Posted on 03/05/2012 1:02:35 PM PST by SeekAndFind
While Laura Ingraham waits for an encouraging call from the president to compensate for MSNBC’s Ed Schultz calling her a “slut,” “reproductive justice” activist Sandra Fluke rejects Rush Limbaugh’s sincere expression of regret for calling her the same:
The Georgetown law student who drew an apology from Rush Limbaugh this weekend after the conservative radio host called her a “slut” on his show said that his public apology wasn’t sufficient during an appearance on ABC’s “The View” today.
“I don’t think that a statement like this issued, saying that his choice of words was not the best, changes anything, and especially when that statement is issued when he’s under significant pressure from his sponsors who have begun to pull their support,” said the 30-year-old student, Sandra Fluke. …
Fluke said she has not heard from Limbaugh personally but added that she’s not hoping to speak with him.
“The statements he’s made about me over the air are personal enough, so I’d rather not have a personal phone call with him,” Fluke said.
Fluke has the luxury to reject his apology in large part because she has the support not only of the president himself, but of big-name advertisers who have exerted bully-like pressure on Limbaugh. (Even The View’s Whoopi Goldberg said she found the speed with which they were willing to abandon the radio host to be disturbing!)
At this point, while it’s plausible that Rush apologized solely because he’s losing sponsors (as Fluke suggested), it’s also plausible that he has genuinely repented of his word choice. Limbaugh not only said he was sorry with a statement online, but he also opened his show today — his first on-air appearance since advertisers began to pull their support for his program — with a repeat apology, in which he made it clear that he violated his own personal broadcasting standards. In fact, he took a full 30 minutes to explain the entire episode to his listeners, including an explanation for why his advertisers left him (h/t The Right Scoop):
Ed said this weekend he thinks Rush was right to apologize, but I’m not so sure. He was wrong to use the word “slut” in the first place — it’s just a disgusting word that’s better left unsaid and Rush’s use of it conveniently played into the leftist narrative that conservative men are misogynistic (i.e. it was both tasteless and strategically stupid of Rush to say it) — but his apology makes it seem as though he did something wrong by expressing his opinion about a legitimate subject of national commentary.
Folks have made the argument that Rush’s “personal attack” was somehow different than similar name-calling directed to the likes of Laura Ingraham, Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann. The argument typically goes something like this: Sarah Palin et. al. are public figures, while Sandra Fluke is a private citizen. But, in this instance, Fluke isn’t exactly a “private citizen.” She’s a seasoned activist who introduced the subject of Georgetown law students’ sex lives to the national debate about the Obama administration’s religious-liberty-violating contraception mandate.
Indeed, her unwillingness to accept Rush’s apology underscores that she’s far from a naive private individual who unexpectedly found herself at the center of a national controversy; she made it clear by her remarks on The View that she’s prepared to stoke this controversy as long as she derives a benefit from it. As long as advertisers continue to withdraw support for Limbaugh and the left continues to rally around Ms. Fluke, she’ll milk his remarks for all they’re worth.
The answer: Let’s stop giving Fluke the benefit of this controversy. Let’s keep the focus where it belongs and patiently continue to correct the misimpression (a.k.a. lie) that conservatives want to ban contraception. Nobody wants to ban contraception, but the Obama administration does want to force religious employers who object to contraception on religious grounds to pay for employee health insurance that includes coverage for contraception. It’s to that mandate that conservatives are politically opposed. Some conservatives are also personally opposed to contraception and to sexual promiscuity — but they’re not seeking to change the culture through the government. It’s progressives who prescribe government solutions to cultural ills and, in the process, jeopardize important freedoms.
NEVER in my lifetime!
During the Soviet show trials, one always had to stand up in front of the court and apologize, and then were taken out and shot.
The Right still hasn't figured this out and thinks they can deal with these people in an honorable way-you can't.
Like 0bama’s pathetic apology to Afghanistan all it does is encourage more dissension.
Doesn’t matter if Fluke believes him.
It matters if his listeners keep listening. I listened today.
Are there advertisers who want a spot on America’s radio program with the largest radio audience by far?
Surely not!!! They much rather advertise to 2 old farts and their dog.
Nothing has changed. Mzzz Fluke is still a nasty militant lesbo on a personal crusade to bring affordable contraceptive to the less fortunate law students ammong us.
Otherwise, She has a five oclock shadow in some pics I have seen of her..haha
Rush was right for apologizing. It puts him on the high ground. Any sane person is going to see the Fluke reject TWO apologies and realize that she’s the bastard in all this. Good people forgive others; bad people hold grudges. The more she gets out there rejecting two sincere apologies, the worse she is going to look, I would bet.
Rush should apologize to sluts and prostitutes for saying that Fluke is remotely as moral as they are. Any ordinary half honest slut or protitute would not dream of asking the Jesuits to pay for their lifestyles.
Rush should apologize to sluts and prostitutes for saying that Fluke is remotely as moral as they are. Any ordinary half honest slut or protitute would not dream of asking the Jesuits to pay for their lifestyles.
Rush should apologize to sluts and prostitutes for saying that Fluke is remotely as moral as they are. Any ordinary half honest slut or protitute would not dream of asking the Jesuits to pay for their lifestyles.
Fluke you, Sandra!
If what she said is true she is a slut, If the left is using her as a willing agent then she is a stupid slut.
Just the type of women you would like to spend the rest of your life with after she has been screwed by countless other men.
A new meaning for the “Sloppy Seconds” statement.
If what she said is true she is a slut, If the left is using her as a willing agent then she is a stupid slut.
Just the type of women you would like to spend the rest of your life with after she has been screwed by countless other men.
A new meaning for the “Sloppy Seconds” statement.
When I am in that situation, I just say under my breathe what ever lie they are spewing and say, “ sorry, just talking to myself”. They heard the message for a fact!
She has gone from student, if she ever was one, to the next Rev. Jackson who will see and hear what she wants to hear in any given situation. It it weren't for the media the public would see that she really is as Rush described her.
Did we expect her to take the high ground? When a lib apologizes to a conservative — maybe once a decade — the apology is graciously accepted, no matter how great the offense. Libs never do, and are just evil.
Rereading my post, let me explain: the people watching these shows don’t know what the propaganda is saying to them. It really changes the way they think when they hear a challenge against the status quo. Some have never heard a challenge at all. That is were it is really sad. So when you find yourself in a situation like this again, speak up, but do it in a low voice. They will be listening.
“Fluke said she has not heard from Limbaugh personally but added that she’s not hoping to speak with him.”
Good! The apology is all she gets and she has just proved herself to be at the very least a bitch.
I call any unmarried woman, and I don’t have to know her, who gets on national TV and tells the world she likes to have sex the way most people would talk about playing checkers a slut. All that much more of a slut when she actually says she wants taxpayers to pay for birth control pills because she can’t affort to. IMHO Rush apologized so he wouldn’t lose to many sponsors. Rush Limbaugh chooses his words carefully. He knew exactly what he was saying. He said nothing wrong. I still respect his opinion, but I’m disappointed in his “apology”. But I also understand he’s in a business and it was smart to “apologise” to the liberals, who will still rack him over the coals, apology or not.
Not at all, when you consider the chessboard. Ad hominemizing the subject pops the balloon of absurdity (contraception is not going to win Bobo re-election), and it also innoculated the GOP candidates who were able to distance from Limbaugh (particularly Mittens, who gave some indiscernible 3-line answer over crowd noise) rather than have to answer The Big Lie for the umpteenth time.
The Right still hasn't figured this out and thinks they can deal with these people in an honorable way-you can't.
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