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Flashback: Rush Limbaugh Called Jay Carney and Claire Shipman ‘Slave-Owner and Husband’

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As former Time magazine reporter Jay Carney emerges from the Office of the Vice President into the glaring spotlight of White House Press Secretary, there will undoubtedly be an effort to capitalize on the right’s contempt for mainstream journalism by demonizing Carney, and his former colleagues, in one fell swoop. Carney is the first mainstream reporter (the late Tony Snow was an anchor and commentator) to hold the post since the Gerald Ford administration.

Right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh provided the blueprint for this effort back in 2006, when he offhandedly slammed Carney and his wife, ABC News National Correspondent Claire Shipman, as “slave-owner and husband.”

Limbaugh’s contempt for what he calls the “drive-by media” long predates the emergence of anti-”lamestream”er Sarah Palin as the figurehead of a cresting movement to de-legitimize journalism, so it’s no surprise that Carney would have, at some point, wound up in Limbaugh’s sights.

Still, Carney may prove difficult for the right to pigeonhole, especially when you consider that Redstate chief and CNN contributor Erick Erickson said, in 2008, that he is “a big fan of (Carney’s) work since 2000,” and upon Carney’s shift to the VP’s office, reminded readers that “Jay Carney is an awesome reporter. He always played it middle of the road and tried to get both sides,” adding (because the default position for conservatives is that any reporter who doesn’t work for World Net Daily or National Review is automatically biased), “…but his biases were always to the left.”

The Limbaugh quote offers another treat for liberals with an unquenched outrage jones: Rush’s mini-rant earned him the Worst Person award on the now-defunct Countdown with Keith Olbermann. In the era before “new tone,” Olbermann suggests Limbaugh get his meds adjusted.

Here’s the clip of Limbaugh’s comments, followed by Olbermann’s “Worst Person” announcement:


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  • Puter Boi

    Operation: “Hey, Dreamboat!!! Look at me!!!”….has begun in earnest.

  • Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

    Leave it to T ommy to dig up 5 year old quotes to spark more FAUX liberal outrage.

  • The Lantern of Truth

    “WH Press Corps Identifies Challenges For New (Heartthrob?) Press Secretary Jay Carney”

    Good Lord , man .

    Hang down your head , Tom Christopher .

  • The Real Royal King

    Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
    Leave it to T ommy to dig up 5 year old quotes to spark more FAUX liberal outrage.

    As you say, Lard Limbaugh said it. It is therefore “out there” and fair game. It must be terrible for you to have all of Lard Limbaugh’s words to defend. He’s expelled so much gas over the radio over the years, there is abundant toxicity.

    Why is this now noteworthy? Something called changed circumstances. Lard Limbaugh hasn’t changed. He’s still a morbidly obese bag of gas, to be sure, but the press secretary is changing. An appropriate post.

  • Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

    Royal Pain in the Butt, I don’t feel the need to defend anything, I just think it’s funny that you libs have to go back that far to find things to stir up FAUX liberal outrage with. Btw, I see you libs are avoiding the thread about Chuck U Schumer not knowing the branches of gov’t. I’d love your thoughts on that.

  • The Real Royal King

    Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
    Royal Pain in the Butt, I don’t feel the need to defend anything, I just think it’s funny that you libs have to go back that far to find things to stir up FAUX liberal outrage with. Btw, I see you libs are avoiding the thread about Chuck U Schumer not knowing the branches of gov’t. I’d love your thoughts on that.

    Your intellectaul dishonesty, again, Michelle-in-Utah. You are famous for it, much as my mother was for her Hill Country peach preserves. I specifically addressed this on another thread, and you are raising it here merely to get another opportunity to bleat, kvetch, moan and whine in the hope that some may not read that thread. My Mother’s Hill Country peach preserves or your intellectual dishonesty? I’ll go with the former every time.

  • Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

    Actually Royal Pain in the Butt, you addressed it AFTER I brought it up, so who’s being dishonest?

  • tatboy

    Jay Carney, Leslie Stahl, George S., etc. Olbermann was right, there is no liberal media. Why did we ever think there was???

  • ndanielson

    Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
    Royal Pain in the Butt, I don’t feel the need to defend anything, I just think it’s funny that you libs have to go back that far to find things to stir up FAUX liberal outrage with. Btw, I see you libs are avoiding the thread about Chuck U Schumer not knowing the branches of gov’t. I’d love your thoughts on that.

