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	<title>Comments on: Conservative media&#039;s response to Sandra Fluke&#160;testimony</title>
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		<title>By: IronEdithKidd</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/03/08/conservative-medias-response.html#comment-1365902</link>
		<dc:creator>IronEdithKidd</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wait, wait, wait... Are you saying that Malkin is somehow seeking *equality* with male blowhards?  

What a fucking hypocrite that nasty woman is, but we already knew that.  This is just a different flavor in the overall hypocritical stew.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wait, wait, wait&#8230; Are you saying that Malkin is somehow seeking *equality* with male blowhards?  </p>
<p>What a fucking hypocrite that nasty woman is, but we already knew that.  This is just a different flavor in the overall hypocritical stew.</p>
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		<title>By: Funk Daddy</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/03/08/conservative-medias-response.html#comment-1365767</link>
		<dc:creator>Funk Daddy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>He did so regularly and usually referred to a group or group action, but he rarely targeted individuals, and never has gone on for episode after episode mischaracterizing a relative nobody, going on and on about her sexual preference and practice in vile language, claiming that these were things she said before a congressional hearing.

Previously he was content to defame persons in a general sort of way, this last example is blatant crime against an innocent woman doing her civic duty in the accepted fashion.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He did so regularly and usually referred to a group or group action, but he rarely targeted individuals, and never has gone on for episode after episode mischaracterizing a relative nobody, going on and on about her sexual preference and practice in vile language, claiming that these were things she said before a congressional hearing.</p>
<p>Previously he was content to defame persons in a general sort of way, this last example is blatant crime against an innocent woman doing her civic duty in the accepted fashion.</p>
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		<title>By: Funk Daddy</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/03/08/conservative-medias-response.html#comment-1365757</link>
		<dc:creator>Funk Daddy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>They cross the line in order to discern it, and push it back further. 

Making such statements and such extreme views a large part of the public discussion gives the illusion that a majority actually prefer their viewpoint. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They cross the line in order to discern it, and push it back further. </p>
<p>Making such statements and such extreme views a large part of the public discussion gives the illusion that a majority actually prefer their viewpoint. </p>
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		<title>By: Paul Renault</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/03/08/conservative-medias-response.html#comment-1365693</link>
		<dc:creator>Paul Renault</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description> &quot;by the very definition of IQ &quot;

Nope.  It&#039;s &#039;by the very definition of median&#039;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> &#8221;by the very definition of IQ &#8221;</p>
<p>Nope.  It&#8217;s &#8216;by the very definition of median&#8217;.</p>
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		<title>By: bardfinn</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/03/08/conservative-medias-response.html#comment-1365554</link>
		<dc:creator>bardfinn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 05:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Let me just re-iterate &lt;a href=&quot;http://boingboing.net/2008/09/29/taibbi-scariest-thin.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A comment I made three-and-a-half years ago&lt;/a&gt;:
Republicans are racist, sexist, religiously bigoted, Willing to hijack the government to abrogate others&#039; First Amendment rights while claiming to protect them, homophobes. And this is merely their social policies. We&#039;re all feeling the results of their fiscal policies.

