WE HAVE LIFTOFF
By John Cole February 29th, 2012
Me, yesterday, on the wingnut response to Sandra Fluke’s testimony:
C’mon, wingnuts, quit nancying around and just call them sluts.
Limbaugh, today:
LIMBAUGH: What does it say about the college co-ed 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. 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.
Excellent! I hope the wingnuts in the blogosphere follow his lead and start calling all women who use contraceptives sluts and hookers. This is going to be fucking awesome.
Posted in Assholes, Teabagger Stupidity, Vagina Outrage
Damn, you are good! You called that one beautifully. We’re not worthy. :)
February 29th, 2012 at 6:34 pm
Awesome politically, of course.
Break out the
cabbagepopcorn!February 29th, 2012 at 6:35 pm
If this LIFTOFF involves Limbaugh, you’re going to need a crane.
February 29th, 2012 at 6:35 pm
Because Rush pays for his own.
February 29th, 2012 at 6:36 pm
Whowaas!
February 29th, 2012 at 6:36 pm
Because Limbaugh’s choice of sex toys can’t get pregnant.
February 29th, 2012 at 6:37 pm
@Egg Berry: If you mean 12 yr old boys and girls, yes.
February 29th, 2012 at 6:38 pm
@Clark Stooksbury: I did not need to see that scene with Janice again.
February 29th, 2012 at 6:38 pm
Well, some people say Rush does know about paying for sex…
...with underage boys in the Dominican Republic.
I wonder if taxpayer dollars paid for his boner pills?
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/d…..stag-party
http://www.democraticundergrou…..15;5196381
http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-201_162-1753947.html
February 29th, 2012 at 6:39 pm
Liftoff is precisely the wrong term for what we have here.
February 29th, 2012 at 6:39 pm
I’ve never watched a large group of people slowly go insane before. It’s fascinating.
Come election day, I half expect self appointed morality police roaming the streets castigating young ladies for showing too much ankle and inflaming lust.
If their representatives weren’t currently making national policy decisions for the rest of us, it would be a lot more entertaining.
February 29th, 2012 at 6:39 pm
Cole you haz mad skillz. Scary mad skillz
February 29th, 2012 at 6:39 pm
If anyone knows about prostitutes, it’s a fat middle aged man caught returning from the Dominican Republic with 20 odd little blue pills prescribed in someone else’s name.
February 29th, 2012 at 6:39 pm
To be fair to Rushbo, he concluded that she is a “round heel” not a slut.
2012 the year “big bucks in Cadillacs” became “round heels on the pill”
sounds like a winner, GOP, I’d go with it. Hard. 24/7.
February 29th, 2012 at 6:40 pm
Thankfully, Rush’s four (that is the count, isn’t it) wives have all understood the value of contraceptives.
And underage boys from tropical islands just don’t get pregnant, so no need for contraceptives there, either.
February 29th, 2012 at 6:41 pm
@Comrade Mary: 12 year old Dominican boys? Those are Much Lamebrains favorite sex toy.
February 29th, 2012 at 6:41 pm
@Phil Perspective: I was leaving it out there for someone to pick up.
February 29th, 2012 at 6:42 pm
Hot Air has an 800 comment thread on this subject. Typical Mouth breathing knuckle draggers stuff.
February 29th, 2012 at 6:42 pm
@Schlemizel: I was going for plausible deniability there, bucko.
February 29th, 2012 at 6:42 pm
You gotta admit, when wingnuts blast off, they pour pure octane stupid in the tank. After Harry Reid re introduces the immigration reform bills, Rush will switch hands in mid stroke,, for more blithering about them ‘wetbacks’ crossing the border bringing more sluts and hookers for liberals to waste money on.
February 29th, 2012 at 6:44 pm
@Comrade Mary: I’ll use a Janice warning in the future.
February 29th, 2012 at 6:44 pm
@BGinCHI: Cabbage recipes here too? Or is that just in concern troll threads?
