Limbaugh's weaker than water "apology"

[oreo]

Here's the text of the so-called "apology" issued Saturday by the Fat Man. If this was any weaker, it would look like swiss cheese with all the holes in it. Of course, it'll appease his dittoloonies.

"For over 20 years, I have illustrated the absurd with absurdity, three hours a day, five days a week. In this instance, I chose the wrong words in my analogy of the situation. I did not mean a personal attack on Ms. Fluke.

"I think it is absolutely absurd that during these very serious political times, we are discussing personal sexual recreational activities before members of Congress. I personally do not agree that American citizens should pay for these social activities. What happened to personal responsibility and accountability? Where do we draw the line? If this is accepted as the norm, what will follow? Will we be debating if taxpayers should pay for new sneakers for all students that are interested in running to keep fit? In my monologue, I posited that it is not our business whatsoever to know what is going on in anyone's bedroom nor do I think it is a topic that should reach a Presidential level.

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

You're right--it wasn't an apology. This ego maniac who continually states "I have talent on loan from GOD" has turned his program into nothing more than TRASH talk.

In Limbaugh's effort to SUPPORT Rick Santorum--he freaked out and said this.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODI-NALkI4c][Real Audio & Video] Rush Limbaugh Calls Sandra Fluke a "SLUT" - YouTube[/ame]


I am a fiscal conservative and haven't been able to listen to Limbaugh for a few months now. His one-sided--distortion about the candidates have been totally biased and in favor of Rick Santorum. FOX News is no longer fair and balanced either. So I haven't been able to watch them either. In fact, a couple have actually tried to defend Limbaugh's comment here which is absolutely nauseating.

There is absolutely no excuse what-so-ever for a comment like this. Rush Limbaugh has insulted every single woman in this country with this comment--and personally I don't know how any woman could turn on his program tomorrow morning.

3 major advertisers have pulled their contract with Limbaugh--so those "obscene profit" breaks that Limbaugh continually brags about are more than likely down to peanuts.

FOX news and Rush Limbaugh are TOAST with me. Limbaugh deserves the FAT PIG award of the year. BTW--don't medical insurance companies pay for VIAGRA?

The best primary election coverage is now coming from CNN--without all the B.S. attached.

 

[kaz]

It would be wrong of me to hope that happens to you some day.

So I won't say it.

I have an HSA policy with a 10K deductible. I live what I say, I don't run to government to get compensated for every piddling little bill.

 

[Stephanie]

Wow.

"a years supply of IUD's"

Holy shit. You guys really really really DO NOT KNOW a damn thing about reproduction methods, do you.

Jesus Christ.

In a way it's educational watching them parade their ignorance on the subject. Isn't it?

It really is. I mean I knew a lot of social cons were idiots and all, but I didn't the combined IQ when it came to this stuff was that of a box of Junior Mints.

Oh boy, so much intelligence in that post.

 

[ShaklesOfBigGov]

I have to agree with California Girl, it sounds like her greater priority is NOT in her college degree and career.

As far as enslavement. An system that allows dependency on government to provide for your needs is the TRUE definition of enslavement. Look at all those on welfare who depend upon government, who wander the streets while not taking advantage of a free public school system, who are provided no incentive to get off of government dependency but are encouraged through a system that provides more government funding based upon how many kids you conceive, don't pay any taxes, and are not productive members of society able to achieve their own role of personal responsibility through earning their OWN income from a job.

Also, you have the freedom to choose a career that pays more, or attain further EDUCATION (wow imagine that) that allows you to attain a successful career that allows you to EARN that bigger income. All it takes is a little drive, initiative, and the willingness to take some personal risk OVER simply whining over the achievements of someone else. You earn the income you want to achieve, based upon how much work you want to put into it for the salary you desire. I have often felt, as each generation enters the job market, there are fewer people that have the hard enduring work ethic of generations before them. Yes I'm saying that the workers of today are more involved with "comforts" over personal drive and initiative. Where there are "comforts" there is this belief of personal "entitlements", as if we don't need to go through the risks, the need for further education, learning while growing from your mistakes, and the personal investments that the most successful often take. Entitlements are shortcuts without the need to take any personal responsibility for the choices you make. It's the more responsible individuals [the evil rich or business corporations that EARN a profit] that must pay for them.