This needs to be the time that their &quot;place&quot; in modern society is relegated to the same &quot;place&quot; we reserve for KKK adherents, neo-Nazis, and sociopaths. They, those that pay them, and those that support them need to be told, in none-uncertain ways, that they are actively doing evil, and we aren&#039;t buying it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let me just re-iterate <a href="http://boingboing.net/2008/09/29/taibbi-scariest-thin.html" rel="nofollow">A comment I made three-and-a-half years ago</a>:<br />
Republicans are racist, sexist, religiously bigoted, Willing to hijack the government to abrogate others&#8217; First Amendment rights while claiming to protect them, homophobes. And this is merely their social policies. We&#8217;re all feeling the results of their fiscal policies.</p>
<p>This needs to be the time that their &#8220;place&#8221; in modern society is relegated to the same &#8220;place&#8221; we reserve for KKK adherents, neo-Nazis, and sociopaths. They, those that pay them, and those that support them need to be told, in none-uncertain ways, that they are actively doing evil, and we aren&#8217;t buying it.</p>
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		<title>By: bardfinn</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/03/08/conservative-medias-response.html#comment-1365524</link>
		<dc:creator>bardfinn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 04:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A sky full of innernets. You win. Take them. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A sky full of innernets. You win. Take them. </p>
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		<title>By: bardfinn</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/03/08/conservative-medias-response.html#comment-1365521</link>
		<dc:creator>bardfinn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 04:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It would likely be considered battery if it were in the venue of the State of Texas. But, IANAL IANYL ATINLA.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It would likely be considered battery if it were in the venue of the State of Texas. But, IANAL IANYL ATINLA.</p>
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		<title>By: hakuin</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/03/08/conservative-medias-response.html#comment-1365514</link>
		<dc:creator>hakuin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 04:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>heh heh heh!   http://mediamatters.org/iphone/blog/201203080008</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>heh heh heh!   <a href="http://mediamatters.org/iphone/blog/201203080008" rel="nofollow">http://mediamatters.org/iphone/blog/201203080008</a></p>
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		<title>By: teapot</title>
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		<dc:creator>teapot</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 04:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah... I live in Australia (where healthcare is covered) and I laugh as this ridiculous debate rages. It belies logic why any party would go out on a platform of not providing healthcare. It&#039;s like looking into a portal into Dickensian England or something. History will frown on the Republicans of today like we from on the Southern slave owners of yesteryear.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah&#8230; I live in Australia (where healthcare is covered) and I laugh as this ridiculous debate rages. It belies logic why any party would go out on a platform of not providing healthcare. It&#8217;s like looking into a portal into Dickensian England or something. History will frown on the Republicans of today like we from on the Southern slave owners of yesteryear.</p>
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		<title>By: teapot</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/03/08/conservative-medias-response.html#comment-1365480</link>
		<dc:creator>teapot</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 03:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>No it&#039;s bad to be a public homophobe, milking votes from the bigoted constituents while actually being a homosexual yourself. Dishonesty is usually not considered a positive character trait of senators. Try again without the straw man.

Obama is right that you need expensive gas because the government is subsidising your fuel costs... meaning that every slack-jawed doofus drives a huge truck (to compensate) when they could actually get by with a much smaller vehicle. I thought you die-hard conservatives were against government subsidies? Oh that&#039;s right... it&#039;s only the subsidies you don&#039;t use that you have a problem with.

Furthermore, if you had &lt;i&gt;any&lt;/i&gt; critical thinking skills you would understand that the two quotes you posted are not contradictory or hypocritical. Americans do need to use less gas (which would result from higher prices) and no president would want high gas prices going into an election because everyone uses gas and it is an easy talking point for simpletons to mention and rally around.

You&#039;re a troll and they say I shouldn&#039;t feed you, but you need to know that if you want to be taken seriously by anyone you will have to try harder than your present laughable &#039;contributions&#039;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No it&#8217;s bad to be a public homophobe, milking votes from the bigoted constituents while actually being a homosexual yourself. Dishonesty is usually not considered a positive character trait of senators. Try again without the straw man.</p>
<p>Obama is right that you need expensive gas because the government is subsidising your fuel costs&#8230; meaning that every slack-jawed doofus drives a huge truck (to compensate) when they could actually get by with a much smaller vehicle. I thought you die-hard conservatives were against government subsidies? Oh that&#8217;s right&#8230; it&#8217;s only the subsidies you don&#8217;t use that you have a problem with.</p>
<p>Furthermore, if you had <i>any</i> critical thinking skills you would understand that the two quotes you posted are not contradictory or hypocritical. Americans do need to use less gas (which would result from higher prices) and no president would want high gas prices going into an election because everyone uses gas and it is an easy talking point for simpletons to mention and rally around.</p>
<p>You&#8217;re a troll and they say I shouldn&#8217;t feed you, but you need to know that if you want to be taken seriously by anyone you will have to try harder than your present laughable &#8216;contributions&#8217;.</p>
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		<title>By: teapot</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/03/08/conservative-medias-response.html#comment-1365458</link>
		<dc:creator>teapot</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 03:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Your CAPS make your LOOK like a COMPLETE MORON. If a PERSON is SICK then they have NO CHANCE of PURSUING a HAPPY and SUCCESSFUL life. You PROVED yourself WRONG in TWO short PARAGRAPHS - NICE job!

