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Rush: “I sincerely apologize to Ms. Fluke”; Update: Ironic tweet of the day
Hotair ^ | 03/03/2012 | ED MORRISSEY

Posted on 03/03/2012 8:32:15 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Rush Limbaugh has posted a statement on his website this afternoon, forwarded by his brother David (one of my friends on line), apologizing for calling Sandra Fluke an insulting name while discussing her claims. It’s impossible to retain the context of his apology by excerpting it, so I hope Rush will not mind me posting it in its entirety:

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.

I think Rush did the right thing in apologizing to Fluke. However, let’s keep in mind that it was Fluke who made her sexual activity a matter of national political debate by insisting that the government pass laws and regulations forcing employers and insurers to provide her free contraception, and apparently as much as she and others demand. It’s Republicans who believe that contraception should remain a private affair, and that employers and insurers should be free to decide whether to cover contraception for their employees and customers or not. Democrats used Fluke to demand that those choices be stripped from private enterprises and instead be forced by the executive branch to entirely subsidize contraception.

That is the argument we should be making, as Republicans and conservatives. If you want your sexual choices to remain private, don’t use the government to force other people to subsidize them. Then we won’t have to turn the sex lives of Georgetown law school students into topics for political speculation.

Update: Along those same lines, does Donna Brazile also now oppose the government mandate to force employers and insurers to have a role in the decision to use contraception? She tweeted this message not too long ago (via Keder):

Agree! The government should have no role in contraception, and shouldn’t force employers or insurers to have a role in it, either. Keep it between the woman, her sexual partner, and her doctor. Well said.

Oh, wait, Brazile meant this in support of the mandate? She seems just as badly misinformed on the issue as her media colleagues … or as deliberately obtuse.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: rushapology; rushlimabugh; sandrafluke; sandytheslut; slut
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To: SeekAndFind

If Rush truly meant his apology, he’d pull the Tea if by Two ads.


181 posted on 03/04/2012 3:24:36 AM PST by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: bigdirty

Rush has a new wife he probably wishes to keep a bit longer, and she probably asked him, “You called her a WHAT?!”


182 posted on 03/04/2012 3:32:10 AM PST by shalom aleichem
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To: 1_Rain_Drop
If Rush truly meant his apology, he’d pull the Tea if by Two ads.

A. If Rush truly meant his apology
B. he’d pull the Tea if by Two ads.

Please entertain us all by revealing the means by which you thought you crossed the gulf between A and B.
183 posted on 03/04/2012 3:32:38 AM PST by aruanan
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To: SeekAndFind

The media just hammered Rush on this so that his sponsors would leave him and so that we would take our attention off of high gas prices, the 5 trillion in debt Obama has piled on us, that Obama is letting in illegals , no jobs , growing government etc.


184 posted on 03/04/2012 3:37:10 AM PST by Democrat_media (China is destroying all our jobs and manufacturing ability. China makes everything.)
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To: SeekAndFind
My choice of words was not the best, and in the attempt to be humorous, I created a national stir

Rush didn't create any national stir. The liberal media did by posting this as news and not the high gas prices, Owebama 5 trillon $ debt etc. The media controls what people talk about and so shifts public opinion .The media has ruled this country for 100 years. The media got Obama elected by lying against Palin, lying against Bush and the “republican Congress” for 8 years, etc. If the media were really reporting news and not “Palin got that congress woman shot” then we'd be about to have president Palin right now. The media has ruled this country for 100 years so that government and socialism and debt is always growing : so we must collapse as any who borrow 5 trillion in 3 years must. The media is the cause of all our problems.

185 posted on 03/04/2012 3:43:46 AM PST by Democrat_media (China is destroying all our jobs and manufacturing ability. China makes everything.)
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To: LifePath
Churchill said, "Never, never, never give up."

If Rush were Churchill, he would hold the line & add:

Fluke: "What! Me a slut? How dare you!"

Rush: "Madam, you've already established that in front of Congress & the Nation....Now, we are only discussing the price." (Churchill to Lady Astor.)

186 posted on 03/04/2012 3:50:38 AM PST by babbabooey
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To: LifePath
No, too many sunshine patriots at FR have abandoned Rush.

Rush could have retired fifteen years ago; he doesn't need any of this garbage. Every notable conservative needs expensive security. He/they put up with daily threats. Rush has an airport quality scanner for everything addressed to him. I am not aware of any Leftist who pays for personal security from rabid Tea Partiers.

Too many pubbie pols have relied on Rush and others to do their work, to get into the Left’s faces and call them out.

