[John Thornton]

Matthews is a slimeball, no doubt about that. However, in his defense, he doesn't purport to be a journalist. Like Rush Limbaugh, he is a political talk show host.

It's people like Dan Rather and CBS and AP that really burn me up. They are supposed to be subject to journalistic ethics rather than working as partisan political operatives and posting as objective observers.

[ladyinred]

It's people like Dan Rather and CBS and AP that really burn me up

Agreed. Just this afternoon a neighbor said to me that she loved Bill Clinton. She said he did good for his countrymen, that he was a good President. He really knew how to have a good economy, not like it is now. I mentioned we have a war going on now, and she said, 'Yes, that Cheney is a war monger"

Where do you suppose she heard all of this garbage?

[Sivad]

Please help me, here. I've listened to Limbaugh since he
first came to KFBK in Sacramento in 1984-85 and have never
heard him "purport" to be a journalist. Rush's program is
about opinion......his. I have heard him say THAT on many
occasions. Unlike Matthews, he has never pretended to be
neutral. I am not quibbling about your defense of "slime-
ball" Matthews but I would like to know just when Limbaugh
has ever seriously "purported" to be a journalist?