Please fuck off to wherever you normally spread your idiotic opinion.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your CAPS make your LOOK like a COMPLETE MORON. If a PERSON is SICK then they have NO CHANCE of PURSUING a HAPPY and SUCCESSFUL life. You PROVED yourself WRONG in TWO short PARAGRAPHS &#8211; NICE job!</p>
<p>Please fuck off to wherever you normally spread your idiotic opinion.</p>
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		<title>By: teknocholer</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/03/08/conservative-medias-response.html#comment-1365452</link>
		<dc:creator>teknocholer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 03:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hakuin says &quot;sex offenders&quot;, you read &quot;homosexuals&quot;. Think about that.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hakuin says &#8220;sex offenders&#8221;, you read &#8220;homosexuals&#8221;. Think about that.</p>
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		<title>By: Daniel Smith</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/03/08/conservative-medias-response.html#comment-1365446</link>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Smith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 03:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description> Are you being deliberately obtuse, or can you truly not understand that pregnancy, as wonderful and fulfilling an event as it is when desired, also has undesirable effects on women&#039;s bodies, and that childbirth is a trauma to the body of the mother. Your weak strawbaby of trying to make the false equivalency of babies to tumors falls flat, as you are the only one making that argument. It is profoundly ignorant not to recognize that men and women are physically different and require different medical care, or to dismiss women&#039;s reproductive health issues in the offensive way the conservatives have decided to do. Unwanted pregnancy, as well as being an unnecessary threat to the womans health, can be destructive to both the mother and child for a very long time. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> Are you being deliberately obtuse, or can you truly not understand that pregnancy, as wonderful and fulfilling an event as it is when desired, also has undesirable effects on women&#8217;s bodies, and that childbirth is a trauma to the body of the mother. Your weak strawbaby of trying to make the false equivalency of babies to tumors falls flat, as you are the only one making that argument. It is profoundly ignorant not to recognize that men and women are physically different and require different medical care, or to dismiss women&#8217;s reproductive health issues in the offensive way the conservatives have decided to do. Unwanted pregnancy, as well as being an unnecessary threat to the womans health, can be destructive to both the mother and child for a very long time. </p>
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		<title>By: Daniel Smith</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/03/08/conservative-medias-response.html#comment-1365412</link>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Smith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 03:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description> The risks to a woman&#039;s  overall health are greater through pregnancy than through taking the pill. The statistics make it clear that it is riskier to have children than to take birth control. For women who do not wish to have children for whatever reason, they are being asked to put themselves at a greater risk to their health by denying them access to birth control and risking an unwanted pregnancy than allowing them to use it. Please read:

http://boingboing.net/2012/02/18/birth-control-is-safer-than-pr.html
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> The risks to a woman&#8217;s  overall health are greater through pregnancy than through taking the pill. The statistics make it clear that it is riskier to have children than to take birth control. For women who do not wish to have children for whatever reason, they are being asked to put themselves at a greater risk to their health by denying them access to birth control and risking an unwanted pregnancy than allowing them to use it. Please read:</p>
<p><a href="http://boingboing.net/2012/02/18/birth-control-is-safer-than-pr.html" rel="nofollow">http://boingboing.net/2012/02/18/birth-control-is-safer-than-pr.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: Marja Erwin</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/03/08/conservative-medias-response.html#comment-1365345</link>
		<dc:creator>Marja Erwin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 02:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>One of Ms. Fluke&#039;s friends lost an ovary. I think that counts as medical harm. There were treatments that could have prevented this, but the insurance wouldn&#039;t cover those treatments, because the same treatments also work for birth control, and the insurance ha an exclusion for that.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of Ms. Fluke&#8217;s friends lost an ovary. I think that counts as medical harm. There were treatments that could have prevented this, but the insurance wouldn&#8217;t cover those treatments, because the same treatments also work for birth control, and the insurance ha an exclusion for that.</p>
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		<title>By: teapot</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/03/08/conservative-medias-response.html#comment-1365312</link>
		<dc:creator>teapot</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 01:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The world&#039;s &lt;i&gt;truly&lt;/i&gt; developed countries decided government-assisted healthcare for their citizens was the ethically right thing to do decades ago. Then there was America.

