I don't think I can put it any better than this:

[captainsblog]

I'm almost embarrassed to confess this, but: I listen to the guy. Or, rather, I did until this latest set of totally over-the-edge rants.

Not that I ever agreed with any of it. Listening was sort of a Sun Tzu strategy of mine- of keeping your enemies closer than your friends. Unlike the totally over-the-top radio wackadoodles, he occasionally took calls from the left, engaged in reasonable conversation with some of them (although others got mocked and bullied right after, if not during, their calls), and kept away from the far-right fringes of Birthers and anti-abortionists.

Until this. It's now become completely unlistenable as ol' Jeff Christie has fallen off the edge of reason into the sewer of Santorumism.  It would be laughable if it wasn't so mean-spirited, and misguided. We can disagree over the underlying premise of whether it's a religious freedom issue- although I think it's cheap and sleazy for Republicans to only be bringing it up when they can blame it on the black guy- but it's the utter mischaracterization of the nature of contraception that makes me want to stick hot flaming pokers into this guy's anal zits.

Let me explain it to you, Rush. You've never had children in any of your four marriages, and for all I know, you've never had sex with any of your sister wives.  The thing is, though? Birth control pills aren't like the Viagra that YOU'd take if you ever were to have sex with anything other than a ripe melon. Women go on them permanently, daily during the period they are trying to avoid pregnancy, or for whatever other legitimate medical reason they have for taking them (more about that in a minute). So there's no correlation between how much the meds cost and how much sex they are having. None. Zippo. Gesphincto.  This makes the stuff a maintenance drug.  Let's take your now-famous rantquote and change the prescribed condition from "birth control" to "diabetes" and see how it sounds:

"What does it say about the college co-ed Susan Fluke [sic] who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sugar -- what does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sugar. She's having so much sugar she can't afford the insulin. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sugar."

How do I, one of your fellow "pimps," know or care about such things when my wife is now too old to procreate? Because my daughter is old enough- and she's been on the Pill since high school. Not for sex, you big fat idiot, but for cramps. Debilitating ones. Pain that you would likely only be able to approximate inside your oxycontin-rotted brain if you were subjected to 168 straight hours of listening to yourself on the radio.  She'd be denied the Pill, too, in your and Frothy's moral world. And don't try to tell me that insurance would cover it for that but not for sex- because you know, and I know, that you'd claim "sluts" like Sandra Fluke would lie to their doctors to get their precious sex pills.  You've already written off the fact that the Pill already requires a prescription, by a doctor, who has to evaluate the medical needs of the patient. But then, doctors are part of the pointy-headed Academia that you hate so much because you didn't graduate from it, so why should I expect you to put a scintilla of trust in their medical judgments?

I'm done with listening to your crap- except to hear which few advertisers are still desperate enough to (there's that word again) prostitute themselves to gain access to your listeners. A lot fewer than did last week, I see: two different mattress companies and Quicken Loans have already pulled the plug on your hatred. I shall support them. ProFlowers is reconsidering their advertising. Because I listen to your putridity, I know that your others include Carbonite, LegalZoom, LifeLock and GoToMyPC. I'll be dropping each of them a line- me and thousands of others who want to see you sent back to the Stone Age where talk radio reigns supreme.  Before long, you'll be relegated to nothing but the goofy Glenn Beck Goldline ads that somehow keep his hate on the radio (fortunately, not around here anymore).

Comments

[tilia-tomentosa.livejournal.com]

And that's supposed to be the First World...

[thediva-laments.livejournal.com]

There is a Pro Flowers petition here. http://weareultraviolet.org/

[elbiesee.livejournal.com]

So, the little yellow pill I take every day to prevent painful, potentially harmful ovarian cysts...

Makes me a slut. Good to know. Was wondering about that, really.

[thediva-laments.livejournal.com]

Yep, same here. The fact that I started taking it before I actually started having sex is what I find even funnier. Or more twisted. All depends on how you look at it I guess...

[firynze.livejournal.com]

My parents listen to Rush all the time. I sincerely hope that this might ding a little bell in their heads that he's a nutcase.

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

In his own way, he's more insidious than the real nutcases. I can't abide two minutes of Beck, or Michael Weiner, or Alex Whatshisname; they're so over the top they hit themselves in the back of their own heads. But this guy has 40 years of production values that make it bearable to listen to, and if you aren't paying attention to the lies, and the distortions, and the out-of-contextnesses of it, you could easily fall for it. Millions of Dittoheads apparently have. Hopefully they're all gonna have to go out and buy satellite radios now.

[headbanger118.livejournal.com]

I stopped listening to Rush long ago. I listen to very few political pundits, as I find both sides twist the facts until they surrender.

[liddle-oldman.livejournal.com]

Not that I ever listened to a single wackadoodle word, but once it turned out that he was swallowing four million dollars worth of illegal drugs a year...

[bluevicksen11.livejournal.com]

Thank you for writing this. I don't update my LJ often, but my last entry was about attitudes people have toward women on the pill. I didn't think much of it before, but with all the debate lately I've noticed that there are a lot more negative, disgustingly misinformed stereotypes out there than I was previously aware of.
The problem is more widespread than Limbaugh, I've seen many people express ignorance similar to his even before this latest shit show.
Anyway, I'm glad there are men out there like you that a) know what the pill is and how it works and the many different reasons why women may take it, and b) see the indignity that in imposed upon the women in your life, including your daughter, when politicians and other ignorant asses think of us this way and talk about us this way, and want to create laws and policies informed by their abject foolishness.

In short- f*ck that guy.

And thank you again, Ray.