I am a fan of Rush, and I don't think he was trying to mock Fox and belittle him. But he did step in it, the story became about him attacking 'Marty McFly' and not that there are different kinds of stem cell research or that the admendment in MO was about cloning. Rush's biggest problem is his ego, and he spent more than a week talking about the Fox ad and its fallout. Worse was the fact that other non-news, non-political outlets covered the story in a bias fashion like Entertainment Tonight and played into the hateful Rush attacking poor Michael Fox. This played perfect for the part-time voters who can't named the VP or a single SOCTUS justice. Rush should have dropped the story after day one, but he wouldn't and helped keep the story alive.
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Agree. It was Rush's defensiveness that made him look like the guilty one. A sincere apology (more than the conditional one he gave) and a single-segment synopsis would have been more appropriate.
Rush, call your sponsor.