February 29th, 2012 at 6:45 pm
Well, Blimpy has given his marching orders, let all the good brownshirts get in line over this winning issue.
Dare I say it smells like VICTORY?
February 29th, 2012 at 6:46 pm
The well-funded megaphone of the righwing continues unabated. While the vastly underfunded miniphone of the left barely gets a blip.
I will never understand why the left doesn’t do more to fund it’s marketing & communications.
In the meantime, women are left to suffer at the hands of these megalomaniacs.
This is the first time I’ve ever commented here, btw. This issue has pissed me off enough that I’m even commenting on someone else’s blog, which I don’t often do.
February 29th, 2012 at 6:49 pm
Okay, so insurance to cover contraception is “being paid to have sex.” I’m sure Rush and his GOP pals are against coverage for the blue pills, too, since that would also be “being paid to have sex,” right?
And this:
It’s pretty amazing that he thinks his audience is stupid enough to believe that the more sex you have the more “contraception” you need. And even more amazing that he’s probably not wrong…
February 29th, 2012 at 6:49 pm
@BGinCHI:
Just don’t give Rush any popcorn if there’s any little boys around. He’ll make like Mickey Rourke in Diner.
February 29th, 2012 at 6:51 pm
@Omnes Omnibus: I assume Doug has been sitting on the “Of Cabbages and Kings” post title for a while and he’s about ready to deploy it.
February 29th, 2012 at 6:51 pm
Nothing could warm my heart more than having King Rush signal that the slut shaming can begin. And then we all know that knicker can’t be far behind. These people have become more unhinged than I ever thought possible. They just don’t give a shit any more. Purity and party over everything else, no matter how it marginalizes them or diminishes their ranks. No wonder that thoroughly despicable closet case, Benedict XVI, has decided to hook up with them. They want that bubble they inhabit more than anything, even more than they want a mass audience. I do not, for a minute, believe that either of them aren’t smart enough to know that most Americans would recoil from their true agendas. But if they can keep the crazy 27%, that’s all they need to keep them in Prada and oxy and young and nubile boys and girls forever. If they can get the rest of America and the world to go along with their evil, all the better. But the 27% is really sufficient, if not.
February 29th, 2012 at 6:52 pm
Rush does realize that the amount of birth control a woman uses is in no way proportional to the amount of sex she has, right?
Oh wait, I’m asking a silly question.
February 29th, 2012 at 6:52 pm
@BGinCHI:
We’re going to run out of corn before the election.
Lush Limpdick calling women sluts for using birth control? It’s an absolute win for the left. My wife has been laying it on heavy with the wingers at her job. Vote for the Republicans and lose control of your family planning decisions or vote for Obama.
She says the winger ladies are sputtering because they are really in a bind here. One tried to feed my wife the Obama = country turning soshulist! bullshit and she turned it back on her with ‘Obama wants to leave birth control decisions to my daughter and myself while the Republicans wants to take that right away, and you call Obama a soshulist?!’ The lady was left sputtering…
She’s having fun with this, that’s for sure…lol!
EE has a 350+ post war on his hands at Redstate. Here’s a good line from his FP post that started the war…
Mormoms? Is that what Mormon mothers are called? Either way, EE is on a roll and his readers are rioting.
Good times for us! :)
February 29th, 2012 at 6:53 pm
Are sluts and prostitutes the same thing?
February 29th, 2012 at 6:53 pm
@Redshift:
Not to mention that if she gets “paid to have sex” (his words) and she is having lots of sex, then that means… she’s losing money?
Reminds me of the Amazon executive who said “Sure, we lose money on every sale, but we make it up in volume!”
February 29th, 2012 at 6:53 pm
Someone, quick, ask the candidates if they agree with Pope Limbaugh. Ask them if they agree or disagree.
February 29th, 2012 at 6:53 pm
Rereading the bolded part of the Limbaugh quote amazed me all over again. There is a great example of how a relatively simple issue goes straight to 11 on the crazy meter when someone has an ideological axe to grind.
