we can see.

“What did I say. I said, if we are paying for this, it makes these women sluts, prostitutes, what else could it be?

“ She essentially says she must be paid to have sex. What does that make her…it makes her a slut right? I makes her a prostitute.

“Ms Fluke, who bought your condoms in Junior High?

“Who bought your condoms in the 6th grade?

“Or contraception. Who bought your BC pills in High School?

“Wouldn’t be just as likely to go broke in High School and Junior High as you would in college?

“She’s having so much sex it’s amazing she can still walk.”

“Maybe they’re sex addicts.”

“We’re talking sex addict frequency here.”

“This woman who wants unlimited, no responsibility, no consequences sex”

March 3, 2012

“. She’s having so much sex, she can’t afford her Birth Control pills anymore.

“Women at Georgetown are having much sex they cant afford Birth Control

“Her name is Sandra Fluke, She’s having so much sex, she can’t pay for it.

“She’s having so much. … She gives the numbers! Three thousands dollars worth of Birth Control pills worth of sex.

“The woman comes forward with this frankly hilarious claim that she’s having so much sex (and her buddies with her) that she cant afford it

“Not one person says ‘well you ever think that maybe backing off the amount of sex you have?

“Her sex life, and by her own admission, is quite active

“It was Sandra Fluke who said she was having so much sex she cant afford it

“Sandra Fluke is having so much sex she can’t afford it. She’s going broke

“They’re having a lot of sex for which they need a lot of contraception.

“Her sex life is active. She’s having sex so frequently she cannot afford all BC pills that she needs. That’s what she’s saing.”

“Does have more boyfriends? HA, they’re lined up around the block!

Julia Gordon| 3.8.12 @ 7:44PM

Just one question: does the above look like "two words"?

Kayla| 3.10.12 @ 3:30PM

The two words at issue are "slut" and prostitute." That is what the left is up in arms about, not the fact that Rush addressed her testimony. In any event, would you really prefer it if he had just called her a slut and a prostitute and then left it at that? Would that really have been better? He put his comments about her into proper context and laid out his argument for them, to his credit.

Linda Robertson| 3.11.12 @ 11:05PM

Yes, Kayla, there are far more than two words listed abovc. Why are you so devoid of emotion when a woman is verbally slaughtered?

ealing207| 3.9.12 @ 7:34AM

Like Salieri in the film "Amadeus", Ms. Fluke is the patron saint of mediocracies. hopefully this reference will not unnerve Mr. Friend. What I suspect will really unnerve him is a declining subscription model. One thing I will say for the company - its very easy to cancel! 5 personal accounts and 1 business vaporized in a matter of 10 minutes...

Susan| 3.9.12 @ 10:06AM

Thanks for doing the legwork with contact info for the above companies, some of whom I patronized in the past. I sent messages to all of them indicating my support for rush and my disappointment and refusal to deal with any of them in the future.

DELIA| 3.10.12 @ 12:37PM

haahaaaa funny article in fact very funny

Linda Robertson| 3.11.12 @ 10:58PM

But isn't Mr. Limbuagh the ultimate thug and bully? How can anyone defend his reprehensible speech and behavior? How can you stand by him? What he does is just plain wrong on so many levels. He hurts and humiliates people on a daily basis.
I guess we'll see how the population really feels in November.

Peter| 3.15.12 @ 11:19AM

Thank you.
The left in your country are an evil and un-principled group. Fortunately the moderates are finally rising up, and this is in no small measure due to the likes of your paper and Fox news.
Keep up the good work.

Peter| 3.15.12 @ 11:38AM

Maybe the country should start boycotting much of Hollywood's drivel.
So many of the movies have subtle, and somtimes not so subtle anti conservative messgages, in the dialogue or in the background.
Cheers.

Dr. H.R. Goetting| 3.17.12 @ 5:52PM

OMG!! A new moral map for America.
The entire 310 million Americans will be forcefully deported (Thank you) into two narrow but roughly rectangular territories - walled, fenced, blockaded and road-blocked!
Let’s do a thought experiment! Why? Come to think of it: The majority of U.S. congressional ass-lickers of Israel pressure Obama towards military action confronting Iran. Netanyahu’s pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC staged a coup once again to line-up the American government into fighting a proxy war of aggression, this time against Israel’s bitter enemy Iran.
For the brown-noser American public it is too late to implement less corrupt U.S. governance, but who will be expert at regime change and in redrawing the American map?
American conspiracy theorists will feel baffled when their country is taken over by an international army under command of the U.N. and the entire 310 million Americans are forcefully deported into two narrow but roughly rectangular territories - walled, fenced, blockaded and road-blocked! What will America look like broken up into a duo of stripe-states? Pretty much like the divided two parts of Palestine look, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip! This break-up will make the two American stripes ready for the 22nd century, when small will be the new big. The new great divide in the American way of life!
America is coming apart on a moral map. Smaller-is-better and stripes are fashionable in these meager recession-times. The Northern American stripe will be wedged between Canada and the former U.S. of A., and the Southern American stripe borders Mexico. In my map of meta-cartographic quality, the Northern and Southern stripes resemble on closer inspection two XX-Long worm-like voting districts in racially segregated America, where everyone votes on ethnic lines. The voting results are usually falsified and the election winner is decided by a corrupt U.S. Supreme Court.
In a reference to Obama’s African heritage, the two attractive American stripes look strikingly similar to the two narrow banks along the Gambia River in West Africa which make up the state of Gambia, with breeding grounds for swarms of flies, which keep fly-Terminator Obama busy one blow at a time.
The world’s population is ready to violate America’s most basic right in the name of fighting U.S. terrorism! All weapons in American will be confiscated, including those of state militias, turning the American stripes into two pitiful archipelagoes of defenselessness.
Listen-up people in Texas, you all have caught up with realities of modern life and made it legal to have sex w/ a farm animal, BUT: no state can reserve the right to secede from the two stripes, because states no longer exist! As if by a dictate from God the separation into stripes will help ease tensions between the North and the South of bygone America!
Just as ’liberal’ Americans claim that Palestinians don’t need their own state; my outside-the-ordinary map suggest that a Northern and a Southern stripe will do for Yankees!
Watch towers, barbed wire and gunner positions will make it more palatable for Americans to perfect the art of sitting it out in the stripes during the next two centuries. They will be sentenced to 200 years inside the American stripes for pulling off their enormous offenses worldwide. The sentence is warranted by the extraordinary dimensions of their crimes.
It‘s time for retribution, not reflection, and the very act of deportation, however violent, will be seen by the non-American world-population as purely defensive. No more bombing of other countries Americans cannot pronounce and cannot find on a map! The stripes will be the geo-political punishment for dozens of wars of aggression, global espionage at universities and for causing the world financial system to collapse under the American Ponzi-debt. This debt was built up by decades of American addiction to debt, of no-money-down home-loans and shopping on credit-cards only. Americans borrow from Peter to pay Paul; they borrow from China to pay the interest on their loans from Japan and Korea and Russia!
Along the roughly 4.000 mile border with Canada, 155 million Americans or half of the U.S. population will need only a 3.5-mile wide stripe to live with a population density of 4.270 Americans per square kilometer, comparable to the Palestinian population density in the Gaza Strip! Along the 2.200 miles of the
