Yesterday, over on AmericaBlog, I wrote a comment. I write a great many things on the Internet and have been doing so since the days of Mosaic. In this instance, I chose the wrong words in my analogy of the situation. I did not mean a personal attack on Mr. Limbaugh.
I think it is absurd in these serious political times that we are discussing Mr. Limbaugh's right to hate women and call us whores and sluts, and his right to broadcast it to millions of listeners, including our armed forces overseas.
I personally do not agree that American tax-payers should be footing the entire bill for broadcasting Rush Limbaugh's radio show^. Whatever happened to personal accountability, for radio shows to be expected to fund themselves through advertising? I mean, will we be debating next whether we should pay for Rush Limbaugh's illegally imported Cuban cigars? If this is the norm, what will follow?
In my comment, I posited it is not the American taxpayer's place to be subsidizing Rush Limbaugh's show, and that discussion of such shouldn't rise to the level of Presidential intervention.^^
My choice of words was not the best when I called Rush Limbaugh a fat bastard, a cyst-encrusted asshole, dickspooge, a waste of human skin, a filthy counterexample of all that is decent and righteous, and a karmic black hole, and in the attempt to be humorous, I received a ton of Disqus 'Likes.' I sincerely apologize to Rush Limbaugh for the insulting word choices.^^^
^ = This, of course, is a total lie. But that didn't stop Limbaugh from repeating his lie in his phony "apology."
^^ = Deliberate non-sequitur
^^^ = Tune in Monday when I'll come up with better 'word choices' to express just how disgusting a human being I believe Mr. Limbaugh to be.
We need to make it clear, and repeat it as many times as necessary, that Limbaugh did not in any way, shape or form apologize to Sandra Fluke.
- He repeated his lie, that this was about government funding of birth control.
- He did not correct his lie that a woman apparently needs to pop a birth control pill every single time she has intercourse with a man.
- He insinuated that the use of contraceptive medicine makes you an irresponsible person.
- Three times he makes reference to "choosing the wrong words" but never apologizes for the content and intent of those words, which was to slander and defame Ms. Fluke, and by extension every single woman who chooses or is directed by her doctor to take contraceptive medication.