This is one reason we can’t have nice things. In a saner culture this would not register in the media at all: the reporters wouldn’t bother because they would be smart, and consumers would change the channel.
February 29th, 2012 at 6:53 pm
@magurakurin: I never did understand that expression. “Round heels?” What else would they be, trapezoidal?
Kinda like “goody two shoes.” How many shoes does anyone wear?
February 29th, 2012 at 6:54 pm
@geg6:
It can and likely will get much much worse, unless the voters give them a major timeout, and soon, to work out their current nihilistic tendencies and all around unsuitability to trust with any power whatsoever.
February 29th, 2012 at 6:55 pm
@Tara the Antisocial Social Worker: Subtle innuendos follow, must be something inside.
/name that tune
February 29th, 2012 at 6:56 pm
Graeme Frost is 17 now. He and Sandra Fluke could be BFFs over shit like this.
February 29th, 2012 at 6:57 pm
@BGinCHI: Goody two, goody two, goody goody two-shoes
February 29th, 2012 at 6:57 pm
On a similarly misogynistic note, police officer punches rape victim in the face, after she had the audacity to request a female officer:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....loset.html
February 29th, 2012 at 6:59 pm
@Tara the Antisocial Social Worker: It’s one of the original children’s books: The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765).
February 29th, 2012 at 6:59 pm
I have several female friends who take birth control pills or shots and are not sexually active at all. Apparently it doesn’t matter to these people that there can be any number of reasons, medical or otherwise, why a woman might want to be able to be on birth control that have nothing to do with sex.
Maybe these monsters should just come right out and say that they get their jollies from women being raped and then forced to carry the rapist’s baby to term because all possible methods of avoiding getting pregnant or terminating the pregnancy have been eliminated.
February 29th, 2012 at 6:59 pm
It honestly boggles my mind that they are still coming after birth control… it just seems objectively stupid. I understand that this is a GOP primary and thus curmudgeon cromagnons who think this way are their entire focus… but attacking an entire gender seems like a poor call.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:01 pm
Maybe I don’t understand how birth control works for women. If someone went broke paying for condoms, I’d say whoa, that person is pretty active. But the Pill is something you have to take regularly if you’re sexually active at all, which might mean you have a steady boyfriend, or maybe you have a casual encounter once a month or two, or maybe you’re not having sex at all but you want to have the freedom just in case. Am I totally wrong about this? Are Rush and his listeners really so dumb (cough) that they imagine female birth control is like this drug where you have to pop two every time you have sex?
February 29th, 2012 at 7:02 pm
@General Stuck (Bravo Nope Zero):
We gave them a timeout in ‘09. If my memory serves, they came back two years later even worse than before. Republicans are like some horrible rash that just flares up again the moment you think you have it licked.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:03 pm
Every lawyer on the planet will sue the shit out of that fat sex tourist.
(Go ahead Limpy, counter sue. Discovery will be an X rated soap opera.)
Drizzle-drazzle-druzzle-drone…
Time for Rushie to go home. If home becomes a prison.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:03 pm
@Cluttered Mind: Even if it was just for sex, the idea of blacklisting it from insurance coverage because it incentivizes sinful behavior is madness. It’d be like refusing to cover insulin treatments for adult-onset diabetics, because they should have thought harder about their actions before putting themselves in that condition.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:03 pm
@Redshift: There ya go. I’m just astonished that Rush, et al, keep confusing insurance benefits with handouts.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:04 pm
@Tara the Antisocial Social Worker:
to be honest, I didn’t know that term. I suppose I’ve heard it but I didn’t know the actual meaning. Either the term is dated, regional, or I’ve just somehow missed the reference for 49 years. It does seem like a dumb word.
dumb word for a dumb guy. Rushbo. He’s our man.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:04 pm
@Steve: Not even just that, there are plenty of medical reasons why a woman might want to be on birth control too.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:05 pm
@Quaker in a Basement: Limbaugh is vile. He is not confused. He, and is partners in crime, want to confuse people.
