Limbaugh Calls Alleged Duke Rape Victim a ‘Ho’ It must be something in the water. An Atlanta-based syndicated talk radio show host said Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney’s new hairstyle made her look like a “ghetto slut.” And now, thanks to Media Matters, the watchdog group, we have learned that Rush Limbaugh has referred to the alleged victim of a rape by members of the Duke University lacrosse team as a "ho," a popular short-hardterm for the word “whore.”
During the March 31 broadcast of his national syndicated radio program, Rush Limbaugh made the comment about a recent incident in Durham, N.C. in which an African-American exotic dancer was allegedly raped by three members of the Duke lacrosse team. The woman has alleged that her attackers used racial epithets. Confronted by a caller later in the program, Limbaugh acknowledged a "terrible slip of the tongue."
To hear the exchange, go to:
http://clips.mediamatters.org/static/audio/limbaugh-20060403-duke.mp3
From the March 31 edition of The Rush Limbaugh Show:
CALLER 1: Why is it, do you think, that you haven't heard hardly anything from Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton about the whole immigration thing? I mean, the silence is deafening from --
LIMBAUGH: Well, they're busy.
CALLER 1: -- the NAACP [National Association for the Advancement of Colored People] and the --
LIMBAUGH: They're -- they're busy. They're busy. The Reverend Jackson is in New Orleans. He's leading a big march there tomorrow. The march is -- what is it called? The -- the march for the right to return a protected vote and reconstruction. He's trying to -- they got problems down in New Orleans. They don't have voter base, and Sharpton's working on a New Orleans deal, too. He's trying to figure out how he can get involved in the deal down there at Duke where the lacrosse team --
CALLER 1: Yeah.
LIMBAUGH: -- uh, supposedly, you know, raped, some, uh, hos.
CALLER 1: But I don't think they're very happy about all of this.
LIMBAUGH: Yeah, well, but, the problem -- that -- that has a possibility down -- that Duke thing's got a possibility of being a Tawana Brawley situation. That -- and Sharpton's got a balance -- can he afford another one of those as -- as his life's going on? New Orleans is a big deal to him, and I -- I'm gonna tell you something. You'll -- you'll see these guys -- at some point, they will get involved, be-because when Ted Kennedy calls it the new civil rights movement, that's Jesse Jackson's turf. He owns it. So --
CALLER 1: Right.
LIMBAUGH: Yeah, anyway, I gotta run here because of the constraints of time out there. [Caller], a great, great question. Uh, exotic dancer, OK, say rape -- whatever happened. You know what it is down there at Duke. It's -- you watch what happens in that. That's --
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LIMBAUGH: It's open-line Friday, and I am Rush Limbaugh, America's anchorman and your host for life. This is -- this is [caller] from Bryant, Texas. Hello, [caller], great to have you with us.
CALLER 2: Rush, did you just call those young ladies "hos" on the nationally syndicated program?
LIMBAUGH: Yes.
CALLER 2: Do you know something about them that perhaps we don't know?
LIMBAUGH: Yes, yes I did.
CALLER 2: Oh, you --
LIMBAUGH: It was a, it was -- hang on -- now, what, what did you say there, [caller]?
CALLER 2: I said, because -- and if they are hos, it doesn't mean that they can still -- you can do to 'em whatever you want.
LIMBAUGH: No.
CALLER 2: Well, why would you call them hos on the national --
LIMBAUGH: Well, because, because I'm running on fumes today, [caller], and I felt terrible about it. And I knew somebody was gonna call and give me a little grief so I'm takin' the occasion of your call to apologize for it. That was, it was a terrible slip of the tongue. I'm sorry. But it wasn't the worst one that has been said recently. You want -- do you know who Keanu Reeves is?
CALLER 2: Yeah, I know who he is. He's an actor.
LIMBAUGH: Well, he's, he's, he's an actor.
CALLER 2: Yeah.
LIMBAUGH: He's a whacko. He's, he's an -- an actor and, he -- what was he doing? He was -- the Women Against Domestic Violence group was already in a dither because Keanu Reeves told an interviewer he learned something filming a rape scene with Hilary Swank for a movie called The Gift. And he said was, what he learned was that some of these ladies don't mind it.
CALLER 2: OK. But --
LIMBAUGH: He said he learned that in a rape scene but -- so, you know, I'm not the worst offender.
CALLER 2: Well, I hope you --
LIMBAUGH: I just, I'm looking at this case down there at Duke, [caller], and it's -- there's some things about it, some inconsistencies. You've got some timeline differentiations and matriculations and, and so forth. I'm just -- but it was, it was terrible slip of the tongue, and I am, I am terribly, I am terribly sorry.
CALLER 2: Well, I was hoping that your animosity for Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton wasn't your motivation for calling them hos.
LIMBAUGH: No -- why -- they, they have nothing to do with it.
CALLER 2: Oh, OK. Well, but, I -- it definitely offended me to hear you say that on the national program. The world's largest -- as you say.
LIMBAUGH: Yeah, well --
CALLER 2: But maybe you should take half your brain from behind your back next time.
LIMBAUGH: You know, I'm thinking what I ought to do, [caller], is something that I used to do in the early days of this program and that is spank myself.
CALLER 2: Well, I don't know if that's gonna work. The apology would be good.
LIMBAUGH: I just -- how -- you want me to apologize again? I'm sorry.
CALLER 2: Oh, no, I'm saying -- the apology was good.
LIMBAUGH: I regret that you heard me say it.
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