OK, so I’ve now read through 600+ comments and still want to come back and respond to yours because it matched my first impressions as well.
I’m not sure that I would have called the slut a slut if I had been in Rush’s shoes but having gone that route I sure as hell wouldn’t have retreated from it.
Like you, I spent the better part of the day defending his POV only to have the rug pulled out from under me and his apology shoved in my face. Very uncomfortable and very unpleasant.
We’ve seen the firestorms that the left have ignited over Rush’s rhetoric - this isn’t the first attempt to shut him up. But the stakes are larger now than at any prior time in history. The left is poised to deliver the fatal knockout blow to our republic....and the best we can muster is mittens. WTF?! These are times for standing strong and resolute and instead we get...capitulation.
Further reading since this morning reveals that the apology has had the desired effect - if one is a lefty. The momentum is growing as it never has before. the agitators are emboldened by his retreat and smell fear.
I guess this must be those “Interesting times” they keep speaking about.
This is just a sideshow. Rush is just a distracting entertainer who gets paid lots of $$$$ for creating a world that listeners want to live in. In that imaginary world our heroes like Rush never retreat. In our real world they do to avoid complete destruction.
Outside of that imaginary world is the real fear, that is the world where Republicans have lost every single confrontation they have tried since winning the House and this current one is not looking good. They seem clueless and now aimless and have no real leader who can rally them to a winning strategy against Obama, assuming they even had one. Things are looking pretty bad right now.
I remember Rush in 1993 and this is not him.