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O’Reilly on Fluke

By on 3.2.12 @ 11:13PM

Tonight, Bill O’Reilly offered a tough critique of Sandra Fluke and her support for taxpayer subsidized contraception.

Yet he managed to put forward his views without calling Fluke a slut. How perspicacious of him.

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Floyd Looney | 3.2.12 @ 11:21PM

Did he mention that she is a professional agitator?

Clint| 3.3.12 @ 1:52AM

Yet he managed to put forward his hose within call girl Fluke, a slattern and got perspiration on her......
among other fluids.

JJ| 3.3.12 @ 12:28PM

I can't believe Goldstein is still stuck on the slut term put out by Rush. Get over it man. Liberal women have been calling themselves sluts for years. They consider it a badge of honor.

The issue which Goldstein has completely lost site of is expecting taxpayers and insurance payers to pay for her behavior. She can go to Walmart with a prescription and buy a months supply of birth control pills for 5 bucks per month.
I wish Goldstein would come back and join the conservative side. He seems bent on taming us.

Brendan| 3.3.12 @ 12:43PM

Whore of Babylon...

And its $9/month without the prescription.

And OReilly, for all his good points, is still a complete economic illiterate. Doesn't understand energy at all, and his ego is so swollen there is no room for anything that may inform him. Hardly perspicacious.

Dai Alanye | 3.3.12 @ 8:25PM

What's more, Goldstein is misusing the word. Perhaps it's that Canadian dictionary.

1blumutt| 3.3.12 @ 9:40PM

Yep, this was no poor young little thing. My old Aunt Flo watched the video and said, "The Democrats found another Ringer, she one of those activist pros." So, now, we are reading that she's ...at least 30 and names of orgs she's been affiliated, a list as long as my arm from elbow to wrist. You all were sucked in Aaron Goldstein, but we, out here, the so-called thick-headed conservatives and my Aunt Flo nailed her. Limbaugh will be looking forward to his radio time come Monday, you can bet!

WL| 3.2.12 @ 11:26PM

The left is out there dishing hatred on the Late Breitbart....
Rush pokes fun at some piece of garbage being used by the left as the victim of the week...

And you write about which one?

This is why we are always fighting a near impossible battle in every media medium...EXCEPT...talk radio.

florin| 3.3.12 @ 8:59AM

The libs. call Repubs., especially Repub.women and Teapartiers, filthy, disgusting names and no one says a thing but Limbaugh, in utter frustration, calls the woman who is a professional activist for reproductive rights a name and he gets pounced on. How utterly hypercritical! And Obama treats this woman like a hero...remember the situation between the policeman and a black professor friend of Obama? Obama jumped in on that one too and had to apologize and offer to have a beer with the policeman...he is desperate to find a problem he can fix but it's too little too late. I hope someone investigates this Fluke woman who wants us to pay for her recreational sex and I hope the University throws her out...and that the other students there take her on for her lies ...

chuck| 3.3.12 @ 9:22AM

I would never ruin a good beer by having to drink it in front of that asshole Obama!

USSAlabama| 3.3.12 @ 12:21PM

Check her twitter --- over 20,000 followers --- and check who some of those are.

She has a long history of agitating for lefty causes.

Who honestly listened to anything she said and thought any less than what she has been called?

Annettela| 3.6.12 @ 1:02AM

Dearest Chuck,
How fortunate you are to live in a country where you can call our President an asshole. Takes one to know one obviously.

The American Hitman| 3.3.12 @ 9:50AM

Its unbelievable, isn't it? The forever embarrassed and fearful Republican.

alyeska| 3.3.12 @ 7:59PM

rush has done more for obama 12 than any super pac ever could.

the right revealed :)

WL| 3.3.12 @ 9:08PM

Don't you have some liberal website to go to...?

Maybe one with ways to steal from other taxpayers?
Drive an algae powered Volt?
One showing late term abortion videos?
Maybe one organizing support for a bill to have everyone support you and your fellow lefties?

Idiot.

Dave | 3.3.12 @ 10:50AM

Sorry, Aaron, but commentary like yours that (each time) racks the right for daring to call a spade a spade (that's right, I said it), is part of the reason the right is always stuck in a corner hugging their Linus blankies, and sucking on what's normally used to grip a screw driver. It's the "we need to have a civil tone" drivel that causes us to end-up gripping those earlier mentioned "blankies", while the left (day in and day out) is allowed to spew their hatred, and crush the images and reputations of those who tend to support our institutions and values.

I'll spare the lib list of documented examples as I only have patience for a few more comments. As far as those on the right needing to remain civil ... you can pack THAT advice and stuff it with the Bob Dole and John McCain campaign methods of getting their butts kicked. I for one am (a) thoroughly fed-up with being the one asked to turn the other cheek while (b) the left continues slapping my other one.

So, Aaron, just keep on bending over and grabbing the lily white ankles. If it works for you ... do what you gotta' do. Me? From now on my rule of battle is -"Screw takin' names, just kick some liberal ass."

But that'll be just MY rule, your actual rule(s) may vary. Check John Boehner for daily planner and blankie supplies.

