Rush Limbaugh has drawn the ire of celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred, who sent a letter to the Palm Beach County state attorney requesting an investigation into whether the popular radio host should be prosecuted for calling a law student a “slut” and “prostitute” last week.
“Mr. Limbaugh targeted his attack on a young law student who was simply exercised her free speech and her right to testify before congress on a very important issue to millions of American women and he vilified her. He defamed her and engaged in unwarranted, tasteless and exceptionally damaging attacks on her,” Allred told POLITICO Friday afternoon. “He needs to face the consequences of his conduct in every way that is meaningful.”
Excuse me, Gloria, doesn’t Mr. Limbaugh also enjoy the right of free speech, not to mention freedom of the press? Or is that reserved for leftist law students in your alternate universe?
In a letter dated March 8, Allred, writing on behalf of the Women’s Equal Rights Legal Defense and Education Fund, requested that Palm Beach County State Attorney Michael McAuliffe probe whether the conservative radio personality had violated Section 836.04 of the Florida Statutes by calling Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke the two derogatory words.
The statute stipulates that anyone who “speaks of and concerning any woman, married or unmarried, falsely and maliciously imputing to her a want of chastity” is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. Allred explained that the statute recently came to her attention as having never been repealed, and that it could very well apply to Limbaugh’s remarks as his show is broadcast from West Palm Beach.
I am not a lawyer, but I think that if they did try to prosecute Rush based on that law, that could start a process that would result in the law being declared unconstitutional, because it seems to me that it’s a clear violation of the First Amendment
I guess after successfully pushing Herman Cain out of the race, Gloria was looking for another way to get her name in the papers and her face on TV.
Maybe Sarah should announce she’s suing Maher, Letterman, etc, etc.
I second the motion!
Palin should have a long time ago. Now if Palin, Bachmann & Malkin would simultaneously file defamation charges to all of the above… well I love the smell of $hit hitting the fan especially at election time.
What would Breitbart be saying today?
Not really trying to be a typical male chauvinist, but the visuals, Palin, Bachman, and Malkin on the one hand, and Gloria on the other, quite a lot of contrast.
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Opinions are no longer legal!
Pravda Medai alert! Please report all naysayers to the proper authorities!
All whities to the back of the bus!
If you say something evil and nasty and despicable, be sure you have enough melanin in your skin!
Anddddddddddd scene.
The imputation of a want of chastity must be false, by the terms of the statute.
Said unmarried woman has testified in front of Congress, by obvious and direct implication, that her chastity is a fiction.
Good eye, and excellent point.
Curse you, Thinly veiled! You stole my thunder. But it is an excellent point.
Right! And how could anyone impute a want of chastity to her if she doesn’t have any, and she doesn’t want any?
The most dangerous place in the known universe is between Gloria Allred and a news camera. She’s a media whore and nothing more. No sentient creature takes her seriously.
I hope you don’t live in Florida…
Imagine if we lived in a world where what Gloria Alred said on any given day was actually true.
Thanks. Now I’m gonna have nightmares about that tonight.
As a lawyer (inactive status) it clearly is unconstitutional, especially as applied to Sandra, who is at least a limited public figure on sex. She’s a contraceptive advocate/activist, not a private citizen.
Gloria Alred is a s…
Oh heck, you fill in the dots.
– (active status). Please do, Allred. There will be consequences to both you and the district attorney. Perhaps you should consult your daughter, who actually is a practicing attorney.
Why does everyone refer to Fluke as a “young” law student? Wouldn’t a young law student be 21, 22, 23-years old maximum?
The World According to Leftist Progs is like a fun-house mirror. Nothing is what is appears to be.
Yes, the statute would be declared unconstitutional, but if it weren’t, the issue at the trial, according to the words in the statute, would be ms. fluke’s chastity, an issue I doubt Gloria Allred would care to see litigated. Obviously what’s really going on is Gloria Allred is attempting to insert herself into a national story which she hadn’t yet been inserted
Aparrently Ms Fluke resembles a screen door in a windstorm! Lots of banging!
In this case, truth might be an absoute defense.
In fact, I believe I *also* have to demand an investigation into whether Ms. Fluke’s chastity has been *falsely* demeaned.
May I take this moment to thank the lawyers (both active and inactive) who have weighed in on the Florida statute’s constitutionality?
I thought I was on firm ground, but it’s always nice to have it confirmed.
I’m not an expert on women’s psychology, well maybe I am, but in my humble opinion, this shrew, Gloria Allred, has man issues. Maybe, in this great nation, there can be found one man who would take one for the team and, uh help her out with, er, that, uh, issue.
