Ed Schultz Teaches Rush Limbaugh A Lesson On Apologies By Replaying His To Laura Ingraham
Ed Schultz has unwittingly ended up in many tweets and headlines this week for being one of the more recent talk radio abusers of the word “slut,” and the comparisons to Rush Limbaugh seemed to finally get to him enough to make the distinction between the two clear: Schultz, he noted of himself, was unequivocal when he apologized, and unafraid to remind people today how big a mistake he made.
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Schultz noted that Limbaugh had said he didn’t expect liberals to apologize for myriad offenses they had racked up against conservative women, something Schultz personally took umbrage at. “As usual, he is wrong,” he noted, and found the comparison between Limbaugh’s “tirade for nine hours” and the “12 seconds [in which] I made an inappropriate statement” ridiculous. “Drawing a moral equivalence between me and Rush… diminishes the outrageous nature of Limbaugh’s attack,” he argued, adding that Limbaugh “completely failed to offer an adequate apology.” To depict what he considered an adequate apology, and in case anyone had forgotten, he played his mea culpa to Laura Ingraham from last year, and noted that he personally called Ingraham and they made amends. “I went to management and told them I need to take myself off the air without pay,” he concluded. Noting that Ingraham had attacked the President for calling Fluke and not her after Schultz’s remarks, he appeared surprised he would bring it up since, to him, it was a closed case after his repentance– that lack of remorse being the fundamental difference between his remarks and Limbaugh’s.
The segment via MSNBC below:
