Now that he’s losing advertisers left and right, Rush Limbaugh seems to have been cowed into doing something I’ve never heard of him doing before, pretend to apologize. It’s a classic notpology — “I was right on the issues but I worded it badly.”
For over 20 years, I have illustrated the absurd with absurdity, three hours a day, five days a week. In this instance, I chose the wrong words in my analogy of the situation. I did not mean a personal attack on Ms. Fluke.
I think it is absolutely absurd that during these very serious political times, we are discussing personal sexual recreational activities before members of Congress. I personally do not agree that American citizens should pay for these social activities. What happened to personal responsibility and accountability? Where do we draw the line? If this is accepted as the norm, what will follow? Will we be debating if taxpayers should pay for new sneakers for all students that are interested in running to keep fit? In my monologue, I posited that it is not our business whatsoever to know what is going on in anyone’s bedroom nor do I think it is a topic that should reach a Presidential level.
My choice of words was not the best, and in the attempt to be humorous, I created a national stir. I sincerely apologize to Ms. Fluke for the insulting word choices.
Oh, that’s just dripping with sincerity, don’t you think? You can just feel the genuine empathy. And he’s still lying about it, pretending that it has something to do with taxpayer funding, which it doesn’t. Lying, misogynist asshole. Anyone who believes this needs shock therapy.
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peterh
March 3, 2012 at 5:42 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Conscienceless jerk.
Ellie
March 3, 2012 at 5:51 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
It was only humorous to other men who hate women for whatever reason: they have mother issues, they can’t get laid, they have really small penises, whatever. Oh, and those self-loathing women who figure if they laugh at muck like this, the big boys will let them play along.
MikeMa
March 3, 2012 at 5:58 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Rush asking about someone else’s accountability and personal responsibility? Really? Married 4 times, drug addict, liar and all around asshole. Wouldn’t know the truth if it bit him.
Gretchen
March 3, 2012 at 5:59 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Translation: “I am going to claim that I didn’t mean to do which I clearly did mean to do, and then lie about why I did it.”
Rush was joined in his idiocy yesterday by a female Georgetown student who employed exactly the same reasoning with the same level of competence.
MikeMa
March 3, 2012 at 5:59 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Wonder if O’Reilly will follow suit.
Zugswang
March 3, 2012 at 6:04 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Yes, the man who has been through 4 divorces, illegally acquired oxycodone to fuel his addiction, got caught in the Dominican Republic with mislabeled Viagra pills, and served no time in prison for the latter two, wants to lecture us on personal responsibility and accountability.
Chiroptera
March 3, 2012 at 6:05 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Limbaugh: For over 20 years, I have illustrated the absurd with absurdity, three hours a day, five days a week.
He’s claiming to be a Poe? ‘Cause that’s the only way this apology has even a slim chance of working.
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In this instance, I chose the wrong words in my analogy of the situation. I did not mean a personal attack on Ms. Fluke.
Yeah, I can totally see how he meant to say, “we should not have our insurance premiums pay for other peoples’ personal decisions,” but it came out, “sluts should die of the pox.”
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I think it is absolutely absurd that during these very serious political times, we are discussing personal sexual recreational activities before members of Congress.
Who the fuck’s fault is that? Most people would like to keep their private lives fucking private! It’s the insane and stupid conservatives who keep bringing up people’s private lives!
Shawn Smith
March 3, 2012 at 6:13 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Gretchen, that link is so full of stupid it’s amazing they can actually use a computer without having to replace the keyboard every day because of the drool falling on it. And these are the future leaders of the country? Fuck.
jamesmaehling
March 3, 2012 at 6:18 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I really hope the protest of his sponsors continues until he’s off the air like what happened to Glenn Beck. Given the size of the contract he signed back in 2008, he could afford to run his own channel and radio station better than Beck could.
Shawn Smith
March 3, 2012 at 6:23 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
And the “I did not mean a personal attack on Ms. Fluke” bullshit. He named her. He asked his listeners if she should be called a slut and a prostitute. How is that not a personal attack?
Hey Rush, here’s a personal attack for you: You’re an apogenous, bovaristic, coprolalial, dasypygal, excerebrose, facinorous, gnathonic, hircine, ithyphallic, jumentous, kyphotic, labrose, mephitic, napiform, oligophrenial, papuliferous, quisquilian, rebarbative, saponaceous, thersitical, unguinous, ventripotent, wlatsome, xylocephalous, yirning zoophyte. Suck it up, druggie.
percysowner
March 3, 2012 at 6:32 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I did not mean a personal attack on Ms. Fluke.
Translation: I just found out that Ms. Fluke is considering suing me for libel, so of course I didn’t mean it!
tripencrypt
March 3, 2012 at 6:33 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
What a lying, odious troglodyte. Rush, you disparaged someone you don’t even know and have never met and now you issue this notpology. You sir are a immature, fatuous spoiled brat.
But this quote really raises my ire: “In my monologue, I posited that it is not our business whatsoever to know what is going on in anyone’s bedroom nor do I think it is a topic that should reach a Presidential level.” Really, you insufferable buffoon? You said you wanted her to record her sex acts and let you watch. You disgusting, amoral filth. You are without class or honor. Why people even listen to you baffles me to no end.
LightningRose
March 3, 2012 at 6:37 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
If he’d like to do the honorable thing, I’d consider it a privilege to be his second.
jba55
March 3, 2012 at 6:42 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
“three hours a day, five days a week”
Oh, poor baby, let me get you some doughnuts stuffed with pills. I’m sure all the people struggling to make ends meet while working multiple minimum wage jobs are going to really feel your pain. Not that they’re your audience, I know, but still, I hope my empathy hits you appropriately.
“What happened to personal responsibility and accountability? Where do we draw the line? If this is accepted as the norm, what will follow?”
I mean c’mon? Will we start giving away condoms? Showing sympathy to people who are suffering from poor choices? I mean what if, and this is a long shot I know, but what if, someone is being affected by something that someone else did? Should they just get a free pass? Oh reasonable listener, this is how we became a “smell-fare” state!
Uncle Glenny
March 3, 2012 at 6:43 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
For over 20 years, … three hours a day, five days a week.
I think he got this part right but I;m not really sure..
Hank Fox
March 3, 2012 at 6:44 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Keep up the pressure, get him the hell of the air. Apology or not, he’s a vicious ass, and the entire world is better off with him following Glenn Beck into obscurity.
wholething
March 3, 2012 at 6:45 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
It sounds like he is not sorry for implying she was a slut and a prostitute, but only for saying it explicitly.
jba55
March 3, 2012 at 6:49 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Oh and Mr Brayton, I think you should seriously consider putting a “like/dislike” button in the comment section. So many comments I want to like… and a few I’d like to not like. I’ll be honest.
vmanis1
March 3, 2012 at 7:39 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Really, how can he apologize? It would have to be something like this: `I lied about Ms Fluke because I am a douchebag who has managed to bully conservatives into believing I have some insight as to how we ought to run our country. Nearly everything I said[*] about her was a lie, made for the sole purpose of increasing my ratings, without any regard for how my actions made her feel, or affected her reputation. My actions in this regard have been so disgraceful that I have no alternative but to discontinue my radio show and other activities, and find some way of contributing to society to make up for the damage I have done.’ He’s going to say that, right?
By the way, George Takei has the most delightful pronunciation of `douchebag’ I have ever heard.
[*] Limbaugh got a few things right about Ms Fluke. She is indeed a student at Georgetown Law School, for example.
Aquaria
March 3, 2012 at 7:58 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
If he’d like to do the honorable thing, I’d consider it a privilege to be his second.
I’d consider it a privilege to dispense the cyanide.
Ms. Daisy Cutter, Gynofascist in a Spiffy Hugo Boss Uniform
March 3, 2012 at 8:01 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Shawn, while I commend your raid on the thesaurus — “wlatsome” is a word I will try to work into conversation as much as possible — I don’t think that erectile dysfunction or sterility, a hairy ass, thick lips, and especially a humpback are qualities that should be used as insults.
Aquaria
March 3, 2012 at 8:01 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Oh–and if he can go after a celebrity with a serious disability like Michael J Fox and not suffer any consequences, he won’t suffer any now.
I fully expect this fuckfaced asshole to be on the air a year from now.
otrame
March 3, 2012 at 8:24 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Shawn at 10:
Fish-dicked? That’s…. hilarious. I confess that I’ll have to look up most of the others. Very well done. Here. Have an internet.
andrewbrown
March 3, 2012 at 8:46 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Aquaria,
Ironically enough I think the fantastic Ms. Fluke may be at an advantage over Michael J. Fox. Someone like Limbaugh and by extension his audience) would perceive him as a celebrity and so “fair game” to be mocked. She on the other hand is a citizen not a celebrity, and so the audience isn’t quite as comfortable with this.
It raises the uncomfortable thought in some of them that they might one day be at risk of Rush turning his drug fuelled rants on them, or someone they hold dear.
dan4
March 3, 2012 at 8:49 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@20: “I’d consider it a privilege to dispense the cyanide.”
You’re a goddamn sociopath, Aquaria. Keep your murder fantasies to yourself, you lunatic.
cag
March 3, 2012 at 9:15 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Shorter Shawn Smith #10 – You’re religious.
Can’t imagine anything worse than that.
Doc Bill
March 3, 2012 at 9:17 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I think it is absolutely absurd that during these very serious political times, we are discussing personal sexual recreational activities before members of Congress.
Only that’s not what Fluke talked about. I think Limbaugh should be forced to read her entire testimony on-air and point out how he lied to distort what really happened and why he felt he had to slander Ms. Fluke.
Not gonna happen, of course. Beats me how Rush became such an accomplished liar without going to law school. Srsly.
(apologies to all my legal beagle friends if you were hurt by that remark that I meant to make.)
harold
March 3, 2012 at 9:25 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I will be thrilled but surprised if he suffers any consequences.
What he does is act out the fantasies of mean but frightened wretches. He is exactly what they want to be, but can’t.
marcus
March 3, 2012 at 10:25 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Has anyone asked Rush if his insurance covers his Erectile Dysfunction medicine. Should “American citizens” be “paying” for his boners…er “social activities”. Next thing you know he’ll be wanting us pay for hand lotion for Rosy.
nemothederv
March 3, 2012 at 10:27 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
As far as rush is concerned all I have to say is……uh…..awe fuck it. Not amount of excrement that I would spew out from my keyboard would do any good.
Instead, I would like to list the sponsers that have dropped Rush like the disgustingly bad habit that he is.
The count so far is supposedly 9. These are the one I know about:
We can thank them for dropping. I’m not going to get too lovey dubby because they sponsered him in the first place but we can give them props for making the right decision….finally.
If someone has the complete list please fill us in.
I would also like to point out that this list does not include the network block buyers that have requested their ads not air on his show.
Rush’s statement isn’t even supposed to be an apology. It’s a “please come back” meant exclusively for the above list.
Markita Lynda
March 3, 2012 at 10:33 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
What a miserable, misbegotten liar! Ms. Fluke said nothing about sex nor her personal medical choices.
nemothederv
March 3, 2012 at 10:39 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Here’s the article I got my info from for the curious
http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2012/03/rush-limbaugh-losing-sponsors-over-sandra-fluke-slut-remarks/
There’s also a useless poll on the bottom. Not indicative of anything but the results are nice.
Aquaria
March 3, 2012 at 10:39 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@20: “I’d consider it a privilege to dispense the cyanide.”
You’re a goddamn sociopath, Aquaria. Keep your murder fantasies to yourself, you lunatic.
I’m offering to assist in his suicide, if he chooses to do it, not to kill him.
Do keep up, you moronic scumbag.
gvlgeologist
March 3, 2012 at 11:03 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Does anyone know about this?:
Sandra Fluke: A Fake Victim of Georgetown’s Policy on Contraceptives?
http://www.theblaze.com
Since her controversial testimony on February 23, Sandra Fluke has been called many things, from a heroine to a “slut,” but actually, she may just be a fake. Gateway Pundit and Hot Air suggest that may be the case, with citations to a post by Jammie Wearing Fools that introduces the following intere…
I saw this posted to facebook. I really don’t want to visit this website myself; I’d feel dirty. Anyone else seen it?
dingojack
March 3, 2012 at 11:08 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
“I personally do not agree that American citizens should pay for these social activities”.
Rush wants free hookers for all US citzens!
Gee, quotemining like Rush is fun.
Dingo
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PS:
Don’t worry, I’ll give a ‘unapology’ in a couple of days (when I’m forced to).
Chiroptera
March 3, 2012 at 11:15 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
gvlgeologist, #33:
I didn’t see anything that changes the essential facts of this situation.
Maybe the public perception would be different, but that says something upleasant about the public rather than about either Ms. Fluke or about her potential testimony.
tbp1
March 3, 2012 at 11:52 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I’d love to see her sue him, but he has such deep pockets that his lawyers could drag it out for years and bankrupt her before it ever got to court. Not to mention dredging up every detail of her life that could in any way be construed in a bad light.
Easy for me to say, since I’m not the one being slandered, but perhaps she should shrug it off and get on with her life.
nemothederv
March 3, 2012 at 11:58 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Pro flowers is a sponser. I can see it now.
Here honey, I bought you some flowers…..from the people that sponser a hateful mysogynistic pig that thinks you’re a whore.
Come to think of it, Rush has been married four times. How many kids does he have? Zero.
None of his wives would ever use contraception because that would make them sluts and Rush would never marry a slut. Right?
Clearly he’s sterile. He’s shooting blanks and is angry at all women for his own inadequacies.
I don’t mean to make a personal attack on Mr. Limpbaugh
It’s just my choice of words are not the best, and in the attempt to be humorous, I created a stir. I sincerely apologize to Mr. Limpbaugh for the insulting word choices.*
*and I’m sorry about your little problem
dingojack
March 4, 2012 at 12:18 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
So Rush can’t get it up, and when he does he’s shooting blanks?*
Ha ha!
No wonder he wants free hookers.
Dingo
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* ‘unapology’ available upon request (eventually)
grumpyoldfart
March 4, 2012 at 12:32 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Now that the apology has been published, I wonder how long before all those advertisers are back on his program?
imthegenieicandoanything
March 4, 2012 at 12:36 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The closest contender to Newt G. for “Worst Human Being Ever!” Rush is sort of the Jimmy Foxx of human shittiness, a towering and awe-insiring mound of stinking excrement who nevertheless clearly is not as empty and worthless as Gingrich. He comes in at .99998 Newt (Hitler, as a failed human being, rates effectively the same rating).
Breibart did himself, his family, and humanity a favor and died: may Rush have a similar moment of courtesy.
Perhaps he will meet the fate of the poet mentioned in Highhiker’s Guide and be dispatched by the revolt of his own internal organs.
Shawn Smith
March 4, 2012 at 12:58 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
otrame @22,
Alas, I can’t say the alphabetical list at #10 is mine, but copied from a fanfic called Pantheocide that was first posted over on stardestroyer.net by Stuart Slade. Unfortunately, he got really pissed when someone in Ukraine put the first part, Armageddon??? on a torrent and dashed his hopes of publishing the story. Pantheocide was the second part of a possible trilogy, but because of the torrent incident, he will never write the third part, now. There’s a fairly reasonable description of it over on tvtropes.com under The Salvation War and you can find the raw version over here. If you want to read it there, be warned–each part is about 1/4 million words.
Raging Bee
March 4, 2012 at 1:32 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I did not mean a personal attack on Ms. Fluke.
