Chris Matthews: Rush Limbaugh Could Be the Next Don Imus in the Wake of 'Sluts' Comment
MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews on Thursday connected Don Imus's firing in the wake of the "nappy-headed hos" remark to Rush Limbaugh, hinting that the conservative commentator could face similar problems for referring to "sluts" who "must be paid to have sex." (MSNBC, of course, is no stranger to contorversial comments. One anchor on the network recently compared Rick Santorum to mass murderer Joseph Stalin.)
Matthews played a clip of Limbaugh's comments, made after college student Sandra Fluke testified before Congress on the issue of birth control. The anchor linked the two radio hosts: "You know, this cost Don Imus a lot of career, you know? A lot of career, this kind of talk. Calling people sluts, whores. This kind of stuff." [See video below. MP3 audio here.]
Matthews brought on Democratic strategist Steve McMahon to trash the host. McMahon derided Limbaugh as sounding "like a vile, disgusting pervert who had come completely unglued on the radio."
Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele piled on: "And I think in this instance, I think a lot of people have a problem with [the comments]... And I think in this particular case, that line has been crossed."
A partial transcript of the March 1 segment can be found below:
RUSH LIMBAUGH: What does it say about the college co-ed, Susan [sic] Fluke, who goes before a congressional committee and, essentially, says that she must be paid to have sex? What does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex.
CHRIS MATTHEWS: You know, this cost Don Imus a lot of career, you know? A lot of career, this kind of talk. Calling people sluts, whores. This kind of stuff. I just wonder about this guy who you guys all bow before as the great as the great Alexa Hente [sp?], the one who approves or disapproves your crop of thinking every year. Are you going to take him on or are you out there all alone?
MICHAEL STEELE: Well, you know, I've already gotten in trouble on that front point- that front porch. And remember, you know, I tried to put in context when asked as chairman, you know, what does Rush Limbaugh mean to the party? Well, he means a lot of different things to people. And I think in this instance, I think a lot of people have a problem with it. I mean, I''m sure his lawyers are having a conversation with him about the fact this young woman may have something to say about what he called her on national radio. Now, you put it in the context of hyperbole and entertainment and, you know, free speech, but there are lines. And when you're having a national political discussion, you know, the political parties have to be sure that they clearly distinguish where they are and where the entertainment picks up. And I think in this particular case, that line has been crossed. I don't think Republicans are standing here saying we agree with Rush on this because I think it's above the pail. It's not part of advancing the public discourse right now. The name calling and all of that. So I have to put it in the category of entertainment, because anything else becomes a problem.
...
MATTHEWS: I'm waiting to see one Republican elected official go after this guy. Steve?
STEVE MCMAHON: Michael, listen. Listen, love you, man. But he sounded today like a vile, disgusting pervert who had come completely unglued on the radio. You know, I cannot believe what he said. I cannot believe that he'll get away with it and I cannot believe that it won't cost him millions of dollars in a slander suit that if this woman is smart she will bring tomorrow morning. It was outrageous and I can't believe, frankly, he hasn't apologized yet. There's nothing entertaining about disparaging misogyny. And that's exactly what it was. And it was appalling. It was disgusting
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What's the big problem?
Submitted by SickofLibs on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 7:37pm.
Tingles gets paid BIG bucks for having *virtual* sex with Obama five days a week AND Sundays.
Dom Imus was fired from MSLSD
Submitted by neutron on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 8:57pm.
MSNBC, who cares more for the political message than actually making a profit, fired Don Imus's successful show, because he crossed a liberal thought line.
Imus was then hired by Fox, and went on with his life. The Duke LaCrosse fiasco vindicated Imus and others who were shown as stable and thoughtful versus the unhinged liberal media hyenas. (No offense intended to any actual hyenas.)
In the mean time, Rush is on many radio stations, all of which make money, because people tune in to hear his show, and the local stations get a slice of the revenue pie.
What would Schwishy Chrissy want all those radio stations to do? Dump Rush's show and put on Air America or something?
That is what MSLSD would do.
Anyone who takes Rush's cash cow off of their station will voluntarily turn down advertising revenue and earn less money! They will lose their loyal local conservative listeners, and probably attract fewer liberal listeners than Air America did.
Schsishy Chrissy will not get his wish, even if Rush is more offensive.
