Words.
"...Sandra Fluke is the kind of woman that people like Limbaugh know nothing about. She's simply not on his radar screen. In the sad slice of America he represents, an America driven by fear of diversity, impatience with facts and an unwillingness to see things in anything but the starkest black-and-white terms, women come in two categories: dirty sluts and pushy feminazis.
...what the slut/feminazi diametric does point to is an increasing tone-deafness to nuance. It's the reason you've heard sound bites from Fluke's testimony rather than all of what she actually said. It's the reason some people have such difficulty seeing how contraception could transcend the vagaries of one's own private life. It's the reason Fluke, initially misidentified as a "23-year-old coed" and subsequently pilloried as a "fraud" for being an adult with a resume, gets labeled a radical instead of recognized for what she really is: a measured voice that represents the vast majority of Americans.
It also may be why Limbaugh can't shake his paranoid hallucinations of trampy, castrating women. He doesn't have a clue what a real one is."
LOS ANGELES TIMES: Rush Limbaugh's blind spot
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THE NEW YORK TIMES: The Abortion Excuse
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