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Wag the Coed

By Ron Ross on 3.7.12 @ 6:07AM

This whole bizarre episode demonstrates just how desperate the Democrats are.

The world is spinning out of control and the spin rate is accelerating.

Having to pay for your own contraceptives has suddenly become a national crisis. In one way it is beyond belief and in another it is totally predictable.

Sandra Fluke, a third-year law student at Georgetown law school, in testimony before a congressional committee argued that she and forty percent of her fellow students are “struggling financially” because they have to pay for their own contraceptives.

The Democrat-media complex, rather than laughing in her face, is making Ms. Fluke a hero. She even got a phone call from President Obama urging her on.

How did we get to this point? Birth control is not a significant budget item. Recreational sex is not a necessity. Sex with contraceptives is not imperative for survival of the species.

If the cost of contraceptives is straining Ms. Fluke’s budget I have some simple suggestions, ones she may have even considered herself. For example, why not ask your sexual partners to share the expense? As a liberated woman I assume you don’t always expect them to pay for dinner. Besides you, your sexual partners are the primary beneficiaries of your intimacies. You’re obviously not too timid to broach the subject. Politely explain to them that from now on if they want to play they will have to pay. If you’ve ever taken an economics class you can explain to them that there’s no such thing as free sex. Sharing the cost would be a kind of “user fee.” What could be fairer than that? It’s simple voluntary exchange. Seems to me it’s a whole lot fairer than asking the rest of us to bear the expense.

The fact that contraceptives have become a hot political issue is bizarre beyond belief. Before the January 7 Republican debate in New Hampshire it was nowhere on the political horizon. In that debate moderator George Stephanopoulos badgered Mitt Romney about whether or not states have the constitutional authority to ban contraceptives. Romney was understandably befuddled by the question. In retrospect it is now clear that there was a method to the madness of Stephanopoulos’ question.

The Urban Dictionary defines “wag the dog” as follows: “When something of secondary importance improperly takes the role of primary importance.… To start a war or military operation to divert negative attention away from yourself.” President Obama cannot run on his record. His reelection team knows that. “We don’t want to talk about the economy, Obamacare, or gasoline prices. Let’s talk about contraceptives or Rush Limbaugh.” In the movie Wag the Dog the president did not start an actual war, he faked one.

Ms. Fluke has become a hero of the Democrats. For what? For whining about the tragedy of having to pay for her own contraceptives? She is the latest in a long line of pathetic people who have been used to further their despicable objectives. Ms. Fluke has allowed herself to be used as a Democrat prop. Like those who have preceded her she will soon be dumped on the land-fill of no-longer useful chumps. Cindy Sheehan and Monica Lewinsky are two names that come to mind. For the rest of her life Ms. Fluke will be known first and foremost as the woman who publicly pleaded for free contraceptives. I feel sorry for her. I’m extremely thankful that she is not my daughter. Ms. Fluke is a sad commentary on our dysfunctional educational system. Her bachelor’s degree was in “Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.” What a joke!

The controversy employs some of the favorite tactics of the Democrats, one of which is complete corruption of the language. We are told, for example, that the contraception debate is about women’s “reproductive freedom.” Is anyone on the right advocating interference with anyone’s freedom to reproduce? Isn’t what the Democrats want the prevention of reproduction? Democrats will claim all manner of bogus connections if it helps them further their agenda. If you’re against forcing insurance companies to pay for contraceptives, it’s because you’re a misogynist and you don’t care about women’s health. As Mona Charen points out, “Democrats are geniuses at muddying the waters and twisting the debate in a direction they find congenial.” If the mainstream media came within shouting distance of its responsibilities, Democrats would never get away with such absurdities.

Nevertheless, Republicans should not be discouraged. This whole bizarre episode demonstrates just how desperate the Democrats are. As the Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto says, “There seems to be wide agreement that the Sandra Fluke kerfuffle handed the left a major victory. We respectfully dissent.” Maybe the world isn’t spinning out of control.

About the Author

Ron Ross Ph.D. is an economist who lives in Arcata, California. He is the author of The Unbeatable Market. Reach him at rossecon@gmail.com.

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Mike Hawk| 3.7.12 @ 6:30AM

"Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies." Now that is a true BS degree program. I bet she did a lot of "homework"and studied every night and weekend.

PL| 3.7.12 @ 8:03AM

Where did she go to undergrad? Let's lampoon and harass that fake academic institution just like we should lampoon Georgetown U.'s law school. (C'mon, priests and Catholic officials admitting into the program a piece of excrement with THESE kinds of undergrad credentials?)

Can you imagine if she's from a lesser known college where she obtained her BA? She is now that institution's most prominent graduate.

Would Andrew Breitbart then construct glossy, full page, full color recruiting posters and ads for that academic undergraduate college/university with Ms. Fluke's ugly mug as the draw?

Folks, let's use all of this to illustrate how base, coarse, wanton, morally lost and useless higher education in America has become. So many times on these pages we've all be over this -- the morally reprobate path of our campuses is in lock step with the liberal takeover of higher education.

Seize this moment to attack the liberal education bastions of the last quarter century.

"Join Fluke and you can SlutWalk your way through four glorious years of high!er edjamakation!"

Mike Hawk| 3.7.12 @ 8:20AM

If I'm not mistaken, the twit went to Cornell.

Emily| 3.7.12 @ 8:43AM

Ditto, Mr. Ross on your articulate post!

You have expressed my thoughts exactly on this ridiculous and infuriating issue.

I don't often agree with AmSpec, but Fluke is a fool, and the Democrats should laugh at her in her face!

scotchieguy| 3.7.12 @ 9:50AM

Even worse, she got her degree at Cornell. I bet her parents are mighty proud of her. Can you imagine doling out $200.000 for that?

Occam's Tool| 3.7.12 @ 10:14AM

$200,000, scotchie. Even worse.

Dr. Ross, you are making a major assumption error: you are assuming her partners are the ones asking for sex. Even though men will tend to go to bed with anything, that is a major error to make in this case.

Take a long hard look at our girl, consider the ratios of men to women in colleges and above, and re-consider who is the instigator of sexual action here.

PolishKnight| 3.7.12 @ 11:02AM

Indeed OT. That's why I laughed at her faux indignation over the "slut" remark. Women such as this are dreading dying as childless spinsters rather than avoiding, gasp, a pregnancy caused by a rich lawyer with plenty of "child" support money!

Ralph Novy| 3.8.12 @ 2:29PM

PolishKnight:

Nothing "knightly" about your crude comment.

You should change your moniker to "PolishSlug."

PolishKnight| 3.8.12 @ 2:48PM

I've heard that before. Something to keep in mind: Medieval knights weren't the nice-guy white gloved charmers in Victorian England or portrayed in Don Quixote. I invite you to check out the film "With Fire and Sword."

SUBVET| 3.7.12 @ 10:22AM

Parrents........you say parrents just look at HER she is a product of her parrents.

All this BS about birth control it's a magic act this POS can't run on his record.....it's all about miss direction and divide. It's all in the play book Rules for Radicals.

You can sit here and blog all day about how it's unfair get your ass out there and do something. I see the same comments day after day by the same nut jobs and some who call themselves patriots....hey when the dust settles will you be able to stand up and be counted.

runningdeer| 3.8.12 @ 12:24AM

Actually it's about votes for this president. It's about polling and it concerns his health care bill. That monstrosity that he calls health care was marketed by a firm called CCMC or the communications consortium media center. Herndon alliance marketing firm. they even suggested words which would help promote the bill.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney D.N.Y., pushed for Fluke to speak in Congress and she is the one who tried to get Fluke to sue Rush after his words were said.
Malone is tied to this progressive pollster who heads up the Lake research, Celinda Lake. They have ties to Nancy Pelosi who is a client of the firm just as Maloney is.
After polls were taken to gauge the voters about birth control and the Catholics were polled more than most, in order to get reaction to contraception in insurance, with the later objective of "re-engaging " young women who haven't tuned in to the campaign, and "really irritating" independent suburban moms.
The Daily Beast ran a story today about it. They wanted to find out just who Fluke is. She got paid for her work no doubt. It's all about votes .

Seek| 3.7.12 @ 2:31PM

For the record, Ann Coulter did her undergraduate work at Cornell.

Seek=TypicalLiberal| 3.7.12 @ 2:50PM

For the record, a liberal duly noted this point as only a true liberal would.

Bubba T. | 3.7.12 @ 3:51PM

I seem to recall Ms Fluke's claim that it was costing coeds about $3,000 a year to purchase contraceptives. That's certainly lot of money, and could be difficult to come up with when your struggling through law school on a budget. Then again, if you're engaging the football, hockey AND lacrosse teams each semester, I suppose it can get a little pricey.

I wonder if the local Sam's Club Pharmacy offers students a volume discount? Might be a way to save a few bucks.

Just a thought.

xiphos| 3.7.12 @ 6:56PM

Thank you! Brought a smile to my face on a blustery day here in ILL-inois.

K| 3.8.12 @ 12:29AM

Wow. You people really have no idea how hormonal contraceptives work, do you? You use the same amount whether you have sex once or twice a week with your husband (similar to my husband and me) or if you have sex with three different men three times a day. If you're on birth control, you're on birth control - volume has nothing to do with it.

SCPOret| 3.8.12 @ 4:52PM

But she was talking about contraceptive devices, which is not hormonal contraceptive. Contraceptive devices are condoms and the cost goes up with usage.

Alan Brooks| 3.7.12 @ 5:52PM

Guess you guys aren't much interested in America's imperial overstretch, are you? Law School contraception is more important, even though it is one step removed from domestic tabloid-fodder?
Regnery and Tyrrell don't mind being Rupert Murdochs when it comes to domestic issues.

BTW, for those who are so prudish, you discuss sex-related matters a great deal.

Alan Brooks| 3.7.12 @ 5:55PM

...and don't say you are not prudes; if you aren't prudes, then Hugh Hefner isn't-- or wasn't-- a partier.

beebop2| 3.7.12 @ 6:42AM

As a reformed demobrat who was in college during the original feminist movement, the silence from the folks who marched and protested for the right to be the masters of our own future should be telling. Sandra Fluke is an embarrassment. Things must be worse then we believe when it comes to the future of the dependent party.

PolishKnight| 3.7.12 @ 10:42AM

Beebop2, while there were "nice" feminists who marched in the 60's for "true" equality, even back then it was apparent that these women were products of chivalrous patronage rather than rebelling against it. They usually came from well-to-do families and while they pridefully slapped down their share of the dinner check (down to the penny, not one more!) they quietly turned around after graduating and sought out "Biff" the football player CEO to support them.

As soon as the ratio of co-eds to men were high enough in universities along with affirmative action around the early 80's or so, most co-eds dropped the pretense of equality altogether and became hyper traditional: They required society and men to handhold them in order to be "equals" while simultaneously embracing sexism where it suited them.

This aging co-ed is not the exception, she's the rule and largely has been. Most women didn't want "equality" when it meant giving up lifeboat seats or paying their way.

Feminism is, and always has been, female selfishness at best and man-hating at worst.

Appleby| 3.7.12 @ 7:07PM

Um, not all of us, brother. Some of us breathed a sigh of relief that finally we could rent an apartment (or even a musical instrument) without a man's co-signature; that we could get credit in our own names; that our incomes counted toward a mortgage; that we could be paid the same wages as men for doing the same work -- and in fact were allowed to DO the same work (Hello, Sally Ride) and that it was nobody's darned business at the hotels where we stayed alone whether we were Mrs. or Miss. (I was especially glad when the clerks quit shouting, "Okay, Miss, your room is 302, right across from the elevators!")

When my Dad and I took a cruise together in 1989, right after I had bludgeoned American Express into finally giving me a charge card in my name, we stopped at a hotel in Seattle the night before embarking, and the flustered clerk mistook me for Arm Candy and asked if "you and your husband" wanted one bed or two! I told him that my FATHER and I wanted two beds, please. These days when I am out on an assignment and share a room with my photographer(s) to save money, nobody bats an eye asking "One bed or two?". That's what the original Feminists wanted; that's what we got. Some of us were happy to stop there. Unfortunately feminism is like unions; it served a good purpose and then refused to wither away.

runningdeer| 3.8.12 @ 12:34AM

Well said.
The feminist movement of the 60's probably caused more depression and divorce than anything in history . The commercials that showed the pretty women with perfect hair and full make up and heels who could bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan, and never , never , never let him forget he was a man. I can tell you it was hell! To live through the 50's and learn that you were feminine and how to be a good woman and want to be a wife and mother , only to have these women from colleges and commercials show you that it was all supposed to be a lie. You could not be happy. Your husband must be a monster for expecting you to be happy by being a wife that stayed home and took care of him and the kids. So there you have the husband thinking may be they are right? It was a pure hot mess!

PolishKnight| 3.8.12 @ 12:02PM

It still is a mess. The mass media is full of images showing women getting $2000 prada handbags and shoes to teenage girls with $50 "mad money" from their fathers. All women should get to be astronauts (see above) or CEO jobs with jet planes and if they choose to suffer and marry, it will be a rich guy who also is traditional and gives her gold bricks and diamonds for breakfast.

At the same time, these women are taught that men are disposable (should give up their lifeboat seat otherwise they're a cad) and should not say or do anything wrong towards them BUT grrl power says they can hit men for a joke and not get hit back, curse like a sailor, and generally act badly and if they kill a baby, well, maybe they'll go to jail or not.

It's like Ted Bundy in a dress.

The sad part is that they're not happy. They're often miserable and paranoid wondering if men are selfish (because they understand that emotion quite well). Ironically, the happiest ones are usually those whose parents have not spoiled them rotten and they are rarer in this culture. The phrase American woman has become synonymous with American car.

PolishKnight| 3.8.12 @ 11:56AM

One step forward, two steps back Appleby.

Sure, for women who don't want a husband to have to get them an Amex card, hate being called Miss, or want to become lesbians then feminism has been great. The problem as you say is that it went too far but by definition any movement that forces the needs of a few "liberated" women onto the whole population is going to go too far.

In the meantime, the rest of us have had to pay for those benefits for you in blood. Lower wages as women flooded the workplace, higher taxes to deal with welfare mothers who are unable to find a breadwinner, higher crime, increased political support for anti-American racist leftism, the list goes on. And in the long run, the average heterosexual woman who wants to get married doesn't really double dip anyway since if men's wages are lowered overall, her higher one then is a liability as she has to, gasp, either marry down or settle for a loser who merely earns the same as she does. (I know some women who earn the same as their husband and most of them gripe that he's lazy and unamibitious. I refer to these women as am-bitchious.

So what's really been gained then? You getting the Amex card? Do you realize how selfish and materialistic that makes you appear? And I laughed at the Sally Ride comment. Due to affirmative action to make women "equal" in the workplace, it raises doubts about all of your accomplishments. I was going to make a rather vulger, well, Rush like comment about what else could be put into space but I'll refrain. I'm sure you can guess what I could say.

In the meantime, while you pursued Amex cards or women chased after dreams of becoming an astronaut (which is about as useful as a 19 year old girl going to Hollywood to become a star), we have men here who are like Taliban suicide bombers who proudly proclaimed they would happily drown rather than take a lifeboat seat from a woman. So BOTH of you are nuts as far as I'm concerned.

Going to hotels with your father is kind of weird. It's classic spinsterdom and this is not healthy for women in general. Shouldn't a father want a daughter who can go out and have healthy sexual relationships with men and start families if possible? So your lifestyle is not that far off from unwed mothers or lesbians so naturally it went "too far." How could it not?

mmercier| 3.9.12 @ 9:12AM

abortion was invented by men, for men's convience.

it is easier to kill the spalpeen than feed it for a decade.

Nancy in NC| 3.7.12 @ 6:43AM

This article points out how pathetic this whole agenda really is. We need to take note and start using is as an item of derision instead of taking it seriously.

Byron| 3.7.12 @ 10:53AM

I agree. This is completely random. It is nonsense to pick some group, pick some consumable and then make an argument that another group should pay for this consumable. There is no logical, emotional, economic or legal reason to propose this.

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 3.7.12 @ 6:44AM

One thing in your article should be changed. You pointed out that Ms. Fluke "has allowed herself to be used as a Democratic prop."

The truth more likely is she has been preparing for this for months. The strategy was probably cooked up last year and unleashed by Stephanopoulos right on cue.

Timothy L. Pennell| 3.7.12 @ 7:20AM

I actually read on the New York Post's Editorial Page that, this THING, actually has stated that she enrolled at Georgetown, for the purpose of fighting for the inclusion of Free Abortion/Contraceptives/Abortifacients in to their Student health Care.

Look it up.

Have Faith. Gasoline Prices/No Jobs/Riots in the Streets/and the Middle East on fire, will put an end to this Nightmare that is HUSSEIN.

Mark me words.

evinrude| 3.7.12 @ 7:47AM

Agreed Mr. Pennell. But nobody in this White House administration, Congress, or any other government entity that currently bankrupts us all admitted this academic licentious, mouthy poser to Georgetown University Law School.

Catholic standards in higher education? Rigorous application requirements? A statement of faith and moral values as part of the entry requirements? (some demonstrated good moral activities like church youth work or a short-term missionary service as prerequisites for admission?)

So, yes, while we will remove BHO from the Oval Office, how much more work we have to accomplish in this entire country and culture when we also have to alter? an entire society (to include institutional Catholic Jesuits!).

Just removing B.odyO.dor won't remove the many little bodyodors that aim to drag us forever into the abyss.

We've got to have a much more comprehensive -- "resilient?" (who used that word?) program to erase 50 years of American moral turpitude to right this ship.

Bruce| 3.7.12 @ 8:45AM

I wonder why Ms. Fluke didn't try this at someplace like Brigham Young University?

Todd S| 3.7.12 @ 10:06AM

Liberal feminazi whores need not apply to BYU

Russel| 3.7.12 @ 9:15AM

Who knows what she has been promised in return for this travesty , but they're banking the female voter will buy it . Women voters would put them within striking distance of re-election . Hey , they're experts at throwing downright anything at the wall .

CrackerHound| 3.7.12 @ 11:03AM

Russel, Democrats don't need to be experts at anything. All they need to do is throw anything out there and the MSM will do the rest. Republicans (unfortunately) are too incompetent and worried more about their personal careers to mount an effective counter attack.

The Tea Party and Andrew Brietbart are dead and we are all screwed.

michigander_sandusky| 3.7.12 @ 6:13PM

CrackerHound: You make a valid point, but with all due respect I believe you miss one important parameter in the equation. The MSM would not have such success with this nonsense if so many Americans weren't stupid/ignorant enough to believe it. Sadly an increasing number of Americans are easily fooled. I'm very fearful these dolts cannot be reached with the truth as many today have no critical thinking skills whatsoever.

Timothy L. Pennell| 3.7.12 @ 9:25AM

Don't forget. The "Jesuits" worked with the MARXIST, all over Central and South America, thus giving birth to: Revolution Theology. And the (whatever) of Catholic Bishops has been in the pocket of the Marxist/Communist/Socialist LEFT for the last 50 Years.

When Barack Hussein Obama agreed to speak at Georgetown University, in 2009, he did so, with the DEMAND that every Christian Symbol in the Room, be REMOVED.

They were, promptly removed.

HAIL CAESER!

Evidentally, the Jesuits still cling to their LEFTIST past.

Hallelujah WhatKnot| 3.7.12 @ 11:43AM

Why doesn't Fluke ask her boyfriend(s) to wear a condom to protect her from all that messy ejaculation fluid and sperm and other repulsive ingredients (of which some are dangerous)?

Sex is sooooooo messy and soooooooo much work. "No thank you," is what I say to it all.

PoochMooch| 3.7.12 @ 11:45AM

Not to mention all that skin friction! Ouch!

Damned if I'll have sex with anybody!

Chris| 3.7.12 @ 11:55AM

The odd thing is, I suspect that Ms. Fluke is probably more interested in women. Where are her boyfriend(s) to lend their support for her noble cause? They should be on board with the free contraception thing shouldn't they? Does she have a significant other? I'm sure the media will get right on this...

Seek| 3.7.12 @ 2:34PM

Why do you assume she's obligated to bring her boyfriend or husband into this? Maybe he prefers anonymity. And if Ms. Fluke digs women, so what? Half of all women in this great country either are lezzbo, bi or bi-curious.

Seek=TypicalLiberal| 3.7.12 @ 2:53PM

Only a true liberal would comment "Half of all women in this great country either are lezzbo, bi or bi-curious."

Company Commander| 3.7.12 @ 3:21PM

Here's one damn thing for sure:

We men sho do like to see two women going at it. Lesbo porn is all I watch!

Too hot! Too hot! Too hot!

Emily| 3.7.12 @ 3:25PM

You're right, Commander, though I find it puzzling on many levels.

Indeed, straight men can't get enough of seeing two or more women having sex. Yet, so many straight men "have a problem" with gay men and women being alloted their full human rights.

Oh well. Another conundrum.

runningdeer| 3.8.12 @ 12:40AM

Where the heck do you get your ideas or statistics? Half of the women you say? I don't think so.Sometimes I think it might be that high for the men though. They seem to be more feminine now than in years past. The younger ones anyway.

Chris| 3.8.12 @ 10:58AM

Actually, I don't give a damn about Fluke or her boyfriend until she demands that I pay for her recreational sex. Then it is my business. And since Ms. fluck's sex partners also stand to benefit from this coerced largesse, perhaps they can explain why I should have to pay for their fun.
Now, you tell me, If Ms. Fluck is a lesbian, why the hell does she need contraception?
Now head back to HuffPo....

SUBVET| 3.7.12 @ 10:24AM

TLP............what end might that be........?

Timothy L. Pennell| 3.8.12 @ 6:14AM

Whatever.

As long as he's gone.

"And I saw the BEAST..........................

Appleby| 3.7.12 @ 6:48AM

I bet all the guys she has, um, befriended are sitting up in bed saying "Now just a darned minute!" Isn't it always the Girl's job to provide the contraception assuming she really wants their services?

Ms. Fluke is an Occupier, marching and Demanding, because her Mama and Daddy (if any) brought her up to believe that she could have everything she wants and somebody else can be forced to pay. In her generation she is legion, although there are a surprising number of her cohort who took a good look at what their parents did and said "No thank you" and are living the old fashioned family life and flourishing.

The most important point of this essay is that from now on Sandra Fluke will be known as "The Girl Who Wants You To Pay For Her Play." Is anybody out there looking for her sex partners to interview?

Mike Hawk| 3.7.12 @ 8:23AM

WHat if it turns out among all the other phony crap with this ditz that she doesn't like men after all. It seems as a feminist she doesn't. May she prefers women.

