Chelsea Clinton On Sandra Fluke: “We Both Have Been Attacked By Rush Limbaugh”

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Chelsea Clinton, moderating a panel on women in politics at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan on Wednesday, told the audience that she has something in common with Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke: their experience being the subjects of Rush Limbaugh attacks.

Introducing Fluke, who entered the room to loud applause, Clinton said, "She and I have something in common: we both have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh. She was 30, I was 13."

Clinton was referring to the 1993 incident in which Limbaugh said she looked like a dog on his television show ("Socks is the White House cat. But did you know there is also a White House dog?"he said, holding up a picture of a teenage Clinton).

Limbaugh provoked outrage for that comment, as he did when he called Fluke a "slut" and a "prostitute" recently; he issued rare apologies for both comments.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/chelsea-clinton-on-sandra-fluke-we-have-both-bee

[Dawson Leery]

1. If this statement is to be accurate:

"Both Chelsea Clinton and Sandra Fluke have been assaulted by the spiritual leader of the Republican party and modern right wing."

[Cirque du So-What]

2. Thanks for the reminder

of what a reprehensible prick Limbaugh is. I wish he had been sent packing after that incident, sparing us from this anal cyst on the body politic a whole generation earlier.

[hlthe2b]

3. Yes. you certainly have. sadly. But Chelsea is getting the last laugh (and too, hopefully....

will Sandra Fluke)

[JHB]

4. He didn't apologize

He apologized for using two words out of his three-day rant. And he still goes on about it.
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201203270013

Just because he counts that as an apology does not make it one.

[Redford]

5. It is well established he is a big bully.

Picking on a 13 year old kid is beyond the pale. Didn't John McCain mock her as well? Jerks.

[Festivito]

6. That was so awful. It hurts me just to remember it. /nt

[polly7]

7. I never heard it, but read about it, and you just knew something like this

would remain with her forever. For a 13 y/o, that must have been devastating.

[Festivito]

8. She's amazing, as though that song saying so over and over was written with a bit of her in mind.

What fortitude and grace she has. She's a beauty in my book.