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"Hold this between your knees, Rush Limbaugh"
http://www.salon.com/2012/03/02/hold_this_between_your_knees_rush_limbaugh/singleton/#comments
Limbaughs behavior is just the far-right edge on a continuum of conservative misogyny thats gone beyond trying to outlaw abortion, moved into the once-unimaginable realm of contraception, and mocks women in a way we havent heard since my childhood, I think. His joke is based on the remark by Rick Santorums moneyman Foster Freiss, on the same day as Issas hearing, recalling the days when gals didnt need birth control because they put aspirin between their knees. But its not just for fun: The entire GOP presidential field has endorsed a personhood amendment that could outlaw most non-barrier forms of contraception. On Thursday, Sen. Roy Blunts shameful attempt to give employers the right to deny health insurance coverage for any treatment they didnt approve of targeting but not limited to contraception was tabled in the Senate, but not before it got 48 votes, including every Republican except the departing Olympia Snowe, plus three cowardly Democrats, Nebraskas Ben Nelson, West Virginias Joe Manchin and Pennsylvanias Bob Casey.
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"Hold this between your knees, Rush Limbaugh" (Original Post)
MarkCharles
Mar 2012
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MADem
(135,425 posts)1. I think Rush should hold his head between his knees...
...and kiss his ass goodbye.
JohnWxy
(6,506 posts)10. in order to do that he would have to first pull his head out of his ass.
MADem
(135,425 posts)11. Still, that's a short trip for the baaassstid! nt
nilram
(2,888 posts)2. I don't care what he does with his knees. "Hold this between your lips, Rush"
I just don't want to hear him talk.
madmom
(9,681 posts)3. He can't get his knees close enough together to hold anything between them.
perdita9
(1,144 posts)5. Bob Casey will never get a penny from me
Yes, he's my senator and yes, he's a democrat but if he's going to vote against MY interests MY wallet is staying firmly zipped.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)8. Run someone against him..
Faygo Kid
(21,478 posts)6. I suggest he hold this between his knees
Twenty years too late, but do it anyway.
The Wizard
(12,545 posts)7. Here's a knee wedge for Rash
evilhime
(326 posts)9. Pro choice
I think Limpbaugh <sic> is a really good advertisement for being pro choice . . . imagine if he was not born . . .