Comments on: Craig Ferguson Skips Late-Night Wars For Haiti, Slams “Dumb, Mean” Rush Limbaugh

By: timzank

timzank — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:32:36 +0000

Limbaugh is just an easy target. His comments are always taken out of context, misquoted or simply made up, as is evidenced here. Everyone is entitled to voice their opinion, including Limbaugh and Ferguson leaving us to make up our own minds. It would just be nice if the “journalists” would offer up the information accurately, so that easily swayed entertainers like Ferguson had the facts before getting all emotional.

By: J Baustian

J Baustian — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:46:31 +0000

Ferguson is wrong about Limbaugh, who did not say “don’t donate”. What he said was “donate directly to the Red Cross, do not donate through the government website or the White House website.”

To quote: “I did not say, “Don’t make donations.” I said private donations are going to be much better than a government donation. Go to the Red Cross, do other things, but don’t go through the government. It’s just going to go through hands and bureaucracies and $1 is going to end up being 30 cents by the time they get through with it.” end of quote.

I’m a regular listener to the Rush Limbaugh show. (gasp!). He has two telethons each year, one for leukemia and one for scholarships for the children of fallen soldiers and Marines. He also contributes generously with his own money to both causes, and possibly to others which he does not publicize.

By: LNSmithee

LNSmithee — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:44:55 +0000

I have always liked Ferguson. He gives better monologues than any other late night host, can actually ad-lib (a lost art), and unlike any of his peers (with the exception of Jimmy Kimmel) he's not afraid to get supremely silly for a joke. He also has a genuine love for America, even though he often is too reflexively liberal for my tastes. Even still, when he would go after Bush, the important thing was comedy, not Letterman-like venom. Ferguson also introduced most of America to Sarah Palin, believe it or not. Here she is on video on The Late Late Show in June 2007 granting honorary citizenship on Ferguson, a Scottish emigre who became a citizen last year. Note Craig's f-a-v-o-r-a-b-l-e reaction. That is how people reacted to her before they were told they needed to despise or fear her.

By: kimm

kimm — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:28:09 +0000

I’m liking Craig more and more these days!

By: teamconan

teamconan — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:59:38 +0000

Actually, Conan also had information about donating to Haiti last night. After all, it is possible to care about who hosts a late night talk show and donate time and effort to aiding Haiti. One thing does not negate the other as most of us are capable of holding more than one thought in our head. For instance, most carry the fact that Limbaugh says dumb and mean things all the time–because he’s a horrible person. It’s not necessarily something to dwell on but occasionally he does manage to raise the bar for cruelty and it is in these instances shocking enough to be pointed out.

By: Magister

Magister — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:53:58 +0000

OK – I’ll shut-up, but since a Craig has only recently started to find an audience (thanks to Conan’s move and the Leno debacle), I thought I’d also throw out the YouTube of his rant on an anniversary of 9/11. Like the two that I linked previously, he draws an image that once you’ve heard it, you’ll never forget.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0R0hcuAwEs

By: sarainitaly

sarainitaly — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:51:55 +0000

I love Ferguson!

By: Magister

Magister — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:25:20 +0000

Darn it – I must not have closed the “Britney” link or something because it doesn’t appear to work. It’s the more pop culture of the two and its the one that’s all in one part, so because its the one people might be more prone to sample, I thought I’d throw it out again.

By: Magister

Magister — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:22:29 +0000

Craig's rants are always brilliant. They used to be moreso, before they mucked with the timing of the first commercial break and he could just go-off for an extended segment, but after they finalized the short cold open, we started to get puppets and that may be a fair exchange. Nonetheless, though his monologue-like ranty thing is usually the funniest thing on late night, his similarly serious thing about Britney and/or his eulogy for his father shows why he's the late night host who has written movies and a couple of well-received books.