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The Spectacle Blog
Mark Corallo defends Rush Limbaugh. Great stuff. Please read.
He also takes a shot at my friend (or, rather, longtime friendly acquaintance) Jack DeGioia, president of Georgetown University, which happens to be the alma mater that Corallo and I share:
To Georgetown University’s president who found time in his busy schedule to publicly attack Rush, but seemingly didn’t have time to explain to the Obama advance people in April 2009 that covering the Jesuit symbol IHS (Iesus Hominem Salvator - Jesus Savior of Mankind) when President Obama spoke at Georgetown would be an insult to the University and the Catholic Church - that the lesson of our first Pope denying our Lord three times still rings true 2,000 years later - how about acting like the leader of a Catholic university and telling the young woman that her public whining was an embarrassment to the university she claims to represent?
Now let it be said that Jack is a good guy and his appeals for civility are well crafted and well intentioned. And let’s look past his gratuitous swipe at conservative comments as being “misogynistic, vitriolic, and a misrepresentation (????) of the position of our student.” Funny how Jack never writes a letter to the university defending conservatives from vitriol — to which, as I can well attest, conservatives are subjected to all the time on Georgetown’s campus. My point is not that DeGioia is a hypocrite, but rather that those on one side of the debate can be amazingly blind to transgressions by their side or to the damage done to the victims thereof. I certainly don’t remember DeGioia coming to the defense of my friend Deroy Murdock (a great columnist now, beloved of libertarian conservatives) when he was subject to horrid verbal abuse for taking conservative stances on campus in the mid-1980s, when DeGioia was dean of student affairs…..
The fact is that Limbaugh went overboard. But it is also a fact that Ms. Fluke, whom DeGioia defends, grossly exaggerated her case. It was such an exaggeration that it was virtually a self-parody. Limbaugh picked up on the absurdity of her claims ($3,000 for contraceptives?!? Really? Classmates going broke because of contraceptives?!?) and, as Limbaugh often does, he further advanced the parody. I didn’t think what he said was funny — but as a southern gentleman, I just don’t like calling women sluts (unless they act in public like Madonna or Britney Spears). I thought it was unfortunate and counterproductive commentary. But it was hardly as grave a sin as, say, covering crucifixes. It was an unfunny attempt to be funny. It was hardly worthy of a call from the president of the United States, and probably not worth a tut-tutting letter from the president of Georgetown University.
I just noticed that Kathryn Lopez has some good commentary too. Very thoughtful.
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DRed| 3.6.12 @ 4:13PM
"I heard Rush’s comments live: every word of it, the tone of voice, the inflections. Rush Limbaugh was using the time-honored method of satire to describe an absurd event on Capitol Hill — the whining of a 30-year-old law student whose life is apparently in shambles because she and her fellow law students are having so much recreational sex that affording birth control has become a financial burden. "
I must say, I'm impressed. It took Mr. Corrallo only two sentences to reveal he has no idea what he's talking about. How is it possible that so many of you don't even understand how contraceptives work? This is one of the reasons women don't like it when conservative men start yammering about women's health issues. Why should anyone listen to this guy talk about contraception when he doesn't even know what it is? Do you not know any women? Is there no google in the NRO office?
Windy City Commentary| 3.6.12 @ 4:14PM
This whole, "He's a good guy, he's my friend" defense doesn't cut it anymore Quin. You really are a guy who has a shallow worldview that does not go outside of your social bubble. You stopped commenting on the GOP race because you can't honestly cover it due to your prejudices, but you'll go ahead and cover this, and defend your "friend", who isn't defending the Catholic Church well at all in his big position at Georgetown. You really should step down from your perch of partiality, or just admit the truth that you are fully partisan in many many areas and ways and that is the way it is.
Quin| 3.6.12 @ 4:42PM
If you read this as a defense of DeGioia, you can't read. My good friend Corallo emailed me to say I got it just right......
