“We all screw up sometime.”

Including me, and sometimes on this blog.

Thank you for that acknowledgement, qualified though it was. One thing about this site is that I have been held up and corrected quite a number of times over the past couple of years, and I have apologized for misstatements or stepping over the line quite a number of times. Practically no one has ever admitted a mistake or apologized to me, though it’s been warranted dozens of times.

Sorry, I can’t agree with you about Rush. I’m not a regular reader by any means, although one of my most-visited sites is the Drudge Report (and I read everything Pat Buchanan writes). I had a dim memory of the Chelsea thing, so I just typed in “Limbaugh Chelsea” and got all the references I needed. Everything Rush has said for the last 15 years or so is readily available. Investigating just a couple of hits made it obvious that I could come up with dozens of examples of “failing politeness”, and with some work I’m confident I could come up with hundreds.

Sorry, Rush ain’t Walter Cronkite.
(Well, I think we both know that; I was referring to politeness).

” … none of us here at Neo’s would ever mistake you for an American”.

Why is that, Stumbley? Are my political views not held by any Americans?

You’re right — that shot at Chelsea was mean. Rush should not have done that and he owes Chelsea an apology.

But in the three or four years I have been listening to him, I have not heard him say anything else like that. He criticizes ideas, not people. He is polite to his callers, even when he disagrees with them. He does not make personal attacks. He sticks to the issue.

We all screw up sometime.

You and I define “unfailingly polite” in different ways.

That is true….