CNN asks psychiatrist: Why do people listen to Rush Limbaugh?
posted at 9:13 pm on October 19, 2009 by Allahpundit
Via Breitbart. I won’t spoil the surprise by telling you her answer, but suffice it to say, it’s not much of a surprise. I’m not sure why they stopped with a psychiatrist, though. Wouldn’t Jane Goodall have had some potentially valuable insights here? Or an FBI criminal profiler?
Remember, this is the “objective” cable news network.
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No reputable physician would even begin to “diagnos” a generality such as “Americans” or “listeners” like this.
Except a crazy one.
Lourdes on October 19, 2009 at 9:15 PM
CNN is a hopeless cause that deserves to have Ted Turner back.
rplat on October 19, 2009 at 9:15 PM
“diagnose” ^^ (not “diagnos”) … Preview not working.
Lourdes on October 19, 2009 at 9:15 PM
Well duh I listen for my marching orders
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CWforFreedom on October 19, 2009 at 9:16 PM
CNN is not a news organization, nor should FNC treat it like one, or something.
rebuzz on October 19, 2009 at 9:17 PM
Did they also ask them why people find SNL funny when it isnt ?
William Amos on October 19, 2009 at 9:18 PM
Some say that some never said anything of the sort.
ronsfi on October 19, 2009 at 9:19 PM
I’ve got the EIB chip implanted in my head.
Bad thoughts 24/7.
JammieWearingFool on October 19, 2009 at 9:20 PM
and to think they are tanking in the ratings.
rob verdi on October 19, 2009 at 9:20 PM
I get paid by exxon to listen.
rob verdi on October 19, 2009 at 9:20 PM
Psychiatrist….psychic…quack…carnival geek….
Pretty much all selling the same thing.
Bull$hit.
BigWyo on October 19, 2009 at 9:20 PM
Gail Saltz: is that “Dr.” an M.D. or a psychologist, Ph.D.)?
“Dr. Saltz” is presuming to diagnose a generality, which is not a patient.
Lourdes on October 19, 2009 at 9:20 PM
Tomorrow they’ll ask why people are so crazy that they watch CNN.
JammieWearingFool on October 19, 2009 at 9:21 PM
Because we can.
Next question.
uncivilized on October 19, 2009 at 9:21 PM
Because he is right.
Gothguy on October 19, 2009 at 9:21 PM
I’d listen to the interview but the voices in my head are telling me not to.
Drained Brain on October 19, 2009 at 9:21 PM
CNN is not a mental health institute, either, or a physician’s office.
Lourdes on October 19, 2009 at 9:22 PM
They couldn’t analyze CNN’s audience because they don’t have one.
BDavis on October 19, 2009 at 9:22 PM
For the parodies, duh…
djl130 on October 19, 2009 at 9:22 PM
Dr. Saltz, methinks thou needest to treat thyself.
Somebody page Dr. Sigmund to report to HotAir STAT.
kingsjester on October 19, 2009 at 9:22 PM
wonderful, she is going to examine this for 3 days…geesh!
this is just as bad as fact checking the SNL skit…
randi rhodes is considered a liberal talker…keep that bias in check there chica…
cmsinaz on October 19, 2009 at 9:22 PM
And yet Keith Olbermann keeps from being diagnosed. Its a health care crisis people !
William Amos on October 19, 2009 at 9:22 PM
FIFY
And they will answer — we love BHO — as all sane people do.
rebuzz on October 19, 2009 at 9:22 PM
I think her answer say’s way more about her psychology than the dittohead’s
ronsfi on October 19, 2009 at 9:23 PM
because I can’t watch Fox News all day – need a break from the TV.
poppieseeds on October 19, 2009 at 9:23 PM
CNN’s “reporters” are so stupid they don’t know the difference between a psychiatrist and a psychologist.
Unless they are suggesting that Rush listeners all have a serious mental illness that requires the use of medication, that is.
Jackasses.
NoDonkey on October 19, 2009 at 9:23 PM
Well, if a profession wishes to become discredited as those who would use science to condemn those who they disagree with politically, it can be made to happen. Just one more thing to add to the list, though it will take a little time.
