NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams thinks Limbaugh should get more credit

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NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams thinks Limbaugh should get more credit

January 24, 2005 4:50 pm ET

Brian Williams, who replaced Tom Brokaw as anchor and managing editor of NBC's Nightly News on December 2, 2004, said in an interview with C-SPAN founder, president, and CEO Brian Lamb: "it's my duty to listen to {nationally syndicated radio host} Rush" Limbaugh and that "Rush has actually yet to get the credit he is due."

From the December 26, 2004, interview:

WILLIAMS: I do listen to Rush. I listen to it from a radio in my office, or depending on my day, if I'm in the car, I will listen to Rush. And he will tell you I've been listening for years. I think it's my duty to listen to Rush. I think Rush has actually yet to get the credit he is due, because his audience for so many years felt they were in the wilderness of this country. No one was talking to them.

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Rush said to millions of Americans, you have a home. Come with me. For three hours a day you can listen and hear the like-minded calling in from across the country, and I'll read to you things perhaps you didn't see that are out there. I think Rush gave birth to the FOX News Channel. I think Rush helped to give birth to a movement. I think he played his part in the Contract with America. So I hope he gets his due as a broadcaster.

Here are some examples of Limbaugh's commentary, for which Williams apparently thinks Limbaugh has "yet to get the credit he is due." He has:

"We overpaid RepubliCorp propaganda pimps need to stick together. Sneer."

- Brian Williams (R)

Really?

I don't know whether to :rofl: or :cry:.

instead of blowdried talking heads? :(

journalist does. He gets paid to read whatever comes up on the tele prompter, and that's the extent of what he does.

I wonder how many other big time news presenters are Limbaugh fanboys.

...but that he was influential.

but some folks like to take surface analysis and decide all mainstream journalists are republican sympathizers because he used the word "credit."

the media is dumbed down to instead of "a duty" to do in-depth research, he listens to Rush. ;(

I'll give him credit for that.

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Bill

It's his duty? :wtf:

This tells all why Limbaugh can say the hateful and insane things and get a free pass.

because his followers chiefly base their views on emotion, fear, tribalism, prejudice, bias, racism, sexism, and other crap not worth admiring in a Democratic Republic with moderately sane adults.

They used to be marginalized because they added nothing of substance to the process, and still do not.

Brian is kind of a bubble head, I guess. I don't know that being polite based on fallacies is so good for "news" professionals.