On
February 29, 2012—Leap Day—Radio political-commentator and entertainer Rush
Limbaugh called a female law student at Georgetown a “slut” and “prostitute”
simply because she had said that Georgetown’s student health insurance should
cover birth-control—a staple for even 98% of sexually-active married and single
Catholic women as of 2012. On the following day, Limbaugh went on to offer to
pay for aspirin that the women at Georgetown could “put between their knees” in
lieu of birth-control. If you are wondering how that even makes sense, I am
with you on that one. What strikes me in particular is the extreme to which Limbaugh went in his rhetoric or appeal for a
larger audience for his radio show (and attention on himself). That corporate
social responsibility would function as the corrective also surprised me, for
CSR is typically merely marketing, window-dressing, or for better public
relations.
The full essay is at "Corporate Social Responsibility Countering Rush Limbaugh."
