Rush Limbaugh: Sandra Fluke 'Coordinating' With White House on Student Loan Issue
via Mediaite ^ | April 24, 2012 | Meenal Vamburkar @ Fox Nation
Posted on April 25, 2012 6:11:51 PM EDT by SunkenCiv
On his show Tuesday, Rush Limbaugh brought up a name that recently enveloped him in controversy: Sandra Fluke. But it wasn't about contraception. This time, the topic at hand was student loans. Saying Fluke is "coordinating" with the White House, Limbaugh noted the their similar tweets about rising interest rates on loans.
"Lookie here," Limbaugh said. "Barack Obama just warned the students at the University of North Carolina that interest rates on federal student loans will double if Congress doesn't act by July 1."
He then went on, mentioning one of Fluke's tweets:
"Word for word, what Sandra Fluke just tweeted herself. Of course, she is represented by operatives inside the White House. [...] 'Don't double my rate. Many students will see the interest rate on federal student loans increase if Congress doesn't act by July 1.' That's an exact tweet from Sandra Fluke! Obama just said the exact same thing, word for word, to the students at North Carolina!"
"Contraception isn't enough," Limbaugh said. "Some people want their education paid for by other people too."
Limbaugh then elaborated on his view of Fluke's connection to the White House:
"Sandra Fluke is just a poor, uh, isolated alone little college student worried about her contraception at Georgetown. But now she's represented by the flacks in the White House -- Hilary Rosen, Anita Dunn -- and they're coordinating with Obama, scaring students about the interest rates on their student loans."
Over at Business Insider, Brett LoGiurato noted another almost word-for-word tweet -- from the other side of the aisle:
Student loan rates set to double because a Democratic-controlled Congress voted to double them -- Speaker John Boehner (@SpeakerBoehner) April 24, 2012
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