Rush Limbaugh comments not appropriate

Rush Limbaugh, along with the rest of the politicians, radio hosts, talk show hosts, and media in general, needs to keep his mouth shut. After his comments toward Sandra Fluke, the law student who testified before Congress about birth control, The Daily Mail reports that he has apologized for them.  But it's too little, too late.

Despite his apology, advertisers have continued to drop like flies from his show, and radio stations are suspending playing it. And I say, good for them.

This is why I hate politics so freaking much. I don't like to lean one way or another toward any political party because they're all tiresome and boring, but Limbaugh is flat-out wrong for the comments he made. No one deserves to be called a slut or a prostitute because of their position on a particular issue--in this case, birth control. And he's the type to make comments just to inflame popular opinion.

The controversy is over Obama's birth control plan--basically, he wants to require employers of any kind to cover contraception. That leaves some people, like the Catholic Church, a little testy because they don't believe in contraception. So Obama changed some provisions in the bill that allowed religiously affiliated groups like hospitals and universities to be exempt from the requirement. But that didn't satisfy some enough, according to the article.

I absolutely am for coverage of birth control in employee health insurance, but I am absolutely against requiring anyone to do it. Limbaugh, while an idiot 98 percent of the time, actually made a good point when he said "if birth control insurance is important to you as a student, you might want to work at or attend a school that isn't run by Catholics." It's all about the choices you make and the sacrifices you may need to endure to get what you really want in life. What's more important to you, getting into your dream job or program or saving money on your prescriptions? Sometimes you really can't have it both ways.

Buuutttttt, you really can't go around calling people prostitutes and/or sluts, as I said before. It is not only a terrible thing to say, but it makes you look like a drooling idiot. Not to mention, if you're doing it to try to help your choice political candidate curry favor with certain voters (which Republicans are certainly trying to do with socially conservative voters), it really just makes them treat you like poison ivy. 

Basically, if you want to make a point, there are plenty of other ways to do so without degrading people and giving them a possible case for slander. To all of the talk show hosts and political pundits, please. Just, go away. Use your passion for discussing the issues for a more useful purpose and actually think about what your words mean, rather than just saying them because you think it will drive hits.