Limbaugh on O’Reilly: The Man Is Ted Baxter
July 7, 2008 · Filed Under Media
Can this writer who has spent years revealing the absurdities and damage done to real debate get a better gift?
In Zev Chavets piece on Rush Limbaugh in this week’s New York Times Sunday Magazine, El Rushbo, the undisputed, big buck, contract king of all of talk, actually said that, “(O’Reilly) is Ted Baxter.”
Will Keith Olbermann expand his “Best Person In The World” to the full hour?
Will Al Franken stop writing books?
Will SweetJesusIHateBillOReilly.com close its doors as nothing else need be said?
Will Bill blame DailyKos?
Will Susan Sarandon be getting sweet, sweet love tonight?
So that the Folks™ don’t buy the standard BillO “out of context” defense, here be the full context of his comments.
At dinner the night before, Bill O’Reilly’s name came up, and Limbaugh expressed his opinion of the Fox cable king. He hadn’t been sure at the time that he wanted it on the record. But on second thought, “somebody’s got to say it,” he told me. “The man is Ted Baxter.”
Really, nothing more need be written…but for those of you who weren’t here for the beginning of the column, let me reiterate what Rush Limbaugh said about Bill O’Reilly…
“The man is Ted Baxter.”
Might I add, but without the charm.
“The man is Ted Baxter.”
I can now lay down and die.
Steve
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Anyone think the Big Talking Head will take on the Big Druged-out Head from that crack?
I can now LIE down and die. You’re not alone in misusing lay for lie. It’s as if the correct word dropped off the face of the earth.
Anne,
Like I didn’t know that. I do that purpously. One, to get super-grammar guys to comment. Two, my thesaurus, with which I could not exist, actually provides “lie” as an apppropriate “lay” synonym.
SY
On behalf of Ted Baxter I am horribly insulted.
I will lay down and die defending SY’s right, as a free, independent, patriotic American to take a Frenchman’s word for how lie/lay can be used.
Now where did I lie down my Roget’s?
Dear 1pol,
Does it matter, as long a you get laid…or is it lied.
SY
Touche! or Tushie!
Dear SY, It doesn’t matter as long as you don’t lie about getting laid?
Some insurance might be called for by saying “Now I lay me down to sleep” before foreplay.
Rush is an out and out idiot. O’Reilly has far more brains, comprehensivness, and balance than the King of the Dittoheads. Let the ignorant junkie step into the “NoSpin Zone” and take Bill on.
And one might say the Portly Druggie is some ill-conceived hybrid of Big Daddy Warbucks and Henry VIII; a sort of bad parody of the Fred Mertz character in Miracle on 34th Street (only with more cynicism and far less charm).
The writer may have “spent years revealing the absurdities and damage done to real debate”, but it’s hard to imagine that is the case from this pathetic little bit of commentary and from the writer’s cheesy innuendo in the Comments section. Don’t bother pointing me to where the writer HAS actually said something intelligent and deplored the damage done to real debate by both the left and the right; this bit of pea-brained puff says enough about the mentality of the writer that any thinking person will look elsewhere. Adios.