......"Gingrich said the GOP would not be harmed by the controversy surrounding radio commentator Rush Limbaugh, who this week used incendiary language to describe a law student after she testified in a Congressional hearing over contraception coverage. Limbaugh apologized for the remarks Saturday.
"The Republican Party has four people running for president, none of whom is Rush Limbaugh," Gingrich said. "One of them will end up as the nominee, and that person will be the Republican spokesman. I don't think any of them were involved in this controversy at all.".....
I have the feeling that because of Rush’s “apology” posted Saturday and the firestorm of controversy it has created, Rush is going to have 40 million people listening to him when he opens his show on Monday morning instead of his usual 20 million. I also get the feeling that Rush is not going to waste that opportunity, he will use this to advance conservatism and expose the reality of liberalism to even more people than he otherwise would have. I think Rush is accomplishing what other talk show hosts can only accomplish in their dreams. I think Rush knows what he is doing, he did not get where he is by being stupid.
I saw this on TV. The way the MSM always writes it - they make it sound like Gingrich is the one who had something to say about Rush. But the truth is Candy put the question to him and hardly let Newt make his answer with talking over him.
People will never know this, they get led by the nose from the MSM.
I haven’t listened to Rush in awhile and have not heard the exact quote. I will say it is a bit surprising to read of an apology which was announced on a Saturday night.
My gut is telling me to hold off before saying he folded too fast. I am 1/2 thinking there may be an apology ‘Part 2.’. If so it will be rather entertaining. The other option is this was a lawyer driven apology. His lawyers made him an offer he could not refuse.