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The Spectacle Blog
Rush Limbaugh did the honorable thing today and apologized to Laura Fluke.
He wrote, “My choice of words was not the best, and in the attempt to be humorous, I created a national stir. I sincerely apologize to Ms. Fluke for the insulting word choices.”
Now I understand Rush points out absurdity in an entertaining way and one can most certainly argue that Ms. Fluke’s expectation that the federal government subsidize female contraception is absurd. But Rush took it a step too far in attacking Ms. Fluke personally. So instead of placing the spotlight on an absurd point, Rush placed the spotlight squarely on himself instead. His apology today acknowledges that error in judgment.
Yes, conservatives are held to a standard of decorum which liberals aren’t expected to abide. A liberal can accuse a conservative of racism, terrorism and delight in their death with near impunity. But that’s no reason for conservatives to behave badly. That doesn’t mean conservatives shouldn’t criticize liberals and their positions in an aggressive and spirited manner. But this aggression and spirit shouldn’t take the form of abuse and degregation. We can and must do better.
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A South| 3.3.12 @ 10:00PM
This only works if you're honest in your assessment of his apology.
The problem is the young woman was not actually talking about birth control but about the effect that some birth control pills have on feminine health (uterine/ovarian cysts) and that's why it should be made available much as viagra is which has a use besides sexual.
Oh, and about that little thing regarding delighting in death..you mean like Andrew Breitbart did when Ted Kennedy passed?
David W| 3.4.12 @ 9:08AM
From what I understood, in cases where the pills were used to treat a medical condition the insurance paid for that, and I believe that the testimony back and forth revealed that. However the media hasn't really done their job.
darcy| 3.4.12 @ 5:38PM
I'm sorry, I can't let this pass: " . . . the media hasn't really done their job."
Well, no, not if the media is operating as it should do, telling the truth, ferreting out the facts, and reporting its findings.
But the media has NOT been doing THAT job since at least the 60's when Walter Cronkite took it upon himself to inject his personal opinions into the reporting about the Vietnam War.
Unless, of course, it is understood that now the purpose, the reason for being, the very duty of the media is to act as the Greek Chorus for the Democrat Party, its cronies, its leftist minions, its enemies of capitalism, who seek to COLOR the "news" so that it favors its Marxist agenda while denigrating opposing viewpoints. Then one must conclude that the media is doing its job in exemplary fashion.
In short, the media is doing its job quite nicely, thank you very much.
Dave | 3.4.12 @ 11:31AM
Hang on, kids. Let's just take a deep breath and see what really happened with Rush. Actually, it's pretty simple. "The Ayatollah of Talkatollah" didn't really apologize. No, what the big guy did is what company executives and people of influence do all the time when their "suppliers" start leaving the ship. In this case, Rush was taking some advertiser heat over his description and analysis of "The Fluker" and went ahead to make a weekend, executive decision to pay-off the aggrieved with a public apology that carried as much sincerity as a print correction in the New York Times that admits an error in fact, but ends-up in the Friday Food Section; just below a tasty recipe for Broccoli Surprise.
In a business nutshell, Rush did what any smart CEO might do. He followed the money. And in the end, that's what the apology was all about.
The M-O-N-E-Y.
Having said that, and having no executive decision of my own to make, Fluke's still a sleaze. But then, I got no money dog in this particular hunt. I just call 'em as I sniff 'em.
Have a nice day.
Conservative Not Republican| 3.4.12 @ 1:26PM
Rush is a populist warmongering dumb ass and doesn't speak for True Conservatives.
Stan Redmond| 3.4.12 @ 1:50PM
It's an entertainment show.
Stan Redmond| 3.4.12 @ 1:49PM
BULLCRAP!
Bob| 3.3.12 @ 10:06PM
Call it like it is Goldstein. He caved. He caved in to the manufactured uproar from liberals, after he commented on a manufactured media personality meant to make contraception the main issue of the election. You won't hear Fluke apologizing for misleading viewers about her age or not correcting news anchors and reporters when they said she was 23. You won't hear Fluke apologizing for deliberately targeting a Catholic university to force contraception to be an issue. But you will hear Obama calling her to console her in the face of "vicious" conservative attacks and magnifying this issue even more.
What a joke.
Controse| 3.4.12 @ 1:00PM
Rush caves. The King is Dead. Long Live the King.
Paul McGrath| 3.3.12 @ 10:17PM
Hello Mr. or Ms. South,
Is it acceptable to you that government can be allowed to dictate to private insurance companies that they must make available certain products or services free of charge?
This is the issue. I am sincerely and without rancor looking forward to a response from you so that we may discuss.
Paul
Bob K.| 3.3.12 @ 10:18PM
Once this little tempest has run it's course there will be another one which will catch the fancy of the Spectacle Bloggers. Like this one it will be useful in keeping the minds of the readers off stopping Obama's re-election.
The liberals in the mainstream media are cheering the Spectacle Bloggers on!
Paul McGrath| 3.3.12 @ 10:32PM
You're right Bob. This is the first of hundreds of stink bombs which are going to be set off each and every week between now and election day. For once I wish the Republicans would anticipate these and have a response ready ahead of time.
Here's a coupla hints: there will be a stink about immigration (Republicans hate Latinos), there will be a stink about unions (Republicans are against the working man), there will be a stink about food stamps (Republicans hate the poor), there will be a stink about affirmative action (Republicans are racists), and, of course, playing currently at your local theatre, there is a stink about contraception (Republicans are against a woman's right to have sex and to have an abortion and to be disease-free and even for that matter have the right to vote the Neanderthal filthy pigs.)
God, for just once, think AHEAD.
Stan Redmond| 3.4.12 @ 1:55PM
In defense of the republicans who saw this coming? Who in their right minds would expect the entire democrat establishment along with 99% of all media outlets to creat this phony uproar so fast? Within 3 days the entire nation is immersed in this rediculous debate over what a couple sluts are doing and the bizaar assertion that the evyil republicans are banning birth control. How can anyone keep up? And especially with such rediculous topics? Reall, birth control for college sluts is more important than Iran's nukes and Afghanastan falling apart??? Even if the republicans were to anticipate this petty garbage the 99% media will go after the republicans for ignoring Iran and Afghanastan while the president is working so hard apologizing and bowing to the mullahs only to be distracted by those evyil condom banning republicans. They can't win these fights.
Bob K.| 3.3.12 @ 10:35PM
"But this aggression and spirit shouldn't take the form of abuse and (sic) degregation. (degradation?) We can and must do better."
Indeed!
Compassionate criticism!
President Bush would approve. Perhaps a joint session of congress could be called to define what constitutes "abuse" and "degradation" in matters of political speech? I don't think McCain/Feingold addressed this.
ayrnieu| 3.3.12 @ 10:38PM
Spineless.