So tell me, Herr Doctor–what is justice? What should men strive to be, and where does Mr. Limbaugh fall down in this regard? What is the just society, and how are his listeners preventing this from happening? Surely someone who so clearly has the ability to pierce into the hearts of men and detail their innermost workings can help move us along in the area of the meaning of life, no? And so, what is that meaning of life? We wait with baited breath…
Horatius on October 19, 2009 at 9:23 PM
Hahaha, unfortunately, no, they won’t ask. That’d be, like, two personalities having a ‘frank discussion’ with each other inside the same head.
Lourdes on October 19, 2009 at 9:24 PM
Is CNN deliberately trying to put The Onion out of business?
Erich66 on October 19, 2009 at 9:24 PM
Do they sound like Rush, Hannity and Beck?
rebuzz on October 19, 2009 at 9:24 PM
Psychiatry IS generality.
BigWyo on October 19, 2009 at 9:24 PM
I listen to conservative talk radio because they don’t start their shows with “Ohhhhhh it’s Friday, ya bast@rds!”
Randi Rhodes is a moron.
Bishop on October 19, 2009 at 9:24 PM
We do have a mental health crisis in this country. It’s known as liberalism.
EIB is the cure.
JammieWearingFool on October 19, 2009 at 9:25 PM
Gee…I wonder who Dr. Gail Salz voted for…I mean, I sure..just absolutely sure, she’s a complete non-partisan…just like Randi Rhodes who some…(probably wing nuts) call a liberal.
AUINSC on October 19, 2009 at 9:25 PM
CNN paid money for this?
Perhaps they should ask why people watch CNN?
Ummm, then again, who watches CNN? Can’t be that many.
coldwarrior on October 19, 2009 at 9:26 PM
Dr. Jennifer Melfi….
ted c on October 19, 2009 at 9:26 PM
That would be MSNBC!
rebuzz on October 19, 2009 at 9:27 PM
Won`t be long before they tag us for tracking and further study.
OW, MY NECK!
ThePrez on October 19, 2009 at 9:27 PM
this reminds me, I didn’t catch rush’s show today so I can now login and listen while fastforwarding through the breaks!
YESSSSS!!!
ted c on October 19, 2009 at 9:27 PM
Limbaughs response:
What a wonderful misogynistic statement.
harry on October 19, 2009 at 9:27 PM
Ummm, then again, who watches CNN? Can’t be that many.
coldwarrior on October 19, 2009 at 9:26 PM
Sanchez’s family and Larry King’s latest wife. That’s about it.
kingsjester on October 19, 2009 at 9:27 PM
Do people actaully watch CNN anymore?
No wonder Ted Turner wants it back….
JohnBG on October 19, 2009 at 9:28 PM
Didn’t click, but it’s probably the same f’ed up rational that zerobama the fascist pig uses trying to outlaw guns saying that they’re bad for our health.
They’re bad for HIS health, if he keeps up with this fascist shit.
Spiritk9 on October 19, 2009 at 9:28 PM
Why don’t people watch CNN?
does this clip have the answer
ted c on October 19, 2009 at 9:28 PM
Nope, no agenda, no bias there. None.
I saw the ratings for last Friday. Beck is double Blitzer, Matthews and “Prime”, combined.
The left doesn’t have a credible radio presence, so they’re bitter about that, and then when Beck buries their Brain Trust Wolfie, the best they can do is act like the spoiled little brats they are and probably were as children.
Notice how the left, when crushed by reality, always resorts to sneering?
mr.blacksheep on October 19, 2009 at 9:29 PM
coldwarrior on October 19, 2009 at 9:26 PM
I think they get about half of their viewers by blaring it in public spaces, like airports.
Nothing I like better than being crammed in an airport gate during a flight delay and being subjected to the nakes, unabated jackassery repeatedly on CNN.
NoDonkey on October 19, 2009 at 9:29 PM
CNN: “Doctor, why do liberals have sex with dogs?”