Get a brain moran.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The world&#8217;s <i>truly</i> developed countries decided government-assisted healthcare for their citizens was the ethically right thing to do decades ago. Then there was America.</p>
<p>Get a brain moran.</p>
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		<title>By: teapot</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/03/08/conservative-medias-response.html#comment-1365292</link>
		<dc:creator>teapot</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 01:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Though I agree that the asterisked-words are not appropriate - to be fair, the dumb part is undeniable.... she basically writes the material every time she opens her mouth. Calling someone an idiot is not misogynistic unless a person does it to every woman they meet.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Though I agree that the asterisked-words are not appropriate &#8211; to be fair, the dumb part is undeniable&#8230;. she basically writes the material every time she opens her mouth. Calling someone an idiot is not misogynistic unless a person does it to every woman they meet.</p>
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		<title>By: AsteriskCGY</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/03/08/conservative-medias-response.html#comment-1365268</link>
		<dc:creator>AsteriskCGY</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Something I read somewhere that I&#039;d like verified here.  http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/article/gop-dems-played-games-over-sandra-fluke/408036

Fluke was ostensibly denied because the hearing regulated only one speaker and their first choice, the Chair from the Separation of Church and State Flynn, was their first choice but was swapped at the last minute, and then not allowed by Issa, is the reasoning behind her denial. 

Granted her opinion would&#039;ve been just as valid and undeniable without a vet, but should this rule be pointed out anyway?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Something I read somewhere that I&#8217;d like verified here.  <a href="http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/article/gop-dems-played-games-over-sandra-fluke/408036" rel="nofollow">http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/article/gop-dems-played-games-over-sandra-fluke/408036</a></p>
<p>Fluke was ostensibly denied because the hearing regulated only one speaker and their first choice, the Chair from the Separation of Church and State Flynn, was their first choice but was swapped at the last minute, and then not allowed by Issa, is the reasoning behind her denial. </p>
<p>Granted her opinion would&#8217;ve been just as valid and undeniable without a vet, but should this rule be pointed out anyway?</p>
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		<title>By: bcsizemo</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/03/08/conservative-medias-response.html#comment-1365266</link>
		<dc:creator>bcsizemo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description> @flickerKuu:disqus 
Preventative for pregnancy?  I mean that was the original design of the pill, and what it is most prescribed for today.

But of course we all know the pill really prevents all those random and unwanted pregnancies.  Those ones that just randomly occur without warning....the ones that occur without having sex.  &lt;-you know that thing you do to get pregnant.

And why exactly do you need the pill if you don&#039;t have Viagra?...I mean if he can&#039;t get it up you are wasting money on the pill.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> @flickerKuu:disqus<br />
Preventative for pregnancy?  I mean that was the original design of the pill, and what it is most prescribed for today.</p>
<p>But of course we all know the pill really prevents all those random and unwanted pregnancies.  Those ones that just randomly occur without warning&#8230;.the ones that occur without having sex.  &lt;-you know that thing you do to get pregnant.</p>
<p>And why exactly do you need the pill if you don&#039;t have Viagra?&#8230;I mean if he can&#039;t get it up you are wasting money on the pill.</p>
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		<title>By: Daniel Smith</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/03/08/conservative-medias-response.html#comment-1365249</link>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Smith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description> There&#039;s always Lysistrata if you&#039;re looking for inspiration</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> There&#8217;s always Lysistrata if you&#8217;re looking for inspiration</p>
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		<title>By: penguinchris</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/03/08/conservative-medias-response.html#comment-1365214</link>
		<dc:creator>penguinchris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Can I just stick this into the conversation somewhere since no one&#039;s addressed it - besides Viagra having non-sex-related medical uses, I think people are not realizing the effects of erectile dysfunction by framing Viagra as something old guys take to have fun. It&#039;s not &lt;i&gt;necessarily&lt;/i&gt; something they take to have &lt;i&gt;extra&lt;/i&gt; fun - it may be something they &lt;i&gt;need&lt;/i&gt; to take to have &lt;i&gt;any kind of fun or sexual release at all&lt;/i&gt;.

Erectile dysfunction doesn&#039;t necessarily cause physical health issues, directly anyway, but it can have severe psychological effects including depression and can cause huge problems in relationships.

Both men and women should be able to understand this if they think about it. Can you imagine having a normal sex drive but almost never being able to satisfy it? Not being able to get it up is really, really devastating, even if it just happens once because you&#039;re stressed or something - but for ED sufferers it happens all the time or at least most of the time. I&#039;m not an expert but have trouble getting it up if I&#039;m nervous... which is every time I&#039;ve been with a new partner. And that&#039;s among the most depressing things in a young man&#039;s world.

Taking a bottle of Viagra with you to have a wild weekend with child prostitutes in Costa Rica, as Rush Limbaugh almost certainly did, is something entirely different of course.

