Rush should make CNN an offer it can't refuse

The American Thinker ^ | October 21, 2009 | Denis Keohane

[Scanian]

CNN just keeps embarrassing itself. Oddly enough, Rush Limbaugh could help them out, while doing himself a little good at the same time.

Following close on its much-derided ‘fact checking' of an SNL skit poking fun at President Obama, and the humiliating pat-on-the-head it got as an Obama administration-certified legitimate news organization, CNN has now queried a psychiatrist as to why folks listen to conservative talk radio, especially Rush Limbaugh. CNN's Carol Costello interviewed psychiatrist Gail Saltz. (Video courtesy of Breitbart. Watch it!)

The premise that one should ask a shrink, in seeking to find out why folks listen to Rush and others, is revealing of a certain mindset. Why ask a specialist in mental disorders to comment on something that is not a disorder? CNN is looking for validation of their existing prejudice that there is something at least mildly pathological about listening to Rush. The video is unintentionally funny as it offers a partial answer to why talk radio is dominated by conservatives, one that is missed by CNN's Costello.

[milford421]

Forget the football team...Rush should buy CNN....it’s a start.

[Doogle]

...one that is missed by CNN's Costello.

...don't follow this burnt out bulb in a fire

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Yes, questioning the validity of Nationalist Socialism would truly be insane. And reeducation and indoctrination/correction will be required.

[pnh102]

If CNN is going down Rush would be foolish to buy it. Let Ted Turner buy it instead.

[driftless2]

Undoubtedly shrinks like Salz feel all conservatives are mentally ill. Just like all the commie bosses who threw anyone who disagreed with communism into the nut house. She, like all libs, probably cannot understand why anyone would not want the state to run everything. It would be very interesting to have an ex-shrink like Charles Krauthammer get Dr. Salz on the couch and question her about her beliefs. He might conclude that she is mentally ill.

[RU88]

It would seem to me that the reason for talk radio's success lies with their proper critique of the message. That message is liberalism preached to us from the halls of Congress and the presidential pulpit. Obama has given talkers more than enough ammunition. The fact that CNN is covering this like the second coming of the Black Plague is laughable. What they really need to be doing is to take a step back and look into the mirror to search for their own heartless souls.

[autumnraine]

Oh for crying out loud! What is wrong with these people??

[Scanian]

When you keep hiring the same type of people with the same attitudes and ideology, is there any wonder entities like the alphabet networks, CNN, and MSNBC exist?

I’m not real big on diviersity but when surveys show that 80% of reporters vote for Dhimmis, something is way out of whack, and boy does it show!

[Scanian]

See my comment #9