This appears to be Rush’s line of thinking: Sandra Fluke was testifying before Congress regarding birth control and the recent controversy regarding whether or not insurance companies should have to provide it. She feels that yes, they should have to provide it. But she wouldn’t need birth control if she weren’t having sex, and getting the birth control for free represents a financial gain, therefore Sandra Fluke gets a financial gain for something she only needs because she has sex. Therefore she wants a financial gain for having sex. Therefore, she’s a slut and a prostitute.
It is a fairly interesting argument because nearly every single aspect of it is comically invalid, and yet it’s not funny. Let’s strap on some sock puppets for the benefit of Limbaugh’s supporters and take a look, shall we? You might find it helpful and soothing, Dittoheads, to imagine I’m talking with actual puppets using a Kermit the Frog voice – feel free.
1. This was not personal. Sandra Fluke was not testifying before Congress regarding her own personal birth control pills. She was not there to get them to buy her birth control pills. She was speaking as a representative of women in America. So she does not want YOU to buy HER anything.
2. People pay insurance premiums. Women – and listen carefully here Dittoheads – are also people. They pay their insurance premiums. Therefore, women are the ones paying for the birth control, in a much more direct way than Rush or some idiot named Mark from Facebook.
3. You only pay a tiny sliver of the taxes paid in America. So that means you only pay a tiny sliver of whatever taxes buy. That is why, Genius, you do not get to walk up to Air Force One and insist they give you a ride to Florida. It’s not your airplane, even though you do in fact pay a tiny sliver of the taxes which fund it. If you don’t understand that, then you don’t understand anything.
4. Here in America, taxes are not a salad bar. You will pay for exactly what the People decide you are going to pay for. In the last ten years, I have seen “my” taxes go toward two wars I did not want or believe in, but I heard the Commander-in-Chief of the US Military loud and clear, that’s what we were doing. Perhaps you think they should have mailed me the box of bullets I may have paid for, so I could rest assured I wasn’t “paying for” any part of the war, but that’s not how it works.
It is very obvious that you like to flip the conversation over your own personal tax contributions for two sad and transparent reasons: A) That way you can inflate them to appear as though you make more money than you actually do, and B) So you can then use your new, inflated financial status as evidence that your opinion should be worth more.
In other words, you wish to bully us all with your imaginary money. That’s cute, but Bill Gates and the bum on the street both get the same vote here in America. Even if you weren’t bullshitting us about how much you make, you are wrong about what it means.
6. The debate about birth control coverage under insurance plans is not relevant to this discussion. The problem we are having here is that Rush Limbaugh launched a baseless, incredibly offensive, sexist attack on an ordinary woman addressing Congress about the larger issues of women’s health, women’s rights, and sexism in America. He did this from his national radio show, which is why we’re talking about it as a nation.
The nation is not outraged about Rush disagreeing with Sandra Fluke. We are outraged that Rush, in typical sexist fashion, all but ignored Sandra Fluke as an intelligent citizen addressing Congress and decided to bully her personally, on the basis of her gender, in outrageous Ron Burgundy terms.
So we are standing up for Sandra Fluke the way we need to stand up to bullies everywhere. The debate about whether or not she’s right is a completely separate issue. (She is, though, you deluded fuckers.)
7. Rush Limbaugh has exhibited a pattern of this exact type of behavior for decades. That is why, as some of you are wondering, he is being so universally attacked whereas David Letterman and Bill Maher are (currently) not. One could use one’s Google Machine if one knew how, to learn all about the uproar both of those gentlemen have caused occasionally, when making sexist remarks like this, but because they lack the clear and consistent pattern, the outrage wasn’t nearly so widespread. I guess when they apologize for things, more people tend to believe them, and I guess when their jokes go bad, maybe they don’t repeat them for three hours a day for several more days. Who knows?
Either way, Bill Maher is not relevant to this discussion. David Letterman is not relevant to this discussion. We are having a discussion about Rush Limbaugh and our firm conviction that we should not support companies which, through their advertising dollars, support Rush Limbaugh. You could build the argument that we should boycott someone else, and please have fun – but it takes a lot of people agreeing with you for that sort of thing to work.
I have no doubt you would like to talk about something else due to your complete lack of any logical or rational footing on this matter, but the fact is, if you are defending Rush Limbaugh right now, you are almost certainly far less intelligent than most of the people around you. I am not surprised you are confused. That is very possibly why when you and your churchtacular pals try to boycott things, no one listens or cares.
8. It is, in fact, personal now. Whereas it was not personal when it began, when Sandra Fluke stood up to testify to Congress regarding the wider issue of women’s healthcare, it most certainly is personal now. Rush Limbaugh made it personal. And so now, millions of people have an even bigger personal problem with Rush Limbaugh than they did before.
I have a personal problem with Rush Limbaugh. I have a personal problem with anyone who supports what he has said. This issue, as far as I am concerned, is closed.
If you are defending Rush Limbaugh, then I am not feeling like it’s time to make a steeple with my fingers and put it on my chin, and sit around crosslegged having a debate with you in the grass. I simply don’t respect you enough.
I don’t debate Holocaust Deniers or white supremacists or people who think the world is flat. This falls into the Screw You, Crazy Town Category.
If you are defending Rush Limbaugh then I have a personal problem with YOU, and I will not tolerate your bullshit, not for one second. I will not elevate your insipid nonsense to even the lofty heights of a Facebook thread. You will remove yourself from my presence, and you will take your nasty sexist rhetoric with you, and down the road keep your eyes open. I’ll be there (briefly) to insult and ridicule you at the unfortunate level of discourse you’ve selected, the very next time I hear you’re doing it again.
