Georgetown University law student and women's health advocate Sandra Fluke has dismissed Rush Limbaugh’s weekend apology for calling her a "slut" and a "prostitute" for calling for wider access (via insurance) to female contraception.
"I don’t think that a statement like this issued, saying that his choice of words was not the best, changes anything," Sandra Fluke told ABC-TV'S The View today. "Especially when that statement is issued when he’s under significant pressure from his sponsors, who have begun to pull their support."
The controversy over Limbaugh's comments has led nine companies, including AOL today, to pull advertising from his radio show.
Fluke noted that other right-wing commentators, such as Glenn Beck, had blasted her as well.
"This was not one person who went crazy and made 'funny,' outrageous statements," Fluke said. “This is evidently a segment of our political commentators who think that it’s acceptable in today’s society to say these things about women."
Fluke noted that Limbaugh insulted her and the women of Georgetown University more than 53 times over three days on his radio show.
Rush Limbaugh issued an apology on Saturday after three days of personal assaults on Fluke, but she isn't satisfied.
"(It's) an attempt to silence me, to silence the millions of women and the men who support them who have been speaking out about this issue and conveying that contraception is an important health-care need that they need to have met in an affordable, accessible way," Fluke said.
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Limbaugh spent 3 days reiterating his insults. It's not an apology.
he should have to spend the next 3 days apologisting!
It is especially sad to hear this in this day and age someone can feel right saying these things, These attacks by any party are made by people who just don't get it. I respect Sandra Fluke for speaking out for women's rights and needs.
lush is a cave man from the dark ages, he still scratching himself in public.
Saying that you are sorry because you are right is not an apology. Kudos to Ms Fluke for standing up for herself and all women.
I agree it is not a sincere apology he spent 3 days insulting her it is just another political stunt!
Thats Rite Sandra = Stand Your Ground And Accept Nothing From This GOOF - Especially When His SUPPOSED Apollogy Is Soooo HOLLOW !!!!!!!! AS His Mind Is !!!! SUE THE CRAP OUT OF HIM !!!!!!!
The thing between Ed, and Laura started after Laura called Megan McCain a plus side who had no importance to speaking out about how right wing women were more moderate that right wing men. Ed said Laura was a Media (slut), just looking for something to talk on so she attack Megan.
Limbaugh is the kind of person that considers "free speech" to be the same thing as a permanent marker in the bathroom.
Unfortunately, his bathroom is the radio.
I thought it was the boys locker room.
I wouldn't have accepted it either. I hope she sues his butt and gets a ton of money. NY Senator Moloney said she had several really good lawyers offer to take on Sandra's case pro bono. I hope she takes them up on it!
The apology was most likely scripted by a lawyer or some other "run for cover" type person. The woman still has great grounds for a lawsuit. He (RL) is a racist, right-wing nut job. He has been for years. His advertisers know full well who and what they are getting with his show. It is no accident that AT&T is A GOP supporter.
What Limbaugh did was equivalent to yelling "fire" in a crowded movie theater after dropping a match into the trash.
Sandra Fluke (a lawyer) can sue Limbaugh. Might make a good dissertation project.
The ACLU might even give her some help,
I'm pretty sure someone explained this to him a few days after Limbaugh started the perversion rant.
I prefer to answer in a poem:
Rush is such a giant ass
Gets paid to be so gross and crass
makes his money slinging hate
we all rise up to take the bait.
We'd be better off to just ignore
his foul, disgusting words, like "whore"
Turn our backs and minds away
Let love guide our thoughts today.
If we are filled with love, you see
His hatred has no place to be.
Let's remember who and what this man is. His job is to incite, hurt, anger, cause pain. When he achieves his goals, we all lose. We need to shun this ape and stop giving him more publicity.
Indeed, But we still can pressure his sponsors.And may cost him his job and that my friend of words of wit, would a great place to hang our hat!
Kudos, Tam!
Lim-Bawdy is so used to getting away with his insult-slinging garbage-mouth, that he was unprepared for the backlash when he is called on his comments!
He needs to learn the lesson that actions have consequences, and adults take responsibility for those consequences...
David, Good After noon. I just signed another petition that will have major impact. The Armed Forces one. I hope his A$% gets canned. I could careless what he calls himself, we either turned a blind eye or hold him accountable and not tolerate this!
good story over at DailyKos about the AFN.
