Sandra Fluke on The View now.

[Skidmore]

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Just a heads up.

[Bluerthanblue]

1. thanks!

gonna try and catch it.

[Bluerthanblue]

2. she was excellent- very calm, clear and fair.

I like that she encouraged people to check out media matters, and recognize this is a larger issue- that it is part of a republican agenda.

Glad I was able to catch most of it. Thanks for the heads up!

[Skidmore]

3. I'm trying to find that Media Matters item she talked about which listed others who

attacked her.

Her parents should indeed be very proud of her, as should all women in the nation. She represents us well.

[JonLP24]

10. In case you haven't found it

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201203020007

It is now front page "as mentioned on The View" on the home site.

[Bluerthanblue]

13. I found

this:

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201203050004

not sure if this is it- but will keep looking.

She does represent us well.!

[Bluerthanblue]

16. actually this link might be the one-

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201203020007

it's several people speaking out in support of Limbaugh, while slandering Ms. Fluke.

[nolabear]

4. Thanks! TiVo'd for later.

I hope she's very careful and selective about what she says and where she says it. Nice thing about The View is that women watch it. This needs to be kept in front of the minds of the average woman, who, believe me, gets it.

[Quantess]

5. How will the republican ladies in the bunch possibly defend Limbaugh's comments?

I don't think they can. We'll see.

[Esse Quam Videri]

6. It is on an hour later here but at the beginning

Haselback was saying that Ed Schultz, Keith Olberman and Bill Maher have all made misogynistic comments......just like rush - so there!

[Quantess]

7. Oh, I see...

The old "both sides do it", "both sides are equally guilty" meme.

Similar to comparing shoplifting candy to a bank robbery. False equivocation.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. If she is going to do 'both sides"

then she forgot to mention that they were all suspended too. So why hasn't Rush been suspended?

[Aerows]

14. "Both sides do it"

It just gets attentions when our side does it worse.

Whine!

"It's like it's okay when a Democrat robs a house. They never complain beyond putting that Democrat in jail. A Republican robs a house, rapes the wife and forcing the man to watch, kills her and then him, and then we censure him and investigate if there was any wrong doing. But they keep screaming about it. Same difference."

[thucythucy]

23. And how many of those folks have been invited to the White House?

Didn't both Bushes have Rush over to the White House? And didn't both Bushes--and other Republican leaders--call Rush on the air on the anniversary of his program to offer their congratulations? When was the last time a Democratic president called to congratulate Bill Maher?

And how many Democratic congressmen have called Schultz, Olberman or Maher to apologize for their criticism? Seems I recall more than one GOP Congressperson having to kowtow to Rushbo after daring to call him on his BS.

Sorry, the GOP made Rush, and Rush is now the recognized spokesman and de facto leader of the GOP. Hence the unwillingness of any of its presidential candidates to do more than murmer the slightest disapproval, if that, of the man and his disgusting attacks on women.

The GOP is going to rue the day they decided contraception was going to be their next wedge issue.

[Bluerthanblue]

9. I was surprised to hear Elizabeth say she never listens to Limbaugh-

I missed the very begining of the segment, Whoopie said something that Ms. Fluke took issue with saying that it wasn't a 'one-time' comment, but three days of continual attacks, and said that he'd made over 50 offensive comments.

I don't know what Whoopie had said, but I'm hoping to find it. Barbara Walters seemed kind of ...'tepid'... wishy-washy, saying something like 'no matter where you stand on the issue we appreciate you speaking out'..

[ohheckyeah]

18. A friend of mine

said Whoopie and Barbara commented on an earlier show that she was making too much of it and Rush could lose his livelihood over it.

[Bluerthanblue]

20. huh... I'm

a little surprised that Whoopie would even remotely support Limbaugh, but she's her own person. When Sandra addressed Whoopie's comment it seemed like Whoopie was in full agreement with the point that Ms. Fluke made to explain why it was different.

thanks-

[ohheckyeah]

22. I was surprised as well.

I don't watch the View. They are constantly talking over each other and I find it annoying as hell.

[rsmith6621]

8. Its Sandra Fluke....Not Susan

[Skidmore]

15. corrected.

Thanks for catching that. I knew that but apparently my fingers didn't.

[Pisces]

11. Just watched her segment. The GOP is screwed. She nailed it as well as pointed out this is not tax

payer funded. it is private insurance. She sounds reasonable and calm. Women will gravitate to this message being delivered by her. Rush picked the wrong woman to attack.

[Skidmore]

17. She was excellent in standing her ground. I was so po'd at Barbara Walters who

at the beginning of the show spent some time lecturing the other women cohosts on why people shouldn't be asking sponsors to drop their advertising on that pig's program. I understand that she is worried that the same could happen to The View if they stepped in it. Sandra was entirely on target when pointing out in the segment she was in that what Limbaugh did was not a simple drive by swipe but a sustained attack over three days directed specifically at her and which included some 53 direct personal attacks. She also pointed out that his attacks were then picked up and amplified by others like him.

[Bluerthanblue]

19. ahhh....

I missed the Barbara Walters lecture- that explains here wishy-washy closing. She's worried about her sponsors. geez...

[Life Long Dem]

21. His choice of words were not the best chosen words

For 3 days.