Aaron Goldstein| 3.3.12 @ 7:46PM

Then you must have missed my blog post, "Why Liberals Cheer When Conservatives Die."

http://spectator.org/blog/2012.....hen-conser

yvonne| 3.5.12 @ 11:29AM

Sorry, Aaron, you are wrong, wrong, wrong. Both Rush and Bill responded in their way, neither is right or wrong. The key is to fight, and not throw other conservatives under the bus, as you just did.

Bob| 3.2.12 @ 11:35PM

This whole Fluke and contraception thing just makes me really mad. I've just about lost all hope in the national media. You and I *know* this is a manufactured issue. You and I *know* that they'll magnify every little slip-up (continuing to condemn Rush for his choice of words is DEFINITELY not helping Goldstein). You and I *know* this is meant to distract voters from the real issues, that Obama's record in the economy is abyssmal and his foreign policy continues to paint America as a monster that needs apologizing. It's meant to distract voters by painting conservatives as hateful monsters who would infringe on the rights of women (since apparently it's a right to have someone else pay for your contraception).

But we'll still have so many people just believing it, just eating it out of the palm of the media's hand. Even Aaron Goldstein, on the American Spectator (of all places) is eating it out of the media's hand and attempting to feed it to us. It's just plain ridiculous.

WL| 3.2.12 @ 11:57PM

I agreed not to comment on your posts..but please excuse this exception...

You are 100% right on the money with this one.

Richard Baker| 3.2.12 @ 11:55PM

I agree with Rush. She wants to have us pay for her protection while she whines about it. She's promiscuous, a whore, and slut. Too many these days want the rest of us to either look the other way or applaud depraved behavior. Call it what it is. Poor babies if you don't like it.

darcy| 3.3.12 @ 2:52AM

She's a slut and a whore. But we're being judgmental to call her such?!? Wasn't it Dan Rather who said that if it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck and looks like a duck (paraphrasing here), that it's a duck?

These lefties want you (and me) to pretend that whoredom is a good for society and for the individual who practices it. Isn't that what these last 50 years of hippie culture has inculcated? That there are no rights and wrongs, no good nor evil, just plain old preference for one thing or another, and to prove it they now DEMAND that there be no financial consequences to -- uh oh -- expensively BAD behavior???? At least there must not be limits placed, financial or otherwise, on the practitioners of the "bad" behavior; therefore -- in true leftist fashion (where society is to blame but not the individual) the costs are shifted to those citizens who attempt to live an ordered, virtuous life.

This is the land of Obama, where there are no downsides for tax cheats nor whores, but the good people of America are slandered for taking offense at having to pick up the tab.

alyeska| 3.3.12 @ 8:05PM

i expect more than a few of YOUR female relatives have used birth control over the past forty years.

i hope your mother, sisters, wife(s), nieces, aunts and daughters don't mind your opinion that they are all sluts, whores and prostitutes.

darcy| 3.4.12 @ 1:29AM

Look, dearie, if women are sleeping around, they are sluts, on the make (isn't that what feminism is all about? women can be just as sexually immoral as men -- and these bubbleheads think they've accomplished some great and noble goal -- sad and shallow human beings, all).

Using birth control is not the issue here. And if you can't see that, then not all the debate in the world will open your eyes to what YOU ARE ABOUT TO LOSE.

Tarr| 3.2.12 @ 11:56PM

Stick to sports and celebrity happenings. You show perspicacity in those areas.

WL| 3.2.12 @ 11:59PM

Don't you be mean to Mr. Goldstein...

You left out the obituaries.

Floyd Looney | 3.2.12 @ 11:59PM

Let us get this straight, Sandra Fluke is proud to be a slut. She even attends Slut Pride events as this picture attests.

http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/wp.....height=700

Drek| 3.3.12 @ 10:21AM

Seems somebody did something to your photograph of the sluts on parade, the link does not connect to the photograph.

alyeska| 3.3.12 @ 8:08PM

you get all hot just writing this don't you! another sick, old, white, republican male. perverts!

Floyd Looney | 3.3.12 @ 1:07AM

She is a professional leftwing agitator:

She was enrolled in Sexual Studies at Cornell University ten years ago.
Sandra Kay Fluke (born April 17, 1981)

Sandra Fluke’s professional background in domestic violence and human trafficking began with Sanctuary for Families in New York City. There, she launched the agency’s pilot Program Evaluation Initiative. While at Sanctuary, she co-founded the New York Statewide Coalition for Fair Access to Family Court, which after a twenty-year stalemate, successfully advocated for legislation granting access to civil orders of protection for unmarried victims of domestic violence, including LGBTQ victims and teens. Sandra was also a member of the Manhattan Borough President’s Taskforce on Domestic Violence and numerous other New York City and New York State coalitions that successfully advocated for policy improvements impacting victims of domestic violence.

As the 2010 recipient of the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles Fran Kandel Public Interest Grant, she researched, wrote, and produced an instructional film on how to apply for a domestic violence restraining order in pro per. She has also interned with the Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking; Polaris Project; Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County; Break the Cycle; the Domestic Violence Legal Empowerment and Appeals Project; NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund; Crime Victim and Sexual Assault Services; and the Human Services Coalition of Tompkins County.

