How to spin shit.
Limbaugh first thrust himself into the center of the contraception debate on Wednesday when he called Fluke a "slut" on his radio show for arguing to Congress that the expense for her birth control should be covered by her employer's health care plan.
Well no, she argued that all women should have access to birth control through their insurance, as the health care law requires, and that this access should not be taken away to accommodate religious nutbags. (My words, not hers.)
Her is some of what she did say:
I felt insulted, not for myself, but for the women I wanted to represent, the women whose stories I wanted to convey to the committee and the women who were silenced," Fluke said. "There were not women there who were affected by this policy."
And some commentary about her testimony:
Fluke’s testimony fell squarely on the women’s-health side of the ledger. The former president of Georgetown Law Students for Reproductive Justice described student polling that showed broad support for contraceptive coverage. She also told the stories of two friends who she said had been harmed by the Jesuit university’s policy against contraceptive coverage. One 32-year-old student, she said, had lost an ovary to polycystic ovarian syndrome last year after her insurer refused to cover the hormonal birth control pills that kept the disease at bay, and is now experiencing symptoms of early menopause. Another woman, she said, had opted not to seek care of disease screening after a rape, because she assumed all women’s sexual health services would not be covered.
“This is the message that not requiring coverage of contraception sends,” Fluke said. “A woman’s reproductive health care isn’t a necessity, isn’t a priority.”
And then here is ABC's best effort to spin shit into gold:
As the Senate voted down a Republican effort that would have allowed employers not to cover contraception in their health plans, Limbaugh enraged the left by saying that Fluke was "having so much sex she can't afford her own birth control pills and she agrees that Obama should provide them, or the pope."
Thursday night, a bomb squad was called to Limbaugh's house to investigate a suspicious package that was determined to contain nothing harmful. Limbaugh said on his show today that "it would send chills up your spine if I were to tell you what the package actually contained."
Enraged the LEFT? The "bomb" that was not a bomb? Really?
Hey fuck you ABC.
Shit spinning ref:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/rush-limbaugh-democrats-demonizing-sex-comments/story?id=15834374#.T1FJV_GPU6s
A reasonable attempt at what used to known as journalism:
http://www.nationaljournal.com/healthcare/-women-are-energized-witness-tells-contraception-hearing-20120223
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