TYT: Rush Limbaugh Losing Advertisers After Sandra Fluke 'Slut' Comments

[pokerfan]

Yesterday Rush doubled down on his slut comment: "If we're going to pay for your contraceptives and thus pay for you to have sex, we want something for it. We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch."

Via The Huffington Post: "Several of Rush Limbaugh's advertisers announced Friday that they were pulling their commercials from his radio show in the wake of Limbaugh's incendiary comments about a female law student and contraception. After being bombarded on Twitter, mattress store Sleep Train said that it would no longer advertise during Limbaugh's top-rated show following days of outrage over Limbaugh's statements about Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown student who was denied a chance to speak at a Congressional hearing about birth control...".* Cenk Uygur and Ben Mankiewicz discuss on The Young Turks.



At the very end Cenk sums up the Republican position:

1. We hate contraception
2. We think any woman who's having sex outside of marriage is a slut
3. We'd like to watch it

[dkf]

1. Yes it does stem from the moral twitchings over sex as a pasttime.

Frankly they probably want there to be pretty drastic consequences for having sex while not being in a situation where you want a child.

These types simply don't approve of sex for fun. That is the bottom line.

[calimary]

2. They're the heirs of the Puritans, for sure.

A legacy we're all paying for, over and over and over.

[Frances]

5. You are insulting Puritans.

The Puritans might have made Fluke wear a Scarlet Letter, but they would not have demanded that any woman have sex in front of them.

To me, that is truly sick.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

6. They want consequences for *women* who have sex and don't want a child

even while men do the same thing all the time (and their insurance pays for their Viagra while they do it).

[Lionel Mandrake]

8. Medicare stopped paying for viagra

after the first year of Medicare Part D.

[donquijoterocket]

9. or

That they've adopted H.L.Mencken's definition of puritanism:the haunting fear that someone, somewhere is having a good time.
If the whole Republican party has not then surely Lord Limpballs has.He'll just deny that to himself and to anyone who inquires, both of which are at the roots of his misery.

[tblue37]

15. They do too believe in sex for fun--but only for themselves.

Just like welfare--government programs for themselves and theirs should be mandatory and generous, but nothing of the sort should be available to anyone else.

[teknomanzer]

17. Methinks conservatives hate the idea of anyone else having a good time...

Your pursuit of happiness is an offense to them.

[chervilant]

3. Well, now,

teh sexual perversion runs deep in the GOP...

[Frances]

4. IMO only a pervert would demand that a woman

post videos of herself having sex.

That is truly sick.

[Animadz]

7. Or maybe

Out of his "medication" again?

[Lionel Mandrake]

10. Rush Limbaugh is worse than Wally George ever was.

And Wally George used to run his TV show like a Hitler-youth camp, complete with guards who would escort his guests off the stage while Wally was having a fit.

[radiclib]

11. Rush is a moron AND a jackass

and among the media, only Rachel has pointed out that Rush doesn't have a clue how contraceptive medication works.
And neither does BillO.

[pokerfan]

12. How do these guys NOT know how contraception works?

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I remember being taught all that in school, at home and in books.

Are they honestly this ignorant or are they just playing to their audience?

[tblue37]

16. Bill Maher also mentioned that in his monologue last night—

saying Rush apparently thinks birth control pills are like Viagra—you have to take one each time you want to have sex. Then he said Rush was confusing BC pills with Oxycontin.

[Botany]

13. Sandra Fluke v Rush Limbaugh

A third year Georgetown Law Student v A South West Missouri State University drop out/ flunk out.
This is not even a fair fight.


BTW Rush please talk about your sex tours of the Dominican Republic where you went and paid
under age boys to screw them.

BTW Rush do you want to talk about your arrest in Pittsburgh as "Jeff Christie" when you tried
to buy the services of an undercover policeman?

[Lionel Mandrake]

14. Fluke v Limbaugh would be an open and shut case.

She could sue him for slander, and she would win.

[Botany]

18. I hope she does sue him

The case might be a little tougher to win but I would bet you
75 cents that Rush and his lawyers would pay big money to
make "it" go away.

[Generic Other]

19. So ugly

Coming from his mouth it makes the words doubly offensive.

[Lionel Mandrake]

20. Update: Limbaugh says sorry for insults to student

That's the headline of a story in today's LA Times.

Limbaugh says sorry for insults to student

RICARDO LOPEZ

In a rare move for the conservative radio host, Rush Limbaugh apologized Saturday to the Georgetown University law school student he called a “slut” and a “prostitute” last week.

The apology, posted to his website, said he did not mean to make a “personal attack” against Sandra Fluke. The third-year law student had recently testified before Democrats in favor of President Obama’s new rule requiring employers to offer health insurance plans that cover birth control.

“My choice of words was not the best, and in the attempt to be humorous, I created a national stir,” he wrote. “I sincerely apologize to Ms. Fluke for the insulting word choices.”

Read more:
http://eedition2.latimes.com/Olive/ODE/LATimes/
(Click on "The Nation&quot

Evidently Rush Limbaugh is running scared.

May his worst nightmares come true!

[pokerfan]

21. He's sorry that his massive ignorance on the subject was exposed

"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.”

“So the woman comes forth with this frankly hilarious claim that she’s having so much sex — and her buddies with her– that she can’t afford it and not one person says, did you ever think about maybe backing off the amount of sex that you have?”

I guess he stayed home the day they taught birth control in school.

[TxVietVet]

22. Here's a way to help get this piece of human excrement off the airwaves.

Legally and will very little effort. Writing a letter to local stations and to the FCC.

Thanks to Daily Kos for the valuable information he posted on his site.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/02/1070410/-How-to-take-action-against-Limbaugh-at-the-local-level

Feel free to pass this on to others.

Get the conservanazis' beloved leader off the airwaves.