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Rush Limbaugh is apologizing to Georgetown law student and activist Sandra Fluke after calling her a "slut" on air, a day after President Obama entered the fray. In his apology, Limbaugh said that he did not believe "it is a topic that should reach a presidential level."

"For over 20 years, I have illustrated the absurd with absurdity, three hours a day, five days a week. In this instance, I chose the wrong words in my analogy of the situation. I did not mean a personal attack on Ms. Fluke," Limbaugh said.

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However he was coerced, however he rationalizes it...

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By Faiz Shakir on Mar 3, 2012 at 7:57 pm


Moments ago, Carbonite – a company providing backup software for computers – announced that it will no longer advertise on Rush Limbaugh’s show. CEO David Friend made clear in a Facebook statement that, despite Limbaugh’s “apology” issued tonight, the company was still pulling its ads because it wants to “contribute to a more civilized public discourse”:

No one with daughters the age of Sandra Fluke, and I have two, could possibly abide the insult and abuse heaped upon this courageous and well-intentioned young lady. Mr. Limbaugh, with his highly personal attacks on Miss Fluke, overstepped any reasonable bounds of decency. Even though Mr. Limbaugh has now issued an apology, we have nonetheless decided to withdraw our advertising from his show. We hope that our action, along with the other advertisers who have already withdrawn their ads, will ultimately contribute to a more civilized public discourse.

Indeed, evidencing the point made by Friend, Limbaugh’s “apology” is riddled with offensive statements, comparing contraception to “sneakers” and implying that birth control is only a subsidy for personal sexual activity.

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"For over 20 years, I have illustrated the absurd with absurdity, three hours a day, five days a week. In this instance, I chose the wrong words in my analogy of the situation. I did not mean a personal attack on Ms. Fluke.

I think it is absolutely absurd that during these very serious political times, we are discussing personal sexual recreational activities before members of Congress. I personally do not agree that American citizens should pay for these social activities. What happened to personal responsibility and accountability? Where do we draw the line? If this is accepted as the norm, what will follow? Will we be debating if taxpayers should pay for new sneakers for all students that are interested in running to keep fit? In my monologue, I posited that it is not our business whatsoever to know what is going on in anyone's bedroom nor do I think it is a topic that should reach a Presidential level.

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."

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THESE WORDS ARE NOT AN APOLOGY, BUT RATHER SEEK TO JUSTIFY HIMSELF

For over 20 years, I have illustrated the absurd with absurdity, three hours a day, five days a week.
I think it is absolutely absurd that during these very serious political times, we are discussing personal sexual recreational activities before members of Congress. I personally do not agree that American citizens should pay for these social activities. What happened to personal responsibility and accountability? Where do we draw the line? If this is accepted as the norm, what will follow? Will we be debating if taxpayers should pay for new sneakers for all students that are interested in running to keep fit? In my monologue, I posited that it is not our business whatsoever to know what is going on in anyone's bedroom nor do I think it is a topic that should reach a Presidential level.

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THESE WORDS ARE THE APOLOGY

In this instance, I chose the wrong words in my analogy of the situation. I did not mean a personal attack on Ms. Fluke. 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."

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Originally posted by SignyM:
Yanno, from a Viagra-popping, hillbilly heroin-dropping sex tourist, this guy had some nerve to pull the moral-superiority card!!

Customs Officials Hold Rush Limbaugh In Viagra Flap

Okay,let me get a little personal AND a lot angry. My dd had very heavy periods. One morning, she woke up in a pool of blood... she was hemorrhaging. She IS on "the pill", not because she's banging her multiple BFs every night, but to control bleeding. My god, I hope Rush bleeds to death bc of some rectal hemorrhage.

WAAAY too fucking little too fucking late. I hope his sponsors desert him as if he had genital crabs.

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Originally posted by pizmobeach:
A coerced apology is no apology.
Ironic: thank goodness for greed - if the advertisers weren't trying to save their reps they wouldn't have taken action. Talk about paying for your 1st amendment rights!

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Originally posted by Hero:

The important thing to remember is that Rush is a conservative therefore everything he says must be interpreted in the worst possible way, his motives must be the worst possible motives, nothing he says can make up for it, and free speech simply does not apply.

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Originally posted by SignyM:
You DO realize, RAPPY, that right after that empty threat of yours I just went and signed ten more petitions? God, you're an empty windbag.

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2854291/posts

Rush Limbaugh apologized on Saturday for calling a Georgetown Law student a slut for testifying about contraception and starting a firestorm of outrage. Kirsten Powers says the liberals who led the charge need to start holding their own side accountable.

Did you know there is a war on women?