I don&#039;t mean to sidetrack anything, but there&#039;s been a consistent misunderstanding of why people might take Viagra.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Can I just stick this into the conversation somewhere since no one&#8217;s addressed it &#8211; besides Viagra having non-sex-related medical uses, I think people are not realizing the effects of erectile dysfunction by framing Viagra as something old guys take to have fun. It&#8217;s not <i>necessarily</i> something they take to have <i>extra</i> fun &#8211; it may be something they <i>need</i> to take to have <i>any kind of fun or sexual release at all</i>.</p>
<p>Erectile dysfunction doesn&#8217;t necessarily cause physical health issues, directly anyway, but it can have severe psychological effects including depression and can cause huge problems in relationships.</p>
<p>Both men and women should be able to understand this if they think about it. Can you imagine having a normal sex drive but almost never being able to satisfy it? Not being able to get it up is really, really devastating, even if it just happens once because you&#8217;re stressed or something &#8211; but for ED sufferers it happens all the time or at least most of the time. I&#8217;m not an expert but have trouble getting it up if I&#8217;m nervous&#8230; which is every time I&#8217;ve been with a new partner. And that&#8217;s among the most depressing things in a young man&#8217;s world.</p>
<p>Taking a bottle of Viagra with you to have a wild weekend with child prostitutes in Costa Rica, as Rush Limbaugh almost certainly did, is something entirely different of course.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t mean to sidetrack anything, but there&#8217;s been a consistent misunderstanding of why people might take Viagra.</p>
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		<title>By: Hakuin</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/03/08/conservative-medias-response.html#comment-1365198</link>
		<dc:creator>Hakuin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 23:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description> now you&#039;re making me feel all bad for not coining it myself :(</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> now you&#8217;re making me feel all bad for not coining it myself :(</p>
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		<title>By: atimoshenko</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/03/08/conservative-medias-response.html#comment-1365182</link>
		<dc:creator>atimoshenko</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 23:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The difference between the actions of Maher and Limbaugh is clear to anyone who bothers to look.

It&#039;s one thing to call a person you don&#039;t like names. It may or may not be juvenile, but it&#039;s just a way to express one&#039;s displeasure. E.g. &quot;Obama is a c*cksucker&quot;.

It&#039;s quite another thing to try to attempt to discredit a person/engage in character assassination by aggressively criticising an unrelated type of behaviour or affiliation. E.g. &quot;How dare that n*gger think he can be President?&quot;

One is acceptable, the other is not.

What Rush and his ilk are saying is that women with an active sex life do not deserve to have their opinions taken into account. Only they are not honest enough to say it outright (I guess even they understand on some level how ridiculous such an opinion is). Instead, they want to repeatedly insinuate it by repeating disparaging allegations against someone they do not like.

EDIT: There is also the fact that, for the same reason we would not tolerate a grown man beating up a little girl, the amount of effort pundits (who, by definition, have a decent amount of public exposure) should spend attacking an individual should be a function of that individual&#039;s own public exposure (and, hence, ability to fight back if desired).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The difference between the actions of Maher and Limbaugh is clear to anyone who bothers to look.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s one thing to call a person you don&#8217;t like names. It may or may not be juvenile, but it&#8217;s just a way to express one&#8217;s displeasure. E.g. &#8220;Obama is a c*cksucker&#8221;.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s quite another thing to try to attempt to discredit a person/engage in character assassination by aggressively criticising an unrelated type of behaviour or affiliation. E.g. &#8220;How dare that n*gger think he can be President?&#8221;</p>
<p>One is acceptable, the other is not.</p>
<p>What Rush and his ilk are saying is that women with an active sex life do not deserve to have their opinions taken into account. Only they are not honest enough to say it outright (I guess even they understand on some level how ridiculous such an opinion is). Instead, they want to repeatedly insinuate it by repeating disparaging allegations against someone they do not like.</p>
<p>EDIT: There is also the fact that, for the same reason we would not tolerate a grown man beating up a little girl, the amount of effort pundits (who, by definition, have a decent amount of public exposure) should spend attacking an individual should be a function of that individual&#8217;s own public exposure (and, hence, ability to fight back if desired).</p>
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		<title>By: Kimmo</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/03/08/conservative-medias-response.html#comment-1365179</link>
		<dc:creator>Kimmo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 23:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;It&#039;s so wrong it&#039;s bizarre - like having the immigration debate driven by people who are most concerned that foreigners are going to use up all our air.&lt;/blockquote&gt;Been following the immigration &#039;debate&#039; in Australia, have you?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s so wrong it&#8217;s bizarre &#8211; like having the immigration debate driven by people who are most concerned that foreigners are going to use up all our air.</p></blockquote>
<p>Been following the immigration &#8216;debate&#8217; in Australia, have you?</p>
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		<title>By: Kimmo</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/03/08/conservative-medias-response.html#comment-1365178</link>
		<dc:creator>Kimmo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 23:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description> Hear hear.</description>
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		<title>By: Kimmo</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/03/08/conservative-medias-response.html#comment-1365169</link>
		<dc:creator>Kimmo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 23:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;b&gt;This is the real reason&lt;/b&gt; for this epileptic fit masquerading as public debate.

