Rush Limbaugh Was Wrong To Apologize

Sandra Fluke started something that deserved a response, even if that response was in some ways hostile, insulting and derogatory.  Rush Limbaugh called Sandra Fluke a slut for having the audacity and the arrogance to air her grievance over Barack Obama’s contraception mandate, and the push by some members of that congress to overturn it.  Sandra Fluke argued that the mandate was necessary because she could not afford to keep buying birth control and contraception for herself, and as a result she had to cut back on the amount of sex she was engaging in.  She also mentioned some other women whom she had spoken with were in the same situation.  Sandra Fluke is the one who introduced her sex life to congress, and de facto the entire nation.

For that, Rush called Sandra a slut and a prostitute, which he has since apologized for.  Stinging words, perhaps.  But, what else do you call someone who goes around having sex all the time with many different people?  And what do you call someone who wants us, the taxpayers, to pay for her birth control and contraception so she can continue engaging in sex without worrying about the consequences of her actions?  If Sandra is not a slut, what is she?  A demon?  A vixen?  A tramp?  A vamp?  What?  Fifty years ago women who did what Sandra does were called sluts, and a lot worse by virtually everyone in the nation.  We have changed, as a nation, in that we have come to accept this type of behavior as normal.  Liberal feminists have done much to corrupt morality in America, especially that morality which men used to respect women for having, and women used to attract respectful men.

From a business point, It is understandable that Rush might have been feeling the heat from his sponsors who advertise on his radio program.  That is one of the disadvantages of being on the radio.  He may have been receiving messages from his station that he either apologize for his remarks or a large number of those sponsors would drop him.  At least one sponsor already has, regardless of the apology.  There certainly was no other reason to apologize except for the backlash he was receiving from his sponsors.  Rush was certainly not saying anything that wasn’t true about Sandra.  Maybe you have to be in radio, and on the radio, to fully understand it.

And let’s not forget what the Left says about conservative women, black conservatives and conservatives in general.  Bill Maher regularly calls Sarah Palin a c**t.  He justifies that by saying he is on HBO.  Still, that is what he calls her.  The Left can get away with any derogatory remark or speech they want.  At least when we call someone on the Left a particular name, there is a logical reason behind it.  The Left just thrown out words as if they were, well – free contraception and birth control.  There is a method to our madness.  On the Left there is only madness.

On the one hand, Rush was wrong to apologize for calling Sandra what she is, a slut.  At least this soon.  He should have waited the weekend out.  He should have spoken with his loyal sponsors – those who were uneasy with his remarks – how he should have reacted to Sandra’s testimony in a way that would not have made them uncomfortable.  After-all, his sponsors came to him, not the other way around.  Rush’s sponsors came to him because he is the number one broadcast radio host in America, drawing millions of listeners a day.  His sponsors came to him, because Rush makes them money.  How many listeners has Rush lost because he called Sandra a slut?  How many sponsors has Bill Maher lost because he calls Sarah Palin a c**t?

On the other hand, sponsors aside, we are at war with the Left, and the prize claimed, for whoever wins, is the future of America, and the reclaiming of America’s past, which the Left has all but rewrote to paint our founders as bigoted, sexist, racist, ignorant Bible thumping hypocrites.  Conservatives don’t need to fight dirty because we have logic and reason on our side.  The Left is the side fighting dirty all the time because they can’t debate the Right without using tricks and lies.  If we are afraid to call Sandra a slut, or any other “offensive” name because we are afraid to lose sponsors or financial support, then we had better damn well think up a proper and fitting name for someone who does what Sandra Fluke does, without invoking “slut” in the definition.  As conservatives, we are eloquent enough in our speech, and proficient enough in our language, to do that.  In any event, this is all an attempt by the Left to silence us on anything we say that might reflect negatively on the Left and cause people to open their eyes and realize how immoral the Left is.

It would have been better for conservatism had Rush not apologized; if he had demanded a better reason to apologize than losing a few sponsors.  Granted sponsors are a radio station’s bread and butter, but this is freedom of speech we are talking about.   Rush never uses the kind of language on his radio program we hear all the time from Bill Maher and others on cable.  Rush is above their childish buffoonery.  So why does Bill Maher still have sponsors?  And who the hell sponsors someone like Bill Maher who calls Sarah Palin a c**t.  Who the hell pays to have a commercial broadcast in-between Bill Maher’s program, after he calls Sarah Palin a c**t?  Who are these sponsors that have absolutely no problem with paying Bill Maher to remain on HBO after he calls Sarah Palin a c**t?  We might like to know so that we can lobby them to end their affiliation with Bill Maher, or make Bill Maher apologize for all the times he has called Sarah Palin a c**t.  Isn’t that reasonable?

Either Sandra Fluke is what is wrong with America, or there is nothing wrong with her kind of sexual promiscuity and depravity in America any longer.  But it is having to apologize for calling someone what they really are that is what is demeaning and insulting.  Sandra Fluke got called what she deserved to be called.  Rush Limbaugh got called on it.  He has apologized.  We shall see where that leads him, where it leads conservatism, and where it leads others within conservatism who might want to use specific names to refer to people acting stupidly, or in ways that are destructive to themselves and America.

The Left is fearless in its language usage and telling people on the Right what they really think about us.  Talking about a “fairness doctrine”, why should we not have the same equal rights as the Left has when it comes to name calling?  Why does the Left get special rights while all we seem to get is made to apologize?

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