Certainly it looks like Rush left himself a lot of room to call Ms. Fluke a lot of things other than slut. Tool is a good way to put it.
Thank you.
For the record, the above comment has the dashed phrase in the wrong place. It should read as follows (although Rush does much the same thing).
...what Ms Fluke was actually doing — stagecraft and agitprop. (I don’t particularly like Rush and would not defend anything he says or does....)