Sorry if someone's already posted on this; it appeared in Richard Leiby's
WaPo gossip column on Friday, and I don't remember seeing anyone writing about it.
Conservative radio kingpin Rush Limbaugh, 53, who announced his separation from his third wife, Marta, in early June, is dating CNN anchor Daryn Kagan, 41, a spokesman for Limbaugh has confirmed to us. The two were spotted at a party Limbaugh co-hosted at a New York restaurant, where guests included Vice President Cheney, New York Gov. George Pataki and Sen. Bill Frist. The coupling came as a surprise to some friends who consider the Atlanta-based Kagan part of the liberal media axis and a feminist -- but, then again, opposites attract. Kagan, who has been with CNN for 10 years, hosts "CNN Live Today," which airs from 10 a.m. to noon, ending just in time to catch her sweetie's three-hour radio show.
First off, eiw.
Second, Leiby should get his head out of his ass. From
Media Matters for America:
On the July 14 edition of CNN Live Today, CNN anchor Daryn Kagan suggested to CNN Capitol Hill correspondent Ed Henry that internal strife and the inability to get anything done is a characteristic of the Democratic Party.
While discussing the gay marriage constitutional amendment that would fail in the Senate later that day, Kagan asked:
[T]he division within the Republican Party leads to my "Ed Henry Question of the Day," Ed. And that is, a party's split, can't agree, can't get something through the Senate. Republicans almost look like -- dare I say -- Democrats?
As Media Matters for America recently noted, on July 6, Kagan and CNN senior political analyst Bill Schneider portrayed comments made by Senator John Kerry (D-MA) as a "classic" example of Kerry being a "flip-flopper." Kagan asked, "Is that a classic John Kerry moment ... ?"
Part of the liberal media axis, you say? Boy, I'd hate to hear what the conservatives must be saying then.
I'm sure we'll receive plenty of continued fair and unbiased reporting from "CNN Live Today." Megadittoes.