Rush Limbaugh Apologizes

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he was forced or be fired is my guess :facepalm:

Ya think?

Rush Limbaugh has just lost a fifth advertiser due to comments and attacks the radio show host made this week about Sandra Fluke, a 30-year old law school student.

Less than one hour ago, Legal Zoom, a privately-owned online retailer that sells legal documents and services with annual sales over $100 million, joins the Cleveland Cavaliers professional basketball team and Quicken Loans, both headed by Dan Gilbert, and two mattress companies, The Sleep Train, and Sleep Number, in removing their advertising from the Rush Limbaugh show.

No word yet on whether or not these five companies will return to the Rush Limbaugh show, as most have termed their support removal as having ?suspended? their advertising, but this is a major development, as Rush Limbaugh has long been seen as untouchable.

Limbaugh, the unofficial head of the GOP, sparked a firestorm this week when he decided to attack and slander a 30-year old college student, calling her a ?slut,? a ?prostitute,? and demanding she post online a tape of her having sex ?so we all can watch.?

There is no word yet from technology company Carbonite, ProFlowers, and automotive company AutoZone, also under pressure to pull their advertising from Limbaugh?s show.
 

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Limbaugh is not untouchable if the advertisers continue to pull advertising from the company. Nobody is untouchable in the radio business if you don't make money for your employer. Guessing he still does, for now, and that's all that matters for the company, for now.
 

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Breaking: Sandra Fluke Exposed As Fraud, Activist, Possible White House Operative ? With Video
March 2nd, 2012 (190) Posted By Pat Dollard.



This broad went to the school strictly to challenge its insurance?s contraceptive policy, not even as a real student?and all magically timed to coincide with Obama?s big contraceptive push?



Sandra Fluke?s Appearance Is No Fluke


For me the interesting part of the story is the ever-evolving ?coed?. I put that in quotes because in the beginning she was described as a Georgetown law student. It was then revealed that prior to attending Georgetown she was an active women?s right advocate. In one of her first interviews she is quoted as talking about how she reviewed Georgetown?s insurance policy prior to committing to attend, and seeing that it didn?t cover contraceptive services, she decided to attend with the express purpose of battling this policy. During this time, she was described as a 23-year-old coed. Magically, at the same time Congress is debating the forced coverage of contraception, she appears and is even brought to Capitol Hill to testify. This morning, in an interview with Matt Lauer on the Today show, it was revealed that she is 30 years old, NOT the 23 that had been reported all along.

In other words, folks, you are being played. She has been an activist all along and the Dems were just waiting for the appropriate time to play her.


Sandra Fluke: A Fake Victim of Georgetown?s Policy on Contraceptives?
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 5:00pm by Mytheos Holt Print ?Email ?
Comments (205)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 interesting information:

For me the interesting part of the story is the ever-evolving ?coed?. I put that in quotes because in the beginning she was described as a Georgetown law student. It was then revealed that prior to attending Georgetown she was an active women?s right advocate. In one of her first interviews she is quoted as talking about how she reviewed Georgetown?s insurance policy prior to committing to attend, and seeing that it didn?t cover contraceptive services, she decided to attend with the express purpose of battling this policy. During this time, she was described as a 23-year-old coed. Magically, at the same time Congress is debating the forced coverage of contraception, she appears and is even brought to Capitol Hill to testify. This morning, in an interview with Matt Lauer on the Today show, it was revealed that she is 30 years old, NOT the 23 that had been reported all along.

Though there aren?t links in the original post to the content mentioned, a little digging shows that it?s all true. Fluke has described herself as a third year law student at Georgetown University, and indeed, that is what she is. However, contrary to the narrative of innocent victimhood that portrays Fluke as a wide-eyed 23-year-old girl caught without contraception on a college campus full of predatory men, Fluke herself is really a 30-year-old women?s rights activist who not only didn?t get caught without contraception at Georgetown, but specifically knew the university didn?t cover it and chose to attend for precisely that reason.


First, there?s the matter of Fluke?s age. In a segment on Fluke?s battle with Rush Limbaugh, MSNBC reporter Anne Williams called Fluke ?the 23-year-old Georgetown law student, prohibited from testifying.? Yet Fluke?s own Linkedin profile reveals a more mature woman:



In fact, according to that profile, she graduated from college in 2003. Barring Fluke being a child prodigy who somehow graduated college at the age of 15, this would make her at least 30 years old:

It?s worth noting the massive number of women?s issues groups Fluke was involved in, even while in college.

Now, to be fair, Fluke?s age could have been misreported by the media. Most 3rd year law students are at least 25, and they could have confused her for being an undergraduate senior rather than a 3rd year law student.

The idea that Fluke is herself an unwitting victim of Georgetown?s policy on contraceptives is another matter entirely. In several interviews, especially following Rush Limbaugh?s attack, Fluke has implicitly included herself in the group of women who allegedly unwittingly suffer as a result of Georgetown?s policies. This is a key point for the Democrats supporting her, for if Fluke did happen to read Georgetown?s insurance policy before coming and decide to come anyway, that would, at best, undermine her spokeswoman status.

But what if she not only decided to attend the university anyway, but decided to attend specifically so she could fight this battle? Consider this passage from an early Washington Post story done on Fluke before she was permitted to testify:

Fluke came to Georgetown University interested in contraceptive coverage: She researched the Jesuit college?s health plans for students before enrolling, and found that birth control was not included. ?I decided I was absolutely not willing to compromise the quality of my education in exchange for my health care,? says Fluke, who has spent the past three years lobbying the administration to change its policy on the issue. The issue got the university president?s office last spring, where Georgetown declined to change its policy.

