(ThyBlackMan.com) In order to deflect attention from the implosion of Rush Limbaugh after his barrage of personal attacks on Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke, the right wing has now turned its attention to liberal comedian Bill Maher.
Maher, who has publicly defended Limbaugh in the wake of the Fluke flap, recently gave $1 million dollars to Priorities USA, which is the Super PAC backing President Obama’s re-election efforts.
The argument of the right is that if President Obama wants more civility, as he said in his recent news conference, he should set an example by returning Bill Maher’s donation, because the cable host and comedian has said sexist and 
 controversial things in the past.
This week, when asked about Limbaugh’s horrible attacks on Sandra Fluke, President Obama said, “[W]e want to send a message to all our young people that being part of a democracy involves argument and disagreements and debate, and we want you to be engaged, and there’s a way to do it that doesn’t involve you being demeaned and insulted, particularly when you’re a private citizen.”
Key words: private citizen. An attack by Rush Limbaugh on Sandra Fluke is not the same thing as a sexist attack on Sarah Palin by Bill Maher, as many on the right have claimed. Sandra Fluke is a law student who testified at a congressional hearing about an issue, the affordable access to contraception, which matters to her as a student of a Catholic institution. Sarah Palin is a public figure whose status and notoriety, not to mention her lack of shyness when launching personal attacks on others, makes her open to ridicule and criticism.
Finish story over at; Bill Maher, Rush Limbaugh same boat, etc.
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