One local station I've listened to Rush on was owned by a big-time liberal. He was interviewed about it. He said "I need profits to stay in business, and Rush brings that in. I'm liberal in my personal life, but not in business."
Who's
Submitted by bobsmom on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 7:37pm.
gonna fire Rush, dumba$$? Himself? And Spitty Chrissy, 2 words for you, Ed Schultz. Go away maroon. And get down on your well calloused knees and thank whatever deity you pray to that the "death panels" are history.
LOL, Bobsmom
Submitted by Blonde on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 7:40pm.
I was planning on writing the exact same thing? What...Rush is going to fire himself?
Liberals are insane. Insanely stupid.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Exactly
Submitted by Galvanic on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 10:30am.
Matthews' has little or no memory, so he wouldn't remember the Schultz episode.
Similarly, Matthews was in a high warble a year or two ago because Limbaugh and other talk radio hosts were referring to Obama's "regime." Matthews angrily insisted that the word regime was reserved for describing dictatorships and other totalitarian governments. Then the great researchers at MRC found multiple instances of Matthews himself using the word to describe the Bush-43 Administration.
Did he ever condemn Ed Schultz like that....?
Submitted by NeoKong on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 7:39pm.
I doubt it.
Who exactly is in a position to fire Rush...?
It's his own show.
NeoKong
Submitted by Jerry Mack on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 7:44pm.
Shh! Tingles might find out that Rush owns the EIB network and demand that he fire himself. Wouldn't want Tingles to embarass himself, would ya?
Well Tingles
Submitted by KornKing on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 11:25pm.
I think not
on the other hand
Submitted by MidAmerica on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 7:44pm.
...and of course everything that has been said about Sarah Palin has been fair and thoughtfuly considered.
Tingles the Racer
Submitted by Jerry Mack on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 7:41pm.
TR shoud interview Flukes' parents. Wonder if they are proud of her?
free whiskey for alcoholics?
Submitted by MidAmerica on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 7:43pm.
The woman testisfied that she and her friends were having so much sex that they couldn't afford their own contraception costs.
...uuhhhh.... the woman needs counseling not enabling.
The Truth Of The Matter
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 7:59pm.
My theory is she doesn't really have sex. She just wants the pill in case she gets lucky.
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html
Have you seen what she looks like?
Submitted by dzejk113 on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 8:12pm.
I don't think she's really having sex either. She probably wants the pills so she can sell them under the table to other students, and if she can get them for free (meaning we pay for them) then that's 100% profits for her.
And speaking of birth control pills....
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 8:21pm.
When I first heard about this, and how this woman said that over the course of a three year degree, she would be paying $3,000 for her pills, I immediately questioned that figure. This website says that birth control pills, without insurance, cost about $20 to $50 a month. And if someone is going to make an argument that birth control should be provided at taxpayer expense, then they could easily make the same argument that condoms should be provided at taxpayer expense.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
Could it then be argued
Submitted by monsterman on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 8:48pm.
I was listening to Rush today when he was describing this woman's desire that she put before Congressional committee. I started thinking that if her sexual needs were so important that we had to pay for her birth control then what happens to all of those coeds who aren't getting any? Are we going to have to provide them with paid sexual partners? Why is their sexual pleasure any less important than hers? Now since prostitution is only legal in a small part of Nevada, will we have to ship all of these young horny freshman boys away from home for the first time out to Nevada? Rush was spot on today, this was one of the most ridiculous things to go before Congress. But then again, Pelosi was on the bench.
and uses that profit to buy
Submitted by Dan Diego on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 8:49pm.
and uses that profit to buy guys enough booze for her to "get lucky".
I'm thinking
Submitted by KornKing on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 11:29pm.
She's a law school student(probably wants to be a community organizer) with an underlying BA in "Women's Studies"
Chris Matthews idiocy is just
Submitted by BOOMER8 on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 7:48pm.
Chris Matthews idiocy is just a reflection of the greater idiocy of MSNBC's political views.
He's a paid misinformant, is a neurotic idiot, and nothing more.
I almost forgot he existed! Stop bringing him up.
Good 'Ole Pap Matthews (full of smear) on Republicans 2011:
Submitted by djwolf12 on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 7:51pm.
Here are some "recent" commentaries:
1) Rick Perry is Bull Connor with a Smile.
2) Newt Gingrich isn't even a human being; He is more like a gaseous state.
