Posted on 03/10/2012 7:40:05 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
What do Islamists, Nazis, and Communists all have in common?
They tell their political followers that it is all about The Struggle.
If you forever see yourself as a victim, you will never have any strength.
Dittos
Judge for yourself.
Schultz: “It doesn’t matter what the circumstances were. It doesn’t matter that I was on radio and I was ad-libbing. None of that matters. What matters is what I said was terribly vile and not of the standards that I or any other person should adhere to. ... I want all of you to know tonight that I did call Laura Ingraham today and did not make contact with her, and I will apologize to her as I did in the message that I left for her today.”
Limbaugh: “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. ... 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.”
Till researching it to reply to you, this was the only Limbaugh apology I was aware of. It was posted on his website Saturday. I just discovered he issued a more heartfelt apology over the air on Monday.
“I acted too much like the leftists who despise me. I descended to their level, using names and exaggerations to describe Sandra Fluke. It’s what we have come to know and expect from them, but it’s way beneath me. And it’s way beneath you. It was wrong, and that’s why I’ve apologized, ‘cause I succumbed. ... Don’t be mad at them or mad at her. Everybody here was being true to their nature except me. I’m the one who had the failing on this, and for that I genuinely apologized for using those words to describe Ms. Fluke.”
Schultz’s apology and Limbaugh’s second apology are roughly equivalent and I will give both the benefit of the doubt as to sincerity.
Limbaugh’s first apology, IMO, was a classic example of the non-apology apology. (”I am sorry anyone was offended.” “I apologize for my choice of words.”)
I apologize (sincerely) for not being more up to date on the situation before criticizing Rush.
But the author made sure he got his own rude insult of Limbaugh in n ear the end.
The first written apology from Rush was curt, but having listened to him for many years, I expected he would expand on it when he opened his Radio Show the following Monday.
My ultimate issue is simply this, Laura Ingraham accepted Special Ed's apology and the issue faded away. When Laura went on the View and it was discussed, the Liberals laughed the whole thing off, with Baba saying that Joy calls her a Slut all the time, hardy-har-har-cackle...
The other thing is that Laura didn't sit in front of a Congressional panel wailing and lying about something to deflect the fact that the Constitution itself is under attack and she is actively pursuing elimination of parts of the First Amendment. That is exactly what Ms. Fluke has and is attempting to accomplish with the help of Pelosi and the Obama cabal.
When Rush made his comments the Left set out to ruin him, personally attacking his motives (misogynist), and financially impacting him, his Family and Employees with the ultimate goal of ending his Radio Broadcast Career to silence Conservative views and opinion. The Liberal Wet Dream if you will.
Do I wish Rush had just laughed off the whole thing and not mentioned Ms. Fluke by name?, you betcha. Then again, Rush is very astute and he saw the obvious implications of what was happening.
That's why he is the successful guy on the radio and I'm the guy trying to figure out how my Wife and I will get by after she gets laid off from her job later this month.
I quite agree that the difference in response is quite revealing of the difference between right and left.
But then that doesn’t surprise us, does it?
NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com
The Fluke Charade
By Mark Steyn
March 10, 2012 4:00 A.M.
I’m writing this from Australia, so, if I’m not quite up to speed on recent events in the United States, bear with me — the telegraph updates are a bit slow here in the bush. As I understand it, Sandra Fluke is a young coed who attends Georgetown Law, and recently testified before Congress.
Oh, wait, no. Update: It wasn’t a congressional hearing; the Democrats just got it up to look like one, like summer stock, with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid doing the show right here in the barn, and providing a cardboard set for the world premiere of Miss Fluke Goes to Washington, with full supporting cast led by Chuck Schumer strolling in through the French windows in tennis whites and drawling, “Anyone for bull****?”
Oh, and the “young coed” turns out to be 30, which is what less evolved cultures refer to as early middle age. She’s a couple of years younger than Mozart was at the time he croaked, but, if the Dems are to be believed, the plucky little Grade 24 schoolgirl has already made an even greater contribution to humanity. She’s had the courage to stand up in public and demand that someone else (and this is where one is obliged to tiptoe cautiously, lest offense is given to gallant defenders of the good name of American maidenhood such as the many prestigious soon-to-be-former sponsors of this column who’ve booked Bill Maher for their corporate retreat with his amusing “Sarah Palin is a c***” routine . . . )
http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/293094
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