It's a toss up. I don't know if I'm more pleased with CBS's new choice for Late Show host, or hearing that Rush Limbaugh is sniveling about it. Either way, I'm smiling ear to ear. Who doesn't love to hear El Rushbo feeling down - or all up in a tizzy when he thinks the Tea Party/Republicans have been slighted/defeated in the least bit. This time he is whining about Stephen Colbert taking over David Letterman's position on Late Show. Do we suppose Limbaugh wanted the Letterman gig himself? Did someone tell him he was a candidate? Because he does sound a bit like sour grapes. Or is he just fearful that a liberal-leaning popular comedian is going to be another strong voice of late night America? I pick Door #2.
Here is the audio/video from Daily RushBo
After writing and publishing this, I saw that another Daily Kossack already covered it. Here's a quote from Kossack JohnkWilson's diary:
With his new show, Colbert will no longer utilize a Limbaugh-esque pompous fool character. But let’s hope he continues to be exactly what Limbaugh fears: an honest critic of the idiocy of today’s conservative movement. Sadly, too many network talk show hosts are afraid of alienating the right-wing extremists by being opinionated. The Daily Show and The Colbert Report have been incredibly successful precisely because they are fearless in confronting right-wing lies. If he wants to continue that success, Colbert needs to break out of the mold of apolitical talk show hosts who think that “the Heartland of America” is a bunch of mindless Dittoheads.
Limbaugh has always hated Colbert. In 2010, he called Colbert and Jon Stewart “stupid-and-smug-about-it, overpaid, metrosexual comedians.” Limbaugh has complained, “Colbert's shtick is to make Republicans look like idiots… to make us look like a bunch of Looney Tunes…”
But you aaar, Rush, you aaar a bunch of Looney Tunes.
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