So you don't like Rush's business decision? Tough.

187 posted on 03/04/2012 3:52:32 AM PST by Jacquerie (No court will save us from ourselves.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Slut and whore are the wrong words.

When you pay a whore, you get sex.

I have to pay the stinking b*tch and I don’t get any sex.

Thief is the right word.

Con man is the right word.


188 posted on 03/04/2012 3:55:33 AM PST by samtheman
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To: alstewartfan

Whether women can get the pill at Wal-Mart for that price, or whether some get it elsewhere at a higher price, may make her a liar but it does not make her a slut. Seeking to have the pill included as part of health insurance does not make her slut either.

That is what Rush called her, and that is what this is about.


189 posted on 03/04/2012 4:11:47 AM PST by Figure11 (There's nothing an agnostic can't do if he doesn't know whether he believes in it or not.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Rush: You expect other conservatives to stand firm and you do not. You apologize to a slut, to an activist. What does that say about you? Follow the money.

The old Rush Limbaugh show with its swaggering confidence is gone RIP.


190 posted on 03/04/2012 4:12:09 AM PST by plato10
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To: max americana

Very very well said. I try to listen to his opening salvos at work in my car during lunchtime..and when I can, on the way home. And as you said, for the education..and humor. Rush is a radio talk show host and he has opened my eyes many times. But he is not the be all to end all of conservatism and he would agree.

I get it, too.


191 posted on 03/04/2012 4:13:31 AM PST by SueRae (Tale of 2 Towers - First, Isengaard (GOP-e), then, the Tower of Sauron on 11.06.2012)
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To: SeekAndFind

Providing free birth control does not guarantee a man is going to get sex.

I suggest we take the program one step further and create a Federal Department of Escort Services where any citizen can hire a hooker for the hour (paid by your fellow taxpayers)!

We should not pay for contraception unless sex is guaranteed!


192 posted on 03/04/2012 4:15:30 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (When religions have to beg the gov't for a waiver, we are already under socialism.)
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To: plato10

He changed a lot since his marriage.


193 posted on 03/04/2012 4:15:30 AM PST by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: FrankR

Reminds me of that line from “Designing Women.”

Julia to Suzanne: “If sex were fast food, they’d have to put an arch over your bed.”


194 posted on 03/04/2012 4:18:58 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia (Be careful of believing something just because you want it to be true.)
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To: LifePath
Rumors of El Rushbo's popularity demise have been greatly exagerated in the past.
I believe he will yet surprise you.

195 posted on 03/04/2012 4:22:00 AM PST by John 3_19-21
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To: Seaplaner

“... do you think any woman college student who is sexually active (yet not married or engaged) is a slut?” ...

A very large number of college co-eds are acting very promiscuous these days. I have 2 college age daughters and I can tell you from real life (they watch the behavior in disgust and don’t partake) that the hooking up scene with different partners every week end night is out of control. This is recreational sex BIG TIME and isn’t about the sexually active girls engaged or with a steady boyfriend.

The boundless hooking up college scene is over the top right now with large numbers of college women fitting the definition of “slut”, tramp, hoe. etc. In fact they consider it funny/cute to label themselves as “hoes” (whores) for fun.


196 posted on 03/04/2012 4:25:52 AM PST by stonehouse01 (Equal rights for unborn women)
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To: XenaLee

Agreed. This is a liberal media sensation. Rush is a master at manipulating them and they allow it every time.
This to-do will fade in a few days.

I can’t believe I’m reading, “Rush has lost us the election!”


197 posted on 03/04/2012 4:28:31 AM PST by whatshotandwhatsnot (Islam wants you dead.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Rush’s bean counters must have advised him

No doubt. I've always thought of him as a very rich man, but now it is clear he is financially on a slender limb and cannot safely extend any further.

IOW, Rush is maxed.

198 posted on 03/04/2012 4:38:37 AM PST by Lady Lucky (Gingrich 2012: Open Throttle for America)
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To: John 3_19-21
Agreed! Guarantee those open advertising spots will be filled up, right away.
199 posted on 03/04/2012 4:41:21 AM PST by liberalh8ter (Barack has a memory like a steel trap; it's a gift ~ Michelle Obama)
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To: liberalh8ter

Follow the money, Rush. What are these folks big investment plans with big pharma companies if contraception is is mandated?
A prelude to insider trading. Don't retreat, reload.

200 posted on 03/04/2012 4:48:03 AM PST by chemicalman (The more support I see,the harder I want to work,and the more determined I am not to let folks down.)
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