I happened to be listening to Rush as he set up the “retard” comment after five minutes of comment on how Zsa Zsa Huffington had called out Glenn Beck for using “slaughtered” and rebuked Roger Ailes for not rebuking GB. Of course, Beck was using a metaphor for economic train wreck, not a physical murder, but Zsa Zsa doesn’t look at context. Ailes knows that debating a hopeless repository of cant and finger-pointing like Ms. Stassinopoulos in front of Barbara Walters is a fruitless task. Never stops Zsa Zsa from continuing to make a fool of herself.

Rush also noted how Tweety-bird Matthews skated past his egregious solecism of “for an hour I forgot he was black,” something which if emitted from the ingestion orifices of a conservative, would have been a five-alarm “panic attack” among the blogospheric JournoList mimics & wannabes. Rush didn’t have the punchline that John Stewart threw at Tweety “Matthews is one scotch away from Ron Burgundy,” but the point was taken by the saner precincts of the center-left.

Along with Keith-O who is hemorrhaging viewers by the trainload on a nightly basis, Matthews’ ratings are falling behind Joy Behar, who is his better both intellectually and educationally with her M.A. from Stonybrook. Keith was also bludgeoned with loving care by Stewart after his intemperate howlings at the moon re: Scott Brown, a better man than KO in every facet of life, both public and private.

MSNBC is such a mess that Comcast may decide to jettison the entire menagerie once they have taken over NBCUniversal from GE.