Topic: Rush Is 100% Right On This One!
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Sun 03/04/12 10:19 AM

We already know what he actually thought, as he said it.


So you don't think It's possible for someone to misspeak?

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Sun 03/04/12 10:23 AM
Sure, it's possible. But we're talking about Rush who does this stuff on purpose. He does it to get reactions. He went a bit too far this time when advertisers and supporters started to leave. He's even got conservatives speaking out against him. So of course he's going to apologize. But hey, he got the reactions he was looking for.

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Sun 03/04/12 10:26 AM

Its ignorant stupidity like this that makes me not like republicans! These blowhards are all Jesus freaky and feel its their duty to shove it down everybody elses throats, Well I do say sir that I don't give a flying **** one about your god damn religion, it's your choice so keep it to yourself.


Well I still like republicans, but I definitely hear you on that. Sometimes its very tempting to blame all republicans for crap like that.


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Sun 03/04/12 10:32 AM

Sure, it's possible. But we're talking about Rush who does this stuff on purpose. He does it to get reactions. He went a bit too far this time when advertisers and supporters started to leave. He's even got conservatives speaking out against him. So of course he's going to apologize. But hey, he got the reactions he was looking for.


From having listened to Rush in the past, I think he was just being absurd and it got away from him.

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Sun 03/04/12 10:35 AM

we just don't want to pay for someone's birth control because she wants to lay on her back. If she wants it she can pay for it.


While I don't completely agree, I do have complete respect for Rush's position there, both ideologically and practically.

This doesn't excuse what he said.

Regarding how he presented his views: he was wrong, and these people are right:


Mr. Limbaugh repeatedly used sexually charged, patently offensive, and obscene language to malign the character of this courageous young woman who has chosen to be the voice for many of her peers,

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Sun 03/04/12 10:38 AM



Its ignorant stupidity like this that makes me not like republicans! These blowhards are all Jesus freaky and feel its their duty to shove it down everybody elses throats, Well I do say sir that I don't give a flying **** one about your god damn religion, it's your choice so keep it to yourself.

This is actually one of the very, very few things Rush is right about. Too bad most of his listeners will miss the even greater immorality of the misadventure commonly called the "War On Terror". Remember, right wing media-like its left wing counterpart-is all about deception, emotion before logic, and verbal sleight-of-hand.

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Sun 03/04/12 11:11 AM


Sure, it's possible. But we're talking about Rush who does this stuff on purpose. He does it to get reactions. He went a bit too far this time when advertisers and supporters started to leave. He's even got conservatives speaking out against him. So of course he's going to apologize. But hey, he got the reactions he was looking for.


From having listened to Rush in the past, I think he was just being absurd and it got away from him.


I think he was being absurd and thought he could get away with it as usual.

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Sun 03/04/12 11:12 AM


we just don't want to pay for someone's birth control because she wants to lay on her back. If she wants it she can pay for it.


While I don't completely agree, I do have complete respect for Rush's position there, both ideologically and practically.




Whether she was paying for it with or without insurance, she'd still be paying for it.

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Sun 03/04/12 04:56 PM



The types of monopolies are: Natural, Geographic, Technological and Government. Geographic and Technological monopolies are self limiting. If the local cable company charges too much, competitors enter the market. When Apple charged too much for the iPod, multiple companies created alternatives. Both cases where a monopoly has or could end naturally. Government monopolies come in two flavors: Coercive and non-coercive. A non-coercive monopoly would be like patent protection on a new drug. Nobody is preventing the competition from creating a new drug that works equally well or better. The only truly offensive type of monopoly is the coercive government created monopoly. Bell System is an example of a coercive Government monopoly.

Antitrust laws often protect inefficient business models that have trouble competing with more efficient and better run businesses. Who knows what new advances we could have made by allowing well run businesses to grow as large as the market would allow?



Trees never grow into heaven, but those which get closest are mostly the ones planted in the fertile ground of monopolies run by people who have little or no conscience.

As far as the Bell System, we wouldn't even be having this conversation on this medium if the government had not broken up the Bell System. AT&T's monopoly would continue to suck cash out of the consumers' pockets and people would not be able to afford the connect time.

Besides, businesses are just as inefficient because they are run and created by the same fallible humans that run governments.

Now, if you REALLY wanted to make things interesting, get rid of the patent trolls and vulture capitalists who are nothing but parasites hopeing to profit from the work of others that they can't even begin to duplicate on their own.

No, monopolies are what many business people dream of, and often set out deliberately to create and perpetuate. Just likes thrones in any given area, there can be only one if peace is to be maintained.

-Kerry O.

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Sun 03/04/12 06:00 PM

As far as the Bell System, we wouldn't even be having this conversation on this medium if the government had not broken up the Bell System. AT&T's monopoly would continue to suck cash out of the consumers' pockets and people would not be able to afford the connect time.


