Timeline for What does “For over 20 years, I have illustrated the absurd with absurdity,” exactly mean?
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| Mar 4, 2012 at 21:54 | comment | added | Yoichi Oishi | @FumbleFingers. Your hint that Limbaugh had “reductio ad absurdum” in his mind in making his apology is helpful, and makes the intent of his message clearer to me. His logic was mandating health insurance to cover contraceptives for women is absordum, therefore Ms Fluke who publicly supports the plan is absordum (and a slut!). And he acknowledged that he had chosen the wrong word in his analogy of the situation. | |
| Mar 4, 2012 at 17:32 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | To illustrate the absurd with absurdity isn't at all common phrasing, but to use reductio ad absurdum is probably what Limbaugh means, and that is common. | |
| Mar 4, 2012 at 11:06 | comment | added | Yoichi Oishi | @jwpat7. My apology. It was New York Times article written by Brian Stelter. But the title of the article wasn’t “Obama backs student in furor with Limbaugh on birth control,” but was “Limbaugh Sorry for Attack on Student in Birth Control Furor,” and issue date was March 3, not March 2. I confounded it with the title of the previous day’s article, “Obama backs student in furor with Limbaugh on birth control. Link of the article in question is www.nytimes.com/pages/national/index.html | |
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| Mar 4, 2012 at 6:58 | comment | added | James Waldby - jwpat7 | Do you have a link to the article? | |
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| Mar 4, 2012 at 5:49 | answer | added | Robusto | timeline score: 6 | |
| Mar 4, 2012 at 5:48 | answer | added | Jim | timeline score: 3 | |
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| Mar 4, 2012 at 5:41 | history | asked | Yoichi Oishi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |