Posted on 02/16/2015 4:18:36 PM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: Did you watch the Saturday Night Live 40th anniversary show? I didn't, either, when I figured out I hadn't been invited. They wanted me on that show one time, and, boy, I must tell you, I almost did it, and had I done it, it would have been one of the biggest career mistakes I've ever made.
Lorne Michaels actually called. This is back in the nineties. They wanted me to come out and play Santa Claus on their Christmas show. I learned later that the whole thing was intended as a setup for Al Franken's book. He was still a writer then, an occasional performer.
Lorne Michaels got on the phone and it was a pleasant conversation. I talked to him about what he wanted me to do. "We want you to be our Santa Claus." They didn't want me in a skit. They didn't want me as a guest host or cohost, whatever they're called. They just wanted me in there as a punching bag or whatever. And my instincts, they've never steered me wrong, my instincts said, "Don't do this."
Anyway, the point is I didn't watch the show, either. But I'm reading about it and, folks, they just dumped all over Brian Williams on this show last night. Jim Carrey got it started. He's asking people at NBC, this is the red carpet (paraphrasing), "Where are you hiding Brian Williams?" We can't find him. Does anybody know where you have him stashed away?"
And then Martin Short said -- the audience is made up of NBC executives -- "You know, the roof, the literal roof could cave in on this show right now, and it would be the least of NBC's problems." Jerry Seinfeld, who you would think would have some sort of bond with Brian Williams, meaning that both are on the talent side, said, "I didn't know until tonight that Brian Williams was in the original Saturday Night Live cast back in 1975." Now, the point is they're making jokes about this on an NBC 40th anniversary show.
There's also this story on Page Six in the New York Post. This is the strangest thing. "Contract 'Morality Clause' Could Determine Brian Williams' Future -- Embattled NBC News anchor Brian Williams' fate beyond his six-month unpaid suspension could hang on a 'morality clause' in his contract -- which means he could be fired if he offended 'a significant portion of the community' or brought himself 'public disrepute, contempt, scandal or ridicule.'"
Why do they even need this? "The anchor has lawyered up with Bob Barnett, the distinguished attorney who also repped Ann Curry." He doesn't have an agent. He's always used Barnett. It's nothing new that he's got Bob Barnett. You know, Bob Barnett, he's married to the former CBS infobabe, Rita Braver. She anchored the news during the Rather days when he was on CBS. She Barnett's wife, or was. I assume still is. But Brian Williams has never had a TV agent, per se.
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RUSH: Yeah, you know what? It's just an impression I had. In fact, it was more like a feeling than a thought, and I very rarely make final judgments based on feelings. I am unalterably opposed to that. But I've had a feeling about this Brian Williams thing that from the beginning he was never really accepted as somebody in the anchor club at the highest levels of the Drive-By Media. It's a feeling, as I say, it's not a thought; it's something I maybe had a gut feeling about, and, as such, I haven't discussed it.
Brian Williams has now been discovered, it's now public knowledge, he dropped out of school. He attended a community college. Now, Ivy Leaguers do not have that blemish on their resumes. Community college, an Ivy Leaguer would become suicidal if even -- one of the best ways to intimidate, you want to blackmail an Ivy Leaguer is tell 'em you have a way of convincing everybody they went to a community college first, and you'll own them. Biggest blemish you could ever, outside of not going to a place, but attending a community college or junior college.
Brian Williams dropped out of -- let's see, he went to community college, then Catholic University, and then George Washington University. None of those are Ivy League schools. Now, I don't know if that is a factor in the fact that so many of his colleagues are not rallying around him. I thought they would, as I mentioned here numerous times. I thought it was a lock that the other two anchors, the other networks would help circle the wagons to protect Brian Williams because that's protecting the news and that's protecting the cause, liberalism, but that isn't happening.
When he got the gig, when he got the anchor chair, NBC Nightly News, however many years ago that was, I had a, as I say, it was just a feeling that he's someplace that nobody really thought he would end up being. He was always said to be in waiting behind Brokaw, but I don't think anybody ever really thought that would happen. I don't know if it's a factor now in the way he's being treated or not.
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Its 2015 Rush. Brian Williams is a straight white male. I don’t claim him as one of mine, but you have to understand these people to understand who is not off limits.
Brian Williams has now been discovered, it's now public knowledge, he dropped out of school. He attended a community college. Now, Ivy Leaguers do not have that blemish on their resumes. Community college, an Ivy Leaguer would become suicidal if even -- one of the best ways to intimidate, you want to blackmail an Ivy Leaguer is tell 'em you have a way of convincing everybody they went to a community college first, and you'll own them. Biggest blemish you could ever, outside of not going to a place, but attending a community college or junior college. Brian Williams dropped out of -- let's see, he went to community college, then Catholic University, and then George Washington University. None of those are Ivy League schools. Now, I don't know if that is a factor in the fact that so many of his colleagues are not rallying around him. I thought they would, as I mentioned here numerous times.
Saw that and couldn’t stop laughing...
That's the real question here. What is he being punished for, or, who is he being sacrificed for? What tail of what dog does this wag?
Because Leftists don't take a dump, son, without a plan.
The show sucked! They promoted it as a tribute, expected to see a lot of old clips from the good ol days but was subjected to the new cast, tired greats repro’s and Mcartney and Simon who cant sing anymore. Eddie Murhpy was in 3, 3 second clips and the old clips were put in a collage and run at light speed. The show sucked!
I’ll bet Brian Williams was planning on attending this show a few weeks ago, but BOOM.
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