On 3/4/2012 12:36 PM, Sam wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 12:23 PM, PT<cft...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 3/4/2012 12:08 PM, Sam wrote: >>> >>> In an interview with Alter on November 30, Obama offered that >>> Republican opposition to the stimulus "helped create the tea-baggers >>> and empowered that whole wing of the Republican Party where it now >>> controls the agenda for the Republicans." >>> >>> Where's your outrage? >> >> I am not sure I follow you here. > > I think being called a tea-bagger by the President simply for not > supporting him is a bit worse than a comedian calling a woman > demanding $1000 a year for contraception a slut. It's to do with > context.
Eh. People identify themselves as tea-baggers, and don't do it out of irony, so it can't be all that much of an insult. I don't think slut and prostitute are on the same relatively benign level, no matter the context. Now, if the president called someone a Nazi or something, that would be a little different. Speaking of presidents, the media tried that same thing with Andrew Jackson's wife and I think he ended up shooting one or two of them ;) > Here's what she said, you decide: > > Without insurance coverage, contraception, as you know, can cost a > woman over $3,000 during law school. For a lot of students who, like > me, are on public interest scholarships, thats practically an entire > summers salary. 40% of the female students at Georgetown Law reported > to us that they struggle financially as a result of this policy. OK. She says "without insurance coverage" .. which means paying for the doctors visits, etc. She wasn't clear from that bit of text whether she meant birth control for birth control, or birth control as medication. If it purely for birth control, then no. There are other options. If it is for medication .... I am on the fence about whether that kind of thing can be forced. Regardless, calling her a slut and a prostitute for that was way out of line. I don't care how you try to spin it. Rush was attacking the person and not the argument. I thought people constantly bitched about that type of thing on here, you include ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:347912 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
