Jake Tapper interviewed the 30-year-old Georgetown student who attends the Catholic school for the express purpose of de-Catholicizing it, and absurdly claims that she’s paying over a grand for contraception per year and can’t afford it (so we must pay it for her). Ace tweet-grilled Tapper over that interview. The upshot is that Tapper, usually among the fairest and gutsiest in the mainstream media, pitched an intentional walk to Miss Fluke. Her being called a “slut” has changed the debate entirely. She ought to be a figure of ridicule for, well, her entire schtick. But it’s just too easy to make her a victim now.
I hate to say I told y’all so…so I’ll just say that I informed you thusly.
I’m not absolving Tapper on this, by the way. But I’m confident the interview would probably not have happened if she hadn’t drawn so much negative attention, and the tenor of that attention made it all to easy to go easy on her. Tapper seems to have taken the easy way.
Jake Tapper frequently loses his balance when wading into these waters. An insight perhaps ☞ here is an excerpt from the 2006 NYT announcement of his wedding to Jennifer Marie Brown: “The bride, 29, is a regional field manager in Washington for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America; she recruits, educates and organizes supporters of the organization.” http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/03/fashion/weddings/03brown.html?_r=1
Why not have Fluke testify to Congress under oath? Set her up with openings such as in this time of great need when people are struggling to keep their homes and jobs, you are attending an elite law school and have comparatively few immediate concerns, yet you want working class moms and dads to pay for your recreational sex life. Is that fair?
I agree. My gut tells me this is not playing as well for the Dems as they and the MSM think it is. Most Americans who don’t subscribe to The Nation have not gotten the memo that free contraception is a right, which is why it has to be spun as a debate over contraception itself, and not its being provided free of charge. But that can only be pushed so far.
If Mr. Tapper cannot have integrity on this issue, he should refain from covering it.
I want to explain why Ms. Fluke may still nonetheless not be a good face for this issue– she’s a student. She actually doesn’t *work*, or at least not in the way most Americans understand it. But every American who is a parent understands the concept of the whiny immature teenager who wants something for nothing. “Slut” controversy notwithstanding, that is still what she is going to be ending up thought of as in a lot of people minds, and the Dem backing of her just reinforces the meme that it is the “Party Party”, where they get to party, and you get to pay for it…
Of course, for all that Rush Limbaugh was quite wrong to call Ms. Fluke a “slut” for wanting Catholic University to pay $1000/annum for contraception, when the normal costs are an order of magnitude less. Nobody can have that much sex.
But they can run escort services. She clearly a madam trying to cut business expenses….I applaud her ingenuity, if not her ethics…
Yes! Have Issa call her in front of his committee and re[peat her entire press conference speech, word for word, under oath.
MSM? Is that still on the air?
The $1000/yr bit is an absurdity. Planned parenthood passes them out for free and generics can be had for ~$100/yr. Shtick is exactly the right word to use for Fluke’s act.
However…..pills can and often are used medicinally, and just because a person spends $1000/yr for pills doesnt mean they are having any sex at all. Limbaugh stepped in it on this one. He is using the $1000 number for pills and extrapolating it incorrectly to the price of condoms.
SoCons are rightly criticized for their fixation on social issues, especially sex. I just saw on FOX an interview with Santorum who was asked ” Should you be campaigning on contraception in the year 2012?”. He started with some drivel but I didnt hear his whole answer as I got angry and stomped out of the room.
Here is what his answer should have been – ” I am not campaigning on contraception at all. I am campaigning on freedom of conscience, on the spirit and letter of the Bill of Rights. I am campaigning on what americans believe in; personal liberty. What this administration is doing is unconscienable. What we are seeing here is pure, naked tyranny, that is, forcing people with the threat of imprisonment to act against their conscience. It cannot be tolerated. No american should tolerate this.”
Lets see Obama put that in his pipe and smoke it.
I think the media promulgates the idea that conservatives are “fixated” on social issues–we’re no more “fixated” on them than the left are. After all, what do you call this whole imbroglio other than a social issue…on the left. Most of the right is “fixated” on freedom of conscience, regardless of how badly Santorum fumbles a question.
