Posted on 08/22/2005 11:16:17 AM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
He seems to be insinuating that Limbaugh claimed that Sheehan hadn't really lost a son in Iraq.
Yet in the proffered quote of "suppressed" Limbaugh material it is pretty clear that Limbaugh is not disputing the facts of her case but he is calling her spin of her case lies and forgery.
Which is true - it is well-documented that Sheehan has lied about her past and has repeated fraudulent stories.
Thanks, except I now see my memory isn't what it should be. The reference back to 8/12 was to show that he had indeed acknowledged she had lost her son, and that he was not trying to say she had made that up. However, as pointed out here, if you check out the archives on right hand side of Rush's site, and click on the archive for "Thursday 8.18.05", you will see that that comment is included in his discussion of it.
I don't get it. Why would Rush deny saying something that is so transparently true that it doesn't even rise to the level of 'controversial'? I think Olbermann's been smoking crack again.
http://newsbusters.org/node/480
Olbermann Impugns MRC as "Scam", Rush as worst person in the world
It is there. Olbermann is just too stupid to find it in the archives.
When the left runs out of ideas and arguments they resort to bashing Rush. After all it has worked so well to shut him up in the past. </ sarc>
http://www.mrc.org/audioBias/MP3/2005/olbermann0818.mp3
"Time for Countdown's list of today's nominees to the coveted title of 'Worst Person in the World.' There's just two tonight. A very close second, Brent Bozell -- yeah, the wacky guy from that Media Research Center scam -- accused me of distortion for having said that Rush Limbaugh had said on air, quote, 'Cindy Sheehan is just Bill Burkett. Her story is nothing more than forged documents. There's nothing about it that's real.' The only person distorting as usual is Bozell. Limbaugh said it on the air on August 15th. We have the transcript. Nothing in the transcript mitigates what he said. I'll put it online over the weekend. So, Bozell is close, but the winner is Limbaugh for saying, 'I never said this,' when, of course, he sure did, especially considering the line comparing Sheehan to Burkett was a featured quote on his Web site for his paying subscribers until it was mysteriously scrubbed off. And having now added about Sheehan's dead son, quote, 'I'm leery of even having to express sympathy. We all lose things.' Like your career, Rush. You're finished, credibility spent. Get lost! Rush Limbaugh, once again, today's 'Worst Person in the World!'"
-- Keith Olbermann, Countdown, MSNBC, August 19, 2005
http://www.mrc.org/audioBias/MP3/2005/Limbaugh.mp3
"He [Limbaugh] also referred to her supporters as 'dope-smoking FM types.' I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics. Rush Limbaugh, today's 'Worst Person in the World'!"
-- MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, Countdown, Aug. 17, 2005
Who gives a crap what Olbernerd says? Really, looking at Olbernerd's ratings reminds me of the old question. If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to see it, does it make a sound? If Olbernerd slanders somebody, how do you hear about it since you probably were not there to witness it.
(2) If Limbaugh would ditch conservatism for sports commentator stardom, he had the perfect opportunity when he was an ESPN commentator.
Instead he made a number of snarky conservative comments, one of which got him fired for being too controversial.
Olbermann's thesis makes no sense.
How grotesque. Rush ought to sue.
And there it is - I was told by a friend that you can find a complete transcript if you are a subscriber.
LOL! That's like... um... well, I actually can't think of a more ridiculous example than Keith Olberman predicting the death of Rush's broadcasting career. I'll just have to file it away for future comparison -- you know, like if Pauly Shore announces the end of Tom Hanks' acting career.
I listen to Rush from time to time, and heard the "offending segment". I honestly don't know what Olberman is complaining about. He did not malign Sheehan. He did not treat her unsympathetically. But neither did he accept all the BS she spouts uncritically because she happens to be a Gold Star Mother.
In this, he deviates from the herd. While the NYTimes is willing to invest Sheehan with "absolute moral authority", Rush is willing to say that her statements have to be evaluated on basis of their content.
"What are Olberman's ratings again?"
The Scoreboard: Thursday, August 18
Total viewers:
8pm: O'Reilly: 2,628,000 / Zahn: 585,000 / Grace: 588,000 / Countdown: 228,000 / Cover to Cover: 194,000
source:
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/ratings/default.asp
Donahue:
During this month, a "sweeps" month in which ratings are watched closely to set advertising rates, "Donahue" averaged 446,000 viewers. O'Reilly drew 2.7 million viewers, up 28 percent from February 2002, according to Nielsen Media Research.
source:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/02/25/donahue.ap/
So Olberman's ratings are about 1/2 of Donahue's when he got canned.
If the above statement is true then why did caller after caller, not only on Rush's show but on all shows at the beginning of modern talk radio, exclaim, "I didn't know others knew that!" "I didn't know others believed as I do!"
This MSNBC employee can call it making "ditto-heads" happy but it just happens to represent the formerly "silenced majority." One hour a week of Firing Line on PBS is not and never was balance.
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."
Winning OBL's most valuable terrorist award is going to be real tough for today's MSM. OBL is watching, how the MSM hands off propaganda for radical Islam to use is a major test for MSM employees.
I'm so glad this idiot was run out of ESPN. Dan Patrick couldn't stand him.
I listened to Rush the other day and he played the excerpt to debunk the Forehead. It was clear that Rush did not say Cindy Sheehan was lying about losing her son.
As for Olbernerd saying that Rush's credibility is gone and his career is over, this is nothing new from Olberdouche. He has predicted that O'Reilly's career is over, Hannity's career is over. Now, add Rush to that list. Basically, Keith, the Legend in His Own Mind, feels that he is more worthy of Limbaugh's, O'Reilly's and Hannity's audiences than they are. Sorry Keith, no ratings for you.
But hey Keith, if you can't beat them, whine about them endlessly. (P.S. Keith, that is free advertising you keep providing O'Reilly, Rush and Hannity with.)
thanks
"Rush DID NOT say that Sheehan was lying about having a son or that he died."
Correct... he didn't say she was lying, just that NOTHING about her story was real. ( I suppose Roy Black could explain the difference to us )
"Her story is nothing more than forged documents, there's nothing about it that's real,.."
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