One Mans Opinion - 3/6/2012
By Dewaine Shoulders
WARNING: CONTENT CONTAINS ADULT LANGUAGE!
Okay, I have been silent for far too long on this issue, and it's time to voice my opinion on the Rush Limbaugh/Sandra Fluke controversy.
Before I get into it, keep in mind that Rush Limbaugh often uses absurdity to point out the absurd. With that now in mind, here we go:
Last week, Rush made the off-handed remark about 'supposed college student' Sandra Fluke. Ms. Fluke appeared before Nancy Pelosi and some Senate sub-committee, where Ms. Fluke admitted that she, and many of her fellow students, are "having so much sex that they can't afford contraception!"
Bragging are we, Ms. Fluke?
So now, enter Rush Limbaugh--- using the absurd to point out the absurd--- pointing out how she, Ms. Fluke, was having so much sex that she could not afford contraception. Now, this 30 year old law student (with an agenda, mind you) can afford to go to Georgetown University ($45,000 a year tuition), and can afford to have unlimited sex with who knows who, yet finds that she can't afford contraception. Talk about absurd!
Isn't there a Planned Parenthood near the university? They give out free contraceptives. Or, what about the Health Department near Georgetown University? I assume they also give out free contraceptives. Hell, pay a kid in middle or high school $5 and you can get all the contraceptives you can get, as they get them for free too! How about Walmart? With a prescription, you can get birth control pills for $5.00. Surely she can afford five bucks? Hell, go into any truck stop anywhere in North America and you can buy a condom for twenty-five to fifty cents! Dirt cheap!
This story was convoluted from the get go. Ms. Fluke went to Georgetown University, a Catholic-run school, because she wanted (by her own admission) to change its policy on contraceptives for the students. If she wanted contraception for free, there are many other universities she could have gone to. But she, being someone with an agenda, decided to go to Georgetown.
Folks, let’s face it… This was never about free contraceptives for the students, nor was it ever about women’s health issues. This was all about Obamacare mandating that Insurance Companies, and any other employer, offer free contraceptives or abortions to their employees, regardless of whether it went against their religious or personal beliefs. Ms. Fluke then went on to ask for free sex changes for those that are gender-confused. Why? To force the insurance companies to drop health coverage, or make it so expensive that Obamacare became the only game in town, that's why! And do you think Obamacare will cover gender reassignment surgery? Sure it will, and you and I will be paying for it too! If Harry wants to become Sally, then let him/her pay for it themselves. None of us need to pay for them to become someone else! It’s their choice, so let them foot the bill. If I want to have promiscuous sex, then I can pay for my own contraceptives. I don’t want someone else to pay for it.
But the times have changed, and the people running the show in Washington think they know better how to run our lives.
Now, my saintly mother, at 70 years old mind you, pointed out that Obamacare doesn’t want to cover breast exams for women under a certain age, nor does it want to care for elderly patients because of the costs, but it wants to pay for free contraceptives, and now maybe even sex changes… “Well,” she said, “then they should pay for me to have a face and body lift, and anything else I can think of!”
My mother, using absurdity to point out the absurd, hit the nail on the head!
This woman, Ms. Fluke, and those folks in the Occupy Your Street movement want the government to pay for everything for them; by taxing the rest of us to pay for it. This is the whole point of their argument: We want it, so give it to us now! We don’t want to work for it like everybody else does. We want it free, so make someone else foot the bill!
This has nothing to do with women's health and/or reproductive choices, nor does it have anything to do with the freedom to choose. This is the backdoor approach to force all of us onto the Obamacare train.
There’s nothing more simple than the truth!
Now, let’s get back to Rush Limbaugh. He did call her a slut and a prostitute, and he has since apologized for it. These are his own words:
"Against my own instincts, against my own knowledge, against everything I know to be right and wrong I descended to their level when I used those two words to describe Sandra Fluke. That was my error. I became like them, and I feel very badly about that," he said on his show.
"I do not think she is either of those two words. I did not think last week that she is either of those two words. The apology to her over the weekend was sincere. It was simply for using inappropriate words in a way I never do, and in so doing, I became like the people we oppose. ... The old saw, you never descend to the level of your opponent or they win. That was my error last week."
Again, I will point out, if you have ever listened to Rush, you know that he uses absurdity to point out the absurd. His humor--- often caustic to those ears on the left, and some on the right--- can be misinterpreted as personal attacks. I heard the show the day he called her a slut and prostitute. What he was trying to point out was that we used to call people like Sandra Fluke (who seemed to be bragging about her and her fellow law students sex lives) sluts and prostitutes because they were promiscuous. With Political Correctness, we can no longer assume such things about people. The thought police say it’s a bad thing. We should be sensitive to their needs, blah blah blah!
Whether those words are offensive to you and I is not the issue. The issue is that as a society, we have been told that we can no longer call people who brag about having promiscuous sex sluts and prostitutes. Our First Amendment rights of free speech are being trampled upon due to political correctness. They may be ugly words, but to me, at least, they are the truth, and the truth does hurt!
And Rush, by using those words, has not only been brought into the firing line by the left, but turned what should have been a non-issue into a major issue to be used by the left against the rest of us.
Should Rush have chosen a better way of proving his point... Maybe? But he spoke the truth, and the truth hurts those folks on the left, as they lie at every turn about what Obamacare is supposed to be. What it is --- and we all know what it is--- is the attempt to control us from cradle to the grave with Big Government dictating what we can and cannot do. Our rights are being taken away from us right before our eyes, and we're seeing what power the left really wants to have, and what rights they do not want the rest of us to have. That’s why the left can’t stand the truth. They have to lie to us; otherwise, most of us would run away from their ideology. Only fools and young skulls full of mush (to borrow one of Rush Limbaugh’s lines) flock to socialism. Let someone else pay for the thing I want.
To me, it is un-American and against everything sacred about this country! Thus the left wants to circumvent the Constitution at every turn, and even our beloved Community Organizer-in-Chief has said that the Bill of Right was a collection of negative right. He would want a Bill of Rights that allows the government to rule all of us with a heavy hand--- A government of the government, by the government, and for the government! To hell with individual rights!
Now, let’s talk hypocrisy, shall we?
Bill Mahar called Sarah Palin a ‘Cunt' and it's okay. He’s an open-minded liberal. But Rush calls someone a 'Slut' and it's all out war against the right. Don’t you think that to be a tad bit hypocritical? The left can get away with anything, but holds the right to a different standard. For that, there is no way to defend ourselves against this onslaught on our freedoms. We are doomed to become slaves to the government due to the double standard! Now that’s absurd!
Finally, nine different advertisers (at the time of this writing) have decided to no longer advertise on Rush's show, and at least one radio station in Hawaii has dropped his show altogether. That's another indication as to how bad this has gotten. Free speech is truly under attack, and the left is winning. We may not always agree with one another, but we can all agree about one thing: Free Speech is what sets America apart from the rest of the world. And if we lose that, we have lost everything!
As for me, I will continue to listen to Rush Limbaugh because what he says speaks for what I, and many of us, already think and believe.
And to those fair-weather advertisers out there that are running from a controversy, be mindful that some of us buy your products, and we can quickly change that fact as well.
As for Ms. Fluke, you are a useful idiot for the left and to me that truly makes you a prostitute, as the left is using you to further their agenda. And if they are paying you to do it, then the prostitute label is truly fitting!
But that’s just my opinion, I could be right!