Through Georgetown’s clinic programs, Sandra has proposed legislation based on fact-finding in Kenya regarding child trafficking for domestic work, and has represented victims of domestic violence in protection order cases. Sandra is the Development Editor of the Journal of Gender and the Law, and served as the President of Law Students for Reproductive Justice, and the Vice President of the Women’s Legal Alliance. In her first year, she also co-founded a campus committee addressing human trafficking. Cornell University awarded her a B. S. in Policy Analysis & Management, as well as Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies in 2003.

JR| 3.3.12 @ 1:20AM

The problem with I see with a lot of liberals involved in domestic abuse cases is this, a lot of times its fabricated so as to limit the fathers time with his children. Also as a tool to control an ex spouse and to gain favor in family court. I am a victim of this abuse and the real victims are my daughters so I know first hand how this can play out. Believe this people an accusation can be made with no evidence and then can be used in court. Fathers are then treated as nothing more than paychecks and can spend very little time with their children. Four days out of a month is not enough time to be a father but thats the point. Divide and conquer is the true motive of these radical feminists. Destroy the family and then have Government take the fathers place. I've seen it with my own two eyes and it's not pretty.

darcy| 3.3.12 @ 3:07AM

Divide and conquer. You are chillingly correct.

The leftist apparatis reaches its tentacles throughout our once free society, and pity those, like you, who have felt its icy claws tear away at your domestic life. The same liberal EVIL that infiltrates our law schools, our journalism schools, our humanities curriculum, poisons also the minds of students enrolled in sociology, anthropology, education, and even the seemingly benign departments of English.

The liberal menace permeates our institutions and threatens our very life and well-being; we can no longer expect to be dealt with -- in any transaction -- by people who are playing by the same rules that we do. We live amongst a nation of miscreants, moral pygmies, and mercenaries.

How on earth can we dwell honestly with a people for whom that word has no meaning?

God help us.

chuck| 3.3.12 @ 9:28AM

You mean this bitch is 31 years old, whoring around, and expects someone else to pay for her birth control?

Are you freakin" kidding me?

GROW UP YOU DAMNED SLUT!!

The American Hitman| 3.3.12 @ 9:54AM

Come on now--Georgetown Law School is expensive. 45k/yr. There is little $$ left for condoms and such. Only a right wing oaf would be unmoved by such suffering.

alyeska| 3.3.12 @ 8:12PM

well, you pay for rush's suitcases full of viagra :)

lkyle3930| 3.5.12 @ 6:19PM

Actually, Alyeska, Rush hasn't asked anyone to pay for his viagra.

Drek| 3.3.12 @ 10:26AM

Whereas before I harboured some suspicions of her hankerings and tendencies, after reading this list of all the feminist stuff she's up to her eyeballs in, I'm now of a mind that for her, reproductive activity is not likely to be a prob.

Not very likely she's interested in men.........

The closest she'll ever get to one is a strap-on.............

Or is that too much?

alyeska| 3.3.12 @ 8:13PM

you're the reason women fought so hard for access to birthcontrol -- imagine being forced to carry your spawn (shudder).

chuck| 3.4.12 @ 9:54AM

I can't imagine ANY man wanting to make a "donation" to you. Waste of some good sperm.

Bob K.| 3.3.12 @ 1:10AM

"The history of ideas (indeed of all human thought) is inseparable from the history of words." John Lukacs. "Democracy and Populism--Fear and Hatred." Published 2005. From the chapter "Misuse and misreading of 'Fascism.' " page 117.

Herewith a history of the word "Slut."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slut

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=slut

Simon Templar| 3.3.12 @ 1:38AM

I found this on the internet by an anonymous blogger and added my own translations of the recent testimony of the Georgetown student Fluke who believes you should pay for her contraception. Remember the statements in quotes are verbatim. These are her exact words.

It is also an answer to you, Aaron Goldstein.

"We expected women to be treated equally,
[translation, get free birth control when condoms are not supplied free to the male students. We will begin with a highly charged emotionally loaded accusation that we are being discriminated against and oppressed. That always works pretty well. The idea is to frame the issue and set the narrative, something beyond Goldstein's comprehension]

"to not have our school create untenable burdens that would impede our academic success."
[translation, not have to pay $4/month at Walmart so we can spend all our money on these fancy suits to testify before Congress to further our political careers]

"We expected that our schools would live up to the Jesuit creed of "Pura Personalis" - "to care for the whole person" by meeting all of our medical needs."
[translation, we expected them to disregard the medical needs of the unborn who are persons according to the beliefs upon which the university was founded and also expect that the university ignore all its beliefs about extra marital sex, promiscuity, and fornication. We are entitled to have you pay for this and we will throw your chritian value of care for people in your face to get you to do something contrary to your other beliefs.]

"We expected that when we told our universities of the problems this policy created for us as students, they would help us."
[translation, we expected that we could just go to these universities, KNOWING their policies, and complain, and they would just forget their founding beliefs and established policies and just do whatever we want because we are women and we are liberals]

"We expected that when 94% of students opposed the policy, the university would respect OUR choices regarding insurance students pay for completely unsubsidized by the university."
[translation, we expect this to be a really good soundbite and we expect that most people do not know that when this law goes into effect, the university will have to HEAVILY subsidize our insurance or pay hefty fines. We also have indicated that most of us here are having a great deal of extra marital sex and do not aspire in the least to any of the codes, ethics, or values of this institution.].

