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The Limbaugh Rock: How Low Can You Go?

March 7th, 2012 6:15 pm Leonard Pitts Jr.

If you think Rush Limbaugh is fatally wounded, think again.

By way of explanation, let me tell you how a certain subset of my readers will react to this column. Experience dictates that once I’ve taken my last swipe at their dear leader, Limbaugh’s followers will well … rush to fire off angry emails in his defense. They will do this though there is no defense for what he did on his program last week — calling Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke a “prostitute” and a “slut” after she testified in support of requiring health insurers to pay for women’s contraception.

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  • the esquire abby phelps

    The ill reputed antics of Limbaugh is as inexcusable as it is disrespectful! Not just to a mere delegated party or association but to all people in general. He has proven that he has no class, no moral fabric and even more terse no dignity for himself nor the Republican Party. Truly, if Romney intends to secure his nomination as the Repeblican Presidential candidate, his company Bain must drop Limbaugh immediately like the other 11 sponsors did. If not, it will cost Romney his nomination and most assuredly the election. Limbaugh is toxic and defamatory to the entire human race!

  • ms216

    What’s truly disconcerting is the number of people who listen to and parrot Limbaugh’s vile rhetoric. If these comments were spoken “closer to the truth” than he meant, how does he explain the request to view pornography online(the woman’s sex life)from a “christian” standpoint and how do his “christian” supporter’s accept that? It’s most disturbing not to hear that listeners are not tuning him out. The extremist conservative right looks more and more like the extremist Islamists in their no holds barred attempts to impose their ideology on everyone else.WWJD Rush? Christians need to review their history. It was not criminals nor liberals that had Jesus crucified, it was churh leaders, the “moral majority” of the day

  • K.t.Doggett

    Limbaugh is not an entertainer – he is an editorial journalist; and an extrememly irresponsible one, at that. Santorum and Romney are snidely laughing up their sleeves at the good-ole-boy “antics” of Limbaugh. He (Limbaugh) should be censored, fined, or suspended by the FCC for his remarks. Maybe that’s why fanatical rightists are always whining about “government overreach” – then, they and their cohorts could get away with more crimes, with impunity.

  • 1olderbutwiser1

    The conservatism today as suggested in the above pile of bull, is not too conservative. The problem is that the democrats have become socialists or maybe marxists or fascists; the republican party has moved to the left as well, now espousing as policy what the democrats 30 years ago, professed to be “proper”. It’s easy to see this article above was written by a democrat, it was inclusive of the fact that Reagan raised taxes. Yes, after the democrat induced Viet Nam debacle, and then Carter’s inflation scheme, something had to be done to stop inflation. Interest rates and taxes did just that. No more easy money. No more exorbitant union demands in the private sector. Unfortunately, the government unions then began the pillage and rape they have continued to this day, and now wisconsin turns into a battleground. Right to work in every state, this will balance it all out in a balanced budget.And here comes the democrats most horrid nightmare with these two words.,…….RON….. PAUL…….Why can’t democrats be honest with the people about unions and inflation? The hidden goal is to move the whole country into the highest possible tax bracket while impoverishing these people who presumably are bragging about making 50 bucks an hour, not seeing that 30 of it goes to government. Wow! Talk about a dumbing down of the populace.

  • jimackermann

    So an entertainer (Rush) degrades a woman. You are all up in arms abour how horrible it is. So when an entertainer (Bill Maher) call a woman c***, you all think it’s cute. My assumption is that you believe that only the right should have standards.

  • PamelaT

    Double Standard: You have not read the law….defamation does not apply to people in the public eye such as Sara Palin and Michelle O’bachmann. They are in the pulbic eye and unfortunately can be treated badly by Bill Maher in his stand up program. No different that Eddie Murphy Stand up Routine. Limbaugh is different he attacked an ordinary citizen that was standing up for being a citizen of the USA she is was not a candidate in the public eye but an ordianary citizen. Know the law before you open your mouth.

  • whitewater

    Guys like Rush cannot help themselves. He will show his ass and then double down on it. The Rush faithfull (GOP extremists) will defend his obsessive bully behavior to the hilt. I simply refuse to listen to such trash. I vote every day by what I watch, listen to or buy. My advise to all women voters is to pay attention to what people do and vote accordingly. Evidently his sponsors are thinking in a similar fashion…. Many are dumping him. Bravo.

  • jimackermann

    Get some morality before you open yours.

  • Shifu

    I am 67 years old and was a Republican until they invaded Iraq. I have been very politically active my whole life. We are entering another Joe McCarty period with Limbaugh as the ring master. The nasty personal attacks by this poorly educated buffoon is a sad commentary on our time. It is not that this overweight first semester College dropout rides around in a Gold encrusted golf cart and milks 50 million a year from advertisers, but that we let him get away with it.

