I am shocked that any radio station would continue to allow Rush Limbaugh on air after his undignified and uninformed behavior regarding Sandra Fluke.
Rush Limbaugh was unspeakably crude and offensive in his uncalled-for insults regarding Sandra Fluke and her brave participation in Congress explaining the importance of birth control hormone pills for not only family planning but necessary comprehensive treatment for female medical health.
Unlike Viagra and other pills used for men to enable them to obtain and maintain sturdy erections and have sex with hopefully willing partners, birth control hormone pills impact the ovaries, uterus, and vagina and allow predictable and more comfortable menses every month.
For many women and young girls, birth control hormone pills are merely and mainly medical treatment for difficult monthly periods and other conditions such as ovarian cysts and endometriosis. Indeed, for this very reason, the same pill that is used for birth control is a widely needed medical aid used by many women.
Rush Limbaugh not only offended every woman I know by calling this upstanding citizen, sharing women's personal health stories with the Congress in order to educate men and health care bill designers, terrible pejorative names, that I will not repeat here, but by also skewing the full understanding of legitimate health needs.
I don't know if Rush Limbaugh truly had sex with his wives and if they discussed their choices in birth control that they must have used, if they did have sex, since as far as I know, Rush has no children.
But Rush, women take birth control pills on different regimens, depending on the brand and the medical needs of the woman, and they take the pills every month of the year as a rule.
They take this medicine all year long, not on the days they intend to have sex.
There is absolutely no direct correlation between days of taking birth control pills and numbers of sexual encounters.
Many young girls in their teens who have no intention of experimentlng with adult sexual behavior take birth control pills for medical reasons. They have no sex at all, even though they are incurring the cost of buying and taking this medication.
In fact, if Rush and other conservative complainers are so worried about the government supervised medical plans covering medication that might be tied to sexual activity, why do we cover Viagra and its competitors? Why are taxpayers paying for men to get stiff ones? There are medical devices, like vacuum pumps that they can buy. Do we really want to go down this road of contemplating how every prescribed medicine will be used and what type of sexual activity might occur as a result?
The adjectives and nouns Rush Limbaugh rudely spewed over public radio airwaves, loaned to him as long as he follows certain decency standards, are only part of his offense.
You, Rush Limbaugh, should be removed from the air for misguided information about public health issues, particularly where women are involved.
Haven't we suffered long enough with the horrid misinformation issuing from Rush
Limbaugh's mike?
I say bravo to all the advertisers that have refused to buy additional spots on Rush Limbaugh's show.
Additionally, despite Rush Limbaugh's bold statements claiming many advertisers are fighting to spend expensive radio advertising dollars when his show airs, I doubt it.
As a rule, most advertisers have to be wooed and manipulated into paying the expensive charges for radio advertising and some inventory barely gets sold.
My fondest desire is that all of the advertisers will abandon him and shortly afterward that ClearChannel and Premiere Radio will dump Rush Limbaugh from all of their radio stations.