3) Rush Limbaugh wants to go back to 1948 and Segregate the US Armed Forces.
Mr. Matthews, I assume YOU will hand in your resignation on 3/2/2012. Your horrendeous language and "ugly talk", as you call it, have no place in the public discourse. Since you have no moral standards it would only be substantial if YOU do the right thing and RESIGN.
⇒ What's the problem?
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 7:51pm.
I agree with Rush.
But dare I say paying a women to have sex doesn't make her a slut? Gosh, I'm at a loss for the word, but It'll come to me.
Nah
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 7:53pm.
Russ was just verbalizing what I think about liberal women in general. They, liberal women, want to disavow nature's purpose for the act of sex. Liberal girls don't want babies, they just want to have fun.
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html
Chris Matthews is a slut.
Submitted by mattm on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 7:53pm.
Chris Matthews is a slut.
Chrissy Chrissy Chrissy
Submitted by Blue_Turf on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 7:54pm.
I assume you'll go after Ass Face for this just as hard
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/02/23/bill-maher-jokes-a...
But I guess it just falls under the guise of satire and doesn't apply to Rush.
I am wating too...
Submitted by Cho Yi Fan on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 7:55pm.
"MATTHEWS: I'm waiting to see one Republican elected official go after this guy. Steve?"
I am waiting to see one Democratic elected official go after you and your cronies at MSNBC Chris...
Your mouths makes a local sewer line look like a rose garden.
Chrissy
Submitted by Nosmo on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 8:00pm.
Chrissy should be fired for impersonating a human...
I'll fire Rush!
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 8:02pm.
I can't believe Rush went so far as to use the word "sluts" on his show. Just for that, I refuse to buy my third Select Comfort bed, and when my Lumber Liquidator wood floors wear out thirty years from now, I'm going to replace them with a different brand! That will show him.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
⇒ Lumbar Liquidators
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 8:06pm.
Yes, I know the advertisement to which you refer, but I got tickled when I suddenly realized how closely Lumbar Liquidators describes this President's spineless positions on just about everything important.
Good one!
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 8:23pm.
But I like puns, so you could have said just about anything resembling a pun.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
Well, I noticed how closely Lumbar Liquidators
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 8:51pm.
sounds like Limbaugh Liquidators which just so happens to be the name of the malware I'm designing to take out Rush's website.
Are you smiling?
Jer
⇒ Yes, it's funny
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 9:01pm.
Of course, targeting a specific individual as you just did, were it in reference to someone in the White House, your liberal buddies would cringe in horror at the violent image you are conjuring.
Add to it that you offered no qualifiers as to what "liquidator" means contextually, well, then you've got a target map on your hands, and you know how liberals go all bat$hit over right-wing target maps which liberals had used for years prior to Sarah Palin causing me to throw up a run-on sentence like the one you just finished reading.
But yeah, our judges think "Limbaugh Liquidators" is pretty funny.
Nice Try, Jer
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 10:00pm.
If I taught a course in puns:
Lumbar as to Lumber - I would give that an A
Limbaugh as to Lumber - I would give that a D-, just to get you out of my class
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
⇒ C'mon, Kingfish
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 10:08pm.
I have to admit "Limbaugh Liquidators" would be funny (to me) if it referred to Limbaugh's ability to obliterate the folly that is liberal "thought".
I didn't say it wasn't funny.
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 10:36pm.
Limbaugh Liquidators is kind of funny. I just don't think it's a very good pun.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
It's more like an
Submitted by Free Stinker on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 10:37pm.
It's more like an alliteration . . .
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
Well thank you William Freekin' Safire...
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 11:40pm.
But it's just as much a pun as it is an alliteration.
Jer: 10
Free: minus 1
Jer
Professor Kingfish, sir...
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 11:35pm.
But mine was not "Limbaugh as to Lumber". It was "Limbaugh as to Lumbar".
It was a decent pun and moderately funny. I give myself a solid "B".
And your tenure is revoked. It's time you changed course.
Jer
Lumber Liquidators
Submitted by djwolf12 on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 8:37pm.
Yep. I'd expect Inspector Clouseau (AG Eric Holder) and his sidekick Deaux-Deaux (Janet Nap-all-the-time-o) to raid all facilities in search of illegal wood.
Just to show support for Rush
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 11:36pm.