Controse| 3.4.12 @ 1:02PM
Diddo.
Floyd Looney | 3.3.12 @ 11:24PM
Rush was correct the first time. This whole thing was masterful political warfare by the Democrats, the whole faux controversy was a sham from the start.
Vern Crisler | 3.4.12 @ 12:46AM
I agree. Rush will get as much respect from this stupid apology as American soldiers get when Obama apologizes to Muslim fanatics. In short, nada, no respect at all. I'm surprised Rush has fallen for it.
Floyd Looney | 3.4.12 @ 2:17AM
Less than one year ago Planned Parenthood and NOW and the MSM were praising and supporting the "slutwalks". Think about it.
Brendan| 3.3.12 @ 11:42PM
Still the Whore of Babylon.
She still wants welfare, since insurance is there to cover rare, expensive, events. Despite her looks, apparently its not rare that she needs birth control. Therefore, she is the WOB.
Tom| 3.4.12 @ 12:01AM
Rush can make his own decisons, but I would not have caved into apologizing to the little SLUT.
Minilening | 3.4.12 @ 9:10AM
You're absolutely right. I don't know what he was thinking. Oh, he wasn't thinking at all. What a douchebag...
S. Fluke| 3.4.12 @ 12:24AM
I do not accept Mr. Limbaugh's apology. This not about words, this is not about sex, this not really about contraception, this is about "girl power", and making the male old guard realize the days of patriarchy are now over. People like Mr. Goldstein make me laugh when they assume such forward thinkers as today's freed women are bothered by the meaningless slurs of the now defunct patriarchy. We have the dullards' gonads in the vice of our womanhood and they are ours to direct as long as our feelings are subjected to the greater good of womanhood. Why do you think we called them the "Slut Marches" you stupid dips__ts? Ha! Poor silly Goldstein and all his kitty-whipped "New Castratti" (including Rush) feminized RINO buddies.
S. Fluke| 3.4.12 @ 12:27AM
...Just a bunch of simpering, whimpering, self-worshipping weenies...Rolling these guys is easier than rolling 2-beered frat boy.
S. Fluke| 3.4.12 @ 12:30AM
Monica added a "Lewinski" to the lexicon, but I'm gonna one-up that little slut like nobody's business!
ejp| 3.4.12 @ 1:07AM
Rush was forced to cave because he could see how spineless so many in the Republican and "conservative" ranks were behaving on this by not pushing back the media narrative and instead buying into it.
Maybe Rush should have just borrowed one of James Carville's quotes and just referred to her as "limousine liberal trash" (the upscale version of "trailer park trash")
Robert17| 3.4.12 @ 3:23PM
Amen, Rush didn't cave over sponsors. Those that claim he did want to paint it as all about the money...they have no evidence. In reality, he put out this "apology" to spare Republican officials from being asked about it. Now, when will Obama be asked to repudiate Bill Maher, who calls Palin a slut?
Simon Templar| 3.4.12 @ 1:27AM
Congratulations, Aaron, feeling very puffed up, and self satisfied?
What you have done is helped support that double standard and like the good boy you are, you acted as a volunteer political correct policemen. We all sincerely hope you lay it on as thick and fight to the death when Politically Incorrect, Bill Maher, actually calls a woman as slut rather than describe her behaivor as slutty. My guess is you will have at least 20 opportunities this coming week. My guess is you will be on to something else and will not notice. In fact, I would bet on it. We, readers will be waiting and we hope you show the same dogged vindication and moral high ground when it flys, and it will, as it has. Be sure to spend at least a week jumping up and down and no less than three articles on it until you get a result. Now, we are counting on you.
Now that you have made it even more difficult for conservatives to say anything in the least that might even smack or possibly be interpreted as taking on an aggressive form of abuse and degregation, the Left thanks you so graciously with their middle finger and a nice round of the new aggressive and truly abusive regards.
So when someone comes up to your wife and calls her a whore that loves the other whore Palin, I am sure you will respond with grace, dignity, and gentleness. Good for you old boy!
This is good. So when a young person acts like a juvenile delinquent, I should refrain calling him or describing his behavior as juvenile and deliquent. Or a murderer a vile, evil person. Or a prostitute a prostitute or a hooker. No sorry, sex worker, my apologies. Abortionist will now be referred to as fetal non-person extractors, thank you. Illegal aliens, illegal immigrants, oops, sorry undocumented americans, do not want to offend anyone.
Oh yes, those previously called socialist will now be called utopian visionaries that love people or loving Obama supporters, for short.
Please refrain from using any words to describe someone or their behaivior that might be construed as having a value judgement surrounding them or any disapproval that might offend the other party even when they are insulting you, raping you, robbing you, assualting you, stealing from you, or any other unpleasant activity. Theives will now longer be called thieves but persons who have displaced others belongings.
Drunks and addicts will be refered to as substance abusers. Of course, NEVER EVER EVER call someone a whore, slut, loose woman, fornicator, sex addict, promiscuous, sexually immoral, man or woman, EVER EVER EVER no matter if they are screwing, oops sorry, having adult consenting relations with all and every football team in the country or the entire state of New Jersey including the governor.
If so, Goldstein will be there with a bar of soap to duty his honorable duty in protecting the sanctity of the conservative movement and all conservatives. Damn this nation may literally go to hell in a hand basket, perish from this earth, but if there is one damn thing that I will make sure is Rush Limbaugh or any conservative will use any language that might offend someone in the slightest and compromise our perfect record!
Simon Templar| 3.4.12 @ 1:42AM
Oh, and Goldstein, since you are on the topic of abuse and degregation, maybe you could spend a little time this week in writing about Ms. Fluke's abuse and degregation of the tax payer and those that do not share her interest in having, you know, relations...relations with so many people whereby she requires 4 years of free contraception. We can say that word, right?
Maybe, you could recognize the inherent insults, and untruths, and manipulations in that speech she gave congress. Speaking of abuse and denigration, maybe you could address the daily abuse and denigration that those suffer under who call themselves christians in this nation?
Simon Templar| 3.4.12 @ 1:59AM
Oh, Goldstein, on more thing, could you request that Ms. fluke do the honorable thing and apologize to the american people for demanding that we pay for her contraception and the offensive rationale she used in justifying this, and perhaps an apology to the jesuits and the university for treating their values, beliefs, and faith with such disrepect, contempt, and disregard? Would that be possible?
Oh, that's right, you probably do not see it that way, do you? It is just an absurd point she was making, that is all, nothing else was going on there.
Oh, did I use any offensive language or the wrong words, your sanctimonious highness.....?