Al Adab| 3.7.12 @ 3:47PM

Guys,
This entire matter is a ploy, contrived by the Obama campaign to misdirect attention away from the economic and fiscal disaster the administration has created and to focus (a red herring if you will) on these "social issues" which are no issues at all. These matters will follow of their own accord once a Conservative administration is in place. They require no government action to implement anything, unlike the agenda of The Left.

We need to continue to emphasize the economic conditions and national security and avoid being detoured by non-issues sucgh as these.

BTW, is anyone else about fed up with the issues involving the site of late?

W| 3.7.12 @ 4:37PM

Al Adab
I agree. It may be fun, but it will not add one vote for us, and will probably lose votes because the Dems will use this as further evidence of the Repub "war on women." It will be played that Repubs oppose contraception, then this forces the Repubs to explain and explain. Meanwhile the economics and national security debate is lost.

Al Adab| 3.7.12 @ 6:01PM

W:
Its way past quitting time so I'm headed home, but first:
What the Left fears is that the Right, like themselves, intends to impose some social agenda through law, the courts and force. They judge our intentions by their own. Fortunately, activist Conservatism is oxymoronic and their fear is ungrounded.

However, the public at large has its doubts having watched Leftist power at work for so long. That is why all the attention to "social issues" works to Conservative disadvantage while economic issues and fiscal meltdown remains the Conservative (if not the GOP) strong suit.

Have a great evening.

Brian Mc| 3.7.12 @ 6:50AM

"Don't pay any attention to that man behind the curtain; I am the great and powerful...media!"

Pecos Pete| 3.7.12 @ 6:56AM

Doctor Ross: You wrote, "Politely explain to them that from now on if they want to play they will have to pay."

Oh boy. Better watch out as that sounds a lot like the description of a four letter word that is now verboten.

Darin| 3.7.12 @ 7:25AM

Somehow it has escaped the media's attention that requiring someone to pay for your sexual activities by definition makes you a prostitute. Rush had her pegged, as politically incorrect as it may be. But like changing the definition of marriage, the left is seeking to change the definition of prostitute (and related words).

Mike Hawk| 3.7.12 @ 8:25AM

Like Rush said, he used the wrong word. He could have used better terminology, thought the left probably would not have cared. With her degree she is probably qualified to be addressed as Madam and run a relaxation spa with all female employees.

Minuteman78| 3.7.12 @ 9:38AM

Yes, Rush got it right about (loosely) the definition of a prostitute, but wrong on slut. Sluts are girls who give it out for free. Sandra Fluke IS a prostitute: she is JUST plain NOT going to have sex unless YOU, the American public, Catholics and all, chip in your "fair share" and PAY for it!

This is beyond a joke...

DTOM| 3.7.12 @ 9:13AM

That four letter word is not "Verboten!" Laura Ingrahm was called a "slut" by Ed Schultz on his radio program and Carbonite still sponsors his show!

You have to love Limbaugh's response to the boycott - "I've got listeners, I'll just get new sponsors!" Anybody notice that yesterday Carbonite stock fell 12% while the market fell 3%? Do they think we're stupid? Especially when the Carbonite CEO claims that his (And the other advertisers' withdrawal! Was this coordinated? I bet it was!) withdrawal from advertising on Rush's show will improve the "civility of discourse. To Carbonite civility of discourse means calling conservatives "sluts" and "tea-baggers." That's civil, all right!

I have not bought a single bottle of Snapple since they quit advertising on Limbaugh's show. I already have my Sleep Number bed, but I'll stop recommending it to others until they return to Rush's show. Word of mouth advertising has always been the most potent and hard to get. That's why all the firms are getting into social media. It IS a TWO edged and ended sword, though. Make the point, people, slam the Rush boycotters and slam them hard! They have asked for it!

Ya gotta vote with whatever they give you!

Don't Tread On Me!

Mike Hawk| 3.7.12 @ 3:20PM

If all of Sgt Schultz's (Schultz really is a fat slob) listeners quit Carbonite, Carbonite would never notice. Now that Rush's listeners are dropping out, Carbonite is bug eyed. Viva la difference.

Drunken Sailor| 3.7.12 @ 2:17PM

Still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that many of those on the left proudly participated in "slut walks" yet now they are offended. Guess it was only fun when they were calling each other slut, not when it was from a male. Talk about a strawman.

PolishKnight| 3.7.12 @ 2:45PM

DS, here's the game and I have even had women friends tell me so: These women like to dress and act provocatively and even sleep around a lot to try to get a reaction from men. Then if the men observe she's acting "slutty", they switch gears and cry that he's shaming her and not respecting her. It's lucy and the football.

This is NOT new behavior. It's called "teasing." The difference between then and now is that pre-modern feminism, women looked down upon such conduct because it gave other women a bad name. Now, men are told to feel guilty that women can't be all treated as madonnas no matter what they do. That's feminism in a nutshell: Women doing as they please without responsibility or negative consequences AND a lot of conservatives buy into it.

Rush has been given a very harsh lesson. Let's hope he learned the right one.

Drunken Sailor| 3.7.12 @ 3:29PM

Ok, this is going to stir the hornets nest but here goes. I get what your saying and basically it's the same as blacks can call each other the "N" word without any issue, but nobody else can, then it's racist. Typical double standard. Got it.

PolishKnight| 3.7.12 @ 5:24PM

The N word game is about white guilt. Everytime they use it, it's like saying "Whites are guilty". It's kind of like an inverse meaning of the word. They call whites "N"'s when they use the word.

In the case of slut, this is about playing upon old fashioned chivalrous attitudes of feminine entitlement combined with modern feminist victimhood ideology. Women can go around and act like sluts to show they're equal while simultaneously crying that they're damsels in distress if men call them on it.

henry| 3.7.12 @ 7:13AM

This whole episode is not only moronic but intensely oxymoronic. "Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies." For a Bachelor’s degree. Isn’t that weird? Shouldn’t such a dedicated feminist rather demand an “old-maid’s degree”? After all, a bachelor is by definition masculine, and therefore patriarchal and sexist.
It’s just as well it wasn’t for a master’s degree. Think of the implications.

Pecos Pete| 3.7.12 @ 7:16AM

henry: Funny!

Darin| 3.7.12 @ 7:26AM

"Think of the implications." Ow, my eyes, my eyes!!

Moe Blotz| 3.7.12 @ 7:40AM

Some enlightened institution could offer courses in fishing technology with emphasis in using artificial versus live bait. On completion of the curriculum one could be called a master baiter.

Mike 3/505| 3.7.12 @ 7:57AM

Give a man a fish...and he will eat for a day.

Teach a man to fish....and he'll sit in a boat & drink beer all day.

CrackerHound| 3.7.12 @ 11:29AM

Despite the connotation... I would DEFINITELY take that class. I haven't filled my freezers in years.

Herb| 3.7.12 @ 7:47AM

To think that back in the old days a young woman went to college mainly to obtain her M.R.S. degree.

Oh, well.

Richard| 3.7.12 @ 12:27PM

Don't give them ideas.

runningdeer| 3.8.12 @ 12:48AM

She hopes to defend transgender, homosexual, and women who are discriminated or abused. That in itself shows that she is too far liberal and it probably began in early childhood. Parents, or someone close. To choose a specific field such as this means she has an agenda.

evinrude| 3.7.12 @ 7:22AM

Why did a Catholic University, Georgetown University Law School, accept her when she applied there to study with this as her undergraduate BA program?

What, has the LSAT become LBGT friendly, focused?

Bruce| 3.7.12 @ 8:49AM

Evinrude;
Having read some of the other articles about this story, you left out one very important group in your LSAT-friendly list. You forgot the "Q" after the LBGT.

Occam's Tool| 5.4.13 @ 7:19PM

Since when is Georgetown strongly religious?

And since when did a Law School demand intellectual rigor from its undergraduate students?

PL| 3.7.12 @ 7:34AM

Maybe in Washington, D.C. a person can use their (taxpayer funded) government social services provided food stamps to pay for contraception? So in her "Others pay so I can play" demented persona, I'd love to hear the snide remarks made to her by CVS Pharmacy (big chain, more like a 'all-the above' store as they do beverages, food items, toiletries, and normal drug store items) staff when she goes through the line and uses her FOOD STAMPS card to pay for this.

Never mind that someone who cannot afford contraception should not be attending a high-end, pricey law school. Is someone going to investigate how much of her student loans she wishes to also foist upon citizens who pay taxes?

Her intellectual capacity should have never ever met the the standards for what Georgetown University wants. And her undergrad credentials?

Minuteman78| 3.7.12 @ 9:51AM

Turn it around a little and you have a winning slogan for Rick Santorum. "Others pay so she can play."

Appropos, no?

Dr, X| 3.7.12 @ 7:43AM

I don't think the Democrats are "desperate" at all. That's merely self-serving, Right-wing backslapping. Actually I think the Democrats are brilliant -- in an evil, Machiavellian, manipulative way. The hard-core Left comprises at best 20% of the people in this country yet it 100% totally dominates every issue (thankfully the ONLY issue they have been unsuccessful on is gun control).

What does that say about the political Right? That the Right is stupid for allowing it to happen over and over.

When is the Right going to wake up and start playing hardball with these people? At the rate we're going, never. And after November it will be too late for this country.

RTO| 3.7.12 @ 7:52AM

Yes, Doc. X, the Right is stupid.

We have guys like John Boenher and Eric Cantor on the right, "leading?" us. Does this answer why the Right is ineffectual? (Throw in -- and then Kentucky, please throw out! -- Sin. Mitch McConnell) John McCain held the Right's banner this time 4 years ago.

This is why we lose.

loulou| 3.7.12 @ 11:49AM

BTW, Boehner and Cantor both voted against e-verify. WTF??

CrackerHound| 3.7.12 @ 11:52AM

The majority of the citizenry in this country are right of center and we are not stupid (as you point out). Our "leaders" in "con"-gress and our candidates are NOT stupid nor are they right of center. It's all a charade....it has to be.

Dems and repubs are on the same team, they just fight for control and power just like any corporation in America where the personal stakes
are high and the strong survive. Lying to your loyal followers and then stabbing them in the back is common in these high stakes games....only it's not a game anymore. All Americans who are not far left loonys are going to have to restructure their lives and get involved if we are going to survive as a republic and not have to fight our neighbors for food or live like North Koreans eventually.

If we ever get back to the Constitution and reclaim our freedoms ( a big if) we will have won only half the fight. This march to tyranny is global. Just look what is happening around the world. I see a global, communist , jihadist uprising being orchestrated by unseen hands even though we know who some of the players are.

albert constantine jr.| 3.7.12 @ 8:28AM

Interesting point, in that the left (ACORN, Planned Parenthood, etc.) almost always manages to get taxpayer funding to advance its agenda.

DTOM| 3.7.12 @ 9:16AM

al,

Their agenda is "continuing the funding!"

Victory| 3.8.12 @ 4:12PM

You nailed it!! Follow the money.

Flit Andersen| 3.14.12 @ 5:19AM

Follow the money! Ah yes! Now we get to the heart of why this young slut would out herself to the world as a pig. THE MONEY!!!!
We can next expect to see Mizz Fluke in some Gummint Dept. -- probably Justice - tormenting citizens with her version of "Social Justice" with her 6-figure salary. Forever!