Pilot shark, That's the one I signed. I tell you they pull will be a major one. AFN is all we had in Germany years ago. I also signed one on care Petition site to stop Walker From sighing SB 202 that would repeal Equal Pay Enforcement Act. This will affect so many if he is not stopped. It seems to be the way of the radicals we play whack a mole. We stop them on something and they finagle something else.
Tam59-
Good poem!
Accepting his apology is just enabling him to continue spewing his vile rhetoric.
Lamapology [lame-a-pol-uh-jee] – the conservative method of apologizing that begins with the phrase “if my words offended anyone”, and ends with a criticism of President Obama.
Also the name of a very active seismic zone, called the Obama fault line!
Obama was apologizing to the young lady, because lush-ho was to cowardly to do so. Obama let her know who side he would be standing on. Just like those of us here.
You will never change bigots like the lush.....they are well practiced haters, because of their own low self esteem.
Rush Limbaugh could actuallly spend the rest of his life apologizing for his hideous insults against women, autistic children, Michael J. Fox and other Parkinson's Disease victims, and any number of people he decides to attack on his program in the most outrageous ways for his own financial gain and to support a certain political outlook and certain politicians. He could do it 24/7 for years and it would still not take away the harm he has done to these people and to common decency in the public arena. He and those like him on both sides who are allowed access to our public airwaves should be shunned by sponsors and listeners/watchers alike. The only way to rid ourselves of this stain on our democracy is to ignore these people to the point that it is no longer profitable for the owners of our airwaves...corporations for the most part...to inflict this programming on us.
Any women who would accept this apology (and make no mistake .....he did insult all women) is as clueless as the lush. I wonder what his wife thinks? When Ed used the term slut in another context, I understand his wife gave him a lot of hell. And he made his apology right away. He realized he had gotten carried away in the moment. Limp continued ranting for 3 days and then only shut up until he was coerced .
I would like for him to go down for this. no matter what the content that young lady did not deserve that and the business about playing the video so he would get something for his money, over the top. I would like to see a list of those who still do run ads on his show.
Am I correct in that his newest apology sounded an awful lot like, "I'm so sorry that I am better than you." What a wonderful, generous human soul! Move over Mother Theresa, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and MLK, here comes Rush!
I think he's going the other place.
Good incentive, I wouldn't want to hang out with him.
Claire McCaskell of Missouri says the State wants to honor Rush as a favorite son of Missouri with a bust or something in the State Capitol! She is going to fight it. I'm going to Google this and see what I can find. This is just unbelievable! Next they'll want a statue of Breitbart on HIS Capitol grounds!
Put your money where your mouths are. Look up the companies that have historically always supported Rush AND those that still stand by him, and boycott them, but do not stop there. Go to your friends and family, go to facebook and twitter and post it and tweet about it. The one way to really hit these people and draw a line is where it hurts. What do republicans love more than god or their families: money. Hit 'em where it hurts the most.
After Rimjob loses his job only than will he be condemned for his statements. This (apology) is too little too late the horse is out of the barn and the damage has been done, And so is he. Its funny how guys like Immus Beck Norquist these RANDOM PEOPLE have so much influence. These guys are a REAL threat to freedom and democracy.
BYE BYE FAT GUY!
These are the people who cause the deep divide in America between the two parties. Their never ending spew of hate poisons man's thinking.
years ago my gynecological health exams were not covered by health insurance and I always resented it because they were expensive. It seemed unfair that men's exams were covered. Sandra was trying to make a very valid point and Rush led an attack against her reasonable points in a stupid, ugly, mean and 'keep women in their place' kind of way. His 'apology' was a self-justification only and lacked merit. Sandra called it like it is.
We could be glad that the LUSH succeeded to bring this problem to the fore front.....
Now it will receive national attention.
It did prove to have some value.......just the opposite of what the lush wanted.
Ed, I don't recall, did Laura Ingraham accept your apology for calling her a "slut"? Also how many of your viewers protested your show for your use of such a degrading sexist comment?
Could you do a show segment on the use of sexists comments by both liberals and conservative entertainers and the media responses to them? I think it would be interesting to show the difference. As I see it if a liberal makes such a comment they get a pass with the media while if it is made by a conservative you never hear the end of it.
