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Title: Rush Limbaugh Condemned By Barack Obama For 'Slut' Remarks
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GUARDIAN UK
URL Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/201 ... ugh-slut-remarks?newsfeed=true
Published: Mar 2, 2012
Author: Ryan Devereaux
Post Date: 2012-03-02 17:04:44 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 9396
Comments: 24
President Barack Obama has offered his support to a US law student called a "slut" on Wednesday by rightwing talkshow host Rush Limbaugh because of her views on contraception. According to White House spokesman Jay Carney, the president called Georgetown University student Sandra Fluke on Friday and expressed his disappointment that she was the target of Limbaugh's personal attacks. Obama reportedly thanked Fluke for supporting his administration's policy of requiring health insurance coverage of contraceptives for women. The call came moments before Fluke was set to appear on the TV news network MSNBC. Speaking to host Andrea Mitchell about the president's call, Fluke said: "What was really personal for me was [that] he said to tell my parents that they should be proud." Limbaugh called Fluke a "slut" and a "prostitute" on Wednesday after she expressed her support for the administration's policy in an informal testimony on Capitol Hill. Then, on Thursday, on his nationally syndicated radio show, he added: "So, Miss Fluke, if we are going to … pay for you to have sex, we want something for it. We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch." Limbaugh's outburst has already prompted some advertisers to pull their support for his controversial show. Following heavy pressure from the Democrats, House speaker John Boehner described Limbaugh's comments as "inappropriate". Boehner argued, however, that the Democrats were using the incident as an opportunity to raise money. On Friday, Boehner's spokesman, Michael Steel, echoed the concerns, saying: "The speaker obviously believes the use of those words was inappropriate, as is trying to raise money off the situation." At last month's hearing, Fluke pointed out that her fellow Georgetown students pay as much as $1,000 a year for contraceptives that are not covered by student health plans. On his show on Wednesday, Limbaugh equated the payment to prostitution. "What does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute," he said. "She wants to be paid to have sex … She's having so much sex she can't afford contraception," Limbaugh added. Georgetown – itself a Jesuit school – has, along with a number of other Catholic institutions, denounced the Obama administration's contraception policy as an infringement on their religious rights. Rather than apologize, Limbaugh has stood by his inflammatory rhetoric. On his Thursday show, he referred to a controversial joke made by Rick Santorum's wealthy backer, Foster Friess, suggesting women should hold aspirin tablets between their knees in order to remain abstinent. "I will buy all of the women at Georgetown University as much aspirin to put between their knees as they want," Limbaugh said. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is gathering signatures for an online petition calling on Republican leaders to "denounce Rush Limbaugh's cruel tirade against women". Fluke responded to Limbaugh in a written statement, saying: "No woman deserves to be disrespected in this manner. This language is an attack on all women, and has been used throughout history to silence our voices."
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#2. To: Brian S (#0)
Hmmmm,did Barry ever condemn The Rev-Rund Wright for screaming "hate honkie" and "God Damn America" from the pulpit? Gee,I wonder why? I also wonder how much they are paying "The Rev-Rund" to keep his mouth shut? I suspect it is a considerable sum because the mansion he bought in the white neighborhood ("Honkie Homes" to da bruthas and sistas)didn't come cheap and his whole lifestyle comes from running his mouth.
Yeah he did and then he dropped out of the church.
Yeah he did and then he dropped out of the church. Not even close. He claimed he never heard it in the entire 20+ years he went to that church and sat in the front row.
Yes he did.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_Wright_controversy The Jeremiah Wright controversy is an American political issue that gained national attention in March 2008 when ABC News, after reviewing dozens of U.S. Presidential candidate Barack Obama's pastor Jeremiah Wright's sermons,[1] excerpted parts which were subject to intense media scrutiny.[2][3] Wright is a retired senior pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago and former pastor of President Obama.[4] Obama denounced the statements in question, but after critics continued to press the issue of his relationship with Wright he gave a speech titled "A More Perfect Union", in which he sought to place Dr. Wright's comments in a historical and sociological context. In the speech, Obama again denounced Wright's remarks, but did not disown him as a person. The controversy began to fade, but was renewed in late April when Wright made a series of media appearances, including an interview on Bill Moyers Journal, a speech at the NAACP and a speech at the National Press Club.[5] After the last of these, Obama spoke more forcefully against his former pastor, saying that he was "outraged" and "saddened" by his behavior, and in May he resigned his membership in the church.[6]
Ok,I'm going to dumb this down for you because I know you are simple. What the above means is he was making excuses and justifying what Wright said and did,not denouncing him.
#23. To: sneakypete (#19)
What about this do you not understand? He made no excuses for Wright when he said "goddamn America" If you have a link showing where he made excuses for that statement I would like to see it.
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#4. To: sneakypete (#2)
Hmmmm,did Barry ever condemn The Rev-Rund Wright for screaming "hate honkie" and "God Damn America" from the pulpit?
#8. To: NewsJunky (#4)
Hmmmm,did Barry ever condemn The Rev-Rund Wright for screaming "hate honkie" and "God Damn America" from the pulpit?
#15. To: sneakypete (#8)
Not even close.
#19. To: NewsJunky (#15)
after critics continued to press the issue of his relationship with Wright he gave a speech titled "A More Perfect Union", in which he sought to place Dr. Wright's comments in a historical and sociological context.
Replies to Comment # 19. Obama denounced the statements in question
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