Women React To Rush's Apology: Not Accepted? - MSNBC

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Women react to Rush's apology: Not accepted?
By Rita Rubin - MSNBC
3/4/12

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Updated March 4: The outcry over Rush Limbaugh calling birth control activist Sandra Fluke a “slut” and a “prostitute,” seems to have worked. Several days after his attempt to slut-shame the Georgetown University law student, Limbaugh issued a rare apology on his website, saying "in the attempt to be humorous, I created a national stir. I sincerely apologize." The conservative radio host also claimed he wasn't against birth control, according to a transcript of his show.

But the apology may be too little, too late for scores of women who felt personally stung by the attack.

"Hey @rushlimbaugh. Apologies are 3 things: I was wrong, I'm sorry, I won't do it again. You failed," tweeted @StephanieReads on Sunday.

@DCDebbie tweeted, "Dear @RushLimbaugh, I'm not buying your apology and I'm not buying from your ad sponsors .... "

On TODAY's Facebook page, a user called it "one of those non-apology apologies that come off as snide and condescending."

Until Limbaugh's web apology Saturday, it was impossible to keep up with the thousands of Tweets about his radio outburst, virtually all critical.

First published March 2: “Somehow only NOW catching up on the Sandra Fluke v. Rush Limbaugh drama,” one woman posted at around 6 p.m. ET Friday. “Wish I hadn't, because now my head is going to explode. Wow.”

By Friday, Fluke had more than 16, 000 Twitter followers. (Update: On Sunday, Fluke's Twitter followers topped 22,000)

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[Jester Messiah]

1. Only scores?

Score = 20. I'd bet the number of offended women is at least in the thousands. Indeed, if there are at least 16,000 twitter followers... well, "scores" is just a really weak word to describe the amount of people involved. That's 800-score.