Indefinite Detention? But I Have Soccer Practice at 4: U.S. Politics 2012

oboy does this mean we get to have the "what do prostitutes look like?" conversation again

Well considering she went to testify about a friend of hers who lost an ovary because of a treatable cyst but she couldn't get the birth control pills through her Georgetown Law School insurance and it was never about her having a lot of sex it seems absurd that this is the route they're taking in the first place.

"So my friend has suffered because she couldn't get birth control which provides a number of non-contraceptive health benefits..."

"HUSSY! SLUT! WHORE!"

Not surprised that the Average American is still offended by dishonestly attacking a reasonably hard-working/successful (based on college, etc.) young woman for cheap political points. Folks would probably take less issue with it she were already a public figure, but since she's not it's seen as Limbaugh crossing a line.

ya it's weird that a human being would approach the subject like that but this guy owns a jet because he has been so successful at doing exactly that

looking forward to Limbaugh dying penniless and obscure but somehow I suspect that won't happen

he won't be penniless or obscure, but we can hope for something that's painful and takes a while to kill him.

penis cancer is my first choice

Uh, she's white and middle class, ppl.

As we all know there's a market for martyrdom, and that's what Limbaugh's best at. He'll replace the ad revenue.

Looking forward to his 'A Face in the Crowd' moment or his repentance more than his penis cancer tbph

Some french freedom fry company should come to his rescue.

that was supposed to be french, of course

Hope people vandalize that bust of him that'll be in the Hall of Fame

the Assholes Hall of Fame?

Missouri Hall of Fame iirc

No post ever has called for goatse.cx more and I hope you appreciate my restraint

this whole thing is interesting, I mean this is far from the most offensive thing this dude has done in his life, this is like, about as offensive as he's been every single day of his life. so why now? internet anger? limbaugh losing influence?

imo the deal is that the Republicans have really misjudged whether the country is ready for "people who use birth control are weirdo sex-crazed perverts." There's a very committed constituency within the right that really does believe birth control is 1) wrong 2) a major source of societal ills, and while I don't think they are actually pulling the strings, I think their voices within the discourse -- the fact that Rush would be having Quiverfull-type stuff cross his radar -- opens the door to him expressing this "a person who wants birth control is a whore" opinion. Which isn't as fringe-y as a lot of his other outrageous opinions: his racism, for example, resonates with racists. But birth control? Literally all straight people use birth control - the % of people, Catholics/Quiverfulls included, who never use it at all is so tiny it's homeopathic. Trying to call somebody a slut for using birth control is like calling somebody a glutton because he ate breakfast; it's a tipping point.

the second half of that graf is a mess sorry I'm tired. point is, there's this tiny constituency of people - who write books and make themselves seem like a bigger constituency than they are - who I think Rush might have heard and thought, I'll use that, that's a good line, and he didn't really get that for most people it's not actually a good line

really don't think it's the nature of the insult at work here. the internet has greatly facilitated both the rapid dissemination of the offending remarks, and, more importantly the ability to mobilize punitive actions. prior to searchable databases and social media, it would have been a huge pain in the ass to target all his advertisers, especially in large numbers at the click of a button, and it certainly wouldn't have been done so quickly.

yah you could be right - twitter, especially, is really powerful at getting word out fast

Credit what aero or someone up thread called the mood of the movement for the trouble "Rush" is in now. We've repeatedly seen liberals and Democrats willing to cede ground to the right on reproductive freedom. Rush had the supreme misfortune to make these remarks at a time when liberals felt like they had the public behind them. You can bet that it would have been ignored had this happened in 2010. We can all make lists of offensive shit Rush has said; this is AS bad as other things.

apparently this was a minor thing in this whole mess

http://www.thebigquestions.com/2012/03/02/rush-to-judgment/

the % of people, Catholics/Quiverfulls included, who never use it at all is so tiny it's homeopathic.

totally stealing 'homeopathic' for the next talk i have to give

I was curious to see the response to the HPV vaccine thing w/Bachmann - a bunch of wingnuts basically wrote her off for her comments. Perhaps this is similar for Rush since the lady Fluke was talking about wasn't seeking hormonal contraceptives for fornication but for ovarian problems. I know someone who had a similar ailment and maybe some of them do too and the cheapness of the shot resounded w/some of the base.

totally stealing 'homeopathic' for the next talk i have to give

lol I am legit honored by this!

apparently this was a minor thing in this whole mess

http://www.thebigquestions.com/2012/03/02/rush-to-judgment/

jesus fucking christ, one of the commenters there actually seriously wrote that he couldn't see the misogyny in the word "slut"

can we start over

yeah the % of people who think contraception is a bad thing in toto are a pretty small and powerless bunch. more influential than their raw numbers would suggest, but still quite marginal

however, the % of people who think that talking about your sex life in public makes you a slut is quite a bit higher. and talking about what kinds of basic benefits you'd like to have guaranteed, concurrently? whole lot of folks aren't hearing that either.

the trouble is the numbers of this second group are still not as high a % as they themselves think

I will listen (impatiently tapping my feet) to their arguments about religious freedom when such acts of God like ED and its remedies aren't covered by my insurance payments.