Yawn.. the tiresome "rugged indivdualist" argument. When you grow up, you stop believing in fairy tales...

The rich don't "earn" anything. This is horsecrap. They profit off the labor of others. They are parasites who have convinced stupid people they are vital organs. Nothing more, nothing less.

If there is less of a work ethic, it's because people don't see the advantage of it. They see their older coworkers get let go because they are old. Hardly an inspiration to work hard all your life, is it?

When you grow up, you come to the personal decision to take on more personal responsibilities for yourself, not expect the government to do the job for you.

There is less of a work ethic because of the entitlement cancer that is creaping into this country. People believe in this crap that they shouldn't have to work hard, but allow the more successful to do all the work while they reap the benefits through Government redistribution. Those who simply look to entitlements and the evil rich, with all the wealth they are able to possess, are the equivalent to the whining complaining brat rich child of very financially successful parents. Have you seen some of these kids act? They don't think they need to work that hard either, but simply feel "entitled" (thus the term "entitlement" in entitlement programs) to take what they see someone else enjoys (this give me, give me, give me attitude . . . as they stomp around and whine in a childish display of a temper tantrum, in order to get what it is they want). Somehow there is this "right" to simply receive what someone else has without having to actually do anything more to earn for it. This falls right in line with the definition of someone who has a lazy mentality. There is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that supports such a government position. If you don't like the career you are in or your boss, no one is stopping you from taking the initiative to own a company yourself. Seems to me all you want to do is complain about it, without making the choice to educate yourself and establish through aquired skills, a more higher paying career where you can EARN the lifestyle you want.

 

[The T]

In a way it's educational watching them parade their ignorance on the subject. Isn't it?

It really is. I mean I knew a lot of social cons were idiots and all, but I didn't the combined IQ when it came to this stuff was that of a box of Junior Mints.

Oh boy, so much intelligence in that post.

Indeed. I'm still trying to understand the venacular.

 

[Liability]

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You're right--it wasn't an apology. * * * *.

I sincerely apologize to Ms. Fluke for the insulting word choices.

No. You are wrong. It CLEARLY was an apology.

 

[paperview]

The Church is taking money from her to provide a service. It's not paying her anything

Well that would be an issue if you weren't full of crap. Can you show the link that they aren't paying any of her medical bills? They aren't paying for contraception, which is something they don't say they will pay for.

I want my insurance to pay for my Dr. Sholls, my feet get sore. And I want more expensive shoes. My insurance needs to pay for that. I need to lose some weight, but diet foods sucks. I want government to force my insurance to pay for better tasting diet food. And smoking, it's better for the people on my policy if I quit, government should force them to pay for my program. I get callouses on my hands when I work in the yard. Government needs to force my insurance carrier to pay for quality gloves to prevent that.

Yeah, it is that stupid.

You just proved right there you didn't read all of her testimony.

 

[kaz]

You obviously didn't read it ALL, dipshit.

kaz: I read some of it

EriktheRed: oh yeah, you're a liar you didn't

kaz: I quoted it

EriktheRed: Oh yeah, well you didn't read all of it.

No duh, I told you that. I read and was commenting on the need for law student ho's to have sex but not pay for it.

Well, as has already been explained more than once, there are other uses for oral contraception and she explained that in her testimony. Guess you didn't read that part or you didn't get it if you did.

If dumbass wingnuts like yourself want to keep shouting what a "slut" she is, go right ahead. It's obviously working so well for you so far.

I'm against government forcing insurance to pay for contraception to have sex. I've said nor addressed anything else. How stupid are you?

 

[Pheonixops]

A reminder, for the thousandth time:

You pay premiums for insurance. When the insurance company pays a claim, they use the money from the premiums collected to pay it.

Georgetown sells insurance to its students. It charges them a premium for that insurance. When you have a claim, the premiums cover it. Provided the insurance company is run properly, the cost of claims is always equal to or lower than the premiums collected.

If birth control is covered under the plan, then the plan would take the above into account in setting premiums.

yes moron we know, the price of our insurance is going to go up so people can fuck like rabbits, where you been all week?

Funny innit? The party of people who want to convince us they are adult enough to make "REPRODUCTIVE CHOICE" are the same people who aren't adult enough to don a condom or swallow a pill..

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Classic paperview!

