Post by bossradio93 on Oct 24, 2003 22:09:19 GMT -5
Rush is a Big Pussy (Part 2)
He has long made race-baiting a centerpiece of his radio rants. Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, a media watchdog, has kept a dossier on Limbaugh's on-air comments. In addition to playing the "Movin' on Up" theme from The Jeffersons TV show every time he discusses Carol Moseley Braun, or pointing out to his listeners that most police sketches of criminals look suspiciously like Jesse Jackson, the absolute nadir has to be this beauty: "The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies."
Reporters were told they could submit questions in writing to Limbaugh beforehand and he would answer them at the conclusion of his comments. Never happened. Just like his radio show--where callers are prescreened to avoid dissent or confrontation or, God forbid, honest and open debate--the dialogue was one-sided: Rush talks, we listen. End of story. The minute anyone calls him on his bulls---, he runs. That's because ... Rush Limbaugh is a big pussy.
2) Sean Hannity, Limbaugh's heir apparent, is a bully.
Hannity, half of the Hannity and Colmes show on the Fox News channel, was the golden boy at NAB. Hannity, who has a radio show on 1210-AM, won the NAB's award for Personality of the Year, further proof of how devoid of personality radio has become.
Hannity is the right's new attack dog, baring his teeth and mauling liberals while barking out neo-conservative dogma. He is, like many of his ilk, a pathological Clinton hater with a bizarre fixation on homosexuals. (His best-selling book, Let Freedom Ring, even includes a graphic description of fisting.) He's a master of the I-know-you-are-but-what-am-I style of debate, doling out nuanced political insights, such as, "They tell us that fuel-burning SUVs are bad for America, but flag-burning SOBs aren't."
Hannity and Colmes was taped last Thursday before a live audience at the Forrest Theatre. For some reason, the Fox publicist thought I would get a kick out of the show and print nice things. She got that half right. I have seen puppet shows with more intellectual heft--a fair comparison because Hannity and Colmes is a puppet show. It's Fox's version of CNN's Crossfire, except the deck is hopelessly stacked against Colmes, the resident liberal milquetoast.
Hannity is virile and ruggedly handsome in a football team captain sort of way. Colmes, meanwhile, exudes impotence. He looks like a weasel and acts like a scared rabbit. And from where I was sitting the second row, he looked like he was wearing, swear to God, lipstick.
Colmes was the first to come out onstage. The announcer introduced him by asking the audience if they had an "Alan Colme-over." The audience booed. Then came Hannity, whose entrance line was "Who's been Hannitized?" Thunderous applause and cheers. The guests were Ed Rendell, who got booed and never got a word in edge-wise, and Bill Bennett, who has turned a failed tenure as drug czar under Bush the elder into a lucrative speaking-circuit career as moralistic scold.
However, Bennett was recently exposed as a big fat hypocrite when it was revealed that he has a major gambling addiction--by his own admission, six-figure losses in casinos from Atlantic City to Las Vegas. Bennett's Bible is apparently missing the page where Jesus says, "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone."
At one point Hannity stood up for Limbaugh, saying, "We need more debate, not less." But when an audience member seated onstage spoke out during a break, he was quietly escorted off the stage. (I caught up with him later. His name is Kenneth Montgomery Locke, a regular Hannity and Colmes watcher. He drove 800 miles from North Carolina after Colmes sent him tickets. He says he was told that "this is not the forum for you to speak your political ideas" before being shown the door.)
The show ended with a few softball questions from the audience, culminating with this exchange with a cute little boy who asked: "Do you think we'll find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?"
Colmes: "I hope we do. I want to believe the reasons we were given for going to war."
Hannity: "We know they're there. We will find them. Let not your heart be troubled."
Crowd went wild. Roll credits.
The Fox publicist allowed me five minutes of carefully supervised questions with Hannity at the post-taping party at the Palm. It didn't go well.
PW [semi-seriously]: "I have to warn you. My paper is screamingly liberal ... "
Hannity [utterly serious]: "That's your problem!"
PW: "Good one, Sean. Care to comment on the Al Franken lawsuit?"
Hannity: "No."
PW: "How about the Limbaugh controversy?"
Hannity: "I'm not going to talk about that. Rush is my friend. There should be more debate, not less. He should be on that show next Sunday defending his position."
PW: "Why isn't he? It seems like he's running away."
Hannity: [If looks could kill ... ]
PW: "Do you favor a special prosecutor to look into who leaked the identity of the CIA agent?"
Hannity: "No."
PW: "You mean that a special prosecutor was warranted to find out if the president got a blow job from an intern but one is not necessary to find out if somebody in the White House revealed the identity of a CIA agent during a time of war, which is tantamount to treason?"
