Did Rush start talking about this girl on Tuesday of last week? I haven’t read his transcripts. The first I heard of him mentioning the Virgin Sandra is on Wednesday.
He talked about her on Tuesday the 29th, claimed she talked about her sex life, and called her a slut and a prostitute. The next day, in response to liberal complaints about 'slut' and 'prostitute,' he really, really went off on her again. The transcript is several computer pages long, even in a small, small font. He used the same terms, and base, and immoral. He keeps attributing to her certain things he claims she said about her sex life - three guys a night, etc. And he gets carried away and just gets worse and worse. And he makes it seem as if she said those things - and he was effective, because have people here who still believe she said them, and that she talked about her sex life.
Then he came back and did it again, on a lesser scale, the next day. Then . . . his attorneys talked with him. Slut is defamatory per se in a number of states. The Georgia Court of Appeals addressed the issue as recently as 2008 - and Limabaugh specifically used it in the connotation that she was sleeping with lots of guys. Prostitute is defamatory per se almost everywhere. Damages are presume. Limbaugh loses a 'reasonable belief' defense. If she sues, he has the burden of proof. He has to show either (a) by a preponderance of the evidence that she is a prostitute or is promiscuous, or (b) that she's a limited public person under the progeny of Times v. Sullivan.
At least that's where I am in my analysis.