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The Spectacle Blog
I caught most of Sandra Fluke’s speech to the DNC. Her tone was shrill and strident. Here is but a sample:
In that America, your new president could be a man who stands by when a public figure tries to silence a private citizen with hateful slurs. Who want to stand up to the slurs, or to any of the extreme, bigoted voices in his own party.
For a moment there, I thought she was speaking of President Obama and Bill Maher.
It would be an America in which you have a new vice president who co-sponsored a bill that would allow pregnant women to die preventable deaths in our emergency rooms.
So first Mitt Romney is responsible for the death of the spouse of a former Bain employee. Now Paul Ryan is responsible for the deaths of pregnant women.
I think of Sandra Fluke as a younger version of DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. So by all means I hope Obama has Fluke stumping for him between now and November. For every person she engages, she will annoy a hundred others.
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mike 3/505| 9.5.12 @ 10:52PM
Clinton ain't doing "The Won's" chances any better.
Paul McGrath| 9.5.12 @ 11:45PM
Fluke will be running for office in a couple of years. In a very liberal district. And she'll win.
Coward Robert Ford| 9.6.12 @ 5:43AM
I don't see that, she's a one trick pony activist.
But, since liberals keep telling us she's a star, why don't they run her for president in 2016 or some other year and let us find out what kind of star she is. I would expect to win all 50 states if she was their nominee. :)
RCV| 9.6.12 @ 12:56AM
Fluke's speech was moved up to prime time precisely because what she has to say resonates well with most women and with young people of both genders. Your reaction to her speech is an indication of how much the right is misreading the electorate: you might have pulled off this election if you could have stayed on message on the economy. Instead, you've managed to make it a referendum on whether the country prefers the Democrats or Republicans on social value issues, and it will be the GOP's downfall.
Coward Robert Ford| 9.6.12 @ 5:40AM
RCV,
the fact that Obama wanted a bimbo like Fluke in prime time says a lot about him. Nobody cares about this woman and her personal grievances. I suspect a majority of women agree with Limbaugh's comments on her.
where is your proof republicans would lose if this election was only on social issues? a majority of blacks and hispanics are against gay marriage and pro-life isn't a minority position. the reality is democrats have told us they are abortion zealots and they care more about that than the economy or anything else.
RCV| 9.6.12 @ 11:13AM
The proof will come in November, Coward.
Stan Redmond| 9.6.12 @ 2:12PM
Unfortunately most black Americans will vote for a self created "black" president regardless of what he or his political party does. Democrats ran inner cities in to abysmal black ghettos, destroyed public schools, reigned over cities with higher murder rates then Baghdad, supported apocolyptic abortion policies, and chained black families with yokes of slavery via welfare and minimum wage....YET! 98% still gonna vote for Obama.
effinayright| 9.6.12 @ 2:44PM
You say below that most Catholic women use birth control.
Maybe so, but they do not expect it to be "free", that is, in Liberalspeak, "paid for by someone else". That's where your "social values" shtick goes off the rails.
It's also curious that libs like you want the government "out of our bedrooms", while at the same time wanting the government to force other people to pay for your birth control.
Do you not note the hypocrisy?
Also, what's this mantra about "reproductive rights" got to do with contraception, which is done to PREVENT reproduction?
Coward Robert Ford| 9.6.12 @ 5:46AM
At least the DNC is going to have some eye candy speaking tomorrow night, Eva, Scarlett Johansson, and Natalie Portman.
Despite all the liberal gushing over this Fluke woman, the swing voters probably prefer the eye candy. If Fluke was hot, maybe she could have been somebody one day. Alas.
RCV| 9.6.12 @ 11:15AM
You'll be seeing Ms. Fluke in Congress very soon. And I'm looking forward to seeing Ms Johansson and Ms Portman this evening!
junkyard infidel| 9.6.12 @ 12:46PM
"You'll be seeing Ms. Fluke in Congress very soon."
i seriously doubt it, but if so, she will be on her knees and back for the term. she's not a slut, she's a whore !
