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Katie's cross purposes
September 6, 2006
Zeroing in on to the most important news in the history of the
universe, Katie Couric read the news for a few minutes on CBS.
Hosannah.
I really couldn’t care less who reads the news, but I’ve always had a
soft spot for Katie, particularly since I worked with her late husband
on MSNBC when the station first began ten years ago, but our affair
ended last night when she said that she wanted to help restore
“civility” to the public discourse and then announced she would have
Rush Limbaugh help with the job. I guess that’s the last time I can
believe anything she says—or at least make sense of it. I wonder
which of Limbaugh’s comments led the poohbahs at CBS, who, like NBC’s
“Meet the Press,” decided to give Limbaugh this honor. Could it be:
When the shocking photos at Abu Ghraib were published, Limbaugh voiced
his enthusiastic agreement with a caller that what was done at Abu
Ghraib was no worse than “a college fraternity prank that stacked up
naked men. Exactly,” Limbaugh replied:
Exactly my point! This is no different than what happens at the Skull
and Bones initiation and we're going to ruin people's lives over it
and we're going to hamper our military effort, and then we are going
to really hammer them because they had a good time. You know, these
people are being fired at every day. I'm talking about people having a
good time, these people, you ever heard of emotional release? You ever
heard of need to blow some steam off?”
Could it be Limbaugh when he went into business to make money making
fun of the torture; selling souvenirs for what he joshingly called
“Club Gitmo,” where he sold mugs, bumper stickers, and “soap on a
rope?”
Could it be when he said “the religious left ... hates and despises
the God of Christianity," because "Liberals consider themselves more
powerful than God?"
Could it be when he opined that a letter to President Bush from
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad—the very same one who previously
advocated "wiping Israel off the map," has referred to Israel as a
"rotten, dried tree," and has dismissed the Holocaust as a "myth."--
contained, in Limbaugh’s scholarly view, “some liberal Hollywood
Jewish people talking points?"
Could it be when he said John Kerry’s wife, Teresa Heinz, was called
“one of the nation’s leading wackos…in love with a dead man?”
Could it be when he said the Supreme Court “expelled gas” in striking
down antisodomy laws in Texas. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day
O’Connor is a “racist” for upholding affirmative action programs?
Could it be when claimed that women "actually wish" for sexual
harassment?
Could it be when he said Democrats believe "the more deaths in Iraq
the better?"
Could it be when Limbaugh told a black caller, “Take that bone out of
your nose and call me back?”
Could it be when he said, “The NAACP should have riot rehearsals?”
Or what about when he announced on another occasion, “They should get
a liquor store and practice robberies?”
Could it be when he asked “Have you ever noticed how all newspaper
composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?”
Could it be when an environmentalist died of breast cancer in 1997,
Limbaugh played the sound of a buzzsaw and said the woman had “finally
been cut down to size.” And "she’ll never be able to bark up the wrong
tree again?”
Could it be when he compared then-teenage Chelsea Clinton to a dog?
Let us know, CBS, which of these comments were the ones that convinced
you that Limbaugh was the right guy to “restore civility” to our
political discourse. We’ll wait ….
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