Month: March 2012

Santorum Forced to Admit President Never Said Everyone Must Go To College

Jon Ponder

Rick Santorum came thisclose to admitting he has repeatedly lied about Pres. Obama’s position on higher education this weekend, and it happened on in an interview with Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday“:

“I agree with the president that we should have options for a variety of training.”
– Rick Santorum

Wallace pressed Santorum on the issue of higher education. The candidate had recently called Obama a “snob” for wanting “everybody in America to go to college,” but Wallace pointed out that what Obama actually encouraged was for all Americans to have at least one year of higher education or some kind of vocational training or apprenticeship.

Santorum acknowledged that he might have made a mistake.

“Look, maybe I’ve read some comments where at least it was characterized that the president said we should go to four-year colleges,” he said. “If I was in error, you said you haven’t found that, I certainly read that… if it was an error, I agree with the president that we should have options for a variety of training.”

We’ll just have to take Rick Santorum on his word, as he might say, that he misheard Pres. Obama on the multiple occasions when he has called for increasing resources for community colleges and similar job-training facilities. For example, we’ll have to assume Santorum blanked out during the president’s 2012 State of the Union Speech when he made this reference to the decades-old, public-private job training programs at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte:

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Someone Please Hand Rush Limbaugh a Mirror

Trish

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Collective number of wives had by Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich. New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd noted the double standard by which Limbaugh played in labeling a woman testifying before Congress about employers providing complete women’s health care coverage a slut: “Rush and Newt Gingrich can play the studs, marrying again and again until they find the perfect adoring young wife. But women pressing for health care rights are denigrated as sluts.”

Trish

I was saddened by this last rant. Can’t believe anyone finds acceptable to throw his usual apples and oranges at a woman who speaks for responsible healthcare for the female half of the population and then in the same breath says he wants to see sex videos. I guess pornography is a good thing. (I hear it is better with prescription drugs.)

— Email from an uncredited Pensito Review contributor

Rush on the Run: Forced to Apologize as Advertisers Dump Him

Trish

Rush’s “apology” to Sandra Fluke doesn’t begin to cover it. Calling her a slut was the least of the ugliness he heaped upon her. Rush made it clear in his attack that any woman who is not ashamed enough of the fact that she has sex to keep quiet about it is a whore, a prostitute, a slut. And furthermore, he would like to get him some of that or at the very least watch videos of it online. One can only be relieved that none of Rush’s wives stuck around long enough to bear him a child, especially a daughter.

As expected, Rush’s “apology” makes it clear he still means every word he said and only regrets, like Mitt Romney, the semantics.

For over 20 years, I have illustrated the absurd with absurdity, three hours a day, five days a week. In this instance, I chose the wrong words in my analogy of the situation. I did not mean a personal attack on Ms. Fluke.

I think it is absolutely absurd that during these very serious political times, we are discussing personal sexual recreational activities before members of Congress. I personally do not agree that American citizens should pay for these social activities. What happened to personal responsibility and accountability? Where do we draw the line? If this is accepted as the norm, what will follow? Will we be debating if taxpayers should pay for new sneakers for all students that are interested in running to keep fit?In my monologue, I posited that it is not our business whatsoever to know what is going on in anyone’s bedroom nor do I think it is a topic that should reach a Presidential level.

My choice of words was not the best, and in the attempt to be humorous, I created a national stir. I sincerely apologize to Ms. Fluke for the insulting word choices.

Limbaugh’s Big Mistake – Inadvertently Reveals He Is Clueless about How Birth Control Works

Jon Ponder

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It is not surprising that Rush Limbaugh’s hateful screeds against contraception have rested on a foundation of lies. Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke most certainly did not go “before a congressional committee and essentially [say] that she must be paid to have sex.” And, as he well knows, it is employers and employees, including the women themselves — not taxpayers — who pay for the insurance that covers contraceptives. If taxpayers paid for medical care, that would be a single-payer systems, which would be, you know, socialism.

Lying is just par for the course for Limbaugh, but what is shockingly hilarious is that in his rush to label women whose birth-control pills are covered by insurance as whores, Limbaugh revealed that he is woefully ignorant about how the pill works:

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What To Do About Rush Limbaugh

Trish

Want to rid the public airways of Rush Limbaugh? Go to the top.

File a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission.

Next, contact his employer, who profits from Limbaugh’s perverted rants:

Mark Mays
CEO Clear Channel Communications
200 East Basse Rd
San Antonio, TX 78209
Phone: (210) 822-2828
publicrelations@clearchannel.com

And finally, keep contacting the advertisers who support the Rush Limbaugh Show. I am not listing them here because, as of press time, many have discontinued their sponsorship (Quicken Loans, Sleep Train Mattress Centers, Heart & Body Extract, Oreck Upright Vacuum Cleaners, Sleep Number Beds, AutoZone, Citrix Online — aka GoToMeeting.com, GoToMyPC.com) and more are bailing by the minute.

But you might want to express to the Mitt Romney campaign how weak and mealy-mouthed their candidate sounded today, when all he could find to disagree about with Limbaugh was not what Rush said but how he said it.

“I’ll just say this, which is, it’s not the language I would have used. I’m focusing on the issues I think are significant in the country today, and that’s why I’m here talking about jobs and Ohio.”

On Twitter: @MittRomney
Or: info@mittromney.com

Montana Judge Who Sent Email Implying Pres. Obama’s Mother Had Sex With Dogs Says He Isn’t Racist

Trish
MontanaJudge
Judge Cebull

To those who say that all racism is in the South (and that all those in the South are racist), I give you Chief U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull from the state of Montana.

His honor, appointed to the bench by Pres. George W. Bush, thought this email was appropriate to circulate among six “old buddies:”

The forwarded text reads:

“Normally I don’t send or forward a lot of these, but even by my standards, it was a bit touching. I want all of my friends to feel what I felt when I read this. Hope it touches your heart like it did mine.

“A little boy said to his mother; ‘Mommy, how come I’m black and you’re white?’” the e-mail joke reads. “His mother replied, ‘Don’t even go there Barack! From what I can remember about that party, you’re lucky you don’t bark!’”

The judge, upon being ratted out by one of those buds, quickly apologized, saying it’s not that he’s racist, it’s just that he hates Pres. Obama.

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Republicans’ New Front in Their War on Women – Women Whose Insurance Covers Contraception Are Prostitutes

Jon Ponder

At the same time that Republican governors and state lawmakers are pushing controversial legislation that would mandate state-enforced ultrasounds tests for women seeking abortions, Rush Limbaugh, the top Republican Party boss and message-meister, opened a new front in the GOP’s war on women by labeling anyone who uses contraceptives that are covered by health insurance as prostitutes.

“If we [men] are going to pay for your contraceptives, and thus pay for you to have sex. We want something for it. We want you post the videos online so we can all watch.”
– Republican boss Rush Limbaugh

As of Thursday night, none of the 2012 Republican presidential candidates and no elected party officials had dared to object to Limbaugh’s new assault on women, despite the fact that further alienating women voters, who make up more than half of the electorate, will likely produce disastrous results for them in this year’s election.

Limbaugh launched his new anti-women campaign on his top-rated radio show this week, by effectively encouraging his followers, who are predominantly elderly, white male Republicans whom he derides as mindless “Dittoheads,” to ramp up their smearing and objectifying of women:

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