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And apparently, the Left is all up in arms about it with online petitions, denouncing it in Congress, etc. Funny, I don't recall any progressives denouncing the use of the term tea-bagger. What a bunch of hypocrites. I want to see our media ask her this one important question: Why, of all places, did you choose a Catholic university? This woman is nothing but an activist looking to cause trouble, that's why.They are becoming more and more like Nazis everyday. It's alarming.
This one and many others. It's all over the place in the political news world.http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/03/sandra-fluke-rush-limbaugh-slut-comment-outside-the-bounds-of-civil-discourse/*edited correct spelling of her name
A few things glaringly wrong here: 1) why should the taxpayers pay for this woman's sex life? She says she has to pay $1000 out of pocket for her birth control per year. Isn't insurance coverage of this similar to paying for her dating practices throughout the year? I thought that the left wanted the government out of their “bedrooms”, but apparently this message gets reversed when convenient; now, they are crying for the government to come into their bedrooms! 2) Some liberals have been claiming that because birth control pills treat non-conception related medical conditions, they should be paid for by insurance. I don't really buy this. What is the percentage of women who use them for non-conception conditions? Ask a liberal this, and I doubt they would know. 3) If she wants her birth control paid for, why doesn't she simply attends a different university? If the $1000 is such a hardship, why does she have to attend Georgetown? What she is saying is akin to that her right to attend any university, and then to force that university to pay for her birth control, is greater than that university to behave according to the dictates of its religion. In the end, her sob story is really one that is easily preventable, and clearly not an issue which would trump the right of a religious institution to operate according to its own religious beliefs. Notice yet again how the left operates by trying to use emotion, rather than reason, to influence policy.
The Left is really trying to push the “religion is outdated” argument. What's really bothering me is how the media is reporting this. It's hard to call them media anymore because it's nothing but propaganda. Not one of them is asking the important questions like all the points you just mentioned. And it's also bothering me that this is not blowing up in the Democrats face. I would expect more of a backlash. Are people that far removed from religion?
Ditto the arguments above. Especially the hypocrisy of the left in decrying the “hurtful” comments directed towards her when they gleefully spent over a year calling peaceful protesters teabaggers. This kind of stuff is why I ignore the left. They are also trying to ignore and distort the issue. It is now about how this woman's feelings got hurt not about the fact that she is trying to impose her beliefs on an institution she voluntarily attends. The left wants to see religion go away, morals are so inconvenient for the modern liberal and religion has them. Religious institutions paying for abortions and contraception is not about women's rights but religious freedom. Phid hits the nail on the head with the way the left uses emotion to replace logic in their arguments.
We could probably come up with a pretty long thread if we each posted one instance of hypocrisy on the left per post. That is not to say that hypocrisy does not exist on the right, just not to the same extent that I can see.I wonder if the right is more fair because we all played sports as kids and the left stayed home?
No, it's not that. It's because on the Right men are men and women are women. On the Left, who knows what either one is.
I still find that on the Right there is in general a streak of fairness that does not exist on the Left. The left is only fair if you meet a certain litmus test, while it is my impression the right judges issues and people based on their merits. Conservatives also have a distressing to the left habit of calling a duck a duck.The example of various Republicans and Democrats caught in flagrante delicto is instructive. Republicans purge those people from the party while Democrats circle the wagons and defend their immorality.