Windy City Commentary| 3.6.12 @ 5:55PM
"And let's look past his gratuitous swipe at conservative comments as being "misogynistic, vitriolic, and a misrepresentation (????) of the position of our student." "
You tell us to look past this. I read your piece, I know you weren't taking the side of the Georgetown President. Just pointing out that personal relationships completely skew your writing. It was stupid of you to stop covering the GOP race, because your feelings got in the way, but your feelings get in the way of everything you write, so by the standard you've created regarding your coverage of the GOP race, you should stop opining on any topic.
Simon Templar| 3.6.12 @ 5:59PM
Since everyone is so concerned about fact, fairness, and truth, let us look EXACTLY at what Rush said that day.
"What does it say about the college co-ed Sandra Fluke, who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex, what does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She's having so much sex she can't afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex. What does that make us? We're the pimps. (interruption) The johns? We would be the johns? No! We're not the johns. (interruption) Yeah, that's right. Pimp's not the right word. Okay, so she's not a slut. She's "round heeled." I take it back."
This is the tempest in a teapot. The guy clearly was making an analogy with Butt Sisters music, and all and attempting to define how absurd and comical this all was just as Saturday Night Live has done a thousand times in thirty years with much pointed sarcasm and ridicule. This is what he does, political humor. So, technically did he or did he call her a slut for real, or was it jesting, he technicallly said she was not at the end and retracted...in the same sentence he called hmself a john or pimp? Maybe he should apologize to himself.
What really is going on here is just that a organized hypocritical cheap and coordinated attack on free speech, a conservative, and an attempt to distract away from their messiah's failed economic policies. You even have one of their own, a respected liberal journalist and a woman of the Fox News staff saying just that...
This was no different when most everybody called congress thieves, crooks, felons, and criminal when we learned that they were using inside trading information for their own gain. Were they technically breaking the law? Unfortunately no. But we used an analogy to demonstrate the absurdity and distasteful unethical acts as being close to criminal and we were angry about it because it offended our sense of values about fairness, our distaste for greed, and our ideas about how our reps should be behaving as our reps and what we belive they should be doing there in congress.
The hypocricy truly is stunning coming from the Left and the insincerity. You owe me an apology and the rest of the nation. Get started you phony, liberal hypocrites. You can start apologizing for Bill Maher and then move on to the other dozen loudmouths you hold up on a pedestal.
Simon Templar| 3.6.12 @ 6:10PM
Who by the way actually do emphatically and without any question, parody, or jest, or ambiguity call women, conservative women, cunts, whores, sluts, meatbags, and half a dozen other names......on prime time! Stunningly amazing hypocricy!
People who build and live in misogynistic and vitriolic houses should not throw stones!
Quartermaster| 3.6.12 @ 7:43PM
Georgetown was a mess when Buchanan went through. The Jesuits lost their way a very long time ago and it is unlikely they will ever find their way back. Malachi Martin many times wondered why the Pope did not supress the order, but it's likely he would have to supress most of them if he did.
Oldefarte| 3.7.12 @ 11:25AM
First of all, Limbaugh SHOULD NOT hve used his chosen wording for description, since this woman [just like the purposeful instigation of the contraception within healthcare versus Catholic Church was a LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY ''''''''POLITICAL SETUP'''''''and the stupid Republicans fell right into it up to their ignorant eyeballs typically]. Supposedly Nancy Pilosi was the source that enabled this Georgetown law student to testify before congress, as the Republicans committe members had tried to prevent her from doing same. Also supposedly, she is a picket-protester for governmental payment of such related causes as sex change operations for homosexuals wishing to be transformed from a HE to a SHE or vice-versa [so she's no former Catholic nun now enrolled in Georgetown Law, okay]. And $3000/year for birth control pills? Give me a break! That's $250/month. She must be ambidextrous by being able to hold a law school textbook in one hand and a ????? in the other, no doubt. Back to the subject, this situation was a political setup by Pilosi, Obama and Democrats and Rush and Republicans typically acted '''''STUPIDLY'''''by falling into their set trap. Next they nominate Rick Santorum and then it will become GAME, SET AND MATCH in November!!!!!!!!!!
Oldefarte| 3.7.12 @ 11:53AM
I''d also suggest everyone to read Ron Ross' editorial regarding this subject on today's TAS for a confirmation of my point above!!!!!!!