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A Statement from Rush (Rush offers apology to Slut!)
Rushlimbaugh.com ^ | Mar 3, 2012 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 03/03/2012 2:15:11 PM PST by TSgt

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.

I think it is absolutely absurd that during these very serious political times, we are discussing personal sexual recreational activities before members of Congress. I personally do not agree that American citizens should pay for these social activities. What happened to personal responsibility and accountability? Where do we draw the line? If this is accepted as the norm, what will follow? Will we be debating if taxpayers should pay for new sneakers for all students that are interested in running to keep fit?In my monologue, I posited that it is not our business whatsoever to know what is going on in anyone's bedroom nor do I think it is a topic that should reach a Presidential level.

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alinsky; apology; birthcontrol; commentary; condoms; dsj; election2012; fluke; freecondoms; lesbian; lesbianagenda; limbaugh; nonapology; rush; sandrafluke; sandytheslut; slut
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To: papertyger

In your knowledge of public relations WE ARE AT WAR I do not give
damn about public relations just like the other side does NOT. WE are
past the point of public relations!!!! THEY HAVE NONE AND THEY ARE
WINNING!!!!!


401 posted on 03/03/2012 4:55:41 PM PST by Kit cat (OBummer must go)
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To: Slambat

Not a chance.

Rush gave up all credibility to speak on this subject when he admitted something he already said about it was wrong.


402 posted on 03/03/2012 4:56:14 PM PST by papertyger
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To: Gilbo_3; stephenjohnbanker; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; DoughtyOne; Impy
RE :”just damn...read this and see if theres any sarcastic ‘non-apology’ way to spin it...looks like he caved...

Well, those that see Rush as some sort of leader or adviser or seer are very naive. Rush is a entertainer, more so he is a businessman running a business for $$$. That is his priority. I have found Rush very inconsistent in the messages he sends from show to show. To enjoy him you must forget things he said a year or two ago.

From what some of the guests and paid commentators were reporting on MSNBC Friday and maybe Thursday, a number of sponsors >5 pulled their advertising off of Rush's show. Those inside the bubble probably didn't know that.

Rush is just a sideshow, the main show is that Republicans are on a consistent losing streak against Obama since taking back the House, And I am not optimistic about them breaking it.

SOL analysis of the birth control trap

403 posted on 03/03/2012 4:56:42 PM PST by sickoflibs (You MUST support the lesser of two RINOs or we all die!)
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To: Gene Eric

I figure it’s not so much the money as fear of leftists. That’s why he won’t touch fag “rights” or the fact that a usurper is in the WH. For starters. He’s afraid to go off the reservation. Plus he may have no interest in going off the reservation.


404 posted on 03/03/2012 4:56:54 PM PST by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell)
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To: Brad's Gramma

Amazing to watch all of the “Conservative” keyboard warriors tuck their tail and turn on Rush isn’t it?

They’re about as loyal as a slut, truly ironic.


405 posted on 03/03/2012 4:57:14 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron (Rush Limbaugh = the Beethoven of talk radio)
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To: Las Vegas Ron

DITTO!!!DITTO!!!!


406 posted on 03/03/2012 4:58:38 PM PST by Kit cat (OBummer must go)
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To: Tau Food

This post gives support to your assertion that “God bestowed upon us the gift of sex in order that we might multiply. God is cheated and His will is defiled by the use of contraceptives.” You made a good point.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2854103/posts


407 posted on 03/03/2012 4:58:38 PM PST by jonrick46 (Countdown to 11-06-2012)
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To: riri
There's so much Rush never touches, he's already "off the air".

Such a valid point.

It is such a valid point that it bears repeating again!

408 posted on 03/03/2012 4:59:10 PM PST by JohnG45
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To: Yardstick
Wonder if his wife made him do this.

I wonder what was in the package he recieved Thursday. I wonder if it included a letter too.

409 posted on 03/03/2012 4:59:10 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron (Rush Limbaugh = the Beethoven of talk radio)
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To: Kit cat

Fine. We are at war. Who are you going to shoot first?


410 posted on 03/03/2012 5:00:10 PM PST by papertyger
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

“How does the cost make her a “slut, tart, tramp”? It’s not like one needs to take more birth control if they’re having more sex; doesn’t work like that. Her remarks about the cost make her a liar, sure, but not a slut.”

You’re correct in that I’m assuming cost has some relationship to frequency of need - if she taking the pill continuously over a three-year period, but seldom having sex, I guess it’s probably more fair to impugn the extent to which her expectations match reality, rather than question what was once quaintly referred to as one’s “virtue”.

