Balloon Juice has
an excellent explanation of just why Rush Limbaugh's attack on college student Sandra Fluke was so despicable. It goes far beyond a couple of "bad" word choices. It was a determined effort to besmear a woman with outright lies and good old fashioned chauvinism (HT:
Lex)
"This wasn’t about poor word choice, this was about an all out vicious, factually empty, sustained assault on a young woman."
Yesterday, I spent an hour listening to Rush Limbaugh on his local station, 94.5 WPTI. Here are the local advertisers whose ads ran during that time:
- Financial advisers Wittenberg Priddy Blankenship (One of their two ads started with, "Are you a woman...?")
- Best Impressions Plastic Surgery
- Ram Jack
- Peter D'Arruda (Coach Pete's Financial Safari)
"Are you a woman?"
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If you put that in a novel, no one would believe it.
Here is more about Ms. Fluke.
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Talk about dense, no wonder you wanted to stay anonymous.
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