Yes, it’s true. Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Bill Maher, Matt Taibbi, and Ed Schultz have been waging it for years with their misogynist outbursts. There have been boycotts by people on the left who are outraged that these guys still have jobs. Oh, wait. Sorry, that never happened.

Boycotts are reserved for people on the right like Rush Limbaugh, who finally apologized Saturday for calling a 30-year-old Georgetown Law student, Sandra Fluke, a “slut” after she testified before congress about contraception. Limbaugh’s apology was likely extracted to stop the departure of any more advertisers, who were rightly under pressure from liberal groups outraged by the comments.

Let it be shouted from the rooftops that Rush Limbaugh should not have called Ms. Fluke a slut or, as he added later, a “prostitute” who should post her sex tapes.

It’s unlikely that his apology will assuage the people on a warpath for his scalp, and after all, why should it? He spent days attacking a woman as a slut and prostitute and refused to relent. Now because he doesn’t want to lose advertisers, he apologizes. What’s in order is something more like groveling—and of course a phone call to Ms. Fluke—if you ask me.

But if Limbaugh’s actions demand a boycott—and they do—then what about the army of swine on the left?


During the 2008 election Ed Schultz said on his radio show that Sarah Palin set off a “bimbo alert.” He called Laura Ingraham a “right-wing slut.” (He later apologized.) He once even took to his blog to call yours truly a “bimbo” for the offense of quoting him accurately in a New York Post column.

Keith Olbermann has said that conservative commentator S.E. Cupp should have been aborted by her parents, apparently because he finds her having opinions offensive. He called Michelle Malkin a “mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick.” He found it newsworthy to discuss Carrie Prejean’s breasts on his MSNBC show. His solution for dealing with Hillary Clinton, who he thought should drop out of the presidential race, was to find “somebody who can take her into a room and only he comes out.”

Olbermann now works for über-leftist and former Democratic vice president Al Gore at Current TV.


The grand pooh-bah of media misogyny is without a doubt Bill Maher.

Left-wing darling Matt Taibbi wrote on his blog in 2009, “When I read [Malkin’s] stuff, I imagine her narrating her text, book-on-tape style, with a big, hairy set of balls in her mouth.” In a Rolling Stone article about Secretary of State Clinton, he referred to her “flabby arms.” When feminist writer Erica Jong criticized him for it, he responded by referring to Jong as an “800-year old sex novelist.” (Jong is almost 70, which apparently makes her an irrelevant human being.) In Taibbi’s profile of Congresswoman and presidential candidate Michele Bachmann he labeled her “batshit crazy.” (Oh, those “crazy” women with their hormones and all.)


Chris Matthews’s sickening misogyny was made famous in 2008, when he obsessively tore down Hillary Clinton for standing between Barack Obama and the presidency, something that Matthews could not abide. Over the years he has referred to the former first lady, senator and presidential candidate and current secretary of state as a “she-devil,” “Nurse Ratched,” and “Madame Defarge.” Matthews has also called Clinton “witchy,” “anti-male,” and “uppity” and once claimed she won her Senate seat only because her “husband messed around.” He asked a guest if “being surrounded by women” makes “a case for commander in chief—or does it make a case against it?” At some point Matthews was shamed into sort of half apologizing to Clinton, but then just picked up again with his sexist ramblings.

Matthews has wondered aloud whether Sarah Palin is even “capable of thinking” and has called Bachmann a “balloon head” and said she was “lucky we still don’t have literacy tests out there.” Democratic strategist Jehmu Greene, who is the former president of the Women’s Media Center, told Fox News’ Megyn Kelly in 2011 that Matthews
“is a bully, and his favorite target is women.” So why does he still have a show? What if his favorite target was Jews? Or African-Americans?

But the grand pooh-bah of media misogyny is without a doubt Bill Maher—who also happens to be a favorite of liberals—who has given $1 million to President Obama’s super PAC. Maher has called Palin a “dumb twat” and dropped the C-word in describing the former Alaska governor. He called Palin and Congresswoman Bachmann “boobs” and “two bimbos.” He said of the former vice-presidential candidate, “She is not a mean girl. She is a crazy girl with mean ideas.” He recently made a joke about Rick Santorum’s wife using a vibrator. Imagine now the same joke during the 2008 primary with Michelle Obama’s name in it, and tell me that he would still have a job. Maher said of a woman who was harassed while breast-feeding at an Applebee’s, “Don't show me your tits!” as though a woman feeding her child is trying to flash Maher. (Here’s a way to solve his problem: don’t stare at a strangers’ breasts). Then, his coup de grâce: “And by the way, there is a place where breasts and food do go together. It’s called Hooters!”