PolishKnight| 3.7.12 @ 11:19AM

Dr X, when the goal is to accumulate power and pay off anyone, including corporate interests that the right makes a priority to protect, it's only a matter of time before they win. Consider crazy Dr. No's stance on illegal immigration: He wants government so small it won't even control the border but somehow thinks that letting in millions of illiterate, racist illegals who will vote for a Democrat welfare state will support that end. It's like a pacifist throwing out a welcome mat for violent invaders.

Most leftist issues are smoke and mirrors and irrelevant. They don't care about clean energy, the environment, helping the poor, etc. They just want to buy votes, while they still need votes to stay in power, and gather as much power for themselves, their party, their relatives, etc. in that order. At one time, working class white males were the foundation of the Democrat party. They'll do the same with the other non-white special interest groups when the time comes. Look at how South America functions as a model for how the Democrats will run things.

The right fights worthless Stalingrad issues such as abortion (which can't be stopped since leftist states can keep it legal anyway) and gay marriage while losing the big issues such as seeing two parent families blown away and their electorate stolen away or dehumanized via government policies labeled as "human and civil rights".

The right needs to do the following things:

1) Clamp down on hiring and benefits for illegals which is within the constitutional authority of the executive office (the presidency).
2) Stop racist discrimination against whites and males, again, within the constitutional authority of the presidency.
3) Stop the unwed mother welfare state by enforcing time limits and, yes, get over the contraceptive issue already and start providing it for MEN (it won't help if the women secretly stop using it when they need to get pregnant anyway). Invest in RISUG and other methods to stop unwed motherhood in it's tracks. When men and society stop paying for unwed motherhood, it will end.
4) Stop enabling the left to double dip. The left secretly loves the right's war on terror because it allows them to pretend to be against war while enjoying the fruits of the right's protection. Call home the troops. Close down most of the bases. Stop the aggressive interrogations. Close down Guantanemo. Then when something happens, let the left live with the results. It's really not that bad. Most countries have lived with the uncertainty for years. The left, and feminists, are spoiled. Give them a taste of the real world equality they asked for.

In the meantime, demographics ensures that Republicans will probably be unable to win Presidential elections in the near future. We will then see the end of the other cold war, between socialists and capitalists in the USA, with crony capitalists having sold out. Then we'll see different factions of leftism battle each other. Hopefully, one of them will need my vote before sending me off to a gulag. Perhaps it's better for the right to die now then.

Seek| 3.7.12 @ 2:36PM

The hard Left is maybe 10 percent of the population at most. And it doesn't "dominate" every issue -- not even close.

Seek=TypicalLiberal| 3.7.12 @ 2:56PM

What is the percentage of women of the maybe 10 percent who are hard left and what is the percentage of these hard left women who are lezzbo, bi or bi-curious?

Al Adab| 3.7.12 @ 5:54PM

Janet Napolitano might be able to provide those numbers for you.

Seek=TypicalLiberal| 3.7.12 @ 7:25PM

I forget, is she a former he who found he didn't like being a he and rereassigned himself back to a she, or is he a former she who found she didn't like being a she and rereassigned herself back to a he, or am I missing a rerereassignment, either of the he-she-he-she or the she-he-she-he variety?

runningdeer| 3.8.12 @ 12:53AM

I don't know what (it ) is but it doesn't look appealing either way.

bajaretired| 3.7.12 @ 7:50AM

'Sandra Fluke, a third-year law student at Georgetown law school, in testimony before a congressional committee .....'

She did NOT testify before a congressional committee, she spoke to a selected group of Democrat congressman. She was not under oath. She truly is the bimbo Rush suggests she is...

xiphos| 3.7.12 @ 7:08PM

It's not like Rush called her something really nasty, like a Democrat.

Flit Andersen| 3.14.12 @ 5:15AM

Well, what would you call a woman who's having enough sex for it to cost her $1,000 a year in condoms & birth control pills? She can't even insist her male partners supply their OWN rubbers? Man, talk about a cheap lay! I hope she at least gets dinner & a movie out of it...

Karen| 3.7.12 @ 8:22AM

It was not testimony in front of a congressional committee. She wasn't sworn in. It was a dog and pony show. The man the democrats had put forth for testimony they wanted to switch at the last minute for this activist bimbo - when they were refused, Pilosi set up a press conference to look like a hearing and put Fluke in front of microphones and tada! it looks like congressional committee testimony and all the press touts it as such. Please, somebody get this right!!!

John G.| 3.7.12 @ 8:36AM

Gives a whole new meaning to "WTF" (pronounced Fluck)

Louis Jenkins| 3.7.12 @ 8:38AM

Yes, this wasn't a hearing. It was a circus. So what if birth control is expensive? My daughter wants many things, however, birth control is not one of them at the moment. In fact, her (my)insurance doesn't cover the cost of contraception. So instead this person lobbies for "free contraception" via the insurance mechanism? Insurance is pooling your money to share the risk. Since when is sexual activity a risk? Unless you're a democrat liberal and don't want kids. Hence, abortion is now the rule rather than the exception, and so is contraception.

Anthony| 3.7.12 @ 8:42AM

What do you expect from the American left? For the one thousand time, the left are morally and intellectually bankrupt.
Fluke is just another leftist activist, whose name I guess, Pelosi has on her rolodex in her office, filled with the names of leftist hacks willing to come to the aid of the party.
Fluke is a joke, a laughingstock, and Obozo joined in on the joke with his phony presser. This was no more about woman's rights than about NCAA basketball.
The entire episode backfired big time, despite how the leftist media trys to spin it.
Even one of Rush's former sponsors stock has fallen through the floor after dropping Rush. Carbonite is done, unless and until it comes crawling back to Rush, which will be sooner rather than later, you wait and see.
Meanwhile,Fluke, like Anita Hill, has had her 15 minutes of fame, although she'll be rewarded by the left upon her graduation from $45,000 p/y Georgetown Law.
Fluke can now sit in the back row of "Advanced Theories of Gender Inequalilty", munching on her oral contraceptives. Better yet Sandra baby, put a condom over your head.
Just what the world needs, another lefty, activist lawyer!!!

Al Adab| 3.7.12 @ 10:24AM

As we discussed on these posts yesterday, this entire event and the "controversy" following is nothing but a ploy by the Obama re-election campaign to direct attention away from the fiscal and economic disaster this administration has created. Sadly the GOP buys right into it and focuses on these "social issues" rather than on the ones which will turn this election. Stop letting the enemy set the agenda and get on with the business of defeating this incumbant.

DaPicayune| 3.7.12 @ 5:26PM

You’re right about the focus. That roaring sound heard last night in OH and the other primary States was from the voters in their exit polls screaming, “It’s the Economy, Stupid!”

That was the number one issue across the board in all the exit polls. Wake up RNC/candidates.

The only candidate now consistently banging this drum effectively is Speaker Gingrich with his energy plans to slow and then reverse the rise in gasoline prices, and it is resonating. Rino Romney merely accuses Newt of pandering, instead of banking the same drum, the slick fool. I never hear Rick hitting this issue, nor Dr. Paul.

Newt’s message has forced Obama to address this gas problem twice now in the last two weeks in a Miami speech and his first presser, and each have been a failure and more fodder for his ridicule.

Barry can’t respond effectively to this dilemma that he has created – so hit him hard and don’t let up, it forces attention to his ideologically driven economic and environmental policies failures.

These policies cannot make things for Main Street better, and will only make them worse, as Obama has now admitted about gas prices, and is also substantiated by Energy Sec.,Dr. Chu's testimony before Congress last week.

Mock Fluke, ignore their faux outrage, counter-boycott Rush’s former advertisers - then get back and stay focused on the economy, that’s what the voters are demanding.

Let’s give them what they want. The BC issue will fade as a Dem strategy, because Carville was right in ’92.

Aindyin| 3.7.12 @ 8:53AM

I'm guessing she didnt charge a user fee since that would make her a whore as well as a slut.

albert constantine jr.| 3.7.12 @ 8:56AM

Could one of the constitutional scholars out there help me with this one, as it has been a few decades since I read Griswold v. CT.? As I recall the majority opinion from the 50 year old decision, in essence it held that the penumbras of PRIVACY that emanated from various amendments enshrined in the Bill of Rights made it unconstitutional for states to forbid MARRIED COUPLES from purchasing (and presumably using) contraceptives in the course of their pursuing their conjugal happiness.

Is an issue concerned with privacy if you discuss it in front of a fake staged congressional committee? Is there a privacy concern when you ask others (taxpayers, insurance companies, schools founded and administered by religious organizations ostensibly to educate in accordance with its values that proscribe certain behaviors) to subsidize enabling accessories to your behavior?

For those who wish to mock the slippery slope argument, please diagram the points on the graph over the last half century where as a nation we went from a SCOTUS decision that forbade states from prohibiting married couples from using contraceptives to a POTUS demanding that Jesuits divert a portion of their university tuition and fees to pay for contraceptives for an unmarried LBGT-advocating law student. The angle is quite steep, and while one can debate the source of the lubrication, the conclusion should be quite clear.

W| 3.7.12 @ 11:02AM

Albert
Perfect analysis, except it was the emanations from the penumbras from the various amendments that created the right of privacy. Griswald was a set up case where the pharmacist, I believe, agreed to be charged and convicted so the "privacy" groups could appeal the Court. It was a statute rarely enforced and could have easily been amended or repealed by the state legislature.
In other words it was a set up con like Angel and Jim R would do.

albert constantine jr.| 3.7.12 @ 12:00PM

Excellent point. It bears mentioning, though, when we look at the set up, that one of the important rules in any con game is that it is very difficult to truly con an honest man.

Al Adab| 3.7.12 @ 3:51PM

Is anyone else disappointed in the standard that Georgetown accepts in its grad students? One might think that a great university would expect its students to present a higher standard and less moral turpitude to the public.

W| 3.7.12 @ 4:17PM

Al Adab
Law schools look primarily at the LSAT. Perfect score is 180. Unless you are a favored "minority" you need about 17o for Gerogetown, maybe higher. It is mostly a matter of the numbers. Bubbal Clinton went to Georgetown, undergrad, and was class president. Enough said?

Resist We Much! | 3.7.12 @ 2:12PM

It was Planned Parenthood and a Yale doctor. They set it up because two earlier attempts to create a "privacy right" -- from the get go, they were aiming for abortion rights -- had failed.

Both were fined $100.

Nymph| 3.7.12 @ 9:03AM

Oh please. We already have free contraception available to every one of us at any time. It's called abstinence...100% effective, every time it's used.

mutt | 3.7.12 @ 9:13AM

Abstinace unfortunately is not practised by Dimocratzi's, how else will they make more radicals, occupiers and looters (as per Atlas Shrugged)

Mike G| 3.7.12 @ 9:22AM

In all the articles I've read about Ms. Fluke, I've been wondering why no one mentioned this form of contraception.--you're the first one I've seen. If we're voting, this is the contraception I vote we give to everyone who wants us to pay.

mutt | 3.7.12 @ 9:09AM

Fortunately, we conservatives (like Rush) have learned an imortant lesson, early in the contest for the Presidency. The Democratic Media complex are skilled at turning a negative into a positive and hoisting these false narratives upon the public to divert attention to what is really going on. We need someone like Newt (not as Prez unfortunately) to keep the conservative ship adroit, with all guns focused on Obummer's pitiful record and the clear and present danger another 4 years of Obama will be for America. Our candidate will only be successful if we are not drawn into these phoney battles that matter little
to those who want to wrestle America away from the left who want to "transform" America. Santorum needs to bow out and support Mitt. This is not a battle that will be won on social issues. Newt needs to continue the fight with Mitt at his side. Ron Paul needs to just go away.

