Limbaugh runs away from Limbaugh (Left Wing Smear Machine sets its sights on Rush)

PMSNBC ^ | August 22, 2005 | Keith Olberman

[balch3]

NEW YORK - There is nothing wrong with an unpopular opinion.

Nor is there anything wrong with a subversive one, nor a crazy one. This country was founded on opinions that were deemed by the powers-that-were to be unpopular, subversive, and crazy. Dissent - even when that dissent strays from logic or humanity - is our life’s blood. But if you have one of those opinions, and you express it in public, honesty and self-respect require you to own up to it.

Unless you’re Rush Limbaugh.

[AmishDude]

Not only does Olbermann smear Rush, but he does so a week later than Begala. If there's one thing worse than a partisan hack, it's a lame second-rate partisan hack.

[TC Rider]

MSNBC employees are no longer the gatekeepers of information and they are horrified that they may not win our current enemy's "Most Valuable" award. MSM employees are proud of their award from the North Viet Nam Communists as the Communists' "Most Valuable Guerrilla."

Pretty sad when pMSNBC's most popular show is a re-broadcast of a radio show from a sports talk station featuring a dried up coke-head.

[RS]

"If you run a Google news search on the quote "Cindy Sheehan is just Bill Burkett. Her story is nothing more than forged documents..." many sources attribute it to Rush."

??? Are you saying that this is NOT a audio clip from his show on this page ?

http://mediamatters.org/items/200508160009

[demkicker]

Rush called 'TheForeHead' Begala out for lying about him last week.

Wow, he'll have fun roasting Olberman tomorrow!

[AmishDude]

That's hilarious. When I was 16 I could have taken 1 week, maybe 2 to graduate with a comm. degree from Cornell. I mean, when you don't have to take calculus, college isn't very difficult at all.

[RJL]

Just one to file away when Olberman's useless show is canceled.

This is like the tree falling in the woods, will anyone know or notice when Olberman's show is canceled?

[Smedley]

Rush could lose the total amount of viewers (listeners) Olberman has and not even notice.

Rush could shout his opinions out of his window and have an audience bigger than Olberman's

[FormerACLUmember]

LOL. You are BTW obviously more intelligent than Keith O.

[AmishDude]

Rush has a three-hour extemporaneous radio show. He has no script, he does not prepare his remarks beforehand. Unlike Olbermann. If you don't like what the man says, call him and challenge it, but you cannot pull out 2 sentences from this kind of show and demand that it cannot be misleading in any way.

[Wacka]

This guy Overman can't even wad up paper and hit the waste basket, much less have an intelligent observation.

That's one of the reasons I think he is so P.O'd at everything. He wsa in a car accident as a kid and has no depth perception. He can't drive. He had to live right in Bristol, CT when he was at ESPN. Bristol is a nice suburb, but when you can't drive, it is the pits. His parting statement about ESPN et al. : "The nicest thing about Bristol?- Seeing it in your rear-view mirror."

[AmishDude]

Olbermann is like John Kerry. A card-carrying member of the Pretensia.

[AmishDude]

Do you surf mediamatters much or do you just cash the Soros check directly?

Oh, and mediamatters probably has violated copyright by having that clip considering that Rush sells his audio on his website.

[RS]

"Do you surf mediamatters much or do you just cash the Soros check directly?"

Did you find a problem with the clip ?

Or is it just a problem when someone points out the truth ?

[Zack Nguyen]

Nor is there anything wrong with a subversive one, nor a crazy one.

Sure there is. Nietzche's (did I spell that right?) opinion on the new uber man strongly influenced Adolph Hitler's views as I understand it. But this doesn't mean that certain opinions should be censored. We allow them all because we are America.

I just wish Mr. Olbermann wouldn't inject this blatant moral relativism so early into his article.

[FormerACLUmember]

[feedback doctor]

Rush DID NOT say that Sheehan was lying about having a son or that he died. That's right. In fact I think after he said what her said about her he said the media and liberals would say exactly what keef olderwoman said. Does anyone have a transcript?

[JarheadFromFlorida]

Keith Olbermann's non-rating of a show is a flop and he knows it. He will go the way of Phil Donahue, Dennis Miller, and the sweet little tennis pro.

[AmishDude]

Check out #109. I'm sorry, but you have to apply a bit of common sense here. Just a bit, I know. Rush's comment was very clearly a crack at the media. If he was actually making the assertion that her being a mother or her son serving was made up, Rush would not be making a statement attacking the media. Moreover, we know that Cindy Sheehan did lie about her encounter with the president. Either more recently or to the Vacaville newspaper. At least one of those accounts was a lie.

Consider this: Not one news source of any kind -- not a website, not a blog -- had a headline that asserted that "Cindy Sheehan's son alive and well" citing Rush as a source. So, apparently, you, Begala and Olbermann are the only ones too stupid to figure out what he was saying.

Oh, and I didn't click the clip. I trust your word as to its contents, I just figured it was copyrighted and mediamatters (a division of George Soros, Inc.) would have their butts sued from here to David Brock's rumpus room.

[AmishDude]

I think Ace has more class.

[RS]

Your 109 appears to say that since his show was extemporaneous, with no preparation, it's allowed to be misleading at times - Yet your latest post seems to attempt to explain it as a brilliant intentional crack at the media.

Have any other explanations for it while you are at it ?



"Not one news source of any kind -- not a website, not a blog -- had a headline that asserted that "Cindy Sheehan's son alive and well" citing Rush as a source. "

Nope it appears that all of them figured out he just ran his mouth a little long. - I don't see them headlining "Rush comes up with brilliant slight to media " either.



Regarding the lawsuit, will that come after he sues the Enquirer ?