{"id":7082,"date":"2015-02-16T17:35:28","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T17:35:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-02-16T17:35:28","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T17:35:28","slug":"snl_special_mocks_brian_williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/02\/16\/snl_special_mocks_brian_williams\/","title":{"rendered":"SNL Special Mocks Brian Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Did you watch the Saturday Night Live 40th anniversary show? I didn\u2019t, either, when I figured out I hadn\u2019t been invited. They wanted me on that show one time, and, boy, I must tell you, I almost did it, and had I done it, it would have been one of the biggest career mistakes I\u2019ve ever made.<\/p>\n

Lorne Michaels actually called. This is back in the nineties. They wanted me to come out and play Santa Claus on their Christmas show. I learned later that the whole thing was intended as a setup for Al Franken\u2019s book. He was still a writer then, an occasional performer.<\/p>\n

Lorne Michaels got on the phone and it was a pleasant conversation. I talked to him about what he wanted me to do. “We want you to be our Santa Claus.” They didn\u2019t want me in a skit. They didn\u2019t want me as a guest host or cohost, whatever they\u2019re called. They just wanted me in there as a punching bag or whatever. And my instincts, they\u2019ve never steered me wrong, my instincts said, “Don\u2019t do this.”<\/p>\n

Anyway, the point is I didn\u2019t watch the show, either. But I\u2019m reading about it and, folks, they just dumped all over Brian Williams on this show last night. Jim Carrey got it started. He\u2019s asking people at NBC, this is the red carpet (paraphrasing), “Where are you hiding Brian Williams?” We can\u2019t find him. Does anybody know where you have him stashed away?”<\/p>\n

And then Martin Short said — the audience is made up of NBC executives — “You know, the roof, the literal roof could cave in on this show right now, and it would be the least of NBC\u2019s problems.” Jerry Seinfeld, who you would think would have some sort of bond with Brian Williams, meaning that both are on the talent side, said, “I didn\u2019t know until tonight that Brian Williams was in the original Saturday Night Live cast back in 1975.” Now, the point is they\u2019re making jokes about this on an NBC 40th anniversary show.<\/line><\/p>\n

There\u2019s also this story on Page Six in the New York Post. This is the strangest thing. “Contract ‘Morality Clause\u2019 Could Determine Brian Williams\u2019 Future — Embattled NBC News anchor Brian Williams\u2019 fate beyond his six-month unpaid suspension could hang on a ‘morality clause\u2019 in his contract — which means he could be fired if he offended ‘a significant portion of the community\u2019 or brought himself ‘public disrepute, contempt, scandal or ridicule.'”<\/line><\/p>\n

Why do they even need this? “The anchor has lawyered up with Bob Barnett, the distinguished attorney who also repped Ann Curry.” He doesn\u2019t have an agent. He\u2019s always used Barnett. It\u2019s nothing new that he\u2019s got Bob Barnett. You know, Bob Barnett, he\u2019s married to the former CBS infobabe, Rita Braver. She anchored the news during the Rather days when he was on CBS. She Barnett\u2019s wife, or was. I assume still is. But Brian Williams has never had a TV agent, per se.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, you know what? It\u2019s just an impression I had. In fact, it was more like a feeling than a thought, and I very rarely make final judgments based on feelings. I am unalterably opposed to that. But I\u2019ve had a feeling about this Brian Williams thing that from the beginning he was never really accepted as somebody in the anchor club at the highest levels of the Drive-By Media. It\u2019s a feeling, as I say, it\u2019s not a thought; it\u2019s something I maybe had a gut feeling about, and, as such, I haven\u2019t discussed it.<\/p>\n

Brian Williams has now been discovered, it\u2019s now public knowledge, he dropped out of school. He attended a community college. Now, Ivy Leaguers do not have that blemish on their resumes. Community college, an Ivy Leaguer would become suicidal if even — one of the best ways to intimidate, you want to blackmail an Ivy Leaguer is tell \u2019em you have a way of convincing everybody they went to a community college first, and you\u2019ll own them. Biggest blemish you could ever, outside of not going to a place, but attending a community college or junior college.<\/p>\n

Brian Williams dropped out of — let\u2019s see, he went to community college, then Catholic University, and then George Washington University. None of those are Ivy League schools. Now, I don\u2019t know if that is a factor in the fact that so many of his colleagues are not rallying around him. I thought they would, as I mentioned here numerous times. I thought it was a lock that the other two anchors, the other networks would help circle the wagons to protect Brian Williams because that\u2019s protecting the news and that\u2019s protecting the cause, liberalism, but that isn\u2019t happening.<\/p>\n

