NBC's Brian Williams uses Limbaugh's words to describe UN meeting as "Star Wars" "bar scene"
From the September 23 edition of NBC's Nightly News:
Williams in December 2004: "I do listen to Rush ... I've been listening for years. I think it's my duty to listen to Rush":
WILLIAMS: I do listen to Rush. I listen to it from a radio in my office, or depending on my day, if I'm in the car, I will listen to Rush. And he will tell you I've been listening for years. I think it's my duty to listen to Rush. I think Rush has actually yet to get the credit he is due, because his audience for so many years felt they were in the wilderness of this country. No one was talking to them.
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Rush said to millions of Americans, you have a home. Come with me. For three hours a day you can listen and hear the like-minded calling in from across the country, and I'll read to you things perhaps you didn't see that are out there. I think Rush gave birth to the FOX News Channel. I think Rush helped to give birth to a movement. I think he played his part in the Contract with America. So I hope he gets his due as a broadcaster [C-SPAN, 12/26/2004].
From the September 23 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
LIMBAUGH: Well, I'm telling you, when Obama says America does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements, he's not speaking for me. And I don't know how many Americans he is actually speaking for in this dreadfully frightening and scary speech today before the Star Wars bar scene. The world, ladies and gentlemen, is on the brink of destruction. We face, daily, a threat that could wipe us out. What is that threat? Muslim extremists? Terrorists? International thug cartels? No! No. This is the threat.
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What in the %uck does the U.N. Assembly have to do with the Star Wars bar scene? Is that your attempt at humor? Is it because the people look different? All shades of different color's and languages. Maybe you are just sucking up to your bud Rush. Brian Williams how many U.N. meetings have you covered before? Why NOW does it look like the bar scene from Star Wars. U dick.
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Oota goota Solo?
Sorry. That was way OT, and my geek is showing, but I felt it needed to be said.
Just a guess, Mr. Williams, but is it the diversity of the UN meeting that caused Mr. Limbaugh to compare it to the cantina scene? I understand that you just borrow his wording, but did you never stop to consider that it may be deeply and offensively racist? That Rush views the world as primarily white, male, and likely Protestant, which it most emphatically is not?
"I think it's my duty to listen to Rush." ~Brian Williams
The only reason I can think of that an legitimate journalist would have a "duty" to listen to a proven liar, and a drug-addicted propagandist, would be for the purpose of debunking him. (MMFA, therefore, definitely has a "duty" to listen to Rush!)
That Williams would say this as a fan is disgusting. And INHO destroys any dredability the man has.
And yet, amazingly, people still call "NBC," who employs him as the primary news anchor, a liberal outlet.
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My liberal outlet
DREDABILITY, on the other hand, I think he has in spades!
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Dredability - you heard it here first!
Nice job Brian. You give new meaning to the word sycophant.
Add in the Washington Post's recent bending over backwards to placate wacko conservative critics and this is one conspiracy theory I might actually embrace.
Maybe it's time to stop playing cute on the talk shows and actually start being a journalist.
I will do my part now to start us off
Poi t of view
Here it is.
So Rush DOES watch MSNBC.