By NBC News and msnbc.com staff
"Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh, already under fire from
Democrats over his language in discussing a Georgetown University law student
who testified about contraception, ratcheted up his rhetoric on Thursday,
saying the student should post an online sex video if taxpayers are forced to
pay for contraception.
Limbaugh on Wednesday had referred to student Sandra Fluke as a 'slut' for supporting a requirement that health insurance cover contraception. On his
radio show Thursday, Limbaugh went a little further:
'So Miss Fluke, and the rest of
you Feminazis, here's the deal. If we are going to pay for your contraceptives,
and thus pay for you to have sex. We want something for it. We want you post
the videos online so we can all watch.'
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi had called on Limbaugh to apologize
Thursday about the 'slut' comment, made after Fluke testified recently about
contraception before an unofficial Democratic committee.
Here's what Limbaugh
said on Wednesday’s edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush
Limbaugh Show:
'What does it say about the college coed Susan Fluke [sic], 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. What does that make
us? We're the pimps.
"The johns, that's right. We would be the johns -- no! We're not
the johns. Well -- yeah, that's right. Pimp's not the right word.'
Fluke had been turned away in
February from testifying before the Republican-controlled House Oversight and
Government Reform Committee on the Obama administration's policy requiring that
employees of religion-affiliated institutions have access to health insurance
that covers birth control.