DaPicayune| 3.7.12 @ 5:45PM

Newt was set up with Rush’s apology question from both ABC’s Stephanoupolous and David Gregory on Sunday morning.

He acknowledged Rush’s apology and then cleaned both their clocks by pivoting to the their lack of coverage of Obama’s apology to Islam that has led to much more violence and the death of US soldiers. He jammed them both good, with Gregory finally responding with his raised white flag of, “moving along now…”.

Nobody deals with these lying sycophants and clowns better than Speaker Gingrich and they know it.

jlkthree| 3.7.12 @ 9:24AM

The American people do not give a #&@* about contraception.Ms. Fluke's president is going to lose this election.Hey,that rhymes.

davelnaf| 3.7.12 @ 9:26AM

The Fluke Affair doesn’t rise to the over-the-top, prolonged public spasm the Media had over the Valarie Plame ‘Affair,’ but it is an interesting reminder that the dems and their media helpers are forever on the look-out for any gimmick to offset their Obama problem.

Doctor Right| 3.7.12 @ 9:32AM

"This whole bizarre episode demonstrates just how desperate the Democrats are."

THANK YOU!!!

I've been saying this for months!

Ignore the media spin, Obama is in the weakest position of any sitting President since Herbert Hoover, and the Democrats know it.

Sure, the left will manage to scare a few hysterical, silly women into Obama's corner, but he's LOST independents, and he's LOST conservative Democrats who work in blue-collar industries, particularly manufacturing.

He's also LOST a sizable portion of Christians who were duped into supporting him in 2008, thanks to his hostile treatment of the Catholic Church, as well as his obvious preference for Islam.

This fool is such low-hanging fruit that ANY of the GOP candidates should walk all over him in the general election.

THAT'S why the dirty tricks are increasing; Obama has NOTHING else to run on. He can't point to his record.

STOP THE DOOM AND GLOOM, FOLKS! This isn't 1996, and Obama ain't Bill Clinton!

Grzmlyk| 3.7.12 @ 2:34PM

I sincerely wish you were right.

But as H.L. Mencken said, nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.

I offer four reasons why the doom and gloom are both justified:

1) What this kerfuffle shows us is that the debate about the reach of the welfare state continues to move leftward, even as our debt spirals entirely out of control.

If birth control is even on the table today as something for which taxpayers are expected to pick up the tab - fanned as it is by mainstream media hyperventilating - you can bet that flat-screen TVs, nice cars, vacations, plastic surgery, video games, free housing, gourmet food, and a host of other creature comforts will be on the table tomorrow as "civil rights" owed to select victim groups for which taxpayers will be expected to pick up the tab.

More people will be getting into the cart with ever-increasing expectations, and fewer people will be pulling the cart - with ever-dwindling resources.

COUNT ON IT. We are NOT moving toward fiscal responsibility. We are moving toward insanity at warp speed, and, instead of slowing down, we've actually picked up speed.

2) Even if Romney wins, he will not lift a finger to stop this headlong rush toward oblivion. He will play go-along-to-get-along. Guaranteed. Even if he were a conservative (which he is NOT) he would be powerless. It's like trying to stand on two feet in the face of a tsunmai.

It is simply politically impossible for any president - particularly a Republican - to do what needs to be done to stop this ship from sinking; we are in a death spiral. We are past the point where we can pull out of it.

2) Even if Romney DID lift a finger to stop our headlong rush toward oblivion, and even if his actions could forestall the inevitable for one term or, more unlikely, two terms, how much do you want to bet that a Democrat will be elected president in either 2016 or 2020 and power up the gravy train once again? How much do you want to bet that, if Romney is elected in 2012, the GOP will be swept out of both houses of congress in 2014? Count on it.

4) Finally, we now live in a thoroughly corrupt kleptocracy. We do not live in a representative republic. Even if Obama loses the popular vote by a landslide - which he won't, since 50 million Americans now depend on government largess to get up in the morning - his crony capitalist friends and his Democrat Vote Fixing machine will go to work and there will be fraud at the polls on a scale that even Vladimir Putin couldn't imagine. And the mainstream media will look the other way.

No, Dr. Right, gloom and doom would be the BEST possible outcome at this point.

We are screwed.

Self-Evident Truths| 3.7.12 @ 3:06PM

Gasoline is an unalienable right endowed to guarantee happiness and the separation of church and state.

Grzmlyk| 3.7.12 @ 3:14PM

Uh, ok.

You're not operating any heavy machinery right now, are you? Cuz I wouldn't if I were you.

Al Adab| 3.7.12 @ 5:45PM

GRZ:
He's right. Why didn't I think of it? Of course the government owes each of us our gasoline ration (oops do you think they might ration it) or at least a Chevy Volt.

Grzmlyk| 3.7.12 @ 5:58PM

He's half right, Al Adab:

The government only owes a gasoline ration to people who vote Democrat, because they're the people who matter. The people who vote Republican - the ones who actually do the work and pay the taxes - will pay for it.

The Democrat voters will get the gas. The Republican voters will get the shaft. I think all liberals would define that as "Energy Justice," don't you?

Sel Evident Truths| 3.7.12 @ 7:30PM

You evil assumers! What makes you so sure a have a male package the desire of women and the envy of men anyway?

Occam's Tool| 5.4.13 @ 7:21PM

Mr. G: Prescient and Correct.

Ground Control| 3.7.12 @ 9:33AM

"This whole bizarre episode demonstrates just how desperate the Democrats are."

Desperation sometimes pays off. Beware. While we laugh at Fluke's activites and behavior, portions of the US voting population under the influence of ABC, CBS, CNN, and NBC, think this is a real issue and WILL vote accordingly. "Politik Uber Alles!"

Minuteman78| 3.7.12 @ 10:02AM

What's sick about this is "The Fluke" will probably wind up with some super prestigious firm, because they'll figure if she can make her Law School grades and still have time for all that sex, she must be a genius. Unless her "clients" are doing her homework.

Nemo| 3.7.12 @ 10:04AM

Obama's personal intervention in this casts doubt not merely on his judgement but his sanity.

kwan| 3.7.12 @ 10:12AM

The new darling of the Left also wants to force insurance companies to fund sex-change operations. This of course is a major national issue that should eclipse unemployment, national security, and the economy for American citizens to be concerned about. Maybe Obama should open up a Ministry of Gender Transformation with Fluke as the Chief Commissar to deal with this all-important issue.

Don L| 3.7.12 @ 10:36AM

What can one say -other than ridicule? But these folks are deadly serious and they are using sex(don't they always?) to take down this free nation. The attack on the Catholic conscience(and thus all consciences but their atrophied lot)was a more honest attack. No Marxist dictatorship can live with competition from a real messiah. They have accomplished many, if not most, of the communist goals and it looks like Kruschev was right, that they will bury us -but who knew it would be because of our own suicide?
Any still foolish enough to believe that this election is about jobs and the economy -is the real impediment toward saving this once great nation.

Randy | 3.7.12 @ 10:37AM

Brilliant. You nail it.

MikeBee| 3.7.12 @ 10:40AM

Note to Self:
If I ever need legal help, and the name tag on the lawyer's desk says, "S. Fluke," I run to any other lawyer. If she doesn't know that contraceptives are free at Planned Parenthood, what type of lawyer could she be? AND, she received a B.S. degree from Cornell in Women's Studies, and doesn't know that contraceptives are FREE at Planned Parenthood? What a waste of a college Cornell must be!

Skeptical Red| 3.7.12 @ 11:07AM

As a lawyer, Ms. Fluke will soon be screwing lots of people without needing contraceptives.

Being a senior citizen, I don't have much need for contraceptives, but I jealously guard my rights to equal treatment before the law.

Accordingly, I propose that Obama sponsor Medicare Part E to assure that us old geezers get our contraceptives free too. The ones I don't use I will give to my grandkids to make water balloons.

rcyanc| 3.7.12 @ 11:19AM

Did you see the video of her testimony? She was turning around and giggling with the other morons that went to support her....she looked like an idiot, which she obviously is. My guess is that she is a lesbian for which she would need no contraception...unless she somehow learned in her "sexual" studies degree that two women can procreate...which also wouldn't surprise me.

Bugs| 3.7.12 @ 11:20AM

51 years ago someone said, "Ask not what your country can do for you." Last week someone else said, "Hey country, pay for my birth control so I can **** like a bunny."

I think there's been a change.

But anyway, as a bunny, let me just say, I appreciate the compliment.

RichTex| 3.7.12 @ 11:22AM

It did seem strange at the time when George Stephanopoulos asked Mitt Romney about a state being able to ban contraceptives. I think I’ve figured out why he raised the question. Stephanopoulos is a resident of New York, and his governor is Andrew Cuomo. Now, Cuomo is a Catholic, albeit a divorced one who is living in a non-marital relationship with Sandra Lee.

I believe that Stephanopoulos was afraid that Cuomo would ban contraceptives if he could in order to ingratiate himself with the Church and seek an annulment of his marriage to Kerry Kennedy. That would allow Cuomo to marry Lee. However, the unavailability of contraceptives would mean that Stephanopoulos would then be at risk of getting his mistress pregnant which would mean that his wife, Alexandra Wentworth, would discover the existence of the affair. That’s why he brought up the question.

Of course, I could be wrong.

Chef Schnauzer| 3.7.12 @ 11:23AM

Its sad that this serves a bread and circus for so many people.... it is our undoing. Has the press voided its constitutional shield?

k962| 3.7.12 @ 11:52AM

Why would I feel sorry for a left wing hack activist? Ms Fluke is also part of Occupy and there are pictures of her on Briebart to prove it! She also advocated for sex change operations to be covered by health insurance! This woman is a radical!

Joe Patrice | 3.7.12 @ 12:02PM

This just confirms once again that none of you bothered to do any research -- the soul of her testimony was about ovarian cysts and cancer, not promiscuity. The proper conservative response to her testimony *should* be to amend the mandate to cover contraception only when prescribed for the uses she talked about. That would completely undermine the Democratic argument. But instead there are all these shrill articles about sex that keep driving up the GOP's negatives.

PM| 3.7.12 @ 12:37PM

She also said, as an aside, that Georgetown actually does pay for prescriptions for contraceptive medicine when it has a medical purpose. Notre Dame's policy, and that of other Church schools, does as well. She said, without evidence, that some religious institutions don't.

Nor do I think she really boasted of her own promiscuity. There was enough phonyness in her testimony to discredit it without the grab for cheap and vulgar laughs. I'm afraid that the tack Limbaugh and others took on this was worse than a crime--it was a mistake.

runningdeer| 3.8.12 @ 1:06AM

Yes Joe, and she told all the (sic) ladies on the View all about it so that America could understand how altruistic she is. ( It is about the votes for this president . ) She is also associated with Media Matters as well as being allied with Celinda Lake , Nancy Pelosi and Carolyn Malony.

gary siebel| 3.7.12 @ 12:40PM

You can thank idiot, dead-baby Rick Santorum (the Catholic version of empty head Rick Perry) via Rush the drug addict for creating the controversy. That the males (conservatives, that is) think the "slut" remarks were a minor matter reveals how clueless they really are. (The "free contraceptive" aspect is politically irrelevant in comparison to the "slut" remark.)" There are lots of Catholic males who should be grateful their wives have been using contraceptives on the sly for decades. I know from experience that Catholic wives are just as horny as all other women. So, idiot Rush, Rick, et al, have managed to inadvertently call their own wives sluts. Way to go guys, a sure route to winning the election.