 

[The T]

yes moron we know, the price of our insurance is going to go up so people can fuck like rabbits, where you been all week?

Funny innit? The party of people who want to convince us they are adult enough to make "REPRODUCTIVE CHOICE" are the same people who aren't adult enough to don a condom or swallow a pill..

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Classic paperview!

Classic Moronishness!

*True Story*

 

[edthecynic]

she claims she's fuckin every swingin dick on the campus. let's see the vids.

Another DittoTard moron mindlessly parroting his MessiahRushie's lies.

October 14, 2011
RUSH: On the cutting edge of societal evolution. Rush Limbaugh, I say it, you believe it, with no questions.

 

[paperview]

It would be wrong of me to hope that happens to you some day.

So I won't say it.

I have an HSA policy with a 10K deductible. I live what I say, I don't run to government to get compensated for every piddling little bill.

What the fuck is wrong with you?

Georgetown U is NOT the government.

They are paying for a product and it's not being provided.

 

[kaz]

The Church is taking money from her to provide a service. It's not paying her anything

Well that would be an issue if you weren't full of crap. Can you show the link that they aren't paying any of her medical bills? They aren't paying for contraception, which is something they don't say they will pay for.

I want my insurance to pay for my Dr. Sholls, my feet get sore. And I want more expensive shoes. My insurance needs to pay for that. I need to lose some weight, but diet foods sucks. I want government to force my insurance to pay for better tasting diet food. And smoking, it's better for the people on my policy if I quit, government should force them to pay for my program. I get callouses on my hands when I work in the yard. Government needs to force my insurance carrier to pay for quality gloves to prevent that.

Yeah, it is that stupid.

You just proved right there you didn't read all of her testimony.

I "proved" it when I said it? No duh. I read enough of her stupid rationalizations that women shouldn't have to pay for their own contraception.

If people are not being treated for illnesses which are covered under their policy, they would be in court arguing breach of contract, not in front of congress telling them what they should use guns to force insurance companies to do.

 

[paperview]

In a way it's educational watching them parade their ignorance on the subject. Isn't it?

It really is. I mean I knew a lot of social cons were idiots and all, but I didn't know the combined IQ when it came to this stuff was that of a box of Junior Mints.

Oh boy, so much intelligence in that post.

Read it again, junior mint.

 

[paperview]

Well that would be an issue if you weren't full of crap. Can you show the link that they aren't paying any of her medical bills? They aren't paying for contraception, which is something they don't say they will pay for.

I want my insurance to pay for my Dr. Sholls, my feet get sore. And I want more expensive shoes. My insurance needs to pay for that. I need to lose some weight, but diet foods sucks. I want government to force my insurance to pay for better tasting diet food. And smoking, it's better for the people on my policy if I quit, government should force them to pay for my program. I get callouses on my hands when I work in the yard. Government needs to force my insurance carrier to pay for quality gloves to prevent that.

Yeah, it is that stupid.

You just proved right there you didn't read all of her testimony.

I "proved" it when I said it? No duh. I read enough of her stupid rationalizations that women shouldn't have to pay for their own contraception.

If people are not being treated for illnesses which are covered under their policy, they would be in court arguing breach of contract, not in front of congress telling them what they should use guns to force insurance companies to do.

So you stopped reading at the point you laughed because a woman's prescription wasn't covered?

How bout you read more.

You won;t though. I know it.

When I look around my campus, I see the faces of the women affected by this lack of contraceptive coverage.

And especially in the last week, I have heard more and more of their stories. On a daily basis, I hear yet from another woman from Georgetown or from another school or who works for a religiously-affiliated employer, and they tell me that they have suffered financially and emotionally and medically because of this lack of coverage.

And so, I’m here today to share their voices, and I want to thank you for allowing them – not me – to be heard.

Without insurance coverage, contraception, as you know, can cost a woman over $3,000 during law school. For a lot of students who, like me, are on public interest scholarships, that’s practically an entire summer’s salary. 40% of the female students at Georgetown Law reported to us that they struggle financially as a result of this policy.

One told us about how embarrassed and just powerless she felt when she was standing at the pharmacy counter and learned for the first time that contraception was not covered on her insurance and she had to turn and walk away because she couldn’t afford that prescription. Women like her have no choice but to go without contraception.

