"NO GURLZ ALOUD!" Issa's all-boys birth-control hearing is what led Limbaugh to new heights of sexist obnoxiousness, for which Issa blames ... Democrats!
Let’s get one thing clear from the outset: nothing — nothing — is likely to dislodge Rush Limbaugh from his perch on top of radical right-wing talk radio. If the Oxycontin addiction and the sex tourism to the Dominican Republic didn’t do it, then a little calling a bright and attractive young law student who testified on behalf of her friend who lost an ovary because she was denied insurance for birth control a slut and asking her to send in sex videos isn’t going to do it either. Yes, we will lose advertisers, for a while; yes, he might allow Republicans to denounce him gently as a little over the top, as if he were Cher or Lady Gaga; but his position is most likely safe.
No, the real political story coming from the wake of the “all-male, all the time” Issa hearings on birth control, which led to Limbaugh’s bellowing (and rutting, I imagine) tirade, is something else: Republicans ducking for cover. Even Rick Santorum said that Rush had gone too far, which is sort of like being called “too violent” by Charles Manson.
There’s one prominent exception, though, and he’s coming into our Orange County political neighborhood, bay-bee!, and that is of course Darrell Issa himself.
What did Issa have to say? Here ya go!
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh has spent part of his last three shows referring to a Georgetown University law student [Sandra Fluke] as a “slut” with “boyfriends … lined up around the block.” But [Rep. Darrell] Issa said Democrats are also complicit in the deteriorating rhetoric, accusing them of insulting people of faith.
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“While your letter raises important concerns about these inappropriate comments and the tone of the current debate over religious freedom and Obamacare, I am struck by your clear failure to recognize your own contributions to the denigration of this discussion and attacks on people of religious faith,” Issa said in response to Cummings.
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Issa would not let [Fluke] testify at an Oversight hearing about the Obama administration’s new birth-control mandate. Because she wasn’t allowed to testify, no one spoke in support of the policy and the first panel of witnesses was made up entirely of men. Images of the all-male hearing spread quickly online, launching Democrats’ “Where are the women?” mantra.
Issa accused Democrats of spreading “false and incendiary claims” about the hearing, which was centered on the question of whether the contraception policy is an infringement on religious employers’ ability to freely practice their faith.
Issa hopes to represent next year a Congressional District including the Orange County areas of San Clemente, San Juan Capistrano, Dana Point, Ladera Ranch, and wherever it is that the Ortega Highway is as it wends east of Coto de Caza towards Lake Elsinore. He’s as wealthy as they come in Congress and would be thought to be a shoo-in — despite the fact that Obama won the district by a point in 2008 — except for one thing: them pissed-off womenfolk. I met his party-endorsed opponent, businessman Jerry Tetalman, who looks really disturbingly (at least if you’re at a Democratic Party meeting) like Chris Norby, on Monday night. Tetalman was grinning as only a candidate who’s opponent has set the crotch of his pants on fire and is trying to put it out with lighter fluid could be. He said that he has pulled in a lot — a lot — of money and support since Issa’s Man-on-Man-on-Man-on-Man-on-Man-on-birth control panel. Enough to make him competitive? Who knows? But remember that at least some of Issa’s mailers are likely to have Issa’s own mug on them — and that can’t be good for many women who watch the news.
As for blaming Democrats’ popular position on requiring birth control coverage for Limbaugh’s calling Ms. Fluke a slut and asking women like her to send him sex videos if their insurance pays for their videos — as a Democrat, I would like to encourage Issa to keep stoking that fire! We’re all going to want to ask our opponents if they stand by Rep. “Move Away from the Whore!” car alarm. The only danger I see is that the Republicans might get wise and remove him as head of the House Government Oversight Committee before he can do any more damage. But that might not happen because the next ranking Republican is Dan Burton — the guy who shot a watermelon to try to prove dirty deeds in the suicide of Vince Foster. Maybe Issa’s Chairmanship is safe no matter what he does.
Darrell Issa, as a liberal political blogger in Orange County — I LOVE YOU, MAN! You are GOOD COPY! Keep your freak flag flying, at least through the election! Keep bringing us — the “us” that doesn’t include “you” — together!
UPDATE: And then comes this from Limbaugh today:
“It was Sandra Fluke who said that she was having so much sex she can’t afford it. […] She’s spending $3000, $1000 a year, on pills and she’s going broke and wants us to buy it. […] By her own admission, in her own words, Sandra Fluke is having so much sex that she can’t afford it. […] Does she have more boyfriends? They’re lined up around the block. Or they would have been in my day.”