Jack London| 3.7.12 @ 12:58PM

Good comment.

A point that puzzles me is that if we think back to JFK and his church-state separation speech (so completely misunderstood by Santorum) it was about a fear of Catholics, who were also often discriminated against. Now it seems the hard right can't get enough of the Papists - to the extent you're happy to see them take over hospitals and universities and pull out of state and federal rules. Do you feel the same about the Moonies?

From the Desk of Media Matters| 3.7.12 @ 1:33PM

Brian "Jack London" Cutteridge,

Stop embarrassing us.

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

Even our other bottom rung MM mindless parrots except Pierre "Purp" Pelosi know there is no reason MEDICAL INSURANCE is not purchased by citizens just like AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE and HOMEOWNER'S INSURANCE and LIFE INSURANCE is purchased.

Even our other bottom rung MM mindless parrots except Pierre "Purp" Pelosi know MEDICAL INSURANCE is a contingency for unforeseen calamities and is not for voluntary lifestyle choices whether they involve the care of health or not.

Even our other bottom rung MM mindless parrots except Pierre "Purp" Pelosi know PREGNANCY IS NOT A DISEASE or any other unforeseen calamity.

Even our other bottom rung MM mindless parrots except Pierre "Purp" Pelosi know FORCING OTHER CITIZENS TO PAY FOR voluntary lfestyle choices is despicable and that your expenses incurred due to beastiality is not the responsibility of any other citizen.

Even our other bottom rung MM mindless parrots except Pierre "Purp" Pelosi know 49.5% of citizens DO NOT PAY income taxes.

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

Even our other bottom rung MM mindless parrots excepts Pierre "Purp" Pelosi know over 91 million citizens are DEPENDENT on government programs.

Even our other bottom rung MM mindless parrots except Pierre "Purp" Pelosi know each taxpayer ALREADY OWES OVER ONE MILLION DOLLARS EACH to settle the debt of the nation.

Even our other bottom rung MM mindless parrots except Pierre "Purp" Pelosi know those DEPENDENT on government ALREADY RECEIVE MORE MONEY THAN citizens ACTUALLY EARN THEMSELVES as disposable income per capita is less than federal spending per recipient.

Even our other bottom rung MM mindless parrots except Pierre "Purp" Pelosi know when the founding fathers ratified the Constitution 6 OF THE 13 original states had state churches.

Stop embarrassing us.

- MM staff

Jack London| 3.7.12 @ 2:06PM

I take it this is Skip or Shirley Temple as he's better known. You've learnt how to cut and paste I see. At your age though you'll never grow up, I'm afraid.

Simon Templar| 3.7.12 @ 3:14PM

Jack, go and join the proud leftist sluts at the next, Slutwalk fest, and lecture them, you GD liberal mentally disordered hypocrite!

skip| 3.7.12 @ 3:45PM

The world has indeed spun out of control when I am subjected to this outrageous allegation, a claim, ironically, as inappropriate as Limbaugh's recent commentary about a certain victimized middle aged professional radical activist for feminist and gender and sexuality studies selflessly striving for the unalienably endowed constitutional right to prophylactics at no cost.

The rate of spin of this out of control world has indeed accelerated when this outrageous allegation is in the comments section of an article by an author using language as appropriate as, ironically, liberals being pathetic and despicable, liberals being immoral while claiming wrong right and right wrong, and liberals being capable only of prattle and non sequiturs.

Maybe the out of control world spins when interest in intelligence and honesty based on reason and experience subjected to allegedly outrageous associations as these not objected to is beyond the pale.

skip| 3.7.12 @ 5:20PM

Maybe the out of control world does not spin after all, ironically, when after all the author of the article has appropriately demonstrated the intelligence and honesty based on reason and experience to conclude the article with a link to the WSJ article linked by the alleged outrageously accused in the comments to another article two days ago which after all demonstrated intelligence and honesty within the pale.

Herr S| 3.7.12 @ 4:48PM

Brian "Jack London" Cutteridge,

It has kurzlich come to my die aufmerksamkeit dat you are one of several of der boden die sprosse MM unachtsam papagei who have verlegen my organiertlich by being a der idiot scheissekopf.

Anhalten verlegen ich.

- G

killerman| 3.7.12 @ 10:00PM

Hey, watch the language, pottie mouth!!

Grzmlyk| 3.7.12 @ 2:40PM

That was your mistake, Jack, me boyo.

You thought.

Simon Templar| 3.7.12 @ 3:04PM

I was wondering where you two idiot troll liberals had gone. Did not see any post by you this past week. Gary, too busy having adultery with catholic married women? Jack, too busy attending KKK meetings and handing out literature on the Papist Conspiracy?

You know what really is truly amazing and I am really honestly serious about this..is your incredible ability, in the same sentence to make fun of dead babies and call someone a drug addict that became addicted to pain killers prescribed by his doctor for serious back pain and in the same breath get bent out of shape about someone calling someone a slut. Now, if I were visting this planet, I could only logically conclude that your kind is seriously mentally disturbed or your freaking desperate immoral liberal hack trolls that are scared silly that your messiah is going down and is being exposed for what he is.

Grzmlyk| 3.7.12 @ 2:43PM

I'm sorry to break this to you, Gary old pal, but you are too stupid to post on this site.

Just so you know, most conservatives have no problem with women using contraceptives.

They just don't want to pay for it.

Is that really so hard to understand? Or could it be that you and your ilk are deliberately misrepresenting the truth? OMG! A liberal lying? Unheard of!

So which is it? Are you stupid or dishonest?

Jack London| 3.7.12 @ 3:17PM

'Just so you know, most conservatives have no problem with women using contraceptives.
They just don't want to pay for it.'

So you're saying you are opposed to it on economic grounds, not ideology?

Simon Templar| 3.7.12 @ 3:39PM

So, Jack, are you for it on economic grounds or ideology?

Waiting.

We will be asking the questions from now on, and you will be answering, you GD Hypocritical liberal.

Jack, your favorite show is coming on soon. ABC Premieres Show Called "GCB" (Good Christian Bitches).

But be sure you do not schedule a Slutwalk on that night, you will not want to miss any of it.

platinumplates55| 3.7.12 @ 3:50PM

"So you're saying you are opposed to it on economic grounds, not ideology?"
What don't you understand?

Grzmlyk| 3.7.12 @ 3:59PM

I'll pay for your daughter's contraception when she picks up the tab for my golf clubs.

Does that make it any clearer? You wanna screw, you pay for it. I wanna play golf, I pay for it.

Capiche?

Grzmlyk| 3.7.12 @ 4:06PM

By the way, why stop at paying for your daughter's contraception? I'm sure she's doing you proud by screwing as many men as she can possibly fit into her, uh, schedule.

I'm guessing you think I should also pick up the tab for her thong, her push-up bra, her stockings, her Brazilian bikini wax, her lipstick, her hair styling, her nails and then pay for laundering the sheets when she's done with whatever slug she's picked up at the bar after several drinks - which, no doubt, I'm supposed to pay for also.

I mean, that's only fair, right? Why should she be expected to pay for her recreational activities? Are we such an oppressive society that we would deny a woman her civil right to a free bikini wax?

There I go again, being a Neanderthal and conducting a war on women.

What else should I pay for? Please make a list and then shove it up your ass.

Simon Templar| 3.7.12 @ 5:16PM

I would be careful with that last suggestion, he may actually like it, and misconstrue it as a come on!

From the Desk of Media Matters| 3.7.12 @ 4:16PM

Brian "Jack London" Cutteridge,

You are embarrassing us.

You are an idiot even by the standard set by bottom rung MM mindless parrot idiot Pierre "Purp" Pelosi.

Stop embarrassing us.

- MM staff

Al Adab| 3.7.12 @ 5:42PM

Please gentlemen, allow me to caution against the use of any names which may have shown up due to the issues the site and template has had over the last couple weeks. Respect each others privacy even when the site causes a security breech. The template has been coming up with each others e-dresses for some time.

Jack London| 3.7.12 @ 5:58PM

Hi Al - nice to see someone civilized after all this masturbatory foaming. I'd hate to use their keyboards later. You do have to wonder at the 'thought' processes that go into equating the huge public health issue of reproductive health with a round of golf, and a shrink would have a journal full of papers from the squirming, poisonous contortions in the brains of these guys about their (lack of) relationships with modern women. And the wonder is that they think a candidate taking their hatred to the stump could get elected.

Grzmlyk| 3.7.12 @ 6:31PM

Health issue my ass. It's a LIFESTYLE CHOICE. Just like playing golf.

You cookie cutter liberals just embrace very single outrageous "gimme" that comes down the pike, don't you? You may say it's preposterous today to predict you'll be calling free bikini waxes a civil right - but by Friday, you will be marching on Capitol Hill calling THAT a public health issue, too, and calling anyone who doesn't want to pay for women to have bikini waxes "haters."

If you think contraception is so damned important, why don't YOU pay for it?

Just like all liberals, though - you're so generous with other people's money even as you want more and more and more freebies for yourself.

YOU are the hater, asshole. You are a destructive, nihilistic, selfish narcissist. You are the disease that has infected this country and will kill it off.

Jack London| 3.7.12 @ 6:42PM

See what I mean Al? Poke a little stick into the cesspool of this guy's mind and all this poisonous gas comes out. He can't stop to actually examine an issue in a rational way before he spews all over his pants.

At least we have the answer to my question though - clearly it's an ideological issue for him about the role of sex in health and public health. If it was about money he probably grasp somewhere in the cesspool that contraception in health plans saves a lot more money than it costs.

Grzmlyk| 3.7.12 @ 6:56PM

You are a blind ideologue; a little stick indeed. Very, very little.

Cesspool? That's hate speech, my benighted friend.

It is you who will not examine the issue. This is about contraception. Not public health. But you cannot seem to grasp that. I wonder if you've had even a rudimentary sex education. You seem to be confused.

The bottom line is that you want other people to pay for lifestyle choices. Period. Of course I notice that you are only willing to put other people's money where YOUR mouth is.

Typical dogmatic ideologue of the left. Why think when you have so much propaganda handed to you by The Daily Kos, Media Matters, The Huffington Post and the mainstream media?

Whatever liberals want, somebody else should give them because, well, because they want it. Just like any other four-year old.

Your only weapon is a total lack of respect for logic. But why let a little thing like reality get in the way of. . . what is it exactly you want? Oh yes: To take from the producers and give to the Democrat voters.

Jack London| 3.7.12 @ 7:12PM

Ok, as you seem to have calmed down i'll make a few points:

- health in a wider context is about issues such as unwanted children, abortion, mental health and so on.
- sex is not a 'lifestyle' issue – it's an incredibly powerful biological instinct and part of wellbeing. If it was a 'lifestyle' choice we would have died out long ago. Since you're so fond of golf, look at what happened to Tiger Woods.
- the monthly cycle of regulating fertility does require healthcare input - why force women to go to a different doctor?
- the costs in private plans are really not great and many involve co-pays.
There's more of course, including the fact that it has been a civil right for women to have contraception in health plans for some time. Would you really take that away and do you think it's big vote winner?

Grzmlyk| 3.7.12 @ 7:46PM

Yada, yada, yada. Yawn.