Right — his asinine tirade was nothing BUT a personal attack on her, but that was totally coincidental and unintentional. He had no control over what came out of his ass. It was all caused by a drug overdose…yeah, that’s it, a drug overdose…
His pathetic hatred of women is matched by his cowardice.
Azkyroth
March 4, 2012 at 2:58 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Justifiable teratocide.
dan4
March 4, 2012 at 3:41 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@33: Yeah, because there’s such a big difference between assisting in someone’s suicide and killing him/her.
pelamun
March 4, 2012 at 4:09 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
dan4,
of course there is. Are you trying to be obtuse on purpose?
dan4
March 4, 2012 at 4:37 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@46: “of course there is.”
Wrong.
Michael Heath
March 4, 2012 at 7:15 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
dan4:
Someone with character owns up to their mistakes. It’s not like analyzing your particular logical error is difficult but instead more in the realm of any eight year’s ability to do simple addition.
Your obstinance is transforming your simple logical error many of us could make if we reacted emotionally into a revelation that your ego gets in front of your position to the point we can never assume your credibile. Your turning a trivial mistake into a major finding regarding a defect in your character, a classic case of digging a hole where you go from a spade to heavy equipment.
harold
March 4, 2012 at 8:45 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
dan4 –
But, but, but Dan…Aquaria was only joking.
Isn’t that what you say every time you giggle like a horror movie clown when you hear a joke about assassinating, bombing, torturing, starving, etc, but from someone you grovel to?
Isn’t that what you say every time you titter like an epileptic weasel at a rape joke, racist joke, whatever?
Wasn’t that you excuse when you squealed with delight like some mutated demon child at hateful jokes when Ted Kennedy died?
Isn’t that what you say about Rush right now? He called her a slut, he called her a prostitute, he said she “has so much sex it’s amazing she can walk”, he demanded that she involuntarily post sex videos in return for birth control pills. I support his freedom of speech, but I’m offended. But you’re saying I shouldn’t be because he “was only joking”, right?
Isn’t that your rule? You can’t criticize anyone if “they were only joking?, right?
So why are you being a hypocrite?
democommie
March 4, 2012 at 8:48 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Dan4Rush:
I cannot speak for Ms. Fluke. If Rush had said about me, what he said about her, “helping” him die would be on the low end of a scale of punishments I would administer to that Armani wrapped execresence.
If there was an argument in my head for whether there is a loving GOD (a question I settled for myself, in the negative, some years back) Limpboy’s continued respiration would answer the question for any reasonable observer.
It is odd by the way that you focus on Aquaria’s comment about cyanide, while ignoring the previous one about sepukku and ritual beheading.
I would NOT administer cyanide to Rushit, D-con is a perfectly good product for pest control and Oxycontinboy is a fucking rat.
gshelley
March 4, 2012 at 9:23 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Apparently some idiot from the college conservatives has joined in, at least if it is a Poe, half the commentors don’t realise
http://thecollegeconservative.com/2012/03/02/sandra-fluke-does-not-speak-for-me/
MikeMa
March 4, 2012 at 9:56 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I see assisted suicide as an act of love. This puts Aquaria in a bit of an awkward position. but I’m sure she can handle it.
Dan4,
Are you in actual support of Rush’s bloviations? Do you agree with his attack on Ms Fluke?
democommie
March 4, 2012 at 10:01 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
“Hey Sandra! How about next Saturday night, you come hang out with me and my gay boyfriends!”
Obviously NOT genuine. No GOTeabaggist, male or female, would admit that they actually KNOW any gay people. The “GAY menace”, yeah, they’re familiar with that; gay people? not so much.
harold
March 4, 2012 at 10:19 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Not so sure (caveat – I’m straight). They had Ann Coulter at GOProud.
