The Liberal Twist
Liberals always twist and distort the story to serve their socialistic purposes. They usually do this in an election year for two purposes: to attract a class of voters and to distract the majority of voters from Obama’s failed policies.
If the media concentrates on somewhat trivial issues like the Komen Foundation versus Planned Parenthood and the Sandra Fluke versus Rush Limbaugh story, the Democrats will attract the sympathetic women voters. Secondly, by covering these stories, the media and democrats in collusion will distract the voters from real important issues facing this country; the economy, jobs, defense, gas prices etc.
Both conflicts offer illustrations how the team of the liberal media and the Democrat party use a cause to stir up trouble to receive sympathetic voters. They report a story that suggests a hint of controversary, bait a response, which conservatives obliged in both cases and then twist the story to support their causes.
In the Komen versus Planned Parenthood debate, many dissenters were upset to learn Komen was donating some of the charitable contributions they received and re-donated them to Planned Parenthood. The dissent is not because conservatives are against breast cancer research, it was because donors learned that some of their contributions were being “re-donated” to another organization that made them upset, regardless of the organization. The conservative dissenters were not against breast cancer research like the media projected, they were against charitable donations being re-donated to another cause!
Many charities use a high percentage of donated dollar retention rates to attract more contributions. An organization will state 95% of the contribution will be applied to the cause, and the remaining 5% will be for administration costs is an attempt to attract more donations, which is acceptable. Donors like to see the majority of their capital being used specifically for the purpose; and in this case, for breast cancer.
Donors do not like to be told that, and then learn that some of their contributions were re-donated like with Komen. Had the donors known their contributions were going to be re-donated, they might not have donated to the original organization in the first place. This deceitful hidden action only infuriated the Konen Foundation donors more and realizing the recipient only added insult. If people donate to the NAACP and later learn that some of their contribution were “re-donated” to the Ku Klux Klan, how would that make all the NAACP donors feel?
As everyone witnessed, Planned Parenthood has no trouble raising money, so why does it need contributions from Komen? If Planned Parenthood is that viable an organization, they should not have trouble raising money, and certainly should not have done it surreptitiously through Komen.
Instead, the media and the democrats blasted conservatives stating we were against women’s rights, against breast cancer research etc. They labeled us insensitive and uncaring. No, we just don’t like to have our donations applied to another organization we don’t support. If we support it, we would donate to it. We just don’t like the wool pulled over our eyes.
As for Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown Law School student who reportedly has had so much sex, she needs her Health Care to pay for her contraceptives, is the second attempt the Democrats are using to force Government run Health Care.
As for Rush’s comments, he described her accurately. Before you scream at me, there are words to describe people who are as promiscuous as she, and she fits the bill and should understand the reason behind the description. I mean, don’t mothers tell their college bound daughters not to be one. Isn’t the moniker Rush used similar to the description college men label women who are somewhat loose with their morals?
I ask, why would Ms. Fluke bring her story public if not for ulterior motives? How do you think her parents feel? If she can afford Georgetown Law, she should be able to afford contraceptives. I can support her argument to regulate her cycle, but would like a doctor’s prescription for that.
So what do the media and democrats do? They blast Rush Limbaugh for correctly describing her, creating sympathy with the women voters to push their health care agenda to force institutions and organizations to provide contraceptive coverage which are against their religious tenets. Is it any coincidence this started in downtown Washington Dc at a Catholic University?! Why didn’t the subject arise at a ststae university in Kanasa? Wouldn’t have the same impact. This is also an attempt for the Democrats to gather support for Obamacare when the case for its legality comes before the Supreme Court.
If this motive is non-existent, where were the outcries when Ed Schultz called Laura Ingraham the same name? What about when Bill Maher used a more derogative term to call Sarah Palin? Oh, right, no agenda to push, other than to ridicule a republican.
The government should not be allowed to tell a religious organization what insurance to provide or not provide. It is unconstitutional. If a religious institution doe not want to provide contraceptive coverage, so be it. If you work for that organization, buy it yourself, it is a life choice.
So, people out there, just remember conservatives are for breast cancer research, we accept contraceptives, we just don’t like it when the liberal media democrat machine distorts the facts behind the story and twists our arguments to serve their purposes!