He did! You missed it! Do you want to see it again?
2ez,Yes, Laura Ingraham did accept his apology, and he didn't just do it on TV with an attitude that he was right. He admitted that he was wrong and was ashamed that he had made the comment, and said there was no excuse for it. I give you the link, but I suggest you not be so lazy and look it up for yourself.
Doing a show on it might be a good idea. I fear that lush, and fake noise would
have more footage. No one gave Ed a pass, we told him it was wrong. You can go back in the archives and look it up. He hasn't heard the end of it yet, he just took the responsibility for it. Let us see the lush do that.
Laura and ED are both equals as journalist.....it would be more like when oreally never apologies for calling Ed a pinhead.
Perhaps you never hear the end of it because Limbaugh chanted it for THREE days!!! When challenged, he DOUBLED DOWN! Hard to put your mistake to bed when you keep making it over and over. Really doesn't look like a "mistake" then, huh? Then he apologized not by saying that he made a vile personal attack, but that he was sorry he had slipped from his lofty moral position into the muck and the mire that Ms Fluke supposedly inhabits. Why SHOULD they let it go when Rush so obviously wanted to fight this fight? Geez, what kind of a slut gives birth to someone who can't understand this point? Oops, sorry. Better now?
Stick a knife in him, he's done! Sorry sob should be taken out back and given a good old fashioned ass whoopin'!!! Good Riddance Rush.....Obama/Biden 2012
trojan and jezz you sound just like the person that you are hating. Ironic.
Just making recommendation FOR what lush has EARNED. You don't hate people that you often impose punishment on for doing wrong.....you love them enough to want to teach them better. Do you think putting a dunce cap on his head and making him sit in the corner and write a list of how he is going to improve himself would work?
No, not at all. It's called irony. There is NO place in the public discourse for that type of personal demonization that ALSO demonizes almost half the population. Certainly one could dispute Ms Fluke's statements or contest the role of the state in providing what could be seen as a moral or personal item rationally. The Catholic Church did that, and this wonderful thing called a COMPROMISE was reached with HHS over the statute in question well before Limbaugh attacked this young woman. It is time we elevated the discourse from the poopie-kaka you're a doody head stage into one in which two sides may disagree reasonably and do something which will help us all. Her sexuality, asking for nude pictures and porn movies of her are an insult: not only to her but to every female, every husband and boyfriend, every father, and every son who loves a woman who may or may not have had a sexual relationship with someone for anything other than procreation. If one would choose to defend Mr. Limbaugh and his poopie-kaka platform, then perhaps they need to be prepared to uphold that "right" as a right for all.
chemdemd: Maybe they have been infected with Limbaughitsis! Rush to the doctor!
I guess you have been CONDEMNED!
I don't think there's anybody on Earth who thinks Rush has apologized.
There have been numerous instances where members of the liberal media such as the idiot Joy Bahar and the pot smoking loser Bill Maher have called conservative folks like Sarah Palin bitch, slut, the c word and worse. Never heard a word of apology from these pillars of our society or a demand from the left for their firing or pulling of their advertisers. Is Limabugh a blow hard who says stupid things- yes. Did he apologize - yes. Did it satisfy the left of course not. It wasn't "genuine" like Ed's. Give me a break. All of these media types are in it for the money. And if you folks on the left think your team is any different you are indeed naieve.
Hey, Fed-
What do you think of this? And please tell me of the consternation from the right and Fox Propaganda's disapproval of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UudQuVOwSds
And then please show me similar behavior such as this on the left:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsJzAOH9Xwc
Yep stupid stuff from right wing idiots. Now go google Bill maher calls Sarah Palin a c and joy Bahar calling Sharon Angle a bitch and she will go to hell and Letterman calling Palin a sluty flight attendant and on and on. Left wing idiots on display. So there is crap from both the left and right "media" But it is only national news when a blow hard like Limbaugh says something stupid. Bet you didn't hear one thing on the national news when Maher called Sarah Palin a c. Real class there too.
OK, let's do a full comparison. Did any of Maher, Behar, or Letterman (or any one else you choose) do it for 9 hours a day for 3 continuous days?