Mexican border a less than 7-mile wide stripe will be sufficient for the other half of the Americans at an equal population density.
Bridges to Nowhere.
Revenge is never a straight line and therefore the stripe’s barriers will be made of huge metal plates and concrete walls with barbed wire on top. Thousands of U.N. border guards from Afghanistan, Algeria, China, Cuba, Gaza, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen will be deployed along the entire stretch of the borders.
The world loves America so much that everyone will be happy to see two stripped down Americas. The humanitarian situation in the two American stripes inside tent cities with no running water, no sewers or electricity and not enough to eat for the coming ten generations will be exactly as it should be. Human Rights Watch will certainly negotiate on American behalf that neither Canada nor Mexico will fire too many white phosphorus hate-fireworks into the densely populated American stripes and turn them into ashtrays.
Overt displays of misplaced patriotism with the old gory American flag will not be tolerated and might be avenged by torturous waterboarding, because the country is no longer theirs. Only flags wrapped around XX-Tall dunce hats of a new design with two stars for the two American stripes will be permitted! As a symbol the two-star flag represents lost sovereignty of the Americans run off their former country - not unlike American Indians who were concentrated at gunpoint into reservations in the awful history of America!
Have you heard? Everyone's favorite duo of America-stripes has gotten new names! Giving way to America’s love for acronyms, ugly U.S.A. has been stripped down and re-initialized into N.A.S.T.Y.-A.S.S.: "Northern American Stripe Territory" and "American Southern Stripe". The new America - the can't-do nation!
In my what-if story of a world seeking justice, a shove to history has been made, bringing an end to pro-American propaganda from every movie screen: A preventive regime change for the U.S., a new drawn map, a new designed flag and a new name for America! Let’s be a bit recession-tightfisted and make the Americans re-use the evil lyrics of their old national anthem. Why? Because the ’star-spangled banner’ is all about bombs and war and bloodshed - values commonly associated with Americans!
No more revisionist interpretations of American history necessary! That‘s the end of American history as the world has known it – built on a foundation of native American gravestones! No more violent demonstrations with burning U.S. flags and signs reading "Death to America!" Two-star dunce hats and T-shirts with N.A.S.T.Y.-A.S.S. America imprints will be the new fashion manifestation at demonstrations around the globe, bringing disgrace and shame to the ass-lickers in America!
And what will happen to the worldwide victims of American aggression and Ponzi-debt? The U.N. will declare to seize power in America, exert its claim to rule America and will entitle the victims to claim ownership of America. The victims are promised by the U.N. to live happily forever on their free land for the taking - in the apartments, houses and backyards of the expelled Americans!
The new owners of America will also build new settlements on hilltops with million dollar views - inside the American stripes of course! The new
stripe-settlers are entitled by the U.N. to 80% of the drinking water in the A.S.S., the arid American Southern Stripe – the remaining 20% water shall trickle down to the Stripe-Americans! Americans take notice: criticizing the expanding settlements into the American stripes will not be helpful at all if the expelled Stripe-Americans fantasize about a peace process with the new owners of America!
Every journey begins with the first step! It’s going to be a long march through poverty and misery into the sorrow of the American-Stripes, comparable to Mao Tse Tung’s long march into the caves of Northern China in the 1940s! But let’s come back to Iran and Palestine and America’s unsurpassed prejudice and its foul spittle spraying the air with white phosphorous hate!
Who is the author of the thought experiment? I am trained in the analysis of arcane satellite images! I am an Enemy of the State! I have been a long-term illegal alien on American soil! I am an investigative citizen-journalist with an accidental C.I.A. background! I am pulling a chair up to a global debate!

