Megyn Kelly: Actually, Elton John had a great time at Rush Limbaugh’s wedding

I’ve seen several times today on diff. boards where people say Rush should have donated the money to charity….as if he doesn’t do a lot of that already.

If I had a million bucks for the music alone, which would guarantee the singer I wanted, I’d do it. I can think of plenty of $$$ singers who I’d love to sing at my reception

Dubn8tr on June 7, 2010 at 6:42 PM

Nothing chaps my hide more than a bunch of busybodies holding court and declaring how rich people should spend their money. Let’s put it in context: The guy is worth hundreds of millions of dollars. If he wants to spend a couple of million on a wedding, including $1 million for the entertainment, what the hell business is it of anyone but him and his now-wife? As noted above, John probably donated the money to his own AIDS charity, and no doubt Rush knew that he would. In fact, however much this wedding cost, I’m betting Rush donates many times as much to charitable causes every year. So if he wants to blow a bunch of coin on a lavish wedding that will employ probably several hundred people for the day, how is this a bad thing? Certainly it’s no more wasteful than funneling federal money to bankrupt states and municipalities so they can avoid having to fire any of their greedy public union workers.

Now that I have that off my chest . . .

I think this was a pretty classy thing for both men to do. Anyone who listens to Rush knows he has a libertarian bent. Probably more so than Glenn does, even tho Glenn isn’t shy about calling himself a libertarian. Rush almost never delves into social issues. He is a pro-life of course, but I don’t know that that is necessarily inconsistent with libertarian principles. Libertarians seem to be as split on the issue as Democrats and Republicans are. He’s certainly not a gay basher. What old crones like Behar don’t know apparently is that Rush has friends from all walks of life, across the political spectrum. The fact that he does ought to serve as evidence that he’s not nearly so strident and shrill as they think he is. There are people on the right who are like that, but in my own experience, I’ve known far more lefties who are rigid and unyielding in their thinking than I have conservatives. Behar is a good example of that. This is probably b/c liberals are so controlled by emotion that reason simply has no place in their world.

Having said all of that, I really wish The View would get someone more worthwhile than Hasselbeck to represent the conservative viewpoint. I realize she’s outnumbered, but she’s also outmatched in terms of her ability to scream over everyone else, and in being prepared for the talking points that are going to be hurled out by Behar and Walters, and oftentimes Whoopi (Sherri Shepherd is pretty much a useless airhead all around). I know when they were auditioning for a new co-host at one point, they had some dark-haired chick on who articulated the conservative position very well and who didn’t back down or roll over and expose her belly like Hasselbeck much of the time. Yeah, this chick almost always managed to bring every conversation back around to abortion, but she was really sharp and quick on her feet, and informed on the issues. I feel like Elisabeth must not read very much b/c she never seems prepared for the attacks from the other harpies and they usually end up making her appear foolish IMO. About the only time she holds her ground is when they’re attacking Palin, and even then she fails to articulate points that would make her position much stronger.

Of course, they never hired that dark-haired chick. I’ve arrived at the conclusion that the reason they keep Elisabeth and hired Sherri (who is supposed to be their other token “righty” — only in a far, far left universe is Sherri Shepherd conservative) precisely because neither one of them can win the ideological battle with the rest of the panel. I know whenever the Boss Emeritus is on there, she eviscerates them. They could never have someone like her on there everyday as one of the hosts; it would completely disrupt their agenda and the systematic brainwashing of housewives all across America.

NoLeftTurn on June 8, 2010 at 12:05 AM