The right wingers certainly have a motley crew of conservative blowhards, from Bill O’Lieley (sorry, it’s O’Reilly), to Glenn Beck, to Michael Savage. But hands down, the most offensive and disgusting of them all has got to be Rush Limbaugh. His latest target is, as you might expect, birth control.
He recently teed off on the topic saying that people who use birth control want to, “put as many notches in their belt as they can every night.” He’s painting women who use contraception as bed-hopping rampant sex machines. This is rich coming from the bloated slug that was detained on his way back from the Dominican Republic (one of the biggest sex tourist destinations in the world, I might add) with non-prescribed Viagra. Now, it would seem to me that if there’s no prescription for his Viagra, Rush doesn’t actually have erectile dysfunction. Right? Interesting. I wonder how many notches he was putting in his belt on that trip. Oops, I forgot. He’s a man. There’s a difference. Men get to have as much sex as they want. Women? Not so much.
Let me just remind Rush’s conservative base that this wasn’t his first brush with illegally obtained prescription drugs. Remember that whole Oxycontin thing? In case you don’t, he coerced and threatened his housekeeper into illegally obtaining 4,500 Oxycontin tabs in a 47-day period. He then had his attorney pay off his housekeeper with $80,000 in back pay, plus an extra $100,000 to destroy the computer emails of the transactions. What happened to Rush when he got caught?
Well, he publicly apologized and then was shipped off to spend thirty days in a cushy, posh rehab center. The average prescription drug addict (I believe Rush refers to them as “low lives”) would have probably done some jail time, but not Rush. He has low friends in high places.
In the same video (below), Rush actually accuses the Democrats of using the whole contraception fiasco as a way to take the focus off the economy. Wait a minute. Hold on. I’m pretty sure that the Democrats didn’t bring up the birth control thing. I’m pretty sure it was the GOP that got all crazy over the concept of contraception. At least that’s how I remember it. Maybe Rush needs a pill for dementia too.
I’d also like to remind the forgetful Rush that, in spite of the promises the GOP made about fixing the economy in the run up to the 2010 mid-term elections, they’ve done absolutely nothing about fixing the economy. In fact, they’ve spent the lions share of their time in office legislating morality and waging a war on womens’ rights. It started right after the midterms with abortion. To date, more than 1,000 pieces of legislation have been filed that are specifically designed to take away a woman’s right to choose. There has been a continual war on Planned Parenthood. (It’s almost like the GOP is OCD over PP.) Now the hot topic for the GOP is contraception.
I’m not sure if the GOP is waging this war on women because of its twisted ideology, or because it has to placate the Christian right (who just about owns and operates the GOP), or simply because the GOP-led Congress doesn’t have any idea how to fix the economy. But the one thing I am absolutely sure of is that it’s the GOP who wants to take the focus off the economy because the Congressional approval rating remains at the all-time low of 7%. That’s seven percent.
You know, about 55% of the population is female. That’s about 172,177,810 women (as of yesterday). I know this because I looked up the statistics for a different article. Now, I’m sure that there are some misguided Republican-voting women out there. (Although over the past couple of weeks I can’t imagine any women still wanting to vote for anybody in the GOP.) Still and all, that’s an awful lot of women to piss off at any one time. If I were Rush, I’d shut my word hole and go take a pill.
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The Church’s position on this issue is discriminatory towards women and thus hypocritical. Their hypocrisy undermines their argument, which is little more than a back door attempt by ultra-conservative bishops to bash Obama.
References to Viagra are irrelevant. Viagra has nothing to do with contraception. However more relevant is the fact that the Church does provide contraceptive methods for men while at the same time denying it for women. I’m an example. I received a vasectomy at a Catholic hospital.
Church medical facilities regularly cover and perform vasectomies. Moreover, there is no denying that the procedure is for birth control…contraception.
Ask any urologist or pathologist who works at a Catholic hospital or medical facility and they will tell you that vasectomies are regularly performed there. It’s about the money. Such procedures are very lucrative and urologists/staff are there to make a living. Birth control pills are much less lucrative.
Church men will claim that vasectomies are the exception to the rule. Not true. It is the rule. They simply can’t admit the inherent hypocrisy of the Church on this issue.
I daresay that if the Church was hammered more on it’s willingness to provide contraceptive services for men while denying it for women, this issue would go away fast.