What does it say about the college coed Susan Fluke [sic], 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.
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Can you imagine if you're her parents how proud of Sandra Fluke you would be? Your daughter goes up to a congressional hearing conducted by the Botox-filled Nancy Pelosi and testifies she's having so much sex she can't afford her own birth control pills and she agrees that Obama should provide them, or the Pope.
And so on.
All of this insulting invective got Limbaugh in trouble and he issued an apology, of sorts:
For over 20 years, I have illustrated the absurd with absurdity, three hours a day, five days a week. In this instance, I chose the wrong words in my analogy of the situation. I did not mean a personal attack on Ms. Fluke.
I think it is absolutely absurd that during these very serious political times, we are discussing personal sexual recreational activities before members of Congress. I personally do not agree that American citizens should pay for these social activities. What happened to personal responsibility and accountability? Where do we draw the line? If this is accepted as the norm, what will follow? Will we be debating if taxpayers should pay for new sneakers for all students that are interested in running to keep fit? In my monologue, I posited that it is not our business whatsoever to know what is going on in anyone's bedroom nor do I think it is a topic that should reach a Presidential level.
My choice of words was not the best, and in the attempt to be humorous, I created a national stir. I sincerely apologize to Ms. Fluke for the insulting word choices.
But this hasn't quelled the popular uproar nor stopped advertisers from withdrawing their support for his program. As of today, seven of them have chosen to put their money elsewhere.
Good on the people threatening to stop buying the products and services of companies who advertise on Limbaugh's program and good on the companies who have withdrawn their advertising. Limbaugh's presence on the airwaves puts the lie to the notion that the radio spectrum is owned by the public.
But I feel compelled to ask: WHAT TOOK YOU SO FUCKING LONG?!
Where was all the outrage when he told a black woman who had called his show “Take that bone out of your nose and call me back"? Or when he said, "Let the unskilled jobs that take absolutely no knowledge whatsoever to do — let stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work"? You can find more of his racist comments here and here.
He goes on polluting the airwaves for years and years saying everything short of calling black people niggers and Latinos spicks yet it isn't until now that people really get angry. Apparently his stream of racist bloviating is tolerable but calling a young, attractive white woman a slut, well, that's just stepping over the line.
“Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons."
“The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.”
“They’re 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?”
Deriding people like this because of the amount of melanin in their skin: acceptable.
Calling this person a "slut": That means war!
Yeah, these are post-racial times alright.
ADDENDUM: I just found this statement from the CEO of Carbonite, a company that pulled its advertising from Limbaugh's show:
“No one with daughters the age of Sandra Fluke, and I have two, could possibly abide the insult and abuse heaped upon this courageous and well-intentioned young lady. Mr. Limbaugh, with his highly personal attacks on Miss Fluke, overstepped any reasonable bounds of decency.
Get it? Calling a white woman a slut is beyond the bounds of decency. Saying "The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies" is not.
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