mar has defended rush. on tuesday he tweeted hate to defend rush limbaugh, but he apologized. liberals looking bad not accepting. also hate intimidation by sponsor pullout. should rush s apology be accepted and is it intimidation to call for sponsors to pull out or is that the free market at work? it is both. it is intimidation, but advertisers are free to make political statements by withdrawing their ads if they want to do that. what i don t understand is why they would want to. you can speak to this as a business person that that is a foolish practice. you know you will alienate half of your potential customer base. i really think you make a good product and sell it and stay out of it. you have counter boycotts where people say, well, i am not buying your product because you are boycotting that show and i support rush. right and we see this
i can t use the terms that he used because he s on hbo and he says who cares, i don t have sponsors. i m a comedian. it s ok for david axelrod to go on with bill maher. coming up and it s not ok for rush limbaugh to say something and apologize and he says rush limbaugh who the president calls a radio announcer, he says is the de facto head of the republican party and pins him to mitt romney. he says president obama should return a million dollars that the super pac got from mr. maher. he said hate to defend, hash tag rush limbaugh but he apologized. liberals looking bad not accepting and hate intimidation by sponsor pullout. and he lost his abc show, remember, for some of his comments but the former chairman of president obama s council on economic advisors says palin is right to point out that bill maher has said some disgusting
eugene robinson is a pulitzer prize-winning columnist for the washington post and msnbc political analyst. and susan milligan covers politics for u.s. news and world report. there you have it. i guess i should say there s a lot of talk. here s what bill maher tweeted yesterday. hate to defend rush limbaugh but he apologized. liberals looking bad. not accepting. also hate intimidation by sponsor pullout. and last night, sarah palin weighed in on the controversy. here she is. i think the definition of hypocrisy is for rush limbaugh to have been called out, forced to apologize and retract what it is that he said in exercising his first amendment rights. and never is that the same applied to the leftist radicals who say such horrible things about the handicapped, about women, about the defenseless. so i think that s the definition of hypocrisy. and that s my two cents worth. that s not bad for her. let me go to gene robinson. your thoughts about this whole
sarah palin, of course, and bill maher. eugene robinson is a pulitzer prize-winning columnist for the washington post and msnbc political analyst. and susan milligan covers politics for u.s. news and world report. there you have it. i guess i should say there s a lot of talk. here s what bill maher tweeted yesterday. hate to defend rush limbaugh but he apologized. liberals looking bad. not accepting. also hate intimidation by sponsor pullout. and last night, sarah palin weighed in on the controversy. here she is. i think the definition of hypocrisy is for rush limbaugh to have been called out, forced to apologize and retract what it is that he said in exercising his first amendment rights. and never is that the same applied to the leftist radicals who say such horrible things about the handicapped, about women, about the defenseless. so i think that s the definition of hypocrisy. and that s my two cents worth. that s not bad for her.
that just boils down to abortion rights or reproductive rights. all women believe in individual liberty. they believe in individual freedoms and this is an assault on the very essence of what it is to be a woman. whether we are talking about defunding planned parenthood, to whether or not we can legitimately ask and i think it s a very legitimate question to ask do the republican candidates running for president right now care not only about women, but care about low income women because these are the women who are i thought it was very instructive the silence when rush limbaugh said what he said about sandra fluke. again, unlikely support from bill maher who said, i hate to defend rush limbaugh, but he did apologize. and also, hate discrimination by sponsor pullout. does he have a point? bill maher look, i don t know. if we re talking about sort of