    Claire Shipman is a leftist activist hack with the former news outlet, ABC, that could never find a White House position that was too liberal for her not to slobber over. Will she still be “covering” 0bama’s White House? In 2008, she gushed over Barack 0bama’s, speech disassociating himself with radical preacher Jeremiah Wright. In 2007, she fawned over 0bama’s “fluid poetry.” Now 0bama is her husband’s boss??? They actually found a shill that can out-shill Bobby Gibbs!? Oh, the transparency is breathtaking. Slaves to the WH propaganda machine. Rush was way ahead of his time on that comment.

    Kieth Olbermann with his incessant vitriol lasted only 8 years with his own show. Limbaugh is going on 25 years with his show. Obviously, Olbermann was worst person, year after year…after year.

  • ndanielson

    The Real Royal King said:
    Your intellectaul dishonesty, again, Michelle-in-Utah. You are famous for it, much as my mother was for her Hill Country peach preserves. I specifically addressed this on another thread, and you are raising it here merely to get another opportunity to bleat, kvetch, moan and whine in the hope that some may not read that thread. My Mother’s Hill Country peach preserves or your intellectual dishonesty? I’ll go with the former every time.

    As he brings up the subject, out of the blue, of his mother’s Country Hill peach preserves twice in one paragraph, don’t you just want to retch, moan, and puke on his shoes, his living room and his car’s interior?

  • ndanielson

    Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
    Royal Pain in the Butt, I don’t feel the need to defend anything, I just think it’s funny that you libs have to go back that far to find things to stir up FAUX liberal outrage with. Btw, I see you libs are avoiding the thread about Chuck U Schumer not knowing the branches of gov’t. I’d love your thoughts on that.

    Didn’t Chrissy Mathews just put the Panama Canal in Egypt the other day, too?

  • The Real Royal King

    ndanielson said:
    As he brings up the subject, out of the blue, of his mother’s Country Hill peach preserves twice in one paragraph, don’t you just want to retch, moan, and puke on his shoes, his living room and his car’s interior?

    As tongue-tied as Mad Michelle, Sarah Palin, Chuck Schumer and Chris Matthews, I see. It’s “Hill Country”.

    I see you have nothing substantive to add to the discussion.

  • The Real Royal King

    ndanielson said:
    Limbaugh is going on 25 years with his show.

    Yes, we on the side of the angels hold people to higher standards. Thanks for noticing.

  • Courteous Commentary

    ndanielson said:
    Claire Shipman is a leftist activist hack with the former news outlet, ABC,

    Just curious, why do you call Ms. Shipman a “hack”? Are there any liberal reporters/analysts that your regard as not-hacks? Thanks.

  • Courteous Commentary

    The Real Royal King said:
    As tongue-tied as Mad Michelle, Sarah Palin, Chuck Schumer and Chris Matthews, I see. It’s “Hill Country”. I see you have nothing substantive to add to the discussion.

    People who have never lived in Texas have no idea what Hill Country is.

  • ndanielson

    The Real Royal King said:
    Yes, we on the side of the angels hold people to higher standards. Thanks for noticing.

    According to your side Limbaugh has no standards. But, masters of projection, you will always be. Seeing how the name King Nit Picky would have suited you better: it WAS Hill Country, not is, but it had so much to add to the discussion, I dismissed the name almost immediately. The compulsion to retch remained much longer.

  • ndanielson

    Courteous Commentary said:
    Just curious, why do you call Ms. Shipman a “hack”? Are there any liberal reporters/analysts that your regard as not-hacks? Thanks.

    Juan Williams is one that comes to mind, Kirsten Powers comes close. But beyond that, I can think of no others. You’re welcome.

  • ndanielson

    Courteous Commentary said:
    Just curious, why do you call Ms. Shipman a “hack”? Are there any liberal reporters/analysts that your regard as not-hacks? Thanks.

    And my bad. A “hack” is one that is too consumed by their agenda to even begin to go off script.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    The Real Royal King said:
    Yes, we on the side of the angels hold people to higher standards. Thanks for noticing.

    The KING of Thumbs Down is shooting off his mouth again. HA,ha, ha, ha, ha. LOL.
    He has been voted off the island but he just won’t go.

    The MSM de-ligitimize THEMSELVES everyday as does Tommy Christopher.

