Rush Limbaugh's 'Slut' Attack Costs Him Advertisers
Source: New York Magazine
Call him what you will — shock jock, blowhard, gross sexist monster — but Rush Limbaugh is sticking by his decision to call Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke a "slut" and a "prostitute" for her congressional testimony supporting contraception coverage. This much was clear on Thursday when, instead of apologizing for his remarks, Limbaugh channeled Santorum sugar daddy Foster Friess and promised to "buy all of the women at Georgetown University as much aspirin to put between their knees as they want." Now, advertisers are pulling out of his radio show, including, somewhat ironically, mattress manufacturers Sleep Train and Sleep Number. (Quicken Loans, a mortgage refinancing company, also suspended its ads after reviewing "feedback" from their clients and staff.)
And it's likely that more of Limbaugh's sponsors will make for the exits, now that a full-scale boycott effort is underway on Twitter (spearheaded by @StopRush, an online activist who led a boycott of Glenn Beck's Fox News show in 2009) and with the Daily Kos circulating a petition urging advertisers to join the protest.
Limbaugh may also soon face a lawsuit. Fluke herself has not ruled out the possibility and, even if she doesn't take legal action, it seems the Democrats will: New York's own Representative Carolyn Maloney yesterday told an audience in the city that "we will be filing a slander suit against Rush Limbaugh."
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I submitted the following complaint of "Obscene, Profane, and/or Indecent Material":
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Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh on Wednesday 02/29/2012 called Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown University law student, a "slut" and a "prostitute" for publicly advocating that employers cover contraception in their health plans. But instead of apologizing for his offensive comments on his show Thursday, 03/01/2012, he made even worse statements:
"A Georgetown coed told Nancy Pelosi's hearing that the women in her law school program are having so much sex they're going broke, so you and I should have to pay for their birth control. So what would you call that? I called it what it is," he said. "So, I'm offering a compromise today: I will buy all of the women at Georgetown University as much aspirin to put between their knees as they want."
Fluke's testimony in the hearing was not, as Limbaugh claimed, about the fact that she's "having so much sex she's going broke buying contraceptives." She told the story of her friend who had an ovary removed because the insurance company wouldn't cover the prescription birth control she needed to stop the growth of ovarian cysts.
Limbaugh concluded his sexist rant by insisting that if women want their contraception covered, they should post pornographic videos of themselves online. "So Miss Fluke and the rest of you feminazis, here's the deal," he said. "If we are going to pay for your
contraceptives and thus pay for you to have sex, we want something. We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch."
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Once you hit the Submit button, you get a confirmation that you can use to inquire about the status of your complaint. Very cool.
I'll do the representative thing too. I have my congress critters on speed-dial.
It's much worse to be anti-war than anti-Commander in Chief. 
How fucking stupid do you have to be to make up such an easily debunked story and tell it in front of a TV camera? And then to get in front of the cameras again and again to complain that you got called out on your bullshit story.
But, I guess that exactly the same as testifying before Congress about how a particular law/bill/proposal will affect people. And being called a liar for lying and being called a slut and prostitute for favoring insurance coverage of contraception is the same, too. 
Thanks for the thread UpInArms. 
Don't they pay attention to who they're sponsoring? 
Years ago, when I knew nothing about politics, my mother would have him on the radio in her car and even then I found him offensive. I used to fantasize about jumping out, or if she went into a store and left me in the car, I'd change the channel. 