Sweetheart, I know what you have to say. I can smell your thoughts before you even think them. It's not like you're an original thinker or anything. I've heard it all before. Sorry to burst your narcissistic bubble.

It's touching that you think you're a deep thinker - really, it is. But, in truth, you're just a generic, common thief who is operating under the classic liberal lie that by insisting that one group of people you don't know give their money to another group of people you don't know, this confers virtue upon you.

I confess, I find this psychology puzzling. Now if you could explain that, instead of bloviating hackneyed, shopworn liberal propaganda, THAT would be worth reading.

As it is, well, you're the wallower in sewage. You tell me what the digital equivalent of toilet paper is.

I hate to break this to you, Jackoff old boy, but advocating the redistribution of other people's money does not make you a good person. And spouting liberal bromides does not make you a smart person.

Now if you paid for my golf clubs, hey, I'd say you might have a purpose in the universe other than to blow smoke up your own ass and collect welfare payments while you "find yourself" at different community colleges along the west coast.

But, lest we get distracted, I'll try to refute your argument in terms that you can understand, ok?

I'm rubber, you're glue. Everything you say bounces off me and sticks to you.

Oh, by the way - I'm guessing you're in your early twenties - perhaps a Lesbian Studies major? Nothing gets the babes in the sack like that feminist shit, am I right?

But if, by chance, you are middle aged (and there's no fool like an old fool), do you have a daughter who's, you know, kinda hot? Because if you do, I'm sure nothing would make you prouder than if she put a few more notches on her (publicly-funded) thong. Which will look smashing on her as soon as the government picks up the tab for her Brazilian bikini wax. Because, you know, that really IS a public health issue that taxpayers really MUST pay for. Well, not you, of course. Well, you're not a taxpayer, are you. Never mind.

Anyhoo, if you do have a daughter, why don't you post a picture of her? If she's really hot, I'll tell you what: I'd like to meet her. Hey - I'll even pay for the "public health" (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) myself.

Could be win-win for all of us!

Jack London| 3.8.12 @ 2:44AM

Oh dear - there was a glimmer before that you'd get out of the cesspool but you went right back. Actually it looks like for you this has nothing to do with anything other than a sexual fixation or fetish, and one that seems to be quite deep-rooted. I do think you should get help with your obsession with women's pubic hair - it may well be that it signals your inability to see women as mature equals. Do get help please.

It's telling that this subject also attracts many others who unbare their sexual hangups about women - see how many posts it gets compared with what should be dominating, politics and the economy.

Herr S| 3.8.12 @ 10:46AM

Brian "Jack London" Cutteridge,

Gefuhlsbedingt plappern. Auberst gefuhlsbedingt plappern.

Anhalten verlegen Ich.

Dummkopf scheissekopf der lugner.

- G

DRed| 3.7.12 @ 7:25PM

Grzmlyk, a couple days ago you were confidently asserting "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." For someone speculating about the quality of sex education, you seem woefully uniformed about what contraceptives are actually used for.

I know you won't seriously consider anything I say, but might it be possible that you don't fully understand what contraceptives mean to women? Access to contraceptives does a lot more than allow a woman to start sleeping with whomever she wants. When it comes to 'other people paying', the issue here is having private insurance (that women are paying for) cover contraception. You look at it as women asking for a handout from the government, but that's not the issue at all. Try to think about it some more. Maybe talk with women you know who take (or have taken) contraceptives.

Grzmlyk| 3.7.12 @ 7:50PM

I'm sorry, did you write something or was that wind from a duck's ass?

Hard to tell.

DRed| 3.7.12 @ 9:14PM

hmmm. Was that too complicated for you? Let's keep it simple. You say you have no problems with contraceptives. Certainly you have no problem with contraceptives for the thong wearing young strumpets you seem obsessed with. (I really hope this isn't all residual bitterness because the liberal girls at NYU wouldn't sleep with you back in your salad days-as charming as you are I'm sure they were clawing each other to get to you) Your problem, you say, is that you don't want to pay for it. Well then, my friend, perhaps you can explain how it is that you pay for other people's private health insurance?

DWag| 3.7.12 @ 9:47PM

Let's keep it simple and not divert from topics that are of more primary importance.
Let's talk about Obama's record.
Let's talk about the Obama economy.
Let's talk about Obamacare.
Let's talk about the proposed Obama budget.
Let's talk about gasoline prices.
Or let's talk about ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) providing at taxpayer expense transgender hormone therapy for illegal aliens in detention.
Perhaps you can explain how it is that you pay for the hormone therapy of illegal aliens in detention who say they are transgendered.

Simon Templar| 3.7.12 @ 10:46PM

He pays when his private insurance premiums go up as each more government mandate kicks in demanding insurance companies provide all the freebies you deem health issues. As new mandates as such apply to government programs as well when new 'health issues' are imposed, his taxes go up as well as these things are not free or grow on trees.
Even a insincere, lying dumbass liberal like yourself should be able to grasp that.

As the cost have already gone up for those of us who have first hand experience with it. As it seems you did not know this I can verture a reasonable guess that you are on the dole or someone else is paying for it.

The last time I checked most people were using contraception to avoid getting pregnant because they decide to be sexually active with the opposite sex. Thus, the name contra ception meaning against conception. Now, there happens to be a very small group of people that take it for specific medical problems. As far as I can tell the 94 percent Fluck was talking about do not fit into that category except perhaps a few people at most. Otherwise, they got a serious problem over there and should be calling in the EPA, jackass.

You know this, but you rather keep the focus away from your messiah and communist in chief and his economic failures, so you will continue to troll away misdirecting people attention.

Well, Breitbart lives...
Tonight there will be a visitation and the night after that, so sit back you little useful idiot and watch your socialist vampire get burned by the light and exposed under the sun of truth.

From the Desk of Media Matters| 3.7.12 @ 7:02PM

Brian "Jack London" Cutteridge,

Stop embarrassing us.

In the brief moment of time it took to post our note you have surprising no sentient being on earth made an even bigger ass of yourself bringing even more embarrassment to us.

"Poke a little stick into the cesspool of this guy's mind and all this poisonous gas comes out" is nothing more than utterly unintelligent and dishonest emotional prattle devoid of a shred of reason and experience.

"He can't stop to actually examine an issue in a rational way before he spews all over his pants" is nothing more than utterly unintelligent and dishonest emotional prattle devoid of a shred reason and experience.

"At we have an answer the answer to my question though - clearly it's an ideological issue for him about the role of sex in health and public health" - no no no no no you idiot - is - you idiot - not only utterly unintelligent and dishonest emotional prattle devoid of a shred of reason and experience it plays right into the conservative's strengths - you idiot.

"If it was about money he probably grasp somewhere in the cesspool that contraception in health plans saves a lot more money than it costs" is - you idiot - even worse - you idiot - for playing right into the conservative's strengths - you idiot - than the previous statement - you idiot - in addition to being - you idiot - the most utterly unintelligent and dishonest -you idiot - emotional prattle - you idiot - devoid of a shred of any reason and experience - you idiot- you've stated yet you idiot.

An important caller is on the phone if you know what I mean - and I seriously doubt that you do know you idiot - or I would continue to explain just what an idiot - you idiot - you are - you idiot.

Stop embarrassing us.

- MM staff

From the Desk of Media Matters| 3.7.12 @ 6:45PM

Brian "Jack London" Cutteridge,

You are embarrassing us.

MM staff received a back channel memo from the big guy himself who is very unhappy you have been embarrassing us.

Research into this 'skip' you mention has found our worst fears realized.

This 'skip' not only shreds you to ribbons regularly and mercilously embarrasses you and therefore us he does so to every obnoxious liberal he engages.

This 'skip' apparently is known for claiming the political debate between conservatives and liberals is not between more or less two equal sides because liberals only offer unintelligent and dishonest emotional prattle devoid of reason and experience.

A brief examination is in order.

You state "nice to see someone civilized after all this masturbatory foaming"

This statement consists entirely of emotional prattle devoid of reason and experience that is nothing if not unintelligent and dishonest.

You state "I'd hate to use their keyboards later."

This statement is exclusively unintelligent and dishonest emotional prattle devoid of reason and experience.

You state "You do have to wonder at the 'thought' processes that go into equating the huge public health issue of reproductive health with a round of golf"

This state is utterly lacking in reason and experience and is based on nothing more than emotional prattle and the only uncertainty is whether the unintelligence and the dishonesty of this statement exceeds its lack of any reasson and experience or not.

You state "a shrink would have a journal full of papers from the squirming, poisonous contortions in the brains of these guys about their (lack of) relationships with modern women."

This statement is the epitome of unintelligence and dishonesty. This statement is the epitome of an utter lack of any reason and experience. This statement is the epitome of nothing more than emotional prattle. This statement is no different than every other statement in your post.

You state "And the wonder is that they think a candidate taking their hatred to the stump could get elected."

This statement is utterly unintelligent and dishonest emotional prattle devoid of any reason and experience whatsoever.

You are single handedly proving this 'skip' to be a combination of Albert Einstein and C.S. Lewis all by yourself while not only embarrassing us but pissing off the big guy to boot.

You idiot.

Stop embarrassing us.

This note will be forwarded to the big guy as part of his requested feedback.

You better hope this 'Al Adab' does not do an internet search on your 'real' name. You are already enough embarrassment for the entire Obama administration combined as it is.

Stop proving this 'skip' to be a genius. His position is much like most posters at this site.

Stop embarrassing us.

You idiot.

- MM staff

One if by land...| 3.7.12 @ 6:23PM

Both.

Darlene Hogan| 3.7.12 @ 12:45PM

This was something that the Bitch Pelosi did. She got this college students, who by the way, sounds like she screws more than she studies. You can go to the doctor and get a prescription, generic, for 5-9 dollars. This women was set up by the Democrats and then the moron president was more concerned about her then he is about the Country and the condition he has gotten us in. Saw a tape of him complaining when he was a so called Senator about Bush and high gas prices which when he took office were $1.80. Don't see his big mouth complaining now when it's trippled under him. GET THIS MONSTER OUT OF THE WHITEHOUSE.

kwan| 3.7.12 @ 1:21PM

Based on the two leftist mugwumps Obama has already appointed to the Supreme Court I would suspect that this Fluke may well be a future Supreme Court Judge. She has all the qualifications according to Democrat Party ideology: She's female and a radical leftist. And of course Judge Robert Bork wasn't qualified seeing how he was a male and believed in strict adherence to the Constitution. It should be noted that Elena Kagan never served one-half microsecond as an actual judge but was chosen based solely on her radical leftist resume.

Resist We Much! | 3.7.12 @ 2:08PM

Joan Walsh: Liar, Liar! Pants on Fire!

http://predicthistunpredictpas.....-fire.html

Resist We Much! | 3.7.12 @ 2:21PM

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.

Stan Redmond| 3.7.12 @ 3:03PM

2010 slut is a badge of honor as colege women around the world dress like sluts and proclaim their pride in being sluts in "Slutwalk."

A harlot called a slut on capital hill crying for free contraception because there is so much sex and now it's a national outrage.

I just can't keep up with all this new speak? What volume are we on now?

Simon Templar| 3.7.12 @ 3:11PM

Wow. I completely forgot about the Slutwalk and the in your face pride and use of the word by them.

Stan, that was amazing! Keep posting this and reminding us. One of the best post out here in years!

