No, just people who cry wolf in order to make their argument seem more legitimate.


Edit: Inbefore people sift through my 3800+ posts looking for hyperbole.

@flywf

There's a reason she's at Georgetown and not some other school. That's what I was referring to.

And she was hand picked to speak at the press conference, so it's not like she somehow luckboxed her way into the limelight.

Yes, people are often picked to speak at press conferences. Congress isn't the lotto.

Because she's smart and got accepted?

Because she knows a lot about the issue that was being discussed?


I don't even know what these arguments are supposed to prove.

Do explain how this is the case. Because I don't see where you're getting this from.

Didn't you call her an attention whore? That is hyperbole, and that was like 2 posts ago.

You can't just ignore that most Americans already get their health insurance through employer-provided group plans. The mandatory birth control inclusion was common at the state level, and common in most plans, as far as I can tell. Obamacare made it a federal requirement but exempted religious employers (followed by religiously-affiliated employers, who can drop whatever from their group policy but the insurance company must offer a policy to employees directly which includes the item). The Blunt amendment to some highway bill tried to expand the exemption to any employer, and would have allowed them to drop coverage of anything mandated federally if they objected to it on religious or "moral" grounds. Employers would therefore be empowered to exert personal influence over their employees' health-care decisions on their behalf, based on nothing but a conviction about what kind of care they should get.

So not just birth control was in trouble. If the Blunt amendment passed Jehovah's Witness employers would be free to drop blood transfusions from their coverage, and Jenny McCarthy followers could drop childhood vaccinations.

I'm not surprised it failed, but am surprised it failed by only three votes.

You forgot, "Affirmative action was implemented to allow her to get into law school," imo.

Testifying before Congress is Saul Alinsky tactics!!

Didn't anyone read The Road to Serfdom???? Hayek warned about the evils of health insurance!!

But the real ******* here is Limbaugh for playing right into their hands and letting this debate be about Fluke and contraception instead of the 1st amendment.

Carry on with the circle jerk. I'll show myself out.

something something door hit something way out.

What does calling a man a prostitute have to do with women? You know that men can be prostitutes too, right? Why do you think the term applies only to women?

Like women are going to be pissed at Michael Moore:

"He called Rush a bitch? How insensitive, that's what we get to be called!"

FYP

Evidently it's respectful of women to recognize that terms like prostitute, slut, whore, bitch, etc. are terms that only refer to them.

Inso, do you have any cites on you calling those priests who testified in congress on this issue attention religious activists who get off on being annoying attention whores? You could always do so now retroactively given we didnt discuss them in their own thread if you want.

Keep in mind they put themselves in this situation on purpose to further their own cause so its perfectly fine to accurately call them all annoying attention whore activists.

Do you realise that given the church is given tax breaks ordinary Americans across the country are paying these priests to not have sex!

Man, how long were you sitting on this waiting for someone to reply so you could post it?

And the men who testified in front of the Republicans were...attention citizens?

That's a stretch, but I'll grant the bitch could be seen as sexist. I'd imagine a lot of feminists would agree with your arguments.

LOL at defending Rush. I assume "you guys" also refers to corporate advertisers that seem to be running to get away from Rush and his show.

So if Fluke really was just a planted womens' rights/Democratic plant, then Rush was a fool to take the bait so completely and lose one advertiser after another.

Actually we kinda are

Because Rush going the way of Glenn Beck would show that this country is growing/wising up just a tad and give some of us optimism for the future. This mass sponsor exodus doesn't bode well for him.

Personally, I'm wondering what absurdity Inso thinks needed illustration by calling this woman a whore.

I wish I could believe this, but this incident doesn't even make the top 10 list of **** that Rush has inexplicably survived in his career.

She got good grades and a high LSAT score?

actually, no, I bet she was dead set on going to Widener until she realized she might one day be able to get mentioned by Rush Limbaugh if she went to Georgetown instead.