RUSH: (reading next question) “When you talk about a Wellstone moment, timing is an awful lot in politics. Rush Limbaugh on his website went off on Joseph Lowery and called it - and this is really the key - a Wellstone moment. O’Brien says, “What are your thoughts on this as you watch this unfold? Did it surprise you first of all?” GREENFIELD: What struck me also was how quickly this became an item within the other side, the political right. Last Wednesday morning, Miles O’Brien talking to Jeff Greenfield. And how do you celebrate her life without mentioning those issues which relate to public policy? RUSH: What did she have to do with weapons of mass destruction? What did she have to do with the war on terror? What did she have to do with any of that, Reverend Lowery? On to CNN. King, that he’s going to hear about the issues around which she gave her life, and she was an advocate for peace, she was a strong proponent of racial justice and elimination of poverty. LOWERY: I’m certain that President Bush is wise enough to know that when he comes to the funeral of a civil rights icon like Mrs. Was that the right time to criticize his policies?” He said, “Reverend, here the president came to the funeral to pay tribute to Mrs. “I think there’s a lot of whipping, egg whites stiff now, it’s just my view, but I do think that–” Is this how funerals used to happen? Did this stuff happen at Reagan’s funeral? The idea that this is common and ordinary and everyday behavior at a funeral, they don’t find anything odd about this? Fox News Sunday’s Chris Wallace interviewed Reverend Lowery. I haven’t read the Washington Post in a long time. RUSH: Who is this guy, Eugene Robinson? I never heard of him. That’s just my view, but I do think it’s been whipped up into something larger than it was. People like Rush Limbaugh are whipping this up into a controversy after the fact, or is it a legitimate public debate about whether this was consistent about what you should do at a funeral? EUGENE ROBINSON: I think there’s a lot of whipping. HOWARD KURTZ: We went through a little bit of this after the funeral for the late Senator Paul Wellstone. All right, so Sunday, yesterday on CNN’s Reliable Sources, the host Howard Kurtz had this exchange with his guest, Eugene Robinson, who is a columnist for the Washington Post. (Playing of Bill and Hillary Clinton funeral spoof.) The Funeral Crashers, Ted Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and the Reverend Lowery, and an all-star cast too numerous to mention individually. Well, we decided, ladies and gentlemen, because that generated - not the Funeral Crashers bit itself, but just the criticism of this as Wellstone Memorial-like caused there to be a serious amount of analysis on the cable networks about why do Republicans, why is Limbaugh going so crazy about this? So we’ve put together a little bit here on the wedding crashers takeoff, The Funeral Crashers starring Bill and Hillary Clinton. You’ve got two guys who crash weddings looking for dates, looking for chicks. Near the beginning of the interview he asked what I thought of the funeral for Coretta Scott King, and I said, well, you’ve seen the movie The Wedding Crashers. He was set up I think off the 18th green at Spyglass, and he asked me to come by for a little five to seven minute interview that went two segments. He had his Fox show, Your World with Neil Cavuto, or My World with Neil Cavuto - Neil’s World, whatever. RUSH: When I was out last week at Pebble Beach for the AT&T National Pro-Am, Neil Cavuto was also out there.
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