  • Austin00005

    I’ve always been a so called left leaner.More to the middle though.I have been running from the middle,as to say away from anything conservative.I’ve never seen this type of.behavior from the whole conservative side.Sure, I used to disagree with most things with them, but now I couldn’t begin to even respect them.Republicans, your parties time has come.It’s shrinking daily with no end in sight. It’s all of you, Rush is just out in front for all to hear.You guys are the clapping penguins.Think you for making 2012 so east.

  • scbeach

    People like Limbaugh should not be on the air. He and others like him only spread hate and distrust. This does nothing to help people see all sides, this does nothing to bring about compromise and Limbaugh obviously has no respect for anything, anyone and especially none for women. When I was growing up, if a grown man made a comment about anyone in my family like the comments Limbaugh made about Ms. Fluke, my family would have paid him and his Mom and Dad a visit to discuss manners and how to be polite and neighborly. You just don’t talk about people like that. The level of disrespect we have reached in this country is embarrassing but when that disrespect and hatred is broadcast and then ultimately embraced by thousands – it’s frightening. Shock jocks are the lowest of the low. They prey on people who still believe everything they read and hear on TV/radio. The shock jocks like Limbaugh are like drug dealers and pushers doling out bad energy in place of drugs. We have to educate our kids to beware of people like him so they don’t believe the garbage they spew and our kids understand people like Limbaugh only do it for the thrill they get and the money. Now who is the prostitute.

  • Howz 1

    Conservatives live in a bubble created by Fox news, Rush limbaugh, Glen Beck people like Ann Coulter. it is a place where the distortion of history and facts thrive. A place where Bush 2 was never President, since all his misdeads are never mentioned. In the bubble Obama caused the economy to collaspe and gave out the bailout, even though it was done before he took office. Health care reform is really a way to kill off your grannie, even though the pre reform system practiced dropping people for pre existing conditions after they had surgery, and 1 million kids between the ages of 22 and 26 weren’t insured. Most of the bankruptcies were for medical reasons. But in the Bubble that is ok. The only thing bubble dwellers are concerned with is keeping taxes low on the rich, even though they didn’t create any new jobs, and actually shipped 2.9 out of the country, and denying global climate change, even though the storms are setting new records for intensity. Can any Bubble dweller tell me where Halaburton’s corporate headquaters are? You know the company that Channey was CEO of and got a 6 billion/year no bid contract for Iraq Answer: Dubai. How partiotic. The Real crime of Rush is not only his his vile words against a college student, but the lies he tells about everyting else. Some things that are not lies: He is a convicted drug addict strung out on OXY, and for all his bluster on immigration, he hired an undocumented house keeper. That is the real Rush Limbaugh!

  • Bigspender

    Remember back in 2008 when Nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman said the republicans were the party of the stupid? I don’t think he meant that all republicans are stupid. Far from it. But if you are stupid, you’re probably a republican. Hence the birth of the Tea Party. Its people like Limbaugh that share much of the responsibility for this trend. Because of Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and many other on-air talk show hosts, and of course the FOX channel, people with low self-esteem and education sometimes find their voice in this racist, anti-union, radical right-wing clique. By putting down other particularly non-white Americans they can feel that they are superior to someone else and hence not as worthless as they seem. Limbaugh and his ilk just feed the beast that they inspire in the gutter trash segment of our society.

  • freethinker

    I would presume Leonard views the world the same as PamelaT. If you are in the public eye, it is fair for the left to call you vile names. As if Ms. Fluke appearing for a specifically staged Pelosi event didn’t put her in the public eye. One second of real research Leonard, and you would have found liberals are far more fond of vile name calling than conservatives. Virtually every woman on the right has had to endure it. Most of these people responding have never listened to a Rush Limbaugh show and are simply parrots. The guy who said he was a Republican before the Iraq war has conveniently forgotten that most prominent Democrats encouraged action, so why would he have changed sides. That’s the problem with liberals, no logical thinking when they make stuff up.

  • Jim Hengstebeck

    I used to laugh at Rush. No more. His attack on Ms. Fluke was beyond the pale. His apology was as meaningless as it was insincere. He meant to use the words he did and they cannot be taken back. Please, America, help this guy retire. He’s a cancerous lesion 0n the meaning of free speech and an embarrassment on the national landscape.

  • Casrekoli

    Seriously people? You define if it’s ok to call a woman names like that solely on the law? It’s wrong period. I’m sorry, but I’m not going to get all bent out of shape because some woman was called a slut. If I recall correctly, slut was the nicest thing Palin was called. People are waking up the the double standard those on the left use. Limbaugh isn’t going anywhere. Get over it.
    Oh, and for the record, I don’t listen to him and haven’t heard in context what he said but it doesn’t matter. IIII don’t have double standards. It’s wrong under any circumstance. But y’all rest easy knowing you swapped out a few of his advertisers.