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March 9th, 2012 at 3:03 am
“Before you scream at me, there are words to describe people who are as promiscuous as she…”
I’m curious – where did you get your information on Fluke’s sex life? She didn’t say anything about it during her congressional testimony.
March 9th, 2012 at 3:03 am
You, sir are an uneducated idiot! Go back to school.
March 9th, 2012 at 3:05 am
what are you talking about? Birth control pills ARE issued by a doctor’s prescription to regulate women’s cycles, and to regulate hormones to control a whole host of other medical conditions. Birth control pills are the primary course of treatment for most common health issues, and a prescription is required to get them.
And a woman takes one pill per day, whether she has sex or not. So you can’t determine that she’s having a lot of sex, or even any sex at all, by how much she spends on birth control.
Taking birth control is the responsible thing for a sexually active woman to do if she can’t afford or otherwise isn’t ready to have children. We’re talking about married women as well as single women.
Sending the message to college women that if they go on birth control they are ‘sluts’ — regardless of whether they’re in a longterm, monogamous committed relationship or not — will only decrease the number of women who take birth control. And increase the number of abortions. Which I presume you are against?
March 9th, 2012 at 3:11 am
You apparently didn’t listen to a thing she said. When you don’t listen to what was said and assume you know what was said, you make an idiot out of yourself.
March 9th, 2012 at 3:13 am
You are a troubled man.
March 9th, 2012 at 3:19 am
This is really deplorable that you repeat the same lie that Limbaugh put out– Did you read Sandra Fluke’s statement? She testified that some women need birth conTrol pills for medical conditions and not just contraception and talked about a friend at Georgetown who lost an ovary because she couldn’t afford the pills. Fluke NEVER said she needed the pill for herself for birth control purposes. Either you didn’t bother to read her statement or you have an agenda to harass and insult women who dare to speak up with a different point of view than yours. Either way, shame on you.
March 9th, 2012 at 3:19 am
OK! You have to stop with the attacks on women that choose to use birth control! I don’t care how much sex anyone is having. I do want to point out the obvious. There are other uses for contraception, besides birth control. Plenty of women and girls use the hormones to manage very heavy periods that can lead to anemia, ovarian cysts, PCOS, horrible cramps, PMS, etc. Some of us are married and already have a few kids and use it for responsible family planning. When a man suggests that a woman has loose morals, just because she wants her birth control covered by her insurance, he just makes himself look like a huge idiot.
I prefer that women use birth control instead of adding to the number of unwanted pregnancies, abortions and welfare. You see, birth control is a GOOD thing.
March 9th, 2012 at 3:28 am
Are you HIGH? BC does not equal sex. You can be on BC for medical conditions. I was for 8 years before I became sexually active. So much for me being a “promiscuous.”
Nice job with the slut shaming, BTW. Your mom must be so proud.
March 9th, 2012 at 4:00 am
Since your article makes it painfully obvious that you did not bother to listen to Sandra Fluke’s testimony, or read a transcript before you “reviewed” it, I’ll copy it here for you. She talked about women’s health care, not at all about her own sex life. Aren’t you embarrased at your own lack of basic research? Or is this an example of a conservative who “distorts the facts behind the story and twists our arguments to serve their purposes!”
““Leader [Nancy] Pelosi, members of Congress, good morning. And thank you for calling this hearing on women’s health and for allowing me to testify on behalf of the women who will benefit from the Affordable Care Act contraceptive coverage regulation.
“My name is Sandra Fluke, and I’m a third-year student at Georgetown Law School. I’m also a past-president of Georgetown Law Students for Reproductive Justice or LSRJ. And I’d like to acknowledge my fellow LSRJ members and allies and all of the student activists with us and thank them so much for being here today.
(Applause)
“We, as Georgetown LSRJ, are here today because we’re so grateful that this regulation implements the non-partisan medical advice of the Institute of Medicine.
“I attend a Jesuit law school that does not provide contraceptive coverage in its student health plan. And just as we students have faced financial, emotional, and medical burdens as a result, employees at religiously-affiliated hospitals and institutions and universities across the country have suffered similar burdens.
“We are all grateful for the new regulation that will meet the critical health care needs of so many women.
