Probably in 1995, though I could be a year off in either direction, I saw Rush Limbaugh on his television program showing in a state of dismay some material found at the DNC website. A computer screen blown up onto a projection to the studio audience, Limbaugh got out his pointer, and yep! There it was! Some somewhat sophomoric humour: “And Remember: Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot, and a Newt is a slimy Lizard.”

I don’t really know what Limbaugh’s point was. Was the RNC website devoid of such arrows against Democrats? If it was, that probably only really shows that the DNC website was further ahead in the ways of Internet culture than the RNC website. (And of course, there’s the fairly obvious statement: this is Rush Limabaugh speaking.)

I’m not a fan of the Randi Rhodes Show, and don’t make it a practice to listen to her. I understand she recently had some troubles after a comedy bit featuring a president and shooting and whatnot. Drudge let the gossip fly: Secret Service meet with Randi Rhodes. The cable news cabal picked up on it and ran with it from there. For her part, Randi said her greatest regret was that the bit was simply stupid. (It tends to work out that way.)

Fly over to the (ahem) flagship program of Fox News, “Fox and Friends”, and an online poll is thrown out. “Air America Apology. Is it Enough, or is it Time To Get Tough?” The answer to that question has to be “Time to get tough” for no other reason than to learn what that is supposed to even mean.

Ah well.

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