I want to agree with you, I really do.
But, no one except those of us Rush (former) fans are going to read his apology. No one is going to parse his words except us, looking for the up-side, and his and our enemies, looking for and gleefully finding his weakness.
They find the weakness, and they exploit it. Rush loses, we lose, and the country we love loses.
The only part of this abject, humiliating apology you will EVER hear again on the MSM is the ass-kissing, tea-bagging part.
Rush today lost untold numbers of long-time listeners, true believers, and loyal conservatives. There is no brilliance, there is no up-side. Churchill said never, never, never give up. Today, so that his check did not drop 5%, Rush gave up.
Go ahead, find the “brilliance”.
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.)