    My questions for Dick Morris and Dennis Hastert can be seen on the link below. Tommy was nowhere to be seen.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgrpySJlvf8

  • The Real Royal King

    Courteous Commentary said:
    People who have never lived in Texas have no idea what Hill Country is.

    I’d as soon keep it that way. One of America’s jewels.

  • The Real Royal King

    gordonbloyershow said:
    The KING of Thumbs Down is shooting off his mouth again. HA,ha, ha, ha, ha. LOL.He has been voted off the island but he just won’t go. The MSM de-ligitimize THEMSELVES everyday as does Tommy Christopher. My questions for Dick Morris and Dennis Hastert can be seen on the link below. Tommy was nowhere to be seen.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgrpySJlvf8

    Wrong way Morris, and the man who added a year to Delay’s sentence. Should be a great show. As soon as F.D. Rooselvelt finishes in his box, we’ll watch it!

  • The Real Royal King

    The Real Royal King said:
    gordonbloyershow said:
    The KING of Thumbs Down is shooting off his mouth again. HA,ha, ha, ha, ha. LOL.He has been voted off the island but he just won’t go. The MSM de-ligitimize THEMSELVES everyday as does Tommy Christopher. My questions for Dick Morris and Dennis Hastert can be seen on the link below. Tommy was nowhere to be seen.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgrpySJlvf8
    Wrong way Morris, and the man who added a year to Delay’s sentence. Should be a great show. As soon as F.D. Rooselvelt finishes in his box, we’ll watch it!

    F.D. was unimpressed. He says looking at his litter box was more informative and more entertaining. I have to say Marceaux, I mean Blower, I agree. One of your worst.

  • Gasket

    gordonbloyershow said:
    The KING of Thumbs Down is shooting off his mouth again. HA,ha, ha, ha, ha. LOL.
    He has been voted off the island but he just won’t go.

    The MSM de-ligitimize THEMSELVES everyday as does Tommy Christopher.

    My questions for Dick Morris and Dennis Hastert can be seen on the link below. Tommy was nowhere to be seen.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgrpySJlvf8

    A hack casigating alleged hacks while linking to an interview he did with partisan hacks. Wheeew! I still haven’t read anyone defending Lush Limpballs’ slavery comments to wards Mr. Carney! I know….indefensible…right? Haha…

  • Courteous Commentary

    I find it interesting that Rush Limbaugh uses the term “driveby media,” when his show is on many stations that are part of the so-called driveby media.

  • TrollJuice

    Percentage of time spent on topics in one day of the Rush Limbaugh Show picked at random and transcribed:

    · 36% General Liberal bashing
    · 25% Bashing Blacks
    · 11% How wonderful Rush is
    · 10% Calls from Dittoheads
    · 9% Bashing women
    · 9% Environmentalist bashing(slow day)
    · 0% Opposition to anything Rush says

  • Carol West

    Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
    Actually Royal Pain in the Butt, you addressed it AFTER I brought it up, so who’s being dishonest?

    Why such a nasty screen name? I would be embarrassed to call myself a “tormentor”. Do you use that name on other websites?

  • Carol West

    Rush has done this act for so many years I can’t imagine that what he says is still revelent.

  • George C

    Carol West said:
    Why such a nasty screen name? I would be embarrassed to call myself a “tormentor”. Do you use that name on other websites?

    Hey ” BlackWidow” , HA ! LOL

  • Davo

    The Real Royal King said:
    Lard Limbaugh hasn’t changed. He’s still a morbidly obese bag of gas, to be sure, but the press secretary is changing. An appropriate post.

    I think the biggest problem Liberals have with Rush, is that in time he’s usually proven right. Libs hate him for it.

    Truth, King, doesn’t change. It just stands there stubbornly ignoring Liberals’ opinions.

  • ndanielson

    Davo said:
    I think the biggest problem Liberals have with Rush, is that in time he’s usually proven right. Libs hate him for it.

    Truth, King, doesn’t change. It just stands there stubbornly ignoring Liberals’ opinions.

    It mocks, taunts and chastises most liberals that come here.

  • WHarropson

    Carol West said:
    Rush has done this act for so many years I can’t imagine that what he says is still revelent

    It’s kind of an inside thing. You just have to b there. If you never listen, you’ll never know.

  • Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

    Carol West:

    Why such a nasty screen name? I would be embarrassed to call myself a “tormentor”. Do you use that name on other websites?

