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Monday, August 22, 2005
His Extra Large Pants Are On Fire
Rush Limbaugh made some pretty strange comments about Cindy Sheehan last week:
But the fact that they are too eager -- I mean, Cindy Sheehan is just
Bill Burkett. Her story is nothing more than forged documents, there's nothing about it that's real, including the mainstream media's glomming onto it, it's not real. It's nothing more than an attempt, it's the latest effort made by the coordinated left. And all of these efforts are bombing; they're all
failing miserably, in and of themselves.
So after Limbaugh made these comments, he was castigated, righly so, for not living in reality. (Although I'm still waiting for conservative bloggers who flogged the Bush documents story and the Schiavo memo story to come to his defense). Keith Olbermann then named Limbaugh his "Worst Person in the World" two nights later for this comment as well as some other comments Rush made about Sheehan (including this golden oldie: "I'm weary of even having to express sympathy... we all lose things.").
So how did Limbaugh react, a la Bill O'Reilly when Al Franken challenged him on his Peabody Award claim: Limbaugh said that he never said it. Nope. Never, ever, ever. He even went so far as to have the transcript erased from his website. (Unfortunately for him, people like Media Matters actually make tapes of his audio broadcasts, although my greatest sympathies go out to those who actually have to listen to him).
Here's Olbermann's take on the whole sorry episode:
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.
On his daily radio soap opera, on August 15, Limbaugh said “Cindy Sheehan
is just Bill Burkett. Her story is nothing more than forged documents, there's
nothing about it that's real…” The complete transcript of the 860 words that
surround those quotes can be found at the bottom of this entry.
Yet, apparently there was something so unpopular, so subversive, and so
crazy about those remarks that he has found it necessary to deny he said them -
even when there are recordings and transcripts of them - and to brand those
who’ve claimed he said them as crackpots and distorters. More over, that amazing
temple to himself, his website, has been scrubbed clean of all evidence of these
particular remarks, and to ‘prove’ his claim that he never made the remarks in
question on August 15, he has misdirected visitors to that site to transcripts
and recordings of remarks he made on August 12.
Limbaugh is terrified. And he has reason to be.
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