"We did NOT expect that we would be told in the national media that 'we should have gone to school elsewhere."
[translation, if/when we actually become lawyers, we do not expect to actually have to READ the contracts we sign because we "know" how things "should" be. We are once again entitled to have and get whatever we want disregarding anyone else's desires, values, policys, views, rules, or freedom to live in accordance with their values and vision. If they object, well tough. I will force myself in here whether they like it or not].

"And even if that meant going to a less prestigious university, we REFUSE to pick between a qualify education and our health."
[translation, we don't care what beliefs this university was founded upon, WE want to profit from the prestige of attending it, you can take your values and go to hell.]

"and we resent that in the 21st century, anyone thinks its acceptable to ask us to make that choice simply because we are women."
[translation, we expect to be able to inflict OUR moral beliefs on a university which was founded upon a different set of beliefs than our own BECAUSE we are women and liberals. Your values and beliefs are archaic, you are backward idiots, and how dare you even question us. I will have as much damn sex I want to, any where I want to, and you will damn pay for it and shut fuck up.]

Jeremiah Smirking| 3.3.12 @ 8:27AM

High-larious!! ... and spot ON!

Drek| 3.3.12 @ 10:29AM

She has made Georgetown look like a pathetic joke.

Georgetown Law is one of the top five law schools in the country, regularly refusing admission to those of top scores from all across the nation.

Yet they found space enough for this political agitator.

Paul McGrath| 3.3.12 @ 6:46PM

Simon,

Again, brilliant. Wow. This woman is 31 years old. And I would be really, really interested to know who is paying for her education. This is something that Aaron, as a journalist, should look into.

I suspect that Ms. Fluke is not paying for her law school degree herself, and I suspect that she has not had to take out loans.

I would really like to know this. I am guessing that she is being subsidized by "grants" from our friendly U. S. government, that she has a "scholarship" from some left-wing organization, or that her parents are paying every single dime of it.

This is something that ought to be looked into.

alabama yankee| 3.4.12 @ 12:57PM

If she wants the American taxpayer to pay for her birth control, can we assume that we will be required to pick-up the tab for her other sexual paraphernalia, like the paper bag for her head?

ayrnieu| 3.3.12 @ 4:01AM

She's a slut. More importantly, "how dare anyone call her a slut?! Apologize! Apologize!" is complete froth that should've meet a solid wall of scorn. A solid wall of scorn, even before anyone who hadn't listened to Rush knew the context, because the context isn't necessary to dismiss the charge, and also isn't of importance to those making the charge.

On the second point: none of them attempted to argue that she was chaste - nor would have thought to, except if by some cosmic accident she were chaste and this were brought to their attention as a more-effective point to bring up. They wouldn't have thought to do so because they don't value chastity, love sluts, and use meaningless insults so much themselves that they forget that people on the right occasionally apply insults that actually literally mean something, are not just a dressed-up "grrr, I hate you." They don't actually care that she was called a slut - so why should you?

On the first point: imagine you're going on TV, or about to give a speech, and are otherwise about to use some your precious time to attempt to unravel some of the evil that these people have done. You're about to do this, and - oh no, someone was called a name! A bad name! Considering these two people who despise each other and who regard each other as a materially baleful influence on the country and world, why, one of them was _verbally disrespectful_ of the other! Do you really care? Do you care more or less depending on either person? Do you care more or less depending on whether the particular insult was true or not or glib or not or general or specific? If you care even a little, it's because you've lost sight of the actually important and substantive reasons that these two parties had, prior to and after the remark, to oppose each other. So talk about that stuff instead. Or, you know, anything that a Kindergarten teacher wouldn't feel professionally equipped to deal to.

Really, to do otherwise, to entertain the discussion at all, aren't you ashamed of your civilization? I was, when after fifteen minutes of handwringing and a Republican pretending to be a leftist with "you're a hypocrite! _You_ apologize!", the leftist finally explained that the issue was that some woman was called a slut -- and the alien next to me laughed.

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 3.3.12 @ 6:41AM

It's kind of funny none of her alleged lovers has popped up. She looks gay to me.

solidground| 3.3.12 @ 8:40AM

Kinda homely. And the last name of "Fluke" just nails it.

Drek| 3.3.12 @ 11:30AM

She appears an earnest, overearnest type, boring, one-dimensional.

She appears shit-stupid to boot. That face looks like a slab of sheer, stupefying stupidity.

l5j6f7| 3.3.12 @ 7:06AM

Wow, Goldstein is so..........."sensitive". Hmm.

The American Hitman| 3.3.12 @ 9:56AM

snort

Brent| 3.3.12 @ 8:15AM

Limbaugh is exactly right on this issue. However, it bothers the author that he didn’t insert the proper politically correct BS in his response. I get so tired of these effeminate males who call themselves conservatives worrying about offending a select group of the populace with “improper” messaging. I got news for you Mr. Goldstein, you’re not going to sway the individuals who are more concerned that Rush called her a slut, than the fact that she wants her fellow citizens to subsidize her sex life. Sometimes you need to publically humiliate these idiots to discourage the next moron from stepping up to the podium.