Dr. H.R. Goetting| 3.17.12 @ 5:53PM

Every John Wiley & Sons Inc. textbook bears the chill of a torture whip on the back of a kidnapped victim in a secret C.I.A. jail!
Bring me the scalp of CIA Contractor John Wiley & Sons!
US book publisher John Wiley & Sons spies on employees w/ C.I.A. methods; nobody controls the dirty spy merchant cum science publisher John Wiley & Sons!
Is the criminal versatile John Wiley & Sons publishing empire violating the right to privacy in the workplace under U.S. Constitution’s 4th Amendment as well as Chinese and EU privacy laws?
Yes, John Wiley & Sons (SOPA, PIPA, ACTA shark) commits felonies by secretly listening on employee conversations at the workplace. John Wiley & Sons culture is a fangs-out, snoop-snoop-snoop culture. This nightmare is aided and abetted by Chairman Peter Booth Wiley and his entourage, who engage vulnerable employees in the literary equivalent of trench warfare. The smoldering banality of evil by Chairman Peter Booth Wiley creates a ridiculous public-relations disaster for himself and ruinous consequences for John Wiley & Sons.
Wiley, Rest in Peace!
John Wiley & Sons treats his national and international subsidiaries like sweatshops. The magnitude of information John Wiley & Sons has available about each of its employees for discriminatory practices must be enough to create digital Doppelgangers of their employees.
“….” quotes from Chairman Peter Booth Wiley.
Private spy companies such as SPOKEO and STRATFOR provide John Wiley & Sons with any information imaginably:
John Wiley & Sons is raising “legitimate” questions about political leanings of employees;
A priority question for John Wiley & Sons is if there are employees who act as civil rights activists, or worse as socialists;
"Through an American security contractor we collect fingerprints from overseas employees"
John Wiley & Sons has to know their employees entire job history;
"... Details about the past five employers..."
John Wiley & Sons insists on surveillance of Muslim and Arab employees;
"… Migration background and country of origin..."
John Wiley & Sons must know in which year employees bought (or lost) a house; "... Reported income and expenses..."
John Wiley & Sons assess guilt by association and must know what their employees do on social networks and what they talk about;
Vital security information for John Wiley & Sons covers what books or magazines employees read and what brand of coffee they drink;
"…Travel destinations for the past five years..."
John Wiley & Sons’ “constitutional” warrantless surveillance includes
1) On moral grounds the sexual relationships employees have and
2) On puritanical grounds coverage if they got divorced and
3) On religious grounds if female employees had or were seeking an abortion;
John Wiley & Sons checks if employees ever declared bankruptcy;
John Wiley & Sons analyzes “appropriate” leads on traffic tickets and how many cars their employees have;
John Wiley & Sons has employee information compiled from questionable sources on criminal history;
John Wiley & Sons record-keeping includes employees’ dieting habits;
‘Must know’ for John Wiley & Sons are depression or addiction history of employees;
”…Medical records indicating ant trouble…”
John Wiley & Sons researches if taking pills for recreational purposes leads to criminal activity of its employees.
John Wiley & Sons predictive analytics team makes sense of the demographic data to figure out how John Wiley & Sons employees might think and behave and to hire and fire or demote and promote.
"I have this information put together as soon as we acquire a new company." "…That’s in violation of the privacy laws but improves our security..."
John Wiley & Sons snooping is pretty much in line with IKEA’s snooping on its employees in France.
There are no laws in the U.S. to tell employees what information John Wiley & Sons has bought about them – and the espionazis at John Wiley & Sons have no shame using the flood tide of spy-data.
To write my strange memoir about criminal secrets, I worked for eighteen months at John Wiley & Sons’ San Francisco archive, located in Chairman Peter Booth Wiley’s office. After eighteen months of interviews with Chairman Peter Booth Wiley, the quotes from him were a big pile of unorganized papers in a shoe-box containing only my hand-scribbled notes before I edited the straight dope and made it ready for a good-experience publication. To use some words of novelist Curtis Sittenfeld: I might be guilty for the intrusive nature of what I am telling, but every single thing in my investigation is plausible!
