A Meadhouse conversation about blogging/broadcasting and marriage.

I read that last post out loud and said "I sent that to Glenn."

Meade: "Oh, you emailed it to him." I see the concerned look on his face.

Me: "I wrote it as a post, and then I emailed the link to Glenn. What?! That look! What if Rush Limbaugh ran everything past his wife before he said it on the air? 'I'm thinking of saying this... what do you think?' His show would be horrible!"

Meade: "You should post that. This conversation. Exactly that."

Me: "Shhh!"

Meade: "You..."

Me: "Shhhhhh! Don't say anything. I won't remember the quotes."

ADDED: Actually, I can imagine that Rush's Fluke floundering did involve some consultation with his wife. I can imagine a woman egging him on, making him feel licensed to attack a woman in a truly bitchy way. My other theory about Rush — which Meade doesn't want me to publish — is that he just had to seize the spotlight back from Andrew Breibart, who'd gotten so much attention by dropping dead at the age of 43. Everyone was talking about Breitbart, as if Breitbart had been the biggest thing in right-wing media. We'll never see his like again... and Rush felt compelled to say something truly outrageous. He's always saying he knows how to play the media, to do his "media tweak of the day":

This was our Media Tweak of the Day yesterday, April. You know, what we do here on this program is, purposely, play the media like violin, like a Stradivarius. And I love tweaking them. I love irritating them, and I love upsetting them and all you do is take words uttered by liberals and apply them to current events.

And he tweaked his damnedest.

IN THE COMMENTS: James correctly points out that Rush started talking about Fluke on his February 29th show, and we did not hear of Breitbart's death until the morning of March 1st. So the basic "prostitute" idea was out there already, but Rush, having heard criticism, pushed back hard on the March 1st show, and then again on March 2nd.