Just last week, a married female student told me that she had to stop using contraception because she and her husband just couldn’t fit it into their budget anymore. Women employed in low-wage jobs without contraceptive coverage face the same choice.

And some might respond that contraception is accessible in lots of other ways. Unfortunately, that’s just not true.

Women’s health clinic provide a vital medical service, but as the Guttmacher Institute has definitely documented, these clinics are unable to meet the crushing demand for these services. Clinics are closing, and women are being forced to go without the medical care they need.

How can Congress consider the [Rep. Jeff] Fortenberry (R-Neb.), [Sen. Marco] Rubio (R-Fla.) and [Sen. Roy] Blunt (R-Mo.) legislation to allow even more employers and institutions to refuse contraception coverage and then respond that the non-profit clinics should step up to take care of the resulting medical crisis, particularly when so many legislators are attempting to de-fund those very same clinics?

These denial of contraceptive coverage impact real people.

In the worst cases, women who need these medications for other medical conditions suffer very dire consequences.

A friend of mine, for example, has polycystic ovarian syndrome, and she has to take prescription birth control to stop cysts from growing on her ovaries. Her prescription is technically covered by Georgetown’s insurance because it’s not intended to prevent pregnancy.

Unfortunately, under many religious institutions and insurance plans, it wouldn’t be. There would be no exception for other medical needs. And under Sen. Blunt’s amendment, Sen. Rubio’s bill or Rep. Fortenberry’s bill there’s no requirement that such an exception be made for these medical needs.

When this exception does exist, these exceptions don’t accomplish their well-intended goals because when you let university administrators or other employers rather than women and their doctors dictate whose medical needs are legitimate and whose are not, women’s health takes a back seat to a bureaucracy focused on policing her body.

In 65% of the cases at our school, our female students were interrogated by insurance representatives and university medical staff about why they needed prescription and whether they were lying about their symptoms.

For my friend and 20% of the women in her situation, she never got the insurance company to cover her prescription. Despite verifications of her illness from her doctor, her claim was denied repeatedly on the assumption that she really wanted birth control to prevent pregnancy. She’s gay. So clearly polycystic ovarian syndrome was a much more urgent concern than accidental pregnancy for her.

After months paying over $100 out-of-pocket, she just couldn’t afford her medication anymore, and she had to stop taking it.

I learned about all of this when I walked out of a test and got a message from her that in the middle of the night in her final exam period she’d been in the emergency room. She’d been there all night in just terrible, excruciating pain. She wrote to me, ‘It was so painful I’d woke up thinking I’ve been shot.’

Without her taking the birth control, a massive cyst the size of a tennis ball had grown on her ovary. She had to have surgery to remove her entire ovary as a result.

On the morning I was originally scheduled to give this testimony, she was sitting in a doctor’s office, trying to cope with the consequences of this medical catastrophe.

Since last year’s surgery, she’s been experiencing night sweats and weight gain and other symptoms of early menopause as a result of the removal of her ovary. She’s 32-years-old.

As she put it, ‘If my body indeed does enter early menopause, no fertility specialist in the world will be able to help me have my own children. I will have no choice at giving my mother her desperately desired grandbabies simply because the insurance policy that I paid for, totally unsubsidized by my school, wouldn’t cover my prescription for birth control when I needed it.’

Now, in addition to potentially facing the health complications that come with having menopause at such an early age – increased risk of cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis – she may never be able to conceive a child.

Some may say that my friend’s tragic story is rare. It’s not. I wish it were

One woman told us doctors believe she has endometriosis, but that can’t be proven without surgery. So the insurance has not been willing to cover her medication – the contraception she needs to treat her endometriosis.

Recently, another woman told me that she also has polycystic ovarian syndrome and she’s struggling to pay for her medication and is terrified to not have access to it.

Due to the barriers erected by Georgetown’s policy, she hasn’t been reimbursed for her medications since last August.

I sincerely pray that we don’t have to wait until she loses an ovary or is diagnosed with cancer before her needs and the needs of all of these women are taken seriously.

Because this is the message that not requiring coverage of contraception sends: A woman’s reproductive health care isn’t a necessity, isn’t a priority.

