Rep. Carolyn Maloney made headlines — and later tried to make some fundraising dollars — by questioning why every person giving testimony at a recent Congressional hearing on President Obama’s birth-control mandate was male.
Now, Maloney is pushing GOP leaders to go after conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh for calling a female Georgetown Law student who spoke on the issue
Georgetown Law student Susan Fluke tried to speak —
from doing so — at that high-testosterone hearing as a Democratic witness. She later spoke at another hearing.
Wednesday, Limbaugh trashed Fluke for encouraging promiscuity:
“What does it say about the college co-ed Susan Fluke who goes before a Congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex — what does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She’s having so much sex she can’t afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex.”
Limbaugh walked that back (a bit) by calling Fluke
Maloney wasn’t impressed.
“I call on responsible leaders of the Republican Party to repudiate the kind of hateful speech displayed by Rush Limbaugh. This despicable attack on an honorable young woman is a new low in a season of lows. Anyone on the other side of the aisle — in a chamber where people still refer to each other as ‘Gentlemen’ and ‘Gentlewomen’– who stands silent signals by their silence approval of such language,” Maloney said in a statement.
“If you wish to declare all-out war on women, then stand silently by and let this pass. Or you can call this man out for what he is and demonstrate that there is some honor left, even in politics.”
