Will Rush be man enough to accept Campbell Brown's challenge?

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/31/campbell-brown-challenges_n_162837.html

Campbell Brown Challenges Rush Limbaugh
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | January 31, 2009 05:38 PM

Campbell Brown, the anchor of the CNN program "No Bias, No Bull," has challenged conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh to come onto her show and debate the merits of the stimulus package. CNN's chief business correspondent Ali Velshi had criticized Limbaugh's stimulus suggestions, offered on the op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal, and Limbaugh fired back at Velshi on his radio show yesterday, calling Velshi "incompetent."

Campbell had Velshi on her show last night to address Limbaugh's criticisms in a lengthy rebuttal. She then invited Limbaugh to come and debate the stimulus package with Velshi, instead of just lobbying personal attacks on his radio program. We'll see if Rush accepts the challenge.

Ali Velshi is the economist that Limbaugh excoriated on his show Friday. Personally, I doubt very much that Rush will be up to it. Like all bullies, he runs from a real challenge. He's on his game if he can cut off people's microphones when their inconvenient facts don't match up to his bombast.

Good for Campbell for being smart enough to offer Rush a venue and a real debate.

[liberal1973]

1. Who cares

Campbell brown is a right winger. It would be like watching that douche hannity and limbaugh crapfest on fixed news.

[Tripper11]

3. Regardless of Campbell Brown's affiliation

Rush does what he does. Stays in his studio, says what he wants, cuts people off when they start to gain ground.
He never will accept a challenge from anyone for a debate, no matter what.
As the OP mentioned he's a pissant bully who spouts and runs.

[SKKY]

33. I'm not so sure.

Campbell Brown surprises me sometimes. I think she might be legit.

[polmaven]

40. Did you miss the part

where it says the "debate" would be with Ali Velshi? It would not be Campbell Brown just interviewing Limbaugh....Ali Velshi is not exactly chopped liver.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

42. Thank you! It seems like most people did miss that point.

She asked him to "debate" Velshi. Not to just answer softball lobs from her.

Of course, if she's the moderator of the debate, she can screw it up with bias and unequal time, but then her own performance gets judged. George Stephanopoulis and Charlie Gipson are still recovering from the hit their reputations took due to their Presidential debate performance.

[rvablue]

2. No. He is too scared of any enviroment he doesn't control. And he KNOWS he is a liar

so why would he go on a national TV and expose himself for what he is.

I'm not a huge fan of Campbell or Velshi, but just by maintaining some level of truth and fairness, they would make him look like a completely unhinged idiotic liar.

So, no he's not man enough and no he won't go on.

[pnorman]

15. I recall a video clip of Rush, from quite a way back.

He was a substitute moderator of some sort, and the audience consisted largely of middle aged ladies. He was a lot leaner and trimmer then, but they ATE HIM ALIVE. It was a real pleasure watching him get rattled by degrees and pretty well losing it. That was probably the moment that he decided that he would NEVER again appear in a venue where he didn't have complete control of the mike.

Anyone else here recall viewing that? I'm going to start Googling to see if I can find it again. Amy suggestions for keywords?

pnorman

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. Yes that is a great video

He was a substitute host for a TV show. It was the early 90s. And the audience literally creamed him.

[pnorman]

19. Still unable to locate that video clip.

Any suggestions on key-words?

pnorman

[KharmaTrain]

32. Here It Is...

Rushbo sat in for Pat Sajak...around 1990...and got his head handed to him by the audience...

enjoy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-f84iNhsx0

[madinmaryland]

43. He had trouble turning the "Letters" on Pat Sajak's show!!

:rofl:

[kdpeters]

20. Is this the clip you're talking about?

Rush Limbaugh guest hosts the Pat Sajak show:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-f84iNhsx0

[pnorman]

27. Yeah, that's the one! THANKS!

My "leaner and trimmer" recollection was a good example of False Memory, but my other observation was pretty close.

pnorman

[dionysus]

31. i think it's a morton downey jr show

and i was wrong....

[Seldona]

37. I recall that.

Great clip of The Water Boy out of his element.

[hamsterjill]

44. No, he won't go.

And even if Rush did show up for two minutes, all he would do would be to yell and scream over what anyone else might have to say. There would be no "debate" but rather a screaming match.

He and O'Reilly are nothing but big foghorns.

[JaneQPublic]

4. Rush man enough?!?!?

He wasn't man enough to join the service instead of letting an anal cyst keep him out.

He wasn't man enough to endure a backache without taking enough Oxycontin to choke a horse.

He wasn't man enough to get it up without sneaking a fake Viagra prescription.

He wasn't man enough to actually vote for a president before age 42, despite now making a huge income espousing his political views.

He hasn't been man enough for the entire duration of his radio career to accept a face-to-face debate with someone who disagrees with his views. It's highly doubtful that he will suddenly grow a pair and take up Brown's challenge.