Publicist: "Okay, that's enough. Don't you have any questions about Philadelphia?"[/i]
End of Part 2
Source: Los Angeles Radio People
He has long made race-baiting a centerpiece of his radio rants. Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, a media watchdog, has kept a dossier on Limbaugh's on-air comments. In addition to playing the "Movin' on Up" theme from The Jeffersons TV show every time he discusses Carol Moseley Braun, or pointing out to his listeners that most police sketches of criminals look suspiciously like Jesse Jackson, the absolute nadir has to be this beauty: "The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies."
Reporters were told they could submit questions in writing to Limbaugh beforehand and he would answer them at the conclusion of his comments. Never happened. Just like his radio show--where callers are prescreened to avoid dissent or confrontation or, God forbid, honest and open debate--the dialogue was one-sided: Rush talks, we listen. End of story. The minute anyone calls him on his bulls---, he runs. That's because ... Rush Limbaugh is a big pussy.
2) Sean Hannity, Limbaugh's heir apparent, is a bully.
Hannity, half of the Hannity and Colmes show on the Fox News channel, was the golden boy at NAB. Hannity, who has a radio show on 1210-AM, won the NAB's award for Personality of the Year, further proof of how devoid of personality radio has become.
Hannity is the right's new attack dog, baring his teeth and mauling liberals while barking out neo-conservative dogma. He is, like many of his ilk, a pathological Clinton hater with a bizarre fixation on homosexuals. (His best-selling book, Let Freedom Ring, even includes a graphic description of fisting.) He's a master of the I-know-you-are-but-what-am-I style of debate, doling out nuanced political insights, such as, "They tell us that fuel-burning SUVs are bad for America, but flag-burning SOBs aren't."
Hannity and Colmes was taped last Thursday before a live audience at the Forrest Theatre. For some reason, the Fox publicist thought I would get a kick out of the show and print nice things. She got that half right. I have seen puppet shows with more intellectual heft--a fair comparison because Hannity and Colmes is a puppet show. It's Fox's version of CNN's Crossfire, except the deck is hopelessly stacked against Colmes, the resident liberal milquetoast.
Hannity is virile and ruggedly handsome in a football team captain sort of way. Colmes, meanwhile, exudes impotence. He looks like a weasel and acts like a scared rabbit. And from where I was sitting the second row, he looked like he was wearing, swear to God, lipstick.
Colmes was the first to come out onstage. The announcer introduced him by asking the audience if they had an "Alan Colme-over." The audience booed. Then came Hannity, whose entrance line was "Who's been Hannitized?" Thunderous applause and cheers. The guests were Ed Rendell, who got booed and never got a word in edge-wise, and Bill Bennett, who has turned a failed tenure as drug czar under Bush the elder into a lucrative speaking-circuit career as moralistic scold.
However, Bennett was recently exposed as a big fat hypocrite when it was revealed that he has a major gambling addiction--by his own admission, six-figure losses in casinos from Atlantic City to Las Vegas. Bennett's Bible is apparently missing the page where Jesus says, "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone."
At one point Hannity stood up for Limbaugh, saying, "We need more debate, not less." But when an audience member seated onstage spoke out during a break, he was quietly escorted off the stage. (I caught up with him later. His name is Kenneth Montgomery Locke, a regular Hannity and Colmes watcher. He drove 800 miles from North Carolina after Colmes sent him tickets. He says he was told that "this is not the forum for you to speak your political ideas" before being shown the door.)
The show ended with a few softball questions from the audience, culminating with this exchange with a cute little boy who asked: "Do you think we'll find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?"
Colmes: "I hope we do. I want to believe the reasons we were given for going to war."
Hannity: "We know they're there. We will find them. Let not your heart be troubled."
Crowd went wild. Roll credits.
The Fox publicist allowed me five minutes of carefully supervised questions with Hannity at the post-taping party at the Palm. It didn't go well.
PW [semi-seriously]: "I have to warn you. My paper is screamingly liberal ... "
Hannity [utterly serious]: "That's your problem!"
PW: "Good one, Sean. Care to comment on the Al Franken lawsuit?"
Hannity: "No."
PW: "How about the Limbaugh controversy?"
Hannity: "I'm not going to talk about that. Rush is my friend. There should be more debate, not less. He should be on that show next Sunday defending his position."
PW: "Why isn't he? It seems like he's running away."
Hannity: [If looks could kill ... ]
PW: "Do you favor a special prosecutor to look into who leaked the identity of the CIA agent?"
Hannity: "No."
PW: "You mean that a special prosecutor was warranted to find out if the president got a blow job from an intern but one is not necessary to find out if somebody in the White House revealed the identity of a CIA agent during a time of war, which is tantamount to treason?"
Publicist: "Okay, that's enough. Don't you have any questions about Philadelphia?"[/i]
End of Part 2
Source: Los Angeles Radio People