When isn’t NOW outraged over something Limbaugh said? As far as I can tell, never.
Via Politico:
Terry O’Neill, the president of the progressive National Organization for Women (NOW), is returning fire on conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, who yesterday called her organization a “faux feminist group” and its members “femi-nazis,” and launched an anti-NOW Facebook page called “National Organization for Rush Babes.”
“I don’t think conservative women want to associate themselves with his hate. I don’t think they would want to associate themselves with his bullying,” O’Neill told me this morning. “I don’t think conservative women would want to associate themselves with his vitriolic attacks.”
Limbuagh yesterday described National Organization for Rush Babes as an effort to counter NOW’s “Enough Rush” campaign, which encourages advertisers to boycott his program. Limbaugh said NOW was wrong to think it speaks for women: “If there was ever a group that speaks for an almost infinitesimal minority of women, it’s them,” he said. “Rush Babes for America [is] dedicated to the millions of conservative women who know what they believe in: family, American Values, and not being told by faux feminist groups how to think.”
But O’Neill said that conservative women, while they may agree with Limbaugh on matters of policy, would not support his “bullying,” citing his recent attacks on Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke, who he referred to as a “slut” and a “prostitute.”
O’Neill broadened her criticism to Limbaugh’s comments about other groups as well: “He says vicious, hateful thing about gay people. He says vicious, hateful things about African American people,” she said.