“Simultaneously, the recently announced adjustment addresses any potential conflict with the religious identity of Catholic or Jesuit institutions.
“When I look around my campus, I see the faces of the women affected by this lack of contraceptive coverage.
“And especially in the last week, I have heard more and more of their stories. On a daily basis, I hear yet from another woman from Georgetown or from another school or who works for a religiously-affiliated employer, and they tell me that they have suffered financially and emotionally and medically because of this lack of coverage.
“And so, I’m here today to share their voices, and I want to thank you for allowing them – not me – to be heard.
“Without insurance coverage, contraception, as you know, can cost a woman over $3,000 during law school. For a lot of students who, like me, are on public interest scholarships, that’s practically an entire summer’s salary. 40% of the female students at Georgetown Law reported to us that they struggle financially as a result of this policy.
“One told us about how embarrassed and just powerless she felt when she was standing at the pharmacy counter and learned for the first time that contraception was not covered on her insurance and she had to turn and walk away because she couldn’t afford that prescription. Women like her have no choice but to go without contraception.
“Just last week, a married female student told me that she had to stop using contraception because she and her husband just couldn’t fit it into their budget anymore. Women employed in low-wage jobs without contraceptive coverage face the same choice.
“And some might respond that contraception is accessible in lots of other ways. Unfortunately, that’s just not true.
“Women’s health clinic provide a vital medical service, but as the Guttmacher Institute has definitely documented, these clinics are unable to meet the crushing demand for these services. Clinics are closing, and women are being forced to go without the medical care they need.
“How can Congress consider the [Rep. Jeff] Fortenberry (R-Neb.), [Sen. Marco] Rubio (R-Fla.) and [Sen. Roy] Blunt (R-Mo.) legislation to allow even more employers and institutions to refuse contraception coverage and then respond that the non-profit clinics should step up to take care of the resulting medical crisis, particularly when so many legislators are attempting to de-fund those very same clinics?
“These denial of contraceptive coverage impact real people.
“In the worst cases, women who need these medications for other medical conditions suffer very dire consequences.
“A friend of mine, for example, has polycystic ovarian syndrome, and she has to take prescription birth control to stop cysts from growing on her ovaries. Her prescription is technically covered by Georgetown’s insurance because it’s not intended to prevent pregnancy.
“Unfortunately, under many religious institutions and insurance plans, it wouldn’t be. There would be no exception for other medical needs. And under Sen. Blunt’s amendment, Sen. Rubio’s bill or Rep. Fortenberry’s bill there’s no requirement that such an exception be made for these medical needs.
“When this exception does exist, these exceptions don’t accomplish their well-intended goals because when you let university administrators or other employers rather than women and their doctors dictate whose medical needs are legitimate and whose are not, women’s health takes a back seat to a bureaucracy focused on policing her body.
“In 65% of the cases at our school, our female students were interrogated by insurance representatives and university medical staff about why they needed prescription and whether they were lying about their symptoms.
“For my friend and 20% of the women in her situation, she never got the insurance company to cover her prescription. Despite verifications of her illness from her doctor, her claim was denied repeatedly on the assumption that she really wanted birth control to prevent pregnancy. She’s gay. So clearly polycystic ovarian syndrome was a much more urgent concern than accidental pregnancy for her.
“After months paying over $100 out-of-pocket, she just couldn’t afford her medication anymore, and she had to stop taking it.
“I learned about all of this when I walked out of a test and got a message from her that in the middle of the night in her final exam period she’d been in the emergency room. She’d been there all night in just terrible, excruciating pain. She wrote to me, ‘It was so painful I’d woke up thinking I’ve been shot.’
“Without her taking the birth control, a massive cyst the size of a tennis ball had grown on her ovary. She had to have surgery to remove her entire ovary as a result.
“On the morning I was originally scheduled to give this testimony, she was sitting in a doctor’s office, trying to cope with the consequences of this medical catastrophe.
“Since last year’s surgery, she’s been experiencing night sweats and weight gain and other symptoms of early menopause as a result of the removal of her ovary. She’s 32-years-old.
“As she put it, ‘If my body indeed does enter early menopause, no fertility specialist in the world will be able to help me have my own children. I will have no choice at giving my mother her desperately desired grandbabies simply because the insurance policy that I paid for, totally unsubsidized by my school, wouldn’t cover my prescription for birth control when I needed it.’