Just to show support for Rush on this stupid flare-up (and I heard everybody going haywire today, because I had the radio on), I'm going to Spatula City tomorrow and I'll buy all sizes and shapes of spatulas..............and I might order up some clothes from Club Gitmo - which is where Boy Barry, Axlegrease, (With)Holder, Van Jones, Soros, and the rest of these criminals should be sent - so that they can learn about moooooooooooooslem 'peace and love', and also discover the myth of 'moooooooooslem homosexuality'!!!
Oh, maybe Bawney Fwank will volunteer to do some jail time!!!
CHRIS MATTHEWS IS AN ASS-BAG!!!
Submitted by Mrs. Vito on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 8:05pm.
Hey, Rush wants to make it up to these bimbos. He's going to give them all free aspirin to put between their knees. BWAH-HA-HA!!
spittle all over my keyboard
Submitted by American.Patriot on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 10:07pm.
you should have had a warning posted in the title to beware of your spot on assessment.
Limbaughs vs Imus
Submitted by truckinmann on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 8:21pm.
Saying this could be a problem for Rush is ludicrous. Rush can't be fired from his own company, the EIB network. He doesn't work for MSNBC or any other network. Clear channel communications will not get rid of their most popular show, so Matthews, who knows nothing about ratings, doesn't have a clue as to what he's talking about. Rush just tells it like it is. Shining the light of truth on the left side of the world.
And
Submitted by KornKing on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 11:34pm.
Imus has always had 7 or 8 listeners vs how many for Rush
⇒ Rush should apologize
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 8:28pm.
Like this.
I would imagine
Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 8:52pm.
He will say something similar.
Rush 'n' 'hos
Submitted by markprice1983 on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 8:43pm.
Rush will be fine as long as the slut he's talking about is white. But he'd better be careful about the ho's in the Congressional Black Carcass.
Chris Matthews
Submitted by nolefan2 on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 8:54pm.
and his "state-controlled media" blowhards have said horrible things about Sarah Palin, George Bush, and every other Republican they could think of. Until they are called out for their own treatment of others, they should just keep their mouths shut. The more they trash Rush, the more I listen to him. He is right about this girl and her little friends who can't afford to pay for their contraceptives and want the government to pay for them. Here's a clue for them.....the government doesn't have any money! The taxpayers will have to foot the bill....and this taxpayer does not want to pay for it.
~I've never spent a penny on birth control
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 9:07pm.
You don't need it if you simply refrain from having sex with some loser you wouldn't want a baby with.
It's funny how that works.
True dat, wrathfulblonde
Submitted by djwolf12 on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 10:24pm.
But DemoCRAPs say that abstinence is a very, bery bad thing. Remember one thing, and that is to Liberals, Government issued (free, but ultimately paid for by the taxpayer and handed out by the Feds) contraception should be classified by The United Nations as a Basic Human Right for social justice
~Abstinence is awesome
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 10:09am.
There's nothing like guys knowing you don't put out to make them dangle after you with their tongues out, vying with each other to impress you. Then you get married and the lucky SOB who got you is freakin' over the moon about it. That's nice, too.
On another note, just like government-funded healthcare gives the government the right to dictate what kind of care you get, and how, and when, getting birth control from the government gives them a foothold in your bedroom.
Who among us, liberal or conservative, wants that?
Not to mention
Submitted by Radical1979 on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 10:13am.
You can look every ex boyfriend and his wife in the eye.
By forcing someone to pay for birth control, you are one step away from letting them decide who procreates and when.
~Exactly
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 10:24am.
The next step is having to get government permission to have a child. If you don't meet the criteria....well. Too bad.
I don't know why liberals have such a hard time grasping that concept. Pretty much everyone has had the "As long as you're living under my roof, you do as I say. When you pay your own bills you can do what you want." talk with their parents as a teen.
Whoever controls the purse has the power. When the party with the purse and the power also has the cops and the military, you better watch the hell out. There's nothing standing between you and tyranny but the whim of a bureaucrat.
College loans
Submitted by Radical1979 on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 12:29pm.
This is what's going to happen with colleges now that the government has taken that program over. They will be able to diversify colleges by controlling the money. White males with great grades? Nah, to many of 'em. Lets let in some disadvantaged kids with a third grade reading lever to make it fair.