Fluke says she would have used the hearing to talk about the students at Georgetown that don?t have birth control covered, and what that?s meant for them. ?I wanted to be able to share their stories,? she says. ?My testimony would have been about women who have been affected by their policy, who have medical needs and have suffered dire consequences.. . .The committee did not get to hear real stories I had to share, about actual women who have been dramatically affected by this policy.?

That?s right. It seems Fluke intentionally chose to go to Georgetown so she could agitate and sway them to cover contraceptives. She then went to a hearing as a representative of women who hadn?t known about Georgetown?s policy until it was too late. Unsympathetic observers might liken this to James O?Keefe attending a hearing to speak against ACORN on behalf of pimps. It certainly raises the question of why the women Fluke claims to speak for couldn?t present their stories for themselves.

Indeed, in a video made after she was denied the opportunity to testify, Fluke raises two ?stories? from women who had emailed her, supposedly about their non-sex-related need of contraceptive medicine. She does not identify the emailers by name, or even by school, saying simply that they are students at an unnamed Catholic University:

If Fluke?s stories are real, many will likely call on her to let the women who sent them speak for themselves and stop hogging the spotlight, given that she did choose to attend Georgetown knowing full well what its policy was on contraceptives, and with every indication of being willing to risk the price tag ? whether that price tag would be $3000 over 3 years or not.
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Nice find PRO, you notice the OutRaged LIBERALS on this site have nothing to say about it, another game being played by our Liberal News Media and the DNC, come on you OUTRAGED frauds, speak up about this 23 uh 30 year old VICTIM.

:lol:
 

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Nice find PRO, you notice the OutRaged LIBERALS on this site have nothing to say about it, another game being played by our Liberal News Media and the DNC, come on you OUTRAGED frauds, speak up about this 23 uh 30 year old VICTIM.

:lol:

Why can't you figure out that the outrage is about calling her a slut and a prostitute because you disagree with her.

I have no problem with you disagreeing with what she was saying, but if you have to sink to calling her a slut prostitute, cunt etc then you completely lose me and anyone else with an ounce of common sense and decency.
 

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Why can't you figure out that the outrage is about calling her a slut and a prostitute because you disagree with her.

I have no problem with you disagreeing with what she was saying, but if you have to sink to calling her a slut prostitute, cunt etc then you completely lose me and anyone else with an ounce of common sense and decency.

Shawn, she's a PLANTED FRAUD, the dirty tricks deserve the dirty names, she's a FRAUD.

:0008
 

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Shawn, she's a PLANTED FRAUD, the dirty tricks deserve the dirty names, she's a FRAUD.

:0008

Lets just say she was a planted fraud, whatever that is, what is calling her a slut prostitute etc accomplishing?

All it seems to be doing is blowing up in the rights face. Rush had to apologize, the left is using it politically to their advantage.

I understand that you guys have a problem with people of color and women in the spotlight, but calling her names like you are in second grade does nothing but damage your stance.
 

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A 7th sponsor, ProFlowers, has now dropped Rush! This is a BIG one. ProFlowers wasn't just any sponsor, they actually offered "Rush Limbaugh discount codes" for his listeners on their site.
 

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Lets just say she was a planted fraud, whatever that is, what is calling her a slut prostitute etc accomplishing?

All it seems to be doing is blowing up in the rights face. Rush had to apologize, the left is using it politically to their advantage.

I understand that you guys have a problem with people of color and women in the spotlight, but calling her names like you are in second grade does nothing but damage your stance.

Bingo.
 

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13 sponsors GONE :sadwave:


Auto Zone (was not sponsor)
Geico (dropped Limbaugh earlier)
Citrix Systems
Legal Zoom
Sleep Number
Sleep Train
Quicken Loans
Carbonite
Pro Flowers
Tax Resolution <= New!
AOL <= New!
Allstate <= New!
Bonobos <= New!
 

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These still sponsor the HATE!



American Forces Network
Capital One
LifeLock
Exergen
Hillsdale College
Insperity
John Deere
Merit Financial
Mission Pharmacal Company
Netflix
Network Capital
Nova Armament (guns for ladies)
RealGoldCoins.com
Regus.com
Right Size
Sears
Sensa
ServiceMagic
Stamps.com
United Healthcare
U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs
Vitacost
Western Union
 

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Posted at 01:54 PM ET, 05/27/2011
Laura Ingraham accepts Ed Schultz?s apology: ?It seemed heartfelt?

By Sarah Anne Hughes
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Ed Schultz and Laura Ingraham. (Tom Williams (Roll Call)/Paul Morigi (WireImage) - Roll Call/Wire Image) Laura Ingraham said she accepts Ed Schultz?s apology for calling her an offensive slur on the radio.
On her radio program Thursday, Ingraham said she initially didn?t want to respond to what is just one of many comments made about her: ?The more vile the thing that?s said about me, the less it affects me. It doesn?t bother me at all.?
?Ed Schultz said something about me on his show that was not all that nice, to say the least. It was pretty crude,? she said. ?He apologized, and I accept his apology. It seemed heartfelt, it seemed like he really wished he hadn?t said it and I accept that apology.?
As the Post?s Paul Farhi reported, Schultz was suspended from his MSNBC show for one-week after he called Ingraham a ?right-wing slut? and ?talk slut? on his radio program Tuesday. Schultz made the remark after Ingraham criticized President Obama for touring Europe in the wake of the tornado that devastated Joplin, Mo. (The president will visit the town Sunday.)
Schultz apologized on Wednesday?s ?The Ed Show?:
It doesn?t matter what the circumstances were. It doesn?t matter that I was on radio and I was ad-libbing. None of that matters. What matters is what I said was terribly vile and not of the standards that I or any other person should adhere to. ... I want all of you to know tonight that I did call Laura Ingraham today and did not make contact with her, and I will apologize to her as I did in the message that I left for her today.
Listen to audio of Ingraham accepting the apology below:
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