From RH Reality Check: http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/03/04/limbaugh-promises-better-euphemisms-when-slurring-99-american-women
by Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check
March 4, 2012
After spending three days on his radio show calling Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown law student who testified in front of Congress about the importance of health insurance coverage, names like “slut” and “prostitute,” Rush Limbaugh did something unusual: he apologized.
Just kidding!
It’s being reported as an apology, but if you actually read it, it’s not.
In this instance, I chose the wrong words in my analogy of the situation. I did not mean a personal attack on Ms. Fluke.
In other words, Limbaugh is saying that there’s nothing wrong with his belief that women who use contraception---that is, 99 percent of American women---are immoral, filthy sluts. He just wishes that he had chosen better euphemisms, perhaps “hussy” and “lady of the night” while arguing that the only proper course for women who don’t want to get pregnant is to abstain from sex completely. (Limbaugh very pointedly doesn’t suggest this to men. On the contrary, he demands that women provide sex tapes if they dare use contraception, so he can masturbate to them. While celibacy is required for women in Limbaugh’s world, he has no problem with male sexuality. Or Viagra coverage, for that matter.)
By the way, we’re already aware that he wasn’t just making a personal attack on Fluke. Since 99 percent of American women use contraception---and since contraception is already covered by insurance and subsidized by the government---Limbaugh was using Fluke as a stand-in to argue that every woman who has ever had sex for any other reason than procreation is a bad person. In other words, pretty much all women. Which is a way of saying that Limbaugh wasn’t attacking Fluke, but just using her for a punching bag to express his hatred of all women.
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