I find the idea of Rush Limbaugh calling anyone a slut blackly comic, though sure some one else has already mentioned that angle.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:07 pm
@FlipYrWhig: That is a very good point that I wish I’d made in my original post. Medicine isn’t and shouldn’t be about some arbitrary view of morality. I’ve been saying to anyone who would listen ever since this birth control debate flared up in the news that if the Republicans somehow manage to get it taken out of most insurance plans, HIV medicine is next on their list. After all, only sinful deviant gay people get that, right?
February 29th, 2012 at 7:07 pm
@FlipYrWhig:
Don’t give those fuckers any ideas.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:07 pm
@Steve: But the Pill is something you have to take regularly if you’re sexually active at all, which might mean you have a steady boyfriend, or maybe you have a casual encounter once a month or two, or maybe you’re not having sex at all but you want to have the freedom just in case.
Or maybe if you’re a virtuous, monogamous woman in a loving marriage who just does’nt want to have a kid right now.
I love the fact that Rush is basically calling all women who use contraception sluts, including the wives of most of his ditto-head fans.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:07 pm
@Cluttered Mind: Yes, but it’s important to keep saying that all reasons women have for taking BC are legit and not subject to moral scolding from zealots who think they’re small-government freedom worshippers.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:09 pm
@General Stuck (Bravo Nope Zero):
Last time, it took no less than a twenty year time out for them to finally get the memo, and even then, that immediately spawned an even more out-there, radical, reactionary wing that grew and grew until it took back the party within a couple of decades.
It’s an extraordinarily difficult thing to kill.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:09 pm
@BGinCHI: Don’t drink, don’t smoke, what do ya do?
February 29th, 2012 at 7:09 pm
@magurakurin:
The back of our heels are round, but the bottoms are flat. If the bottoms of women’s heels were round, we’d all fall to the ground…ready to be impregnated. Apparently.
Fucking fuck. Also, too, bastid. (Rush, I mean, not you.)
February 29th, 2012 at 7:09 pm
Anybody heard from Jeff?
February 29th, 2012 at 7:10 pm
@Chris:
If Grant and Sherman didn’t kill it in 1865, it can’t be killed.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:13 pm
@taylormattd:
Nice!
February 29th, 2012 at 7:13 pm
@Quaker in a Basement: They are sandbagging for the inevitable “Medicare part ‘E’ ” where ‘E’ means “everybody.
Everybody likes Medicare. Even those stupid teabaggers with their FOX / lizard brains.
http://www.google.com/search?q.....38;bih=572
February 29th, 2012 at 7:13 pm
In olden days a glimpse of stockin’
was looked on as somethin’ shockin’
now heaven knows
anything goes…
This line is running through my head for some reason. These hydrophobic bastards can’t run mad fast enough for me: barking, raving, and foaming at the mouth until they die biting their own tails off. I have moral objections to giving them tetanus shots.
aimai
February 29th, 2012 at 7:13 pm
@ThatLeftTurnInABQ: I’m personally willing to let Sherman take another crack at it.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:15 pm
i don’t think that the anti-slut platform is a winner.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:16 pm
Pep pills, sex pills, what do you do?
Pep pills, sex pills, what do you do?
Medical procedures follow
Lots of Oxy inside
February 29th, 2012 at 7:17 pm
I’m gonna have to move. My neighborhood is going downhill. Someone has put up a Rick Santorum for President sign in their yard. In Texas. We don’t even have primary scheduled for sure yet.
I’ll have to drive by very slowly with my Obama 2012 sticker.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:17 pm
“Co-ed”? I think Limbaugh’s entire understanding of women comes from the last hetero porn he watched, in the ‘70s.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:17 pm
@Cluttered Mind: That’s entirely valid, but I think it dodges the issue a little. Even if there were no other reason whatsoever to use birth control other than for contraception, there is absolutely no reason to single it out as the one and only drug that should be excluded from insurance, as I’m sure you agree. Frankly we owe a debt of gratitude to Rush for actually making the argument out loud as to why birth control is different from everything else.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:17 pm
She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex.
