Rush Limbaugh's ratings plunged last month.

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May 24, 2012

 

Rush Limbaugh's ratings plunged last month.

 

Which thrilled some Rush haters. But it turns out the ratings were only down relative to the previous month... when they spiked because of all the attention Rush got from the haters who were trying to drive him off the air.

 

And here's Rush yesterday:

We do not, on our side of the aisle, attempt to rid the world of our enemies by personally impugning them or destroying them or shutting them down.... f we don't like a radio or TV show, we turn it off. If they don't like it, they try to shut it down. If we don't want to eat vegetables, we don't eat 'em. If they want to eat vegetables, they want everybody else to do what they do and not do what they don't do....

 

All I know is... that success is the sweetest revenge. When they try to wipe you out, when they try to shut you down, just like Read More http://althouse.blogspot.com/2012/05/rush-limbaughs-ratings-plunged-last.html

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Jun 5, 2012 6:00am

‘Sluts’ Unite Against Republicans, Rush Limbaugh

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Watch out Republicans, here come the sluts.

Women’s rights activists are banding together to “Rock the Slut Vote” in an online effort to register women to vote and cast their ballots against Republicans in 2012.

“If the GOP thinks that throwing the word ‘slut’ at us at this point is going to silence women they have another thing coming,” said Susan McMillan Emry, the site’s founder.

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh thrust the derogatory word into the political arena in February when he called law student Sandra Fluke a “slut” for testifying before Congress in support of contraceptives.

Following the national backlash over Limbaugh’s name-calling, “Rock the Slut Vote” is now aiming to “defuse” the offensive term, Emry said.

Taking a vein from comedian Jeff Foxworthy and his “You might be a Redneck if…” jokes, Emry’s website gives visitors 22 reasons why “You might be a slut,” including “if you’ve ever used contraception” or “if you’re still downloading Dixie Chicks music” or “if you don’t go to church.”

The site aims to “re-appropriate” the word “slut” so that Limbaugh and other Read More http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/06/sluts-unite-against-republicans-rush-limbaugh/