Walters Talks With 'Lovable Little Fuzzball' Rush Limbaugh

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After reading my colleague Colleen Raezler's piece about Barbara Walters' interview with "harmless, lovable, little fuzzball" Rush Limbaugh, watch the video:

Interesting.


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With one hand tied behind his back

Rush was charming and I think he disarmed Baba Wawa just a little.  She went into the interview with her, and every liberal's, preconcieved notion of Rush.  But in the end, Rush prevailed.  He said nothing that disappointed, and Baba behaved as expected.

Win for Rush. 

(Barbara re Palin)

“No-o-o, she didn’t seem informed, Rush.”

Barbara needs to remember that very few are as ’informed’ as someone who’s occupied the planet as long as she has.

"She [Palin] didn't seem

"She [Palin] didn't seem informed" because the media made her out to be that way.  OBubba has plenty of knowledge pitfalls too but the media never tested him on it. And if they actually did, you can bet the editors made sure it didn't make the evening news.  OBubba was given puff-ball treatment from the very beginning of his campaign -- which was 3 times as long as Palin was on the public radar.  Palin was scrutinized like no other politician in history and was ridiculed in the media every time she made a mistake. OBubba made mistakes and malaprops almost as often as "gaffe-machine" Biden which the media deliberately chose to ignore.  Baba-Wawa knows  this all too well. I'm surprised at Rush for not making the case against the media's softball treatment of Obama while piling on Sarah Palin. Wawa is the picture of liberal media ignorance.

"She [Palin] didn't seem

"She [Palin] didn't seem informed" because the media made her out to be that way. 

True.  They used clips of Tina Fey lampooning her to "prove" it.  Good grief!

Can you imagine if someone used clips of the SNL Obama impersonator as "proof" of anything about him?

I have been fortunate enough

to meet Rush a few times. My father had one of the first cochlear implants, and we met him at a medical symposium. He came over and sat down next to my dad and thanked him for being one of the guinea pigs. He was so nice to him. Since the first meeting, he has sent my dad a card for his b'day and Christmas every year. We have run into him 2 more times at those type events, and he always takes a minute to speak. He always remembers that my dad is a fisherman, and where he lives. He doesn't do it for attention, he doesn't "get'" anything from doing this, but he sure makes a lonely old 78 yr old man feel good.

I forced myself to watch the whole show, I noticed Rush was the only one she mentioned money, specifically the amount, and she didn't ask Will Smith or Tom Cruise were they worth the money they made. She also went super easy on Tom over his crazy antics, btw, what has he done in the last year to be so "fascinating?"  Maybe I am biased, { I am!}, but she was completely different to him than anyone else. I have never liked her, she just slipped a little lower in my eyes.  Not quite David Letterman status, but close. How come she didn't have an interview with Palin, anyway? She wouldn't turn her down, no way, so does that mean Palin turned her down? Like Oprah? Hope so. Personally, I think Joe the Plumer was more on people's minds this year compared to Tom Cruise!

Well now...I loved these

Well now...I loved these two items the most....

#1. "What recession? I refuse to participate.

#2. Elitism is an attitude... (something that goes in one ear and out the other of an arrogant elitist like Walters.)

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Although not a big fan of his,

Rush is correct in his appraisal of Sarah Palin. She is disliked by elitists from all politicos for the same reason. She speaks for the heart, not the self-described "brains", of this country. 

No representation, without taxation!

Clueless in the MSM

Walters is so clueless. She gets her makeup done, goes to a hairdresser to hide her gray hair, dolls herself up, and then asks Rush about his comment about how our culture would perceive a woman president getting older because of the strain of the office.

Rush is an observer and a commentator on our society. He would hardly be doing his job if he did not mention this salient point.

Yet, Walters misses it because she fails to aprehend that she has bought into it and he hasn't.

lr... For heavens sake,

lr...

For heavens sake, we cannot forget about her constant face-lifts and botox injections over the years...my gawd the woman would naturally have more wrinkles on her face by now than I have on my (well, never-mind) and I'm no spring-chicken....lol.

The hypocrisy from the left is constantly amazing.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Rush also shows his

Rush also shows his classiness, strength of character, and how much of a gentleman he is by not telling Ms. Walters, "That's right, no one wants to watch that. Is not that why you dye your hair, get cosmetic surgery, and put a pound of make-up on so you can go on the air?"

