Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid spoke out against Rush Limbaugh’s extreme rhetoric today, calling the latest outburst “embarrassing to our country.”
“Even in the Rush Limbaugh world, there’s certain things you can’t say. And what brought his attention to this is lots and lots of sponsors of his program said, no more, you’ve gone too far,” Reid said in an exclusive interview with MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell. “Rush Limbaugh, each day that goes by, is becoming less credible with the American people.”
Rush Limbaugh offered another half-ish apology to Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown law student he called a “slut” and a “prostitute” on his show last week. She spoke before a congressional hearing in support of health insurance policies covering birth control, which riled up the conservative radio show host.
“We cannot have something like this take place, that’s embarrassing to our country. It’s embarrassing to the Congress to have a woman who had something to say — she was invited to testify and was disinvited by an all-male group of people,” said Reid, a frequent political target of Limbaugh. “You can’t do that to women in America anymore.”
For the record, Fluke didn’t accept Limbaugh’s apologies. Reid also said putting a written apology on a website isn’t enough.
And with sponsors, it seems. At least 12 major advertisers pulled the plug on their sponsorship and two radio stations announced they’ll stop airing his show.
Reid says he doesn’t listen to his program and Limbaugh, a staunch conservative, doesn’t like the Democrat “for whatever reason.”
Reid didn’t go as far to characterize this as part of the so-called “war on women” with the recent uproar over contraception coverage, the failed Blunt amendment and Komen temporarily defunding of Planned Parenthood.
“Women are entitled for contraception, so their contraceptives of their choice. That’s what this was all about,” Reid told O’Donnell. “We should never run into the firestorm that we did, that people calling this fine woman, by all means.”
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Clear Channel's parent company was taken private in 2008 by private equity firms Thomas H. Lee Partners and Bain Capital. Notice that last name... ring any bells... Mitt Romney is still being paid by Bain Capital. He is profiting from Rush's show!!!!!!
Well, Rush did not do Romney any favors with his latest blathering about women and "the aspirin between the knees" comments and his request to "watch" comments. Romney might as well take his rightful seat in the rear of the bus!
Clear Channel ought to change its name to Cloudy Channel. Bain Capital is a bane to this nation. They should be dismantled.
I am leased to know that there IS intelligent life out there.
There won't be much left of Rush's show when the sponsor/monetary support is gone, which will happen shortly, apparently.
I meant "pleased to know)
Rush is an embarrassment to not only the united states, he is an embarrassment to the entire human race!! Please get the self important, bloated, gas bag, off the air waves!
I will not buy any products or services from anyone that doesn't drop this bloated, gas bag....
I will not buy any products or services from anyone that drops their sponsorship of Rush, even Bill Maher understands that it is wrong for big business to use their money to silence the opposition.
Dear God: On behalf of the human race, I sincerely apologize to You for the role our sin of omission has played in allowing Rush Limbaugh to for long trash Your "image and likeness" in the form of our humanity.
Please forgive us, for we have yet to fully commit, effectively organize, and use our collective power to confront Limbaugh's enablers at Disney, ABC, Clear Channel, et al and finally force them to scrub clean the air You so generously bequeathed us by permanently retiring from the airwaves the toxic turpitude and bigoted filth whose source is Rush Limbaugh, those like him, and their principle benefactors and beneficiaries.
Give us the strength be resolute in purpose, persistent in practice, and joyful in solidarity as we drive from "Your House" AND our own "People's House" the rest of the sociopaths, pharisees, false prophets, idolators, money changers and polluters who've looted the treasures of our humanity and treasured earth. Amen.
Dear Mr. O'Donnell:
Some of your programs have been wonderful and guests. However, even as a Democrat which I am, please know that Kamala Harris hurts the people of California with her deputies filing perjurous testimony. Please don't invite her again.
Bill Maher,Schultz,Olbermann can say things more often and more vile then what Rush said and get away with it. Talk about double standard. Will Obama give Mahers million back?
Name one time that any of those men have gone on the air to slander anyone day after day. Just name one time if you can. Don't bother, you cannot!!!
He never accepted the Million. Please keep up; it will go you good....
Jeff P...I agree..Maher does it on everyone of his shows..Schultz and Olbermann are morans
"Jeff P...I agree..Maher does it on everyone of his shows..Schultz and Olbermann are morans"
If you can't prove it, it didn't happen. Just your opinion.
When did Olbermann call a young woman a slut and prostitute?
You see, there's a difference between political speech and Slander.
Olbermann can hit hard on politics but never attack a specific person's personal life.
Limbaugh can't.
Bt the way. It's spelled M O R O N.
JKirk...
http://mrctv.org/videos/liberal-pundit-powers-explains-hannity-why-liberals-deploy-double-standard-anti-woman-comments
has your foot become lodged too deep?
hows about this one?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/03/04/rush-limbaugh-s-apology-liberal-men-need-to-follow-suit.html
Harry, it might be a good idea to take a page from Teddy Roosevelt -- "Speak Softly and Carry a Big(ger) Stick". Time to change the way the Senate Does Business -- protect the Weak, hold the Powerful Accountable.
It takes a mind LIKE Limbaugh's to support/defend Limbaugh. I wouldn't dignify either with a response. One reason fingers are pointed at other countries is the primitive way they handle women's rights and Limbaugh is on that same wavelength. This is the United States. How can the Tea Party and many Republicans constantly chant about their freedom...while trying to legislate taking away the freedoms of women in this SAME country?
Mr Limbaugh .....
You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?
Gene from above comment.. Ed schultz calling Congresswoman laura ingramm a slut, or his and chris mathews attacks on sarah palin, hey..lets go back to hillary clinton when she was running for president, mathews called her a few choice names and i was hoping sponsors would be quiting MSNBC back then. that Gene is what you call double standard from MSNBC. They have called for sponsors to quit Fox, they wanted hillary to quit her run because they wanted obama and their words about her were pretty un flattering. so just who gets away with what? CBS even had a story about bias with ed schultz's comments and now rush..but who gets attacked by the left abd thinks they get a free ride? Maybe sponsors should take a look about their accounts with MSNBC. You sir ( Gene) should use your memory before you dare someone about posting here.
They are public figures, Sandra is not. Ed appologized personally and on the air. He took himself off his radio program and TV show. Without pay. It happend once. The drugster went on for days. He wants sex videos. Name ONE Progressive that has ever even come close to that.
http://www.mrc.org/eye-culture/hate-and-bile-left-wing-attacks-women-get-little-press
Larry Sandra IS a public figure, just ask her agent.
"Name ONE Progressive that has ever even come close to that"
Clinton swore on national television that he wasn't doing Monica in the Oval Office. I don't recall Clinton taking a week off without pay for lying about her.
Larry So you have no problem with Schultz calling a cancer survivor a slut because Shultz is a Socialist. Rush has to shut up because he's a Conservative?????????? Ain't gonna happen.
The question to ask republicans is do they approve of porn and asking college kids for their sex videos. The larger question is they do they think having sex is bad, but watching sex is good?
Don't worry, Sen. Reid, I doubt that many people in other countries know or care who Rush Limbaugh is. Think about it- how many Canadian or British pundits do you know or listen to? And that's just in the English-speaking world. In Italy or Germany, do you think anyone listens to an American gasbag?