Paul: Limbaugh apologized for personal gain
(CBS News) Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul said an apology by conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh to Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke for calling her a "slut" and a "prostitute" was not sincere, and was made only because it best served Limbaugh.
On CBS News' "Face the Nation," the Texas congressman told host Bob Schieffer that Limbaugh's apology "was in his best interest."
"He's doing it because some people were taking their advertisements off of his program. It was his bottom line he was concerned about," Paul said.
Paul referred to three companies that pulled advertisements from Limbaugh's show following incendiary remarks Limbaugh made about Fluke for testifying before a mock Congressional committee in favor of free contraception insurance coverage at Georgetown, a Jesuit university. [One company's spokesman said that Limbaugh's comments "do not align [with] our values." Another pulled out "Due to continued inflammatory comments - along with valuable feedback from clients and team members" about the remarks.]
"I don't think he's very apologetic," Paul said. "It's in his best interest, that's why he did it."
Although Paul disagreed with Limbaugh's remarks and called them "over the top," he said the government should not mandate that insurance companies provide contraception coverage.
"This is philosophically and politically important because, does the government have a mandate to tell insurance (companies) what to give?" Paul asked, and then responded to his own question: "So they're saying that the insurance companies should give everybody free birth control pill, that strikes me as rather odd."
Paul told Schieffer that the problem is not about social issues but about the government. "It's this mandate, this is an obsession with Obama on mandating," Paul said, then moving on to critique the Republicans as well. "Of course the Republicans aren't a whole lot better on this, either," he said, without specifying to what policy he was referring.
However, Paul was specific in his attack against former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum and his support (as Senator) for Planned Parenthood dollars in a government funding bill.
"He pretends to be the champion of social values," Paul told Schieffer. "That to me is rather bizarre, and that's why I call him a fake conservative."
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Can you spell Viagara? He did not give a f... about who would be covering Viagara. Did he? ...
By the way "social activities" - he means sex. And for those who are not very smart... The government does not pay for contraceptives- Your insurance (which you a lot of money to) is the one that will cover the expenses.
Well, Viagara is related to "social activities" is it not? And it does not treat hormones' problems or prevent pregnancy, does it?
Does he call the men on Viagara "*****" and "Prostitutes"? I don't think so! He is pathetic! This guy must hate women.
"Why should someone who doesn't use birth control be forced to pay for the birth control for others?"
"Why should someone who doesn't smoke be forced to pay for the health care of someone who does?"
"Why should people who never had children, be forced to pay for the educations of other people's children?"
"Why should someone who doesn't own a car be forced to pay for road maintenance for other people to drive on?"
"Why should someone who doesn't commit crimes be forced to pay for the policemen who handle the people who do commit crimes?"
Do you see where this is going?
The problem here is not that the government is forcing something reasonable, it is that the government is involved at all. If a plan doesn't include birth control, for whatever reason but most likely at the request of the business, there are many options available to the individual. They are hardly being denied health coverage, and they can always quit if their uptight boss dislikes sex. Maybe we men should start some sort of whine campaign to get the insurance companies to pay for our condoms. My guess is that Trojan is not paying as much in campaign donations as the pharma companies are, so we might as well sit back and laugh.
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DUH!!!!!! YA THINK??????????? Jeeze Ronnie, here all this time I thought old Rush Limpballs really felt bad for saying those things. Who says you're too old to run for President? Your mind is as sharp as a tack. (NOT!) LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And Limpbaugh was wrong ...... Dumb Dumb Repugs !!
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No it is dumb dumb liberals with their selective moral outrage!
Yet not one of the left loons has the courage to really stand on their so called morals and support for women and call for Ed Shultz or Bill Mahar to be pulled from the air after even though both those liberal losers said the exact same thing as Rush did.
The liberal loser mahar called Palin a c*nt and left loons cheered. Also the fat arse liberal looser Ed Shultz calls Laura Ingram a Sl*t and once again the liberal loons just cheer him on.
So I guess liberal morals only work when it is a right winger saying things they disagree with. Kind of typical of a liberal loon.