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By Gregory Taggart, March 8, 2012 6:17 pm

Jeff Goldblum utters one of the great movie lines of all time in the movie The Big Chill. He’s talking with the Tom Berenger character about rationalization:

Michael: I don’t know anyone who could get through the day without two or three juicy rationalizations. They’re more important than sex.
Sam Weber: Ah, come on. Nothing’s more important than sex.
Michael: Oh yeah? Ever gone a week without a rationalization?

Now, I have friends who would dispute Michael and agree with Sam, but that’s not my point. My point is that everybody needs to rationalize, sometime, someplace. For example, take Bill Burton, former Obama 2008 campaign press secretary now founder and head of the pro-Obama super PAC Priorities USA. Today he appeared on Andrea Mitchell’s show on MSNBC and had to address the question of how Bill Maher got away with his slur against Sarah Palin (among others), yet Rush Limbaugh is being pilloried in the press for his slur against a 30-year old Georgetown Law School student.

Okay, so granted, this is the political season, and yes, the GOP has challenged Burton to give back the $1 million that Maher recently donated to his Obama super pac. But does anybody think Burton believes the rationalization he used to distinguish what Rush said (and apologized for) from what Maher said (and never apologized for)? Anybody?

On another note, from what Mr. Burton said, sounds like the Democrats think that Romney will be the Republican nominee.

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By Gregory Taggart, March 7, 2012 9:28 am

Warning: strong language ahead. I will not defend Rush Limbaugh’s wholly inappropriate word choices in his description of the Georgetown law student. They were wrong, offensive, and wrong-headed. But he has apologized. (Only the mind readers among us know that his apology was insincere.) What I am interested in, however, is where were all the Facebook posts, where was all the outrage, where were all the boycotts when the twits in the following story said what they said? I repeat: strong language ahead. Read at your own risk.