Georgetown University law student and contraception-access advocate Sandra Fluke was personally attacked yesterday by Fox News commentator Monica Crowley, who tweeted out a nasty comment about the announcement that Fluke is engaged to be married.
To a man?"Sandra Fluke Announces Engagement"
— Monica Crowley (@MonicaCrowley) April 26, 2012
Ed Schultz got Fluke's reaction in an EXCLUSIVE interview last night.
“Well, you know, where I’m from, when someone tells you they’ve become engaged, you say congratulations rather than engaging in hate speech,” she said. “It’s certainly not the way I wanted my engagement to be greeted.”
“That said,” Fluke added, “I’m not going to let this kind of thing get to me personally. What really bothers me about it is exactly what you said: the blatant homophobia in the comment. The idea that’s an acceptable thing to say publicly.”
When asked whether she wants Crowley, who initially said her nasty tweet was a joke, to apologize, Fluke said no thanks.
"I think its possible that she owes an apology to the LGBTQ community" for her "nasty and negative" tweet, said Fluke.
“I don’t really care if it was a joke,” Fluke said. “If it was a joke, it was a homophobic joke.”
UPDATE: Crowley apologized today, anyway:
Regret my tweeted question caused a stir. I certainly & unequivocally apologize to Sandra & anyone else I offended. Not my intention.
— Monica Crowley (@MonicaCrowley) April 27, 2012
Do you believe Crowley's tweet did not intend to offend? Let us know!
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While Crowley should be commended for her apology as it were, is Twitter the best place for it? How about an on-air apology where she states that even a homophobic joke is still homophobic by it's nature and unacceptable by todays standards. When will these ego-driven, self-centered people realize that once their ill thought out snarky comments hit the Internet or Twitter, it's there for the world to see and read and not just for their like-minded followers and acolytes? Probably not any time soon.
I don't believe that any apology is exceptable anymore. This is the typical verbal bullying that our society has unfortunately made common place. It is an infection that keeps spreading. It starts with every host in the media today. It also is a means of supressing anyone who has an differing point of view. We are sliding into a very narcissistic society with pushing people down with humiliation and disrespect the only way people can judge thier intellegence.
It starts with a News host having a conversation with someone he invited to his show and ranting at thier perspective and calling them stupid. Think about it for a minute years ago we had Paul Harvey, Walter Cronkite, David Brinkley and I can't imagine anyone of them calling a guest stupid.
Yes, it is like talking with a flaming troll. They don't have to be polite or have manners, they just take their brains out of gear and let it rip. No thinking of who it hurts, or what people think of them.
This is the way it is with too many "apologies" these days. Regret it "caused a stir." If there was "anyone else I offended." -- Implying that if it did not cause a stir or nobody was offended enough to speak up, well, then it would have been just fine.
These are CONDITIONAL apologies. -- The "wrongness" of the offense depends on receiver of the offense, not the originator of it.
Some things are OBJECTIVELY WRONG. But these days nobody takes responsibility and simply says, "I was wrong, that was a terrible thing to say, and I should not have said it."
Some people just should not be allowed to be on the air and Crowley is one of them! If you can't be a REAL journalist...then keep your mouth shut! And your personal opinions have NO place on the air. Keep them to yourself!
What about all the personal opinions expressed 90% of the time by Ed Schultz?
Are you speaking of Monica Crowley or Ed Shultz? How can you make such a statement ireneholtslander? Do you realize what you asked just now? Have you watched or listened to Ed's shows? Have you watched or listened to Chris Matthews?
How can you make such a statement? Unbelievable. Every time someone on the left points out the wrongdoing of someone on the right....it is always pertaining to something that the left does also. The hypocrisy is unbelievable.
Is the left trying to kill medicare? What an idiot.
Ms. Crowley is your typical FAUX blonde with the erronious belief that, "her stuff", don't stink!
Don't place much stock into what this inconsequential biotch says! This is the type of tripe and bilge that comes out of the FAUX channel's clueless right wing hate and intolerance merchants!!
The FAUX channel Koch brother echo chamber and Rupert Murdoch conservative spin macine is slowly but surely self-destructing before our very eyes!