Doctor: “Well, it’s a beautiful and natural expression of love and oneness with mother earth.”
CNN: “Why do people listen to Rush Limbaugh?”
Doctor: “Because they are desperately mentally ill. Sick, sick people.”
noblejones on October 19, 2009 at 9:30 PM
Tell me, does this doctor practice phrenology also?
Horatius on October 19, 2009 at 9:30 PM
Ooo! Ooo! I know! We’re racists, right!
jimmy2shoes on October 19, 2009 at 9:30 PM
Good gravy. It’s clear why Bob Durgin doesn’t have 15 million listeners. It isn’t about type A or B personalities. It’s about the truth. Liberal talk radio fails because they are wrong. Conservative talk radio thrives because it’s truth.
And Randi Rhodes is a typical liberal moron. She thinks if we just kill off most of the conservative talk, the liberal talk will spring up in it’s place. If that were true, liberal talk radio would have been dominating the market for twenty years and Rush would have never got out of Sacramento.
csdeven on October 19, 2009 at 9:31 PM
OT but even dumber liberals too come
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091019/ap_on_re_us/us_hawaii_school_year
CWforFreedom on October 19, 2009 at 9:31 PM
For more from Gail Saltz, you can order this DVD from Amazon:
“92Y-Nancy Pelosi in Conversation with Dr. Gail Saltz”
Bishop on October 19, 2009 at 9:32 PM
Becuase he’s NOT CNN
johnnyU on October 19, 2009 at 9:33 PM
Because listening to the clinton noise network would make my head explode.
Mangy Scot on October 19, 2009 at 9:33 PM
The Conservative Collective. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
Classic projection.
swede7 on October 19, 2009 at 9:33 PM
oh, by the way…I love the way this clip inverts cause and effect…at Randi Rhodes behest.
See…according to people who don’t know how markets work: the fact that you only have 9% of the audience is the reason more people don’t listen to you…not the other way around.
AUINSC on October 19, 2009 at 9:34 PM
It doesn’t matter who CNN has on or what they ask–because almost no one is watching and those who do watch are zombie-lefties who know the lyrics to every song.
Who cares what shrink thinks? They’ve been displaced by meds and ‘talk therapy’. Freud, their God, died decades ago.
Janos Hunyadi on October 19, 2009 at 9:34 PM
Liberalism is a mental disorder. The contradictory and bizarre views of liberals are the proof.
For starters:
You can’t execute a criminal, but you can kill your fetus.
Can’t kill the enemy, but assisted suicide is beautiful.
Really Right on October 19, 2009 at 9:34 PM
What a sad sap with zero sense of humor.
daesleeper on October 19, 2009 at 9:34 PM
No, it’s a specialty in medical science. Which means the subject is a human being, not some ethereal misty idea that CNN wants to analyze.
PSYCHOLOGISTS without medical degrees tend to be the most often ones responsible for SOCIAL ENGINEERING in the “generalities” sense: but psychiatry is an aspect of medicine, it requires a subject before any hypothesis can be explored.
And no psychiatrist (medical doctor, an M.D., who has specialized in psychiatry, requires that they, themselves, also undergo psychiatric examination, along with a great deal of clinical work WITH ACTUAL HUMAN BEINGS not “ideas” or concepts)…no psychiatrist would or can (medical ethics) ever address “what’s going on” with someone when they aren’t available to be examined, individually. Nor would do so if an individual did not display some abnormality to any degree (it’s unethical for any psychiatrist to “maintain” or engage/maintain as patient anyone who isn’t medically in need of such).
This lady’s likely not a medical doctor. If she is, she’s a hired quack who is saying what she’s hired to opine, which means she’s unethical.
Lourdes on October 19, 2009 at 9:34 PM
Okay, prove the doctor wrong. See? You can’t.
It’s like phrenology.
I liked it better when they were vetting SNL skits for accuracy.
SteveMG on October 19, 2009 at 9:35 PM
Google Gail Saltz. Yesterday, sex expert. Today, talk radio expert.
Tomorrow CNN will be looking at the NASA program with expert analysis from Bingo the circus chimp.
