@DrewDad,
I'm not defending what he said. It was crude and over the line. He needed to apologize and he did. Doesn't wipe the slate clean, but who really cares? He's a radio guy.
It pisses me off that he helped the Left turn the issue of religious freedom on it's ear. One would think he was in cahoots with them. He's a smart man and irrespective of his tepid denials that he is a spokesman for any party or movement, a ton of people think he is, and he knows it. This wasn't just a slip of the tongue, he went after her for two or three days.
How could he not have realized he was giving Obama and the Left a big fat present?
If he is really as dedicated to the cause of conservatism as he trumpets he would not have crossed the line in the first place, and he would have knocked it off after the first day.
I'm not defending him, but I am arguing that the woman doesn't have a sustainable cause of action on the basis of slander, and I am a bit sick and tired of the double standard liberals apply to these matters.
Bill Maher called Sarah Palin a "twat." There may be only one other epithet more crude and insulting to women.
Where was the furor from the Left?
Playboy ran an article about conservative women who were ripe for rape. Where was the furor from the Left that even approached that which has followed Limbaugh calling a woman a slut?
I don't expect liberals to go nuts when twits like Maher, Olbermann and Schultz cross the line, but their hue and cry when someone like Limbaugh or Coulter does strongly reflects hypocrisy and/or intellectual dishonesty.
Somehow when a Leftie utters or prints these sort of crude and demeaning slurs, its "artistic license," but when a conservative does, it heinous and actionable.
I'm also somewhat flabbergasted by the Left's transparent effort to cast this women in the role of your average college student who merely expressed her opinion and was attacked by Limbaugh. She is a social activist who went to Georgetown so she could upend it's religion based policies.
Look what the Left and the MSM did to Joe the Plumber when he had the nerve to ask Obama a question. Public officials when after him with a vengeance, and in one case, broke the law and her oath in doing so.
So yeah, Limbaugh is a pompous blowhard who crossed the civility line, and I'm not about to defend his doing so, but pardon me if I gag a bit when faced with so much hypocritical bullshit from liberals.
It's pretty telling that you see that argument and the argument concerning a slander suit to be "defending" Limbaugh.