Headline: Hell Freezes Over. Yes, Rush Limbaugh has issued an apology. In the smallest possible way. After three days of publicly savaging Sandra Fluke on his national radio show, Rush apologized on Saturday. On his website.

Which sets the stage for a Monday full of self-pity and counterattack. “I apologized! What more do they want? They’re trying to force me off the air!”

The apology was, of course, laughably minimal. “Poor word choices.” Yeah, three days of calling her a slut, prostitute, nymphomaniac, saying she should post sex tapes online, etc., etc., etc. Thousands and thousands of “poor word choices.”

On Friday, I suggested listening to Rush’s show, taking note of local advertisers, and contacting them. The worst part of this is the “listening to Rush’s show” part, but there’s an easy way to minimize the pain. The show has a strict clock. Local content and commercials: :18-20, :30-34, :45-46. :54-56, and :58-06 (mostly news, but also local spots). Simplest thing is to listen during those eight minutes, or perhaps from :54-06 if you can stand two minutes of Rush.

This information is from an excellent diary on Daily Kos entitled “How to take action against Limbaugh at the local level.” It’s an excellent summary, highly recommended.

VT stations that carry Rush: WVMT (620 AM) in Burlington, WSNO (1450 AM) in Barre, and WSYB (1380 AM) in Rutland.