...”Let her buy her air ticket and fly off to havens for underage prostitution with bags full of Viagra like a responsible adult…”
February 29th, 2012 at 7:18 pm
@Djur: And all the alimony checks he has to write.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:19 pm
I’m confused now. I got an (insurance-covered) vasectomy years ago. So who does that make the slut, me or my wife?
February 29th, 2012 at 7:20 pm
@Steve: But, surely B 0 e h N * r pllllllllllzzzzzzzzzzzz are different.
@Gin & Tonic: It makes Bimbaugh a slut.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:21 pm
@magurakurin:
Rush knows all about pills, just not the Pill.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:21 pm
@Chris:
You can never kill it. But when they don the political equivalent of suicide vests, it is time for an intervention by voters until they take them off. It must be repeated every so often, as some kind of recurrent mental health treatment until they promise not to blow us all up.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:21 pm
Pretty obvious to me that Rush doesn’t understand how female BC works and is applying a Viagara use-it-as-you-need-it idea here. Wonder who pays for Rush’s Viagara.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:22 pm
Pretty obvious to me that Rush doesn’t understand how female BC works and is applying a Veeagarra use-it-as-you-need-it idea here. Wonder who pays for Rush’s Veeagarra.
Edit: fucking moderation
Edit Edit: @Zifnab got there first.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:23 pm
@j: ‘Mats. Well played.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:23 pm
@Steve:
You’re right. Birth control ills are not at all like vi-a-gra. Rush probably puts a sizable dent in his month budget from the amount of vi-a-gra he has to take to get his flabbyness off the ground
February 29th, 2012 at 7:24 pm
@amorphous: Why, what an interesting coincidence that Lush would make that kind of mistake, thinking that birth control pills work like B 0 3 h n * R P1l5. Can’t imagine how such a informed public commenter would make a mistake like that.
Probably worries that if you take to many of them you go deaf too. Bimbaugh has life experience in these things.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:25 pm
@Boudica:
Careful. You might get shot at.
Where are the women legislators demanding that if birth control pills aren’t covered that v1agra shouldn’t be covered either? Every state needs someone to put forward a bill like that. I’m tired of paying for Limbaugh’s boners.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:26 pm
a fat drug-abusing asshole who who has a thing for dominican boys is calling girls sluts for taking contraception. this just does not compute in a sane world.
this is like a boy-buggering priest denying communion to a gay.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:27 pm
@pragmatism: FWIW I am objectively pro-slut (or, worded less insultingly, pro-women-with-healthy-sexual-appetites).
February 29th, 2012 at 7:28 pm
@Violet: Bimbaugh has made a point of informing his audience that he pays for his medical care out of pocket, in order to protect his privacy and the privacy of his ‘proclivities’ (his word, not mine). He announced the expense of the medical care brought on stuffing his face with drugs in the number of SUVs it cost him.
And people still listen to this vicious nitwit.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:29 pm
@General Stuck (Bravo Nope Zero):
To prove your point, Cheney. No pulse, still alive. Enough to scare small children. And me.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:32 pm
@jl:
If the FDA reviews and approves any of the medication he’s taking, then we’re paying for that. Much as he might wish it were completely devoid of anyone else’s tax money, it’s not.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:33 pm
@Clark Stooksbury: It wasn’t Janice that was bothering me: I just remember how I felt when I figured out what the hell she was doing to him.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:33 pm
fluke:
clearly this woman is a whore. i mean, how else could you explain this?
February 29th, 2012 at 7:34 pm
I’m feeling extra slutty tonight. Better take two birth control pills!
These birth control pills go up to 11.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:34 pm
@Gin & Tonic:
Probably both in the land of the wingnut.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:35 pm
@J.W. Hamner:
Is it the 60’s all over again? Does Vietnam end differently this time?
February 29th, 2012 at 7:35 pm
@Gin & Tonic:
Yes.