MikeBee| 3.7.12 @ 4:45PM

S.T.,
There's actually more. First, the slutwalk, now the Walk of Shame. On Detroit's Fox2News last night, they covered a story about a young woman who is providing a "taxi" service in Ann Arbor, MI, so that college women from the liberal U of Michigan don't have to do the "Walk of Shame."

The Walk of Shame occurs on the next morning, when a woman who has been a slut is now walking back on the sidewalks to her apartment. According to the story, she is carrying her 4" high-heeled shoes in one hand, still dressed up for last night's night out (sometimes not; sometimes wearing her boyfriend's shirt), very tired from a "night of banging," (my words, not the news story), and bothered by a hangover. The taxi woman charges $5 per ride, to take the slut woman home, avoiding the Walk of Shame.

I really enjoy watching all that the liberals have created.

Simon Templar| 3.7.12 @ 5:19PM

Incredible.

markenoff| 3.7.12 @ 3:48PM

Apparently Ms. Fluke likes to fuke. Does she not know that the pill does not protect against STDs? I guess she expects the Jesuits to pay for her antibiotics as well. At least for the treatable STDs.

Fertility is not a disease to be treated with chemicals like cancer.

MikeBee| 3.7.12 @ 4:51PM

Markenoff,
Actually, if you talk with doctors, the pill isn't that great at protecting from pregnancy, either. Across all women, it's supposed to have a 25% failure rate. Republicans' response to Ms. Fluke's request to fund her pills should be that we'll support what actually works.

Tommy Watson| 3.7.12 @ 4:15PM

This hoopla over Sandra Flake is simply a distraction from Baraka Hussein Obama's incredible ineptness. The playbook says that the bigger a lie is, the more readily it will be believed by the masses. That Sandra Flake and her poor downtrodded fellow LAW STUDENTS can't afford to s---- witthout FREE birth control pills is hillarious! The Obama Propaganda machine (MSM) has adopted another one from the playbook. Propaganda must be adapted to the capacity of the most limited intelligence. That's sure the way things have summed-up in all the "Flukegate" flapdoodle that we've been subjected to by the Liberal Socialists and their Propagandists in the media.

Doug| 3.7.12 @ 5:54PM

Mr Ross: you have made a major error in your reporting. Fluke did NOT appear "in testimony before a congressional committee." No, she appeared in front of a Nancy Peloski press conference designed to LOOK like a congressional committee hearing. Stealing a paragraph from Free Republic:

"the Democrats on Darrel Issa's committee considering mandatory provision of contraception / abortion by insurance companies on behalf of Catholic Institutions, wanted originally to provide Barry Lynn (Americans United for Separation of Church and State) as a witness; at the last minute, the night before the hearing, Sandra Fluke was proposed as a substitute witness (by Pelosi). The Republicans in charge of the committee declined (as there was no time to vet Fluke and she was not a member of the clergy, which was what all of this was about!); so Pelosi set up an opportunity for Fluke to parade her script as though it were testimony before the whole committee."

By that they mean "Peloski created a committee-like picture of "testimony." Fluke herself used the term "testimony" in her introduction, itself a whopper. It was NOT before Issa's congressional committee. It was a Peloski press conference. Look closer at the beginning, where Peloski proudly introduces this "student": there isn't a republican in sight. The lettering beneath Peloski says "House DEMOCRAT Steering and Policy Committee, Cannon Office Building." This is NOT Issa's House Oversight & Government Reform committee! Peloski's fake "committee testimony" was a sham.

Original list of Issa's invited witnesses here: http://tinyurl.com/7kjq72b Look at the stated purpose of the meeting: "Today, the committee will hear testimony from leaders of different faiths. They are concerned that government, under this Administration, is encroaching on their First Amendment rights." Tell me how Fluke fits into this?

This was a set-up from the get go and Rush took the bait, hook line and sinker.

Before getting off my pedestal, to some of the commenters: knock off the name calling. You're stooping to the democrat's level, if not lower, when you do it. You build a far more intelligent, persuasive argument if you simply stick with the facts. "Liberals do this, liberals say that..." blah, blah, blah. They say the same silly thing about conservatives. Who cares? It proves nothing! There's no logic in it. If you want to make points, go look up Fluke's post-grad history. There is a LOT to be made of it, particularly in this context. She is a major democrat activist, not "a student." That is why Peloski wanted her up there. Work on that angle, would ya?

Will| 3.7.12 @ 7:33PM

I seem to recall that this episode was blown out of all proportion not by the democrats, but by Rush Limbaugh's astonishing outburst. Whatever you think of somebody's politics or beliefs, it is simply not acceptable to call them a "slut...a prostitute" to demand that they "post the videos online so we can all watch" or to ask "who bought your condoms in 6th grade?", least of all on national radio. Instead of fighting on the issues, the Republicans have made Sandra Fluke into a victim, looked rude and boorish and lost a few hundred thousand female voters into the bargain.

Doug| 3.7.12 @ 8:22PM

You clearly did not listen to Limbaugh; instead you have chosen to repeat "what he said" statements from the DNC. I both listened to the entire broadcast and read the full transcript of same. Did you?

Limbaugh's main point was "why is this woman doing demanding that I be forced to buy her birth control pills?" It's a valid question, particularly from a guy whose bread and butter is railing against socialized medicine. Socialized EVERYTHING, for that matter. I will grant you that he let himself get a little too preoccupied by it all, but that is how his show (and any other talk show) works. No mystery here. However, he did not "demand" that videos be made available. Instead, he reasoned, that if this woman wants to prostitute herself by demanding free birth control pills, then what do we get in return? His "demand" of sex videos was instead "should we demand videos of her escapades in return?", as he has stated, an attempt to demonstrate absurdity with absurdity. He never meant it. Had you listened, you would have known that.

Similarly, the slut and prostitute invectives were similar attempts at demonstrating absurdity. If you, a 30 year-old student (???), want/need your birth control pills so badly because you can't control your urges, and I'm supposed to pay for your sex, what does that make you? A slut? Or maybe a prostitute? There is a twisted logic here: "I pay money and you have sex." It IS like a reverse prostitution act.

This is probably where Rush went over the line, and which after reflection, he has admitted and apologized for. That's all a guy can do. (Naturally, you clowns want blood, but you won't get it.)

Has he lost hundreds of thousands of female voters? Only the liberal ones who never agree with Rush anyway. Had you listened to the show, you would have heard a number of females (presumably voters, too) who were angry as hell at this woman for having the audacity of demanding free birth control pills. One woman in particular related how when she attended college, she never knew how she could make ends meet, and the last thing she thought about was free birth control pills.

But you never heard it.

Fluke made a lot of women angry as hell, alright, but angry as hell at the left, not the right. Conservative women aren't as dumb as Nancy Pelosi.

P.S.: has Obama called Laura Ingraham yet?

Will| 3.8.12 @ 8:04AM

Aren't you disturbed by the image of an overweight, red-faced man in his sixties talking about the sex life of a 30 year old? I know I am- it was terribly embarressing to listen to.
Secondly, the vast bulk of female voters (including Catholics) support free birth control, even against the protests of the Catholic Church (don't deny it, this is born out by all the polling data.
Third, if people cannot afford contraception they are still going to have sex. Contracepti0n does not lead to sex- it's the other way around. By denying people contraceptives, all it will cause is more teenage pregnancy and more sexually transmitted diseases. That is a public health issue affecting the whole country, which makes it perfectly reasonable for the government (which has been elected, unlike the Bishops) to legislate in response.

Resist We Much!| 3.8.12 @ 8:43AM

'Aren't you disturbed by the image of an overweight, red-faced man in his sixties talking about the sex life of a 30 year old?'

No...and I am a 34 year-old woman....with a law degree.

Pete| 3.8.12 @ 11:57AM

Rubbish...

BackToBasics| 3.7.12 @ 8:06PM

What's in a name? Fluke, has many definitions including LIVER FLUKE which is a parasite.

Just another parasitic scheme by democrats to weaken the country even further.

caroline| 3.7.12 @ 10:43PM

I don't mean to offend any further, but the name I would use for Ms. Fluke is "opportunist", someone looking to advance his or her career. Of course, she is simply following the example of our current president, so why should we be surprised.

Simon Templar| 3.7.12 @ 11:03PM

Has anyone ever noticed the similarity between a vampire and a liberal progressive or socialist or whatever there call themselves today?

A liberal hides from the light of truth.
A liberal hates and fears a Christian cross.
A liberal is a blood sucker and will suck the life out of you and an economy as well.
A liberal loves that which is debased and offensive to God.
A liberal can not stand to hear the name of Christ.
A hard core liberal would not step into a church but rather keep it seperate from all walks of public life lest it contaminate him.
A liberal can not control his lust for your blood (your money).
A liberal can not control his animal lust and is proud of it.
Like a vampire, the Liberal is not something you can have a debate with and discussion about his blood sucking and bad behavior.
The only remedy and reasonable action is to cut the head off (proverbially speaking of course) and stake it in its bleeding blood sucking heart!

liladd| 3.7.12 @ 11:13PM

Fluke, honey, you look very silly, dear.
As an x-Lib, I know women like you, and they always try to come across like they are so tough and so intellectual, when they are neither. I am almost 60 now, and even though I was liberal, I started my first job when I was 16 years old, had more than one job sometimes, and bought my own birth control...never had my hand out, expecting someone else to pay. Honey, if you, or those like you, can go to that high dollar school, you can afford birth control, and if not, you may have to chose. it is not an issue of accessability, anybody w/a lick of sense knows that. I am sick and tired of women like you, that have it so good, but think the world owes you. That is loser behavior and not attractive. I hope you grow up someday, but I don't see it happening. but the biggest eye opener and loser behavior award goes to our complainer/instigator-in-chief...now he is an even bigger embarressment.

Oldefarte| 3.7.12 @ 11:41PM

This whole episode was a staged production from the Axelrod/Obama/Pilosi/Democratic Party casting crew; and wnyone incapable of understanding same has a elevator incapable of assending to the top!!!!!!!!

Russell| 3.8.12 @ 2:12AM

Georgetown students propositioned by Rush Limbaugh should take his viagra tablet and hold it firmly between their knees.

Russell| 3.8.12 @ 2:12AM

Georgetown students propositioned by Rush Limbaugh should take his viagra tablet and hold it firmly between their knees.

Will| 3.8.12 @ 8:05AM

Georgetown students propositioned by Rush Limbaugh should take a baseball bat and hit him over the head.

Resist We Much!| 3.8.12 @ 8:57AM

Carrie Prejean was so touched by your ardent defence.

Not.

Pete| 3.8.12 @ 11:56AM

Rush should have concentrated on the obvious discrepency between the liberated woman going Dutch and Fluke's claim that she had to pay for all her contraception herself. If he had, I guarantee you we wouldn't be discussing her now...

Resist We Much! | 3.9.12 @ 2:43PM

The next time that any Prog starts screaming that Sandra Bell is a "private citizen" so it is diiiiiiffffffferent, here ya go:

She appeared at the “Catholic Students for Women’s Health” press conference on 9 February 2012 at the National Press Club where she expressed support for Obama's contraception mandate.

She waived any "private citizen" claim she might have had long before she "testified" before Maerose Prizzi's kaffee klatsch.

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/304345-1#

Flit Andersen| 3.14.12 @ 5:07AM

"...in testimony before a congressional committee..."

Dr. Ross makes the mistake of implying that this media event was something official in nature. It was in fact nothing more than a Democrat press conference gussied-up to LOOK like a Congressional hearing. It's amazing how many people fell for this old gag.

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