Dr. Giboyeux reports receiving payment for work as the local principal investigator for a decent jukebox anywhere really (RIP CC Club), receiving consulting fees from definitely not that guy at his friend's party inre: non-specific "swelling", and grant support from his pal Grant S. (thanks Grant!); select editorial contributions were given by Texxas Jam '78.

Have you guys talked about this podium:

http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/03/120307_POL_newtInSouth.jpg.CROP.rectangle3-large.jpg

omg

Bunch of those signs people were having had that on them as well. Quality lols.

In regards to that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzEnKdBAb_o&feature=player_embedded

yeah yeah fox lols etc etc

so shamelessly stupid. what an amazing unbridled liar.

newt i mean

He was telling everyone to #250gas or something like that.

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/neal-boortz-worms-7186415

It's amazing what you can hear when you listen to "conservative" talk radio in this country. Lately I've been listening to WSB here in Atlanta to keep up with the Georgia primary, and yesterday I heard "libertarian" Neal Boortz call poor people "worms." As in, more or less: "The situation in this country is like a dog with worms. You bring the dog to the vet to be dewormed, but the vet is Dr. Obama, and he says you can't get the dog dewormed because the worms have a vote. And that's the problem, folks: the worms have a vote." He repeats "the worms have a vote," several times, and then quotes, as I remember it, somebody who's emailed him: "I'm going to call my dog Section 8 because so many parasites live there." Big yuks, all around. So Rush is particularly loathsome. But he isn't the only one.

http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/images/item/twitter-20120201-boortz-poor.jpg

i mean if you're using neal boortz as a yardstick the "toenail fungus" line is pretty much canon

This popped up down the street from my house this week. Observe the characteristic misspelling associated with Tea Party signs.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/420301_3233794080440_1134308060_3242785_95967765_n.jpg

props for flexing an appetite for civil disobedience by using an upended chair instead of a lawn sign

also i think obama ordered name change to "guangzhao."

I have one of those chairs (in black) on my balcony!

They were on sale at Target last week: $20.99

There is a Target very near to where I took that picture. That's life in Comrad Obama's Soviet Amerika for you.

Comrad sounds like some alt-rock supergroup/off-project, like Probot.

ComRAD!

I've been zinging some of my more right wing acquaintances with a dry appreciatation of the fact that the would-be party of the free market has a candidate who thinks he can outguess the international oil and gas markets and who is touting one the most specific command-economy prescriptions I've heard since the days of the USSR.

^^^ I had that very same conversation with someone today!

also i think obama ordered name change to "guangzhao."

A+

guangdong if you want to be precise ;)

New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie is well known for his extroverted personality and outspoken nature. But his often confrontational approach that kept his name in presidential primary talks for months ended in a shouting match today with a student who is a also a former Navy Seal.

Fox News reports that during Friday morning's town hall press conference, Christie called on 34-year-old law student William Brown. The two got into a debate over a plan to rename Rutgers University, Rutgers Camden-Rowan. Brown, who is active in Democratic Party politics, says the merger and name change would negatively affect the university's reputation.

After Christie says that Brown and his fellow classmates who are already enrolled at the university will still receive a Rutgers diploma, Brown interrupts him, shouting back, "What about my son? What about my neighbors? What about my friends?"

Christie then appears to lose his temper, saying, "If you decide what you want to do is put on a show today, let me tell you, I can go back and forth with you as much as you want. And let me tell you something; after you graduate from law school, you conduct yourself like that in a courtroom, your rear end's going to get thrown in jail, idiot."

Christie then tried to explain his behavior to the receptive audience, saying, "I tried to be patient with the guy. Every time I tried to answer, he's like, yelling over me again." And he received applause for what may turn out to be a regrettable follow-up quip, when he said, "I mean, damn man, I'm governor, could you shut up for a second?"

so who was more boorish?