Left vs. Limbaugh

When I initially heard about Rush Limbaugh’s comments directed at Sandra Fluke I was shocked. In this day and age to hear a supposedly educated person attack an individual and ongoing argument about government funded contraception with such rude, tasteless, ignorant, close minded, vulgar comments honestly scared me. Are we regressing in our social interaction and communication to just be as aggressive and controversial as possible to be heard? Believe me Rush Limbaugh makes me extremely proud to be a Liberal and as far removed from his thoughts and belief’s as possible. The thought that a segment of our society is saying, “Yeah Rush, you tell em,” is the scariest part of the big picture regarding the scope of his influence on the conservative voice. The more we learn about politics the more we realize it is two sides spinning each and every word from a topic into a fabric that bends the truth of the statements into a means of helping either sides cause. For example, let’s look at what Rush Limbaugh attempted to do as explained by Jon Stewart. "What is even going through Rush Limbaugh's fevered mind to get from 'young woman trying to get private institution to cover contraception' to 'prostitution, slut, having constant sexy-sex on my dime?" declared The Daily Show host, attempting to deconstruct the conservative radio host's reasoning. In my opinion nothing scares me more than close minded people. Now also “in my opinion” Jon Stewart is an open minded, smart individual who clearly see’s the absurdity in Limbaugh’s actions. Stewart continued: "He seems to believe that anyone using contraception is automatically having ... a TON OF SEX! And that contraception is something a woman has to pay for every time she has sex! And that the woman is nevertheless benefitting financially from all that dirty, contraceptive-fueled, dirty sex!" Now to keep from going insane listening to comments like this from Limbaugh I have to deduce that he (and most conservatives) do not really think this way and this is purely him doing everything possible to get a conservative elected. To believe anything else would be the realization that I live in a society that despite progressing in age and years has experienced zero growth or progression in people’s rights, discrimination, etc. and I do not want to believe that. 

So with this going on I decided to read a blog on the right side of things. I came across Michelle Malkin’s blog touching on this very topic. Now if I were a conservative stance woman I would be extremely upset with Limbaugh’s comments. He simply attacked women and their rights (in an extremely cave man & ignorant vain) and tried to put a political spin on it. Malkin chose to try and spin her take on this issue targeting our President after he decided to call Fluke regarding this issue. That’s when she then wrote this blog entry calling out Obama for making the call to Fluke for political gain. Really??? You are going to take on this topic and try to spin it against Obama? If anything I would hope to see you take a stance for women in general, shunning Limbaugh’s comments and taking your own stance on this topic in your blog. Instead, this is what we get: “But it’s ok. Conservative women don’t need coddling phone calls from Obama. We just need him to get out of the White House and out of our lives.” Ok, then how about a call from Rush Limbaugh to conservative women next time you need a voice on an issue. Better be careful what you wish for. I am ok with Obama’s decision to call Fluke in what is a very high interest topic that resulted in a verbal attack on her personally. If political gain was achieved then great, the left did not start the mudslinging. Contraception does not equal promiscuity it equals safety and responsibility. Malkin in my opinion failed in this post. Politics out of the equation how can you respect attacking the President’s action as self-serving when your conservative voice (Limbaugh) is clearly in the wrong in so many ways on this one.