Who's Afraid of Missouri Rush?
By KEACH HAGEY | 3/7/12 5:09 AM EST
The last time a prominent Republican dismissed Rush Limbaugh as a mere “entertainer,” as then-Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele did in 2009, he found himself offering an apology within a day.
But when Rick Santorum used the same word on Friday, brushing aside the comments about a Georgetown law student that have now cost Limbaugh dozens advertisers as “absurd,” there were crickets.
What a difference the word “slut” makes.
The firestorm ignited by Limbaugh’s choice of that and other sexually demeaning words to attack Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke for her position on insurance coverage of birth control continued to draw oxygen Tuesday, despite Limbaugh’s Saturday apology, as the president declared during a press conference that “the remarks that were made don’t have any place in the public discourse” and more advertisers headed for the door.
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"Limbaugh's Saturday apology." WHAT APOLOGY???