She’s the one who chose to make her sex life my business (by testifying about it in Congress, and by demanding others pay for her personal choices), but since I don’t really give a rip about her sex life, I’ll agree I really shouldn’t have expected her to clarify if she’s continually active, or just wants to be safe and prepared whatever the occasion. But again, she’s the one who brought it up; some speculation in that matter should hardly be unexpected.


411 posted on 03/03/2012 5:00:10 PM PST by Stosh
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To: TheConservativeParty
"The Devil has had a great week. Andrew Breitbart is dead. Rush caved to political correctness.

Amen. Only one way I can see it going onward.

May God Bless those who are fighting for righteneous, to sustain our great country.Onward Christian soldiers. May the evil go to their dwelling place, and we triumph!

412 posted on 03/03/2012 5:00:19 PM PST by NoGrayZone (Jim "Firebrand" Robinson endorses Newt...with EPIC call to action!!)
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To: TSgt

Rush sold his soul for money. He was losing sponsors left and right He’s a moral coward and I’ll never listen to him again. I truly hope he just fades away- quickly.


413 posted on 03/03/2012 5:00:19 PM PST by jimboster (fROM)
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To: madameguinot

Don’t know why people here think they have a say in what RL does. He didn’t have to call her a slut, or apologize. He made his own decisions each time.

Fact is this was a great issue and he totally derailed it. No one knows the woman is a slut, she’s a priviliged leftist activist and the issue was her demanding free pills, and lying, the issue wasn’t her being a slut.

Hopefully the issue remains. I think it does.


414 posted on 03/03/2012 5:00:52 PM PST by Williams (Honey Badger Don't Care)
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To: re_nortex; All
Still, that's the beauty of an advertising-supported, free-market business.

And I have no problem with the man doing that. He's making a killing and I say more power to him. He's found his groove.

Having said that, I'm not going to live and die by his every word like some demented sycophant who doesn't realize that the man is doing nothing more than running a successful business.

415 posted on 03/03/2012 5:01:50 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: ml/nj

Good night. You deserve far less.


416 posted on 03/03/2012 5:04:19 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Stosh

it isn’t just about frequency.

She is not married.

According to the catholic teaching, she is requesting they finance fornication.

She doesn’t just think they should finance it....she is accusing them of cruelty and sexism if they do not finance it.

It is brazen arrogance which she attempts to hide under a mask of helplessness and mock injury.


417 posted on 03/03/2012 5:04:47 PM PST by Scotswife
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To: what's up
Rush did the right thing here.

He removed himself from the debate, while keeping his position on the issue intact.

The left was losing this debate bigtime until he used the word "slut".

Now let's go back to them losing again.


Refreshing to see at least one other on this thread that gets it and isn't responding with a DU level of intelligence. Still, though, the use of the word "slut" only accelerated their losing on the issue. It was something of a catalyst that enabled their simmering looniness and vicious character to rapidly foam up all out of bounds before they had a chance to reign in any of their more nutty folks like Sheila Jackson Lee. With less than 15 seconds of calm, off-hand comments Rush revealed the character of a significant portion of the leftist community. With a single paragraph in which he retracted none of his analysis of that community he gave them a form of what they claimed they wanted but not what they really wanted, which was his destruction and that of all other conservatives. It was a superb bit of work.

This, combined with the revelations of her fraud, the machinations of Obama, George Stephanopoulos, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Eleanor Holmes Norton, and their complete lack of outrage over their own folk's attribution of the slut and c*nt word to Sarah Palin and others, only serves to further light up the Left like a laser target for what we've got to do in November. Thanks, Rush, for a job well done!
418 posted on 03/03/2012 5:04:50 PM PST by aruanan
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To: Stosh
She’s the one who chose to make her sex life my business (by testifying about it in Congress, and by demanding others pay for her personal choices)

She did not say a single word about her sex life. In fact, the vast majority of her testimony concerned the use of contraceptives for purposes other than preventing pregnancy. Of course, she's exaggerating that need, but that just makes her a dumb liberal activist liar. Not a slut.

419 posted on 03/03/2012 5:05:42 PM PST by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: TSgt

Did the slut/whore/whackjob Fluke except Rush’s apology?


420 posted on 03/03/2012 5:05:58 PM PST by Leep (Dueling tag lines=don't worry,you'll be a vegetable guy soon<>It's gonna be a Newt day!)
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