Patrick,
Allred is not the only liberal with man issues. I would question just how Ms. Fluke racks up $1000 per year in contraception costs. Seriously, what kind of man is attracted to Ms. Fluke? She is not attractive from either a physical or intellectual standpoint. Are you attracted by a bitter, whining, 30-year-old woman, who has never worked an honest day in her life, and still needs mommy and daddy to take care of her?
Here, Gloria can add me to her list to sue with Rush. I would be honored.
If I were a rich man, I would wager a large sum that men being attracted to Ms. Fluke is not Ms. Fluke’s wish or intent – if you get my drift. There’s a common thread that runs through these hardcore misandrists like Fluke, whether it be daddy issues, or a lifetime of rejection by men.
Not even with yours, brother.
It is obvious that Gloria likes gender specific, Jim Crow era laws, the good old days when the Democrats ruled the South. When her party was formally allied with the KKK – see 1924 Democrat Convention held in NYC, the so-called Klanbake Convention for actually confirmation. She yearns for the day when Gentlemen guarded the Honor of Southern Belles.
What else from that period is she nostalgic for?
Sensational Allred on Fluke action available here.
http://youtube.com/Im just kiddin. Really. Who would want to see that?
Good Lord help us.
Responses not desired or required and permission granted to keep your miserable thoughts to yourselves. Please.
Seriously? I don’t care what you all do in the privacy of your own 24 hour webcam fed bedrooms. Yes, you have the expectation of privacy whilst frollicking in the private, confined pages of “Orgasming for Obama” on the InterToobz, but it wasn’t force fed to me until Barack the Magnificent and Nancy the Wrinkled threw it in my face as a campaign issue until just the last week or so.
That Fluke and Allred want to talk to us about their rampant sex lives is more than any person should have to tolerate.
And I’m sure that Rush is relishing this law suit, if it ever advances from media bluster to an actual law suit.
Explain to me again why this manly woman or her manly lawyer are the national spokespersons for univeral, free birth control and abortions?
Looking at these two in action I’m kind of amenable to their case. None of them should reproduce. Ever.
Isn’t her name Gloria Allmouth??
Maybe she should change it.
Allred is all smoke and no fire. The key word is “falsely.” Imagine a trial where Ms. Fluke has to defend her sex life and testimony before Congress. Imagine a prosecutor who wants to open the door to such a trial and face a counter-suit.
Rush said she was a prostitute. He made a nonsense argument that since she wanted to be paid [by the government] to have sex with people [Who doesn't pay anything], she must be a prostitute. That is not the definition of a prostitute. And even if it was, it had nothing to do with the topic. If anything Rush showed that he can be stupid.
I don’t believe he ever used the “P” word, therefore your argument falls apart right there.
If it goes to court (which I very much doubt it will), the case will hinge on the exact word(s) he used, not some fanciful speculation about what he meant — unless you plan to try him for thoughtcrime.
CW basically destroyed your point.
However, let me add one thing. Even if Rush had called her a prostitute, he would be correct. The definition fits. One does not have to be paid by the customer to be a prostitute.
Nothing could have been more likely to rescue brother Rush’s reputation than the Alred’s reductio ad absurdum.
By Occams conspiracy razor the simplest (psychotic) conclusion is that Gloria is also a Free Mason and this is a last ditch effort to save Rush’s bacon, so that in turn he can continue to finance the pleasure palace in Xanadu for this summers Mason convention. Otherwise its back to Atlantic city and no nubile serving wenches.
Can Gloria Allred sue Bill Maher too?
I remember the days when if words were spoken that might insult someone, the speaker’s mouth was washed with soap. If Rush’s mouth is washed, and Alred is fair, perhaps another oriface of Flukes’s should also be washed. And if either Fluke or Alred were my daughter, I’d hide in shame. Just an old lady’s thoughts.
Ms. Gloria Allred would be well advised that the party in power changes due to elections. By bringing Rush Limbaugh up on trumped up political charges the precident to bring up progressive “comics” on similar charges. Remember, that which you can do to others others can do to you.
Lefties never think that they’ll be out of power.
That’s why the Dems established the first Independent Counsel to investigate Watergate, which the GOP then turned on the Clintons over Whitewater.
It never occurs to them that there will be a time when they’re not in charge, or that their own plans can backfire, because they’re so convinced that they’re absolutely perfect.
In the marxist New Age of CFR global government there is hate speech, not freedom of speech. There is no G-d given rights, just what the State gives.
All you Nationalist believers in the American Constitution, and Bill of Rights are going to get it! Starting with Rush, then you Christians clinging to your Bibles, and weapons.
How can I assert my right to testify before Congress? Can we all do it? Can we gum up the works for them by using our right to testify night and day for years?
Bimbulb beotch.
Although ‘Bimbulb’ brings up the proper mental picture, I meant ‘Dimbulb’…
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