[Unknown Pundit]

If it was really an accident, as Rush claimed afterwards, why didn't he apologize right then and there on the show as it happened? As Rush would say "Hmmmmm?". Morely likely, he thought it a funny joke, caught hell for it, then claimed it was an accident. Obviously, you think otherwise. So be it.

And this from his apology:

I mean, she can't control the way she looks.

He still slighted her on her looks, even as he was apologizing. Or was that meant as a compliment? Hmmmmm?

[Matchett-PI]

You perceive it one way, others perceive it differently. But no matter, let's not change the subject to Rush, and then attempt to make a moral equivalence to the incident in 1992 on Rush's show, and the plain words of Julian Sanchez who said:

"Man, I haven't taken this much pleasure in the suffering of a small child in days."

Or, another which gabidale89 points out in post #43, saying, "That's sick. They even made fun of Rick Santorum's baby who died in 1996.

Here's just one of the disgusting comments directed at the girl:

"I think Frowny is the best. She is trying SO hard to look sad... but in reality she can't wait to go home and tell her diary about all the fun she and her friends had at the meth-fueled lipstick party, while Daddy and Mommy were out campaigning.

Either that, or she'll die a fat virgin, and she really IS sad. Not sure which."

[alnick]

I missed that show. I didn't really catch any of Rush's television shows. I will say this, though. If someone wants to attack a leftist, that's fine. It just seems to me that there is plenty of substance to attack them on without resorting to going after a child.

Now, most adults can allow attacks about their looks roll right off their backs, but something like that can really scar a child. It's bad enough when the other kids make fun of a child, but to have a television or radio personality do it on the air and to think that people all across the country are laughing at their expense has got to really hurt.

And behavior like that is definitely NOT going to win over any fence sitters to our cause either.