There's a difference between a comment, no matter how off-color, and a full-fledged, unceasing attack.
And Limbaugh has done this before. This isn't the first time. People have had enough.
I also don't recall anyone from the Democratic party apologizing to Maher or Behar or Letterman as the Republicans do when they disagree with Limbaugh or taking their cues from him, as the Republicans do. He occupies a slightly different place in their world than any of the comedians you mention.
So calling a mother of 5 and a vice presidential candidate the c word is just a "comment." Nice try at spin, but you should leave that to the liberal media they have more experience at it.
I would think that since Bain Capital which owns Clear Channel is tied in with Romney would want to distance theirselves from Rushbo instead of supporting him.
You would think......but I'm glad they are all tied together.....Creates a really interesting knot.
Thankful, Good Afternoon. I agree boy talk about the phrase, "WHAT A TANGLED WEB WE WEAVE WHEN WE PRACTICE TO DECEIVE!" The 3 of them in the same web may get very messy! Wanted to pass along to you and don"t know if you have signed but Walker is pulling a fast one in Wisconsin.SB 202 would repeal equal pay enforcement act. Hes due to sign this and it will affect many. I signed at care petition site. Please stop him before he dose this to the good people of Wisconsin !!!
Its an outrage that anyone today would use a word like "slut" to describe a woman.... Unless your Ed, then its ok i guess
I'm surprised the the left aren't trying to silence Ms. Fluke. Her testimony had no substance and was adolescent. Waa waa waa my Friend was embarrassed because she couldn't pay for her (sniffle) party balloons, waa waa waa. So the government should make someone, anyone, give them to her free. waa waa.
Well, I am embarrassed when I forget to move money onto my debit card and then go into a store to pay for my goods. So, I think the government should mandate that the bank always place a minimum balance on my debit card. That way I wouldn't ever feel stupid when I forget to take responsibility for my own actions.
The only people that want to silence anybody are the libs. They want anybody with a different opinion to be quiet because when thinking people hear logic, libs loose.
Liberalism: Ideas to good they have to be mandatory.
If she is the best you have to represent your cause the only chance you've got is to keep voters in the dark. That is how President Obama gets most of his adjenda pasted is behind closed doors and in dark places.
This has nothing to do with "liberalism" it is all about slandering Miss Fluke and claiming that she said things that she never said. Obviously, the right wing idiots had never heard her testimony or heard her on talk TV repeating what she wanted to testify about.
what are the claims. I watched every word she said. Her statements and arguments in support of having the rest of the world pay for her recreation had as much substance as my 8 year old daughter laying on the floor and crying because I embarrassed her in front of her friends because I told her to clean her room before she could go play with them.
If you watched her speech and thought " Wow that was amazing! " Then I would say your the idiot. Rush met absurdity with absurdity.
The freedom of free speech. She did not insult a whole cross section of America. But if you want to defend the lush, you just go right ahead......wow that is was amazing. Call us a bunch of idiots. Now that is absurd. I see you made the recommendation that your daughter clean her room before she could go out and play. You allowed her to throw a temper tantrum with out repercussion. God bless you and your daughter.
I haven't seen Sandra do anything, but present herself in a lady like manner. Her speech did not ask for the reaction that limp gave it. He could have made no statement at all, or at the least not try to drag her down to his gutter level. But of course it is the lush, so we should just keep making excuses for his blabber.
Would you consider showing us how an insurance co. is "the rest of the world"? You right wingers must have to take classes on how to hear something, distort it and spew it without ever thinking about doing so. Please explain how, paying insurance premiums, at a very high cost, and asking the insurance co. to pay for services, is asking "the whole world to pay", or anybody else for that matter.
And I bet you would join the drugster watching those videos he ask for. You have a sick mind.
." I watched every word she said."
maybe that's the problem you was watching instead of listening.
chem, must have lush's videos in mind. Again, just no respect.
It wasn't just Limbaugh and Beck, it was their followers who posted uniformed, ignorant comments on right wing blog sites and on Yahoo. They were only going on what they heard the great blow hards say. Sandra should sue Limbaugh, Beck and the stations that carry them. She certainly should sue Clear Channel radio as well. Miss Fluke should walk away from this a multi-millionairess. My advice to her, SUE, SUE, SUE until they all of them are begging on the streets for coffee money.
