To continue, even Boehner thinks Limbaugh went much too far
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Boehner: Limbaugh 'slut' remark 'inappropriate'
By: Seung Min Kim
March 2, 2012 11:03 AM EST

Speaker John Boehner on Friday denounced radio host Rush Limbaugh’s
“slut” remarks aimed at Georgetown University student Sandra Fluke,
but the Ohio Republican also jabbed at Democrats who have been
fundraising off the fracas.

“The speaker obviously believes the use of those words was
inappropriate, as is trying to raise money off the situation,” Boehner
spokesman Michael Steel said in an e-mail Friday morning.

Fluke is a law student who wasn’t allowed to testify at a
congressional hearing in February that centered on the Obama
administration’s contraception rule. Democrats convened a hearing last
week specifically so Fluke could testify the need for easier access to
birth control.

On his radio show this week, Limbaugh used “slut” and “prostitute” to
refer to Fluke and equated her advocating for contraception access to
demanding to be “paid to have sex.” House Democrats sent a letter to
Boehner Thursday asking House Republican leaders to condemn the
remarks.

Limbaugh’s comments, as well the controversy over a Senate amendment
killed Thursday that would have allowed employers to opt out of
covering certain health care services due to moral objections, has
been a financial boon to Democrats. The Huffington Post reported
Thursday that Democrats raised at least $1.1 million this week as part
of their “War on 

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