Aaron Goldstein| 3.4.12 @ 3:07AM
Oh, Silly Simon. You're upset that Rush realized he was wrong, came to his senses, did the right thing and apologized. If you're angry about the apology then direct your ire at Rush, not me.
And if you think I haven't been vigorous in holding liberals to account when then you clearly haven't taken the time to read my articles and blog posts carefully. Such intellectual laziness on your part is quite unbecoming.
Bob K.| 3.4.12 @ 8:19AM
Mr. Goldstein,
I think I remember a recent column of yours in which you said you were from Canada. I believe it was Port Arthur in Ontario. But I may be in error on this and will stand corrected if this is not so.
I wonder if this explains your animus against political speech which is what Limbaugh was engaging in when he was mocking Fluke's political beliefs.
Wouldn't Limbaugh have been fined, or worse yet, had to appear before a court, to defend this kind of speech in Canada?
Mark Steyn writes about this Canadian censorship often. Perhaps the editors of the AS Spectacle Blog could offer him some space there to explain to their readers why this ultra-sensitivity to robust political dialogue does nothing to extend the cause of freedom?
Simon Templar| 3.4.12 @ 11:28AM
I do not have an issue with Rush apologizing or not apologizing. I have been addressing YOU and your behavior, your writings, your innapropriate moral equivelancies, your attitude, your hypocricy, you unwittingly playing into the liberal narrative, your poor coverage of this issue,
and your inability to admit when you are wrong, and your dismissive and arrogant attitude.
Now , you can try to misdirect this once again and not deal with or respond to any and all of my points or criticism of the way YOU reacted and dealt with this "Fluke event" all you want but the fact remains that what you did and how you handled this will produce the results that I have described. We will be watching the fallout from your intellectually laziness and silliness, this coming week.
You know nothing about why or what motivated Rush do do anything. You might, by the way, take the time to read the blog post of your readers who overwhelmingly think you are a simple minded fool.
One more point, you and your fellow beltway sycophants and conservative apologist seem to like to use the old lame and tired defense that we have obviously not taken the time to read your articles and blogs carefully, thus we have no leg to stand on. That is the best you can do?
Come on, you can do better than that.....
You know something sounded so familar about the tone, attitude, and style of your little curt and dismissive misdirectons and replys. I just remembered why. They sound a lot like the liberal trolls we get out here.
DRed| 3.4.12 @ 11:42AM
Hey champ, did you ever find the part of her testimony where Ms. Fluke talked about her own sexual activities?
Truth to Power| 3.4.12 @ 12:07PM
Yes. She wants me paying for it. This is always what it meant to liberals for people to get out of their bedrooms. You are expected only to be there with your checkbook. We pay huge prices for their fantasies of sex without consequences. Prisons full of single parent children, Democrat controlled cites full of incompetent mothers (after a couple generations without seeing legitimate parents, how could they be competent?) raising one more generation of players and teen age mothers, 50 million abortions, a pop culture that is so soaked in this culture that it successfully transfers this disease everywhere on the planet. A pop culture that can't see that Roman Polansky and Michael Jackson deserved to be in prison regardless of talent. Then there are the health problems from the myth of sex without consequences. It even encourages the Dreds of the world to think that the place where they are supposed to remove solid wastes from their bodies are some kind of recreational cavity. Extremely unhealthy and expensive. She is an extremely offensive individual and Dred has an obvious blind spot to what is wrong with her. Evil has become good to Dred.
Simon Templar| 3.4.12 @ 12:15PM
I have never been interested in knowing about her sexual activities or her attitudes about her friends sexual activities or her descriptions of their sexual activity, she has thrust that, no pun intended, into the public arena not me. That is the point, moron. You can misdirect all you want, that is your nature, Red. She talked about everyone elses sexual activities and how I should pay for them.
I did, however find this verbatim testimony. The testimony that I find offensive, manipulative, and insulting, and absolutely ridiculous. The testimony that for which I demand an apology from her.
"We expected women to be treated equally,
[translation, get free birth control when condoms are not supplied free to the male students. We will begin with a highly charged emotionally loaded accusation that we are being discriminated against and oppressed. That always works pretty well. The idea is to frame the issue and set the narrative, something beyond Goldstein's comprehension]
"to not have our school create untenable burdens that would impede our academic success."
[translation, not have to pay $4/month at Walmart so we can spend all our money on these fancy suits to testify before Congress to further our political careers]
"We expected that our schools would live up to the Jesuit creed of "Pura Personalis" - "to care for the whole person" by meeting all of our medical needs."
[translation, we expected them to disregard the medical needs of the unborn who are persons according to the beliefs upon which the university was founded and also expect that the university ignore all its beliefs about extra marital sex, promiscuity, and fornication. We are entitled to have you pay for this and we will throw your christian value of care for people in your face to get you to do something contrary to your other beliefs.]
"We expected that when we told our universities of the problems this policy created for us as students, they would help us."
[translation, we expected that we could just go to these universities, KNOWING their policies, and complain, and they would just forget their founding beliefs and established policies and just do whatever we want because we are women and we are liberals]
"We expected that when 94% of students opposed the policy, the university would respect OUR choices regarding insurance students pay for completely unsubsidized by the university."
[translation, we expect this to be a really good soundbite and we expect that most people do not know that when this law goes into effect, the university will have to HEAVILY subsidize our insurance or pay hefty fines. We also have indicated that most of us here are having a great deal of extra marital sex and do not aspire in the least to any of the codes, ethics, or values of this institution.].
"We did NOT expect that we would be told in the national media that 'we should have gone to school elsewhere."
[translation, if/when we actually become lawyers, we do not expect to actually have to READ the contracts we sign because we "know" how things "should" be. We are once again entitled to have and get whatever we want disregarding anyone else's desires, values, policys, views, rules, or freedom to live in accordance with their values and vision. If they object, well tough. I will force myself in here whether they like it or not].
"And even if that meant going to a less prestigious university, we REFUSE to pick between a qualify education and our health."
[translation, we don't care what beliefs this university was founded upon, WE want to profit from the prestige of attending it, you can take your values and go to hell.]
"and we resent that in the 21st century, anyone thinks its acceptable to ask us to make that choice simply because we are women."
[translation, we expect to be able to inflict OUR moral beliefs on a university which was founded upon a different set of beliefs than our own BECAUSE we are women and liberals. Your values and beliefs are archaic, you are backward idiots, and how dare you even question us. I will have as much damn sex I want to, any where I want to, and you will damn pay for it and shut the fuck up.]
DRed| 3.4.12 @ 12:26PM
It would have saved me some time if you'd just said 'no'. So if you don't know anything about her sexual activities, why do you keep calling her a slut?