It's better to let people suffer from their own irony than it is to point it out to them.

"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life." --Robert A. Heinlein, "Beyond This Horizon", 1942

Oh Dr. Love... Correct

Oh Dr. Love...

Correct diagnosis once again.

Thank you kind sir.

Btw...just as a medical follow up, some of those people are too blind to see that irony, and no one else in the msm are going to point this out either...especially if they are in the same boat...hint, hint..Andrea Mitchell...just for one example, then we have good ol' Sawyer.. on and on it goes.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

"Andrea Mitchell"(*violent

"Andrea Mitchell"(*violent shudder*). Where's the Boraxo and a steel brush? I need to bathe.

Apparently I am not of the caliber of man that Rush is.

"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life." --Robert A. Heinlein, "Beyond This Horizon", 1942

Commenting on the Culture

I heard Rush describe the interview as well as play the original audio putting the comment in context.  If you read the transcript (for free) at Rush's site, linked in  Colleen Raezler's article, you will see that the comments were commentary on the culture and not specifically about Hillary's looks.  This is just another instance of the MSM taking one or two sentences out of context and attempting to make the target "offender" appear crass and offensive when they were only telling the truth.  Lawrence Summers.  Phony soldiers.  The Media wanting Donovan McNabb to succeed because he is black (the transcript of the original show actually has Michael Irvin saying "Rush has a point" at the very, very end as everyone else is talking over him).

And, most recently, the case Noel reported on the MSM taking this sentence- "In many respects, scientific conclusions about the causes and potential effects of global warming are contradictory."- out of 56 pages and making a big deal out of it.

Walters and the rest of the MSM can't handle the truth.

"The future is not set.  There is no fate but what we make for ourselves."

michaelyon-online.com

Morning nofate... You put

Morning nofate...

You put it all in a nutshell perfectly.

Your post is a great one to close off on...sure is good to catch you here now and then old friend.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Back at you, bt.

Hope all is well with you.  Palin-Jindal (in whatever combination) in '12!

 

"The future is not set.  There is no fate but what we make for ourselves."

michaelyon-online.com

Barbara Walters and the MSM

The MSM is doing the impossible. They are 110% in denial mode about Sarah Palin and Barbara Walters proves it.

Certainly

Walters had to know that she was taking that quote out of context.  She chose to perpetuate this false impression of Rush as some sort of mean-spirited, anti-woman neanderthal.   She does a disservice to her audience every time she opens her mouth.  She's a "mowon".

There isn't a Conservative

There isn't a Conservative alive that would ever get an unbiased interview with anyone from the msm. Rush never gets a fair interview...Ms. Walters is a hypocrite. She came from a wealthy family, she admitted that in her book. She doesn't even drive, she is chauffeured everywhere she goes...get out of here!

A little credit...very little.

At least give Walters a wee bit of credit.  She knew she was in way over her head even talking to Mr. Limbaugh.  And Rush was polite and didn't take advandtage over the less than intellectual BabWa. 

 

I yam what I yam....Popeye.

and Bawbwa Wawa...

... reportedly makes in excess of 12 million dollars a year. and has zero impact on marketing. hardly a profit center, even counting that jsut-so-cutting-edge program, 'the View' - a place where you can't see reality from where you sit. is this how libs look at me? i'm measured not by my impact, my morals, my character, but on how much money i make? pathetic.

i think the last time i watched a full interview she did was.... ummm... well, a loooooong time ago.

 she sure as hell ain't worth it. maw

 

jane, you ignorant..

Mr. Limbaugh remained a gentleman (apparently that makes him harmless).

"part of what I'm hoping to introduce as the next president is a new ethic of [government enforced] responsibility" - B. Obama

AIB Network

Barbara Walters works for the Arrogance In Broadcasting Network.  Rush handled her biased, agenda-driven questions adeptly.  He probably could have conducted this interview with his entire brain tied behind his back.

Though Ms. Walters appeared unduly concerned about Rush’s income, she seemed oblivious to the tax implications of his compensation package.  Imagine how outraged she’d be if she realized how much Rush is saving in taxes by accelerating a good percentage of his future income into this year, thereby avoiding the impending confiscatory tax rates soon to be enacted by financial geniuses like Barney Frank. 

"Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience."