Glad I swallowed my coffee just before I read that one. "... you're going to need a Dick Armey". Line of the week.

Cavuto said FOX News was balanced when it came to covering protests like this bastardized tea party because they had covered protests like the Million Man March in the past. Ron Regan pointed out on his radio show yesterday that the Million Man March occurred before FOX News went on the air.

I picked up on Shuster's double entendres pretty quickly. I think it was after he said something about the tea baggers getting "a mouthful" of something at the protest.

And it only ramped up from there to the extent that before it was over I was saying, "alright, enough! I get!"

By the time he got to "you're going to need a Dick Armey," the running gag sputtered to a stop for me.

You missed the best one last week, that Fox News had been fluffing teabag parties...

This may have been a bit too sophisticated for most cable viewers.

The teabaggers are asking for it. What a circle of jerks!

C'mon, the Republicans ASKED for it. Remember, these guys came up with a campaign slogan for McCain that was right out of a depression drug ad. They've lost their PR mojo.

I'm not surprised that Shuster had the, um, balls to say this on the air. Our discourse has gotten so ribald, the tea-bagging innuendos are nothing. But hey, fun while it lasts, right?

As Colbert might say, "Best Line of the Week? Or Best Line in History?".

I bet if one were to go back in time to the late 1700s and early 1800s and study the punditry of that time (and I am sure someone has) that one would find usage of sexual puns and double entendres fairly commonplace, much more so than today.

So is this what's meant by making cable news bluer?

James - the fluffing one was priceless.

I hate to sound like a fuddy-duddy, but David Shuster needs to realize that Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert can go places that Shuster really, really should avoid, unless he wants to leave MSNBC and get his own Comedy Central show.

Ditto scott_m's comment. And I would say the same of Rachel Maddow and Ana Marie Cox, who sounded like a couple of twelve year olds last night.

In the same piece where he got off the "fluffing" line, Mr. Shuster was also able to work "limp" into the copy.

*snort*

Heheh, that was a real good one. Luckily I avoided major monitor damage. Barely.

If nothing else, the Teabaggers have helped me get in touch with my inner Beavis and Butthead. Heh heh.

Umm, wouldn't it be "ball army" ?

And scott_m, while I agree to some extent, after a certain point all you've got left is childish ridicule. There's really no other way to deal with it.

Speaking of innuendo, isn't that a synonym for a suppository?

Ducking,
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I have to agree with Bob Somerby(dailyhowler.com), even though most of the MSNBC evening show hosts are on "our side", they're making fools of themselves and their viewers on a fairly regular basis. We don't need a left wing version of the Fox "News" clowns. We need serious fact-based reporting on the real issues of the day.
I know, it ain't gonna happen with corporate, profit-motivated mainstream media.

Oh, and I'm just as insulted about these so-called "journalists" or "reporters" receiving million dollar salaries as I am at any of the bankers.
I know it feels good when the guy we voted for is president and our opponents are relegated to the sidelines, but let it go with the endless juvenile attacks already.

Uh oh....looks like some people are in need of a stickectomy, stat!

Really, we're talking about disgruntled conservatives who don't want to pay taxes having a hissy fit. If that's not a subject to be ridiculed, I don't know what is.

Some of you really can be stuffy, stick-up-the-ass liberals.

We don't need a left wing version of the Fox "News" clowns. -Allan Snyder

See, that's just lunacy. Maddow is corny, sure, but the amount of actual, factual information that she packs into her show is enormous.

Comparing her to FOX News shows you really don't have any concept of what her show or FOX News is. No one on FOX News is being humorous. They're lying to you.

Maddow is telling you the facts, the truth, and conducting interviews in the same humble and corny style that propelled her to where she is so rapidly.

Don't like it, fine, but while you're talking about who makes who look like a clown, you might want to refrain from baseless comparisons that make you look like an uninformed clown.

Yes, it's trashy. It is Countdown so you have to give up some levity already. Teabagging asshattery will end after Wednesday with any luck and then we can look forward to something even more tired, unoriginal and basically pointless from the party of not.

You know what? For a really long time, there was a grown-up alternative to partisan hackery and superficial celebritainment "news" channels. PBS presented a fairly even-handed, non-flashy news program. You know where that program regularly ranked among news broadcasts?

America gets the news coverage it deserves. If no one watched Fox News, MSNBC wouldn't be trying to emulate its style. Right now, Glenn Beck absolutely kills his competition. This despite the widespread knowledge that he is a complete lunatic. Americans don't want to be informed, they want to be entertained. If Maddow, Shuster, Stewart and Colbert can move a few more people toward the light by making them laugh, even at childish innuendo, then good for them. You better believe that Roger Ailes doesn't care how Beck, O'Reilly, and Hannity sway their viewers.

That entire segment was full of double entendre. There must have been at least 50 of them. My favorite was when he said that "prostitute patron" David Vitter issued a statement in support of teabagging, "but in public he has remained tight-lipped."

"the talk about Tea Baggers, Dick Armey..."

That's not quite right. These geniuses have decided they want to go on national television every day to talk about tea-bagging and a Dick Armey.

Think of the children!

The only way to take these blowhards down is to mock and ridicule them without mercy. The media has been firmly in the sack for too long and needs to be fully engorged on the subject at hand.

Kudos, therefore, to Mr. Schuster for inserting exactly the right amount of attention to the topic of teabagging and those who practice it for fun and profit.

I mean, what else can we do when Fox News bends over backwards to be fair and balanced like that?

Curmudgeon: That was too much. Wow, I need a new monitor. What an overkill!

mean, what else can we do when Fox News bends over backwards to be fair and balanced like that?
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Fox bends over OK, but in the opposite direction.

I always thought the Republicans were an army of dicks.

Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan must be in hell looking up, with their mouths agape, at what their party's become...

I'm surprised that Shuster could keep it up that long....

Oh come on, folks, it's HILARIOUS and times like these REQUIRE a sense of humor. In fact, there really is no better way to respond to people who call themselves "teabaggers" and think they're being serious and clever when they're being insipid and foolish. They're absurdists and should be treated as such. It's also been way too long time since I heard a good Dick Armey joke.

One of the reasons I love Rachel Maddow's tv show is that she LOVES politics and takes real, authentic joy in discussing everything from the very serious to the very silly. Her tone is pitch perfect, I'm personally sick and tired of angry-all-the-time politics.

When the opposition is acting like idiotic fools they should be mocked. Making playful fun of them is far more powerful -- and entertaining-- than ranting and raving. Also, making fun of them really pisses them off.

I can't help but think of ole Mo Ghandi's theory:

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win."

For all the ridicule the left suffered...you'd think we'd know better.

There was also that little but noticible pause between Dick.....and Armey!

Love it, and never seen it from David before, but I think filling in for Olberman has freed his inner, snarky, cynical Progressive self...

Not many know this, but, Dick Armey always takes showers before appearing at FAUX studios - He has always been considered to be a very salty, er, testy interview.

Now that Olberman has referenced "teabaggers seminal moment" can we declare that this has officially jumped the shark?

We don't need a left wing version of the Fox "News" clowns. -Allan Snyder

Au contraire.

You have to give the public what they want. The folken want enternews you gotta give it to them or they won't watch.

Was that enough snark about Repubelican teabaggers? Not nearly. I'm not a good punner and thus can't go on in the same vein, but I'll laugh all night at Shuster or anyone else who wants to go there.

Laughter is what the Greedy Old Plutocrats need directed to them now and in the future.

Laughter at how ridiculous they are.

Mocking laughter.