:-)
February 29th, 2012 at 7:35 pm
@Violet: Your good point does not inspire any Lush Bimbaugh invective in me, so, so I will simply acknowledge it as a good point.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:35 pm
@qwerty42: We were winning when I left.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:35 pm
@Omnes Omnibus: Exactly. rush may want to consider that outside of his projections, sluttiness (using his pejorative term) is not confined to one political party or worldview. see: CPAC promiscuous ladies freakout a couple of weeks ago.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:36 pm
Can we please talk about how vile Limbaugh’s sexual proclivities are without dehumanizing the boys he raped by calling them “sex toys?”
yrs——Ben
February 29th, 2012 at 7:37 pm
@Cluttered Mind:
http://www.zazzle.com/sherman_.....8377790957
February 29th, 2012 at 7:37 pm
@General Stuck (Bravo Nope Zero): Thats “switch hands and never miss a stroke”
February 29th, 2012 at 7:39 pm
People are reacting to the vileness of what Rush says (and everything he says is vile) but we are missing the big lie. He and his band of troglodytes are not paying a damn thing for this. This is not something covered by taxpayer money! If it was, the whole issue of the Catholic church’s “religious convictions” would be a non-issue. The insurance plans in question are paid for or subsidized by the Catholic Church, or an organization associated with the church. But now the lizard brains have gotten hold of the idea that somehow they have been made to pay for this woman’s birth control. That is the lie!
February 29th, 2012 at 7:40 pm
Correct me if I’m wrong, as I’ve only watched Sandra Fluke’s testimony once, but I don’t recall her saying anything about birth control for herself. She related the stories of a lot of other women, and also if I recall, she never stipulated the marital status of ANY of them.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:41 pm
Personally, I’m wondering how many hours Cole set aside for unblocking posts in this thread.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:42 pm
WE HAVE
LIFTOFFAUTOIGNITIONOr we would, if the universe was a just place. Blimpbaugh will probably die peacefully in his sleep, however.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:42 pm
This could mean that Rush reads Balloon Juice.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:43 pm
@magurakurin:
did i miss the year of the Lucite Loafered Ladies of the Adult Dance Recital?
February 29th, 2012 at 7:44 pm
@Dr J: @Dr J:
The insurance plans in question are a portion of employee compensation. They can no sooner tell their employees that they are prohibited from spending their salary on booze or cigarettes.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:44 pm
In this day of the internet and phones with video, how is it that there isn’t footage of Rush meeting one of his Dominican rent boys? Or why hasn’t one of them talked and been given a big payday by the National Enquirer or something? As disgusting as he is, I’m surprised no one has put together a concerted campaign to out his “proclivities.”
February 29th, 2012 at 7:46 pm
@Jennifer: Look, she spoke about birth control being an positive thing; in the minds of these idiots on the right, that makes her a slut. Please don’t ask me to parse the “logic.”
February 29th, 2012 at 7:46 pm
@FlipYrWhig: My favourite version of Goody Two Shoes, though the original is great, too.
Ahhh! That should clean that Sopranos scene out of my mind nicely …
February 29th, 2012 at 7:47 pm
Five will getcha ten that Limbaugh was fapping during his radio show talking about that college student having “so much sex she can’t afford the contraception…”
That’s hot Rush…
February 29th, 2012 at 7:49 pm
@Bill Arnold: Nonsense, Bill. He has people for that.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:49 pm
@Steve:
Rush sees sex from the perspective of his use of v!agra: Two every time he has sex. And he still probably has a rough time of it. Christ, it must suck to be him.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:50 pm
Although other young unmarried women are sluts for having sex outside of marriage are sluts I am pretty sure all of Rush’s wives were virgins when they married him, and probably still are.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:50 pm
@Redshift: Ah. The wingnuts covered the “more sex” thing. You could buy condoms. If you need more condoms, then you must be having more sex. I’m not sure how they deal with the health issues that make women choose to take the Pill, but I can’t imagine they care.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:53 pm
@patrick II:
I wonder what Rush’s current wife thinks about this. I’m sure she’s not sleeping with him, but unless she’s a lesbian (is she?) she’s probably sleeping with other men. And she’s young enough to need some kind of birth control. Hmmm…
February 29th, 2012 at 7:59 pm
@Michele C: In my view, the Pill is a medication prescribed by medical doctors for medical reasons. More information than that is none of my nor anyone else’s fucking business. If insurance covers medication, it should cover the Pill.
