Posted by
Tzimisce on Wednesday, September 26, 2007 12:16:45 AM
While listening to the Rush Limbaugh show today (as all angry white guys waiting for their marching orders do), Limbaugh had the most interesting piece of audio. It's David Shuster from MSNBC interviewing Marsha Blackburn about the MoveOn.Org ads in the New York Times. The two had the following exchange about Rush referencing one of his callers referring to Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel as "Betrayus":
SHUSTER: Where was the outrage when Rush Limbaugh said this about Republican Senator Chuck Hagel over one of the senators' stances on Iraq. Limbaugh said, "By the way, we had a caller call, couldn't stay on the air, got a new name for Senator Hagel in Nebraska. We got General Petraeus, and we got Senator Betray Us, new name for Senator Hagel."
BLACKBURN: What I want to do is talk about the New York Times, and probably Rush Limbaugh could have gotten by without saying that.
SHUSTER: Could have gotten by? It was wrong, wasn't it?
BLACKBURN: He was referencing what a caller said, and --
SHUSTER: Right, but it was wrong for a caller or from Rush Limbaugh to call Chuck Hagel Senator Betray Us, right?
BLACKBURN: But Rush Limbaugh did not go in and buy an ad and place it with the New York Times and get a special preferred rate.
SHUSTER: So there's a difference between buying an ad in the New York Times and Rush Limbaugh hearing something that he likes to hear from one of his viewers and repeating it on the air? What's the distinction? Why is there a distinction?
Marsha Blackburn was obviously taken aback by the question. Here's what she should have said:
"....you honestly don't know the difference? You need me to explain this too you? Which journalism school did you go to again? Cause I know 3rd graders that can see the difference. Are you smarter than a fifth grader? I'm guessing not.
I can't believe that you, as a nationally syndicated host are asking me such a stupid question. What is your demographic, the comatose?
Okay, I'll explain it too you (and please try not to drool on yourself.) MoveOn.Org bought ad space *at a discounted rate* in the New York Times, a media outlet that *claims* to be unbiased and non partisan (much like yourself). It's not so much what the ad *said* but the treatment that MoveOn was given.
But I feel reassured. Since you demand that I explain this too you, I have to assume that you're retarded and not just a partisan hack trying to force your left wing agenda on everybody."