PattyMor| 3.3.12 @ 8:37AM

Let's call it like it is. Ms. Fluke wants recreational sex and she wants an organization opposed to contreception to pay for it. Like a a spoiled child, she wants what she wants, and no constitutional right of Freedom of Religion should get in the way. What she really is looking to do, is smash religious freedom in the name of "reproductive rights". The Left really is the culture of death and degradition.

solidground| 3.3.12 @ 8:39AM

As homely as she is, some guys apparently are pretty hard up. And then we have Obumbles telling the sweet young lawyer wanna-be (and who's surprised at that, being that screwing seems to be her prime passion?) that he's sure her parents will be proud of her. Well, if they are, they're pretty sorry folks.

Pecos Pete| 3.3.12 @ 8:45AM

Once in awhile I listen to Rush Limbaugh. I happened to be listening to him when he spoke the dreaded word about Ms Fluke. I spilled coffee on my keyboard from laughing. In one sentence Rush nailed the liberal agenda.

The resulting furor so infuriated me that yesterday I paid hard earned money to buy a subscription to Rush's 24/7 service. My wee bit of money won't mean much to Rush but I hope he understands that millions of people support him in his comment about Ms. Fluke.

sjccoach| 3.3.12 @ 9:06AM

More conservatives like Mr. Limbaugh are needed to beat the left. He called Ms. Fluke what she is. We don't need more CINOs apologizing to the left for calling a spade a spade.

florin| 3.3.12 @ 9:08AM

I hope whoever is the Republican candidate will have all of these hypocrisies by Obama, Pelosi and the liberal left in their archives and bring them out over and over and over just before the election.Pelosi crying in fear of peaceful Teapartiers she called Nazis; OWS people attacking police, raping,leaving filth,Obama and Chu saying they want gas prices at $10 a gallon,Union thugs, SEIU,communist mobs bussed in to Wisconsin storming the Capitol leaving a wake of destruction.Repubs need to stop playing nice..the media sides with Obama and the libs..so get the word out in your local areas,cities, states..start now and don't stop until Obama and his thugs are thrown out of office...

Redatheart| 3.3.12 @ 9:13AM

Ed Schultz once referred to Laura Ingraham as a 'right-wing sl--'. Did the president drop what he was doing and dial up Laura and offer his support for her courage? Ms. Fluke sought a moment of fame and wanted to make a name for herself. She was hoping for a name other than what she ended up with, but the President will richly reward her somehow for helping distract from high gas prices and failed policies overall, at least for a few days. A big job of one sort another awaits Ms. Fluke for demoralizing herself, her family and the Women's Movement in general.

Becka| 3.3.12 @ 9:59AM

Where I come from, a woman who needs to spend $1000 a year on contraception is most definitely spending quite a bit of time between the sheets. If that same woman then announces to the entire world that she is doing so and also then asks that world to pay for her activities... she is a bonafide slut. Rush nailed it, like it or not. And I, for one, respect a person who calls it like it is, not dances around the edges pretending to be "tough".

The American Hitman| 3.3.12 @ 10:00AM

Ms Fluke is an Agit-Prop actress from the Obama-Alinsky School. She was recruited for the role, willingly accepted it, and earned public derision and scorn for her efforts, along with a pat on the head from Obama.

And as usual, Republicans line up to play the fools in the left's Agit_Prop production. Oh, the shame....

martin j smith| 3.3.12 @ 10:23AM

Aaron I support Rush Limbaugh on his calling this slut a slut 100%. I am tried of the self-righteous criticism--What the truth is is this: You and others of your ilk are too cowardly to confront Obama and his acolytes in the MSM and in government .in more forceful ways when THEY abuse their authority in most crass and hideous ways. I am sorry--I am not fan of GWB but even he was a coward in failing to counter attack. We do not need that any more enough!!!!!!

Drek| 3.3.12 @ 11:45AM

And GWB was too damn cowardly to go after the foremost sponsors of muslim mayhem, the Iranians!

S. Fluke| 3.3.12 @ 11:08AM

I can see it's high time all the Sisters got together in solidarity and had another Slut March, as our male oppressors have already forgotten the last ones, where we taught the world the beauty of feminist freedoms.
Power To The People! Equality Now!

martin j smith| 3.3.12 @ 11:32AM

S Fluke who or whatever you are thanks for giving voice for the phoney propaganda line of the LEFT. You can have your slut March. But of course and naturally those who are the Flukes have absolutely no memory of the garbage. It is time to stand for freedom of speech and against the lies of the left and PC> No more baby. Enough. Trolls are who they are .

aware| 3.3.12 @ 11:53AM

I hate to be brutal but, you are being played like pawn shop fiddles by the Left. They seem to be virtuosos at it. This crap and the whole birth control feint has you circling the wagons in a far removed field safely away from the real action.

They are setting the agenda and holding the initiative. Trot out a trollop and instantly you are all over it like the whole war is her. In the end the "courts" will "decide" and negate any advantage you might temporarily gain from fighting this skirmish, like always.

Not a peep when NDAA passes with Republicans in the lead. You will rue this far more going forward than a passing bimbo. Small victories are fine as long as the other side isn't racking up big ones at the same time.

