{"id":26804,"date":"2012-03-02T17:15:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T00:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/02\/explaining-how-the-pill-works-to-the-four-times-married-rush.html"},"modified":"2012-03-08T10:12:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T17:12:50","slug":"explaining-how-the-pill-works-to-the-four-times-married-rush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/02\/explaining-how-the-pill-works-to-the-four-times-married-rush.html","title":{"rendered":"Explaining how the Pill works to the four-times married Rush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, maybe that explains in part the multiple marriages &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><i>&quot;Once you wade through the bile and the realization that the country&#39;s most popular conservative radio host has devoted hours on his show to attempting to bully a woman into silence for her views on birth control, it becomes clear that Limbaugh, a man over sixty who is now on his fourth marriage, does not seem to understand how birth control works.&quot;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>See, this is why the Internet is cool. Because <i>I&#39;d<\/i> completely forgotten the point that, unlike Rush&#39;s favorite that&#39;s-not-his-prescription Viagra, female birth control pills are not something you can just cut back on a little by having less sex.  They require  continuous maintenance. Jovially \/ leeringly suggesting that to Ms. Fluke that she &quot;back off the amount of sex you have&quot; is <i>meaningless<\/i> from a cost-of-contraception standpoint, unless by &quot;back off&quot; he means &quot;fully abstain.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>In which case, perhaps he can provide a moral example to her.  #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Ffiles%2Frush-limbaugh_1_0.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/motherjones.com\/mojo\/2012\/03\/rush-limbaugh-does-not-understand-how-birth-control-works'>Dear Rush Limbaugh: Birth Control Doesn&#39;t Work Like Viagra<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWe didn&#39;t think we&#39;d need to explain this to a 61-year-old man on his fourth marriage, but here goes.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, maybe that explains in part the multiple marriages &#8230; &quot;Once you wade through the bile and the realization that the country&#39;s most popular conservative radio host has devoted hours on his show to attempting to bully a woman into silence for her views on birth control, it becomes clear that Limbaugh, a man &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/02\/explaining-how-the-pill-works-to-the-four-times-married-rush.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Explaining how the Pill works to the four-times married Rush&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,12,134,70],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-26804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-fourth-estate","category-health-care","category-health-science","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26437,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/15\/because-if-theres-an-opportunity-to-offer-up-a-doltish-opinion-you-can-trust.html","url_meta":{"origin":26804,"position":0},"title":"Because if there&#39;s an opportunity to offer up a doltish opinion, you can trust&#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 15-Feb-12 11:36pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Because if there's an opportunity to offer up a doltish opinion, you can trust Fox NewsYes, of course it's true -- liberals and progressives and commies on the Left want to get rid of the poor by making sure they have access to birth control. It's obvious once it's pointed\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27105,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/15\/fiscal-conservatism-and-birth-control.html","url_meta":{"origin":26804,"position":1},"title":"Fiscal conservatism and birth control","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 15-Mar-12 7:48am","format":false,"excerpt":"There's little new described here, but it's worth reiteration: insurance coverage of contraception saves a significant amount of money. 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