[Hieronymus]

18. And now a sexist who backs down from a challenge by a woman.

[Beaverhausen]

5. Rush has a face for radio

and radio only. Please lets not have to look at him.

[mwooldri]

41. Shame his voice is fit for print...

and what comes out may not even be printable in certain juristictions.

God I'd love for him to be broadcast in the UK, only for him to be yanked off so fast in fear of a ton of fines from OFCOM, though I wish it were IBA days when they had real teeth... Sadly, Mr. Limbaugh will remain an Internet-only phenomenon outside the USA. (AFRTS excluded, of course).

Mark.

[Cash_thatswhatiwant]

6. no.

he knows hes full of shit.

[Peacetrain]

7. I doubt it

[high density]

8. Brown fails to mention that Bush's massive $1.2 trillion tax cut created ZERO JOBS

There is no "legitimate case to make about tax cuts" in regards to economic recovery.

[Life Long Dem]

9. Once I made it past the title...

I wish you wouldn't do that, think politics. And stay on focus.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

29. On Friday Rush sounded like he practically wanted to challenge Velshi to a duel-

kind of that Zell Miller outraged honor type of thing. It always reminds me of Foghorn Leghorn.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foghorn_Leghorn

I used the phrase "man enough" somewhat tongue in cheek, because it is such a dated and passe stereotype of male posturing - just like Rush himself.

[Life Long Dem]

35. Some of the things I hear about him and women are disgusting

My gripe is that he wants America to fail. You to fail. Obama fails, America fails.

[jenmito]

10. His excuse will be, "You know they just want me on to boost their ratings, so I won't do it."

[Life Long Dem]

28. Yeah, their ratings.

It's his ratings and CNN will get some of the action.

[treestar]

11. No, he is not

He is not man enough to face any opposition of which he is not in complete control.

[NC_Nurse]

12. Of course not.

He's a blowhard, a bully, and a coward.

[JayMusgrove]

13. Sounds like Campbell Brown is just a brown nose to Rush

Throwing him a lifeline for more national recognition, allowing him to spew his racist sexist rhetoric to millions who watch CNN.

Rush dug his grave, why is SHE pulling him out and giving him oxygen mouth to mouth?

[JayMusgrove]

21. Campbell Brown, pimping for Rush, who would have thought...

that she went for old fat racists? But she evidently does.

[Faygo Kid]

14. Are you kidding? The greatest coward in the USA be challenged?

Thanks for posting. I saw this, too. Rush is an abject coward. He will never, ever accept this challenge.

[genna]

17. Do you really think Campbell Brown is credible?

I have watched her bull and her bias It is tiresome.

[jenmito]

23. And she's married to long-face Dan Senor, Bush's deputy press secretary, Faux analyst:

and more RW garbage like AIPAC intern, pentagon adviser, etc. Here's his bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Senor

[Critters2]

26. I didn't' know she's married to Dan Senor!! God! Media-government-lobbyist...

It all seems a bit incestuous, doesn't it?

[firedupdem]

22. She probably talks to him regularly...she can just record their

conversations. She has no credibility. I don't trust her invite. She's helping him out in some way.

[City Lights]

24. Hell will freeze over before that happens.

The talking anal cyst rarely ventures outside his bubble.

[ZombieHorde]

25. If she is RW, they may have planed this before she said anything. nt

[JayMusgrove]

30. She's DEFINITELY NOT a liberal, and definitely OUT for herself..not

for anyone else.

She's what some would call a media celebrity WH***.....if we could use that word for what she does for money.

[sampsonblk]

34. Keep in mind, she is one of them - nt

[Boomerang Diddle]

36. No. But I'd rather see Rachael Maddow take him on! n/t

[Cash_thatswhatiwant]

38. someone call his show and ask him to do it!!

[WinkyDink]

39. She just wants to add his listeners to her audience. All phony-baloney "challenge".

[madmom]

45. This IMO is just giving him relevance where he has none.

[olegramps]

46. Limbaugh is the voice of the Republican Party.

He exemplifies every thing that today's Republican Party stands for. He is the personification of the greed and racism that is their hallmark. He is their Pied Piper leading the worst elements of American society. Every Republican is the enemy of the Republic in that they endorse out right lawlessness. Their continued endorsement of their party's leadership who have spit on the Constitution make them my enemy.

[11 Bravo]

47. The gutless one will never leave his EIB (Erection In Bottle) cocoon.

[Enrique]

48. Campbell Brown and Velshi have already lied about the stimulus

http://mediamatters.org/items/200901270028?f=s_search

[Beaverhausen]

49. kicking to find out if anything happened with this yet

[yellowcanine]

50. Rush doesn't do debates. If he doesn't control the microphone he does not play.

He cannot hold his own against an articulate debater.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

51. He'd have to be a man - the guy's completely ball-less. So the answer is no.