February 29th, 2012 at 8:02 pm
Think he left anyone able to talk? @Violet:
February 29th, 2012 at 8:06 pm
@Raven:
I was wondering that in another thread. I think where he lives is right in the path of last night’s killer storms. Hope he and Mrs J and the menagerie are all safe. I imagine they had power outages and a bunch of downed tree limbs at the very least.
Speaking of which, I understand we in Jawja are in for some, er, interesting weather later tonight.
February 29th, 2012 at 8:06 pm
Zifnab @ 45
They make pills for that rash. That’s why GOPpers don’t like health care reform
February 29th, 2012 at 8:07 pm
Not only took the dare, but doubled down on it.
Yep, that’s our Rush, all right . . . .
February 29th, 2012 at 8:07 pm
@Omnes Omnibus:
Totally agree. And if they’re going to refuse to cover birth control pills because they somehow interfere with women getting pregnant, then they should refuse to cover anything that is even tangentially related. So, no coverage for birth control, any sort of er3ct1le dysfunction medication, vasect0mies, and any of the urological analysis involved in any of that as well.
February 29th, 2012 at 8:10 pm
@Djur:
Oh, I think it may be a little more recent than that. I’d wager serious coin that he owns a complete set of the Girls Gone Wild videos.
Or DVDs. Or whatever the kids are calling them these days.
February 29th, 2012 at 8:10 pm
@Gin & Tonic: I agree that insurance is part of an employee’s compensation as well, which makes my point stronger that Rush is lying, again.
February 29th, 2012 at 8:12 pm
@Leadpipe:
Jeez, that made me shudder. I know he’s awful, but I can’t imagine he’s murdering rent boys in the Dominican Republic every time he visits. Really?
February 29th, 2012 at 8:13 pm
Don’t forget that the anti-abortion people trained their sights on contraception several years ago, and started describing the pill as “baby pesticides”. Stuff like that. If abortion should be criminalized, and contraception is murder too, that really leaves you noplace to turn … doesn’t it?
They used Colorado as a test bed for this stuff – it started bubbling up several years ago on talk radio and brave talk on the campaign stump by GOP candidates. Then it all erupted when the anti-abortion crowd got a “personhood” initiative placed on the ballot back in 2010. That initiative would have declared life begins at conception … and would have conveniently made those “baby pesticides” illegal and tantamount to murder.
The ballot initiative failed. So the same people who had been pushing the Colodado initiative then went to Mississippi to try it again. Failed there too. But now they are coming back to Colorado to try it yet again.
They are crazy. But well-funded, and incredibly energetic. And now they have seized control of the GOP’s brain on these issues.
February 29th, 2012 at 8:14 pm
@Bokonon:
“Brain”? It has a brain????
February 29th, 2012 at 8:19 pm
@Delia:
Much like a cockroach. They have tiny, little brains, but operate primary on instinct.
February 29th, 2012 at 8:29 pm
@Maude:
Scary, yet strangely normal.
February 29th, 2012 at 8:39 pm
That train is never late!
February 29th, 2012 at 8:46 pm
I don’t even know what to say about this. I don’t. Do these people not have mothers? Wives? Daughters, sisters, girlfriends? (I’m thinking less of Limbaugh himself than I am of his followers and all the idiot Republican psychopathic teabaggers.)
