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I sure hope the same people are encouraging UNC to ban HBO, CBS and MSNBC for the same hateful comments directed towards conservative women over the years.
She deserved to be mocked since she misrepresented herself and offered no coherent argument other than "I want someone else to pay for my contraception". This was a manufactured controversy and Rush stepped in it, crossed the line and has since apologized. I thought once someone apologized everything is supposed to be ok? Guess that is only only when liberals do something wrong. Also, I modified your quote below to highlight the hypocrisy in all of this:
Also, I bet none of you have listened to nor read the entire transcript that started this mess. I agree it was over the line, but satire often is.
This liberal/conservative stuff now destroying our country is nothing but bull**** designed to entrap yahoos for political gain. But something really grates on me when a four-times-married drug addict lectures about morality, I guess.
Read Sandra Fluke's testimony; there's a link in this thread. She's very
clear when speaking of a friend with polycystic ovarian syndrome being denied hormonal treatment because Georgetown is a Catholic University,
and the priests just can't seem to grasp that such medications can be used to treat such maladies. This is an issue of being denied treatment on religious grounds, and neither the hierarchy at Georgetown or Roy Blunt and his Republican buddies have any business coming between a woman and her physician, whether the hormonal treatment is medicinal or contraceptive.
This is where we disagree. Although it is not about coming between the doctor and patient, which is what insurance companies do anyway, it is about the government mandate. Hormones given for contraception alone is not considered "treatment" as there is no disease to treat.
Georgetown insurance policy doesn't cover sinus surgery which can be necessary for serious and life threatening infections that cannot be treated by antibiotics. Their ins. policy is not a good one anyway but that is not unusual these days.
It doesn't matter why some things aren't covered because so many things are not covered anyway. The insurance system is broken, people are dying and we are arguing about the "need" for totally free contraception, really?
BC coverage for contraceptive purposes isn't a rights issue since non prescription methods are available OTC, just as they are for men.
"You have to lift their skirts to find out if they are women. You sure can’t find out by how they vote,” [GOP females] - Rep. Janis Baird Sontany, D-Nashville.
"Laura Ingraham.. that right-wing talk ****... yes, she's a talk ****" - Ed Schultz
[Sarah Palin is a].. "dumb tw*t" - Bill Maher
[Sarah Palin is a].. "c*nt" - Bill Maher
"Yes, you do smell ham burning" [Michele Bachmann] - Keith Olbermann
Annnnnnd, I'm getting tired of typing.
Libs need to take their feigned righteous indignation and fake moral outrage and stick it - until and unless they condemn their brethren for the same (and in my opinion, WORSE) vile language used against women. [I see Kirsten Powers has taken a stand -- KUDOS to Ms. Powers!]
And for the record, Rush did NOT call Ms. Fluke a ****. He made a (VERY VERY POOR) analogy asking (rhetorically) what you would call someone who had so much sex that contraceptives become too costly? He fell into a trap, and those that simply want to use the occasion to permanently shut down (free, conservative) speech are pushing full-steam ahead.
Bottom line, Ms. Fluke is a useful idiot in all this. And anyone with half a brain can see it, based on the absolute double-standard that is obvious in this selective outrage.
This is where we disagree. Although it is not about coming between the doctor and patient, which is what insurance companies do anyway, it is about the government mandate. Hormones given for contraception alone is not considered "treatment" as there is no disease to treat.
Georgetown insurance policy doesn't cover sinus surgery which can be necessary for serious and life threatening infections that cannot be treated by antibiotics. Their ins. policy is not a good one anyway but that is not unusual these days.
It doesn't matter why some things aren't covered because so many things are not covered anyway. The insurance system is broken, people are dying and we are arguing about the "need" for totally free contraception, really?
BC coverage for contraceptive purposes isn't a rights issue since non prescription methods are available OTC, just as they are for men.
And when birth control methods are banned (the ultimate goal of the Blunt Amendment, in Blunt's own words), there will be more unwanted pregnancies, more abortions, and more unwanted children abused and even killed, as we've seen with both pregnant women and children. The insurance system is broken indeed, and more unplanned pregnancies and abortions is not the optimal antidote.
Rush isn't going anywhere; if there's one thing that advertisers want, it's deep-pocketed listeners with staggering amounts of disposable income.
Since News-Talk is the second most-listened to format in the nation (country is #1), Rush isn't going to be moved to any 'low-rent' radio stations, so keep dreamin'.
Besides, Al Sharpton is substantially more offensive than Rush is, and he has a TV show that NOBODY watches.
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