Red fucking herring. Everyone knows Libaugh&#039;s an utter prick already, but that&#039;s the only reason most people are talking about it.

Ask yourselves, if this bullshit wasn&#039;t filling the airwaves, what else might we be hearing about right now? You can bet the Republicans would rather you didn&#039;t.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>This is the real reason</b> for this epileptic fit masquerading as public debate.</p>
<p>Red fucking herring. Everyone knows Libaugh&#8217;s an utter prick already, but that&#8217;s the only reason most people are talking about it.</p>
<p>Ask yourselves, if this bullshit wasn&#8217;t filling the airwaves, what else might we be hearing about right now? You can bet the Republicans would rather you didn&#8217;t.</p>
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		<title>By: Green Ghost</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/03/08/conservative-medias-response.html#comment-1365165</link>
		<dc:creator>Green Ghost</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 23:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description> Didn&#039;t the women in an African country stop having sex to get the men to stop fighting? I think it worked. This would work best if congressmen&#039;s  wives started the ball rolling. Wouldn&#039;t THAT be a headline!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> Didn&#8217;t the women in an African country stop having sex to get the men to stop fighting? I think it worked. This would work best if congressmen&#8217;s  wives started the ball rolling. Wouldn&#8217;t THAT be a headline!</p>
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		<title>By: Kimmo</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/03/08/conservative-medias-response.html#comment-1365142</link>
		<dc:creator>Kimmo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 23:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description> Nice? It&#039;s fucking &lt;b&gt;EPIC&lt;/b&gt;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> Nice? It&#8217;s fucking <b>EPIC</b>.</p>
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		<title>By: danarmak</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/03/08/conservative-medias-response.html#comment-1365135</link>
		<dc:creator>danarmak</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 23:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Strong words. I bet I could find some Americans who are worse.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Strong words. I bet I could find some Americans who are worse.</p>
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		<title>By: Marja Erwin</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/03/08/conservative-medias-response.html#comment-1365083</link>
		<dc:creator>Marja Erwin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 22:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Access to ordinary health care shouldn&#039;t depend on employers or insurers. Unfortunately, in America, it does, and the insurers manage to negotiate discounts for themselves and price-hikes for those of us who are uninsured or uninsurable. And that&#039;s not to mention how the pharma industry extends the patent system and gets out-of-patent alternatives withdrawn.

We end up with a system that&#039;s broken, that costs more than in other countries, that costs more than many of us can afford, and that gives employers control over people&#039;s health care. It&#039;s wrong. It means many of us get sick, and some die, due to lack of access to health care.

Access to the treatments we need should not depend on a boss&#039;s permission. As long as we&#039;re stuck with this broken system, we&#039;re all screwed, but policies which limit the bosses&#039; choices are probably better than policies which help the bosses limit our choices.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Access to ordinary health care shouldn&#8217;t depend on employers or insurers. Unfortunately, in America, it does, and the insurers manage to negotiate discounts for themselves and price-hikes for those of us who are uninsured or uninsurable. And that&#8217;s not to mention how the pharma industry extends the patent system and gets out-of-patent alternatives withdrawn.</p>
<p>We end up with a system that&#8217;s broken, that costs more than in other countries, that costs more than many of us can afford, and that gives employers control over people&#8217;s health care. It&#8217;s wrong. It means many of us get sick, and some die, due to lack of access to health care.</p>
<p>Access to the treatments we need should not depend on a boss&#8217;s permission. As long as we&#8217;re stuck with this broken system, we&#8217;re all screwed, but policies which limit the bosses&#8217; choices are probably better than policies which help the bosses limit our choices.</p>
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