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RUSH: Did you watch the football game last night? Did you see Brent Musburger going nuts over the Alabama quarterback’s girlfriend? Did you see that? We have the audio sound bites. Brent Musburger, CBS Sports.


MUSBURGER: Do you see that lovely lady there? She does go to Auburn, I want to admit that, but she also is Miss Alabama, and that’s AJ McCarron’s girlfriend, okay? And right there on the right is Dee Dee Bonner. That’s AJ’s mom. Wow, I’m telling you! You quarterbacks, you get all the good-looking women.

HERBSTREIT: (chuckling)

MUSBURGER: What a beautiful woman.

HERBSTREIT: Wow! He’s…

MUSBURGER: Whoa!

HERBSTREIT: AJ’s doing some things right down in Tuscaloosa.

MUSBURGER: So if you’re a youngster at Alabama, starting getting’ the football out and throw around the backyard with pops.

RUSH: That’s Brent Musburger during Alabama-Notre Dame last night. Gayle King and Charlie Rose talked about it this morning on CBS.

KING: I think it’s so unbecoming when a grown man slobbers and drools.

ROSE: (haughty chuckle)

KING: You want to say to Brent, “Down, boy! Down, boy!”

ROSE: (haughty chuckle)

KING: “Yes, she’s good-looking. Down.”

ROSE: (haughty chuckle) There you go.

RUSH: There you go. So Oprah’s best friend Gayle King called it “unbecoming” when a grown man drools and the drooling Charlie Rose agreed right along with her.

Sit tight. We’ll be back with much more after this.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT


RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I have a question, just a question on the culture. On New Year’s Eve — and we talked about this yesterday, might have been last week — on New Year’s Eve, on CNN, Anderson Cooper was hosting the ball drop ceremony in Times Square. He had on his usual co-host, Kathy Griffin, who engaged in simulated oral sex on Anderson Cooper right there on TV. She went down on Anderson Cooper, who was fully clothed.

The reaction to it was, isn’t that revolutionary? Why, isn’t that cutting edge. And people laughed about it and had a good time with it. In fact, there wasn’t much of a reaction to it. Letterman thought it was cool. Anderson Cooper thought it was cool. He had her on his show the next night to talk about it even more. But clearly that’s outside the norms of what was — used to be, anyway — acceptable public behavior.

CNN, which is in the midst of attempting to put its image back together, an image of respectable journalism, trust and all that, and then New Year’s Eve and the ball drop, they give this acknowledged D-list celebrity airtime, and she performs this simulated… well, she did a Lewinsky. She did a Lewinsky there on Anderson Cooper. I mean, maybe one of the reasons nobody had a cow over it is everybody knows that Anderson Cooper’s gay so the thing had to be a simulation. But still, even when I mentioned it, HR, who will go to great lengths to excuse reprobates, said, “Yeah, but you could only see half of it on the screen.” Well, you saw enough of the half of it on the screen to know what was going on.

My point is that there certainly wasn’t any outrage over it. Well, if it had made Anderson Cooper straight, we wouldn’t have known that. That’s not a factor. We don’t think that his sexual orientation was changed after this ’cause it was a simulation. My point is that nobody really had a problem with it. The pop culture, low-information entertainment media places thought it was just cool as hell. Brent Musburger, however, last night during Alabama, Notre Dame, the BCS championship game, happens to see Miss Alabama in the audience. Happens to note that it’s the quarterback’s girlfriend, and goes gaga, and everybody’s having a cow over it. Dirty old man, drooling, who does he think he is?


Gayle King on CBS This Morning thinks it’s insulting. It’s demeaning, unbecoming when a grown man slobbers and drools over a pretty woman. So I guarantee you, there is more criticism and maybe more embarrassment for Musburger than there was over Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin. Now, compare the two. All Musburger did was what a lot of people consider pretty normal and natural. You see a pretty woman and you go, “Ooh, wow, look at that babe.” Which is something that happens multiple times a day. But you don’t see a D-list celebrity do a Lewinsky on a CNN anchor every day. All these various cultural reactions fascinate me.

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