Fox News Rush Limbaugh Apology Report Omits Insult?

[Jack Rabbit]

1. Thank you for that analysis

Mr. Jerrett's description of what Mr. Limbaugh said is an understatement, to say the least. It would have been better to say that they were "insulting and intemperate" rather than "some people" found them that way. Mr. Jerrett's description of the use of contraceptives at Georgetown University as "pervasive" bothered me more. It implies a moral judgment of the women at Georgetown along that is simply put more politely than Mr. Limbaugh's characterization. I've heard nothing about the use of contraception at Georgetown at present to suggest that it was any more pervasive than use of them among women at San Francisco State University when I attended that institution and lived in the dormitories in the early and mid-seventies. Almost every woman I knew used birth control, including my girlfriend, with no moral judgment on my part. Use of birth control by young women isn't evil. It's just good common sense.

Mr. Jerrett's characterization of the use of contraception at Georgetown as "pervasive" implies that it is used more at Georgetown than would be expected among young unmarried women in America, and that is just not true. Rather, Mr. Jarrett is implying a superiority of an austere morality associated with the fringe elements of some religious institutions. This is a right wing point of view, not a conservative one. A conservative might argue that taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for a young lady's birth control, but Mr. Jarrett didn't approach it that way.