Posted on 03/04/2012 8:53:18 PM PST by Steelfish
Too Little, Too Late for Rush Limbaugh? Republican Allies and Advertisers Continue To Desert Host Despite Apology
Conservative radio host slammed Georgetown University's Sandra Fluke Seven advertisers responded by dropping their ads on his show
By MEGHAN KENEALLY 5th March 2012
Newt Gingrich was the latest Republican presidential candidate to distance himself from the controversial radio commentator Rush Limbaugh following his tirade against a law student that he deemed a 'slut'. Appearing on a Sunday morning news program, Mr Gingrich said that it was 'silly' to suggest that Mr Limbaugh speaks on behalf of the entire Republican party, and that he glad that Mr Limbaugh issued an apology to Sandra Fluke, the woman at the heart of the debate.
Following her appearance at a hearing in support of President Obama's quest to have all employers pay for birth control through health insurance policies, Mr Limbaugh called the 30-year-old Ms Fluke a 'prostitute' and suggested that she could make enough money to pay for her birth control by posting videos of herself having sex online.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York and a fierce opponent of Mr Obama's policy, criticised Mr Limbaugh's pugnacious comments and said: 'Whatever we do, and however strongly we feel, we do it charitably, we do it civilly.'
Rant: Rush Limbaugh, 61, left called Sandra Fluke, right, a student at Catholic college Georgetown University, a 'slut' for saying religious institutions should cover birth control under health insurance Mr Gingrich's fellow candidates already responded, with each varying in their severity. Rick Santorum said that the comments were 'absurd' and Ron Paul said that they were 'crude'. Mitt Romney tried to tactfully avoid the issue at several campaign events before finally saying Mr Limbaugh's remarks were 'not the language I would have used'.
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Rush will weather this storm but how he will do it I dont know
Georgetown “sluts” are offended at being compared to Fluke.
Georgetown “sluts” are offended at being compared to Fluke.
All the comments were decidedly in favor of Rush..
These “Republican allies” are wussies and they make me sick. They are the problem, can’t even stand up and defend one of their own..sickening..Rush will be just fine, he is a smart man, he knew what would happen, he is playing the left like a fiddle and showing everyone what hypocrites they really are
We’re all missing the point.
She’s not a slut, she’s an idiot.
Anyone who expects anyone else to pay for their contraception is an idiot.
We’re all missing the point.
She’s not a slut, she’s an idiot.
Anyone who expects anyone else to pay for their contraception is an idiot.
Talk about spin. Newt said it was “silly” for the media to focus on Rush with $4 gas, $15 trillion debt etc.
The media is corrupt.
I will tune in to Rush radio at 9:05 am PST tomorrow morning.
Dear Meghan,
Those advertisers will suffer a bigger wrath than Rush ever will. Once I am finished with a company of cowards there is no going back. Plenty of places to spend my money these days.
Rush is going to have 10 million more listeners on Monday than he had all last week. It is going to be FUN.
That is why I like Newt. He goes for the jugular of the liberal media.
The Media is Wagging 0bama’s tail.... I mean Covering his ass.
Don’t worry, UK Mail. A lot of us consumers are deserting those advertisers who dropped advertising on the Limbaugh show/station.
I’m not buying flowers from ProFlowers and I could have ordered three bouquets in the next couple months.
Decided to do my own will instead of using Legal Pro.
Didn’t buy two Select Comfort pillows Saturday as I had planned. I’ll go elsewhere.
Thought about refinancing my mortgage and was going to give Quicken Loans a call. The call I’ll give them can’t be printed here.
These so-called non-political businesses are revealing them to be nothing by partisan political leftist fools and I don’t tolerate fools lightly, nor do I give them my money. The rest of my very large extended family is also boycotting them, and the word is going out to every veterans’ organization that our groups have contact with, to ask them to join in kicking the leftists’ asses and giving their business to people who support free speech.
You Brits have no understanding of how the silent majority is awakening and kicking ass of the Left, the communists, and the Obama authoritarian regime. A sleeping giant has been awoken, AGAIN, and you might remember what happened the last time that happened, because you are still free and speaking English because of that awakening.
Britain is lost to the West, so you need to shut up and die your Islamic/Marxist caused death.
We, in America, are still alive and kicking, and it has only just begun.
Andrew Breitbart: We are with you. Rush - we are with you.
Romney, Santorum, etc. should shut up and try to figure out how your pathetic campaigns are going to take on the juggernaut of the Left and Obama. If I were a betting man, I wouldn’t bet on either of you.
Santorum: I’m ashamed of your newly found cowardice. Time to look elsewhere for a candidate with balls.
.Meghan wants her birth control pills for free too.
Republicans desert everyone who does anything for them.
It’s their modus operandi.
Look what they did in response to the tea party who returned their worthless asses to power.
Look what they’ve done to their base every single chance they get.
They did the same to newt back in the 90’s.
I am so utterly disgustingly sick of these people I better stop typing RFN.
In a multi million dollar mansion with probably about half a billion in the bank. The worst thing it could do is knock him off the air and he retires, not that he will starve to death.
It is easy to back away from Rush, and he stupidly walked into this and should have known better. But he is being "frozen" Alinsky style. It is not a good tactic for us to help the Alinskyites, so we need to change the subject, even though they will fight hard to keep it on Rush.
I predict a larger audience as well.
In a way, I'm hoping El Rushbo will do his normal show, and talk about the Georgetown law student in the last hour (thus treating all liberal listeners to a couple hours of media excellence that they don't normally hear) while they wait for Rush's mea culpa.
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