Lightweights
I must have been too busy last week with my Jason Jay Delmonico’s exploding acting career because I. guilty as charged, missed this story.
The first shot was fired in a possible civil war among conservative media “giants” although I doubt it’ll last long if it happens at all. In a new biography on sale Tuesday, Rush Limbaugh calls fellow conservative talk show host Bill O’Reilly a “Ted Baxter” — after the fictional character on the “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” who was portrayed as a vain, shallow, buffoonish, stupid ass of a TV newsman. “Sorry but somebody’s gotta say it,” Limbaugh says in Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One by Zev Chafets. At press time, O’Reilly was too frightened to comment for fear his wit would be rapidly gutted by Limbaugh’s. He was said to have been drinking heavier than usual at Noney’s, a New York media saloon, as the week wore on. But it wasn’t just Bilbo who took grief from the Big Wind. Limbaugh said he doesn’t consider any of his fellow conservative talk show hosts to be in his league. “Sean Hannity and Mark Levin are protégés,” writes Chafets, charitably “and [Limbaugh] has defended Glenn Beck.” But Limbaugh “doesn’t really consider them, or anyone else, in his league.” He didn’t mention Phil Hendrie because a hack like Chafets isn’t that clued in. But Bill O’Reilly as Ted Baxter? Baxter was way sexier, a much better dresser, had good, clean breath and most likely never passed an STD. But other than that!! Bwahahahaha!
Margaret Grey Reporting
