Republican Senator Scott Brown, ensconced in a tight erase against a national hero, Democrat Elizabeth Warren, became the first sitting Republican politician to denounce Rush Limbaugh‘s remarks and attacks against Sandra Fluke, the 24-year old college student whom the GOP refused to allow to testify two weeks ago in a House contraception hearing.
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“Rush Limbaugh’s comments are reprehensible. He should apologize,” the Massachusetts senator stated, via Twitter late this afternoon.
Limbaugh called Fluke, a 24-year old female college student, a “slut†and a “prostitute†on Wednesday, and followed up after immense outrage from the Left by demanding that Fluke, post online for him to see videos of her having sex, “so we can all watch.”
Last week, Brown and Warren “dueled” over the contraception debate. Brown faces an increasingly challenging race against Warren.
No other Republican has denounced Limbaugh’s comments. Democrats, however, have.
The Huffington Post notes:
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and more than 75 other Democrats in Congress wrote a letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Thursday expressing their outrage and demanding that Republican leadership publicly rebuke Limbaugh. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee circulated a petition to that effect.
“Demand that Rush Limbaugh apologize for these incredibly appalling and ignorant remarks,” the petition says. “Misogyny must be called out, especially when it comes from a mouthpiece of the Republican Party.”