Rush Is Just Trying To Change The Subject

Ever since Rush deliberately escalated this whole controversy, he's had just one goal in mind: change the subject.

Birth control pills are used by doctors for a number of medical purposes besides birth control. That's among the purposes Sandra Fluke wanted to bring up on Capitol Hill (but was denied) regarding why medical insurance should cover birth control pills regardless of an employer's or school's objections on moral grounds. (And needless to mention, she never discussed her own private life in any of this).

But that was before carbuncle-on-the-butt Fatso started squealing.

We need to keep to the subject. That way, she wins:

“Talk about a double standard,” Limbaugh said on air Monday, according to Dylan Stableford. “Rappers can say anything they want about women [and] it’s called art. And they win awards.”

The line is strikingly similar to what Imus’s attempt to deflect the blame for his comments. From a 2007 AP report:

Fighting in vain to keep his job, radio host Don Imus said that rappers routinely “defame and demean black women” and call them “worse names than I ever did.”

It’s worth noting here that Imus has emerged as one of Limbaugh’s toughest critics following the Fluke incident. On his new Fox Business Network show Monday, Imus called Limbaugh’s apology “lame” and urged him to apologize to Fluke in person, a step Imus ultimately took with members of the Rutgers team.

“He’s an insincere pig,” Imus said.

Nothing Limbaugh says is likely to silence his critics. Democrats and progressives already dismissed his statement of apology from the weekend, and Fluke herself on Monday dismissed his apology.