Advertisers flee from Rush Limbaugh’s show after ‘slut’ comments

“For over 20 years, I have illustrated the absurd with absurdity, three
hours a day, five days a week,” he said. “In this instance, I
chose the wrong words in my analogy of the situation.”

The 61-year-old multi-millionaire conceded his “choice of words was not
the best” and said he “sincerely apologised to Ms Fluke for the
insulting word choices”.

But the apology did little to dissuade liberal groups, who sensed a new-found
weakness in their hate figure. Using Twitter and Facebook, activists rallied
to try to organise an advertising boycott of The Rush Limbaugh Show, which
runs for three hours every weekday.

This morning Terry O’Neill, president of the National Organisation for Women,
called for Mr Limbaugh to be taken off the air, telling CNN: “The way
he attacked her personally was so far over the line it shows he has no part
in this conversation.”

It is a conversation that Barack Obama and his Democrat allies are eager to
perpetuate, accusing Republicans and conservatives of “a war on women”.

The controversy has drawn in the remaining Republican presidential candidates,
all of whom have distanced themselves from Mr Limbaugh’s comments but have
been careful not to attack a man with such enormous influence among the
party’s conservative base.

The issue of contraception, which first emerged this election cycle when the
Obama administration made a clumsy attempt to force employers to pay for
birth control, is now a major distraction for Republicans as they seek to
refocus their attacks on the president’s economic record.

While abortion remains deeply divisive in the US, polls show strong support
for the president’s revised plans which places the burden of providing birth
control on insurance providers instead of employers.

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