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Paul: Limbaugh apologized for personal gain
CBSNews ^ | March 4, 2012 | Leigh Ann Caldwell

Posted on 03/04/2012 10:57:08 AM PST by South40

(CBS News) Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul said an apology by conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh to Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke for calling her a "slut" and a "prostitute" was not sincere, and was made only because it best served Limbaugh.

On CBS News' "Face the Nation," the Texas congressman told host Bob Schieffer that Limbaugh's apology "was in his best interest."

"He's doing it because some people were taking their advertisements off of his program. It was his bottom line he was concerned about," Paul said.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ronpaul; rush; sandytheslut
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1 posted on 03/04/2012 10:57:11 AM PST by South40
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To: South40

Isn’t it time for Ron Paul to just go away?


2 posted on 03/04/2012 10:58:22 AM PST by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it's the new black. Mmm mmm mmm...)
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To: South40

Now there is an ironic criticism coming from a politician.


3 posted on 03/04/2012 10:58:56 AM PST by Las Vegas Ron (Rush Limbaugh = the Beethoven of talk radio)
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To: South40

Sort of like when Ron Paul did an about-face on the newsletters he published after he decided to run as a Republican?


4 posted on 03/04/2012 11:00:43 AM PST by Kleon
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“Never apologize. Your friends won’t need it and your enemies won’t believe it.”


5 posted on 03/04/2012 11:00:52 AM PST by SamKeck
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To: South40

The need to apologize has to originate somewhere. Guess whenever Rob Paul issues an apology we’ll know it isn’t honest or sincere. Projection on display.


6 posted on 03/04/2012 11:01:05 AM PST by pacpam (action=consequence and applies in all cases - friend of victory)
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To: South40

Why would Paul even comment on such a thing? It doesn’t serve his interest to say a word.

But, he is probaby right.


7 posted on 03/04/2012 11:01:13 AM PST by Lorianne (fedgov, taxporkmoney)
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To: South40
I consider Ron Paul to be a Liberal. I think that Liberalism is the dominant thread within the Libertarian philosophy.

I think Ron Paul -- like John McCain -- is very happy to attack any Conservative, at any time. He's much more comfortable with people like Romney.

8 posted on 03/04/2012 11:01:18 AM PST by ClearCase_guy ("And the public gets what the public wants" -- The Jam)
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To: South40

9 posted on 03/04/2012 11:02:21 AM PST by smoothsailing
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I don’t agree with Rush Limbaugh’s apology. My disagreement stems from the fact that he made an apology at all. He should have stood his ground and stuck by the original words that he uttered. To “roll over” and try to satisfy these leftists is totally unacceptable. Were she not a slut, she would not have made the ridiculous statements that she made in public.


10 posted on 03/04/2012 11:04:10 AM PST by davisfh
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To: South40

It is possible for an action to be self serving and genuine at the same time.

Only those who are always doing the former and never the latter don’t understand that fact.


11 posted on 03/04/2012 11:04:48 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright
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To: South40
Gotta love Ron Paul, every word comes from him projects his own thinking - not that of others.

So, if he (Paul) thinks Limbaugh apologized for "personal gain," Paul really means that is the only reason he, himself would do so.

Just like Limbaugh has said so many times in the past, "listen to what Democrats say about conservatives and you will find out what they really would do!."

12 posted on 03/04/2012 11:05:57 AM PST by zerosix (native sunflower)
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To: South40

Ron Paul is a kook, but I mean, come on, he is right about this.

Rush only apologized because he was losing sponsors. Everyone in the world knows it. It would be nice if Paul were more a team player and could just keep his mouth shut, but in the end what he is saying is entirely correct.


13 posted on 03/04/2012 11:06:08 AM PST by Longbow1969
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To: Lorianne

‘Cause he was asked. I just happened to see Face the Nation and Paul was on after Gingrich. And, I’m sure Limbaugh would want his apology to be looked at like that, as a forced business decision.


14 posted on 03/04/2012 11:07:35 AM PST by ngat
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To: South40
Rush has always pointed out the elite RINO GOP establishment elite Leftist mendacity of Romney so it stands to reason one of Mitt's prize hemorrhoids--best location for anus kissing-saves on travel time—the bent racist antisemitic Islamonazi loving Nut from Texas would come out against him.
15 posted on 03/04/2012 11:08:33 AM PST by Happy Rain ("Better add another wing to The White House cause the Santorum clan is coming.")
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To: South40

I don’t think Rush should have apologized, but he may have in order to avoid a slander lawsuit by Fluke.


16 posted on 03/04/2012 11:13:04 AM PST by Hammer Tym (Skateboarding is a crime)
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Paul isn’t an ally of the right. Why don’t people understand?


17 posted on 03/04/2012 11:13:23 AM PST by Politics4US
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To: zerosix
When I read it I took it that Paul was saying, "Rush apologized but he didn't mean it so get over it!"

Self-preservation is the first law of nature. so I've been told.

18 posted on 03/04/2012 11:14:38 AM PST by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: South40

when it comes to nutty, Ron eclipses squirrel poop found under a Texas pecan tree..


19 posted on 03/04/2012 11:16:13 AM PST by Keith in Iowa (Willard Romney, purveyor of the world's finest bullmitt. | FR Class of 1998 |)
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To: South40

I hope they weren’t.


20 posted on 03/04/2012 11:16:16 AM PST by MuttTheHoople (Democrats- Forgetting 9/11 since 9/12/01)
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