Out of touch, insensitive, lying morons like Hannity, O'Reilly, Crowley and the rest of their conservative lying cabal, will soon have no audience to play to! Their blatant fabrication and distortion of facts couldn't be more transparent! People are sick and tired of their lies!
Good, now maybe her husband can pay for her contraceptives instead of sticking it to the tax payers.
Eric. please explain how, when a person buys insurance, and then asks the insurance co. to pay a claim, that is asking the tax payers to pay for a damn thing? I wait for the day you need your car, health, life, or any other insurance you may have to pay a claim, and they say sorry. It's called insurance for a reason.
Should they pay for a Gym membership claim?
What the hell has that got to do with what I ask. An honest question. But you nor any other rightie has answered. She just how empty you all are. Can't even come up with a good lie. Just more stupid remarks.
Well if you pay for a plan that is to supposed to cover workout facility memberships then seems like it should cover that. No one who makes this false claim that this was ever about "sticking it to the tax payers" ever has any shred logical evidence to back that up?
I have a couple questions for you is birth control considered a prescription drug?
If you have a health plan that is supposed to pay for presecription drugs should it cover prescription drugs?
So why should this one prescription be excluded if that's what you're paying them for?
Yeah, right! You, "regret your (tweeted) question caused a stir". Just like the kid, caught with fingers in the cookie jar, you're only sorry, "cause you got caught"? Really!
No Anne O, she's not sorry. Lying, Republican, blonde bimbos always say they're sorry when lying, Republican, spinmeisters tell them to. Good little Repub women always do what they're told.
She was only sorry it didn't really stir up the ratings the way she was hoping it would. This was a stunt. Nothing more. It landed with a thud (as it should have). She doesn't care if she offends Sandra Fluke, the LGBT community or any other left leaning group. In fact, she was hoping it would so that her ratings would go up by the idiots that watch fox.
Sandra Fluke has always acted properly while those around her are spewing hate and ignorance.
She can refer to it as a joke but the wording makes in clear what she intended.
It was very nice of her to apologize though, shows she does no when an error was made.
What's the big deal, sounded like a logical question that could easily be answered by a yes or a no
Of course Crowley intended to offend. The Republican party is the Party of Hatemongers. I'm an Independent who is totally turned off by every one of them.
Have you not read these posts...by Democrats...and have you not listened to Ed...a Democrat.....tell me now who the hatemongers are.
For starters, everyone on Fox. No one on that channel can say anything without spewing hate and bitterness. I know because I listen to that channel every once in a while. My husband is a registered Republican but even he is upset with them. Do you ever watch Morning Joe? Joe Scarborough is a Republican who is
married to another Republican. One morning, Joe even mentioned how his wife was amazed at how the Republican Party was behaving. Whatever happened to Republican’s like Dwight D. Eisenhower and Franklin D. Roosevelt?? Republicans used to actually care about this country. FDR himself passed major
legislation and executive orders for a variety of programs designed to produce
relief (government jobs for the unemployed), recovery (economic growth) and
reform (through regulation of Wall Street, banks and transportation) according
to Wikipedia. (If you don’t believe in Wikipedia, there are a number of other references out there. All you have to do is research, not sit on your butt in front of the TV listening to Fox propaganda. Try it, you might like it as long as you aren’t close-minded.) The Republicans of today don’t care about anything or anyone except padded their bank accts. And I don’t care how much they talk about religion, actions speak louder than words and what the Republicans of today wants to do to American citizens who don’t make as much money as they do is very unchristian like. I repeat, actions speak louder than words but only people with their eyes open will be able to see the Republican party of today for what they really are.
@Eric...We pay for the insurance from our jobs it is call a benefit, maybe you do not know what that is, but we already pay for it unlike a gym membership..just sayin
Crowley was busted. That's what she's sorry for. She might as well have been sexting. One more nail in the coffin of respectability.
@Eric...Cheryl Braathen is right. We pay for the insurance from our jobs. Because it's a 'group' insurance, we get it at a reduced rate. That's why the more employees a company has, the better the rate. And believe it or not, there are some corporations out there that actually offer reduced rates for their employees if they join a gym or (usually) the YMCA which is also a benefit. So, what's your point? If some companies can offer reduced rates for employees who want to join the Y, why can't they also (at least) offer reduced prices for birth control, a drug that does more than prevents pregnancies? If insurance companies pay for boner pills, they should pay for birth control pills. Period. (Pun intended.)
Monica Crowley only had sex twice in High School.With the basketball and the football teams.Oh sorry Monica if I offended you or any of the guy's on the teams.
I know that people think her comments and subsequent fake appology affects her respectability and those she represents but you have to understand that she and her benefactors don't give a damn about anybody who would have been offended by her comments. Nobody affiliated with her, or the Right, found it offensive. I just wish they would stop insulting our intelligence, grow a pair, and own up to what they say and think. If you think your views and hate are so noble and godly then don't say it and then take it back. People don't say things they don't mean, no matter how much they try to explain away their "momentary lapse of reason."
I say, if you are going to be an A-Hole then embrace it fully and don't be appologetic about it. The only people who will be fooled by your appologies are the ones who won't question your appologies in the first place.
This is an old republican trick. Say whatever nasty thing you want your base to hear, then apologize for it, because you know they already heard it and will think you don't mean what you say in the apology. We Americans no longer accept these fake republican apologies.
that's right, and we Americans no longer accept these fake democrat apologies
LOL..You morons are crazy!
So, just what was your "intention"??
First of all who cares about Sandra Fluke and her engagement, not me. Thousands of people, men, women, gays, and lesbians get engaged every day. I personally could care less about any of them, why is this news? And if gays or any one else was offended, too bad, get over it. This is still America and at least for the time being we have the right to think and say what we want.
By the way, so I take it she is not a Lesbian, am I right? I wonder why she would be offended by some one thinking she was a lesbian, does she think there is some thing wrong with Lesbians?
She didn't come across to me as being offended. She came across to me as being appalled at the lack of manners and social grace. Didn't you hear the part where she said "Where I come from...."? Republicians are proof you can't buy couth.
CareGiver, I am sure you will consider me to be a tad bit old fashion, but it is difficult for me to to apply the phrase "Social Grace" to any thing to do with a single woman that publicly promotes the use of contraception at a national level. You may believe sexual promiscuity is "Socially Acceptable", I do not. They used to say "Why buy the cow if the milk is free".
2ez, I don't consider you old fashion but I do think you are out of touch. If EVERYONE, male and female, would wait until marriage before engaging in sex I too think that would be great but 2 things jumped out at me when I read your post.
#1-It'll never happen; thinking that way is unrealistic. How many couples getting married nowadays are both parties' virgins? How many couples getting married today even have one partner that's a virgin? Why are women supposed/expected to be virgins but men aren't? Besides, more & more women are putting off marriage themselves.
#2-You didn't listen to Ms. Fluke's testimony. Here's a sample of what she said;
"These denials of contraceptive coverage impact real people. In the worst cases, women who need this medication for other medical reasons suffer dire consequences. A friend of mine, for example, has polycystic ovarian syndrome and has to take prescription birth control to stop cysts from growing on her ovaries. (Emphasis mine.) Her prescription is technically covered by Georgetown insurance because it's not intended to prevent pregnancy. Under many religious institutions' insurance plans, it wouldn't be, and under Senator Blunt's amendment, Senator Rubio's bill, or Representative Fortenberry's bill, there's no requirement that an exception be made for such medical needs. When they do exist, these exceptions don't accomplish their well-intended goals because when you let university administrators or other employers, rather than women and their doctors, dictate whose medical needs are legitimate and whose aren't, a woman's health takes a back seat to a bureaucracy focused on policing her body."
You can find the rest of it here:
Unlike Viagra and Cialis, birth control pills have more than one use. In fact, less than 50% of women on The Pill use it for contraception. Please read this
And please explain to me why it is ok for insurance companies to pay for drugs like Viagra and Cialis when we all know what their one and only purpose is for but it's not ok for insurance companies to pay for birth control pills when there is scientific proof they do more than prevent pregnancies.
For some reason my links didn't show up. Could someone explain to me how to post links in your posts?
Nevermind. I found out it's because I'm too new.
2ez, if you Google "Sandra Fluke testimony", you can read it yourself. And if you Google "reasons to take birth control", WebMD gives other reasons besides contraception for taking the pill. Or Google "the pill not just for pregnancy". NPR has a good article on it as well.