When he got the gig, when he got the anchor chair, NBC Nightly News, however many years ago that was, I had a, as I say, it was just a feeling that he\u2019s someplace that nobody really thought he would end up being. He was always said to be in waiting behind Brokaw, but I don\u2019t think anybody ever really thought that would happen. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s a factor now in the way he\u2019s being treated or not.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Eric, Middleton, Idaho, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, hi, Rush. It\u2019s both a honor and a miracle to speak to you at the same time.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Been listening to you since 1988.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Appreciate that, sir. That\u2019s a long time, that\u2019s forever.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, by the grace of God you came on the radio and by the grace of God I was able to find you. And, Rush, you\u2019ve been right I think a hundred percent of the time on everything that I\u2019ve listened to, but there\u2019s one thing I think you\u2019re wrong about, I know you\u2019re wrong about, actually, and that is denying that Brian Williams saw a dead body float down the French Quarter. I know this because I was that dead body. I floated down the French Quarter, I went a couple miles, and I was actually resurrected through some voodoo and came back to life, and I\u2019ve been trying to talk to you since then about a couple of issues.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: So you were the dead body floating down the street in the French Quarter?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I was the dead body, yes, that Brian Williams saw.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, there goes my accuracy rating.<\/p>\n

CALLER: There goes your accuracy rating. And you know if I sound still a little nervous, it\u2019s waking up to this, you know, voodoo snakes hanging all over me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I can imagine it\u2019s gotta be tough for a dead body to be talked, much less call and talk about himself like you\u2019re doing here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But since I\u2019ve come back to life, I wanted to call and I finally got through to talk to you a little bit about —<\/p>\n

RUSH: The grace of God, eh?<\/p>\n

CALLER: By the grace of God. (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Grace of God, yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I wanted to talk to you about some of this stuff that\u2019s been going on for years within the GOP, and that is the big bundlers and big money people getting behind wishy-washy candidates and supporting them, and the five million people that stayed home last time for Romney and just didn\u2019t vote.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute. Wait a minute. That is an interesting way that our dead man spoke here. He said that the big money donors get behind the wishy-washy candidates. And what I take that to mean is — and I don\u2019t think the dead body said something he didn\u2019t mean to say — what he\u2019s saying is that a wishy-washy candidate is preferred, and they hope and pray the guy get elected because then you have a much easier time controlling a wishy-washy guy who owes his election to you, rather than somebody with a spine who might stand up to you. And therefore, he is explaining why the big money guys support these wishy-washy guys. And that is to have total control over them without having to run for office themselves. That\u2019s a pretty incisive thought here for somebody who Brian Williams saw when he was dead. Appreciate the call, Eric.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: David Brooks commenting on the crease in his slacks of Brian Williams. No, I\u2019m just kidding. This is on Friday night\u2019s NewsHour on PBS, Judy Woodruff asked Brooks, “Okay, look at the Brian Williams question. I guess what I\u2019m curious to know is, David, does that reflect on everybody in the media? How does the media come out of this Brian Williams episode?”<\/p>\n

BROOKS: I personally think the reaction against him is way out of proportion to what he did it, and I think we all have to cultivate a capacity for forgiveness, for rigorous forgiveness to forgive what he did. And I personally hope he continues his job.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: See? This is intellectual-speak like I have never heard it. “I think we have to cultivate –” who the hell cultivates? Farmers cultivate. What is it, we have to cultivate a capacity for forgiveness? Why can\u2019t you just say we need to forgive him, or we need to learn how to forgive him. What is this, we have to cultivate a capacity? Do you think he talks that way with his intellectual buddies when they go to — where do they go? The Harvard club? Well, they might, actually. But my point is sportscasters, like some golfer will walk off of a hole with a par, and let\u2019s just use Tiger since it doesn\u2019t happen anymore (imitating sportscaster), “And Tiger Woods authors a par on the tough 17th here at Augusta National,” whatever it is. <\/p>\n

No, he didn\u2019t write a par, he didn\u2019t author a par. He shot a par. He got a four. What is this authored? Does a sportscaster, at the end of the day with his buddies when they go eat, talk about how Tiger authored a par there and somebody authored a double bogey over there? They don\u2019t talk that way. But you think Brooks does? (interruption) Okay. Probably so. So they do probably sit around and talk about the crease in people\u2019s slacks. But that\u2019s only half of it. “Cultivate a capacity for forgiveness, a rigorous forgiveness. (interruption) Regular forgiveness, not un, gonna be rigorous. A rigorous forgiveness.” Now, rigor, if you look it up, that\u2019s a lot of effort, hard work. I\u2019d like to see rigorous forgiveness, I\u2019d like to see what that involves. <\/p>\n

I remember one of Brooks\u2019 buddies, I forget who, in talking about how conservatives had better come to grips with the fact that the American people like a big government now, the whole idea, these new Reformacons, the idea that limited government is something you can win an election on, that\u2019s gone, that\u2019s passe. The American people — this is what was said — the American people want a big government, and they want a vigorous executive. <\/p>\n

They want a vigorous active executive. Now we got rigorous forgiveness to forgive what he did. Well, Mr. Brooks, you\u2019re not gonna have a whole lot of trouble because the stories now are starting to pop up about how everybody does it. Everybody lies, everybody exaggerates, it\u2019s just that not everybody anchors the NBC Nightly News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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