    If I cared one little bit what you thought, that might hurt. Alas, I couldn’t possibly care any less.

  • George C

    Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
    If I cared one little bit what you thought, that might hurt. Alas, I couldn’t possibly care any less.

    It’s just BlackWidow under a new screen name.
    _____________
    Carol West says:
    January 10, 2011 at 10:03 pm Carol West(Quote)
    1 2
    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Rox, I’ve posted a ton of similar things done by those on the left. Why are you keen on this being a right wing tragedy when it clearly isn’t? Give it up, you guys got it wrong. You need to admit that now. The longer you keep pushing this meme, the more ridiculous you look.

    You are right Michele both sides are wrong. Both sides do this. Have you decided to take a look at yourself and your part in all of this? I have!
    ___________________
    http://www.mediaite.com/tv/barbara-walters-unfair-to-blame-sarah-palin-as-some-are-doing/

    &

    http://www.mediaite.com/online/must-see-texas-councilman-gives-emotional-it-will-get-better-speech-for-gay-teens/

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ken-Hansen/1696941384 Ken Hansen

    Seriously? 2006 & 2008? That’s what you’ve got?

    I like Carney & Shipmen, and I enjoy Rush Limbaugh, but there really must be a statute of limitations on off-hand comments.

    Carney & wife were great panelists on “This Week” w/ George Stephanopolus & Jake Tapper.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kim-Barker/693546751 A Kim Bo

    Says the BIGAMIST Rush who must have had a good number of those EX-WIVES tried to treat him like they were his SLAVE MASTER. Now if we could only find the black kid in Rush Limbaugh’s pee wee football tryout days who beat him for a position on the team, we’ll know why Limbaugh also carries a chip on his soldier for black men. Especially those who are stronger and smarter than him.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kim-Barker/693546751 A Kim Bo

    Rush is just mad that someone got promoted. The last time he got promoted, to work for the NFL, he couldn’t contain his irrational hatred of African Americans enough to do the job effectively. Must suck to be spewing the same hate to same group of hicks in pickup trucks on their lunch break day in and day out for 20 years.

  • Davo

    A Kim Bo said:
    Says the BIGAMIST Rush who must have had a good number of those EX-WIVES tried to treat him like they were his SLAVE MASTER. Now if we could only find the black kid in Rush Limbaugh’s pee wee football tryout days who beat him for a position on the team, we’ll know why Limbaugh also carries a chip on his soldier for black men. Especially those who are stronger and smarter than him.

    Written by one who clearly has not listened to Rush. It’s OK, his ratings and longevity show that he doesn’t need you, Kimmie.

    Reading the opinions of Rush by Liberals who never listen to him is the same as enduring Liberal atheists instructing Conservative Christians on how Christians are supposed to live. But with Kimmie here, right is actually left, and up is really down, and east is really west, and bad is actually good, red is really blue, and………

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Treacher/542957672 Jim Treacher

    The people who are delegitimizing journalism are journalists.

  • jim bronson 990cc

    Davo said:
    Written by one who clearly has not listened to Rush. It’s OK, his ratings and longevity show that he doesn’t need you, Kimmie. Reading the opinions of Rush by Liberals who never listen to him is the same as enduring Liberal atheists instructing Conservative Christians on how Christians are supposed to live. But with Kimmie here, right is actually left, and up is really down, and east is really west, and bad is actually good, red is really blue, and………

    If you had, you could hear quotes like this ditty about African-Americans: “They’re 12% of the population. Who the hell cares.”

  • RichS

    The Real Royal King said:
    As you say, Lard Limbaugh said it. It is therefore “out there” and fair game. It must be terrible for you to have all of Lard Limbaugh’s words to defend. He’s expelled so much gas over the radio over the years, there is abundant toxicity. Why is this now noteworthy? Something called changed circumstances. Lard Limbaugh hasn’t changed. He’s still a morbidly obese bag of gas, to be sure, but the press secretary is changing. An appropriate post.

    If someone had randomly chosen words and placed them together to resemble sentences it would add more to the conversation than the Real Racist King ever does with babblings like there.

  • Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

    A Kim Bo, everytime you post a comment you cement your status as one of the most ignorant posters at Mediaite. Congrats!!

  • George C

    BlackWidow said:
    Why such a nasty screen name? I would be embarrassed to call myself a “tormentor”. Do you use that name on other websites?

    LOL , You’re back .

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