This seems to be the case, which is amazing because it was Rush leading the way on how this was a trap to change the discussion from the dangers of the new powers ceded to government over our healthcare to 'women's rights' being 'taken away'. It is a cheap ploy from the Democrates, and he ended up falling prey this week. I do not think this is over, and he will probably have a major impact for our side on this issue before this ends, but in this small sliver of time, Rush took a hit in his own game going after the left this week. He'll probably have the last laugh.
This apology likely is meant to stop the effect on his sponsors, but it also became a political hot potato for our side in the last 2 days of last week. When both Boehnner and Santorum came out calling it inappropriate, the process was underway. As much as Rush's overall coverage of this was dead-on, the few soundbites being tossed in the media were going to cause damage...either our side's leaders would side with Rush which would have put them on record calling a college student a 'slut', or they would go against Rush and put the issue to rest for their electoral needs. I wouldn't want any of our candidates or elected leaders to needing to spend the next six months defending their position on this...it simply isn't important. I am comfortable with his statement yesterday because it was the weekend, and he had no other ability until Monday to address this, and it needed to be handled. Before Monday, he likely would have taken more hits from sponsors and the political dialogue of the whole weekend would have been about this.