I remember back when I was in 10th grade and Walter Mondale chose Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. Back then, Delaware County, Pennsylvania was a strong Republican county, and there were few of my classmates who came from Democratic households. There was one day in some class when I was arguing with some of my friends about why Mondale was better than Reagan, and they told me that they’d never vote for Mondale, since (among other reasons) if anything happened to him, Ferraro would become president, and, well, you know how women are, with their hormones and their PMS and all that. And yeah, I know we were just 15 or whatever, and even then I knew that we were pretty clueless and had a lot to learn, but it still floored me. And I said something like, “Well, what the hell, don’t you guys have mothers? Sisters? Don’t you respect them at all? Even a little?” It didn’t seem to reach them, though. Most of these guys have become Democrats in the years since then, though.
And, so, yes, I know that ran on a little long, but my point was that lots of 15 year old guys have far less respect for women than they should, but, shit, Limbaugh is, what, 60 now? Something like that, anyway, at least I think he is. And how old are his loser listeners on average? I’d have to guess they’re at least 45 or 50. That’s pretty fucking pathetically old not to have even the least bit of respect for women, even more so, when you think that all of these creeps (presumably) have or had mothers, and at least a few of them must have wives or girlfriends. I mean, as unlikely as that seems on its face, the law of averages would dictate that there must be as many as 2 or 3% of these creatures who have or have had significant relationships with women. And they still think of women as less than fully human. Hard to fathom.
February 29th, 2012 at 8:48 pm
@Cluttered Mind: I think I read at some other blog that Ms. Flake was actually taking the pill to control/prevent the formation of uterine cysts.
February 29th, 2012 at 8:52 pm
@Jay in Oregon:
Reminds me of the Amazon executive who said “Sure, we lose money on every sale, but we make it up in volume!”
This pre-dates Amazon by quite a number of years. Don’t know if he started it but Ralph Williams(southern CA car dealer) used the same phrase decades ago.
February 29th, 2012 at 8:53 pm
@Zifnab:
Of course her realizes it. He also realizes that most of his audience doesn’t. Rush is one seriously cynical motherfucker.
February 29th, 2012 at 8:55 pm
As Rush Limbaugh knows, the taxpayers shouldn’t be paying American women to have sex.
Right-wing radio hosts with a briefcase full of boner pills are the ones who should be paying underage girls in the Dominican Republic to have sex.
It’s really simple, people.
February 29th, 2012 at 9:30 pm
@Zifnab:
That is indeed the killer bit; Rush isn’t the only rightwinger to have babbled about how much sex these “co-eds” are having, that it costs so much.
February 29th, 2012 at 9:34 pm
@Tara the Antisocial Social Worker:
Goody Two Shoes was an early version of the Berenstain Bears:
February 29th, 2012 at 9:41 pm
@Comrade Dread: Matt Bors called this a few days ago.
February 29th, 2012 at 9:45 pm
@parsimon: Funny thing about hormonal birth control, it only works if you take it regularly and consistently. Fucking moron wingnuts.
February 29th, 2012 at 9:47 pm
@Tara the Antisocial Social Worker: It goes back to the 1920s, and it originally just meant being a pushover in general – the idea was that your shoe heels were rounded, not just your feet, so you could be tipped over backward.
February 29th, 2012 at 10:11 pm
@Gravenstone: I can only assume that they believe their audience doesn’t know that. Maybe it doesn’t. Maybe when it thinks “birth control” it thinks condoms, where the annual cost would obviously go up the more sex you had.
Anyway, the cravenness is somehow more jaw-dropping to me than usual.
February 29th, 2012 at 10:11 pm
And if there’s anyone who knows about sluts and prostitutes, it’s ol’ Limpballs hisself. Cole called it right, but I really wish it had been some other wingnut who jumped the shark. Just seeing “Limbaugh”, “sluts” and “prostitutes” in the same paragraph makes me reach for the brain bleach.
The horror….the horror….
March 1st, 2012 at 12:21 am
No discussion of Rush Limbaugh and sex is complete without this gem from Bill Hicks. Warning: Not Safe for weak of heart or stomach.
March 1st, 2012 at 2:35 am
So, is anyone going to call their Republican reps and ask them if they agree with Rush and think that women who use birth control are sluts?
March 1st, 2012 at 9:05 am
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March 13th, 2012 at 4:51 pm