O’Reilly’s message to Sandra Fluke, who says he left two tickets “and a month’s supply of birth control” for the Georgetown Law student. (The event is at nearby GWU.)
The activist campaign against Rush Limbaugh is starting to lose steam, The Washington Post reports. A month after Limbaugh’s comments on Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke put the talk-radio icon on notice, the longtime figure is even starting to get some of his advertisers back. “I think certainly the pressure has been reduced,” noted Angelo Carusone, who has led an anti-Rush campaign for Media Matters for America. “To a certain extent, that’s okay and acceptable … Obviously, the intensity is gone, but the engagement remains high.” Do you think Rush will eventually shake off the controversy? Or will he go the way of Glenn Beck, who never really recovered from his advertiser exodus?
A new manifestation of the Sandra Fluke case: Thirty students created a wall between professor Steven Landsburg and his class, after Landsburg voiced support for Rush Limbaugh’s insulting descriptions of Georgetown student Sandra Fluke. In a statement released to staff and students, University president Joel Seligman was also quick to condemn the professor’s comments, saying, “we are here to educate, to nurture, to inspire, not to engage in character assassination.” (photo by Jesse Partrick) source
Rush Limbaugh spends nearly 30 minutes responding to controversy over his comments made toward activist Sandra Fluke, calling out the Obama administration and his former advertisers in the process. [KFBK]
In case you needed something to do for half an hour.
Imus expressed anger over Limbaugh’s apology, pointing out that it was done on his website and not in person.
“A lame apology on his website, in which he says he didn’t mean to personally attack her,” Imus said, “is gutless.” Imus took issue with Limbaugh’s “sustained, vile, personal attack” on Fluke over three days, and said that if he’s going to apologize, you have to “go sit down with her” and apologize.
“He’s a fat, gutless loser,” Imus added, “and if I’m running a radio station, he’s not on it… until he does that.”
Imus basically went through the same thing Rush did nearly five years ago, in which he spoke critically of female Rutgers University basketball players — a set of comments which cost him his radio and TV shows at the time.
The lie was that somehow she was asking that taxpayers pay for contraception. The policy is that in basic insurance policies, contraception — contraceptive services, birth control, should be included. … Even in his sort of quasi-apology last night, Mr. Limbaugh continued that falsehood, and it needs to be challenged.Obama adviser David Axelrod • Not accepting Rush Limbaugh’s apology to Sandra Fluke and pointing out that the apology continued to sell what Axelrod described as a falsehood. Rush would probably respond back to this by saying the government should have no role in funding “basic insurance policies.” But really, does this argument have to keep going?
Carbonite’s CEO, who was not impressed with conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh’s apology to Sandra Fluke after calling her a “slut,” said in a statement published Saturday evening that his company would continue to withdraw its support from Limbaugh’s show.
“Mr. Limbaugh, with his highly personal attacks on Miss Fluke, overstepped any reasonable bounds of decency,” Carbonite’s CEO David Friend wrote.
This is interesting, because the original statement suggested they’d try to work it out face-to-face with Limbaugh. But it appears the apology was just too thin.
Limbaugh is a professional speaker; he’s made millions of dollars by choosing words and saying them aloud. But now he wants us to believe that he chose these words improperly. For days. A momentary lapse of judgment? Sure. That’s possible. But to use the same words (that were chosen specifically to insult and degrade) over and over and over again … that’s not called choosing the wrong words. It’s pretty clear that he chose his words and he stuck to them for as long as he could, right up until it started to cost him money.Ari Kohen’s not exactly a fan of the Rush apology.
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I’m certainly not going to be silenced.Georgetown student Sandra Fluke • Responding to the controversy that began Wednesday, when conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh began a series of attacks on her character and asked that she upload videos of her sexual encounters for his viewing pleasure. Fluke became the target of Limbaugh’s rage after testifying before Congress on Georgetown’s contraceptive policy; however, Limbaugh’s comments cost him four sponsors, and condemnation from pundits across the country. Friday afternoon, President Obama called Sandra to offer words of encouragement and support, and Georgetown president John J. DeGioia defended the student in a statement calling Limbaugh’s attacks “misogynistic” and “vitriolic”. source (via • follow)
The Gateway Pundit is shocked that Sandra Fluke is 30, suggesting that it’s clear evidence of some crazy conspiracy. Meanwhile, The Daily Beast correctly reported this fact nearly two weeks ago: ”Sandra Fluke, a 30-year-old Georgetown University Law School student, had been contacted earlier in the week by committee minority leaders after Democrats saw a video of her speaking about the mandate at the National Press Club on February 9,” Matthew DeLuca wrote at the time. Doing a quick search, the only sites we found incorrectly stating her age were conservative media outlets … and a guy writing at HuffPo. (EDIT to clarify HuffPo point)
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