[Scoutdad]

I didn’t say that she was exempt from rebuke and rebuttal. What I said is that nobody knew who this person was. They never saw her before and, odds are, they will never see her again. Her opinions are shallow and repulsive. What Rush did was to take the spotlight off of what she said in the minds of anyone who was on the margins of the controversy and put himself square in the spotlight. Ask yourself a question: Would these sponsors get up in arms if Rush had called Pelosi a ‘slut’? They might not like it and through back channels tell him about their displeasure but I doubt that they would drop him as fast as they did in this case.

Which begs another question. Don’t you think that Obama LOVES this? This argument is not at heart about whether your insurance company pays for your contraception. Rather, at the heart of it this is another attack on people of faith. I thought that Kelo was the greatest direct attack on the individuals rights because, all of a sudden, the government cannot just confiscate your property and use it for the public good (roads, raillines, etc.) but they can choose to take it and give it to another citizen of their choice, who can then use that property for his own benefit. Think of all the influence pedalling that that will engender.

But I think this is worse. The Catholic Church is stuck between complying and going against the core of their beliefs or not complying and paying millions in fines and legal fees, to the point of bankruptcy. The message- Believe what you want, just don’t act on it. What’s next after religious beliefs are controlled, political beliefs? You can believe in conservative or libertarian thought but if you meet to extol those beliefs you will be fined or jailed. If one falls the other is probably not far behind.

Rush is a national treasure. He has probably educated more people in the arena of conservative thought than anybody else. But he occasionally makes mistakes in his attempts to satirize. It would be a crying shame to see him lose his forum because he overstepped his bounds here. This broad was not worth it.

[mountainfolk]

"This broad is not worth it" Exactly. I had hopes that Rush would start his Monday program with presentation of the extensive liberal socialist democrat resume of Sandra Fluke. She is a democrat stooge, worse than a slut in my opinion. Fluke is a student at Catholic Georgetown precisely to play her part in the socialist agenda of forcing the powerful Catholic church to capitulate on their opposition to abortion. I think that Rush did what he needed to do with his apology for calling Fluke a slut. His sponsors also responded to the pressures of business. I have and do support Rush and will continue to do so. You have covered a lot of important considerations about the repercussions of what is going on with the faux contraception issue. The Catholic church in America provided Obama with his current job as CIC with 30 percent of Catholic voters casting their ballots for him. According to polls I have seen. We have learned in a very harsh and dangerous way that the socialist democrat machine now in control of America has an agenda that is directly opposed to the teachings of the church. They are well on their way to imposing control over not only all religious institutions but all areas of disagreement with implementation of the socialist agenda.
The upside of this Rush contraception controversy is that even more of the public has been made aware that there is one. It is an opportunity for Rush and others in a position to do so to spend some time connecting the dots for their listeners. I do not think that Rush is even down, certainly not out. He has the opportunity for a twofer, educate and elucidate.