RCV| 9.6.12 @ 1:15PM
Only in your dreams, you little misogynist.
spike59| 9.6.12 @ 5:48AM
i ALMOST watched her screech, but i try to stick to my rule about ignoring professional activists pretending to be something they're not
Coward Robert Ford| 9.6.12 @ 6:07AM
I thought it was weak she called Rush a bigot but didn't say his name. She's supposed to be the super brave woman, but she couldn't speak the man's name? I wouldn't be surprised a lot of people didn't even know who she was talking about. She's so arrogant that she thinks the whole world cares what Rush said about her and was as outraged as she and her liberal promoters are. Of course Obama called her b/c she's a prop for the war on women thing that he seems to think is a winner.
Coward Robert Ford| 9.6.12 @ 6:11AM
If this babe wanted insurance that covered birth control, why did she go to a Catholic law school? She could have purchased her own insurance plan that did cover birth control. You have that choice.
She's complaining about an issue that is a non-issue for most women.
RCV| 9.6.12 @ 11:16AM
The majority of young Catholic women in this country use birth control, as shocking as you may find this.
RCV| 9.6.12 @ 7:52PM
She chose to attend Georgetown because it's a great law school and she got into it.
spike59| 9.7.12 @ 7:15AM
she chose Georgetown over other 'great law schools' BECAUSE of its policies on contraception, and she has admitted as much...she's not some dewy-eyed 23 yr old grad student who's been victimized; she's a 30 yr old 'reproductive rights' activist who's been running this schtick since she first graduated college, and is, in fact, an OFA plant who's represented by Anita Dunn and Hilary Rosen
sotto voce| 9.6.12 @ 7:24PM
She chose to attend a Catholic law school because she's a 30 year old "activist" and wanted to use Georgetown to make her silly points. Instead she's made a fool of herself, which is actually a resume enhancement to Democrats looking for a poster girl for "reproductive rights".
You're right: contraception is a non-issue for most women. Birth control is cheap and readily available and intelligent women resent being reduced to a set of ambulatory reproductive organs. I remember 40 years ago when feminists demanded to be recognized for their minds, not their bodies. How things have changed.
MikeBee| 9.6.12 @ 9:50AM
Aaron,
Obama won't be able to afford to have Fluke stumping for him between now and November. His reelection fund can't afford the condoms!
Crassus| 9.6.12 @ 11:27AM
Why was Fluke asking for free birth control in the first place? Surely, she's looked in the mirror. No guy with decent eyesight who's reasonably sober will ever try to boink her. I bet she's never been laid in her life by a man or a woman.
Belianis | 9.6.12 @ 12:00PM
Some people are born ridiculous, some achieve ridiculousness, and some have ridiculousness thrust upon them.
The Fluke and Obombast are all three.
Third Army| 9.6.12 @ 12:25PM
I had a terrible day at the office and could not bear to watch this person speak after I got home. Thank you Aaron for the summary.
JFGalt| 9.6.12 @ 1:03PM
She really parlayed her original 15 minutes of fame well. How much do you want to bet that her job prospects for some liberal think tanks just went up. Here's another nobody that comes out of the blue onto the country's stage. Running for public office can't be too far away.
Jimbobogie| 9.6.12 @ 2:08PM
Just wondering-under a Republican administration if an expectant mother dies because she is refused an abortion for a high-risk pregnancy, who would be charged with her death...President Romney, the doctor or God?
...just wondering...
Nick| 9.6.12 @ 3:15PM
Well, since an abortion is NEVER medically indicated, according to many doctors that I've heard, to save the life of the mother, your question is an irrelevant straw man, Jimbobogie.
TinaB| 9.6.12 @ 9:12PM
Prior to Roe v. Wade, abortion was permitted to save the life of the mother. What makes you think Romney, who once supported legalized abortion, though he has since changed his stance, would do anything to go further back than our pre-1973 laws? The outcry of Conservatives is to the mass, 60,000,000 plus by now, of aborted babies, and BHO and the DNC demands to be able to kill the emerging baby and even allow the tiny abortion
survivor to die outside the womb. Abortion on demand is the platform, and this extreme position cannot stand.
TinaB| 9.6.12 @ 9:17PM
Btw, anyone who knows me knows my position: abortion is murder, human life begins at conception. I had an adoption, not an abortion.
I was defending the Republican platform regarding the Pro-life stance, and the sad fact that the most we can hope for in the next 4 years would be some limits be placed on the barbaric practice.