“Now, in addition to potentially facing the health complications that come with having menopause at such an early age – increased risk of cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis – she may never be able to conceive a child.
“Some may say that my friend’s tragic story is rare. It’s not. I wish it were
“One woman told us doctors believe she has endometriosis, but that can’t be proven without surgery. So the insurance has not been willing to cover her medication – the contraception she needs to treat her endometriosis.
“Recently, another woman told me that she also has polycystic ovarian syndrome and she’s struggling to pay for her medication and is terrified to not have access to it.
“Due to the barriers erected by Georgetown’s policy, she hasn’t been reimbursed for her medications since last August.
“I sincerely pray that we don’t have to wait until she loses an ovary or is diagnosed with cancer before her needs and the needs of all of these women are taken seriously.
“Because this is the message that not requiring coverage of contraception sends: A woman’s reproductive health care isn’t a necessity, isn’t a priority.
“One woman told us that she knew birth control wasn’t covered on the insurance and she assumed that that’s how Georgetown’s insurance handle all of women’s reproductive and sexual health care. So when she was raped, she didn’t go to the doctor, even to be examined or tested for sexually transmitted infections, because she thought insurance wasn’t going to cover something like that – something that was related to a woman’s reproductive health.
“As one other student put it: ‘This policy communicates to female students that our school doesn’t understand our needs.’
“These are not feelings that male fellow student experience and they’re not burdens that male students must shoulder.
“In the media lately, some conservative Catholic organizations have been asking what did we expect when we enroll in a Catholic school?
“We can only answer that we expected women to be treated equally, to not have our school create untenable burdens that impede our academic success.
“We expected that our schools would live up to the Jesuit creed of ‘cura personalis‘ – to care for the whole person – by meeting all of our medical needs.
“We expected that when we told our universities of the problem this policy created for us as students, they would help us.
“We expected that when 94% of students oppose the policy the university would respect our choices regarding insurance students pay for – completely unsubsidized by the university.
“We did not expect that women would be told in the national media that we should have gone to school elsewhere.
“And even if that meant going to a less prestigious university, we refuse to pick between a quality education and our health. And we resent that in the 21st century, anyone think it’s acceptable to ask us to make this choice simply because we are women.
“Many of the women whose stories I’ve shared today are Catholic women. So ours is not a war against the church. It is a struggle for the access to the health care we need.
“The President of the Association of Jesuit Colleges has shared that Jesuit colleges and the universities appreciate the modifications to the rule announced recently. Religious concerns are addressed and women get the health care they need. And I sincerely hope that that is something we can all agree upon.
“Thank you very much.”
March 9th, 2012 at 4:26 am
You sir, are an ass!
March 9th, 2012 at 4:44 am
We must work hard to get all traitors like you to back up your radical propagana with some real facts. You do not have a clue what this nation is all about and what makes it so great.
March 9th, 2012 at 4:46 am
“As for Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown Law School student who reportedly has had so much sex, she needs her Health Care to pay for her contraceptives, is the second attempt the Democrats are using to force Government run Health Care.”
Reportedly huh. Link please to that report or what you are doing is called slander.
Oh and I absolutely LOVE your leap of logic. How do private insurance firms now become “gov run healthcare”. Way to use your fundi twist of logic.
You Republicans must have “if you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.” Bronzed and mounted over your mantel. You people are nothing but hatemonger. Period. End of story. Speaking of stories, your’s is a joke. The amount of BS spewed forth by you is insane.
Oh and as for the research comment. Please. You aren’t interested in research. Remember it was W who set stem cell research back a decade. You aren’t interested in helping anyone other then “your own”. Another motto I’m certain you are quite familiar with: “If you aren’t with us, you are against us.” Fine. You want another crusade? Bring it. A lot of us are sick of your bigoted, misogynistic, borderline out and out racist BS in your party. Especially those of us who use to remember a time when the concept of a moderate Republican actually meant something other then a joke.
If we wanted something like you hard core right wing nutjobs we could import the Taliban. I’m pretty sure that they are about as tolerant as you, and have about as much respect for women as well.