Exactly my point. Bell System was a coercive Government monopoly. They wrote laws making it illegal to compete with Bell. Show me a harmful monopoly that has existed as long as Bell System did without the Governments protection. It just doesn't exist.

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Sun 03/04/12 10:47 PM
Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul said an apology by conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh to Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke for calling her a "slut" and a "prostitute" was not sincere, and was made only because it best served Limbaugh.
On CBS News' "Face the Nation," the Texas congressman told host Bob Schieffer that Limbaugh's apology "was in his best interest."
"He's doing it because some people were taking their advertisements off of his program. It was his bottom line he was concerned about," Paul said.
Paul referred to three companies that pulled advertisements from Limbaugh's show following incendiary remarks Limbaugh made about Fluke for testifying before a mock Congressional committee in favor of free contraception insurance coverage at Georgetown, a Jesuit university. [One company's spokesman said that Limbaugh's comments "do not align [with] our values." Another pulled out "Due to continued inflammatory comments - along with valuable feedback from clients and team members" about the remarks.]
http://m.cbsnews.com/fullstory.rbml?catid=57390236&feed_id=3&videofeed=39

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Mon 03/05/12 08:38 AM
Edited by Bushidobillyclub on Mon 03/05/12 08:40 AM


You believe women who use birth control for any reason are sluts? Did you even pay attention to Sandra Fluke's story, or are you assuming Rush is giving you all the info you need?


Doesn't matter. Someone or company shouldn't be forced to provide birth control for a woman if it's against their values, religion or beliefs.


If you are arguing about the ability of a company to limit what kinds of medical care their employment policy will support, ie pay for, or not pay for then why a person uses it should not be the topic of discussion. It is just an underhanded tactic, it shows a lack of honesty IMHO.

Argue the policy, not the person. Trying to portray all users of birth control as sluts is WAAAAY over the top, and doesn't even address the issue.

Its this kind of **** that should banish via shame any person from the sight of all, but it tends to get back room high fives Jersey shore style.

Its **** like this that makes me want to live on some other planet away from humanity.



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Mon 03/05/12 09:26 AM



You believe women who use birth control for any reason are sluts? Did you even pay attention to Sandra Fluke's story, or are you assuming Rush is giving you all the info you need?


Doesn't matter. Someone or company shouldn't be forced to provide birth control for a woman if it's against their values, religion or beliefs.


If you are arguing about the ability of a company to limit what kinds of medical care their employment policy will support, ie pay for, or not pay for then why a person uses it should not be the topic of discussion. It is just an underhanded tactic, it shows a lack of honesty IMHO.

Argue the policy, not the person. Trying to portray all users of birth control as sluts is WAAAAY over the top, and doesn't even address the issue.

Its this kind of **** that should banish via shame any person from the sight of all, but it tends to get back room high fives Jersey shore style.

Its **** like this that makes me want to live on some other planet away from humanity.



Just seeing the way that some people are trying to demean women because they don't agree with a policy is disgusting. Attacking women to try to prove a point? Yikes.

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Mon 03/05/12 09:33 AM




You believe women who use birth control for any reason are sluts? Did you even pay attention to Sandra Fluke's story, or are you assuming Rush is giving you all the info you need?


Doesn't matter. Someone or company shouldn't be forced to provide birth control for a woman if it's against their values, religion or beliefs.


If you are arguing about the ability of a company to limit what kinds of medical care their employment policy will support, ie pay for, or not pay for then why a person uses it should not be the topic of discussion. It is just an underhanded tactic, it shows a lack of honesty IMHO.

Argue the policy, not the person. Trying to portray all users of birth control as sluts is WAAAAY over the top, and doesn't even address the issue.

Its this kind of **** that should banish via shame any person from the sight of all, but it tends to get back room high fives Jersey shore style.

Its **** like this that makes me want to live on some other planet away from humanity.



Just seeing the way that some people are trying to demean women because they don't agree with a policy is disgusting. Attacking women to try to prove a point? Yikes.


Kinda like calling people that disagree with oblahmas policies bigots and racists..

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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Mon 03/05/12 09:37 AM



Kinda like calling people that disagree with oblahmas policies bigots and racists..

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh


If they just disagree, no they're not racist. If they're saying racist things, they're racist. Not quite the same.

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Mon 03/05/12 10:01 AM




Kinda like calling people that disagree with oblahmas policies bigots and racists..

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh


If they just disagree, no they're not racist. If they're saying racist things, they're racist. Not quite the same.


Its exactly the same.

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Mon 03/05/12 10:28 AM
There,the Nation's going to poop,and Obama worries about Birth-Control!
Not in his Jobdescription!

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Mon 03/05/12 10:36 AM





Kinda like calling people that disagree with oblahmas policies bigots and racists..

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh


If they just disagree, no they're not racist. If they're saying racist things, they're racist. Not quite the same.


Its exactly the same.


How so?

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Mon 03/05/12 12:48 PM

There,the Nation's going to poop,and Obama worries about Birth-Control!
Not in his Jobdescription!


