Rush Limbaugh Takes a Hit (CNN calls on Professional Rush-Hater Al Franken as a Rush "expert"!!!)

CNN ^ | October 2, 2003

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Rush Limbaugh's week went from bad to worse today. His name has surfaced in a drug investigation in Florida. According to law enforcement sources, he allegedly bought large amounts of prescription painkillers illegally. This after he quit under pressure as host of ESPN's Sunday NFL countdown for his racially charged remarks.

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It figures CNN would invite Rush Limbaugh's worst enemy on the planet to talk about this issue.

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[jjbrouwer]

Franken - "You know, in my book Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot"

This seems to confirm my theory that O'Reilly and Limbaugh are actually the same person.

[Brimack34]

May everyone at CNN burn in hell for 10,000 life times!!!!!and then come back as a mouse in a lab.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

lol

[Brimack34]

O'Reilly is thinkin he will take over on top.

[GeronL]

That makes Rush a Clinton expert then

[Windcatcher]

Pfft. Maybe this is worth pointing out:

CNN has been deprogrammed from my TV

It's been this way for about a week and will stay so indefinitely. Many modern TV's have channel auto-skip and mine jumps right over CNN and CNN Headline News. Bad for CNN and bad for their advertisers. I suggest everyone here do the same.

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It figures CNN would invite Rush Limbaugh's worst enemy on the planet to talk about this issue.

Yes, I'm not really surprised at all by this. They found the person who could spew the most hate-filled venom towards Rush. Naturally, that would be Al Franken.

[Fraulein]

If there is a drug problem, do you think it possibly could have stemmed from the medication he took during this very difficult time of his life?

What makes Franken qualified to answer on CNN these sorts of questions about Rush? Sheesh! Looks to me like they found Franken 'to speculate' -- and they already knew in advance just how Franken was going to respond. BIAS!

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That makes Rush a Clinton expert then

If I were producing a TV news show purely on a new Bill Clinton scandal, I would not have Rush Limbaugh on at all, just like I would not have on Rahm Emanuel or James Carville.

[rs79bm]

Franken: "But I think, actually, the statements that Rush made about black quarterbacks, he may have said it because he was high at the time."

Oh how nice. Franken is a big fat idiot.

[blastdad51]

Politics of personal destruction.....need we say more?

[Howlin]

Is this some kind of world record for transcribing a show?

Telling.

[Choose Ye This Day]

How'd you like Paula Zahn's condescending little dismissal of Armstrong Williams?

"One man's opinion."

Translation: "You're an idiot and a traitor to your race. Your opinion counts for squat."

Way to be inclusive, CNN!

[shiva]

Can't wait to listen to Rush tomorrow!!!!!

[Tabi Katz]

Franken - "You know, in my book Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot"

And in mine, Al Franken is a short, monkey-faced moron. Does that make me a Franken expert according to the Communist News Network?

[katz]

I only read parts of your post...Franken is NOT a credible source for which I read for up-to-date news reports. Tomorrow, I will listen to Rush and hear what he has to say. If I want conservative insight, then I will listen or read a conservative commentator. The Left smells blood and lives on blood.

[arasina]

Zahn is a Hillary. (There. I can curse without being offensive!)

For the record:

Fox Tops In Ratings For Seventh Straight Quarter
By CAROLINE WILBERT
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Four news networks --CNN, Headline News, MSNBC and CNBC -- lost viewership in the third quarter, but powerhouse Fox News picked up steam, according to Nielsen Media Research.

In the third quarter, Atlanta-based CNN attracted an average of 440,000 -- down 15 percent from the same period last year. Sister network Headline News attracted an average of 170,000, down 25 percent.

MSNBC drew an average of 203,000 viewers, a 19 percent slide. And CNBC got an average of 160,000, down 23 percent.

Meanwhile, Fox increased viewership 17 percent, attracting an average of 730,000 viewers.

This is the seventh straight quarter that Fox has won the news network ratings war.

[Keith in Iowa]

In my book, Al Franken is a steming turd.

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P.S Sent my donation to Free Republic tonight.

[Keith in Iowa]

Ooops...steaming turd. Al Franken is a steaming turd.

[arasina]

And the "night watchman" at the lab is a big ol' cat. :o)

[Paul Atreides]

The interesting part is that the people bashing Rush are the same ones who say that academic examinations/standards have to be lowered because blacks and other minorities are too stupid to keep up.

[Middle Aged White Male]

You know, for as much hatred that flows between Al and Rush this was a pretty tame interview. I don't think Al was a good "expert" to have on the show, but he had some class with... Much more class than CNN had in bringing him as a guest anyway.

[Brad's Gramma]

I firmly believe that all of this stuff being "discovered" today and yesterday is going to backfire on the Dems, big time.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

They're on the march, to be sure. This week is going to be partricularly vitriolic. Facing oblivion, they have nothing to lose. Fortunately, they can always count on their "psycho-phants" in the media.

[Windcatcher]

Me too. The smear tactics on Arnold finally set me off enough to bite the bullet.

