Despite Apology, Limbaugh Continues Attacks On Fluke For Fourth Day

[Galraedia]

Rush Limbaugh continued his personal attacks on Sandra Fluke today, despite issuing an apology this weekend for his verbal assault on the Georgetown Law student last week. While Limbaugh tempered his tone slightly, refraining from the most belligerent name calling he initially engaged in, he nonetheless went after Fluke personally, questioning her motives by portraying her as a deceitful and radical activist trying to undermine religion.

Limbaugh did some research into Fluke’s life and cast doubt on Fluke’s testimony before Congress, insinuating — without presenting any reason why — that Fluke’s testimony was fabricated. In this new narrative, first advanced by conservative blogs, Fluke is perhaps not a slut, but instead the pawn of a radical leftist conspiracy to infiltrate Georgetown to force the school to provide birth control coverage to students:

LIMBAUGH: Her testimony was not that of an expert, it was just another expert person in this case, Sandra’s case. 30-year old activist after years of a career championing birth control issues. In fact, she told stories less about birth control as a social tool, which is of course the left’s true agenda, and more about birth control as a medication for treating other conditions, such as pregnancy. To the left, pregnancy is a disease.

Sandra Fluke gave vague examples based on unnamed friends, who she says couldn’t afford birth control to treat medical conditions they had, since Georgetown University wouldn’t pay for them. … Or so she says. We still don’t know who any of these friends of hers are, these other women, and we don’t know what happened to them. Her testimony was hearsay, and it was unprovable.

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/media/2012/03/05/438008/limbaugh-fluke-day4/

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. That was no apology.

It was a sorry attempt to plug the leaks, but it failed. Miserably.

[nolabear]

2. I hope people come forth in a united effort to take him down.

The S.S. Rushbo

[gratuitous]

3. She didn't hold herself out as an expert

But as long as we're discussing qualifications, you vile human being, what were the expert qualifications of the witnesses called by Chairman Issa? Did any of those men hold medical degrees? Have any of them been on birth control pills? What are their expert qualifications to speak for all women nay, all citizens, about what constitutes religious freedom?

[Tennessee Gal]

4. Oh, just shove it Rush, you miserable excuse for a human being.

Keep digging that hole. Let it swallow you up. Go away.

I smell desperation.

[justgamma]

5. He couldn't even bring himself to use her correct name.

The part they played on the news, he mispronounced her name. Instead of Fluke, he kept calling her fluk. That was no mistake. He is one hideous person.

[pangaia]

6. He has been calling her 'fluk' from the begining.

"Her testimony was hearsay, and it was unprovable."

EVERYTHING he says his hearsay and unprovable.

[BadgerKid]

7. The correct answer is that each woman is her own expert wrt her own body. n/t

[Arugula Latte]

8. Can we airlift Rush to an island, drop him, and let rich people hunt him with spears?

Now that's good sport.

[Sparkly]

9. Birth control as a medication for treating pregnancy -- what?!?

Now he wants the names of the women she referenced, so he can attack them too?

What a pompous bag of wind.

[thucythucy]

10. How ignorant this man is of anything having to do with women!

"as a medication for treating other conditions, such as pregnancy."

No, Rush, such as dysmenorrhea. You've probably never heard of that, have you? It has to do with menstruation, another of those things you're constantly mocking, belittling, insulting.

And hormonal birth control (which is what we're talking about -- the pill, prescribed by doctors, hello???) doesn't "treat" pregnancy, it prevents it. That's why it's called "contraception."

You really have to be one solid hunk of ignorant to believe anything this man says about women.

[Galraedia]

11. Mitt Romney on Rush: