From the increasingly odious Doug Wilson Blog and Mablog, March 6, regarding Limbaugh’s belated, half-assed, and disingenuous apology to Sandra Fluke over her testimony in favor of insured access to contraceptives:
“Recent days have seen the media and/or new media in an uproar over a couple of incidents that invite a bit more investigation from the intellectually curious. I refer to Rush Limbaugh’s insult of Sandra Fluke, and Kirk Cameron’s gracious response to a question from Piers Morgan about homosexuality.
Now in the interests of accuracy, it should be noted that Rush has apologized for calling Ms. Fluke a slut, and so we should address the apology first. I confess I haven’t mastered all the details of this important situation as I ought to have done, but if Ms. Fluke indicated multiple guys, then the comment should stand. That’s what a slut is. But if she has a steady boyfriend, and she is faithful to him, then it really was uncalled for to call her that. She would be something more like a concubine.”
Is there no limit to Wilson’s desire to score a puckish point, even in the face of a young woman’s humiliation — even in the aftermath of a hideous man’s rampage against her?
The fact is, Ms. Fluke spoke about a friend’s having lost an ovary because she had a medical condition that required treatment with contraceptives, but wasn’t able to access that treatment because of her insurer’s refusal to pay for it. Ms. Fluke wasn’t offering up her own sex life for public perusal. (You have no idea how tempted I am to write, “Ms. Fluke wasn’t talking about her own sex life, you pompous ass,” and I guess I just did. And I don’t feel at all bad about it). She has studied the issue as a university-level student of policy; that she probably has used contraception and likely done so out of wedlock is not the issue and Wilson’s attempt to make it such is despicable. And juvenile. And puerile. And malicious. And utterly beneath contempt.
Wilson’s masturbatory attempts at wittiness thrill only himself; it ought to shame him, and it ought to shame the congregants at Christ Church, and it ought to enrage the Church at large.