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Apologize Like You Mean It, Rush (Great Replies After Article)
Townhall.com ^ | March 8, 2012 | Jeff Jacoby

Posted on 03/08/2012 7:30:22 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: woofie

that would make Rush her pimp, I believe she already has an entire stable of those on capitol Hill and in the basement of the WH

After all the revelations about carbonite etc, hope Rush is learning to be more selective about who he takes money from. We’ve been enriching the damn communists who are selling rope to hang us


21 posted on 03/08/2012 8:00:31 AM PST by silverleaf (Funny how all the people who are for abortion are already born)
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To: Chuzzlewit

I disagree with the article also, but because most of the replies do also, I decided to post it. Otherwise I would not have


22 posted on 03/08/2012 8:01:29 AM PST by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Kaslin

I think that a decade+ at the Boston Globe may have gotten to Jacoby.


23 posted on 03/08/2012 8:02:23 AM PST by denydenydeny (The more a system is all about equality in theory the more it's an aristocracy in practice.)
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To: Kaslin

I think that a decade+ at the Boston Globe may have gotten to Jacoby.


24 posted on 03/08/2012 8:03:26 AM PST by denydenydeny (The more a system is all about equality in theory the more it's an aristocracy in practice.)
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To: Sans-Culotte

So you believe like this article that an abject and sincere “apology” would have staved off this campaign from the left?

the “get Rush” boycott machine was cocked and loaded and ready to go, if Rush didnt give them an opening line, they would invent one

there is no “apology” for this because it is not about Fluck, it is about destroying Rush Limbaugh and trying to influence female voters against the GOP

I suppose you also believe that if obama had only apologized more sincerely for our troops destroying defaced korans, the afghans would have been placated and muslims would love us


25 posted on 03/08/2012 8:08:44 AM PST by silverleaf (Funny how all the people who are for abortion are already born)
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To: silverleaf

I’m sorry. You directed your post at me instead of the freeper you intended it for: Straw Man.


26 posted on 03/08/2012 8:12:34 AM PST by Sans-Culotte ( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
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To: denydenydeny

Dear Jeff, I hope you are sitting at an ATEX terminal at the Boston Globe. Please type “INIT DP:” at the Command prompt. Shhhhhhh, it formats all the hard drives on the network but don’t tell anybody......


27 posted on 03/08/2012 8:13:01 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: silverleaf
If it looks like a Fluck
Talks like a Fluck
Walks like a Fluck
Exaggerates like a Fluck
Is a quack like a Fluck
It's name must be Sandra
29 posted on 03/08/2012 8:15:56 AM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Sans-Culotte

—I more or less agree with the article. You seem to have missed the fact that Fluke never claimed she was having all that sex. —

No. I caught that. If she had, he would have had nothing whatsoever to apologize for.

I think he was basically apologizing for being tasteless in his response.

Also, although I think he did handed this issue to the left, but with a booby trap. I don’t think they expected him to step in it as he did. It made it all about him insted of where they were going with it. There was a nurse in Tacoma the other day that in a telephone interview was amplifying what Fluke said. I think she may have been the second of what may have been intended to be a string of women to come forward for free contraception.

Rush inadvertently derailed the whole thing. We’ll see how it plays out now. It will not be what they expected.


30 posted on 03/08/2012 8:27:50 AM PST by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: Kaslin

The bio of Rush, An Army of One, says near the beginning that the full quote was “You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done”. Also the author, Zev Chafets, gives an example of Rush “illustrating the absurd by being absurd”,
a phrase which Rush brought up recently in the Fluke incident.

btw Mediaite has a piece about Olbermann apologizing “again”
to S.E. Cupp and Michelle Malkin for his remarks about them. Malkin however, it was noted, tweeted that “he apologized to a camera, not to me” (i.e., in person). Malkin brought up
the “mashed up bag of meat” comment in her most recent
column.