March 9th, 2012 at 4:51 am
Did the writer of this article even listen to what Ms. Fluke said? Obviously not since she said nothing of the kind about using birth control for her sex. She made the case that birth control was a medical necessity for people with female problems. All the writer proves to me is he’s an irresponsible and ignorant fool. Oh, by the way, the media is covering this topic because that’s what’s on the front burner. I wish our elected officials would get out of our viginas and actually focus on problems in this country….but they’re not and as long as they’re not, the media is going to report on this subject. And people will listen to Limbaugh and continue to write stories like this one….uninformed.
March 9th, 2012 at 5:11 am
“the media and democrats in collusion will distract the voters from real important issues facing this country; the economy, jobs, defense, gas prices etc.”…..No sir, the Republicans who have waged this fight against women’s healthcare and women’s rights are the ones who have distracted away from the real issues!
You and your kind all spin it the exact same way and repeat the same old, tired stuff. We women don’t like having the wool pulled over our eyes either, which is exactly what legislators and this anti-abortion group, Americans United for Life have tried to do, hoping they could push their bills through without anyone knowing (and yes Republicans are the ones pushing these ridiculous, invasive bils against women’s choice to make their own decisions on their own bodies)!
Well, we know all about it now and women are rising up together across the country and the world to stop this war on women’s rights. Enough is enough! Keep your “small government” out of our women business, thank you!
March 9th, 2012 at 7:58 am
I have a hollow-point; you have a skull. I think they should meet. Soon, I think.
March 9th, 2012 at 1:59 pm
So, you never read Fluke’s actual testimony, eh? You should be more responsible that this. It’s patently false. 1) Repubs started this women’s rights assault. The Dems are just using their stupidity against them. 2) Sandra Fluke never said a damn thing about her sex life. It was about PCOS that her friend had that required hormonal BC and because she couldn’t afford it, her fertility was compromised by the loss of an ovary. Interesting that testimony is being twisted here the exact way you claim liberals twist the truth. She was requesting her GL student policy she purchased cover contraception just like the GL professor’s offered plans. That’s it. No one talked about sex or having people pay for it. Maybe you should read instead of just listen to Rush. You ARE what’s wrong with this country.
March 9th, 2012 at 8:12 pm
“As for Rush’s comments, he described her accurately. Before you scream at me, there are words to describe people who are as promiscuous as she, and she fits the bill and should understand the reason behind the description.”
It’s no wonder that your essay shows such a distorted sense of reality. You can say whatever you like about those on the left side of the fence, but when a liberal voter is presented with a story, their first move is to verify it. They find a news source, preferably an impartial one, or one that leans to the opposite viewpoint from the original, and double check those facts before they repeat them. Stop in to any liberal group on a social media site, like Facebook. You will see that most news stories the people share with each other are verified before posting, and those that are not are scrutinized heavily in the comments below them. These groups are respectful of the truth.
But here it is, two weeks after Fluke’s testimony, over a week since Rush’s comments, and yet you still parrot them with regard for their utter falsehood. Why can’t you be bothered to look something up for yourself? One minute to google, 5 minutes to read her testimony, and you would see that she never mentioned a thing about her sex life. There has been no suggestion that she has even one partner, let alone enough to make her “promiscuous”; her testimony that day was about her fellow students, mostly about medical issues. The only reference that can be taken as referring to recreational sex is a one-line mention of a married student who had to discontinue contraception because of the cost. She does not even mention in the testimony whether she herself has ever used the pill. A bit more research and you would also understand the basics of hormonal birth control and you would know that how much sex a person is having has no bearing on the number of pills she needs to take.
“Is it any coincidence this started in downtown Washington Dc at a Catholic University?! Why didn’t the subject arise at a ststae university in Kanasa?”
You betray even more ignorance with this line. Is it any coincidence that when the democrats were offered a chance to include one single witness to testify at Issa’s hearing, they chose a woman from a local university? Did you really think they should have flown to Kansas and plucked a random person from the dorm?
You can write whatever you wish in your blog posts, and express whatever opinions you like. But if you wish to be taken seriously, it may be time to start doing your homework before you join in the spread of misinformation that is currently so rampant amongst conservatives.
The liberals need worthy opponents, not ones who are easily fooled.