Rush: Dunham ad insults women

Rush Limbaugh said Friday that actress Lena Dunham’s ad for President Barack Obama — in which the HBO “Girls” star talks about her “first time” (it’s actually voting for Obama, not like losing her virginity) — insults women as “monolithic sex machines.”

“I don’t know if it’s going to work or backfire. It’s insulting to women. It again looks at women as monolithic sex machines who want to make sure they’ve got unending birth control pills and then a free trip to Planned Parenthood the next day, all paid for by Obama,” Limbaugh said on his radio show, according to audio posted by Daily Rushbo. “If I were a woman today, I would feel insulted each and everyday. The way they look at women: all thinking the same way, all wanting the same things.”


Limbaugh joined other conservatives who are outraged about the 26-year-old actress’s ad.

Limbaugh added: “Some people look at it and think it’s cool and it’s hip and it’s representative of the current modern-day pop culture. But I think it’s an insult to women everywhere. I mean where the hell is Gloria Steinem? Gloria, is this what you all have been fighting for all your lives? An ad like this? An appeal to women as sex machines?”

Limbaugh also wondered whether Obama would show the ad, titled “Your First Time,” to his daughters Malia, 14; and Sasha, 11.

“No, there’s no way Obama will play this ad for his two daughters. There’s no way. Because they’re nowhere near voting. They’re not nearly old enough to vote yet,” Limbaugh said, according to a show transcript. “But he also wouldn’t play it for them because I guarantee you, this is the kind of stuff that’s fine for your kids to be exposed to, but not his kids.”