Best. Limbaugh Commentary. Ever.

[JDPriestly]

36. At last, someone mentions Limbaughs biggest mistake -- for which

he will find it very difficult to just apologize:

All of this bile followed from his assertion that she testified about her own extremely active sex life.

Here's the thing: She didn’t. She said nothing whatsoever about her own sex life. She did not mention her own contraceptive needs at all: She spoke passionately and eloquently, and respectfully, about several friends of hers, Georgetown students who she said were diagnosed with medical conditions requiring the birth control pill, but who could not get it because they could not afford it. That was it. Here is the transcript of her testimony.

In short -- though Limbaugh doesn't address this in his mealy-mouthed, backhanded "apology" -- Limbaugh just made it all up, then went hog-wild, oinker-frenzy-wild, elaborating on it so he could call her names. Calling people names is bad, but calling people names based on your own invented calumny is the textbook definition of slander. The First Amendment does not protect you from that, nor should it. Even on an issue of public debate, and even if the victim is a public figure, as Ms. Fluke was here, "fair comment” is not a defense if you made up the central fact, and the central fact is wrong and is damaging and if your intent was to injure. I’m no lawyer, but as I see it: Check, check, check, check. I hope Ms. Fluke knows a good lawyer; if she doesn’t, one will find her, I suspect: The pockets here are really deep, though constricted and attenuated a bit: A LOT of flibbity-flabbity belly fat there, Rush. You really should do something about that, in your well-merited retirement.

http://live.washingtonpost.com/gene-weingarten-120306.html?hpid=z5

It's time for Rush Limbaugh to retire, but before he does, he may well have to share some of his wealth with Sandra Fluke.

I think we won't see Rush Limbaugh's exit from the airwaves for quite some time. It will be a struggle, but he will go.

Without the hate, his show will be boring. And people will gradually get tired of his hate.