It's Karma for Rush Limbaugh
By Marilisa Kinney Sachteleben | Yahoo! Contributor Network – Wed, Mar 7, 2012
COMMENTARY | Rush Limbaugh is still backpedaling on his crude comments to Georgetown University student Sandra Fluke for her support of birth control insurance coverage. Limbaugh sent Fluke a quasi-apology but now blames leftists, saying he "descended to their level," reports the Atlantic Wire.
"In fighting them in this issue last week I became like them," Limbaugh said. I'm not sure, but I'm thinking the "fight" is really the mass exodus of sponsorship. Another Atlantic Wire article says all advertisers have abandoned the Limbaugh ship.
How did leftists make Limbaugh call Fluke names? No matter how another person acts, they cannot force behavior on us. Further, wouldn't Limbaugh's self-proclaimed good judgment have prevented him from responding in kind? As a teacher, I've heard a lot of crude language from students; being subjected to it does not cause me to use it. In fact, it makes me more careful.
Limbaugh further suggests it was only "those two words" (presumably "slut" and "prostitute") that caused the uproar. What about his demands for Internet sex videos from Fluke in exchange for insurance companies paying for birth control? What about the aped comments Limbaugh spawned, according to the New York Daily News, from Patricia Heaton? How were leftists responsible for that?
The bottom line in this will continue to be the bottom line: Money and loss of ads. I find curious Limbaugh's assertions the left is willing to "do anything." If he's referring to campaigns to pull ads, that's just him getting a taste of conservative medicine. It's karma.
Look at the American Family Association's One Million Moms; it has a list of sponsors it is pushing to pull ads. It wanted J.C. Penney to pull from the Ellen DeGeneres show because she's gay. It was the AFA that got Lowe's to pull ads from "All-American Muslim," says The Blaze. OMM is campaigning against Clorox, claiming sexual innuendos in a dual action snake-and-gel Liquid Plummer product.
Boycotts and pulled support are how Americans voice our opinions. Limbaugh, who is always harping on "We the people," would do well to remember that. If he doesn't like sponsors leaving him in droves, he should quit blaming others and take his medicine.
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