And when they can't pass, God help the patients of those doctors and nurses.
Children? We'll be like China. And if a woman somehow sneaks a baby in, they're now rationalizing killing it after it's born.
God help us.
Is this guy this stupid?
Submitted by Fredy on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 9:24pm.
STEVE MCMAHON: Michael, listen. Listen, love you, man. But he sounded today like a vile, disgusting pervert who had come completely unglued on the radio. You know, I cannot believe what he said. I cannot believe that he'll get away with it and I cannot believe that it won't cost him millions of dollars in a slander suit that if this woman is smart she will bring tomorrow morning.
- - - - - - -
This UNMARRIED woman just testified she needs contraceptives for her out of wedlock sex acts. This is in fact one definition of a slut.
I wonder IF MCMAHON listened to her testimony BEFORE he opened his mouth?
Rush could fart on the air and draw a larger audience...
Submitted by Dave. on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 9:25pm.
...than Prissy Tingles.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Well, now we know what the
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 10:14pm.
Well, now we know what the media will be doing for the next 3-4 weeks....tracking down every Republican they can find (I understand they've already hit Romney and Boehner) to demand that they denounce Rush.
And Chris Matthews will continue to run around with his skirt up over his head.
AHHHHHHH......................
Submitted by wahappened on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 10:25pm.
...................NO!
On the other hand, calling Ingram a slut did cost Schultz his career......oh wait.....it was brain dead before it started.
Rush is so darn clever! And
Submitted by balboa on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 10:26pm.
Rush is so darn clever! And edgy!
And rich, and a wrinkle in the libs ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 10:36pm.
saddle blanket; and a thorn in their side; and a burr up their collective butts; and a blowtorch to their candle; and a run in their nylons; and a piece of emery cloth in place of both their kleenex and toilet tissue - when they try to blow their noses on him, their eyes water and their nose bleeds; and when they try to wipe their butts on him, it is they who get a raging case of the red ass.
MD
⇒ Noted, bal
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 10:48pm.
Relapse into feeble contribution mode duly noted.
Fluke wants you to pay her to have sex.
You are unaware of the economic concept that when you subsidize something, you get more of it. (insert snide comment here)
I don't want to subsidize the promiscuity of others, nor do I want to subsidize prostitution. Nor do I want to promote the abortion industry. (don't bother with the lame argument on that third point)
I know it's very European, a descriptive most liberals crave so much to emulate, but you guys can accomplish that without my tax money.
That's an astoundingly bad
Submitted by balboa on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 11:06pm.
That's an astoundingly bad argument. She doesn't want people to pay her to have sex.
I agree with balboa
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 11:27pm.
She wants people to pay her, whether she has sex or not.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
Sure sounds like it
Submitted by KornKing on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 11:39pm.
Maybe she could spend her time being a productive(pun intended) human being, instead of screwing around(again, pun intended)
⇒ Sure she does, bal
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 7:54am.
Was she at congress trying to get money appropriated to support her lifestyle? Yes
And for what aspect of her lifestyle was she asking for financial support? Sex
And who is it that pays for congressional appropriations? The taxpayer (you)
She wants people (you) to subsidize (pay) her to have sex.
bal, you're astoundingly bad at making a point. What you do or don't believe means nothing here if you can't defend it
sis not a slut
Submitted by doublet on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 10:45pm.
This broad qualifies as a sis. Stupid ignorant Slut.
delete
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 10:46pm.
.
Alternate viewpoint / Devil's advocate
Submitted by djwolf12 on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 10:51pm.
What if this was a man that went to the Feds and begged them for $3000 worth of free condoms? Would the media treat him like a hero or would they, dare I say, put him through the crosshairs and trash him like they still do to Joe the Plumber? Remember folks, it takes 2 to Tango, but I'm not going to beg the Government to provide me the shoes and teach me to dance either.
Who's gonna fire. . . .
Submitted by rickbren on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 10:57pm.
Rush from the EIB network?? Bwahahaahahahah!
golden slut
Submitted by CJohnson on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 2:35am.
After getting hair cut and style, nail trim, a pretty coat, balms, razors, perfumes, hand-tools and appliances one would think she could persuade a guy to buy the condom. It's still cheaper than a car ride.
What a disappointment Michael Steele has become. As with many
Submitted by Rush Fan on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 2:57am.
