Fox News Rush Limbaugh Apology Report Omits Insult?

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Uploaded by LiberalViewer on Mar 3, 2012

Rush Limbaugh definitely owed an apology to Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke for calling her a "slut" and a "prostitute" simply because she testified before Congress in favor of contraceptive coverage in health insurance plans, but when Limbaugh apologized to Fluke today, Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett's report on the apology left out some key elements of the story, as I show in tis video.

The clip I use of Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett comes from a story on Fox News' March 3, 2012, broadcast of "America's News Headquarters" (which I have not found available online)

The audio I use of Rush Limbaugh's original February 29, 2012, insult of Sandra Fluke comes from the Media Matters webpage at http://bit.ly/zeit5n

[Jack Rabbit]

1. Thank you for that analysis

Mr. Jerrett's description of what Mr. Limbaugh said is an understatement, to say the least. It would have been better to say that they were "insulting and intemperate" rather than "some people" found them that way. Mr. Jerrett's description of the use of contraceptives at Georgetown University as "pervasive" bothered me more. It implies a moral judgment of the women at Georgetown along that is simply put more politely than Mr. Limbaugh's characterization. I've heard nothing about the use of contraception at Georgetown at present to suggest that it was any more pervasive than use of them among women at San Francisco State University when I attended that institution and lived in the dormitories in the early and mid-seventies. Almost every woman I knew used birth control, including my girlfriend, with no moral judgment on my part. Use of birth control by young women isn't evil. It's just good common sense.

Mr. Jerrett's characterization of the use of contraception at Georgetown as "pervasive" implies that it is used more at Georgetown than would be expected among young unmarried women in America, and that is just not true. Rather, Mr. Jarrett is implying a superiority of an austere morality associated with the fringe elements of some religious institutions. This is a right wing point of view, not a conservative one. A conservative might argue that taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for a young lady's birth control, but Mr. Jarrett didn't approach it that way.

[Jamaal510]

2. No Remorse

What infuriated me about this incident is not only what he said, but also how on freerepublic.com, there are actually people who are defending Limbaugh and are still calling Sandra Fluke a slut even though she did nothing wrong. I probably sound biased as someone who disagrees with Limbaugh at least the majority of the time, but how can those sorry specimens on that site even consider themselves 'adults' after spewing such nonsense about her?

[ScottLand]

3. It's like when you have to tell your employees the CEO is taking a leave of absence, but you don't

tell them it's because he's going into rehab. He is after all the head of their party. They save all the trashing for people they don't work for.

[livingonearth]

4. Hey Rush,

words mean things, remember? You knew exactly what you were saying. You weren't just choosing wrong words.