I selectively report word by word what I had penciled down during the intimate ‘interviews’, in which he had a penchant for screaming at me. I also played the devil’s advocate by brainstorming and debating the tongue wagging of Chairman Peter Booth Wiley. I gave his nonfiction words satirical interpretations and use the method of dramatizing and narrating by being as bad as I wanna be! My sarcastic undertones fall under the protection of the First Amendment. It’s a new kind of investigative journalism, where obsolete rules where thrown out. I use an intermediate standard for publishing, since the quotes from Chairman Peter Booth Wiley do not lend themselves to firm corroboration.
Should I fact-check my ‘Deep-Throat’ with U.S. authorities?
Today the position of no-good-for-anything Chairman Peter Booth Wiley is: drag me to court, admit nothing, deny everything, and make counteraccusations.
As editor I was not only participant in reconstructing and the artful arrangement of the conversations, its perverse drama of unwanted soap opera homo-sex (there was no DSK-button in his office) and the Chairman’s alcoholism, but also commentator to turn John Wiley & Sons’ ugly history into sophisticated literary journalism. Any reader would have come up with the same interpretation had it been his investigation based on interviews, in which he tried to get answers from Chairman-no-shame Peter Booth Wiley.
Find out the story behind the story: Black-ops textbook publisher John Wiley & Sons is snooping with Orwellian intelligence methods on its own employees. No matter what the human cost, greed rules at John Wiley & Sons. Quote from Chairman Peter Booth Wiley’s Mission Statement: "We can intercept telephone conversations, supervise e-mail messages and get through a contractor banking information". Daddy Wiley & his son Peter Booth Wiley created a toxic and destructive environment as John Wiley & Sons has ever seen it!
Demagogue & Chairman Peter Booth Wiley thinks rules do not apply to a spy merchant. For him profit means more than to the meanest whore; what Peter Booth Wiley, craving for power with the eyes of a herring on ice, cannot buy the misanthrope in a flesh-presser’s position steals.
The self-proclaimed “fifth and sixth” Wiley generations at John Wiley & Sons were hunting - unprecedented - for in-house employee dissidents at John Wiley & Sons’ NYC offices in the 1960s. "I secretly searched through offices; my daddy had a contractor monitor homes when necessary". Daddy W. Bradford Wiley was blessed with social-Darwinist brutishness; yet he became paranoid about his stock grubbing critics among John Wiley & Sons employees.
Why?
"My daddy’s branch of the family was so far removed from the line of inheritance [at John Wiley & Sons Inc.] that all he got was the name Wiley" said the privileged son of an unprivileged son while crossing and recrossing his legs. Daddy Wiley’s attachment to the heirs of John Wiley & Sons was not ‘real’, theirs was not his blood; he was a model of self-creation.
Daddy Wiley had grown up in a rural New Jersey two-room house with concrete walls and an outdoor latrine shared with a trailer park next door. But power-hungry ‘Jackpot Daddy’ would expertly and efficiently enriched himself in Glimmerglass New York City with twenty percent of John Wiley & Sons shares, which he grabbed from legitimate John Wiley & Sons Inc. shareholders. These were Daddy Wiley’s high-times of cream and dumplings - while shamelessly breaking wind.
Crime pays fabulously in America!
This mundane reality explains why ‘Daddy Wiley’, before his forced retirement, was beggaring the career chances of John Wiley & Sons’ key employees with fat dossiers. "Our employee monitoring system pays instant results up to this day were we use more sophisticated methods". John Wiley & Sons has become a human-rights crushing industrial publishing machine.
With serious educational deficits, Chairman Peter Booth Wiley and his low-IQ siblings are not the cream of educated society. Besides being ‘out of the labor force’, the best low-skill service job Peter Booth Wiley ever a got on his own was as a ‘less-than-full-time’ taxi driver. The Wiley siblings’ stupidity is not staged. Daddy Wiley, for good reasons, had explicitly forbidden his two sons to work at John Wiley & Sons!
Don’t ridicule the sons-of-a-spy whose family has had to share an outdoor latrine w/ a trailer park.
