A Defense of Rush

Mark Carollo comes to the defense of Rush Limbaugh in the most concise and well thought out defense I've read so far.  Here are a few excerpts:

Rush, in his entertainer’s way, went over the top to make a point. Since when should any human being, corporation, or government entity that is not engaging in the sex act be forced to pay for someone else’s birth control? Absurd.

Rush apologized for his choice of words. But apparently, that’s not enough to satisfy the liberal media. The Washington Post went on the offensive in a Saturday editorial. President Obama gave our young hero a phone call.

On the media's extremely inconsistent treatment on these matters:

There are literally dozens of instances in which liberal entertainers and commentators have called Sarah Palin, Michele Bachman, Laura Ingraham, and other conservative women “sluts,” and “whores,” and have gone to great lengths to describe various violent sex acts they’d like to perform on them. I told my researcher to stop looking when she reached 50. It took less than five minutes. 

This includes Georgetown University President John DeGioia:

To Georgetown University’s president who found time in his busy schedule to publicly attack Rush, but seemingly didn’t have time to explain to the Obama advance people in April 2009 that covering the Jesuit symbol IHS (Iesus Hominem Salvator — Jesus Savior of Mankind) when President Obama spoke at Georgetown would be an insult to the University and the Catholic Church — that the lesson of our first Pope denying our Lord three times still rings true 2,000 years later — how about acting like the leader of a Catholic university and telling the young woman that her public whining was an embarrassment to the university she claims to represent?

It goes without saying that much of what Rush does is satire; his humor is a tool for education in order to show the absurdities and inanities of today's politics in a way that doesn't want to make people hang themselves (e.g., Lou Dobbs and sometimes Glenn Beck).  It doesn't excuse what he said, but I've been noticing that in many, if not all, of the stories I've read so far the MSM (too many to link) doesn't even seem to get this premise even though I'm sure they listen to him daily, as Rush says, for their show prep.