Now-famous Sandra Fluke appears with Obama at a campaign rally in Denver. | REUTERS Rush: I deserve finder's fee for Fluke

Rush Limbaugh said Wednesday he deserves a “finder’s fee” for Sandra Fluke, who is campaigning with President Barack Obama in Colorado.

“Obama’s out there today, he’s at a fundraiser, and guess who is introducing him? Well-known contraception expert Sandra Fluke,” the conservative radio host said.


“When you mention her name, my name is what most people think of,” he continued, according to audio posted by The Daily Rushbo. “I should be getting a finder’s fee.”

Fluke is scheduled to introduce Obama at a campaign rally — not a fundraiser — in Denver on Wednesday.

She first came to prominence after House Republicans refused to allow her to testify at a February hearing on a contraception mandate included in the health care reform law. Democrats later held a protest hearing where she was allowed to testify. The next week, Limbaugh attacked Fluke two days in a row on his radio show, repeatedly calling her a “slut.”

In her testimony, Fluke had said many women at Georgetown University — where she was a third-year law student — find it difficult to afford birth control since the school’s health care plan doesn’t cover it. Limbaugh said this was because “she’s having so much sex.” Limbaugh said that if Fluke wanted federally funded birth control, she should post sex tapes online “so all of us can watch.”

Limbaugh’s comments provoked a massive outcry. He lost almost 100 advertisers and eventually issued an apology.

The conservative talker opened Wednesday’s segment by wondering whether he should “ignore” or “talk about and have a little fun with” Fluke’s appearance. Choosing the latter, he took another indirect shot at Fluke, who has endorsed the president in his reelection bid.

“I don’t know if they give out condoms at Obama’s fundraisers,” he said, apparently answering a question from one of his producers.

Limbaugh also questioned a Huffington Post story linking some of the families that helped seed Bain Capital, the private-equity firm founded by Mitt Romney, to 1980s Latin American death squads.

“Let me ask you a question: What’s the difference in that and the Democrats being underwritten by Planned Parenthood and NARAL?” the conservative talker asked. “If they’re not death squads, I don’t know what is. How many abortions every year? 1.73 million or something?”