One of the siblings (the fourth of three siblings) is a degenerated idiot and was kicked out from college, because failure for him is not only an option but a habit. He is unable to compose a comprehensible sentence. Befitting for a member on the board of directors at John Wiley & Sons, his writing skills are at the low end of public-school curriculum; his trembling hand produces scores of misspellings – unless, for example, he signs with an X.
Childless sibling/director Bradford Wiley II was eligible for America’s Eugenic Board sterilization program, where genetic engineering was applied between the years 1933 [when Hitler came to power in Germany; he abdicated w/ a bullet to the head in 1945] and 1977. America’s ‘Human Betterment League’ of wealthy businessmen such as ‘Daddy Wiley’ financed the eugenics program and 70 percent of the sterilizations took place after 1945.
The other two fertile Wiley brother/sister academic Wunderkinder of rather low mentality were left unfairly behind by "rising academic standards" and graduated only because of the generous donations made by their "Daddy". In short, they are all blissfully detached from academic standards.
The Wiley country-bums [Bootleggers for Generations] from a bad place in New Jersey were just very distant relatives to the New Yorker publishing family Wiley [Knowledge for Generations]. According to the Chairman, the reason why the bootlegger Wiley clan was able to grab & keep control of the publisher John Wiley & Sons lies in the bootlegger family’s “small gene pool”. Or shall we say the bootlegger Wiley clan is the unlucky winner in the genetic lottery for an extremely “small gene pool”? Certainly there is a moral leprosy built into the DNA of the bootlegger Wiley clan. Although the Chairman never mentioned incest for the “small gene pool” of his bootlegger clan, he didn’t rule it out!
But that is not all: "My ancestors were British royals" said the uncrowned king of a.s.s.e.s and pointed to some drawings of ‘royals’ on the walls of his San Francisco home. The aging paranoid Chairman wants out of his inferior criminal underclass identity. What he wants is a fake entrée into aristocracy and identify with royals. Or did Chairman Peter Booth Wiley mistake his bootlegger family tree with the restroom doors in Disneyland royally marked ‘Prince‘ and ‘Princess‘?
Chairman-wannabe-royal Peter Booth Wiley was dragged up by rude, unpleasant, psychopathic parents of criminal origins - so let’s just say faux royals! Peter Booth Wiley might be as p.e.r.v.e.r.s.e as some British royals, but this is as far as royal British relations go. Maybe Peter Booth Wiley, the pinstriped effluence from an ex-bootlegger family, had a royal s.y.p.h.i.l.i.s? Signaling the depth of his longings for a blue-blooded ancestry, Chairman Peter Booth Wiley, who smelled vaguely fishy, scratched his from blue h.e.m.o.r.r.h.o.i.d.s ridden royal rear end with a long sigh of relief again and again and again!
Anyone can be blue blooded in America.
That’s America’s exceptionalism!
But let’s come back to John Wiley & Sons. Electronic stalking of employees with Global Positioning System tracking boxes replaced Daddy Wiley’s monitoring of homes. GPS is a common corporate tool in America and turn U.S. workers lives into the proverbial open book.
Surveillance will get even better in America come 2015, when privately operated drones can fly the US skies under new Federal Aviation Agency law. This will allow John Wiley & Sons’ SWAT team to celebrate aerial spying on employees with state-of-the-art routine monitoring practices. ‘Daddy Wiley’ will roll over in his grave with satisfaction, worrying a little less about ‘criminal’ employees gossiping how he got his shares in John Wiley & Sons.
Should John Wiley & Sons be held accountable for crimes against human rights, just as individuals are? The Alien Tort Statute might soon allow victims of John Wiley & Sons’ snooping to find justice in American courts.
Book readers, take the gloves off and punish the snoop-snoop-snoop perpetrators at John Wiley & Sons.
Throw a monkey-wrench into their Gutenberg press.
"And they conspire to silence us" — Rainer Maria Rilke
Appalled by what you've read, silence is not an option

Mason| 3.18.12 @ 6:06PM

I guess the author needs some fundamentals pointed out to him.
These companies were exercising their Free Speech, and also their rights as companies to act in their best interests, by pulling away from an economic and social liability-- a.ka. Rush Limbaugh.
And the fact that the author spent how many words defending Rush and nary one on appropriately pointing out his vicious, misogynistic personal attacks-- which got way off the original issue and became hideous viciousness for the sake of hideous vuciousness-- makes the author an absolutely clueless bottom feeder.