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shawa
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 Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 2:51 am Post subject: Bush,Clinton,Limbaugh,Cronkite Launch Couric |
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Sheesh. It seems to me Katie needs all the help she can get. She is such a lightweight lamebrain, she needs lots of augmentation!
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| Quote: | XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN SEPT 03, 2006 19:41:35 ET XXXXX
BUSH, CLINTON, LIMBAUGH, CRONKITE TO LAUNCH COURIC
**Exclusive**
Plans for the opening week of CBS EVENING NEWS WITH KATIE COURIC have surpassed network executives' wildest dream: Presidents Bush and Clinton, radio king Rush Limbaugh and broadcast legend Walter Cronkite have all agreed to appear, a CBS insider reveals!
A top network source says scheduling of "guest editorials" are still in flux.
But the addition of Rush Limbaugh to the CBS EVENING NEWS is bound to generate maximum commotion and tune-in hits.
"It was Katie's idea to bring Limbaugh in," a top CBS source said on Sunday. "She is very excited he has agreed to appear."
Rudy Giuliani and Bill Maher have also signed on for early editions of Couric.
CBS will issue a press release on Monday confirming details of the EVENING NEWS all-star line-up.
Developing... |
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Me#1You#10
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I guess I can understand President Bush's appearance...but Rush Limbaugh? I mean, why would he want to lend Couric and CBS News some patina of mainstream impartiality?
I just don't get it. |
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shawa
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Agree with you, #1.
????? Seems to me that this CBS concept could be seen as a "FIBERAL" circus-- all fiberals all the time. I say let it die a natural death from boredom over time. Can't imagine why Rush would be a part of it.
Guess he will have to explain to us.
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After viewing Couric's recent photos touched up and un re-touched.
I assume by launch that they mean as in the context "to launch a large ship."
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| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 12:55 pm Post subject: Re: Bush,Clinton,Limbaugh,Cronkite Launch Couric |
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| shawa wrote: | | Sheesh. It seems to me Katie needs all the help she can get. She is such a lightweight lamebrain.... |
...Nuff Said!
Remember, shawa, SeeBS had to find an Airhead of the same caliber as Dan Blather! While there are many candidates in the 527 Media, she fits the bill as well as any of the other Dinocrat talking heads, and better than most. I have high expectations, that as in 'ratherbiased.com' we'll soon find a 'couricbiased.com' style website to help her implode, early and often. SeeBSNews has an unbroken history of lies and fabrications to uphold...Perhaps Rush just wanted to get in early so he could better 'know his enemy'!
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| It does seem to me that with this touted "guest editorials" format, they've dropped all pretense at being a newscast. Sad, but inevitable, I guess. |
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Couric's remark on the photo touch-up was, "I like the original better, their was more of me to love." Sheese, what a ditz...liberal talking head and brainless, clueless and ridiculous all in one Couric package. CBS cannot seriously think they can make a come back with her? It is laughable, not to mention pathetic. I won't be watching...we need less Couric to love. 
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| Me#1You#10 wrote: | I guess I can understand President Bush's appearance...but Rush Limbaugh? I mean, why would he want to lend Couric and CBS News some patina of mainstream impartiality?
I just don't get it. |
Ego? Football related?
Regardless, it is sure to have most leftists in a fit. That could be it.
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shawa
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Me#1You#10 wrote:
| Quote: | I guess I can understand President Bush's appearance...but Rush Limbaugh? I mean, why would he want to lend Couric and CBS News some patina of mainstream impartiality?
I just don't get it. |
Well, here's his explanation:
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RUSH: Let me deal with a rumor that circulated over the Internet. It hit the Drudge Report, I forget, I guess it was sometime Saturday or Sunday, the rumor being that I am helping to launch or welcome Katie Couric to the CBS Evening News tonight or this week. The reporting on this was somewhat confusing and sketchy based on how you read it. I had people e-mailing me all weekend long who were taking different things out of it. It's amazing to study this. This is a little aside, but it was an amazing thing to study the way people read things. Drudge was pretty clear about what this rumor was, but I had people write, "So! I see you're going to welcome Katie tomorrow night with Cronkite?" Meaning tonight.
