Maher is an ass. Maher, to my knowledge, used the extremely offensive term twice and should apologize. Rush spent four days talking about Sandra Fluke and use the term repeatedly, over and over and over. He didn't just call her a slut, he said specifically that Fluke had claimed she slept with with so many men that "she could barely walk." For hours at a stretch, he talked about Fluke's claims about her sex life and her contraceptive needs. And he kept calling her a slut and a prostitute over and over - and tying it to what Fluke (allegedly) had said, asking her parents if they were proud of Fluke and all of the sex she said she was having.
The problem is, Fluke never said any of that. Rush went on for - what, eight hours? - about Fluke being a slut because he attributed to her specific things she was supposed to have said about her sex life, and amount of sex she was having.
And she never said any of that.
Maher's comment was an insult - a slanderous general term. Rush's comments (tons of them) were insults based specifically on having sex with lots of guys, and Rush was telling everyone he was using the term advisedly because Fluke had just told Congress and the entire world that she was having all of that sex.
But Rush was full of nonsense.
He was a bad guy.
Two bad guys don't make a good guy.
Abe Lincoln said:
"I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.”
I'm not going to stand with Rush on this just because he's a conservative. Conservatives are better than that. Part of being a conservative is standing up for what is right, not sticking up for a fellow conservative when he's an idiot and defames a blowhard liberal 30-year-old Georgetown gasbag by telling the world for four days that she's a slut based on things she told Congress - when she never said those things.
It's not piling on. It's standing up for what is right. I'm not willing to sink to the lever of Bill Maher. And I'm not going to cheer Rush Limbaugh for doing it, particularly when he's totally wrong about what he claims Fluke said.
I repeat—I’ll care about something “bad” (yet likely truthful) that Rush says when the left shows the same outrage for what is said about conservatives. You can join the political correctness brigade if you like, but I’ll sit this one out.