I’m told there was some objection to her opposition to gay marriage (no shit), but that was well known before she was invited.
slc1
March 4, 2012 at 10:21 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Re thp1 @ #37
Actually, limp dick Limbaugh would have a lot more to lose in any law suit then Ms. Fluke. She could probably get a high powered attorney like Lin Wood, one of the most successful lawyers in the State of Georgia, who got a nice settlement for Kate Faber of Kobe Bryant infame. The fact is that celebrities like Limbaugh have much to lose in a libel suit as their private lives include a lot more embarrassing material then someone like Ms. Flake. I would bet that any attorney worth his/her salt would advise limpdick to settle to make Ms. Flake go away.
slc1
March 4, 2012 at 10:22 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Re Harold @ #54
It is my information that Coulter’s on record as stating that same sex marriage is no big deal.
harold
March 4, 2012 at 10:28 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
slc1 –
Nope.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/27/ann-coulter-to-gay-conser_n_740066.html
harold
March 4, 2012 at 10:29 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I did not intend to embed that video, I thought I simply posted a link to it; anyway…
tommykey
March 4, 2012 at 10:35 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I did not mean a personal attack on Ms. Fluke.
“Hey, what can I say? I just got a little carried away sometimes!”
slc1
March 4, 2012 at 10:36 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Re Harold @ #57
That was in 2010. My information is that she has subsequently backed off from that position (as has Glenn Beck by the way who said the same thing on his Fox TV program before he was canned). It is possible that she, in fact, took the no big deal position on Glenn Beck’s show.
harold
March 4, 2012 at 10:43 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
slc1 –
Documentation please. Googling “Ann Coulter same sex marriage no big deal” does not do it for me.
She was at GOProud when she was unequivocally against it in 2010.
I did see that she has recently said that she was glad for same sex marriage in NY because “now maybe they’ll shut up about it”. Is that what you were referring to?
Also –
1) Factually incorrect, we are not at war with Iran.
2) Falsely implies that we disagree about the quality of the government of Iran, which is basically false and a squirming attempt at evasion – what we disagree about is whether there should be a first strike nuclear holocaust against Iranian civilians by the United States.
3) Does not answer any of my questions. I will repeat them.
“I’m confused by your remark. How is a first strike nuclear bombing of a country that is not at war with the US comparable to making an omelet? How are human lives equivalent to unfertilized chicken eggs? Can you elaborate?
I do appreciate what I take as a straight answer to my first question – yes, you approve of some holocausts. Actually, this causes me to wonder – do you disapprove of the Nazi holocaust? I just realized that, although I had assumed, perhaps carelessly, that you oppose Nazis, I have no strong evidence of that.”
Freeman
March 4, 2012 at 10:52 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Shawn Smith #10:
That was one of the best blog comments I’ve ever read. I must confess I had to look them all up, if nothing else to be sure about the few I even had a clue on. But it fits Limbaugh to a T and some of the literal definitions are hilarious!
Thanks for the reference to where it came from.
slc1
March 4, 2012 at 10:53 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Re Harold @ #61
The question that Mr. Harold poses is OT on this thread and so will be ignored.
The possibility that Coulter and Beck are now taking the position that same sex marriage is no big deal (I recall that Beck said that on O’Reilly’s program), should not be construed that they are in favor of it, only that they no longer consider it to be an issue of major importance.
Coulter is notorious for socializing with a number of members of the gay and lesbian community, including closeted gay Matt Drudge. Given the claims of a former gentleman friend of hers that she doesn’t believe 90% of the crap that comes out of her mouth or word processor, I wouldn’t take anything she says on any subject seriously.
harold
March 4, 2012 at 11:20 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
LOL.
You can answer it on the Illinois Nazi thread then.
It will continue to arise. Ed Brayton will decide whether it is too off topic for the thread. Of course, if he asks you to help moderate the blog, then you can decide.
tbp1
March 4, 2012 at 11:27 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@#55: I know some people have had success in analogous situations, but it’s hard to fight against someone with virtually unlimited resources. Still, this is one time I’d really, really like to be wrong, so I hope you’re right. I would absolutely love to see her sue him, and win a huge settlement, coupled with an actual apology (not this mealy-mouthed quasi-apology) and an admission of wrongdoing. I’ll keep fingers crossed…
Michael Heath
March 4, 2012 at 11:28 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
democommie:
dan4′s response to Aquaria was not made within a vacuum but instead based on previous exchanges where Aquaria’s emotionally charged rants caused dan4 to respond in kind. They get under each other’s skin. On this matter the round clearly goes to Aquaria, regardless of how one scores the level of class revealed in Aquaria’s initial relevant post and her initial response to dan4.
democommie
March 4, 2012 at 11:46 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Michael Heath:
I’m sure you are correct of there being antipathy between dan4 and Aquaria. Having said that, his attack on her for expressing a “wish” that was in no wise more egregious than the previous one was a tip about that antipathy.