Hog Wild on October 19, 2009 at 9:36 PM
Ayep.
And to see that snake oil saleswoman fruitcake on the Crackpot News Network renders her credibility, on a scale of 1 to 10, somewhere in the negative teens.
Minus one shrink my family has a good relationship with, I have a very dim view of “the id by the odd”.
Dark-Star on October 19, 2009 at 9:37 PM
Gail Saltz also offers this for your kindergartner:
“Amazing You: Getting Smart About Your Private Parts”
Here is an excerpt:
“When a man and a woman love each other and decide that they want to have a baby, a man’s sperm joins with a woman’s egg. From the egg and sperm, a baby will grow. The baby will come out of the mother’s vagina, which is very, very stretchy.”
Bishop on October 19, 2009 at 9:37 PM
Thanks. I was going to go along that tack, but it’s a field I don’t know much about, having never engaged either a psychologist or psychiatrist. I would normally ask what refereed articles she had to back up her beliefs, but given the perversion of the field, I’m sure they exist.
It is a soft, not hard science. Always keep that in mind.
Horatius on October 19, 2009 at 9:37 PM
Maybe these idiots should do the easiest thing to figure out why we listen.
Try actually listening to him.
JammieWearingFool on October 19, 2009 at 9:37 PM
“When a man and a woman love each other and decide that they want to have a baby, a man’s sperm joins with a woman’s egg. From the egg and sperm, a baby will grow.” The book is more specific about birth: “The baby will come out of the mother’s v@gina, which is very, very stretchy.”
Bishop on October 19, 2009 at 9:37 PM
Is “Dr. Saltz” going to “analyze” Saturday Night Live? What about Spongebob Squarepants? Saturday morning cartoons should keep her busy “analyzing” for a while, if CNN wants to uncover the “mind” of “cartoons”. I can barely imagine “Dr. Saltz”‘s “analysis” of Southpark.
Lourdes on October 19, 2009 at 9:38 PM
Good Gawd that post got all screwed up. Try this again.
Gail Saltz also offers this for your kindergartner:
“Amazing You: Getting Smart About Your Private Parts”
Here is an excerpt:
“When a man and a woman love each other and decide that they want to have a baby, a man’s sperm joins with a woman’s egg. From the egg and sperm, a baby will grow. The baby will come out of the mother’s v@gina, which is very, very stretchy.”
Bishop on October 19, 2009 at 9:39 PM
I hear he does good work.
Horatius on October 19, 2009 at 9:39 PM
It’s not that funny, coupled with his quote that she’s hot….it’s really kinda creepy.
You see it is like little kids on the school ground. It’s juvenile and only funny to those who think jokes about beating your wife are funny.
harry on October 19, 2009 at 9:40 PM
You sometimes feel bad for CNN. They used to be the only name in cable news for so long… Now fox took away all objective viewers, and MSNBC has decided it can’t compete so it will just be Daily Kos TV and not even try to hide it. This allows to at least have a core audience. But where does that leave CNN?
That is why CNN is doing more and more of this crap. Fact Checking SNL, and now this.
By the way, did anyone notice the reporter saying that “some say” Randi Rhodes is a liberal. WTF!? Not that CNN had any credibility left, but with that one line, it’s gone.
Oh, and where was the challenge to Rhodes argument that just as many lefties want to listen to talk radio, but they can’t because there just aren’t enough on. Hey, reporter, WTF is wrong with you? There is a reason for this, and it’s BEACAUSE there is no market for it. Remember Air America? Rhodes does.
RightWinged on October 19, 2009 at 9:42 PM
Why do people listen to this psychiatrist?
misslizzi on October 19, 2009 at 9:42 PM
Aaah, is it ‘silly/trick question’ month?
Must have missed the memo.
CPT. Charles on October 19, 2009 at 9:42 PM
Oooo…I’m jealous. I want one.
pannw on October 19, 2009 at 9:43 PM
Thanks for clearing that up — I re-watched the video to figure out how that original post fit!
rebuzz on October 19, 2009 at 9:43 PM
Fucking works for me……….
