{"id":27095,"date":"2012-03-14T10:54:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T16:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/14\/that-evil-conspiracy-proves-its-no-fluke.html"},"modified":"2012-03-14T10:54:54","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T16:54:54","slug":"that-evil-conspiracy-proves-its-no-fluke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/14\/that-evil-conspiracy-proves-its-no-fluke.html","title":{"rendered":"That Evil Conspiracy Proves It&#39;s No Fluke!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The GOP and talking heads on the Right are searching desperately for a way to blame the whole Sandra Fluke abusefest on, of course, Sandra Fluke, by way of some Grand Conspiracy (or four).<\/p>\n<p>The problem with all of these conspiracy theories is that they presuppose that Darrell Issa and Rush Limbaugh and all the other pols and pundits on the Right were <i>completely taken in<\/i> by the attempt to <i>trick<\/i> them into being <i>totalitarian idjits<\/i> on birth control and <i>misogynistic dolts<\/i> on Ms Fluke herself.  <\/p>\n<p>If that&#39;s their best defense, that&#39;s pretty darned sad.  #ddtb<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/116234824425478706959'>Talking Points Memo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A guide to 4 of the right&#39;s Sandra Fluke conspiracy theories. Check &#39;em out:<\/p><\/blockquote>\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%2Ftalkingpointsmemo.com%2Fassets_c%2F2012%2F03%2F3-2-sandra-fluke-msnbc-cropped-proto-custom_6.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:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2012\/03\/the-rights-sandra-fluke-conspiracy-theories.php?ref=fpnewsfeed'>The Right\u2019s Sandra Fluke Conspiracy Theories: A Guide<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSearching for an escape hatch now that the contraception wars are spinning out of their control, Republicans and conservatives are working to turn the Sandra Fluke saga into one big liberal conspiracy&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GOP and talking heads on the Right are searching desperately for a way to blame the whole Sandra Fluke abusefest on, of course, Sandra Fluke, by way of some Grand Conspiracy (or four). The problem with all of these conspiracy theories is that they presuppose that Darrell Issa and Rush Limbaugh and all the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/14\/that-evil-conspiracy-proves-its-no-fluke.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;That Evil Conspiracy Proves It&#39;s No Fluke!&#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_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_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],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-27095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26810,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/03\/bill-oreilly-circles-his-wagon-around-rush.html","url_meta":{"origin":27095,"position":0},"title":"Bill O&#39;Reilly circles his wagon around Rush","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 3-Mar-12 1:04am","format":false,"excerpt":"O'Reilly maintains that supporting contraceptive coverage for women -- married or unmarried -- is just covering their \"social life\" (nudge-nudge, wink-wink) at the expense of insurance companies (who, somehow, are equated to \"government\"). (Note to Bill: on the assumption that your own \"social life\" was paid for by your touted\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":27002,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/08\/you-can-scrub-but-you-cant-hide-on-the-internet.html","url_meta":{"origin":27095,"position":1},"title":"You can scrub, but you can&#39;t hide, on the Internet","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 8-Mar-12 11:48am","format":false,"excerpt":"To be fair, Rush might simply be taking down material that he's apologized for. Indeed, one could argue that were he to leave the material up, it would continue to be an insult\/defamation, not in keeping with his Official Apology (such as it was). 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