Sandra Fluke isn’t finished testifying
FORT PIERCE, Fla. — Sandra Fluke watches her old speeches like game tape, studying her gestures and delivery. She practices her sound bites on Twitter, sharpening arguments down to 140 characters.
Fluke has also learned to tell “slut” jokes. Given the rest of her material, audiences could use a laugh.
“Contrary to some recent rumors,” Fluke told a crowd in this beat-down beach town, where she is endorsing Patrick Murray, a local Democrat, for Congress, “I don’t actually support just any guy who comes up to me.”
This, she hopes, is how you excel as a culture warrior.
Fluke became an election-year celebrity seven months ago — a law student made famous by a snub in Congress and an insult on the radio. Since then, Fluke has been a walking, talking symbol of the nation’s polarized politics, caricatured either as an oversexed whiner or as a noble casualty of the “war on women.”
The latest proof of that came Saturday night, in a debate between Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart and conservative Bill O’Reilly. In his opening statement, O’Reilly used Fluke as the face of a “slacker” culture sapping the country’s vitality: “The poster person for the entitlement society is Sandra Fluke,” O’Reilly said, joking that he’d left a pack of birth-control pills at will-call for her. “Sandra! Buy. Your. Own.”
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I wonder if the rise of Fluke is more because of Rush Limbaugh's trash talk than her testimony before that special Congressional panel.
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