Rush made clear that he apologized over the weekend for no other reason than he was sincerely apologetic about what he had said about Ms. Fluke. He said that he had become like the left, descending to their level and that he regretted doing so.

When the program opened Rush asked for 30 minutes (real time) and so I’ve given you the entire thirty minutes (actually 23 minutes). If you only want to hear the apology then just listen to the beginning. But he explains the entire timeline of what happened and then talks about the ad sponsors who left him.

Note: I forgot to lop off the first 20 seconds of intro music.




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WordsFailMe
WordsFailMe

So Snooki is knocked up. I wouldn't call he a slut or a prostitute but will "Long-Udder Liz" use the age-old, "I'm pregnant and it's yours" angle to zip-up the destiny of thought-to-be-baby-daddy, Jionni DeValle?

She's 24 and she's been fairly well-used by everyone in the group. This where birth control leads. First get them all to think you're a sure thing and safe. When you're ready, zero in on the weakest and stupidest most malleable male and forget to take the pill. Obviously, in this case of musical sluts, Johnny loses.

Can someone please point me to that moral high ground where American women once dwelt? The shining Walmart on the hill?

GeorgiaPeachie
GeorgiaPeachie

Called all the advertisers this morning. Asked them all what you call a woman who sleeps around A LOT and then asks others for money, aka birth control and abortion pills?

taxa22620
taxa22620

maybe obama took a fishing poll and dragged a hundred dollar bill across georgetown and ended up with a fluke

is that ok to say democrats?? better check with carville..................

Jay
Jay

And now... Back to the economy!

GEDouglas
GEDouglas

Just as I suspected. Good action Rush. Now, the leftist fluke plant, creating a distraction with a non-issue, is over and done with. Can we get back to talking about the real issue...BO destroying America.

Cheryl Fallon
Cheryl Fallon

Brian, calling her a name is NOTHING compared to what this administration will do to the American public and country if they get another 4 years in the White House.

The issue isn't Rush making a crude remark the issue is look at how incredibly corrupt and immoral our country is and what can we do to get our country back, if it is possible!

no kia
no kia

Rachel Madcow's girlfriend FLUKe, an Obama worshipper was telling the dumb viewers of 'the view' to go to Media Matters. Wow! Can We say brainwashed. Is it any wonder it is reported the marxist media matters and the obummer white house have weekly meetings and the slutty whore FLUKe received a phone call from Obama. There's a part of me that wishes the mayan calender prediction of the end of the world in 2012 comes true otherwise obama will destroy it if he wins the reelection. This country will look like a black inner city riddled with crime, poverty and bullets akin of Detroit.

Mensaman62
Mensaman62

I just supported the sponsor he couldn't get through to this morning...my case of Tea is on its way. ;-)

Mensaman62
Mensaman62

and BTW Scoop...that intro music is now RUSH...loved it! And did any one see that Peter Gabriel is now upset that his song Sledgehammer is being used as filler on Rush's program...damn another musician I liked and now can't support.

Jay
Jay

I can't stand Gabriel since I became a conservative. Songs like "Games Without Frontiers" are clearly leftist.

capelady
capelady

Liberal Radio Host Mocks Storm Victims: ‘Their God…Keeps Smashing Them Into Little Grease Spots’

Where is the outrage against Mike Malloy, liberal host, for mocking the tragic victims of this week's tornados? People died here, Mr. Malloy.... yet the liberals are silent. After all, it is far more offensive to deny a 30-year old feminist taxpayer-paid birth control!!

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/liberal-radio-host-mocks-storm-victims-their-god-keeps-smashing-them-into-little-grease-spots/

JohninSaintLouis
JohninSaintLouis

There are a growing number of conservatives who are coming to realize that Rush Limbaugh is a liability to the conservative cause.

Randall Hayden
Randall Hayden

So, she's not a slut?

I'm disappointed.

However, I fail to comprehend why she (even if married) should have others pay for her birth control.

Can I get car insurance that pays for washings, oil changes & such?

More cost goes into higher prices? Who would know such stuff?

Randall Hayden
Randall Hayden

Rush was not off-base.

His delivery could slightly be changed to be less misunderstood, but not in changing the words that are seen as insulting.

His usage of "slut" did not mean multiple partners & "prostitute" did not mean that the chick was paid by her partner.

How could people think otherwise? Dumb-ass lefties. They laugh at Stewart & Maher, but not at Righty dry delivery, which is more on point, albeit sarcastic, & less on laughing points.

Rush should cover bases & explain more to prevent this misinterpartion.

Alex Jones does that often, regardless of believing him, he show respect & follows up thoughts to prevent thinking of bigotism or other -- for example, once he mentioned shortness & ...