The US government FCC doesn't want to step in and ban RUSH from AIR WAVES or INTERNET as it would cause a firestorm over free speech.
You are right. He will remain. Maybe toned down for a while. Sandra has to take him to court to make a point. I'd love to make a donation to her lawyers fees.
The Righties are willing to bomb Iran but tremble in fear of Limbaugh, I guess now they wish they could drop RUSH on Iran!
He would certainly destroy it.
I will support Big Eddie BUT NOT Rush! Ed can be entertaining, Rush is just disgusting all the time! Rush should go to Sandra and beg for her forgiveness and all women if she would allow it, With cameras rolling!
Beg for what??? Rush is worth millions.
Back in Dec, ed called rich people "smucks" how low rent can you get?
Correct, lush isn't just discussing,he is immoral, vile, worthless, ugly and nasty in his behavior and what he says. You defend that? Then that gives me an idea where you stand. Therefore what ever you say holds no importance.
It Is Amazing = The Purposeful Ignorance Of The Sociopathic Mind Set -- Isnt It !!!!
Yes, MD. They have such hard heads. You tell them something over and over. You present them with facts. They don't read, they only listen to lush and fake noise, and they are so fixated on it, the real world passes them by. They are so afraid that the lush will not be around to tell them how to think. Thank God for That.
Call your GOD and tell him if it will answer your call as we all know his callers are all right wing straight lines rehearsed ahead of time. Is that what Ed called some rich money grubbing warmongering heartless bastards, smucks? He was way off base! He should have called them what they really are a &%#@*& &$@@+%$!!!!
No, xxx, that is just another fake noise, lush, repug and tp lie. We progressives, independents, democrats, libs have a line to God as well. We just don't think we are the only ones that do. Pray on.
All when ed calls a women a slut, but if anyone else does it......
You people are such hypocrites.
Hey - Boyeeee - We Do Have Some Very Nice - Very Clean White Jackets That Will Fit You Nice And Snug !!!!!!
The wind is blowing awfully hard..........last word charlie is calling us hypocrites....next thing you know he will start using the limbo language. No worries.
I hope you send flowers when him and his big mouth are shut down for good!
Yeah, type ED in the box when you order those flowers! Ha haaaaaa!
rob: GOOD ONE!!!
Xo: Nice pitch, it was just hanging up in the air, and I had to take a swing at it.
Gee were was all the fuss when ed called Laura a sult??? I guess when no one is listening to your show then no one hears you..
No one wanted to see naked pictures of Laura having sex! Yuck sicko Rush wants pictures! But if you want to boycott Ed go right ahead, But you ditto heads are all talk no walk!
BYE BYE FAT MAN!
Don't these trolls read, or use research. I get tired of repeating the info. They are not here to learn anything, just to make their post.
Yup - Apparently Their Only Purpose In Life Is To Be Antagonistic - and Dis-Agreeable Toward Any Thing That Is Logical !!!!!! SOCIOPATHS !!!!!
learn LOL.... What is one going to learn from you liberals? other than hate for America and republicans, and anyone that challenges you and your propaganda.
Fact ed called a woman a slut, fact ed called rich people schmucks, and no one cared one bit.
Why? no one watches nor listens to his shows.
Yeah = Yeah = What EVER YOU SAY !!!! SCHMUCK !!!!
They are dogmatic ditto heads.
8.3% unemlpoyment, 15% of the population on food stamps.
GM laying off 1300, yahoo laying off workers, yeah the Otax-n-spend good times are here.
And all you people can talk is some talking head dope that put his foot in his mouth?
He did the same thing as ed. Calling a women a slut..
See what I mean. Closed minds, closed ears, can't read unless it is propaganda they write. I call MD and xxx, smucks some times. They know it is and enduring compliment.
OH MY - OH MY
If you don't like Ed why are you here. He is our icon, go worship at the feet of fake noise and SLUT lush smuckers and we will not mind at all. Bye, Bye, now.
Amazing - How IT Reverts Back To The SOS - Isnt It !!!!! It Is Scary To Think That ALL Of These Loonatics Can Walk Around Free In This Country - Hey !!!!!!
once again here is the big thing about this Laura Ingram is a public figure just like ED rush Rachael, Billo etc...so they open up themselves for this.
