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http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/02/10561783-boehner-calls-limbaugh-remarks-inappropriateHouse Speaker John Boehner distanced himself on Friday from Rush Limbaugh, calling the conservative radio host's words toward a women's rights advocate "inappropriate."
Amid a growing media firestorm over comments Wednesday by Limbaugh toward Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown Law student who testified before a Democratic panel on the use of contraception, Washington's top Republicans said through a spokesman that Limbaugh was wrong.
"The speaker obviously believes the use of those words was inappropriate, as is trying to raise money off the situation," Boehner spokesman Michael Steel said in a statement.
The comment refers to Democratic fundraising efforts related to Limbaugh's comments, in which he called Fluke a "slut." Fluke had been asked to testify about the policy of Georgetown University, a Catholic college, toward covering contraception for students. Her testimony came amid a controversy in Washington in recent weeks regarding the extent to which religious institutions should be required to cover contraceptive services as part of their insurance policies, despite moral objectives to contraception.
randome
(34,845 posts)WE...ARE...WINNING!
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,505 posts)back?
Enrique
(27,461 posts)for a clarification from Boehner
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)out on the carpet?
Like a Cub Scout uniform or something?
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,505 posts)Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)"MMMmmmmmMmphhh!"
Enrique
(27,461 posts)Rush will attack Boehner today, and Boehner will apologize to Rush this evening.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,505 posts)Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)See below.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,505 posts)American Dream.
Siwsan
(26,295 posts)I really, REALLY want to hear someone hold their ground against that fetid lump of cells.
I can't imagine what their reaction would be if anyone to the left of them said anything even remotely as offensive.
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)for calling out the true leader of the Republican Party next week.
mick063
(2,424 posts)The Democratic Party, the Corporate Party, and the FOX News/Rush Limbaugh Party.
Boehner isn't quite sure of which one to respond to. Every talking point must be excruciatingly calculated.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)Limbaugh will be fulminating over that one.
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)Or is he too drunk today?
Swede
(33,288 posts)maxrandb
(15,360 posts)calling your wife or daughter a "loose woman" might be "inappropriate". Calling them a "slut and a prostitute" is deplorable and despicable.
ladywnch
(2,672 posts)make such comments. He gets 'credit' for 'denouncing' Rush without having to dirty himself of incur Rush's rath.
typical.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)wandy
(3,539 posts)Wait till the leader of the republican party, the bull elephant in chief, the man with the oxycontin balls, gets done with him.
That will make the bugger's eyes water.