PChandler
PChandler

'The remarkable thing is that none of Romney’s opponents challenged these demonstrably false claims. If you check the transcripts of the debates, Romney simply lies about what he advocated, and then everybody lets it go.

... Romney is now on the verge of escaping with the party nomination having embraced a program his party considers inimical to freedom itself and blatantly lied about having done so without any major opponents pointing this out. It’s pretty incredible.'

http://j.mp/AmPogD

Is_Sense_Common
Is_Sense_Common

I used to work for a company who advertised on Fox News & we purchased a time slot for our ad to air anytime that was available - not based on whose time slot it was. One of the slots we got was Glenn Beck's. This was when he was dismantling the Van Jones situation and other things.

Very suddenly, there was an absolute onslaught of hate mail that we received (me & 2 other gals in PR) accusing us of being racists and calling us every vile name known to man (and some that were unknown); we received death threats, financial shake-downs, etc. It was quite unnerving and quite frankly, unbelievable. This occurred daily for 2-3 weeks. Thankfully our company did not back down and as quickly as the threats began, they stopped.

It was clearly an orchestrated effort by a few groups to frighten and intimidate us. It sounds like the same thing happened to Rush's advertisers but many of them took the bait.

NYGino
NYGino

Too bad for then. Watch Rush's ratings go through the roof after this.

marketcomp
marketcomp

The names of the advertisers who have decided not to advertise on Rush's show should be known so that Rush's audience will see who they are and let them know and hear our voices by not purchasing their products or services.

K-Bob
K-Bob

They are listed in the Spectator article Scoop posted just before this one.

However, @rdbrewer4 put up an interesting link in the sidebar at Ace's. This guy has some ideas about how to replace the stuff purveyed by the advos on Rush's broadcast.

(Also he claims that Carbonite is losing money already, and has been depending on conservatives to keep the cash flow happening.)

FreeManWalking
FreeManWalking

Here's the list of just where David Friend (Carbonite) spends his political money:

MoveOn . org, America Coming Together and Democracy for America,

WOW, I wouldn't want him to remotely have access to my information.

K-Bob
K-Bob

How an entrepreneur can get behind the destroyers of small business is a real mystery. What a sad thing.

BMinPA
BMinPA

I don't hink conservatives want to be associated with a service that even a caveman can do for himself.

Is_Sense_Common
Is_Sense_Common

Yes, my hope and prayer is that other companies will use this opportunity to support El Rushbo. He truly is "The Big Voice on the Right" and maybe they can get a bargain in advertising right now. Something tells me he'll rise to the top. We Conservatives are a loyal bunch & I can't see something like this derailing our loyalty. Wish I had a company to advertise - I'd gladly put my advertising dollars there.

Brian Skinner
Brian Skinner

Rush did the right thing. It is just sad that there were so many conservatives supporting his crude remark.

c4pfan
c4pfan

Please, there have been plenty of times Rush has said something I didn't like how it was said and I got over it.

celestiallady
celestiallady

It's not so much the remark as it is we know what Rush meant and the fact that there is a double standard. Where was the outrage when Bill Maher called Sarah the C word and Ed Schultz called Laura Ingram the same word? And seriously, have you never said something that you regret?

JohninSaintLouis
JohninSaintLouis

I am tired of hearing how the other side does terrible things and so that somehow excuses bad behavior by someone you normally agree with.

Rush Limbaugh stepped waaaaay over the line and did it 3 days in a row becoming more vile as each day unfolded. He completely misrepresented Ms. Fluk's testimony and instead of emphasizing the church/state issue he turned it into one about sex which was 180 degrees removed from the issue and a complete distortion of the facts.

I must also say that I am, once again, surprised when that misogynistic jerk is defended by a woman. Rush saves his cruelest invective for women and as someone who has a mother, sisters, wife and daughter I am continually offended by is lack of respect for women. If Sandra Fluke were my daughter an apology is the least I would expect form him. Even if I did agree with everything he says, I would still condemn him for the way he says what he says. The man has no class whatsoever.

I am glad that finally some people on the conservative side are beginning to wake up to the fact that Rush was, is and always will be a self-absorbed jerk who hurts the conservative brand and alienates the very people conservatives must appeal to if they want to win elections.

There is no more well respected conservative than George Will. See what he and other conservatives had to say Sunday about Rush and his stupid, rude, destructive comments.

