madasheck
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- Feb 7, 2011
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The strength of the apology is an issue? I'm pretty sure Rush made the statement specifically to stop his organization's financial hemorrhaging. That means his apology had to be exactly as strong as was necessary for sponsors to stop jumping ship. I often disagree with Rush Limbaugh, but in this course of action I feel he was 100% correct (not necessarily in the initial slut statement, but in the apology).
This outrage from the left in the media is ridiculous. This sort of name calling to marginalize political opponents happens constantly in this country, and anybody who tries to associate it purely with one party or the other, or with left or right exclusively, is up their own ass.
On top of that, even this argument is more political subterfuge to win the topic by default by attacking the messenger. When Rush called homegirl a slut, he was attacking the messenger, granted. However, if you've actually listened to the quotes surrounding the conversation, he actually makes an argument about why her monologue was incorrect based on the merits of that argument. The slut thing really did seem like a shitty attempt at "humor" (it actually reminded me of someone who makes a half-joke about something that really angers them, and tries to hide a really ugly, divisive statement in humor so nobody gets too angry at them for firing it off). The sad fact is that sluts completely lacking in personal responsibility would be among the greatest beneficiaries of forcing everyone to pay for contraceptives.
All this said, I'm kinda pissed at Rush myself about this. In years past, the guy struck me as a Republican Koolaid drinker, the type that substitutes party line for intellectual consistency (and fuck me do the major political parties have a healthy supply of that sort of dickhead), and so I often found myself angry at what he was spouting. This time it's different. I actually agree with his position on the issue, and I don't agree that he was particularly, intellectually wrong for salting his argument with the slut commentary. He was still an idiot for doing it. The guy's been playing politics for fuckin decades and should've known that the vast majority of TV based media would be up in arms about this. Now he's opened himself up to retaliatory attack the messenger tactics and, for a lot of the neanderthals taking their cues from political organizations telling them what to think, this verbal slip is enough to compromise the validity of the entire argument.
Talk about straddling the fence. You either condemn what he said or you don't. And if you acknowledge it's wrong, you allow that a segment of the public, maybe some you don't agree with, will also give him crap over it. He deserves what he's getting. And in case you haven't noticed, it's not just the media. Hell, forget the media pundits. You know they'd have their say. But when his fellow Republicans condemn him, you have a problem. A big one.