BO: “Do you want me to respond to any of this?”

DL: “No”

About sums up all DL’s ignorant ranting of late.

O’Reilly and Limbaugh aren’t young, and thankfully are a lot closer to the sunset than the sunrise.

sethstorm on April 2, 2009 at 4:18 PM

That Letterman, though, what a spring chicken. Jon Stewart isn’t aging horribly at all, oh no.

He does himself no favors whatsover by appearing on moronic shows like Letterman and the View.

Besides showing up the hosts and selling more books, you mean?

Which suggests to me that, for all his faults, he’s smarter than 90% of the reporters and hosts on TV.

The big disappointment is Letterman. He used to be funny. Granted, he was never all that funny, but once in a while he’d come up with something absolutely hilarious.

Of course, it might not have been quite so funny if it hadn’t been the wee hours of the morning…

But now, he’s the stereotypical angry lib. Calling your guest a goon is over the top, even for Letterman’s style of humor. But he wasn’t joking.

Looks like Letterman’s transformation to bitter old liberal is complete.

5 points to Bill O.

Rush remains nonpareil. He can & does speak for himself…quite well…every day.

Johan Klaus on April 2, 2009 at 10:02 AM

Depends if it’s a hill of trash – which it is in their case – that they sit on.

kingsjester on April 2, 2009 at 9:15 AM

O’Reilly and Limbaugh aren’t young, and thankfully are a lot closer to the sunset than the sunrise.

That must be why he can quote “harmless, lovable little fuzzball.”

Jim Treacher on April 1, 2009 at 5:19 PM

Ah, ah, ah … that’s easy.

BigD on April 1, 2009 at 5:27 PM

FYI, “harmless, lovable little fuzzball” comes from the interview with Barbara Walters. Link from NB here.

Knew the general contents in advance, so watched it with a scale on my coffee table.

On one side of the scale, a nationally syndicated radio commentator who has dealt with an unwanted prescription pain pill addiction due to a bad back.

VS.

A sitting president with a history of cocaine abuse. Let me say it again: COCAINE.

I knew I shouldn’t have placed the cocaine-using-president side of the scale next to my glass of rich, chocolaty Ovaltine: what a mess that spill made.

So progressive!

Here is the real dilemma for conservatives. What shows can they go on to hawk their books? Im sure Obubba was wearing his verbal cup when he stepped on stage. It is certainly telling that the toothed one would call someone a goon to their face on air. Looking at Obubbas face, he didnt seem all that shocked to have had that happen.

Still it was nice to see how the segment unfolded:
1. Insult guests network
2. Insult guest
3. Insult guests friends (squirm after getting called on it)
4. Call guest dishonest (eventually compared to wrestling)
5. Call guest NOT entertaining
6. Call guests audience stupid

Normally, comedians, like Stewart, Letterman, Leno, make fun of the political leadership as their stock in trade. Now, they are carrying water for the administration. For the first time in talk show history, the hosts are actually running interference for a sitting president. keep the change on April 1, 2009 at 5:26 PM

Actually Stewart has taken some sharp shots at Obama, and I thought that a very wicked comeback for O’Reilly would have been to have pointed that out, in line with what “keep the change” pointed out. “So Jon Stewart is taking shots at Obama, but I can see you’re just carrying the water for him as usual. Aren’t you supposed to be a comedian? Why don’t you do your job?”

Letterman is a putz, that’s all there is to it.

Letterman seriously hurt himself in this interview. I doubt we will see O’Reilly on his show again for a while.

I did laugh rather loudly when Bill said Rush’s ratings went up when he quit radio.

Only the good die young.