MSNBC's "Morning Joe" runs a Letterman clip from Monday night where Letterman riffs that Rush Limbaugh looked like an "Eastern European gangster" in that costume he wore to address conservatives in Washington Saturday, but cuts out Letterman's guest Katie Couric.
Letterman: "He's got the black jacket on, the black silk shirt and it's unbuttoned like oh, yeah when you think Rush Limbaugh, you think ooooh, let's see a little flesh."
Katie: "I think the minority party, it's their job to be rabble rousers."
Letterman: "We got used to Republicans like Newt Gingrich, and Newt resembled a Newt. But a smart guy. But now you've got Rush Limbaugh -- 'I'm sorry the casino's closed."
Rush is more like Eliot Ness. Untouchable.
NBC's Chuck Todd: stick to politics. Todd stuck out his neck Monday on MNSNBC's "Morning Joe" loftily predicting that radio is a "dying medium." Tell that to syndiator Premiere Radio Networks that syndicates Rush and other kick ass conservative talk radio hosts.
Sour grapes, eh? Liberal talk radio is about as stimulating as a vibrator without batteries.
Todd: "But, it’s that idea that Limbaugh- even the whole- even the venue that he’s on, radio, not the internet. You know, it’s very ‘90s. It’s very backwards- is looking backwards. And, you know, radio is a dying medium, potentially, as it is just in general."
Chuck Todd is a big fat idiot (Al Franken's Rush book title).
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ReplyDeleteKatie needs to go to the "South of France" like Mika did a few weeks back.
ReplyDeleteThe Chuckster sure as hell wouldn't make it on radio, not as such an amateur wordsmith. When MSNBC gets the audience that even approaches the size of the top 10 radio shows, then he can talk.
ReplyDeleteMary Matalin discussing Rush Limbaugh and Michael Steele this morning on Imus in the Morning.
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So radio is dying???? Try reading a story about that topic from one of the dead or dying major liberal newspapers tanking around the country. Even the size of the Washington Post is shrinking to the size of a middle school term paper.
ReplyDeleteIf radio is a dying medium, why are so many Democrats (i.e. Fairness Doctrine) worried about the influence of the likes of Rush?
Maybe they figure if they say it long enough and loud enough (that radio is dying) then people will believe it and turn off their radios.
ReplyDeleteBehold the power of the media!
Interesting comparison of Rush to Eliot Ness...untouchable. Using that term in a different context, I wouldn't want to get within a mile of touching this fat, blow-hard, nay-saying, mean-spirited, crap-slinging huckster. Shilling for the Republican party is all he has going for him.
ReplyDeleteHow can he want Obama--and be extension--our nation, to fail?
He wants Obama's policies to fail and for that matter, so do I. I will go screaming and kicking into socialism. I don't blindly follow the light of Obama, sorry.
ReplyDeleteThis country was built by people who worked hard and took chances. Yes, you may fail, but you may also succeed. Yes, it's not fair, but neither it life. It's a hard lesson to realize someone is always going to have more than you and someone is always going to have less than you.
Atlas will shrugged and has started in some ways.
Katie has once agasin shown her true mediocracy as a national anchor. Blubering all over the set rather than putting together a complete thought. You expect that drivel from Letterman but not a national level news anchor. Ever remember seing Brokaw, Chronkite, or Rather cutting up national figures on Letterman?
ReplyDeleteI want President Obama's policies to fail because I want our USA and all who call her their country to prosper.
ReplyDeleteIf anything is dead, it's the MSM
ReplyDeleteYeah Chuck Todd made some lame joke when called to explain Rush's audience size oh that has to do with the dot.com not the radio...give me a break even if you follow his reasoning Radio is adapting to new media...Imus was right he needs a clean shave, he looks like he is hiding a weak chin:)
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