Since stirring up a controversy, Limbaugh has apologized for his comments. Rush site purged of 'slut' remarks

The word “slut” landed Rush Limbaugh in hot water when he first uttered it on the air last Wednesday, but you wouldn’t really know it by looking at the radio show’s website, which seems to have been scrubbed clean of some of his notorious comments about a Georgetown University law student.

Type in the word “slut” in the archive search bar on RushLimbaugh.com, and you’re told: “No results found. Please try another search.”


Type in the word “prostitute,” and you get plenty of results, including a link to “Butt Sister are Safe from Newt and Rick” – the transcript from the first time Limbaugh made his derogatory comments about law student Sandra Fluke last Wednesday. The only problem is, when you click on the link (it was included in a POLITICO story last week), you are routed to a blank white page.

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The same is true for the link to “Left Freaks Out Over My Fluke Remarks,” which should house Limbaugh’s continued attacks against Fluke from the next day.

This doesn’t mean that Limbaugh’s initial remarks are entirely gone from his website – at least not yet. Last Thursday, before he felt compelled to issue a written apology to Fluke over the weekend for calling her the two offensive words, Limbaugh had played CNN’s Carol Costello and Suzanne Malveaux’s reactions to his comments, including a replay of the original remarks.

“What does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? Makes her a prostitute,” Limbaugh said. “She wants to be paid to have sex. She’s having so much sex she can’t afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex. What does that make us? We’re the pimps.”

The website of “The Rush Limbaugh Show” keeps an impressive archive of the daily three-hour show, with each day’s program divided into sections that can each easily run thousands of words in length. Transcripts of the beginning portion of Limbaugh’s show usually appear online so fast that they’re often available even before the program comes to an end at 3 p.m.

Since stirring up a national controversy by attacking Fluke for testifying on Capitol Hill about women’s access to contraception, Limbaugh has apologized for his use of the words “slut” and “prostitute,” but not before advertisers began fleeing his show after coming under fire from a social media blitz organized by disgruntled listeners.

This week, Limbaugh reassured his readers that “everything’s cool” on the business side, and that the show has not been hurt financially in the aftermath of the controversy.