“Seems like a good time to start a pool on how long the final bill will be after amendments, mergers with other drafts, etc. Pencil me in for 1,830 pages. Do I hear 2,000?”
owlpellets on October 19, 2009 at 9:43 PM
Believe me, there ARE some mental disorders that DO require psychiatry.
But psychiatry is a specialty in medicine.
Psychology is a social science, people with those degrees do not have medical degrees, they study and are trained in SOCIAL conditions and wrinkles, to put it mildly. Not that there are not going to be some reliable “analysts” as some call themselves found among psychologists, but they’re not medical doctors and won’t be capable of addressing underlying medical conditions while a psychiatrist, who IS a medical doctor, would.
So they are not at all the same fields. Where someone’s gone to school and what type of residency they have is what’s important when considering who is who — and what is what. Most people who pass in society as “Dr. This” (don’t publish their names as “This That, M.D.”) tend to NOT be medical doctors, in my experience.
Most doctors REFER to themselves as “doctor This” but they don’t print their names that way (they use the legitimate format of “This That, M.D.” IF they have M.D.s (medical doctorate).
Some psychologists tend to sway the public with that “hi, I’m Dr. This” format. When what they have is a Ph.D. (doctorate in psychology, which is a Social Science, not a medical one).
Lourdes on October 19, 2009 at 9:43 PM
Too bad about the link not working. But then, it is from CNN and I do not allow any malware on this pc.
As a guess, I will suggest that this DR did not actually listen to Rush before this objective report.
Freddy on October 19, 2009 at 9:44 PM
For example, Keith Ablow, M.D., the guy who is featured now and then on Beck’s broadcast, is a medical doctor who has specialized in psychiatry. But he’s a medical doctor, not a psychologist, so his insights are of the “sharing medical opinion and information” kind when he appears on Beck’s program.
He’s not “analyzing” specific audiences or humanity in general like this “Dr. Saltz” person is presuming to do.
Ablow is doing the same thing that “Dr. Manny” does on other Fox broadcasts: sharing medical information helpful to the public. He’s not engaged in daring to analyze generalities, it’d be contrary to his training if so.
Lourdes on October 19, 2009 at 9:47 PM
“Randi Rhodes, whom many consider a liberal talker…”
Wow! Do they really consider there to be any doubt???
The whole segment just demonstrates what we all know — that CNN is so far left that they can’t actually fathom the existence of someone having an alternate opinion without suffering a psychological disorder…
dr-klei on October 19, 2009 at 9:48 PM
Have at it beta male. Good job parroting her idiocy. I’d wager $1000 American dollars neither you or her have listened to Rush.
daesleeper on October 19, 2009 at 9:48 PM
The Medium is the Message answer:
Please, tell us how people show signs of mental illness for listening to this disturbed man?
You don’t ask a brain surgeon about corns.
NEXT UP~ CLOWN ASKED TO DIAGNOSE CONGRESS
profitsbeard on October 19, 2009 at 9:51 PM
“Some say” that Randi Rhodes is a fall down, hit your face on the curb drunk.
Mallard T. Drake on October 19, 2009 at 9:51 PM
It’s not that funny, coupled with his quote that she’s hot….it’s really kinda creepy.
You see it is like little kids on the school ground. It’s juvenile and only funny to those who think jokes about beating your wife are funny.
harry on October 19, 2009 at 9:40 PM
I listened to Rush today. I’m 50 with 30 years of corporate experience and a college degree. There was nothing “creepy” about it. It was funny. Get the stick out and lighten up, Francis.
kingsjester on October 19, 2009 at 9:51 PM
I’d like a shrink to explain what’s wrong with trolls.
Rod on October 19, 2009 at 9:52 PM
When Barry Goldwater ran for president some shrink postulated that his political views were the result of “poor toilet training” as a child. The only explanation these elites can understand for people that differ from their own “enlightened” views is some sort of dysfunction. Good grief. Talk about people trapped in their own echo chamber!
