Fluke, insulting her parents and saying that Fluke should make a pornographic movie for his titillation. This "apology" occurs after three days of Limbaugh slut shaming Ms. Rush Limbaugh issued an apology today for calling Sandra Fluke a prostitute and a slut after she testified before Congress on women's health care.
Krystal Ball, a former Democratic candidate for Congress who started the boycott push, gave her reaction to Limbaugh's "quasi-apology:" We hope that our action, along with the other advertisers who have already withdrawn their ads, will ultimately contribute to a more civilized public discourse.Īccording to Boycott Rush, who have been leading the charge against Rush, Limbaugh's show only has two sponsors left now (LifeLock and Tax Resolution). Limbaugh has now issued an apology, we have nonetheless decided to withdraw our advertising from his show. Limbaugh, with his highly personal attacks on Miss Fluke, overstepped any reasonable bounds of decency. No one with daughters the age of Sandra Fluke, and I have two, could possibly abide the insult and abuse heaped upon this courageous and well-intentioned young lady. But it seems his rambling mea culpa wasn't good enough for most: more politicians criticized him today, and more advertisers have left his show.īefore the apology, the CEO of Carbonite-one of the few remaining Limbaugh sponsors-said he'd scheduled "an in-person meeting with Limbaugh to impress upon him how offensive the comments were." It seems that yesterday's apology pushed the company over the edge:
The apology, which really was only an apology for his word choice, came amidst many of his advertisers jumping ship, a full-on internet backlash, and even his Republican pals turning on him.
After a week during which he called Georgetown Law School student Sandra Fluke "a slut" and a "prostitute" for arguing that contraception should be covered by health insurance, cigar pin-up model and oxycontin aficionado Rush Limbaugh apologized for his idiotic bloviating yesterday.
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