Your teenaged kids or teen grandchildren are accompanying you as you shop in the Health Products department of your local store. Another teen or young adult gal who your kids know (say, through an older sibling) to be pretty promiscuous, is also there, and she complains about the price of condoms, says she thinks they should be free. One of the teens in your charge chides her for it and calls her a "slut" in the hearing of everyone there.
Do you praise that kid for "speaking truth to power," or do you give that brat a good dressing-down for behaving in a way that is rude and purely destructive? Do you say, "Way to go, son! That girl is a SLUT, a WHORE! You're right! She is so wrong to complain about the price of birth control!" Or do you say, "Son, I agree with you that she's wrong in what she says, but you had better figure out a smarter, more civil way to say the same thing because the way you're doing it now is totally wrong for a REASON. Insulting a person's dignity, as opposed to disputing a person's opinion, WILL BACKFIRE every time you do something like that because insulting a person's dignity is WHAT BAD PEOPLE DO."
This is backfiring on Rush and the rest of America because Rush ABANDONED any idea of behaving like a decent Christian when he called Fluke a "slut," AND THIS IS THE PRICE.
Way to go, Rush.
This is backfiring on Rush....
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No, it is not; he has gotten and continues to get much attention from it, and that is what is important to him.