You are correct. Actually, the left is far worse and their evil more organized. I get frustrated when I see anything about sex coming up in public debate. The right often get sanctimonious with regards to it and doesnt realize just how off-putting this is to the majority of americans. It is maddening to me because it facilitates the left’s never ending power quest. In other words, just by having the appearance of wanting to put their noses into people’s bedrooms they are shooting themselves in the foot.
I should have put it more plainly, but in my hypothetical answer to the question I tried to point out that yes, this is about freedom of conscience, not sex.
Damn, she’s so dumb and not even blond. Maybe her over developed sense of tribal entitlement is just an affirmative action fluke? And what does that make the pimping pro-choice people who mindlessly hop on board to make paying for her fun beyond choice for everyone? I mean what’s the point of having diversity and toleration if no one can be diverse and say no? I mean what’s the point of toleration if you can’t say no to paying for another person’s contraception so some spoiled rich white law school student can get laid with baby immunity? I mean what’s there to tolerate when everyone is required to think the same and have immunity from consequences?
This parasite Fluke is no victim – she’s a political hack and activist that deserves a full throttle response and to be put under the microscope of truth.
Let’s not let this die, nor let the media run with her B.S. mendacity. I want this woman so marginalized, she slithers off to her den. And pressure should be brought to bear on Georgetown too.
I know a lot of regents and administration at Georgetown that need to feel a great sense of shame, with their names in big, bright letters. That includes asking the Jesuits to explain why a woman like this allowed into a Catholic University, diametrically opposed to their mission statement.
I think Rush was almost right. Rush would have hit it spot on if he classified Sandra Fluke as a whore. Perfectly defined, the truth is Ms. Fluke is a political whore, a willing tool of a greater tyranny, a whore who sold out her human and female principles and morality to perpetuate a narrative based in an agenda designed for the sole purpose of destroying the very fabric of our society, our families and faith, our principles of self governance. Our very Liberty.
Is Sandra Luke a Whore?
No doubt for this American.
Yes, the real question is how privileged is she that she doesn’t know the real cost of birth control or is it she’s so well off she can afford to pay 10 times the market rate for common medical procedures.
In either case, she is hardly a good argument for taxpayer assumption of her costs given the obvious trend toward overpaying.
The Dems laid a trap and Rush ran to it at full speed, eyes wide shut, with such alacrity it almost seemed deliberate. He could have taken any other tack and wiped the Dems butt with this (such as why should anything of a student at an elite university be paid for by people who never had that opportunity). Instead he took the low road (true although it may be) and handed the commies the keys. Let’s hope they’re blackmailing him, otherwise he’s playing for the other team. Nobody’s that stupid.
Did you actually listen to the programs, Talnik? I did.
He’s not playing for the other side. He was outraged over this.
His only sin was providing the answer to his question, “What kind of woman wants to be paid to have sex?” We listeners had already gotten there.
That and wanting something for his money like the video of the encounters. That part was really, really stupid.
Opening monologue ought to be interesting tomorrow.
“Sandra Fluke Has Been Granted MSM Absolute Moral Authority”
Screw her.
Take a number, buster.
I guess what I don’t understand is why Fluke thinks that taxpayers should be on the hook for her contraceptives? Isn’t having sex or not her choice? If she didn’t have sex she wouldn’t necessarily need pills except, perhaps, medically but since no one knows for sure it sounds like she wanted them for sex. What if Fluke could only achieve sexual fulfillment by having sex in the back seat of a brand new 2012 Bentley. Would she also demand that taxpayers provide her with a Bentley? What’s the difference between demanding contraceptives and then demanding her ideal place to have sex. I think the administration at Georgetown should buy her a powerful shower massage device, advise her to take a lot of showers and be done with it.
Since Ms. Fluke is a law student at one of our country’s most prestigious institutions, maybe someone will ask her to explain just which part of the US Constitution grants the federal government the authority to use taxpayer money to pay for her contraception expenses.
Since when are the tax payers responsible for the universities health coverage? Since when is deliberately confusing the contraceptive pill (taken daily no matter how much sex you are or are not having) with the high fail rate generic condom a class act?
How ever what is impressive is the ease with which big Rush has convinced women and anyone under forty that the GOP wants to do to them what Rush likes watching.
It’s becoming clearer everyday that tapper went easy on fluke because of the people behind her.