<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Rush The Scumbag referred to a college student, BY NAME ON THE AIR, as a "slut" and "prostitute" and nobody in the Republican Party is calling him on it.</div><div><br></div><div>Could you even begin to imagine the fallout if Keith Olbermann had referred to Michele Bachman, let alone a private citizen college student, as a "slut" or "prostitute"? The Republicans would b forming lynch mobs.<br><br><div>Seeya later, Moscow.</div><div><br></div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Post Falls, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"If not us, who?</div><div>If not now, when?"</div><div><br></div><div>- Unknown</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div><br>On Mar 3, 2012, at 9:03, Art Deco <<a href="mailto:art.deco.studios@gmail.com">art.deco.studios@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><h1 class="cnnBlogContentTitle"><a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/02/fluke-on-limbaugh-comment-im-not-going-to-be-silenced/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link:Fluke on Limbaugh comment: 'I'm not going to be silenced'">Fluke on Limbaugh comment: 'I'm not going to be silenced'</a></h1>
<div class="cnn_mugshot cnn_pksz_mug"><br></div><div class="cnn_byline">Posted by</div><span class="cnn_author"><a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/tag/cnn-senior-congressional-correspondent-dana-bash/" rel="tag">CNN Senior Congressional Correspondent Dana Bash</a></span>
<p class="cnn_first"><strong>(CNN) -</strong> The Georgetown law
student targeted by Rush Limbaugh for her position on contraceptives
said Friday she was "upset and outraged" when she first heard the radio
talk show host had called her a "slut."</p>
<p>"I felt probably the way many women do when they are called those
types of names," Sandra Fluke told CNN. "Initially hurt and then very
quickly upset and outraged because somebody is trying to silence you."<br>
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<p>Fluke, who advocated last week in a Democratic hearing for the Obama
policy requiring employers provide free contraception coverage, said she
was sitting at a computer Wednesday when she read online that Limbaugh
had personally attacked her during his radio show.</p>
<p>Calling her a "slut" and "prostitute," Limbaugh has said if taxpayers
are going to pay for women to have sex, then they should post videos of
their activities so everyone can watch.</p>
<p>His comments have sparked a firestorm in the last two days, with
Democrats seizing on it as an opportunity to keep the political story
alive.</p>
<p>President Barack Obama called Fluke on Friday to offer his support.</p>
<p>"That wasn't on my schedule for the day," Fluke joked, referring to Obama's call. "But I was happy to add that to the schedule."</p>
<p>The law student told CNN she thinks<b style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"> Limbaugh was "confused" about her testimony.</b></p>
<p style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><b>"For starters, I didn't say that I should be paid for anything. What
we were talking about is private insurance covering a medical need. It
has nothing to do with the government paying for anything or taxpayers
or anything like that," she said.</b></p>
<p>While Fluke attends a Jesuit university that does not cover
contraception as part of its health insurance plans, the school's
president <a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/02/first-on-cnn-boehner-hits-limbaughs-comments-as-inappropriate/">defended</a> Fluke on Friday.</p>
<p>Religiously-affiliated institutions, like Georgetown, oppose providing contraception.</p>
<p style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><b>While some Republicans argue abstinence as the best form of birth control, Fluke said legislation needs to be realistic.</b></p>
<p style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><b>"We're talking about national legislation. Legislation has to reflect
reality, not ideology and I don't think that we can actually expect
that American women are going to stop engaging in healthy sexual
behaviors," Fluke said.</b></p>
<p>But the law student said women are not going to be "silenced" about the issue.</p>
<p>"They're going to speak up for health care needs and what this means
to them and I'm certainly not going to be silenced," she said.</p>_____________<br><br>Being Rush Limbaugh means never have to saying "I made a mistake."<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)<br>
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