Has Rush Limbaugh finally gone too far?
Despite
a notably insincere apology for calling Georgetown law student Sandra
Fluke a “slut” and a “prostitute” for the crime of using birth control
pills, Limbaugh is shedding advertisers like mad. As of Monday evening, nine companies—including AOL,
the parent company of the Huffington Post-- have stopped buying time on
Limbaugh's radio show, and at least a couple say they have severed ties
with the program permanently.
Even Republican presidential candidates have issued tepid condemnations of Limbaugh's rant. Mitt Romney,
whose private equity firm Bain Capital is one of the owners of Clear
Channel – which owns and broadcasts Premiere Radio Networks, the company
that syndicates Limbaugh's show -- told reporters, “I’ll just say this,
which is, it’s not the language I would have used,” before quickly
changing the subject back to Tuesday's primaries. Democrats quickly
pounced on Romney's wimpy repudiation, but none of them bothered to
point out the presidential candidate's profit motive in Rush's program. READ MORE
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