Sandra Fluke to introduce Obama in Denver

[kpete]

Source: The Denver Post

Sandra Fluke to introduce Obama in Denver
By SARA BURNETT The Denver Post

The Denver Post

Sandra Fluke will introduce President Obama at his Wednesday campaign stop in Denver.

In case you needed further proof of the importance of the women’s vote in Colorado this election – and that the Obama campaign is following the 2010 roadmap of U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet – word comes that Sandra Fluke will introduce President Obama at his Denver campaign stop.

Fluke is the Georgetown Law Student who testified before Congress earlier this year in favor of insurance coverage of contraception, and gained national attention when conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh called her a “slut” and a “prostitute.” (Limbaugh later apologized).

Obama is scheduled to speak at the Auraria Campus in downtown Denver Wednesday morning. While his talk – and other stops in Grand Junction, Pueblo and Colorado Springs – will be focused on his plans for the economy, the Fluke appearance brings to the forefront another area in which the Obama campaign is trying to differentiate its candidate from Mitt Romney.

Read more: http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/2012/08/06/sandra-fluke-introduce-obama-denver/77882/

[SoapBox]

1. Cool

I like it.

[msanthrope]

2. Hoping this might be event that causes Rushbo to finally stroke out.....nt

[JoePhilly]

5. Just so long as he lives, and can watch Obama's 2nd inauguration.

[heaven05]

3. good

good for her and the Prez

[freshwest]

4. This will define the difference in the campaigns. Love the BFI? Vote for Romney.

[Missycim]

10. Whats BFI

Mean?

[freshwest]

11. BFI stands for Big Fat Idiot, that is to say, Rush Limbaugh, as named in a book by Al Franken:

Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations:



Franken also wrote this on Fox News:

Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right:



Bill O'Reilly lost his cool on CSPAN because of the book. When Fox tried to sue Franken in court, it was thrown out:

Fox v. Franken

For its part, Fox News Channel was ridiculed by commentators and bloggers on both sides of the political divide, many of whom suggested that the network had filed the suit to placate Bill O'Reilly in the wake of his run-in with Franken at the BookExpo panel.

Drawing on Judge Chin's concluding remarks, Franken suggested that Fox News adopt "wholly without merit" as its new slogan to replace the possibly invalid "fair and balanced"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_v._Franken#Judge.27s_decision

[barbtries]

6. i think the nature of limbaugh's "apology"

deserves to be remembered. "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."

attempt to be humorous my ass. apology my ass.

[freshwest]

13. Indeed. They didn't acknowledge how he doubled down and insulted 'over-educated single white women.'

Nor did it mention his ludricious assertion that Fluke was costing the tax payers money every time she had sex, having to take another birth control pill. No doubt he based that foul piece of misinformation on his own Viagra usage.

And his demands Fluke put video online for him of her having sex for him and others to view as free porn. What a champion of virtue the BFI is.

But they probably didn't want to lose subscribers in Colorado who still believe in Dittohead and Libertarian (Koch) lies.

[Auntie Bush]

7. Great choice! I really, really like and admire Ms Fluke.

I'd really like to see her get into politics...she'd have a bright future there.

[Beartracks]

8. Limbaugh apologized?

Was it just the fauxpology that I remember him making (e.g. "I'm sorry I called that slut a slut&quot ? Or did he actually do an honest-to-goodness apology at some point?

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[Jack Rabbit]

12. He never did an "honest-to-goodness" apology

IIRC, he called her a slut on Friday, apologized on Monday, then spent the rest of Monday tearing into her some more and kept it up Tuesday and Wednesday. By that time he was losing advertisers at a faster rate than the US economy under Bush lost jobs.

[lunatica]

9. Little did he know he would make her famous and popular!

I'm delighted the Obama campaign understands the importance of women's rights. And it serves the double purpose of kicking Rush in his alleged nuts.