Rush...

[Jack Frost]

...shouldn't have apologized. He was right. Wimps Boehner and Santorum both attacked Rush over this, but he was absolutely right. Political correctness is idiotic.

(... here we go... )

[gunsey2u]

I surely would hate to be in the position that he is in, in airing opinions and the resulting fire that's been caused by a couple of descriptive terms used towards the girl from Georgetown. Funny how this topic got to the fore-front of issues to discuss anyway. Rush hears this stuff all day. everyday. I've listened to him and do like his reasoning over any of the other talk radio hosts. I've got an idea, though, that he should not have thrown the description back at the girl that she freely and UNASHAMEDLY used in reference to herself. Goodness, she said as much about herself, just in more guarded speech.

If that were my daughter, I would be ashamed of her and fearful for her if I had known that this didn't stem from her life at home.
Guess that Mom will have to get used to her "enlightened" daughter, huh?

[elephant]

I did not hear the original comment. I heard the apology and from it I thought it appropriate, but since I don't have context I really don't know - sounded from the apology that he could/should have chosen his words better.

I am sure most of the complaints are from folks that never listen to him anyway.

[gunsey2u]

Dang, I believe he was slobbering when he threw those words out. I know that he's in a controversial position and also that he sort of puts himself in the republican seat with his ideaology but geeze, that doesn't give him the right to sling those kind of insults out even if she said them first. Keep in mind now that the same or worse was said by the democratic liberals about Sarah Palin and her daughter but none of the stations or sponsors didn't pull the plug on Letterman or some of the others that was slinging mud at that time. I was watching Letterman the night that he made that reference about Palin's daughter in the bleachers getting pregnant. I haven't watched him since, nor will I. I've seen and heard the instance of Rush about the girl. I'm like Frost, I believe he was right in the way he was thinking about the subject. I just have to draw a line on voicing alot of things. Thing about throwing alot of words out there is that they can't be taken back.

[Jack Frost]

But if the words he choose were accurate, what is the need for an apology? Sometimes the truth is not pleasant, but it is no less the truth. This woman has a LONG history of being a liberal activist, and pushing for government and private insurance coverage of birth control and the "morning after" abortion pill. She was a leader of the group "Georgetown University Law Students for Reproductive Justice." You know who arranged for her to appear at the first hearing on February 9th? "The Feminist Majority Foundation" I kid you not. Congressman Issa turned her away from that hearing because she is nothing but an activist, with no expertise on this matter. The other "hearing" she spoke at wasn't even a real Congressional hearing!

Anyway... If private insurance companies are forced to cover birth control for women, guess who will foot the bill: mostly men! Forcing private religious institutions to buy their female employees birth control is no different morally than forcing them to buy condoms for their male employees. It's a freaking ridiculous idea! The media (and even "conservatives") have made this woman out to be a victim, even a martyr, but I don't see it that way at all.

[gunsey2u]

All you say is true on this matter Jack but what position does Rush place him in when he's trying to help his listeners? He'll be busy fighting lawsuits now, a situation that the libs wanted him in.

[elephant]

Again I didn't hear the original comment - if he called her a very *friendly* person or prostitute and apology was in order not only to her but to the listeners.

and private insurance should not be forced to cover this - obviously the more you force insurance to cover the fewer people will have insurance (which may be Obama's plan to get more people in a national program.)

[Jack Frost]

Rush's comment:

“What does it say about the college co-ed Sandra Fluke, who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex? What does that make her? It makes her a s1ut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She’s having so much sex she can’t afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex. What does that make us? We’re the pimps.”

Well, I still believe this was an accurate statement...

[elephant]

thanks - that explains it and really didn't sound so bad - still he knew how controversial it would be and an apology for the wording isn't bad, in-my-opinion.

(and I don't consider s1ut to = "friendly" - lol)

[gunsey2u]

An accurate description by Jack. Yes, ele, I think those terms incited the results and that's what the liberal base wanted. I'll bet the libs threw a celebration.

No, insurance companies don't need to pay for our right to have sex. If the gal in Georgetown and all of her silly friends want to have a double line going into their room at night, then they ought to finance it or get their Johns to do it or even better, get their customers to pay for it. Note that the worst I said here in reference to the girls is that they are silly. Due to the fact that Rush gets on the air with these idiots every single day and gets himself a lethal dose of their crap, enough so that I think he wouldn't be human if he didn't lose it once in awhile. But, he'll be paying for those words spoken in haste, sorry to say. He has been a person that I like to listen to and will continue to listen to
and I'll just hope that he can keep himself out of getting canned.