Simon Templar| 3.4.12 @ 12:43PM
I have never called her a slut, jackass, that is your mentally disordered liberal mind that keeps hearing that. Look if you can not keep up and are only interested in making ridiculous, lame, stupid, and manipulative retorts and replys, I will be forced to ignore you which is suggested below by the editors. Go away, idiot liberal troll. You are a waste of time and a sorry excuse for a liberal.
As you know Red, I would know, as I told you so many times, I was You and am a good judge in this matter.
As a former radical, your thinking and rhetorical style is sophmoric and childish, frankly, it so predictable, it is boring.
Hey, if you ever need a vacation from your liberal trolling and Soros gives you one, drop me a line and I will retort for you. Gotta warn you though, I just might end up taking your job away.
DRed| 3.4.12 @ 12:52PM
Simon templar| 3.2.12 @ 1:44AM
In this case and many others, it is sometimes very appropriate to call a person exactly a term that fits. Slut has a definitive meaning, it is not a meaningless explicative.
Okay, I apologize. You didn't call her a slut. You said it was appropriate and fitting to call her a slut. Then you claimed "She confronted us with her slovenly promiscuous saucy lifestyle and demanded that I pay for it through my taxes and if I did not it would be proof that I hated women."
I think it's fair to ask you where she confronted you with her slovenly and promiscuous saucy lifestyle, because it certainly wasn't in her testimony. Do you think any woman who has non-marital sex is a slut? Do you think you the great Rushbo is a slut?
Simon Templar| 3.4.12 @ 1:28PM
Do you think any woman who has non-marital sex is a slut?
Slut by definition, "an immoral or dissolute woman, adulteress, fornicatress, a prostitute, hussy, jade, loose woman."
Some people seem to think so.
Oh, I forgot, my deepest apologies...shame on me...I forgot that you being a liberal are in charge of all morality, values, ethics, language, and thoughts that are acceptable and what are not. Silly me for thinking other people are entitled to their own ideas about such things. Just like that abortion thing...what was I thinking? No, that's not murder of a human being, that is a fetal non-person extraction. Where did I get such silly ideas? Oh, I forgot to check with you. Hey, I was wondering if it could check with you and see if it would be ok if people had sex with trees as they love nature so much and hug them.
Her slovenly promiscous saucy lifestyle was demonstarted in her testimony at length about her support, arrogant (saucy) defense, and unapologetic defense of her friends unmarital sexual activity (fornication, promiscuity) within the confines of an institution that has contrary values on such matters. She slovenly demanded that I pay for this activity for her and her friends and if I objected she implied that I was archaic, backward, oppressive, and hated women. All of which your side has been screaming at us for over a month, or did you forget about that?
Yeah, if rush has been involving himself in sexual activity and expecting others to pay for it or accpet the consequence of it, by some people definition he is a slut.
This was never the crux of the issue anyway and not my primary concern when I confronted your new pal, Goldstein. I personally do not give a rats ass, which I also said in my post that you conveniently did not repost, who and what she is screwing or how many times.
Do you think any woman who has non-marital sex is a slut?
What would constitute one for you or does it even exist? Let us hear all about your views in this area of morality and sexual conduct.
DRed| 3.4.12 @ 1:40PM
I didn't ask what the dictionary thinks. What do you think, Simon?
Why do you keep talking about promiscuity? Where did Ms. Fluke talk about sex at all? If you don't care who Ms. Fluke has sex with, why do you think it's fitting that Rush called her a slut? Where did she demand that you pay for her contraception? Do you pay for the insurance that Georgetown students are required to have?
Simon Templar| 3.4.12 @ 7:50PM
No, what do you think? You address my questions and my points for once or fuck off, getting tired of your evasive, liberal hypocritical bullshit and double talk. What, you do not have a brain or an opinion of your own, other than your approved smarmy talking points and what you echo from your masters? You start answering my points and my questions. I am not here to prove anything to you. You prove to me that the woman is not a slut, a promiscous , manipulative, expert activist that does not want me , through my taxes and others taxes, to pay for her contraception or for that matter, that she respects the institution and the policies of that institution that she voluntariliy decided to attend and abide by.
Where did she demand that you pay for her contraception? Man, that was incredible. Go back to the planet that you came from because you are not from here.
You do not have an argument that is why you evade and redirect.
DRed| 3.4.12 @ 8:19PM
Evasive? You still haven't told me where in Fluke's testimony she talked about her own sexual practices, chump. All you do is lie and prevaricate. Face it, Simon. Fluke didn't talk about her sexual practices. She didn't demand that you, or anyone else, pay for her contraception. If I'm wrong, shut me up by showing me where she said something to contradict me.
george washington| 3.6.12 @ 12:06AM
Ms. Fluke should go to a college that supports her religious beliefs and not try to shut down the first amendment rights of Catholic Georgetown U to practice their religion. Also planned parenthood give away for free ALOT of federally funded contraceptives & services for deserving young "women".
And yes, for those of us that donate to a Catholic College like Georgetown, OUR money would now have to pay for contraceptives. And if they do not offer them then Georgetown will have to pay fines in US funds that Catholic parishes would have to pay for, since its the Catholic Church in America that supports these Catholic institutions.
Also, there are no contraceptives that cure any sicknesses.
cheers
Aaron Goldstein| 3.4.12 @ 8:37PM
If you think Ms. Fluke fits the definition of a slut then why do you make a point of saying that you have not addressed her as such?
I'll answer that for you. The reason you haven't called Fluke a slut is because deep down you know it's wrong. Slice it however you want. Rush was wrong and he has acknowledged as much.
Robert17| 3.4.12 @ 3:28PM
Because if she were in a monogamous relationship she could be on the pill for $9 per month. Since she claims that she needs $1000 a month for birth control, we can infer she needs numerous condoms to prevent the spread of STDs from her various partners. Get it? She is a slut.
Robert17| 3.4.12 @ 3:28PM
"$1000 a year"
DRed| 3.4.12 @ 3:43PM
There's more than one kind of pill. Some of them cost considerably more than $9 a month. You add that to the cost of the doctor's visit you need to get the pill and you can easily get to $1000 a year. Keep trying, people.
Simon Templar| 3.4.12 @ 7:58PM
It does not cost a 1000 dollars a year, you lying, evasive piece of liberal crap. Generic pills cost around 15 dollars a month. Her and her friends, other than the one who suffers from tumors, who I would gladly help financially to pay for the pills to treat her condition, can use a myriad of contraceptives. A box of condoms is about 4 bucks, jerk off.
Keep lying and will keep trying to deal with your lying, Lenin boy.
As of Monday, we will no linger be distracted with your decepetive bullshit and we will get back on your messiah economic record and his failures.
