(Audio) Rush calls alleged Duke rape victim "ho"-Caller slams him

[underpants]

and then Rush sort of apologizes...until the end where he lets his true colors show again.

Caller:"Do you know something we don't?" "If they are 'ho's ' does that mean you can do anything you want to them?" <---that second part was killer.

Well done.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200604030004

During the March 31 broadcast of his national syndicated radio program, Rush Limbaugh referred to the alleged victim of a rape by members of the Duke University lacrosse team as a "ho[]." During an on-air discussion with a caller, Limbaugh said that former Democratic presidential candidate Al Sharpton was "trying to figure out how he can get involved in the deal down there at Duke where the lacrosse team ... supposedly, you know, raped some, uh, hos." Limbaugh's made the comment about a recent incident in Durham, North Carolina, in which an exotic dancer was allegedly raped by three members of the Duke lacrosse team. The incident has invoked further controversy because the victim, an African-American, has alleged that her attackers used racial epithets. Prompted by another caller to apologize for his words, Limbaugh said that he had made the statement because he was "running on fumes today," and called it a "terrible slip of the tongue." But he then added that there are "some inconsistencies" in the case and rephrased his apology, telling the second caller, "I regret that you heard me say it."

[shenmue]

1. So he's even more ignorant than we thought

What a class-A jerk.

:grr:

:dunce:

[jojo54]

2. Did you hear his end comment?

"I regret that you heard me say it", is what he stated to the caller. It wasn't a very heartfelt apology IMHO.

[underpants]

3. Joe Field has a partial transcript in this GD thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=836431&mesg_id=836431

Yeha I heard that. How about him trying to bring Keanu Reeves into it? Geesh be your own man once in a while.

[Sparkly]

4. "The exotic dancer" and "The boys" is the more mainstream terminology

Not as bad as "raped some hos," but...

On Rita Cosby's show last night, she and all the guests referred to "the exotic dancer" and "the BOYS." Not the woman and the men, or the young woman and young men, or even GIRLS and boys... sickening.

[lwcon]

5. These guys are experts in having it both ways

Once, when our local football team was heading for a game in the South, the dittohead types on our sports radio station discussed these two things, one after the other, without a hint of irony:

* How great it is in the South, because they have those incredible strip clubs
* How great it is in the South, because they have those incredible church revivals that fill up huge arenas

After the latter point, one of them piped up with "they're just more moral down there."
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