"Republicans" who sign up with a Leftist media organization (Scarborough is another), they trade whatever principles they have to their Leftist paymasters for a regular check. But the trade-off usually doesn't end very well. Ask Pat Buchanan.
Yeah, I miss Buchanan...
Submitted by Jer on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 3:47am.
I don't read his books, but Pat apparently has a tendency to stray a little too far off the PC reservation. But as a talking TV head, he is about as sharp as they come. An absolutely encyclopedic mind:
[McLaughlin on TMG]
"Pat, what is the current ratio of debt to GDP in Zimbabwe?"
"Well, John, in terms of percentage that would be approximately xx%".
"And where would that rank in comparison with the other African nations."
"I believe 42nd, John...no, make that 43rd. I just remembered they have recently slipped below Gabon."
Of course I'm making up the specifics, but in general that's no exaggeration of a typical exchange. And it holds true for just about any topic under discussion.
Plus, he's funny. So he gets bonus points.
Jer
Jer....Pat Buchanan was on Hannity tonight. They were
Submitted by Rush Fan on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 10:26pm.
discussing Obama's poll numbers. Buchanan said that a few weeks ago Obama's poll numbers were so low that even the Kenyans were claiming that Obama was born in the USA. Buchanan clarified that he was joking. Funny guy.
Caught an excerpt of Buchanan's appearance on Hannity...
Submitted by Jer on Sat, 03/03/2012 - 9:39pm.
it was a featured video on my smartphone Fox News app. Is Pat now a regular Fox contributor, or was that just a random guest slot?
Jer
I believe that Pat is making guest appearances. However,
Submitted by Rush Fan on Sun, 03/04/2012 - 12:44am.
I wouldn't be surprised if Fox News picked him up as a contributor, as they did with Juan Williams. By the way, here is a VIDEO of Juan Williams interviewing Pat Buchanan regarding his separation from MESSNBC.
I wish I had heard what all
Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 3:52am.
I wish I had heard what all of this is about, but I hardly think Rush Limbaugh is going to be "fired" from the radio. If angering the intolerant left was going to get him "fired" from the radio he would have been off the air 20 years ago.
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Chris Matthews: The Joy Behar of MSNBC.
Bill Maher: The Joy Behar of HBO.
Paul Krugman: The Joy Behar of The New York Times.
There's a rule of thumb
Submitted by Jer on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 4:45am.
which has been floating around the broadcast industry almost from the time of Marconi holding in essence that one who reduces elite politicians of a major party to quivering piles of gelatinous ooze issuing groveling apologies for even the slightest criticism of His Allness is most likely unburdened by concerns related to job security.
Jer
⇒ Good one Jer
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 7:38am.
Which begs the obvious question. Why would Matthews want to disabuse himself of his notions when he's proven so proficient at the opposite?
IMHO
Submitted by amyshulk on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 10:08am.
Ah, you all miss the point. This is how the msm moves us ever further to the left. Codify sex as a "right' while demonizing virtue. Just like they did with welfare, to remove the stigma.
They don't care if it makes sense {Rush is his own boss} or not - they just want to get the discussion out there, and get society to accept promiscuity as the norm.
Granted, this isn't a leap with the various media pushing this since forever.
Ronald Reagan
Not So Fast
Submitted by ItchyZ on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 10:39am.
You wish, Mr. Tingle.
Rush Limbaugh: slander Bill
Submitted by NCfairandbalanced on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 10:40am.
Rush Limbaugh: slander
Bill Maher, Keith Olbermann, Ed Shultz, Mike Malloy, (to name only a few): free speech.
Ok, I guess that seems fair.
Unbelievable.
You're forgetting something, Chrissy
Submitted by CobraMan on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 3:52pm.
"You know, this cost Don Imus a lot of career, you know?"
You're forgetting something, Chrissy: Unlike Imus, Rush's show is syndicated. He doesn't "work" for any network, so none of them can fire him. They really don't have any control over Rush's "career."
Now, someone like YOU should be worried about your career, for, just like Imus, you're not syndicated! Therefor one single network has total control over your "career." THEY decide your fate, not you. Rush controls his own fate, he own career. No single network controls his fate. Fox News, for example, cant come up to him and say: "you're fired," thus ending his career. He has very little to worry about.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Bet mathews
Submitted by angelann1 on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 5:16pm.
Wanna be asshole?