Liberals—you know, the people who say they “fight for women”—comprise Maher’s audience, and a parade of high-profile liberals make up his guest list. Yet have any of them confronted him? Nope. That was left to Ann Coulter, who actually called Maher a misogynist to his face, an opportunity that feminist icon Gloria Steinem failed to take when she appeared on his show in 2011.

This is not to suggest that liberals—or feminists—never complain about misogyny. Many feminist blogs now document attacks on women on the left and the right, including Jezebel, Shakesville, and the Women’s Media Center (which was cofounded by Steinem). But when it comes to high-profile campaigns to hold these men accountable—such as that waged against Limbaugh—the real fury seems reserved only for conservatives, while the men on the left get a wink and a nod as long as they are carrying water for the liberal cause.

After all, if Limbaugh’s outburst is part of the “war on women,” then what is the routine misogyny of liberal media men?


It’s time for some equal-opportunity accountability. Without it, the fight against media misogyny will continue to be perceived as a proxy war for the Democratic Party, not a fight for fair treatment of women in the public square.

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Originally posted by Niki2:

The situation speaks quite clearly for itself; the right CREATED this distraction (probably in large part because they can't go after Obama on the economy or international relations, so hey ho, back to social issues!), and then doubled down on it again and again. It may not be stupidity (tho' I can't see how), but it's sure not worked in their interests!

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And for good sakes, people. Rush was KIDDING!

It's called BEING ABSURD TO DEMONSTRATE ABSURDITY.

Was it crass, rude and in poor taste ?

Yeah, probably. I'll admit that.

His POINT, as offensively made as it was, is simple.

If you're going to expect others to PAY for you to have 'safe sex', then those paying the freight are due something in return.

Don't agree with that ? FINE! Don't ask others to pay for what should be YOUR OWN DAMN RESPONSIBILITY!

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MY PERSONAL FAVORITE

File a complaint with the FCC for Rush Limbaugh violating decency standards by slander and soliciting pornographic materials over the airways.

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Originally posted by HKCavalier:
Am I wrong to think this is evidence that Rush actually has a gorram soul?

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Originally posted by Niki2:

The situation speaks quite clearly for itself; the right CREATED this distraction (probably in large part because they can't go after Obama on the economy or international relations, so hey ho, back to social issues!), and then doubled down on it again and again. It may not be stupidity (tho' I can't see how), but it's sure not worked in their interests!

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And there you have it folks, the lie of the day.



" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
In the time that this non-story has been alive, the Obama debt train has increased by $40,200,000,000.00.

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MY PERSONAL FAVORITE

File a complaint with the FCC for Rush Limbaugh violating decency standards by slander and soliciting pornographic materials over the airways.

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Hello,

I believe in complaining about this man's vile words because they were vile. I believe in complaining to the advertisers for supporting such a message.

This is public opinion well expressed to people who have a business interest in the public's opinion.

I don't like the multiple FCC petitions that say essentially, "I support Free Speech, but..."

I support Free Speech. I don't want a government institution used to suppress it. Once you teach that dog to hunt your enemies, it's only a matter of time before he cuts his teeth on your bones.

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Originally posted by Storymark:

Your calling something the lie of the day virtualy guarantees it's veracity.

"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"

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During a Republican presidential debate in January, moderator George Stephanopoulos peppered Mitt Romney with questions about contraception that seemed totally out of the blue at the time. But in the wake of President Barack Obama’s move to mandate health insurance companies’ coverage of contraception, the motivation for the ABC newsman’s grilling of Romney has become clear, according to political pundit Dick Morris: It’s part of a plan to convince voters that Republicans will ban contraception.

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Originally posted by SignyM:
There is a differences between what others did and what Limbaugh did. The comments your article mentioned were aimed at political figures. Just as I think Obama doesn't deserve as special respect because he is "the President", and the image of Mohammed doesn't deserve kid-glove handling because some "might" be offended, political figures (and other public figures) are subject to a broader range of comment. You get in the ring, you should expect to have a few punches thrown your way. Ms. Fluke is a private citizen, and calling her a "slut" was one word out of a whole tirade... an attack which she didn't deserve and should never have been aimed at her. Anita Hill is another example of a private citizen being ripped to shreds by right-wing misogynists for testifying.

So, I'm going to look for a few more petitions to sign. I might have missed some!

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Originally posted by SignyM:
I would prefer that people stick to issues and not stoop to personal attacks. When you have to start attacking someone personally to make your point, it seems to me that the audience should realize that the attacker has just lost. But it doesn't work that way here very much anymore.

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