rush limpbaugh is beneath contempt--but you already knew that. Before Sandra Fluke. Before Hawaiian-born Barack Obama.
The toxic waste he spews 5 days a week on the airwaves has sullied our Republic far too long. It will take years [if ever] to recover what our way of life has lost since the inception of hate-radio.
As a man I cannot even pretend to know how offended most women feel upon hearing limpbaugh's vitriol. But let's face it: the Right is an equal-opportunity hating machine. Women, minorities, gays, the poor.. limpbaugh and his ilk are simply the attack dogs of the wealthy white-male privilege machine. They would spew this hate simply to keep the dumbest citizens angry at anyone but those who are really screwing them. Heck, these hate-merchants might not even believe their own hype; that is really not the point.
What we are missing in all this drama with the latest limpbaugh attack is this: the real crime; the Original Sin of this attack on women, happened in Congress at the behest of Darell Issa and the GOP good old boys. Ms. Fluke was DENIED the right to speak even though the ranking Democrat on Issa's Committee had invited her, the lone female perspective on what should be a female-only issue!
limpbaugh was simply playing his role--going so far out of bounds with his comments that the public's attention is deflected from the [sic] pricks on the Committee who REALLY stomped on Sandra Fluke--and every other woman in America.
That's it, folks. The GOP is getting away with it and ultimately limpbaugh will too.
If a man beats a woman up he should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. But if the lawmakers don't allow abused women to testify to the many assaults they are enduring every day, then THAT is a far worse abuse than any single assault, in my opinion.