From their respective shows 04/07/05, in response to questions to fallout regarding the
GOP generated Schiavo memo! - Daryn Kagan: What's the big deal?
- Rush Limbaugh: What's wrong with the Republicans having political strategy sessions?
After a night out at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner, Rush Limbaugh and Daryn Kagan, doing their best Beauty and the Beast act, took a limo to their hotel and proceeded to seperate rooms (abstinence first), slipped into their cold lonely beds, picked up the phones and proceeded to do their best Rock Hudson/Doris Day impersonation.
Thinking that Gannon/Guckert would be the talk of the dinner, imagine their disdain when the Schiavo memo that, 55 Senate Republicans swore they had never seen, turned out to be real? What would they tell their loyal listeners and viewers? That their pimping of the Schiavo memo was nothing but a dirty right wing smear tactic to take political advantage of a (gasp!) disabled women. More on the flip.
- Should they admit they were misled by the Right Wing spin machine
- Call for an immediate investigation like they did for Rathergate
- Demand the resignation of Sen. Mel Martinez as they did for Dan Rather
- Show humility and ask the Dems and the SCLM forgiveness for the false witness they bore against them
Hell no! They went for the old it's only politics line you use when your caught breaking into the Watergate building. Of course Rush would use this tact, its nothing to him to obfuscate when caught in a bad situation, but not Daryn Kagan. I mean, she's a professional jornalist, for god's sake. She wouldnt put her reputation on the line and act like a ditto head and be a Rush parrot on her own CNN show. Would she? Hell yeah! and roll that transcript.
Here we find Daryn Kagan on CNN LIVE TODAY interviewing CNN's congressional correspondant, Ed Henry, about the Schiavo memo.
Daryn Kagan: Well, since i came to your town, I decided I have a couple of Ed Henry questions for the day. The first one deals with this memo that we now know comes out of Sen. Mel Martinez's office. It goes back to the Terri Schiavo story, which you're very familiar with, because you were in the state capital. Basically a political memo that said the fight over the removing Schiavo's feeding tube is a great political issue, and a tough issue for the dems. News of the day, comes out of Mel Martinez's office. He's fired an aide who allegedly wrote this. Ed Henry question -- what's the big deal?Ed Henry: The big deal here is that the republicans were really under fire when they were handling that emergency legislation, because this memo suggested that they were doing the Schiavo legislation for policial purposes, as you mentioned, they kept insisting they hadnt, and they also suggested this have been a hoax, that maybe the dems had a little political dirty trick here, and we've seen a lot of blogs (and your fat ass boyfriend Rush) out there saying that basically this was a fake memo, it was like CBS documents on the National Guard story, and everyone was running around to figure it all out. I think its a footnote to the entire Schiavo story. But it was a big political battle and now we learned it is in fact, was a Republican talking points memo. It was drafted by an aide to Sen Martinez, the former cabinet secretary. As you mentioned that staffer has now resigned his job, and its a pretty big political black eye for the Republicans and think, again, its going to be a footnote in the long run. But its not a good day for the Republicans on that.DK: But here's what I dont get it, it just seems--is this town just to sensitive? It just seems the fight over removing Schiavo's tube, it was a political issue, it did come up, and the Democrats did have a tough time with it. I think a lot of people felt they didn't speak up like they should have.
Now wait a minute, what's this shit Daryn's spewing on national television? Is she asking objective questions about the impact this would have on the republicans or how are the Schindlers and Schiavos reacting to this news that their tragedy was used for political gain by the Republicans. No. All she wants to know is what's the big deal. So what if its politics, this shit happens all the time. And the dems were losers on this issue anyway, so why bother. Does this sound like something a journalist/anchor for a national news show would be asking. No, it sounds a lot like something you would hear from some blowhard on talk radio whose ass size in only eclipsed by the size of his over inflated ego. Now where would Daryn get right wing talk show ditto points that only a fat ass blowhard junkie would use. fat ass blow hard junkie=Rush Limbaugh=Kagan's flabulous lover Naw, it couldnt be. Let's see what Rush had to say.
Rush Limbaush: What's wrong with the Republicans having political strategy sessions? They didnt in this case but even if they had, so what? We're talking about saving a woman's life! How in the world is having a political strategy session about that something to be ashamed of and something to cower from. But nevertheless political pressures being what they are the aide is gone. Martinez has apologized and that's that.
WHAT'S WRONG WITH IT, WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL, POLITICAL STRATEGY, IT'S POLITICS, JUST TOO SENSITIVE, THE DEMS HAD A TOUGH TIME WITH IT Whew, no wonder I was confused. With responses like that it's hard to tell where Daryn ends and Rush begins, but from the responses they gave it sure sounds like some snarky Pillow Talk made its way into both of their broadcasts today, much to the shame of Daryn Kagan and CNN.
But lose not all hope, they arent all media whores at CNN as evidenced by Ed Henry's response to Daryn's "where's the beef" snark.
EH: The bottom line is that Tom Delay and other Republicans who were pushing this legislation insisted politics played no role in the debate. They were just trying to save Terri Schiavo's life. This memo said Republicans in fact felt it was going to rally thier political base. This was going to be a big issue for them in the 2006 election, the other flip side of this that's kind of interesting is that whether or not the republicans intended it to be a political benefit the polls now show that overwhelmingly across the country, the American people feel it was a big political loser for Republicans; they should have stayed out of it. So sometimes the best laid plans dont exactly work out.
Amen to that Ed, and God rest Terri.