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Hey, hussie!

Think that health insurance companies should pay for birth control? Then you’re a slut, obvs. Oh, and you’re even more of a whore if you dare speak about reproductive rights publicly.

Now get back to working the street, girl — it’s go go, not cry-cry. And while you’re at it, stop thinking that you should have a voice and put your mouth to good work giving blowjobs, or whatever it is sluts like you do, you skank.

Think this sounds extreme? Well, it’s actually not that different from Rush Limbaugh’s comments about Georgetown Law Student Sandra Fluke.

She went before a congressional committee to testify about the Barack Obama/Health and Human Services manadate that insurers must cover contraceptives.

And Limbaugh responded with real pearls of wisdom on his Wednesday radio show:

“What does it say about the college coed Susan Fluke [sic], who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex? What does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She’s having so much sex she can’t afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex. What does that make us? We’re the pimps.

The johns, that’s right. We would be the johns — no! We’re not the johns. Well — yeah, that’s right. Pimp’s not the right word.

OK, so, she’s not a slut. She’s round-heeled. I take it back.”

Rush then said that Fluke and other “feminazis” should put their sex videos online. “If we are going to pay for you to have sex, we want something for it.”

Fluke, who said that birth control could cost her upwards of $3,000 a year — a prohibitive cost for a law student on a stipdend — responded to Limbaugh’s attacks with dignity, saying: “This is really inappropriate … This is outside the bounds of civil discourse.”

The Palm Beach neo-con doubled down, of course, and said that he’d buy Fluke  ”as much aspirin to put between her knees as she wants.”

Here’s the deal, Limbaugh. As Fluke pointed out, there is really no room for language like this in civil discourse. And while we would never expect civility from this windbaggy talking head, we do expect that some good can come from this ordeal.

Hopefully the backlash Limbaugh faces — including this petition and demands that advertizers pull support from his show — demonstrate that demonizing women’s health and rights advocates is not an acceptable political ploy.

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