DRed| 3.4.12 @ 8:50PM
No, it doesn't cost a thousand dollars a year for the average woman, but IT CAN cost more than a thousand dollars if, for some medical reason, you have to take a specific oral contraceptive. Some of them are 90 bucks a month or more. You do the math.
Aaron Goldstein| 3.4.12 @ 8:21PM
My commentary on this matter began when I questioned Ms. Fluke's decision to appear with Ed Schultz given that Schultz had used the same word to describe Ms. Ingraham that Rush used to describe Fluke.
But this point went way over your head because I thought it wrong for Rush use such harsh words towards Fluke. It is abundantly clear you cannot countenance an opinion that is at odds with your own.
I stand by what I have written.
Simon Templar| 3.4.12 @ 12:59PM
Goldstein,
Contemplate the following. Maybe you might have the intellectual strength to understand it.
I have grave doubts that you will be able.
It is probably one of the most succint and eloquent statements I have ever read out here and sums up everything that I struggled to get into your thick, dualistic thinking head. Don't strain yourself.
"Part of the way that virtue, any virtue for that matter, is maintained, is by maintaining the stigma that attaches to the corresponding vice. Attempting to shame Limbaugh, and NOT the woman in question, is a unwise and unhealthy reversal of the proper order of things."--Drek
Aaron Goldstein| 3.4.12 @ 8:27PM
I fail to see the virtue of calling Ms. Fluke a slut.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 3.4.12 @ 5:38AM
At the very least she's a peternatural freeloader with no sense of personal responsibility.
Rush violated PC Rule Number 1: Never criticise a woman who is seeking government intervention in her quest to be a strong independent woman.
darcy| 3.4.12 @ 5:48PM
EVERY PC rule needs to be violated, and violated often, daily, with relish and with vigor, with fearlessness and passion.
To do otherwise is to live as subjects and slaves.
SPEAK OUT. Damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead. That's how our enemies operate, yes enemies -- we're in a war; they demand that we be silenced and sent underground. I say evil prevails when good men do nothing. Be men, damn it!!!
Clint| 3.4.12 @ 6:58AM
Rush Gets It, On This " Why Don't Ya Get Fluked " Issue.
In This Case It Was Better To Shoot First And Apologize Later."
The Left Has Once Again Dared To Mess With Catholic Institutions And Now Watch And Learn What The 25 Percent Of American Voting Public Catholics, Including Mimority Hispanic Catholics Think Of The Flukers.
Herb Tarlek| 3.4.12 @ 7:27AM
As I understand it Rush apologized after losing several advertisers. It was a business decision.
I hope this doesn't lead to too many more problems for Rush. It is imperative that he remain the voice of the Republican party.
Bob K.| 3.4.12 @ 9:00AM
Perhaps the sponsors who have boycotted him because they disagreed with his form of political speech will become known and then the listeners who agree with his right to express his political views in the manner he chooses will be able to boycott those former sponsors?
Freedom is a two way street! The first amendment allows one to march under a different banner in a different direction!
l5j6f7| 3.4.12 @ 7:48AM
I really don't understand this. This woman was obviously used for show by Obama/Pelosi, to put a face on their desire to have contraception (and really everything), free of charge under Obamacare.
She lied about her age; the MSM made it appear she was an innocent 23 yr old "co-ed", when in reality, she's a 30 yr old lawyer and hard-left activist.
So Rush was making a rhetorical point. Something like - what do you call somone who accepts money for sex? A prostitute, a slut.
I think it was a fine point to make.
In the end, another victory for Obama and the MSM.
Simon Templar| 3.4.12 @ 11:36AM
l5, you have done what I was trying to do in 5 short paragraphs and sum this all up quite well.
Be careful though in bringing up these hard cold facts about this situation. You don't want to upset Goldstein with reality...he has not a clue what you are talking about and thinks this has now been laid to rest...Rush has apologized!
Excellent!
l5j6f7| 3.4.12 @ 11:42AM
Ah thanks Mr Templar, or should I call you "The Saint"? You and I are probably the only people old enough to remember The Saint, although I was very young at the time, my older brother watched it. PS - or was it spelled "Templer"? Hmm....?
Drek| 3.4.12 @ 11:46AM
The woman was USED.
And who USED her, who USED her for their own ends, their own agenda, their own political purposes.
She was USED, and afterwards, which amongst us has any doubt that she will be discarded.
Thus she was DEHUMANIZED, and not by Limbaugh who respected her enough to take umbrage with what she said, the forum in which she said it, and the entire worldview that her comments symbolized.
If any apology should be forthcoming, it ought to come from those who used her and fully intended, all the while, to discard her when it suited their purposes, and not before.
Their entire use of her is evocative of those one-night stands where the guy blows his load in some chick, doesn't give a damn about the chick, and dumps her without even bothering to call her later............
W| 3.4.12 @ 1:49PM
This story is absurd. As part of the campaign to force Catholic institutions to bow to Obama/Sebellius this Fluke is trotted out to complain she and her friends cannot afford the $3000 cost over a three year period for birth control, or about $100 per month.
If only these bad Catholic law schools like Georgetown would include the birth control in the coverage for the student health plan! If it was included then the premium would be higher and Fluke would pay a higher premium. Fluke could purchase a health plan that provides birth control. She is not forced to buy the Georgetown pan, unless she is getting this plan for free as part of her scholarship.
She and her friends that graduate from Georgetown, a premier law school, will probably receive job offers ranging from $100,000 to $150,000 per year PROVIDED they have excellent grades. They should have excellent grades if they spend the time studying and attending classes.
Most students borrow to pay for law school. Fluke is on some scholarship according to her testimony. Most students borrow about $150,000 for the three years in law school. Fluke could easily add $3,000 to her loan package to pay for her birth control, and pay it herself. Are we to feel sympathy for someone who will be making $100,000 per year when she graduates from one of the top ten law schools?
How much is Fluke paying for her cell phone? Her cable bill? Should taxpayers pay for these also?
l5j6f7| 3.4.12 @ 1:53PM
Well put.
gearjammer| 3.4.12 @ 8:28AM
The modern day Churchill, as he fancies himself, was forced to eat a shit sandwich served up by a " commie babe ". This is the rights master political guru. God help the GOP. It was his sponsers and the GOP and I bet his wife who adjusted his attitude. It was Rush's Old Yeller moment. They shot the diseased animal cause he was a danger to his own. Let us hope he reincarnates as a better man and an asset to the GOP. By the way, Hannitty went down road as well. Ms Fluke do bring him to his knees as well. These 2 oafs believe themselves to be keepers of Reagan's flame. If you tortured the
Gipper he would not insult a woman publicly in this fashion. They keep his flame alright. They piss on it. Ban them from uttering his name for a year.
Bob K.| 3.4.12 @ 10:34AM
President Reagan also lived by his maxim of "never speaking ill of another Republican" and so you stand here accused by yourself of ignoring it.
Limbaugh was speaking ill of a democrat.
gearjammer| 3.4.12 @ 1:44PM
Limbaugh is not a Republican. We threw him out.
Bob K.| 3.4.12 @ 4:19PM
What would be the name of your group of liberal trolls that "we" threw out of the Republican party?
Limbaugh is a Republican alright. Right now none of us here are sure that you are.
dlb| 3.4.12 @ 9:01AM
More accurately, Rush should have called her a liar, a stooge, a shill, and a statist parasite. Whether or not she is actually a slut is a matter of conjecture, since we have only her word for the extent of her sexual activity.
Bob K.| 3.4.12 @ 9:15AM
"Yes, conservatives are held to a standard of decorum which liberals aren't expected to abide."
These are your words Mr. Goldstein.
And who sets those standards Mr. Goldstein?
Who is given the right to parse the definition of political speech according to the political beliefs of the speaker and judge the speaker accordingly?
Can you find that answer anywhere in the First Amendment?
martin j smith| 3.4.12 @ 9:29AM
I do not buy the holier than you attitude and I feelit is actually destructive to say the least. I read Rush's comment. He a)did apologize but b) In the context of the real issue. so c) I ask myself was this a voluntary apology or was force or blackmail or "persuasion" foisted as the motive for his remarks ? I have not made up my mind since there is little information. For those who call themselves Conservatives and who demanded Rush apologize I say this: When YOU (Aaron that means you ) demonstrate that YOU demand apologies from Obama or any other Socialist say for calling Tea Party folks stuff like racists,Nazis
in as forceful enough manner then we can talk but until then on this matter ( and btw its not only about Rush ) I continue to part company with you and your ilk.
Aaron Goldstein| 3.4.12 @ 8:32PM
Nonsense. I have been vigorous in decrying accusations of racism against the Tea Party.
http://spectator.org/archives/.....lor-of-tea
kingsmill| 3.4.12 @ 10:32AM
Breitbart's endowment to conservatives: "confront, deconstruct and forcibly disrupt the legacy media and Left narrative";
Beltway/establishment "conservatives" (a la Goldstein et al.) response to hostile legacy media and left narrative: accommodate yourself to the narrative, police and isolate those who do not do so within your ranks. Do not hesitate to throw non-appeasers under the bus. Remain docile but project an air of moral unctuousness.
Paul Windels| 3.4.12 @ 10:36AM
Well said. In terms of who says we should behave better than the left has, it is we ourselves. We object to their behavior when they personalize every debate and question our motives and morals just for making an argument rather than opposing the argument on the merits. If we turn around and do the same thing, then our only real difference with them is that we are we and they are they, which flunks basic logic. Moreover, if our focus shifts from the merits to demonizing the opponent, it becomes easy for us to lose track of the merits of the argument itself.
For those who insist on looking at this in terms of short term tactics and political pragmatism, you would do well to remember two things. First, check the direction of the wind before you start spitting. Second, there is a big difference between being tough and being mean. Reagan and Goldwater were tough without ever getting personal. If you can't tell the difference, then you really don't know what being tough means.
Tarr| 3.4.12 @ 10:56AM
Goldwater and Reagan were elected (or seeking to be) officeholders. Rush is an opinionator in an entertainment medium.
martin j smith| 3.4.12 @ 10:52AM
OK it will be Goldstein: Goldstein how do you know that Rush "came to his senses"? Did he personally call you. Or is this your wishful thinking ? Here is my best guess. And no Rush did not call me either. My best guess: Rush was told to apologize by the station(s ), his own legal advisor and Establishment Republican Leadershit
but I do not believe he did this on his own. What he did on his own with the approval of his legal advisor was his statement. But as for you Goldstein --your approach is destructive and as usual places the Republican brand on permanent defense. Thus places the GOP on permanent disadvantage. No Goldstein I do not buy your kool Aid any more than Obama"s. As a result of this kind of thinking I have to calculate from my perspective the value of voting at all. In this election only for 2012 I will vote for the Republican nominee-but whoever it is -because I vote against Obama-should that candidate lose--for the future I would question the viability of the Republican Party and one reason is the ideas that you offer in this article.
Pete Brown| 3.4.12 @ 11:06AM
Rush's original point, which is valid, was that the whole congressional hearing was plastic banana phony nonsense. While the assembled congressmen, the media and commentators furrow their brows, there is no reason why sane people should take this stuff seriously. And how does one break through this citadel of pious, willful ignorance? One way is to take Ms. Fluke's testiomony seriously on its own terms.
You say you spend $1000 per year on contraception? Well, that is almost three condoms per day. So, if you have sex three times a day with dudes who can't afford to buy their own jimmy sacks, well, you might just be a slut.
I doubt that Ms. Fluke is actually having sex three times a day with dudes who can't afford their own condoms. Rush was pointing out her absurdity by taking her seriously.
No doubt this too subtle a point for many liberals. We expect better of conservatives.
Drek| 3.4.12 @ 11:42AM
Not just was Limbaugh's point valid, -------------- his point NEEDED to be made.
And if Limbaugh's point hadn't been made, it would have represented a sad milestone along our path towards that society devoid of morality.
The ongoing attempt to strip any and all moral standards from the playground of human sexuality is bizarre, unhealthy, unwise and it will surely lead to a wider and more profound corruption of our collective personal and public lives.
Drek| 3.4.12 @ 11:06AM
This is part of a much wider campaign, where terms such as slut are banned from America's cultural lexicon.
As such, it's part of a creeping totalitarianism, where not just expressions, words, sentiments, but even thoughts are prohibited. The offender is denied any standing within America's ongoing political and cultural conversation.
This is appalling.
This is absolutely appalling.
DRed| 3.4.12 @ 11:21AM
Nobody is prohibiting that porcine pill popper from calling anyone a slut. But if you're willing to offend most of the women in America by acting like an ignorant jackass you've got to be willing to pay the piper. Rush pissed a lot of people off, his advertisers started jumping ship, and now he's going to have to grovel to try to stop the bleeding. That's how free speech works.
Drek| 3.4.12 @ 11:37AM
"[A]n ignorant jackass?"
Have you lost it?
Who here stood before a solemn assembly of the American people, when she was over thirty, and demanded that others pay for her insatiable, never-ending sexual desires to be satisfied?
Who amongst us started a campaign behind the scenes, -------------------- and such a campaign we've seen before, and is very much like that ongoing campaign against Fox News to deprive that whole network of advertisers, ----------- to strip a radio host of commercial advertisers? Such an endeavor is a modern form of blacklisting, and is without any doubt, a device of the left?
