Rush Limbaugh is a giant slut hooker

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Unless you've been playing your advanced copy of Mass Effect 3 24 hours a day for the last 5 days, you've probably heard about this Rush Limbaugh/Sandra Fluke slut controversy. Long story short, Rush Limbaugh called some random woman a slut because she believes her birth control should be covered by insurance while she's in college.

For whatever horrible sadistic reason I've yet to put a finger on, I listen to a lot of talk radio. Over the last couple days it's amazing how many right wing talking heads have come to Rush's defense. Oh they pretend to not defend him, but they do. They say he shouldn't have used the words slut or prostitute but then they immediately start excusing what he did. He's a comedian you have to give him some leeway. People on the left say hurtful things all the time. Obama's a secret Muslim terrorist, etc. It's not what he said it's how he said it that's the problem. Which when you listen to what he's implying is complete horseshit. We can have a very serious and frank argument about what should and shouldn't be covered by public insurance, but what we shouldn't do is write off everyone concerned about the availability of birth control as degenerates and sinners. It's not the fact that he called this woman a slut, its the fact that he equates birth control with slutting it up that's really offensive.

It's figuratively driving me insane. Thank God for Stephen Colbert.