Politics is war and in war the initiative is the critical part of forcing your will on the enemy. I would think you would be tired of waiting to be punched so you can "counterpunch".

I feel sorry for you when you get to the dirtiest general election against the most amoral, cynical inside gamers you've ever seen. The same one that utterly shut down the previous dirtiest team in politics, the Clinton Cartel.

martin j smith| 3.3.12 @ 12:19PM

Aware--I am very aware that the posters like Aaron and others are fools for not standing up for Rush. They are too easily taken in by the holier than you position of the Republican Establishment. But then again Aware it suits their purposes because the real aganda in common with the Socialists is to shut the Conservative side up. Its real about controlling speech and both of these sides have a common desire to have limits on our freedoms. So, Aware and others to some like Aaron G who may really feel that saying this one way is better than that way I say-NUTS!!!!!!!!!
The 2010 election was about NO to Socialism and so will the 2012 election be. Time to wake up and smell the garbage and dump it.

aware| 3.3.12 @ 2:12PM

We were warned in 1948 with a cartoon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz9fX_HfsXA

martin j smith| 3.3.12 @ 12:20PM

Oh and did I forget to say Fluke is a SLUT and so are the Socialists who support Fluke.

DRed| 3.3.12 @ 1:19PM

I had no idea so many of you bitter misogynists paid for Georgetown university's health plan. Or that so many people in America today had absolutely no idea how birth control works. It's quite pathetic.

Truth to Power| 3.4.12 @ 12:13PM

She was testifying in front of the United States Congress, fool.

Mike 3/505| 3.4.12 @ 4:11PM

Mysogynist=Any male that fails to kowtow to the feminize agenda.=Any male that fails to agree with a woman.

Clint| 3.3.12 @ 2:23PM

Nancy Pelosi Will Be Hosting The First Annual Sandy Fluker Recycled Condom Drive & Street Walk On Sunday, In Washington.D.C.

The Festivities Will Climax,When A Gigantic Condom Is Stretched Over The Washington Monument By The NAG Broads, Followed Immediately By Fireworks.

Taxpayer Funded Cigars Will Then Be Passed Out Culminating In The Monica Lewinsky/Bubba Smoke Off.

Donna Graham| 3.3.12 @ 3:20PM

Oh, dear, why is the Republican party so determined to commit suicide? Doesn't ANYBODY on this site perceive the appalling reality that Rush Limbaugh's profoundly offensive comments have just tilted the balance in favor of Democrats this election year? Women vote, almost all 51% of us. And if many conservative women like me are this furious, what are the all-important bloc of Independent women voters feeling? The contraceptive medication Loestrin24 costs $85 a month out of pocket - and there's the $3000 Fluke referred to. It is also prescribed to control painful ovarian cysts. But it's so much more fun to call her vile names (yes, the Dems did it to Sarah Palin, but we expect it from them). I'm sure the DNC is quite gleeful right now: who would have thought the American Spectator and other conservative blogs would be helping their cause so much?

Jake| 3.3.12 @ 3:45PM

You are one of the few who recognize the awful damage Rush has done to our chances in November.
The Democrats understand how devastating this is .
The vast majority of posters here have fallen for Limbaugh's schtick.
I have read Fluke's testimony three times just to make sure I haven't missed what she said.
Rush's three shows about Fluke and her words are not in the same universe.
She acted like a lawyer representing clients.
Fluke told of women with serious medical problems who needed the medicine found in birth control pills to treat their conditions.
But, because the insurance policies they bought through Georgetown prohibited these medicines, they couldn't afford treatment.
Some of the women had serious consequences because they were untreated.
The topic was oriented toward the medical treatment of women's illnesses rather than contraception.
And the larger question she presented was about exclusions in health insurance policies , mandates and religious freedom.
A topic Republicans could have won if presented correctly , but, that opportunity is gone, thanks to Limbaugh.
Limbaugh completely misrepresented Fluke's testimony and falsified her words.
Limbaugh repeated over and over that Fluke testified that she had sex three times a day , he called her a prostitute ,
he said that Fluke wanted the public to pay for her sexual activities and on and on.
That was flat out false and that's why advertisers are bailing and the public is in an uproar.
He actually broadened his attacks on Thursday to include all women attending Georgetown.
I'll be amazed if there isn't a class action suit against him for slander.
His ignorance of Fluke's actual words and his bizarre behavior is a huge gift to Obama and a black eye for Republicans
because he's so closely tied to the conservative movement.
It's unforgivable.

Donna Graham| 3.3.12 @ 3:53PM

Thank you, Jake - but it is very cold comfort. I hope everyone remembers the phrase "Madame Speaker" because Rush has helped re-instate it. He dealt our party a political death-blow, and so few people seem to perceive it.

ejp| 3.3.12 @ 4:41PM

I am now more convinced that you are not even a legitimate "Republican" because not a single Republican with a grain of intelligence would delude themselves into thinking this is going to be the front and center issue in a campaign.

Vern Crisler | 3.4.12 @ 12:54AM

What about men suffering from ED? Should insurance companies be required to pay for their Viagra?

