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Ms Fluke has a been portrayed as an innocent 23 year old poor coed unable to afford her birth control, when in fact she's a 30 year old, with a history of activism, and apparently a rich boyfriend who pays for her trips to Spain and Italy, if the pictures I've seen are to be believed. If you're going to portray yourself falsely, one can be expected to be called on it.

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A website called The Blaze says, "In a segment on Fluke’s battle with Rush Limbaugh, MSNBC reporter Anne Williams called Fluke 'the 23-year-old Georgetown law student, prohibited from testifying.'"

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He froze drilling permits.

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Of course, all this is sort of a distraction anyway. Let's say, for argument's sake, that Fluke is indeed 30 and has been an activitist for reproductive rights. Does that invalidate her testimony? And does it make Rush's comments any more acceptable?

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Why did the progressives stage this event in the first place?

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Why did the progressives stage this event in the first place?

For the same reason the Republicans staged theirs?

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The Republican committee meeting was a committee meeting, not a press conference dressed up to look like a steering committee meeting run by a non committee member, that's the difference.

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You can keep trying to move the goal posts instead of admitting Fluke was a plant, but no one's buying it.

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she's made a career out of protesting, and advocating.

What precisely do you find objectionable about one exercising their constitutional rights, which you as an alleged copper have sworn a sacred oath to protect?

Let's call a spade, a spade, shall we? If she's a professional advocate, with years of experience, just say so. Instead we get the poor little twenty three year old coed denied basic medical prescriptions. Stop pretending she wasn't placed there by Mrs Pelosi, and Ms Fluke was a random student pulled from the ranks of Georgetown Uni.

It's pretty black and white from this end, Mr bold type.

Would you please answer mr. bold type's question?

I'll spell it out so even a progressive can understand...

Ms Fluke has a been portrayed as an innocent 23 year old poor coed unable to afford her birth control, when in fact she's a 30 year old, with a history of activism, and apparently a rich boyfriend who pays for her trips to Spain and Italy, if the pictures I've seen are to be believed. If you're going to portray yourself falsely, one can be expected to be called on it.

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Obviously, any witness testifying before Congress is gonna be carefully selected and probably primed a bit. Does that make him or her a "plant"? If Fluke was a plant, was Bishop Lori, who testified on the all-male Republican panel, one as well? It's not like the GOP just grabbed the first clergyman it could find.

I didn't see the Republicans trying to pass Bishop Lori off as anything other than a Catholic Bishop. like a poor 23 year old law student... Did you?

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The Republican committee meeting was a committee meeting, not a press conference dressed up to look like a steering committee meeting run by a non committee member, that's the difference.

So each side held an event to get its point across. The committee meeting/press conference "difference" is a trivial attempt at spin. What it actually does, however, to make clear that the minority had to organize its own event because Dems--and women, no?--were shut out from the "official" one.

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You can keep trying to move the goal posts instead of admitting Fluke was a plant, but no one's buying it.

It seems really important to you to believe Sandra Fluke was a plant. I feel like I'm taking the Easter Bunny away from you.

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The Republican committee meeting was a committee meeting, not a press conference dressed up to look like a steering committee meeting run by a non committee member, that's the difference.

So each side held an event to get its point across. The committee meeting/press conference "difference" is a trivial attempt at spin. What it actually does, however, to make clear that the minority had to organize its own event because Dems--and women, no?--were shut out from the "official" one.

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You can keep trying to move the goal posts instead of admitting Fluke was a plant, but no one's buying it.

It seems really important to you to believe Sandra Fluke was a plant. I feel like I'm taking the Easter Bunny away from you.

So you object to the conservatives inviting Catholic leaders to a committee meeting concerning Catholic holdings... Got it

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The Republican committee meeting was a committee meeting, not a press conference dressed up to look like a steering committee meeting run by a non committee member, that's the difference.

So each side held an event to get its point across. The committee meeting/press conference "difference" is a trivial attempt at spin. What it actually does, however, to make clear that the minority had to organize its own event because Dems--and women, no?--were shut out from the "official" one.

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You can keep trying to move the goal posts instead of admitting Fluke was a plant, but no one's buying it.

It seems really important to you to believe Sandra Fluke was a plant. I feel like I'm taking the Easter Bunny away from you.

So you object to the conservatives inviting Catholic leaders to a committee meeting concerning Catholic holdings... Got it

If it actually concerned something those old men actually held that would be one thing. However as has been repeatedly told to you the businesses in question do not belong to the church.

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Georgetown University is the oldest Catholic and Jesuit institution of higher learning in the United States. John Carroll’s founding of Georgetown College coincides with the birth of our nation. In 1789, Carroll secured the deed to 60 acres of land on a hilltop overlooking the village of Georgetown. He was appointed Archbishop of Baltimore in 1808.

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Nah, Georgetown University has nothing to do with the Catholic church

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So you object to the conservatives inviting Catholic leaders to a committee meeting concerning Catholic holdings... Got it