RClark on October 19, 2009 at 9:52 PM
I listen to Rush cuz I are stoopid. I wait fer orderz cuz I are a kunservuhtive.
Halp us Jon Carry! We r stuck hear in Irak!
How’s that, Doc? Fit your conception well?
OhioCoastie on October 19, 2009 at 9:53 PM
Why do people listen to Rush?
First of all, let’s be real. The real question being asked is…Why is the audience for conservative talk radio growing while the audience for the MSM crashing?
The simple, and psychoanalytical, answer is:
Trust & Credibility
behind this
Saltysam on October 19, 2009 at 9:53 PM
Dang, I was sure she was going to say that we all have a teddy-bear complex, and are all in withdrawal because Rush has lost weight.
smellthecoffee on October 19, 2009 at 9:54 PM
The liberal talk radio shows host premise is wrong. If there were more liberal talk radio more people would listen? No, Case in point Fox News which actually has conservative commentators while for the most part no one else does, is raking in HUGE viewer ship. If what she said was true, her show would have a lot of listeners while all conservative talk radio would have very little. Conservative talk radio exists because the news papers and news are mostly liberal.
SnKArcbound on October 19, 2009 at 9:54 PM
Attacking someone’s mental health is a typical lefty tactic.
Blake on October 19, 2009 at 9:55 PM
Thank goodness CNN is a legitimate news outlet and doesn’t approach the news with a “point of view”.
Good CNN. You are such a good doggy, so obedient. Don’t follow that nasty disobedient Fox News or you’ll get a spanking from Daddy Barak, Uncle Rohm, Uncle David, or Auntie Anita.
</sarcasm
DeathB4Tyranny on October 19, 2009 at 9:56 PM
There was so much horse hockey in that piece that we could fill pages here picking it apart.
What gets me is this “compassionate Liberal” BS. There’s nothing compassionate about them beyond what it takes to make them feel good about themselves and superior to others.
They are among the most ignorant, controlling, messed-up, nasty humanoids out there. They are all about controlling a society that they never felt they really fit into, feel that their innate intellectual superiority/creativity has gone unnoticed by mainstream society, and seek to bring reality/society down to their level of control and understanding.
Dr. ZhivBlago on October 19, 2009 at 9:58 PM
I just posted his quotes, why not defend that.
harry on October 19, 2009 at 9:58 PM
Oh my, they are trying to add another word to my title.
Now, I’m a crazy, racist, right-wing extremist, mob member. Did I miss any?
njpat on October 19, 2009 at 9:59 PM
People listen to Keith Olbermann because they all have a guilt complex about not having served in the military. He subconsciously assuages these guilt feelings by his subtle, yet masterful repetition of the word “sir.” Man I could getting paid big bucks to make up this kind of BS. I know I should have gone beyond Psych 101!
smellthecoffee on October 19, 2009 at 10:00 PM
It’s not that funny, coupled with his quote that she’s hot….it’s really kinda creepy.
You see it is like little kids on the school ground. It’s juvenile and only funny to those who think jokes about beating your wife are funny.
harry on October 19, 2009 at 9:40 PM
I listened to Rush today. I’m 50 with 30 years of corporate experience and a college degree. There was nothing “creepy” about it. It was funny. Get the stick out and lighten up, Francis.
kingsjester on October 19, 2009 at 9:51 PM
I just posted his quotes, why not defend that.
harry on October 19, 2009 at 9:58 PM
Slow, aren’t ya?
kingsjester on October 19, 2009 at 10:01 PM
[William Amos on October 19, 2009 at 9:18 PM]
I’d like to have her expound on what kind of journalist would fact-check a satirical skit by a television comedy club and what kind of employer would not have not have fired the journalist for wasting the company’s freakin’ money doing it.
Dusty on October 19, 2009 at 10:01 PM
Earth to Randi Rhodes…Calling Randi Rhodes…Earth to Randi Rhodes…
Randi, honey…liberal talk radio is a complete failure because conservative radio is an alternative. Liberal talk radio is a redundancy.
Duh.
Saltysam on October 19, 2009 at 10:04 PM
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