Last week Rush Limbaugh put his foot squarely into his mouth. Usually when Rush does this he chews on his foot and swallows it, washes it down with a 3 liter bottle of Pepsi, and grows back another foot and shoves that one in his mouth. Sometimes there is gravy involved.
Usually this cycle just keeps going. Rush Limbaugh is not in the business of apologizing for his inflammatory comments and it seems at this point that politicians, the media and the public just try to not give him any popularity fueling backlash. This most recent bout of zeitgeist rejection though appears to be different. With his comments on health care companies covering birth control and his specific reference to a woman as “slutting it up” he has set off a different kind of controversy.
Basically it became instantly clear that Rush Limbaugh was blatantly sexist and incredibly ill informed on the medical needs of women. This offered his critics who have been desperate to really take him down a peg a great opportunity to attack the beast and he is paying the price.
The lesson learned here should be understood to all of us more social beings. You probably shouldn’t start a fight with half the population.
