WHY is every newscast saying "Limbaugh later apologized for his comments"??

[Shakespeare]

Every single story on Limbaugh's despicable mocking includes those words. He did NOT apologize. Saying "I'll apologize IF..." and then later saying "I refuse to apologize" pretty much indicates you haven't apologized for shit.

They really need to be called on this--it's incredibly sloppy journalism.

[boolean]

1. EXACTLY!!

That piece of dog shit did NOT apologize. Fuck you, rush. Fuck you, rush. Fuck you, rush.

I REFUSE to capitalize your "name", rush.

[SpreadItAround]

2. That damn LIEbrul media!

[Disturbed]

5. The US Media is owned by RW Moguls.

These Moguls receive favors from the Busholini Regime so they protect RWingers.

[madmusic]

3. For the same reason O'Reilly said most newscasters were being fair:

Because they lie!

[progressoid]

4. Oh, pick pick pick. Nothing ever satisfies you libruls.

You want accurate and honest journalism too? Sheesh.

[thereismore]

6. all except KO. nt

[kenny blankenship]

7. Apparently journalism as a profession is populated by ppl who can't read

He didn't apologize. He didn't come close to apologizing.

[louis-t]

8. It was an apology with a caveat.

Therefore, it wasn't an apology.

[Shakespeare]

11. It wasn't even that.

"I'll apologize IF" is not an apology. It's the condition under which he agrees to give an apology. Those conditions have been met many times over, and he still has not apologized.

[kenny blankenship]

12. Worse, he continued the next day to level his attack-the SAME attack

He said he would apologize IF he was wrong (the caveat). That isn't an admission of being wrong and needing to apologize. He had been informed that he was wrong and appeared to acknowledge the correction; but having failed to admit that he was wrong Rush went right back the next day to claiming Fox was misleading audiences and that he, Limbaugh, had been right about it all along:

Limbaugh declared on his October 24 show that "all I said yesterday was: 'He's either acting or he's
off his meds.' I was right. He was off his meds."

Actually Fox was on his meds, but either way there's no apology in Limbaugh's record on this subject AS YET. He had never stopped accusing Fox of lying and never expressed regret about inventing his claim that Fox was faking it.

His supposed apology (which was barely 24hrs old before being overwritten by Rush's renewed claims of lying and vindication) is nothing more than saying "If you catch me making up malicious unfounded bullshit I will bigly, hugely backtrack on it."

At last when Limbaugh was denied any further defense of his "faking it" claim, he immediately converted his attack on the truth of Fox's self-presentation into an attack on Fox's political motivations, claiming that there was something inappropriate in Fox's mere appearance in public to make a statement about the stakes involved in stem cell research.

There's no remorse nor any apology in any of it. Bigly, hugely there's nothing but venom.
Here's the horse's ass disavowing any apology, and the media--all the dozens of outlets that spontaneously lied to cover up for Limbaugh's boorishness-- should issue a prompt retraction.
"I stand by what I said. I take back none of what I said. I wouldn’t rephrase it any differently. It is what I believe; it is what I think. It is what I have found to be true."

[Phredicles]

9. This is nothing new.

I've long thought of journalists as people who drop press releases verbatim into their reports.

[Junkdrawer]

10. It's a Two-Fer...

Limbaugh's base gets a defiant Rush

The general population gets a contrite Rush

The Truth be damned.