Rush Limbaugh says the darndest things

[A Theist]

On another point, is the hypocrisy and the double standards of the left. Much was made over Limbaugh's remarks about Sandra Fluke, calling for him to be fired and demanding that his sponsors pull their ads from his show.....but where was the left when leftist Ed Shultz called Laura Ingrham a 'rightwing talk slut'? Why didn't the left demand that Shultz be fired?

It will agree that was in bad taste, but most people realize there is a huge difference between insulting a public demogouge for rabble rousing & insulting a private college student for testifying before congress.

BTW, I had no idea who Ed Shultz & Laura Ingrahm were before you mentioned them.

Sandra Fluke is no longer a private college student. She became a public figure when she spoke before Congress regarding an issue at the center of a political debate and most recently putting herself deeper into the political arena when she spoke at the Democrat Party Convention. Fluke was also an outspoken activist before this.

Wow. I'm a bit surprised you haven't heard of those two. In addition to having his own radio talk show, Ed Shultz also has his own show on MSNBC, The Ed Show. Laura Ingrham, in addition to her own syndicated radio talk show, is a well known regular on Fox News.

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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"

...and yours is the classic example of more naive leftist denial everytime you get caught with your heads up your asses....

Ed Schultz calls Laura Ingrham a slut.