(OK, shouldn’t someone tell him how birth control pills work? Hint: not like Oxycontin.)
UPDATE THE SECOND: Mitt Romney saves the day with this bold statement:
“It’s not the language I would have used.”
Contest! Contest! What is the language that Mitt Romney would have used? Would he have called her a “harlot” or would he have referred to her imaginary so-called “boyfriends” as “disreputable suitors”? WE MUST FIND OUT!
You’re an IDIOT. IF you listened you would have seen the point El Rushbo made. Why would a woman have sex more than once with a loser who can’t afford a condom? A one month supply of pills is Five Dollars at Walmart.
NO ONE is denying contraception… the whole debate is an issue created by Georgie Boy Stuffmyanus on ABC News… What the issue is OweBOWmore wants to try and take away the Right of people to chose their religion. Your Beloved Leader is telling people they have to do what he wants not what their religion does. Will he next demand Jews to eat Pork? Or the Muslim Women to work as Strippers? Slowly Peel the Onion…
Do you not scream about cities like Manhattan Beach declaring it ILLEGAL TO SMOKE CIGARETTES outside restaurants? I don’t smoke and hate the smell. I worked in bars for many years and waking up in the morning, smelling the odor of cigarettes coming from the clothes in the garage I wore the night before…. disgusting.
But now the LIberals are telling people you can’t smoke in your own home. Some cities are trying to deny you the right to smoke in your own front yard! Our rights and Freedoms are being stripped away yet you want to rail against the people who are trying to stand up for Everyone’s rights.
Why should I pay for your cigarettes? Why should I pay for your Condoms? Why should I HAVE to buy Heath Insurance? What about all the years I paid for my own Bond to cover me in case of an Auto Accident… but now I HAVE TO BUY Car Insurance. I Have to wear seat belts. Children HAVE To WEAR BIKE HELMETS!..
If you don’t understand what people are fighting for you are a Fool, you are Stupid or you are on the take with the rest of the Liberals… there aren’t any other excuses…
As Bill Clinton said, “I feel your pain.”
Ahh, no I don’t — I’m just messing with you. Good luck with your issues.
The fear and paranoia exhibited by Mr/Ms. Not a Fool is truly astounding.
Ya know, they have therapists that can help you with that!
But he/she is right about one thing…SOME of our rights and freedoms ARE being stripped away. And you can bone up on The Patriot Act and its spawn to learn more about that.
Hey Not a Fool…the government once told people they can’t have slaves anymore, and that women should be able to vote…do you think the government should have changed those things?
There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile.
He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile.
He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse,
And they all lived together in a little crooked house.
The alternative is Jerry Tetalman. JerryforCongress2012.com
STEP AWAY FROM THAT NURSERY RHYME.
Oh, dear. Now we really DO have to start selling t-shirts!
This is so screamingly paranoid and irrational that I fear this person has a gun collection–and we’ll be seeing a headline about it soon.
“Will he next demand Jews to eat Pork? Or the Muslim Women to work as Strippers? Slowly Peel the Onion…”
Rush has issued an apology. I can only imagine the pressure that was brought to bear on him by the GOP establishment. To say that Reagan wouldn’t recognize what this party has become would be the understatement of the century.
Keep ’em coming, guys. Soon, the Democrats will lock up the independent women vote.
“Why should I pay for your cigarettes? Why should I pay for your Condoms?”
I didn’t know that you were. Where should I send my receipts for reimbursement? I knew I was saving them for a good reason.
This is ridiculous, and she is totally right for not accepting that apology. There was no apology in there. Why? More than just the last three days he has been saying stuff like this to people, but in fact for years. He is only sorry his advertisements were pulled. http://tothecenter.com/2012/03/student-dismisses-rush-limbaugh-apology/ also goes into it a little bit.
And he’s sorry for “the language he used.” Also, just “two words.” So the whole idea that we’re paying her to have sex, that she’s gotta be promiscuous to stand up for birth control, that we all wanna see porn vids of her, that’s okay, as long as he had said it without using the words “slut” and “prostitute.” And then his apology became he was sorry for descending to the level of the left. And then it was that rappers say worse things. Fuck him, he’s not sorry, he loves what he says.
I especially love the “rappers say worse things.”
He’s got the maturity level of an adolescent.