Maybe that's the way to get more donations. Push the Dems over the edge so they pull more stunts like this :^)

[nhoward14]

The stories this week are a "blitzkrieg" by the Dims.

[GOPJ]

CNN protected Saddam, his rapists, and his child killers from the eyes of the world too. Whatever respect CNN had was squandered years ago...

It figures CNN would invite Rush Limbaugh's worst enemy on the planet to talk about this issue.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

May everyone at CNN burn in hell for 10,000 life times!!!!!and then come back as a mouse in a lab.----------MAY ALL LEFT WING NUT'S STOMACHS BURN IN HELL. Of course that is just my learned opinion.

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

And in mine, Al Franken is a short, monkey-faced moron. Does that make me a Franken expert according to the Communist News Network?

Not to defend Frankenstein, but the transcript was incorrectly punctuated. He was referring to his book, "Rush Limbaugh is a Big, Fat Idiot". He wasn't using 'in my book' to mean 'in my opinion' (though obviously that IS his opinion).

[Tabi Katz]

"In my book, Al Franken is a steming turd."

There's certainly a similarity, but Franken's just a tad more vile and repulsive.

[Joe_October]

No, No, Franken is a pedophile sissy (hey satire).

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

This is the seventh straight quarter that Fox has won the news network ratings war.

And this is precisely why the "tolerant", "free speech" crowd will strive to muzzle the opposition and to crush dissenting viewpoints at all costs. Their hidden motto: "Free speech and tolerance for me, not for thee".

[lowbridge]

. I wasn't surprised by the racist comments he made on Sunday night. That's sort of par for the course.

Right from the beginning he lies through his buck teeth. Rush's comments were not racist, nor are racist comments "par for the course", where Rush's views are concerned.

[Visioneer]

What took you so long...I took their rancid propaganda off ALL my TV's long ago... I just regret not informing it sponsors when I did it.

I also refuse to listen to their so-called hourly "news" broadcasts on my car and home radios -- including those broadcast by many conservative stations.

Happy to report I haven't missed their sorry tripe a bit.

[YaYa123]

I don't think Rush will be able to discuss the drug thing on his show....I think he will have a lawyer who won't let him. And if the rumor Dan Abrams was insinuating on his MSNBC show tonight is correct, that lawyer will be Roy Black.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

The stories this week are a "blitzkrieg" by the Dims.

Just the beginning. They attack GW, then Rush, then Arnold, then Rush, then Arnold. Then GW. They desperately want to derail the recall, mortally wound Rush (in time for the 2004 election season) and then go after GW tooth and claw(and, I hear, even fomenting violence ala the 1970's). Their IMO insurmountable problem is that most informed and intelligent people now understand that they have been, and are still, liars.

[Brimack34]

I am so embarresed that Fkuc head is from my state: As I have said. J. Lange, A. Brown, G. Keillor, G. Killborn.-- MN. Sucks shti When I see him I will kick his ass. MN. by the way.

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

From CBS Sportsline

if ESPN is going to come down on Limbaugh for his comments -- you know his resignation was forced with a foot out the door -- they should watch closely what Bryan Cox says, too. Cox has said several times that Falcons linebacker Keith Brooking isn't nearly as good as people think and that the only reason he gets the props he does is because he's white. Isn't that the same thing Limbaugh said, yet nobody said a word? Both were wrong.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Frankin has the intellect of a sophomoric drunkard. Years of drug use have left far too much damaged brain tissue, IMO.

[88keys]

You're right...all Franken wanted to do is bring the issue back to "racism"...

Not to give him too much credit...I suspect that the ESPN story is all there really is to the story. The "drug ring" allegations seem to be just that..."allegations", based on "hear-say" from the housekeeper (who clearly was involved in some sort of drug-dealing), and her "evidence" obtained by "wiring" her own self, rather than having the FBI oversee and verify her "encounters" with Rush...

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You ought to post that CBS Sportsline column as a separate thread.

[JohnBovenmyer]

There have been many comments on various threads there implying that Rush could have been on pain pills because of his autoimmune inner ear disease. I question the unstated assumption that this disease causes pain! I don't recall Rush ever saying his condition was painful. I don't recall reading pain as a disease symptom in any of the stuff that came out either on his website or FR when that story was fresh and I tried to read all that stuff. I wouldn't expect the steroids and other immunosuppressive drugs he took for this to cause pain as a side effect. The implant shouldn't be very painful. It's not my branch of medicine, but I guess there might be some inflammation and edema from the attack on the cochlear hair cells, which in that closed space could produce pain, if the cochlea had pain nerve fibers. The outer and middle ear certainly have pain nerves, but I don't know about the inner ear. I'd guess that it, like the brain, doesn't. Are there any lurking Freeper ENT docs and can they confirm my hunch? If we can rule out pain from his ear disease than there is a big hole in the druggie story.

[Dolphy]

What a perfect summary of my hatred for the left. First CNN invites Franken, which is sort of like inviting Al Gore to discuss a personal crisis facing Bush. Then, Franken, despite the opportunity to take the high road and maybe show himself to have the heart he claims the right lacks, piles on.