Posted on 04/26/2010 10:20:42 AM PDT by neverdem
A truly extraordinary thing happened on CNN Sunday: a mainstream media representative actually took Rush Limbaugh's side in a dispute with Bill Clinton.
As readers are likely aware, the conservative talk radio host and the former President exchanged words last week over who was to blame for the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995.
"Reliable Sources" host Howard Kurtz broached this subject in Sunday's second segment eliciting a rather surprising response from Reuters' global editor-at-large Chrystia Freeland:
I have to say, on this one I'm on Rush Limbaugh's side...I'm not accusing Rush Limbaugh of being guilty of too much balance, but I do think blaming the media is a very weak thing for politicians and businesspeople to do. And I think we in the media should really be pretty, pretty careful before we agree with the criticism.
Not surprisingly, Salon's Joan Walsh didn't agree, and once again found herself alone in her perilously liberal views as the cameras were rolling (video follows with transcript and commentary):
HOWARD KURTZ, HOST: It's a debate that began amid the wreckage of the federal building in Oklahoma City 15 years ago this week and has continued in some form ever since. President Clinton tied that devastating bombing to what he called the purveyors of hate on the airwaves, and Rush Limbaugh was his chief target.
Now they, along with other political figures and talk show hosts, are at it again.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
RUSH LIMBAUGH, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: Any future acts of violence are on your shoulders, Mr. Clinton. You just gave the kooks in this country an excuse to go be violent. Nobody on the right is doing this. Nobody on talk radio is advocating anything of the sort that you are predicting.
WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON, FMR...
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That is a jaw dropping admission from Rooters.
Obviously Walsh doesn’t listen to Olbermann.
He’s ten times as vicious as Rush. She’s truly got blinders on, which is sad for someone that considers themselves a newsperson.
Its several months before the election so they can do a limited modified brief hangout, knowing that all will be forgotten by election day.
It had been fairly effective to smear the emerging modern conservative movement with claims that conservatives' criticism of JFK caused Oswald to do what he did.
Actions have consequences, all actions!
Reuters is now 22% right.
Rush is always right
Walsh is a regular on MSNBC. She’s a horrible person who says terrible things about every conservative, to the extent that even some of the leftie nutjobs on MSNBC have to pretend they didn’t hear her. She makes me sick.
She’s probably an Olbermann groupie and ostensibly agrees with the garbage he says night after night.
"Look, you guys, I went up trying to have a civil debate with Bill O'Reilly almost a year ago, where he told me I personally had blood on my hands. I got thousands, thousands -- literally thousands of e- mails from people wishing that my mother had aborted me, that I had aborted my daughter."
What's wrong with that, Joan? Your whole complaint about what these people said rests on the unspoken premise that that abortion is violent and that there's something wrong with it.
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