Bill Maher speaks up for embattled Rush Limbaugh

Rush Limbaugh has been losing advertisers seemingly by the hour in the days since he called Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke a "slut," but he managed to pick up one surprising supporter today: Bill Maher. The famously liberal host of "Real Time with Bill Maher" tweeted, "Hate to defend #RushLimbaugh but he apologized, liberals looking bad not accepting. Also hate intimidation by sponsor pullout." Maher should know, considering he faced an advertiser backlash of his own in 2001, after he said on-air that the 9/11 terrorists were "not cowardly."

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