DRed| 3.4.12 @ 11:50AM
Nobody. Ms. Fluke didn't mention her sexual desires a single time. She also didn't demand that anyone else pay for her health insurance.
Rush is an ignorant jackass, as opposed to a regular jackass, because he doesn't seem to know how the birth control pill works.
Drek| 3.4.12 @ 12:16PM
Ever heard the term "en passant?"
It means roughly, "in passing."
When she came out, again, not before her peers, or her fellow travelers, but before Congress, the legislature of the American people, and pretended to be this innocent co-ed, not disclosing that she was a seasoned political operative for the left, and cried that she needed others to pay for her to be able to satisfy herself, and when she went on about the vast amount of money she needed to be able to safely satisfy herself, --------------------------------- it OPENED THE DOOR............
Anyone familiar with any legal drama on television fully understands the entire concept of "opening the door."
Limbaugh made a fair, reasonable, and fully justified conclusion about this woman's sexual hankerings and proclivities from her idiotic and embarrassing testimony.
DRed| 3.4.12 @ 12:29PM
As I mention below, if you'd listened to or read her testimony, you'd know the very first thing she did was identify herself as an activist. She also never asked anyone to pay for her health care, nor did she mention her own, or any other woman's, sexual satisfaction. Try again.
Simon Templar| 3.4.12 @ 11:52AM
Red,
When you apologize to the American people for calling them tea baggers, you piece of hypocritical commie filth, see I used a bad word, we will be glad to drop the slut reference and more accurately describe her as a phony, manipulative, offensive, promiscous, ridiculous, left wing activist posing as a co-ed twenty something. You know its always a good idea to not do exactly what you are trying to tell others not to do...porcine pill popper...I think you owe Rush an apology. Do not talk to us about free speech, you invented PC.
DRed| 3.4.12 @ 12:11PM
She's a secret activist! If it wasn't for brave conservative bloggers fighting the lame stream media, most of America would have no idea that this so-called student was actually, of all things, an activist for the cause she was testifying about. I mean, how else could America learn that?
"Leader Pelosi, Members of Congress, good morning, and thank you for calling this hearing on women’s health and allowing me to testify on behalf of the women who will benefit from the Affordable Care Act contraceptive coverage regulation. My name is Sandra Fluke, and I’m a third year student at Georgetown Law, a Jesuit school. I’m also a past president of Georgetown Law Students for Reproductive Justice or LSRJ. I’d like to acknowledge my fellow LSRJ members and allies and all of the student activists with us and thank them for being here today."
Oh, from literally the first paragraph of Ms. Fluke's statement. You really still haven't read it, Simon? Do you think for yourself at all?
Simon Templar| 3.4.12 @ 12:29PM
She is a damn seasoned activist and has been working on these issues for some time. She is not just some poor little student who just happend by as the MEDIA has portrayed her. I know what she said. Still waiting for that apology.
You know I always know I am firing all cylinders and making some difference here because when I am, you always show up.
Read it, I watched the whole thing on video.
Drek| 3.4.12 @ 11:10AM
I've had significant differences with THE OTHER MCCAIN of late.
BUT his commentary on this the other day, over at his website, succinctly and accurately summed up the validity of the term.
Part of the way that virtue, any virtue for that matter, is maintained, is by maintaining the stigma that attaches to the corresponding vice. Attempting to shame Limbaugh, and NOT the woman in question, is a unwise and unhealthy reversal of the proper order of things.
It isn't Limbaugh who ought to be shamed, but the woman, a THIRTY YEAR OLD WOMAN, and her parents, AND GEORGETOWN too, for her utterances and commentary before a solemn assembly of the representatives of the American people.
LarryK| 3.4.12 @ 11:10AM
Rush made an error in judgment in an apology to Ms. Fluke. She wants to have indiscriminate sex and have the Taxpayers pay for her birth control. What next, dinner and drinks? Sounds like a Ho to me.
Drek| 3.4.12 @ 11:39AM
Limbaugh had absolutely no business whatsoever capitulating.
And that's what happened.
Limbaugh CAPITULATED, and I've little doubt, JUST LIKE NEWT GINGRICH during the Clinton era, that it was the wider Republican leadership that begged and pleaded for him to "just put it behind us."
I can't believe it.
I'm in a state of shock that Limbaugh, after speaking at length about this Friday, would then fold like a cheap lawn chair 24 hrs hence.
This is a disaster.
martin j smith| 3.4.12 @ 11:23AM
Pete Brown I really do not know who you are in the sense that I do not see your name (such as it is ) with many previous posts . That means you could be the run of the mill RINO or you could be an Obama supporter pretending to be a moderate Republican or ... So said to Goldstein here, your type of thinking is destructive to the Republican Brand. If Romney turns out to be the nominee and if he loses this will be the end of your brand and it will be the end of our country. I think that is much more important than Rush's comments which were valid. And, freedom of speech is more important than your PC attitude.
Pete Brown| 3.4.12 @ 10:52PM
Martin: I honestly have no idea what you are trying to say. I think you are saying that Rush's comments are valid. I think that Rush's original comments were valid. I am not particularly happy that he apologized.
l5j6f7| 3.4.12 @ 11:47AM
Sorry to say, fellow conservatives but as BJ Clinton once said, "perception is reality". Most of the public, who pay little or no attention to political debate, only heard that Rush insulted a "helpless, young co-ed". In fact, my local news Friday night, gave out a teaser that said something like "tune in later to hear what a prominent conservative said about women". About women! That's how they phrased it!
The only thing that matters in the public's eye is this: Obama 1, Rush 0.
martin j smith| 3.4.12 @ 12:09PM
Not quite--for the dust will settle and the real issue(s ) will be on the front burner. There will be the economy, the failed foreign and defense policies and there will be the war on religion among other wars that Obama has started.
But more to the point 15j6f7--which tells me you are a troll and possibly one of the others like jcrew, or spew, or are you Mr/MRS Sarcastic.
We have your number and it is zero. You are a zero.
S. Fluke| 3.4.12 @ 12:11PM
Goldstein = Useful Rush-hating, emasculated tool we Slut Marchers find useful. Thanks for your support Aaron! I'm sure that in the new world under rightful female dominion we will have a place for the New Castratti like you.
Eric F| 3.4.12 @ 12:18PM
El Drugbo is a slob. Just like the self annointed "Great One" and our own local fool Bill Cunningham.
aware| 3.4.12 @ 12:32PM
Apparently it is harder to give being a water boy for the Republican Party than it is to give up drug addiction.
Immortal Fish| 3.4.12 @ 1:24PM
Why is the media helping Sandra Fluke promote promiscuous and UNSAFE sexual activity?
Controse| 3.4.12 @ 1:30PM
The only way his apology can be accepted by us Ditto Heads as honorable is if the company that distributes his show convinced him they would discontinue doing so unless he promptly apologized. Since we will never know he has irreparably damaged his "brand." He is the uncompromising exposer of Liberal/Progressive/Communist hypocrisy no more.
This was a golden opportunity to scare every single RINO/CINO out of their hiding place. Mr. Goldstein included. Rush should have invited her to appear on his show and explain for his listing audience how her self-described behavior differs from that of the dictionary definition of a slut. Once she made the difference clear an apology would have been in order. Of course Rush would never have reached that point since it is impossible to draw a distinction between her behavior and that of a slut. Her claim that her sexual activity was putting her financial health at risk can only mean she is having an awfully lot of sexual activity. If its all with one dead beat partner she is not a slut just a fool. What are the chances of that? She is a law student and Georgetown University after all.
We learn Breitbart is dead and that Rush isn't the ass kicker we thought he was. This past week will live in infamy for conservative warriors everywhere.
ejp| 3.4.12 @ 1:33PM
Goldstein praises wussy behavior once again for conservatives. I'll take seriously the notion that he is just as hard on liberal outrages when he calls for Republican congressional members to sign resolutions and petitions demanding Obama return every nickel of Bill Maher's contributions, or otherwise it should be fair game for Obama to be branded for courting the support of anti-Christian bigots with KKK style mentalities.
Simon Templar| 3.4.12 @ 1:48PM
ejp, Wow. Very good point and amazing observation. Really, where is the outrage!?
JJ| 3.4.12 @ 1:37PM
I have a problem with passive voice. As in "Republicans are held to a higher standard." I have to ask BY WHOM? They are held with contempt by liberals, so that is hardly a standard. The media is biased, so standards are violated by ABC, NBC, CNN and CBS with impunity. Other conservatives understood the comments by Rush and see this apology more as a result of a sponsor - Carbonite - who by the way STILL sponsors Schultz - leaving.
So I am left with the ones holding conservatives to higher standards are really pseudo or cowardly republicans who can't stand being the recipient of demagoguery from the left.
Simon Templar| 3.4.12 @ 1:52PM
And that nails it!
Bob K.| 3.4.12 @ 4:51PM
I think it is more complicated than cowardice on Mr. Goldstein's part. He is capable of giving as much as he takes. I think that, in this instance, like many journalists, he is not comfortable with freedom of speech. Especially political speech. And especially with the political speech of people in his own political party who disagree with him. It would probably take a psychiatrist like Occam to properly analyze why.
Maybe it was movies like "All The President's Men" which helped bring all of this about. All those young, bright people who looked at Journalism as the vehicle which would finally make the USA the promised land! And the leaders of this march out of the wilderness would be the journalists! It at least explains their readiness to lecture the voting public on how they should think and talk.
martin j smith| 3.4.12 @ 1:50PM
At least two companies pulled their advertising--Sleep Number Bed and LifeLock. --So this is the origin of the apology. Goldstein you are either ignorant or let us say not exactly being honest here. I think it would be very interesting to find out the origins of these pressures. Did say the Obama administration have a role in this or--how about the Republican Establishment ? Well it could be both--both have an axe to grind. So that leads me to this Goldstein--I have no use for your phoney baloney crap--This apology was forced by the Radio Station and political forces. It was not some one who "came to his senses". It was blackmail plain and simple. We the People have a lot of thinking to do about our future and of our country. Your views on this are absolutely a sign of curruption of the system with which I have no confidence at all.
But as I said I will for 2012 only vote Republican--after that it all depends on how things pan out. There will be a need to reconsider the use of the Republican party and how to proceed going forward. There is a need for a viable opposition party and who know where this will lead.
gearjammer| 3.4.12 @ 2:02PM
We claim the rude boys are on the other side. Ingrates who disrespect women via the most ugly perverse anti female lyrics. But, we republicans need to wake up. We have more than our share of rude, uncouth, uncivilized savages in our ranks. You reading this stuff Rush ? These louts are your legacy. Your sainted grandfather would take you to the woodshed. Take a sabbatical. Clear your head and come back sane and remade to unleash your talents in the way that will lead to victory. This silly woman was not worth the breath you wasted-goodness do you not see that ?
jppc| 3.4.12 @ 3:05PM
Wake up, it's not the 18th century anymore. Turn on the tv, radio, internet, movies and you will hear and see routine obscenities daily.
Rush was trying to make a rhetorical point. Get over it. Msssssss Fluke was hand picked by Nancy Botox Peolsi and Big Eared Barry. Am I allowed to use those terms or are they too "rough" for you? Boo-hoo.
Bob K.| 3.4.12 @ 4:21PM
Gearjammer might be a liberal troll. Let us wait and see.
gearjammer| 3.5.12 @ 8:02AM
The vast majority of the voters want a more civil and civilized society. On of the reasons I am republican is that we are not the party of gangsta rap and Larry Flynt, although now it seems many of you want to be.
martin j smith| 3.4.12 @ 2:18PM
No the wrong Rx except to clear your head that is for sure --may be it already is cleared ? The real issue is this: Do you spill the beans about this entire saga--who pressured who to pressure you to apologize ? Can you tell us ? What will happen if you did ? Has Rush been threatened ? If so how ? This is most serious and should be investigated. We need new Breitbarts now !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Irish22| 3.4.12 @ 2:22PM
Yo, Yo, Yo! Unbelievable Rush gets caught in this. And I think everybody missed the main point. She knows it's a Catholic University, so why go there knowing they won't pay for your contraceptives? I'm sure there are many state-funded schools that hand out birth control pills, condoms, etc. like candy. The point is freedom of choice!
Drek| 3.4.12 @ 7:58PM
Georgetown had no business admitting to their law school this idiotic hack who has spent a good chunk of the last ten years immersed in political agitation.
Furthermore, Georgetown Law School had no business overseeing this chick getting a scholarship to their institution.
So she had no business being there and she had no business getting a scholarship to be there.
USSAlabama| 3.4.12 @ 5:12PM
We tune in or listen by choice. Hearing Rush is not forced upon any of us.
Why apologize to the listeners? To whom should we apologize for saying or thinking the same thing?
Nobody.
Free speech works in ALL directions. This person should not have said the things she did if she did not want people to SAY anything about what she does, how stupid she is about saying it of herself, or simply voicing opinion of what she herself says she does.
It's on her.
JJ| 3.4.12 @ 8:08PM
I think we should take a collection and send Fluke enough rubbers to last her about 15 more years.