Michael Heath
March 4, 2012 at 11:50 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
It should be noted that Rush Limbaugh’s apology seems predominately motivated by his advertisers demanding he provide the public with an apology in order that they can justify their continuing to advertise on his show. Mr. Limbaugh and his broadcaster’s future revenue stream is threatened. The apology doesn’t need to be authentic since they merely need a point of reference to provide them with an argument.
Mr. Limbaugh’s defamation of Ms. Fluke does not break new ground in our better understanding him where this incident is merely illustrative of his past behavior. His lack of character and bigotry was revealed decades ago. [I first became a fan of Al Franken's reading his book about Limbaugh.] Therefore no authentic apology is warranted by Mr. Limbaugh’s advertisers. If they were truly acting from a moral high ground they would have never advertised on his show.
I am grateful some of his advertisers won’t be coming back in spite of his apology, but that seems small potatoes relevant to the morally objective thing to do, which is for his broadcaster to shut his show down or every single advertiser quit using his show.
slc1
March 4, 2012 at 12:47 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Re Harold @ #64
Yawn.
Who Knows?
March 4, 2012 at 2:44 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Rush Limbaugh has been calling women whores and prostitutes for years now and it is only when he learned he cannot do it directly and directed at a specific individual and it threatens his bottom line that he makes a feeble attempt at an apology.
What happens to Rush Limbaugh now should be the very same thing that happened to Imus.
leonardschneider
March 4, 2012 at 4:24 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I’ve said the same thing about Limbaugh for years, but it bears repeating: If I wanted the opinions of a bloated junkie, I’d move back to the Tenderloin.
janine
March 4, 2012 at 6:20 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
He has been call feminist “Feminazis” for decades. It was not funny the first time he said it and remains just as unfunny at the ten thousandth time. Hateful little fuzzball.
Dr X
March 4, 2012 at 8:56 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Continuous hammering on Facebook and elsewhere caused Pro Flowers to cave today. They announced this afternoon that they are suspending advertising with Limbaugh.
Who else needs to be hammered?
Lycanthrope
March 4, 2012 at 9:01 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Oh, of course. It’s Theatre of the Absurd. Beckett and Ionesco are rolling over in their graves…
dingojack
March 4, 2012 at 10:01 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Lycanthrope – It’s time for Ionesco to wake up anyway, he’s had his 18 hourss already.
;) Dingo
dingojack
March 4, 2012 at 10:04 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Dan4, Aquaria – perhaps the latter could help Rush hang himself, at least he’d get an erection.
;) Dingo
dan4
March 5, 2012 at 1:06 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@52: No and no.
WordsOfAWizard
March 5, 2012 at 10:19 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I like Rush, I think we should get him more advertisers and a wider audience.
He’s really, really good at saying what the GOP is actually thinking. Since he doesn’t filter it, outrage and backlash ensues. It’s a good deal for everyone. By being stupid, loud and angry, he may help to bring about things which are opposite to what he actually wants.
democommie
March 5, 2012 at 11:35 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
What Rushit actually “wants” is to make $M’s, fuck young people in foreign countries and feel like a big deal. If his employer’s revenues drop enough because of his idiocy, maybe they’ll shitcan him. Losing his show might be a blow from Limpbag’s ego might never recover, leading him into a spiral of angst fuelled and drug aggravated depression. He might live in the twilight of failure and low self-esteem for years and, ultimately, take his own life. Win-win.