DeclinetoState
01-12-2006, 07:16 PM
El Rushbo (http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_011206/content/america_s_anchorman.guest.html) sez:
So I popped in the first DVD of season five of 24, and I'm watching this, and you know, I took a ten-minute gander at it yesterday just to make sure it was there. I stuck it in the computer DVD drive. I put this thing in there; I was riveted. To me it may be one of the best seasons ever. But, at any rate, during the middle of that, I had the mistake of having the computer on, so I mistakenly glanced at the computer. Here comes the email about Alito's wife crying about six o'clock, and I don't have TV. The TV is on, but I'm watching 24. "Oh, what the hell happened?" So I stopped the DVD. "What happened?" and I said, "Well, the best thing I can do here is turn on Fox." It was about 6:02, so I turned on Brit Hume's show, and they're talking about it in this most detached way, when to me it was one of the most human moments we've had in these kinds of hearings. The wife of the nominee forced to tears and walks out of the hearing room, and I'm listening to the roundtable discussion, not just Fox, but all of these pundits analyze this in the most detached way.
Well, what will the impact of this be and how will it affect tomorrow's hearings? How will it affect the ultimate vote?" Nobody that I heard -- now, it may have been discussed; I didn't have the chance to watch a whole lot of it, just enough to know. The human aspect of this did not reach these people. A woman, a decent, harmless -- we don't know much about her, but you can tell looking at her -- she is. Her husband, too. They're just decent, normal Americans, and they're being brought to tears by the behavior of Democrats, and the first thing I saw was the AP trying to blame Lindsey Graham for it, then I watch all this detached commentary on TV as though it just happened. Some of them were even saying, "Yeah, well, this is what these hearings are. You gotta get used to this." Well, that may be, but I was livid when I heard about it. Before I had seen anything, I was livid. I got so mad at these guys, I said, "This is the bottom of the barrel. These people are absolutely inhumane." I had a riff yesterday about how Alito is being forced to endure torture the way Durbin defines it.
Well, I didn't know how right I was. There was real torture going on with his family and him yesterday. This is inexcusable. There's no reason for this kind of assault on a decent person's reputation and life, when it's especially a pack of lies. But nobody is talk about it this way, and then, just a moment ago during the break, I'm scanning, I got CNN on and there's my friend Wolf Blitzer, and he's got his two guests on there, Jeffrey Toobin and Jeff Greenfield, and they're asking themselves, they're speculating, "Why are the Democrats so tame today?" and Wolf said, "Well, maybe it's because they don't want to make Mrs. Alito cry again." As though, not that he was disappointed at that, but maybe they don't want to make her cry? Maybe because they have figured out they acted like a bunch of reprobates yesterday? Does nobody think that the behavior that led to her being brought to tears is worth criticism? Oh, it's just part and parcel of what goes on? This is where they're so out of touch with the average American watching this stuff. The average American learning about this and then seeing it becomes outraged and livid. This is not what these hearings are supposed to be about. So the detachment here was just stunning to me.
So I popped in the first DVD of season five of 24, and I'm watching this, and you know, I took a ten-minute gander at it yesterday just to make sure it was there. I stuck it in the computer DVD drive. I put this thing in there; I was riveted. To me it may be one of the best seasons ever. But, at any rate, during the middle of that, I had the mistake of having the computer on, so I mistakenly glanced at the computer. Here comes the email about Alito's wife crying about six o'clock, and I don't have TV. The TV is on, but I'm watching 24. "Oh, what the hell happened?" So I stopped the DVD. "What happened?" and I said, "Well, the best thing I can do here is turn on Fox." It was about 6:02, so I turned on Brit Hume's show, and they're talking about it in this most detached way, when to me it was one of the most human moments we've had in these kinds of hearings. The wife of the nominee forced to tears and walks out of the hearing room, and I'm listening to the roundtable discussion, not just Fox, but all of these pundits analyze this in the most detached way.
Well, what will the impact of this be and how will it affect tomorrow's hearings? How will it affect the ultimate vote?" Nobody that I heard -- now, it may have been discussed; I didn't have the chance to watch a whole lot of it, just enough to know. The human aspect of this did not reach these people. A woman, a decent, harmless -- we don't know much about her, but you can tell looking at her -- she is. Her husband, too. They're just decent, normal Americans, and they're being brought to tears by the behavior of Democrats, and the first thing I saw was the AP trying to blame Lindsey Graham for it, then I watch all this detached commentary on TV as though it just happened. Some of them were even saying, "Yeah, well, this is what these hearings are. You gotta get used to this." Well, that may be, but I was livid when I heard about it. Before I had seen anything, I was livid. I got so mad at these guys, I said, "This is the bottom of the barrel. These people are absolutely inhumane." I had a riff yesterday about how Alito is being forced to endure torture the way Durbin defines it.
Well, I didn't know how right I was. There was real torture going on with his family and him yesterday. This is inexcusable. There's no reason for this kind of assault on a decent person's reputation and life, when it's especially a pack of lies. But nobody is talk about it this way, and then, just a moment ago during the break, I'm scanning, I got CNN on and there's my friend Wolf Blitzer, and he's got his two guests on there, Jeffrey Toobin and Jeff Greenfield, and they're asking themselves, they're speculating, "Why are the Democrats so tame today?" and Wolf said, "Well, maybe it's because they don't want to make Mrs. Alito cry again." As though, not that he was disappointed at that, but maybe they don't want to make her cry? Maybe because they have figured out they acted like a bunch of reprobates yesterday? Does nobody think that the behavior that led to her being brought to tears is worth criticism? Oh, it's just part and parcel of what goes on? This is where they're so out of touch with the average American watching this stuff. The average American learning about this and then seeing it becomes outraged and livid. This is not what these hearings are supposed to be about. So the detachment here was just stunning to me.