Limbaugh's Loose Lips could sink his Armed Forces Radio Network ship

[Cornflake the Destroyer]

In the light of Imus and even more recently, O'reilly, are offhand, spur of the moment remarks being blown out of proportion? Or are they windows into the host's character
(a chinq in the armor) that should be exploited??? Without turning this into a political free for all, where the Democrats/Republicans did it, how is this magnifying glass going to affect Radio as a whole, especially news/talk?


http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2007/09/28/publiceye/entry3307463.shtml

 

[SeanMGilbow]

I doubt his comments would have any effect. That may be different in, say, 16 months.

 

[ChuckTiller]

If you go to Limbaugh's website, you will hear the EXACT conversation that was broadcast. You will find that CBS took it out of context. It was cherry picked to go after him.

 

[Goat Rodeo Cowboy]

How unfair!!! We all know Limbaugh would NEVER cherry pick someone else. ;D

 

[ChuckTiller]

That wasn't the point. Two wrongs don't make a right. The fact is, the statement IS out of context. Whether one likes Limbaugh or not is irrelevant.

 

[Goat Rodeo Cowboy]

Chuck, you may "right as rain" in your observation on what CBS did.

For tons of us, it is very enjoyable to watch CBS stick a hot poker up Rush's hiney so Rush can see what it is like for the people he takes the hot poker to on a daily basis.

I did talk radio 40 years ago. I thought we were out there on the edge then. Today it has become a sophmoric food fight using poisonous food.

 

[tomservo]

What's important is that things taken out of context can have such an effect at all. Why should anyone's career, whether it be a hot talk "man show" or a right wing political talker, be so easily snuffed for what amounts to inaccurate reporting?

 

[Goat Rodeo Cowboy]

Why should anyone's career, whether it be a hot talk "man show" or a right wing political talker, be so easily snuffed for what amounts to inaccurate reporting?

Why should the career of centrist and leftist politicos be snuffed by the inaccurate reporting of talk radio?

Why should the career of political figures on the RIGHT be snuffed because they fail to adhere to the "party line" on one or two issues?

Right wing talk radio acts as though they are the ONLY people authorized and qualified to decided who the good guys are and who the bad guys are. Why let something like inaccurate reporting be an issue.

 

[justareporter]

Rush would NEVER take anythiing out of context. America's "news anchor", "news authority" say something inaccurate and damaging to his larger than life career?

On teh air he does protest WAAAAY too much. We can only hope this takes a long time to die out. It is fun to listen to him squirm.

 

[SeanMGilbow]

Rush would NEVER take anythiing out of context. America's "news anchor", "news authority" say something inaccurate and damaging to his larger than life career?

On teh air he does protest WAAAAY too much. We can only hope this takes a long time to die out. It is fun to listen to him squirm.

Glad to see justareporter hasn't left us.

 

[tomservo]

Why should anyone's career, whether it be a hot talk "man show" or a right wing political talker, be so easily snuffed for what amounts to inaccurate reporting?

Why should the career of centrist and leftist politicos be snuffed by the inaccurate reporting of talk radio?

Why should the career of political figures on the RIGHT be snuffed because they fail to adhere to the "party line" on one or two issues?

Right wing talk radio acts as though they are the ONLY people authorized and qualified to decided who the good guys are and who the bad guys are. Why let something like inaccurate reporting be an issue.

...and anyone who thinks those talk show hosts are the only people authorized or qualified to decide who the good guys are is a fool. I wouldn't put my faith in one or two political talk show hosts just as I wouldn't put that faith in newspapers, network news or (especially) internet political sites.

That's the beauty of this whole country of ours - everyone can be a commentator, even if they're not qualified. Caveat emptor.

 

[dampier]

If you go to Limbaugh's website, you will hear the EXACT conversation that was broadcast. You will find that CBS took it out of context. It was cherry picked to go after him.

That's false. Limbaugh stupidly edited out nearly two minutes of his "official transcript" and thought nobody would have catched that. When you edit your own broadcast and then claim it's available in its entirety, that's a clear indication he has something major to hide right off the bat. And what is that? Why the fact he allowed his mouth to get ahead of him.

This is almost Nixonian in clumsiness. Perhaps Snerdly had his foot on the peddle and was reaching over to catch a phone ringing when he accidentally deleted a vital part of the "complete broadcast."

You can hear the entire missing portion, captured in full, by Media Matters on their website as well as screen shots of the transcripts both before and after they were edited.

And it's kind of tough to suggest that he was only talking about one phony soldier when the following day, he threw in John Murtha and several others into the sample pot. Hmmm... if he was only referring to people who pretended to serve but never did, then why throw Murtha onto the list the next day and then make allusions that a veteran who challenged him was the equivalent of a suicide bomber?

Of course the rich irony in this is that of all the people he's complaining about, the only one who never served a single day in the armed forces would be... Rush himself.

At best, his stupid remarks followed by his clumsy cover-up and "taken out of context" makes him look out of touch. At worst, someone better get a urine screen and find out where his maid is these days. He could be munching on the Oxy again.