Clint| 3.3.12 @ 5:30PM

It'a About The Economy Stupid.

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

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

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

Mess With Us And Watch & Learn.

ejp| 3.3.12 @ 3:25PM

There was no "fun" involved in calling Fluke what she is. It was telling it like it is. The disgrace is that there are ersatz "conservatives" who feel a need to cave-in to phony liberal outrage and feel a need to "answer" for Limbaugh while Bill Maher and company get off scot-free for their genuine misogyny. I for one am sick of such wussy, pathetic and wimpy behavior from conservatives because this is precisely the reason why so many elections conservatives keep winning end up being for naught just like 2010 is turning out to be.

Donna Graham| 3.3.12 @ 3:30PM

More name-calling, wonderful. Our party will pay dearly for this in November, and that is the bottom line in politics, after all. Women vote, and frequently decide elections. That's political reality. Pragmatism works.

Clint| 3.3.12 @ 11:04PM

Stick This Reality, Broad.

• There has been a gender gap in every presidential election since 1980. In the 2000 election, women were 10 percentage points less likely than men to vote for George W. Bush (43% of women vs. 53% of men supported Bush); and 12 percentage points more likely than men to vote for Al Gore (54% of women vs. 42% of men supported Gore), according to the Voter News Service.
• In the 2004 election, a gender gap is apparent in women versus men’s support of George W. Bush and John Kerry, both nationwide and in battleground states. For example:
• Nationally, the gender gap is about 10 percentage points, with 51% of women vs. 41% of men supporting Kerry, and 39% of women vs. 50% of men supporting Bush, according to the Pew Research Center for People and the Press (Oct. 15-19 poll).

George Bush Won Both Elections.

Vern Crisler | 3.4.12 @ 12:55AM

As Ann Coulter once said, it's too bad women were given the right to vote. Donna just proves her right.

ejp| 3.3.12 @ 3:52PM

"Prgamatism?" Oh yeah, just like Bob Dole and John McCain. They sure won with their "pragmatism".

This is reminding me of how in 1980, there was actually an argument that Ronald Reagan wouldn't win because of his opposition to ERA.

Donna Graham| 3.3.12 @ 3:57PM

I hope you are enjoying your self-righteous fury here. To me, it is a very, very poor substitute for political victory. I was hoping we could at least hold on to the House, and maybe even take the Senate. Not now. The damage done with women voters is irreparable. And in this case, it is no comfort that I am right. Aim for 2014.

ejp| 3.3.12 @ 4:10PM

I hope you're enjoying your self-defeating attitude of suggesting that women are easily snookered by left-wing propaganda grandstanding, while not recognizing that this should be the time for conservatives to push back against the REAL cases of misogyny perpetrated by the likes of Maher, Olbermann, pervert David Letterman and other leftie boosters in the same realm Limbaugh operates from. If you're going to buy into the leftist spin on Limbaugh, then as far as I'm concerned its your realm that guarantees Obama victory.

Donna Graham| 3.3.12 @ 4:25PM

Oh, dear, you are right on so many counts, but the bottom line is - will it play at the ballot box? Sadly, it will not. We're toast this year. Rush, Santorum and Issa all played a part in the coming debacle with women voters. Don't take my word for it (clearly you won't), just wait until November.

ejp| 3.3.12 @ 4:33PM

Issa? How does being the only member of the House willing to hold Eric Holder's feet to the fire on his long trail of corruption cost the Republicans? I think your true colors as an establishment Republican who would rather lose than stand up for Conservatives is fast becoming evident.

Donna Graham| 3.3.12 @ 4:43PM

OK, enough. You really have no clue how offensive Issa's all-old-male panel on women's health care was to women? Clearly not. It was. In multiple spades. Trust me on this. If the fig-leaf cover of 'religious freedom' for that silly panel didn't fly with me, it sure didn't fly with liberal women. Speculate on my "true colors" all you want, it won't stop the coming disaster. Sadly, the only antidote for political cluelessness is defeat at the ballot box.

ejp| 3.3.12 @ 4:46PM

Thank you now for confirming you're a fake. Only a fake would buy into that crap about Issa's "all-male-panel". Go vote for Obama, you deserve him in spades.

ejp| 3.3.12 @ 5:05PM

And here we have an intelligent woman's take on how the GOP will become "Toast" in regards this issue: By following the blueprint of Aaron Goldstein.

http://bigjournalism.com/dloes.....red-story/

Cpm| 3.3.12 @ 4:03PM

That doesn't alter the fact that Georgetown isn't obligated to pay for it. It doesn't alter the fact that Fluke is a democrat agitator specifically placed at Jesuit institution Georgetown to gin up this manufactured controversy. It doesn't alter the fact that Fluke holds herself and her fellow coeds up to public ridicule when she claims that their sexual appetites must be paid for by the university to the tune of $1000 a year apiece (no pun intended). She's the one that placed a dollar value on it. Seems a little high to me.

Donna Aquino| 3.3.12 @ 4:14PM

She could be the reincarnation of Jack the Ripper for all I care. What Rush said (and his understanding of how contraception medication both costs and works is abysmal) has cost us the White House and likely the Congress. Henry Clay said he'd rather be right than President. This is a good description of my party right now.

jim wheatley| 3.3.12 @ 4:25PM

Goldstein- I guess the final question is how did Vlady and Bob Terrell let you slip through the gate? Oh well I suppose we can be grateful two decade had passed between you and David Brock's slither under the fence.

DRed| 3.3.12 @ 5:32PM

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/da....._from_rush

Hey look, Rush thinks you're all wrong.

DRed| 3.3.12 @ 5:49PM

Although that is a singularly lame apology, at least he's sorta trying.

ejp| 3.3.12 @ 7:06PM

I'm personally sickened that Rush has felt a need to make any kind of apology. Fluke doesn't deserve one.

JTG| 3.3.12 @ 6:07PM

Sorta. Bit lame, bit late. Interesting that 9 of 12 major sponsors dropped his show since yesterday, and now the 'apology'? Whatta guy!

DRed| 3.3.12 @ 6:15PM

You've got to understand that when he repeatedly attacked Ms. Fluke for 3 days, he didn't mean to attack her. And the real issue, of course, is whatever happened to personal responsibility in America?

Rush also has still failed to grasp that what Ms. Fluke wanted was for the private insurance THAT SHE and her fellow students PAY FOR not be limited by the religious beliefs of her school. She's not asking the taxpayers to pay for it.

Richard Baker| 3.3.12 @ 6:13PM

Donna Graham:
We'll see in November whether women agree with Fluke or not, won't we? Do you agree with Fluke? Tell the truth, now.

Donna Aquino| 3.3.12 @ 6:32PM

Richard, we will indeed. I am hoping my Cassandra-like predictions are utterly wrong. But I don't think I am. As for agreeing with Fluke: why does that even matter? So you can call me the same name? She was quite right that Loestrin24, which many women must take for reasons other than contraception, costs $85 a month out of pocket. How she spends her time is no concern of mine, but I understood clearly that she was not referring to recreational sex, nor requesting that I subsidize it.

However, I guarantee you that a huge number of American women of both or no political parties were profoundly offended by the terms she was called, and the escalation of insults that followed. We're kinda funny like that.

ejp| 3.3.12 @ 7:09PM

Whether you agree with Fluke or not DOES matter since as far as I'm concerned it tells me that you have no clue about how serious the issue of Obama's assault on religious freedome is.

Donna Graham| 3.3.12 @ 7:15PM

Oh, dear, not you again? Have you grasped that your opinion of me matters, as the Victorians would have said, not a whit? And I'd go easy on the term 'clueless' if I were you..............

ejp| 3.3.12 @ 7:24PM

My, my the person of multiple aliases! But the same garbage from either one that smells as bad from either handle.

JTG| 3.3.12 @ 7:42PM

Whats your problem with this woman? Cant you handle an opinion you don't agree with or what?

ejp| 3.3.12 @ 8:04PM

I'm still trying to figure out how she can't handle the legitimacy of how Fluke was characterized, which was rooted in a basic truth, in contrast to how the misogyny of the Left is rooted in misogyny for its own sake. The comments about Issa though and the committee, buying into the lamestream media's lie about "no women" were enough to indicate that this is one "opinion" conservatives of principle don't have to take seriously.

Sarah L.| 3.3.12 @ 8:25PM

I thought an exchange of different views was the whole point of these boards.

Paul McGrath| 3.3.12 @ 7:07PM

What do we know about Sandra Fluke? We know she's 31. We know she is attending law school. We know she has been an advocate of women's rights for many years.

Who is paying for her education? How is she financing this? Loans? Grants? Scholarships? Good ole Ma and Pa? (Making her a member of the dreaded 1%?)

How is it that she, of all people, was called to testify in front of Congress?

There are a lot of really funny things going on around here.

Controse| 3.3.12 @ 7:08PM

Mr. Goldstein, Mr. Goldstein what do you call a woman who expects strangers to pay her so she can have sex? If such a woman is not a slut what is she? I am sure a learned man such as yourself can help us all out on this one. Adjectives are just a shorthand us to describe behavior. What is your shorthand for her behavior?

DRed| 3.3.12 @ 7:21PM

Strangers? You mean the strangers who run the insurance company that Ms. Fluke pays for health insurance? oh, no, you don't know what you're talking about. Carry on.

S. Fluke| 3.3.12 @ 9:25PM

I laugh at all of the naive male oppressors that somehow that have bought the line that women are after "equality". Why should those who are superior settle for mere "equality"? The world will now be run by women, and there will be no more testosterone-fueled wars, nor political power plays that leave the down-trodden members of society hungry and homeless. Women understand how to get things done right and peacefully. As long as we have men by the cajones and we assert that power "we WILL overcome"!

Vern Crisler | 3.4.12 @ 1:00AM

Rush thinks he's going to be left alone now that he has brown-nosed these leftwing jackals. Sorry, they smell blood now, and they will work even harder to destroy Rush. Never apologize to the Left. NEVER. You only apologize to honorable people, never to ideologues.

C.T. Wise | 3.4.12 @ 1:30PM

As long as insurance continues to pay for Viagra, I'm happy. And I will continue to be happy to complain about single mothers needing food stamps for more babies due to lack of birth control being used because taxpayers pay for Viagra. Win-Win..

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