"Oooh, don't tell me! What do you mean? You're going to do an interview with Katie? Why would you help Katie? What were you doing an interview for?" All kinds of different takes. Many of you accusing me of being a sellout, a phony, going over to the dark side, what have you, and I sat there and I smiled in stunned amazement at this. I've been here 18 years, and I even got e-mails from friends. One friend sent me a note with nothing but question marks in the subject line, and I just wrote back, "Do you think I'm an idiot? Do you think I'm a fool?" Eighteen years I have been sitting here in the prestigious and distinguished Attila the Hun Chair and yet there are those isolated moments in time where all of you or some of you think I'm going to be the biggest blithering idiot that you've ever encountered.
I understand why this is, ladies and gentlemen. As conservatives, for being downtrodden for so long, being in the minority for so long, you have become conditioned to the left outsmarting even the best and brightest of our movement, and you have also been betrayed. Since Ronald Reagan, conservative Republicans have been betrayed to one degree or another by every elected official. Well, by many elected officials. Certainly elected conservative leaders have gone south on a number of things from senator -- well, I could mention names but you know what I mean. So I think people are just waiting there on the precipice for the latest example of, "Oh, no. We can't trust any of 'em." Let me explain to you what happened and tell you what this is.
Early in August I was approached by Ms. Couric herself, and she told me of a segment that they were going to do in their new newscast called free speech, freedom of speech. "Free Speech" I think it is, and every night there will be a commentator that will get between a minute and 15 to a minute and 30 depending on how competent and good they are. I got the full minute 30, and on Friday they're going to do comedians, and they're going to do this every night, and some nights it's going to be a Wal-Mart shopper. Some nights it'll be a professional academic. Some nights it'll be a pundit. It'll be full of people that you know or you don't know. They hope they're going to, you know, run the gamut with this, and Katie asked me if I would consider appearing on the first week, and I said, "Yeah, but my experience with these kinds of things, Katie, leads me to ask you for certain promises, conditions," and I got those promises and conditions. They were met.
So last Thursday, we taped it in the EIB Building in Manhattan after the radio show, and it wasn't until I guess Saturday that I found out it actually is going to run on Thursday. That's the plan now. I don't know who's doing tonight. I don't know who's doing tomorrow night. I've heard that Clinton's done one, that McCain's going to do one, Giuliani. I don't know about anybody else. I have no clue who else is doing this, other than -- and I don't know any more than you do. I only know that I did mine and it will air sometime in the newscast on Thursday, and a lot of you, I think, are a little shortsighted on this, and I responded to some of the e-mails over the weekend questioning my loyalty to the movement, questioning my sanity, questioning my brains.
When the Drive-By Media offers 90 seconds of a 22-minute program -- an opportunity for me to express our views, my views, without debate, without somebody coming on afterwards to refute it -- and that's part of the feature, by the way. They've assured me and everybody they talked to that you do your piece on X night, the next night's not going to be somebody responding or replying, although I have heard that George Clooney has already asked for equal time (laughing) to respond to me. Now, I'm told that's not going to happen, and certainly it's not going to happen the next night. I didn't mention any names in my piece. I'm not going to tell you what it's about, because I don't want to give anything of it away, but just believe me on this, folks: It is our views, and they're pretty hard-hitting, and they're going to be on the CBS Evening News, and they haven't appeared -- these kinds of views haven't appeared much -- on the CBS Evening News or the ABC World News Tonight or the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams.
