Ralph Edwards dead at 92
He was first a network radio star with "Truth or Consequences," then took the game show to television. All in all, Ralph Edwards hosted the show for 38 years. His other hit show, "This is Your Life," also started on radio and migrated to TV. Over the years Edwards was also active as a producer, including "The People's Court" which his company introduced in the 1980s. Edwards died yesterday of heart failure. He was 92. Just this week ABC announced plans to bring back "This is Your Life," with Regis Philbin as host.
Sen. Tom Harkin dukes it out with Limbaugh
On his 11/8 broadcast, Rush Limbaugh defended his numerous controversial remarks about the abuse of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison as an attempt to expose the hypocrisy of liberals. This in response comments made 11/7 by Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) on the Senate floor. Harkin had proposed an amendment to the 2006 defense authorization bill to include "fairness and balance" on taxpayer-funded American Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS).
In his statement, Harkin cited Limbaugh's comment that the pictures of the abuse "might win a video award for the pornography industry." Harkin asked, "Does this represent the views and attitudes of the average American citizen?"
Harkin also said on the Senate floor that Limbaugh "wouldn't know the truth if it hit him in the face...What I object to is that Rush Limbaugh is on all week, and our troops get to hear him, but they don't get to hear any viewpoints from the other side of the political spectrum."
Limbaugh responded 11/8 to Harkin's average American citizen question, "No, no, of course not. But it does represent the views of the average American leftist! It's the left that will not condemn any of this when it happens to their kids, when it's happening in schools, when it's happening in the porno industry in this country...Senator Harkin, your crowd is the one that's totally tolerant of this, except when it happens in a prison to our enemies!"
Throughout the broadcast, according to the media Matters website, Limbaugh repeatedly referred to the senator as Tom "Dung Heap" Harkin.
In his statement, Harkin also noted Rush's various claims that the abuse represented "a fraternity prank," "a brilliant maneuver," and "no different than what happens at Skull and Bones initiation at Yale."
When Harkin quoted Rush describing the Abu Ghraib images as "pictures of homoeroticism that looks like standard good, old American pornography," Limbaugh conceded that the quote was accurate. But he went on to state that he had merely been making a point: "Why are people upset about this when they buy it on cable TV?"
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