Rush Limbaugh says the darndest things

[DeistPaladin]

Someone may be a talk "show whore" meaning they will appear on any talk show.
I am assuming this is the way "talk slut" was meant were as Rush was accusing the nice girl of being a fucking about.
Which means that you are comparing apples to a medium size family vehicle.

That isn't what Shultz meant. Conservative Laura Ingrham has her own radio talk show. Thus the Schultz comment, that Ingrham was a 'rightwing talk slut'.

Even if this is true, and I've watched Ed Shultz and have never known him to use language like this, it's still apples and oranges.

The term "whore" or "slut" is sometimes used in a political context as a tasteless term for "shill" or "drone". For example, if I were to use this term for Justice Thomas, Scalia or Roberts, I might call them "corporate whores". This is not to suggest they're sleeping with corporate execs for money but they're drones who do their bidding on the bench.

Rush Limbaugh, on the other hand, wasn't talking about Fluke's political actions. He was talking openly about her sexuality, including demanding that she make sex tapes for his enjoyment.

The term even used to describe one's political activity is tasteless, I agree, and from what you've told me it sounds like Schultz was appropriated disciplined for it. Rush went into an entirely different area by attacking Fluke personally and making personal defamatory attacks against her. Apples and oranges.

But thank you for bringing this up. This is a classic example of the conservative retreat to centrism when you get caught lying or being abusive. "Both sides... both sides... but the Democrats... Tu Quoque"