If you heard it live, then you know that Sandra Fluke never mentioned her own sex life, her own use of contraceptives, or her own cost of contraceptives, a single time.
And that for four days, when Rush Limbaugh kept saying things like Fluke is "having so much sex, it's amazing she can still walk", he was making it all up.
If you heard it live, then you know that Fluke presented a bunch of (perhaps made-up) stories of women who needed birth control pills for medical reasons, but had insurers who wouldn't provide the birth control pills because they were also contraceptives.
Rush blew it. He got too cute by half and claimed this 30-year-old lady said a lot of stuff she never said. Now he has to back down because . . . Rush made all of that stuff up about Fluke's sex life and use of contraceptives. And he specifically based his use of 'slut' and 'prostitute' on his own made-up claims about her alleged testimony about her sex life.
Which is why I said that his mistake was in making it personal and in his apology, he should have addressed it in that way.
He says that his riff about her was brought on by a satirical observation by someone else regarding the amount of sex one must be having if contraception costs are #3,000 over the course of three years.
Rush likes to push the envelope and go where so many conservatives are afraid to go. And, I think he has thought that he could get away with just about anything in exposing the left’s agenda.
I don’t fault him for realizing that he went too far in attacking this woman personally, but the impression is out there now and nothing he says will dispel it....he was intimidated into an apology and thus not so fearlessly bold as he has seemed up til now.