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RE :”Limbaugh went beyond merely using the S-word. He said that she should sell sex tapes to pay for birth control.
I think that he was trying to be funny, not being literal, and I don't want to pay for birth control. But aren't we hypocrites if we defend Limbaugh on this issue and attack such “comedians” as Letterman (”slutty flight attendant look”) and Maher for making similar preposterous remarks about Palin?”

I was one of the few that never got upset for those ‘attacks’ on Palin because I believe it is the price one accepts to pay for being a confrontation public figure. As you noticed it brought much hand wringing here. Well guess what? I thought Rush's comments were funny. Not great taste but entertaining. If I was asked to defend Rush I would reply that he is an entertainer.

Now the reaction to such ‘attacks’ is part of the political game of war. Obviously Dems were much more effective with this with Sandra Fluke than any relating to Palin, getting Rush on the networks. I just don't understand why it matters.

No, the problem Rush has is he endlessly harped on all the personal ‘attacks’ on Palin and many times claimed they were proof she was a ‘threat’ as a potential Republican candidate. Well does this mean Rush thinks that Sandra Fluke is a serious threat? No, once again Rush trapped himself.

Well guess what? I thought Rush's comments were funny. Not great taste but entertaining.

Maybe my sense of humor is biased by the likelihood that this episode will help destroy religious freedom and re-elect Obama.

I certainly don't want to include myself among those who chant the mantra "Anything that demeans women is not art!"

I think this apology is an admission that the "slut" affair was not Rush's best work. Remember when Rush introduced the term "feminazi?" I think he was better in those days. Read the comments of one woman who was kicked out of the "women's movement" over a disagreement about whether a song was "art":

And these feminists of the New Haven Women's Liberation Rock Band went into a rage, surrounded me, practically spat in my face, literally my back was to the wall. They're screaming in my face, "Art? Art? Nothing that demeans women can be art!" There it is. There it is! Right from the start. The fascism of the contemporary women's movement.