Cheryl Fallon
Cheryl Fallon

But what Rush said PALES in comparison to what may lie in store for you and me your children/grandchildren, etc if the likes of Obama and his far left gang retain the White House-YOU are allowing Obama to redirect your focus and you are wasting your angst on the wrong person...it isn't what Rush said that is so offensive, it is what Obama and Ms Fluke are DOING that should be so incredibly offensive to people in this country!

celestiallady
celestiallady

While I don't condone the words that Rush used, his point was lost and again and again, if Rush were to be forced off the air it would only be the beginning. Don't you get that. I am supporting him because of the hypocracy of the left and the double standard AND FREE SPEECH.

PVG
PVG

People like you have been saying the same thing about Rush for over 20 years...get over yourself and listen to something else...like Air One, oh yeah, they're gone. Hmm, I guess they couldn't get advertising........

PVG
PVG

Will is another Coulter.

K-Bob
K-Bob

Sorry. I'm done with George Will.

PicklePlants
PicklePlants

Im glad you left the bumper music Scoop - gets me in the mood. ;>

BMinPA
BMinPA

Yeah, without it is like missing the previews in movies. I can't just jump in the feature film.

StrangernFiction
StrangernFiction

Leftists are scum, and one should never apologize to scum.

drphibes
drphibes

Conservatives have an obligation to civil discourse. We elevate the culture by being better than the left (because we have better ideas), and bigger than the left, big enough to apologize for our lapses. Apologizing demonstrates the way, even if it is offered to the most uncivil creatures out there.

halfmadjesus
halfmadjesus

Rush's apology, of course, will mean about as much to the Left as Don Imus's apology did, so it's pointless. It's not about what Limbaugh said, it's about getting him off the air, and any crack in that door the Left can slam its foot in, they're going to do it. I guess Rush's apology MUST be sincere, since he ought to know that by now.

The promiscuity Ms. Fluke described herself as engaging in sounded kinda slutty to me! It might be the norm for loose, liberal women who will screw anything that moves, but not all women out there are so eager to debase themselves in the name of progressive "equality".

At the end of the day, I still don't want to pay for Ms. Fluke's choice to have guilt-free sex any time she feels like dropping her panties. That's the real issue here - surprise, surprise that we're all talking about something else instead.

Mary
Mary

And never forget that Shapiro is the same Robert Shapiro who led the OJ Simpson defense team. That is why I have never and would never give my money to legalzoom. Unless, of course, I suddenly get rich and famous and go out and commit a double homicide.

alex1913
alex1913

Lol. Then I hope you don't go out and commit a double homicide. I do hope you get rich and famous though. :)

Chris Dias
Chris Dias

Don't apologize Rush. You were right then. You are right now. You aren't like them at all. Must be the advertisers pressuring you. You're a good man.

The Right Scoop
The Right Scoop

Yeah he said that in the monologue too :-)

K-Bob
K-Bob

D'oh!

I forgot to point out it was a (partial?) transcript (for those of us that like transcripts). I was listening to rush live when I zipped through the clip. Also typing. So I missed a few things in the clip.

K-Bob
K-Bob

No it wasn't rush I was listening to. It was the local dude that came on after, and he played a clip. Wow.

NYGino
NYGino

My father told me, many, many years ago that if you lent someone $300.00 and they failed to pay you back to consider it an inexpensive lesson. You found out the true nature of the person. The same goes to the advertisers who jumped ship on Rush. Their true nature is revealed.

Dodoforever Canspell
Dodoforever Canspell

One has to fight fire with fire. You can't go out on the battlefield with a small stick when your opponents are coming at you with swords and other WMD.

I don't agree with Rush here. To fight the Left one HAS TO go to their level whether you like it or not.

alex1913
alex1913

I completely understand how you feel, but, I think Rush was right to apologize. He used a slur that many women believe is just as bad as the c word or the t word regarding this woman. I understand the point Rush was making as I listened to his show that day and he was doing great until.... yeah, he put his foot in his mouth. And he of all people (he exposes how the left and the media twist stuff like this all the time) should know better... Good on Rush for apologizing... I know it won't satisfy the left...but, good on Rush.

Conservatives are better than the left... we apologize when we screw up ( Rush's point is still correct, it's ridiculous that the left expects their condoms and abortion pills to be paid for by someone else or by religious organizations that abhor abortion etc.... he just shouldn't have intimated that Fluke must consider herself a you know what)... the left (like Bill Maher-sp?) never does apologize for stuff like this ( we all remember 8 years of Bush/Hitler yes?) and hopefully eventually ( thank goodness for conservative blogs and talk radio) the mushy middle will start to see that the left is relentlessly cruel and over the top in their ultimate agenda of a marxist state...

Good on Rush. Now go kick some liberal booty Rush! :)

And everyone else out there... if you subscribe to HBO... drop it like it's hot. Bill Maher-sp? is a piece of leftist....um....er...... stuff.