The saga of Sandra Fluke (Trojan Whorse) and Rush Limbaugh continues. Rush Limbaugh made a heartfelt apology on Saturday, apparently caving to pressure from advertisers who suspended or ceased advertising on his program. He continued on Monday, devoting approximately forty or forty-five minutes of his show, first to apologizing for using two derogatory words for Sandra Fluke -- because using them was sinking to the level of the left -- and the remainder of that time to providing timely background to her appearance before Pelosi.

As it turns out, the Democrats on Darrel Issa's committee considering mandatory provision of contraception / abortion by insurance companies on behalf of Catholic Institutions, wanted originally to provide Barry Lynn (Americans United for Separation of Church and State) as a witness; at the last minute, the night before the hearing, Sandra Fluke was proposed as a substitute witness. The Republicans in charge of the committee declined; so Pelosi set up an opportunity for Fluke to parade her script as though it were testimony before the whole committee.

Since that point, and since Rush Limbaugh's apology, an number of interesting things have happened.

But the most interesting thing of all, is contained in this piece from ABC News attempting to gloat at what is fervently hoped to be a body blow to the Rush Limbaugh program (someone reading this article, please save the webpage for posterity in case they try to take it down the memory hole):

The companies' often short statements posted to Twitter, Facebook and corporate blogs have already received an outpouring of comments. More than 1,100 people "liked" AOL's decision within three hours of it being posted on Facebook. And while Carbonite has less than one-tenth as many Facebook fans as AOL, more than 4,600 people have "liked" or commented on its decision to withdraw their ads since it was posted on Saturday.

The progressive activist group Credo action collected more than 360,000 signatures in an online petition calling for all national advertisers to pull their support from Limbaugh's show.

What is the significance of this? This is the penultimate example: a set up of Rush Limbaugh, a *rare* case where he did not tread carefully, and legitimately issued a *real* apology for his words. Right in the middle of the astroturfing Axelrod and dictatorial wannabe Cass Sunstein's turf, on a topic *sacramental* to the left: abortion rights and funding!

And Glory be to Gaia, it appears it was coordinated in advance with the press (remember the Stephanopoulos questions?), the Dems in Congress (Pelosi), Media Matters, and for all we know, select liberal advertisers and pressure groups.

And a liberal group, in a MASSIVE online campaign, captures 360,000 people in a petition to condemn Rush.

360,000 is less than 2% of that -- and all they had to do was click a couple times on their computer: not listen for three hours a day.

Thanks for the Ping.

GW: That is one righteous post!

A thought or two:

If Limbaugh has been avoiding weighing in without reservation on the bs "Barack Obama" birth and life narrative simply for fear of provoking an incendiary backlash from the left (and of losing advertisers), it would appear that he has forgotten a very important fact: The Left want to destroy him anyway, and will use any pretext to do so. It's not like their waiting around to pounce when he dares mention "birther" concerns. They're lying (heh) in wait anyway, for anything they can get their hands on to use as a weapon.

He's got his very own research team, for pete's sake! You think he doesn't know, or at least have the ability to be informed of, in great detail, all of the crap dead-ends and false trails surrounding the "history" of this man sitting in the White House? Why won't he at least talk about the maddeningly unverifiable (documentarily) much of anything in Barry's past?

I'll say the same thing about him as I said about Rick Perry who collapsed like a cheap suit shortly after bringing the issue up: He has enough stature that if he were to raise the subject, and was actually knowledgeable on it, he could force the conversation nationally.

I like Rush and think that he will come through this tempest in a teapot just fine. I also think he's either making a mistake in not talking about all the malarkey that has gone on in support of installing, and keeping installed, this fraud, or else there is more going on.

There was a bomb scare at his house the same day that Joe Arpaio's CCP released their first results, and the same day that Andrew Breitbart died of "natural causes" at 43, hours after talking with Sheriff Joe. Say, wasn't March 1st a day that Andrew had said to watch for? Come to think of it, wasn't March 1st 1971 the day that Billy Ayers' group bombed the Pentagon?

Hmmm.

And a liberal group, in a MASSIVE online campaign, captures 360,000 people in a petition to condemn Rush.

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Sounds impressive, right?

Kind of like the signatures in the Scott Walker recall. The numbers sound impressive, except that even if you include the phony signatures that were submitted, the total number is still only a fraction of the number of people that voted for Scott Walker in the general election!

From FOX News: The rush to censor Limbaugh

So why are the Left and the media still pushing and publicizing a campaign for advertisers to dump the Limbaugh show and end his career?

Because it has little to do with his words. This is all about disingenuous politics. Liberals want this government-mandate controversy to be not about religious liberty, which is devastating, but about contraceptives, which works in their favor.

That is intellectually dishonest.

They want to position conservatives as “anti-women.” That’s as ugly as it is untrue.

Everyone remembers Ed Schultz calling Laura Ingraham a “slut” on his radio show.

Fellow talk show host Mike Malloy hoped Sarah Palin “drives herself into madness” and insisted Michele Bachmann is an “evil bitch from Hell” who would have gladly supervised the Holocaust.

Montel Williams rooted on Air America for Bachmann to slit her own wrist or throat.

Randi Rhodes insisted that teenage boys weren’t safe from Palin’s advances if they stayed over at her house. There’s no news coverage or “war on women” narrative when the mud-covered women are conservatives.

Maybe these hosts aren’t prominent enough?

Then consider the case study of Bill Maher, who’s welcomed all over TV news shows.

A year ago on his HBO show, he called Sarah Palin a “dumb twat.”

He followed up days later in a Dallas stand-up routine by calling Palin the C-word.

Last July on HBO, he said Palin was “a bully who sells patriotism like a pimp, and the leader of a strange family of inbred weirdos.”

Last September on his show, Maher said Palin would have sex with Rick Perry if he was black.

Days after he called Palin the T-word, he appeared with then-CNN host Eliot Spitzer, where Spitzer concluded, “Your show is brilliant. I love watching it.”

On Sunday, Democratic Party chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz huffed on “Meet the Press” that "I don't know any woman in America that thinks that being called a slut is funny." But two months ago, she accepted an invitation to sit on the set with the man who called Palin a “c---.”

A couple of years ago, “comedian” Louis CK “joked” on the Opie and Anthony radio show about Palin coming to the Republican convention “holding a baby that just came out of her f-ing, disgusting [C-word], her f-ing retard-making [C-word]. I hate her more than anybody,” he said.

On Twitter, this “comedian” attacked Palin in 2011 as a “f—ing jackoff [C-word]-face jazzy wondergirl” who “has a family of Chinese poor people living in her [C-word] hole.”

Guess which event this same fellow is headlining in June? -- The Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner.

WHERE'S THE OUTRAGE?!?!?

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