>>It was Keith Olbermann, then at MSNBC and now at Al Gore’s Current TV, who wrote on Twitter that columnist S.E. Cupp was “a perfect demonstration of the necessity of the work Planned Parenthood does” and who called me a “mashed up bag of meat with lipstick on it.” He stands by those remarks. Olbermann has been a special guest at the White House.

http://michellemalkin.com/2012/03/07/the-war-on-conservative-women/


31 posted on 03/08/2012 8:28:34 AM PST by raccoonradio
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To: silverleaf

I doubt that Rush is going to grill potential advertisers on who they give their campaign donations to. But still, it was eye opening to learn that these people who make a lot of money by advertising on the nation’s premier conservative talk show, turn right around and donate to the liberal political party that hates “business.”


32 posted on 03/08/2012 8:29:22 AM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Kaslin

Mr. Jacoby comes off as a bit of a pussy. (I sincerely apologize for my choice of words).


33 posted on 03/08/2012 8:31:02 AM PST by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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To: Bon mots

LOL!!


34 posted on 03/08/2012 8:34:30 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: MestaMachine

Perfect!


35 posted on 03/08/2012 8:39:10 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: sickoflibs; Kaslin; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; DoughtyOne; calcowgirl; Gilbo_3; Impy; ...

The Repubs in D.C. didn’t drop it. Boner came out in public to villify Rush.....THEN they went back into hiding. Pelosi must have ORDERED Boner to come out.


36 posted on 03/08/2012 8:42:40 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

I think we should all send Boner a get well card.

Dear Speaker Boehner:

I was saddened to hear you had some sort of a mental breakdown recently.

Not objecting to the many instances of President Obama dismantling the United States at will, allowing him to essentially rule by edict, I realized you must be sick.

We hardly ever hear from you. When we do one day you’ll be against Obama, and on the next you will have caved. This must take a heavy mental toll on you.

Please accept this wish for a speedy recovery. Get well soon.

Ron Doughty

Republican (Hmmm, what is that supposed stand for again? I forget. As of late, nothing at all.)


37 posted on 03/08/2012 8:51:35 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Abortion? No. Gov't heath care? No. Gore on warming? No. McCain on immigration? No.)
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To: Kaslin

Isn’t this propaganda from the people who hate us?


38 posted on 03/08/2012 8:53:11 AM PST by GOPJ (Democrat-Media Complex—buried stories and distorted facts... freeper 'andrew' Breitbart)
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To: stephenjohnbanker; Kaslin; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; DoughtyOne; calcowgirl; Gilbo_3; Impy; ...
RE :”The Repubs in D.C. didn’t drop it. Boner came out in public to villify Rush.....THEN they went back into hiding. Pelosi must have ORDERED Boner to come out.

Actually I wasn't referencing the Rush issue there. I see no reason why a Republican in congress should give into the liberal baiting and comment on Rush one way or the other. When asked about him they should just tell the media to pound sand. Tell them it's Obama's and Pelosi's job to police the airwaves for thought-crimes.

I meant the Blunt amendment/birth-control/religious rights effort. After the single vote the issue will go the way of repealing Obama-care effort, just disappear; except to the extent that Dems keep trying to bring it up.

39 posted on 03/08/2012 9:04:32 AM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : "I will just make insurance companies give you health care for 'free' ")
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To: Kaslin

I have found that leftists do not accept apology very easily and that is because the apology takes away their much beloved status of “victim”. Apologize to a Conservative and they can easily accept since they do not wallow or even at all enjoy the feeling of being a victim of any sort.

Plus, there seems to be some sort of rule I do not understand about apologies. Apparently one can’t give any insight as to how or why the mistake was made or it somehow nullifies the apology. So if you have a bad day at work and come home and say some wrong words to your family, it someonw erases the apology if you add the information that you were in a bad mood because of the events at work. Were I on the receiving end of an apology this extra information would be helpful to me, but I guess it is poor form somehow. I don’t quite get it.


40 posted on 03/08/2012 9:35:25 AM PST by Anima Mundi
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