Limbaugh: Bill O’Reilly Is Ted Baxter
Limbaugh’s been making news today with his new $400,000,000 contract, but this from the New York Times caught my eye more than his big new contract:
At dinner the night before, Bill O’Reilly’s name came up, and Limbaugh expressed his opinion of the Fox cable king. He hadn’t been sure at the time that he wanted it on the record. But on second thought, “somebody’s got to say it,” he told me. “The man is Ted Baxter.”
So funny, because it’s so true.
Rush didn’t have much nice to say about Sean Hannity either:
Limbaugh has a deeply conflicted attitude toward Sean Hannity, his one-time stand in and now perpetual No. 2 on the Talkers list. He speaks of the younger man with the same condescending affection that Muhammad Ali once showed Jimmy Ellis, a former sparring partner turned challenger. But he wanted me to remember who is the Greatest. “I have no competitors,” he said. “Hannity isn’t even close to me.”
Rush is right, but he probably didn’t need to come right out and say that.