Sandra is a (or was a) Private Citizen, who was ask to testify before congress (which is pretty impressive if asked i sure would like to go) to do here constitutional thing of Redress Congress in their own house.
I am here due to the fact it is a FREE country, or did you liberals forget that little fact?
You all act like this is your personal private club, well it ain't.
We Also Have Some Very Nice Accommodations For You To Move Into - Deluxe Suite - No Windows - Fully Padded Walls !!!!!
1300 workers layed off for 5 weeks Chevy volt stops production as they work out bugs BEFORE they hit the market. I guess it never changes,TWIST and SHOUT!
Thankful, This sure brought them out of woodwork. I doubt if they read the intro at all. I tell you I will stand up for Ed anytime. But Limbaugh needs to go.
5 weeks??? and where on earth did you hear/read that??? The Volt is a disaster, no one wants to buy the thing, and it is junk.
But then again GM has been a day late and a dollar short for years now.
I don't watch FAKX news...
Buy USA, if you are a real American.....but I guess you would rather import from China. tra f.
Honestly 'trafdlo' the remarks you are making are not based in reality. I'm totally amazed at this kind of one-sided all or nothing preception that some have. It's so far out there! 'Thankful' is right when she says that even in the face of the facts some people are so stuck in this sort of low-conscious extremely narrow thinking that no one can even have a conversation. It's frustrating because the conversation is over before it even starts.
One of the things I've learned in my long life is that nothing is black and white and black and white thinking keeps a person from moving forward. It keeps people stuck! My truth is that the world actually exists in the gray area.
An example: When I was young I used to ride my skate board down the sidewalk just crusing on the smooth concrete and then whamo! I hit this little piece of gravel and the skate board abruptly stops. (Of course when I was little I'd fly off head over heals). Ever have that happen. Okay well that little piece of gravel is the black and white thinking...It stops all forward motion.
But people, all of us in the world are constantly in motion and the gray part of life is where the growth occurs. It's where those Ah Ha! moments happen and then we all move on down the line to the next stage of becoming. The next thing that God wants to show us. When motion is limited to going in unproductive circles that's the trap. We need to stay teachable.
So some may want to decide that I'm a liberal, or independent, or democrat, or republican, or conservative but the truth is that the person forming that opinion doesn't know what my views are. Right? You don't know me.
For me when I have been in that black and white thinking all the options and choices end. I hate that feeling of being so stuck in my own thinking that I can't see the obvious truth or solution in a situation. One of my biggest lessons in life has been to let go and let God.
Glad to see you back MD, I should be out working on the yard. Today is just too nice ...the wind started coming back up, so I stopped moving rocks and came back in. Now I am on here trying to move some rock heads.
Actually, I see rush's action as a rape of a ladies character. He is such a horrible jerk.
Hey TM - Thanx - Butt Dont Worry About Those Rocks - I Doubt That They Will Blow Away - Ha Haaa !!!!!
Those rocks in the yard are not going anywhere.....the wind makes my nose run and the rock heads are a pain in the _________— flush rush.
MD/MI For President!
Please give to #30PAC! as he is running low!
Nope, need to keep him sober so he can post and not commit a boo boo. We don't want him to lose all his sponsors, do we. AOL
But he's running low on liquid assets! Hold your swatter on high!
http://youtu.be/P1mQS3zxPF4
Some real men make mistakes and beg for forgiveness, and some are just mistakes!
Rush made a comment about "lowering himself to the level of the Left" in his feeble attempt to apologize for his derogatory rhetoric. Come again? Rush, his supporters and the rest of the venomous gang at Fox "News" are already as low as you can go. They are already bottom feeders in Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, the lowest place on earth. If Reincarnations exists, they will ALL come back as dung beetles in their next lives!
He can't make a clean apology with out throwing red meat to his far right wing nut job followers.
Rush can't make an (weak)apology without making another insult! Typical....RUSH!
What do you mean, come back as them?
Rush should be taken off the air. Clear Channel radio should be ashamed. They are just as horrible and Limbaugh.
Since Clear Channel is owned by Bain Capital I guess we could also boycott Staples And Sports Authority too!