One woman told us that she knew birth control wasn’t covered on the insurance and she assumed that that’s how Georgetown’s insurance handle all of women’s reproductive and sexual health care. So when she was raped, she didn’t go to the doctor, even to be examined or tested for sexually transmitted infections, because she thought insurance wasn’t going to cover something like that – something that was related to a woman’s reproductive health.

As one other student put it: ‘This policy communicates to female students that our school doesn’t understand our needs.’

These are not feelings that male fellow student experience and they’re not burdens that male students must shoulder.

In the media lately, some conservative Catholic organizations have been asking what did we expect when we enroll in a Catholic school?

We can only answer that we expected women to be treated equally, to not have our school create untenable burdens that impede our academic success.

We expected that our schools would live up to the Jesuit creed of ‘cura personalis‘ – to care for the whole person – by meeting all of our medical needs.

We expected that when we told our universities of the problem this policy created for us as students, they would help us.

We expected that when 94% of students oppose the policy the university would respect our choices regarding insurance students pay for – completely unsubsidized by the university.

We did not expect that women would be told in the national media that we should have gone to school elsewhere.

And even if that meant going to a less prestigious university, we refuse to pick between a quality education and our health. And we resent that in the 21st century, anyone think it’s acceptable to ask us to make this choice simply because we are women.

Many of the women whose stories I’ve shared today are Catholic women. So ours is not a war against the church. It is a struggle for the access to the health care we need.

The President of the Association of Jesuit Colleges has shared that Jesuit colleges and the universities appreciate the modifications to the rule announced recently. Religious concerns are addressed and women get the health care they need. And I sincerely hope that that is something we can all agree upon.

Thank you very much.

What did Sandra Fluke really say? | Campaign 2012 | Washington Examiner

 

[Stephanie]

It really is. I mean I knew a lot of social cons were idiots and all, but I didn't know the combined IQ when it came to this stuff was that of a box of Junior Mints.

Oh boy, so much intelligence in that post.

Read it again, junior mint.

Naaa, it was too stupid the first time. Don't want to waste any IQ reading it again..

 

[kaz]

They are paying for a product and it's not being provided.

She is paying for a policy which provides contraception and isn't getting that? No she's not.

You believe the mysterious money appears from nowhere when it's to fund socialism delusion. Her policy doesn't currently provide free contraception, so it's not build in. If they are forced to provide it, then everyone's rates will go up by the average amount it costs for the contraception plus administration of the program plus markup. Socialism isn't free just because you want it to be.

She has a choice if she's responsible, she can pay for contraception, she can not have sex.

When government forces her fellow students to pay for it, they don't have a choice.

I know you won't grasp this. It's simple, but it's not socialism. So it's a "lie."

 

[EriktheRed]

kaz: I read some of it

EriktheRed: oh yeah, you're a liar you didn't

kaz: I quoted it

EriktheRed: Oh yeah, well you didn't read all of it.

No duh, I told you that. I read and was commenting on the need for law student ho's to have sex but not pay for it.

Well, as has already been explained more than once, there are other uses for oral contraception and she explained that in her testimony. Guess you didn't read that part or you didn't get it if you did.

If dumbass wingnuts like yourself want to keep shouting what a "slut" she is, go right ahead. It's obviously working so well for you so far.

I'm against government forcing insurance to pay for contraception to have sex. I've said nor addressed anything else. How stupid are you?

I'm smart enough to see how it just got explained to you (more than once and by more than just me) how birth control pills can be used for more than just having sex and you keep lumping them in with viagra and condoms.

 

[The T]

she claims she's fuckin every swingin dick on the campus. let's see the vids.

Another DittoTard moron mindlessly parroting his MessiahRushie's lies.

October 14, 2011
RUSH: On the cutting edge of societal evolution. Rush Limbaugh, I say it, you believe it, with no questions.

He actually said that eh?

How about a link Edith...You dingbat?​

 

[Pheonixops]

This just shows that even when he apologizes it's never enough.

Rush didn't give them the exact words they wanted in his apology.

He had to say they were right to claim that we're trying to prevent this woman from getting BC.

He had to say that he was a filthy pig and that he was quitting.

They don't want him on the air. That is the purpose of their self-righteous indignation.

Not me. I want him on the air as much as possible.

I want him to be free to say as much, as foul, as nasty as he wants it to be.

I wish he had a bigger blowhorn so that even more Americans could hear him.

Nothing would be better.

My sentiments exactly.