Is Obama worrying about birth control? HE already has two BEAUTIFUL girls and I wouldnt think Michele was planning anymore,,,,,


lol

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Mon 03/05/12 12:52 PM
Edited by Dragoness on Mon 03/05/12 12:56 PM

President Obama injected himself Friday into the controversy over Rush Limbaugh's comments about a Georgetown University student who spoke to lawmakers about birth control, calling the 30-year-old woman to thank her for "exercising her right as a citizen to speak out."

But Limbaugh stood his ground, using his nationally syndicated radio show to mock Obama's call and charge Democrats with trying to exploit the controversy to make up for "failure on their decades-long abortion push."

"It just isn't the winning issue for them it used to be. ... If it were, this wouldn't be about contraception, this would be about abortion," Limbaugh said Friday.

The president called the student, Sandra Fluke, on Friday afternoon to express his disappointment in the "personal attacks" against her, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said.

Limbaugh, on his radio show earlier this week, had called Fluke a "slut" following her comments in favor of mandatory contraceptive coverage.

"The fact that our political discourse has become debased in many ways is bad enough. It is worse when it's directed at a private citizen who was simply expressing her views on a matter of public policy," Carney said.

He said Obama called Fluke to express disappointment about the attacks and "thank her" for exercising her right to speak out.

The phone call came as lawmakers across Capitol Hill were weighing in, and as the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee incorporated Limbaugh's comments into its fundraising campaign.

Limbaugh, on his show Friday, charged that Democrats were only elevating this issue because they're losing the argument on abortion.

"Now what's happening here politically, with the elevation of contraception here to such prominence in the national debate ... to me, it is evidence that the Democrats, the left have encountered utter political and moral failure on their decades-long abortion push," Limbaugh said.

Limbaugh also pointed out that Democrats had not spoken out about over-the-top comments made by other media personalities like Bill Maher, who tweeted that "Jesus just f----- Tim Tebow bad" during the Christmas Eve Broncos-Bills game and reportedly called Sarah Palin a "c---" last year.

"So I ask Jay Carney," Limbaugh said. "Will President Obama now give back the 1-million-dollar donation that Bill Maher gave his Super PAC?"

House Speaker John Boehner's office earlier in the day scolded Limbaugh. Though Boehner opposes the mandate, spokesman Michael Steel said in a statement that "the speaker obviously believes the use of those words was inappropriate" -- in reference to Limbaugh's remarks.

But Steel also said Boehner thought it was inappropriate to try to "raise money off the situation."

Carney had no comment when asked at the press briefing about efforts by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee to raise money off the issue.

A day earlier, dozens of congressional Democrats had signed a letter to Boehner urging Republicans to condemn the language.

"Mr. Limbaugh repeatedly used sexually charged, patently offensive, and obscene language to malign the character of this courageous young woman who has chosen to be the voice for many of her peers," Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., wrote in the letter signed by more than 75 other lawmakers, urging Republicans to condemn the "atrocious and hurtful words."

Georgetown University's president, John J. DeGioia, also weighed in on Friday, issuing a lengthy statement expressing concern about the remarks directed at Fluke.

"(Fluke) provided a model of civil discourse. This expression of conscience was in the tradition of the deepest values we share as a people. One need not agree with her substantive position to support her right to respectful free expression. And yet, some of those who disagreed with her position -- including Rush Limbaugh and commentators throughout the blogosphere and in various other media channels -- responded with behavior that can only be described as misogynistic, vitriolic, and a misrepresentation of the position of our student," he said.

Fluke also released a statement on Thursday saying: "No woman deserves to be disrespected in this manner."

Fluke had spoken at a forum last week pulled together by Democrats -- it was a response to a hearing held by Republicans where witnesses bashed the administration's contraceptive coverage mandate.

Fluke complained at the forum about how much she and other students pay for birth control because Georgetown, a Catholic university, won't cover it.

Limbaugh later said on his show that the student was effectively arguing that the students "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," he said.

Limbaugh, though, was not cowed by what he described as the left's "outright conniption fit."

"Why go before a congressional committee and demand that all of us (pay)? Because they want to have sex any time. ... I mean, they're going broke having to buy contraception," he said.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/03/02/dems-urge-republicans-to-condemn-limbaugh-over-remarks-on-georgetown-student/#ixzz1o01ql7FF

:thumbsup: Way to go Rush! :thumbsup: If she wants to ge stuffed like a Thanksgiving turkey, banged like the Salvation Army Drum let her pay for it herself or keep her legs closed.



Fraudulent post here:thumbsup: because Rush hasn't been right about anything:thumbsup: other than his own drug abuse on a couple of occasions.

Of course if we were telling guys to tie a knot in their penises so nobody has to pay for contraceptive you can bet the government would be paying for it but it is only women after all. They deserve to get knocked up if they can't control the men's penises.slaphead