So I did it as an opportunity to reach that audience, which is about -- I bet she gets over eight million people this week every night, maybe a little bit more. The hype on this has been what it is. There's going to be a lot of curiosity and tune-in factor. She was very open and honest about all this when we were setting it up, and they came in on Thursday, as I say, and it was kind of funny. The crew from CBS was... (in-studio interruption). What are you smirking at, Snerdley? What time is the CBS Evening News on? (Laughing.) It's 6:30 Eastern Time. Some places I think they're going to do a six o'clock feed because some stations do network news at six. It's 6:30 Eastern and Pacific Time on most stations. But the crew came in, they were just nice and fun as they could be, and they found me to be the same way, which surprised them, which I just always find it fascinating.
"Gosh, he was so funny! He's such a nice guy."
Yeah, imagine that! When they all left, they all wanted autographed pictures. Oh, yes. So that's it. It's no longer a rumor. The reason I didn't say it? I don't know how Drudge got it, folks. Some of you people in the e-mail write, "Well, why didn't you tell us? How come we have to read it?" Because I didn't know that they were even going to use it! I don't know how many people they've dubbed, and I don't know how many of these they have in the can, and until I know it's going to be used, until I know what date it's going to be used, there's nothing to tell. So... (sigh) You know, folks, you're going to have to learn to trust me. We're getting into our 19th year here, ladies and gentlemen. I think I have earned your trust for brains, propriety, decision-making and so forth and so on. This is in no way "going over to the dark side." (Laughing.) This is in no way. It may help them, but it's also beneficial to all of us. So, we'll see. But don't worry. It's not an introduction and it's not an interview. It's a straight opinion piece -- and fired with both barrels, I might add.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, we have traveled this road before. Way, way, way back in the early Nineties, I took the Rush to Excellence Tour to a casino in Reno, Nevada. Oh, did I hear about that! I said, "Jesus says, 'Go where the sinners are.'" Then I did a Playboy magazine interview.
I heard the grief over that. "How could you dare do that? I'm never buying that!" I said, "I know. Jesus said, 'Go where the sinners are.'" Now I am appearing on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric on Thursday, solo, in a commentary, and all hell's breaking loose out there (laughing) everywhere, including on my website. I think some of you need to chill on this and understand that it represents an opportunity, and that's as much as can be said about it. I don't want to sit here and address all these fears and negative concerns.
The only thing about that that somewhat interests me is, even after 18 years, how many of you -- well, I don't even know how many it is; this is just e-mail -- how some of you think I can just end up being the biggest fool on the face of the earth. Now, I realize you've heard me talk about the Drive-By Media and the American left and so forth. But you're only remembering certain selected things that I have said about them. This is, I think, an opportunity. If I might say this -- I probably shouldn't say that because I don't talk about myself much, and I certainly don't brag. Let me just ask you this. They wanted to get some conservative. They wanted to get "a leading conservative" to appear, who did they call? Me. And so, there it is. It's probably going to be a win-win, ladies and gentlemen. I understand some of you upset. "All you're going to do is increase viewership for Katie!" Yeah, but at the same time, viewers of the CBS Evening News will hear things that they probably haven't heard and don't expect to hear on the network. I don't want to build it up. It's just 90 seconds. I don't want to build up expectations that can't be met, but it is what it is.
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Rush says it's a straight opinion piece, fired with both barrels.
Ninety seconds eh?
Sure hope it's along the lines of WAKE UP ALL YOU COMPLACENT PEOPLE!! THERE ARE REAL TERRORISTS WHO ARE DEDICATED TO KILLING US!!
And we have Democratic Minority Leader Harry Reid shouting with glee "We killed the Patriot Act!"
And Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said" this is a great day for the rule of law" when a District Judge killed the FSA monitoring program.
Now, do you believe Democrat leaders really want to protect you???
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Me#1You#10
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| Quote: | It may help them, but it's also beneficial to all of us. So, we'll see.
Let me just ask you this. They wanted to get some conservative. They wanted to get "a leading conservative" to appear, who did they call? Me. |
As I suspected...EGO. Ah well. |
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shawa
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| Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 8:13 pm Post subject: |
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Hey, it's Rush. Of course there's ego.
But if they are offering the Conservative opinion, Rush is the BEST!!
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