On the other hand, of course, anyone who agrees that Rush has gone too far, here’s a link to a site where you can contact all of his advertisers We’ll now return to our regular silliness in the days to come.
Tell Limbaugh Advertisers: Stop Supporting Sexist Attacks On Women
And remember when Michelle Obama wasn’t supposed to eat ribs?
Rein In Your Idiots, Please
Rush Limbaugh’s Anti-Argument (The Sockpuppet Version)
It is a fairly interesting argument because nearly every single aspect of it is comically invalid, and yet it’s not funny. Let’s strap on some sock puppets for the benefit of Limbaugh’s supporters and take a look, shall we? You might find it helpful and soothing, Dittoheads, to imagine I’m talking with actual puppets using a Kermit the Frog voice – feel free.
1. This was not personal. Sandra Fluke was not testifying before Congress regarding her own personal birth control pills. She was not there to get them to buy her birth control pills. She was speaking as a representative of women in America. So she does not want YOU to buy HER anything.
2. People pay insurance premiums. Women – and listen carefully here Dittoheads – are also people. They pay their insurance premiums. Therefore, women are the ones paying for the birth control, in a much more direct way than Rush or some idiot named Mark from Facebook.
4. Here in America, taxes are not a salad bar. You will pay for exactly what the People decide you are going to pay for. In the last ten years, I have seen “my” taxes go toward two wars I did not want or believe in, but I heard the Commander-in-Chief of the US Military loud and clear, that’s what we were doing. Perhaps you think they should have mailed me the box of bullets I may have paid for, so I could rest assured I wasn’t “paying for” any part of the war, but that’s not how it works.
It is very obvious that you like to flip the conversation over your own personal tax contributions for two sad and transparent reasons: A) That way you can inflate them to appear as though you make more money than you actually do, and B) So you can then use your new, inflated financial status as evidence that your opinion should be worth more.
In other words, you wish to bully us all with your imaginary money. That’s cute, but Bill Gates and the bum on the street both get the same vote here in America. Even if you weren’t bullshitting us about how much you make, you are wrong about what it means.
6. The debate about birth control coverage under insurance plans is not relevant to this discussion. The problem we are having here is that Rush Limbaugh launched a baseless, incredibly offensive, sexist attack on an ordinary woman addressing Congress about the larger issues of women’s health, women’s rights, and sexism in America. He did this from his national radio show, which is why we’re talking about it as a nation.
The nation is not outraged about Rush disagreeing with Sandra Fluke. We are outraged that Rush, in typical sexist fashion, all but ignored Sandra Fluke as an intelligent citizen addressing Congress and decided to bully her personally, on the basis of her gender, in outrageous Ron Burgundy terms.
So we are standing up for Sandra Fluke the way we need to stand up to bullies everywhere. The debate about whether or not she’s right is a completely separate issue. (She is, though, you deluded fuckers.)
Either way, Bill Maher is not relevant to this discussion. David Letterman is not relevant to this discussion. We are having a discussion about Rush Limbaugh and our firm conviction that we should not support companies which, through their advertising dollars, support Rush Limbaugh. You could build the argument that we should boycott someone else, and please have fun – but it takes a lot of people agreeing with you for that sort of thing to work.
I have no doubt you would like to talk about something else due to your complete lack of any logical or rational footing on this matter, but the fact is, if you are defending Rush Limbaugh right now, you are almost certainly far less intelligent than most of the people around you. I am not surprised you are confused. That is very possibly why when you and your churchtacular pals try to boycott things, no one listens or cares.
8. It is, in fact, personal now. Whereas it was not personal when it began, when Sandra Fluke stood up to testify to Congress regarding the wider issue of women’s healthcare, it most certainly is personal now. Rush Limbaugh made it personal. And so now, millions of people have an even bigger personal problem with Rush Limbaugh than they did before.
I have a personal problem with Rush Limbaugh. I have a personal problem with anyone who supports what he has said. This issue, as far as I am concerned, is closed.
If you are defending Rush Limbaugh, then I am not feeling like it’s time to make a steeple with my fingers and put it on my chin, and sit around crosslegged having a debate with you in the grass. I simply don’t respect you enough.
I don’t debate Holocaust Deniers or white supremacists or people who think the world is flat. This falls into the Screw You, Crazy Town Category.
If you are defending Rush Limbaugh then I have a personal problem with YOU, and I will not tolerate your bullshit, not for one second. I will not elevate your insipid nonsense to even the lofty heights of a Facebook thread. You will remove yourself from my presence, and you will take your nasty sexist rhetoric with you, and down the road keep your eyes open. I’ll be there (briefly) to insult and ridicule you at the unfortunate level of discourse you’ve selected, the very next time I hear you’re doing it again.
On the other hand, of course, anyone who agrees that Rush has gone too far, here’s a link to a site where you can contact all of his advertisers We’ll now return to our regular silliness in the days to come.
Tell Limbaugh Advertisers: Stop Supporting Sexist Attacks On Women
And remember when Michelle Obama wasn’t supposed to eat ribs?
Rein In Your Idiots, Please
Posted by Tom Chalfant on March 4, 2012 in Angry, Venomous Rants, Celebrities, News/Commentary
Tags: birth control, Commentary, dittoheads, humor, news, Rush, Rush Limbaugh, Sandra Fluke, sexism, sexist