Patricia Heaton Apologizes For Attacking Sandra Fluke On Twitter

Rush Limbaugh's slurs of Sandra Fluke have lit up the Internet, with no response getting more heat than actress Patricia Heaton's. See her barbs at Fluke—and her apology.

The Sandra Fluke–Rush Limbaugh controversy has inspired a wide range of reactions.

President Obama telephoned Fluke with words of support and encouragement after the radio host called her a "slut." GOP hopeful Mitt Romney said he would have used different language to describe the Georgetown law student. Even Georgetown students are divided on the furor.

But one response set off an uproar almost as vehement as the rage at Limbaugh's original remarks. On Feb. 29, conservative actress Patricia Heaton, of Everyone Loves Raymond fame, took to her Twitter to chastise Fluke, whom she referred to as “Georgetown Gal” or “G-Town Gal.” Heaton offered money-saving tips to the law student, presumably with the assumption that Fluke and other women in college should be able to afford birth control without insurance. Her original tweets, as well as six retweets, are pictured below in a screen shot from Angry Black Lady Chronicles.

Heaton later deleted some of her own tweets and on Saturday, four days later, offered an apology by way of a series of tweets.



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