Just A Fluke

The latest controversy that has been brewing involves Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown law school student, and Rush Limbaugh.  Fluke testified before a congressional committee on birth control, and in her testimony, she said that because birth control pills cost her $3,000 a year, it should be picked up by insurance companies--which naturally falls in line with the Obama Administration's HHS mandate regarding religious institutions.  Rush Limbaugh picked up on this and said that because Ms. Fluke needs all of this birth control, she is a "slut" and a "whore."  The media of course has been running with this ever since and have heavily condemned Rush and the Republican Party for allowing him to be their spokesman. 

It goes without saying that Rush should have said it differently.  We should keep the standards high and not stoop to levels that are beneath us.  But the point he was making was fairly good:  Why should these types of things be federally mandated?  In essence, this turns the liberal argument against conservatives on its head--it's liberals who want to patrol the bedrooms and breach the supposed right to privacy discovered by the Supreme Court in Griswold v. Connecticut.  They are supporting more government intrusion in these matters, but for years they have been screaming at the threat of conservatives' monitoring the bedrooms of the U.S.  And why that private sphere does not extend to regulating light bulbs, T.V.'s, computers, washers/dryers, cell phones, virtually all food products, stoves, microwaves, refrigerators, video game systems, paint, etc., is anyone's guess.

Also, here is an interesting point to ponder from Daniel Foster of NRO:

The outrage against Rush is highly selective. He considers himself an entertainer, and routinely says outrageous and/or un-PC things in the service of being provocative (in both the good and bad senses of that word). By rights, anything he says should be judged against the standard of liberal political entertainers like Bill Maher, Janine Garafalo, or if you like, Keith Olbermann. Yes, Rush’s audience is orders of magnitude larger, and his influence on the conservative movement equally outsized. But that doesn’t make him John Boehner. So why is Nancy Pelosi acting like the whole of the congressional conservative opposition to the mandate just accused an arbitrary 20-something woman of sexual promiscuity?

Especially in light of Bill Maher's recent donation of one million dollars to the Obama campaign, every vile thing he said should be examined with the utmost moral scrutiny, right?