First of all Mr. Wow, a big THANK YOU for putting Natalie Morales name out there so that more people can become fans of this fabulous reporter. I have followed her for awhile now and think she epitomizes what a good reporter should be.

I saw both interviews and I have to tell you, as much as you and I are oil and water on some subjects, there are others (like the Limbaugh love-fest - it was NOT an interview) that you take the words right out of my mouth. Did you see those bare ankles…yuck!  But you have to admit, now that he has lost some weight, the caps on the teeth are a pearly white, the skin looks tighter….he does look much better than he did. Not as oily, bloated and winded as he usually does. I’m not so sure I’d want to see him in a shirt with a tie. Can you imagine the strangle hold that would look like?

It’s so funny because it really was almost….almost as if Rush had written the questions in advance and gave them to Wallace to ask. He answered them as if he had them rehearsed to some extent. But then again his responses are many I have heard him say on his show time and time again. Obama is bad for America….Obama is a man child…Obama, Obama, Obama…I think he has tourettes when it comes to Obama.

I have never seen Jon and Kate just as I will never see the Octomom’s reality show.  Not interested in those Spears people either or the Lohan family tree.  Something very creepy and ultra skanky about the whole desperate clan. Something very troubling about people pimping their kids for financial gain.

As for Rush. Sure, I have heard him and that alone is enough to click on any channel rather than where he is being interviewed , and it makes no difference who the interviewer may be. Rush will always be a bloated buffoon, and it has nothing to do with his weight or his attempt to look cool without socks.  Chicklet teeth won’t help either.   I think his role in America is keen, however.  Many people are easily influenced by those in the entertainment world, whether it is TV , the cable clowns, or radio.

I had to stop watching the videos half way through. I felt as though I was spying on a therapy session. It hurt me to watch. I have questions: Why would you succumb  to an interview like this? Why would you decide to have all these children in the first place if you knew that you wouldn’t be able to afford them? (as Kate said). Now she’s locked in financially and has to continue because of this?  I used to watch the program because I was fascinated by how this couple would cope with their brood. As the twins developed I detected an anger in them–-more in Mattie––and a disrespect to the parents. I would imagine having a twin is one thing, but then having, suddenly, six more siblings is another. Fame can be destructive; the Gosselins are prime examples. 

I hesitate to comment on Rush only because I think he’s off his chump. I will say I agree with Mr. Wow’s aghast at no socks. I don’t think he ever wears a tie––perhaps it interferes with his blow heartiness-cuts off the old windpipe that needs all the air it can get.

Initially I occasionally watched John & Kate, and it was a lot different than it revolved to what it has become…a slick production with Kate all galmned up, and not there a lot of times, being on the road. She used to talk so awful to John, like he was an idiot, so what it has become does not surprise me.

As for Rush. He must think he is so cool, and he can never be cool. The no socks bit was an ugly embarrassment on him, whereas on some others it does look cool. Being close to my dermatologist I can tell you he looked like he has visited his for facial work. The lack of any lines in his brow, plus a rather expressionless face shouts Botox. He also looks like he might have had a fractional laser treatment with his pink shiny skin, also fillers could have aided the total smooth look. I think he looked a bit overdone, but probably nobody else noticed it.  I am always looking for "work"on public persona. It’s always easy to detect.

I did not see the Rush Limbaugh interview but had to admit I succumbed to the Kate Gosselin interview and agree with Mr. WOW that it was her *Princess Diana* moment.   I’m not saying her husband is a prince but I used to like their show…before the boob jobs, teeth whitening, hair implant episodes.   (I give Kate a pass on the free tummy tuck but I think we saw her true nature when she wanted to parlay a free tummy tuck into a free boob job and the plastic surgeon who was doing this gratis (except for the publicity) suggested she just get a better bra.   Anyway…assuming they have been remotely responsible with the money they have made over the past 5 years, she could very readily go back to being a nurse and he could get an IT job and the kids could still have their college fund and they would be better off than 3/4 of Americans today.   This woman LOVES the limelight.   She claims to not understand how one year of her constantly being on the road,  with a bodyguard, in first class accommodations  promoting her books and the show and selling photos of her kids while her husband stayed at home dealing with 8 kids and their tantrums and babysitters and dr. appointments etc. could have remotely pissed him off.   Not to mention her public emasculation of him on the show.  Yeah…he’s acting like a tool now.   But if you watch the earlier episodes you would consider him a hero for all he did in that relationship and for those kids,  while being yelled at for putting the wrong shoes on the kids or the wrong hair ribbon in the girl’s hair or *not using a coupon* to buy a $20 showerhead.  I hope America moves on and leaves them in obscurity.   And I note, she never did deny having an affair with her bodyguard and the interviewer let it pass.   I was dying for her to say…So..you are telling me that you did not sleep with your bodyguard?*   I frankly don’t give a fig, but that was hardly hard edged interviewing to let Kate digress away from the question so easily.

As for Limbaugh.  If he is so influential, how did Bill Clinton get elected?  How did Barack Obama get elected.  His show has a huge audience, its true, but he is no more running for office than Kate Gosselin or Angelina Jolie.  And…I have to think that Chris Wallace was doing a bit of payback to Obama’s stupid war against Fox News.  Since Obama has directed that  no one from his administration give interviews to Fox, its a little laughable to hear Mr. WOW and his ilk complain that Fox is not fair and balanced.  I suspect that Walllace would have dumped Rush like a hot potato if Obama’s staff had had the nerve to offer to have Obama interviewed last Sunday.   And what, pray tell, *hard question* are you going to ask Rush when he is not an elected official.   He’s talked ad nauseum about his addiction to pain killers, his failed marriages etc. on his show and I’m sure would be happy to talk about them on Fox if questioned but.. whats the point?  If we profess not to care about politician’s private lives (and they are the ones who make decisions which impact our own) why, pray tell should we care about Rush Limbaugh’s private life when he is simply a person who we can turn off or on with the flick of a switch and has no power to impact our lives at all.  I’d suggest that if Obama wants Fox to cover him fairly, he get some of his people  to return the Fox Network calls for interviews. 

Kate in an extrovert who figured out a way to give her kids better than average experiences and opportunities.  Instead of "selective reduction" or killing off a few, she chose to sacrifice her own comfort, give birth to all of them, and then figure out how to make it all work.  If people think it’s so bad for the kids, why don’t they make the same complaint about the Duggars who are all growing up in front of the cameras too? 

I say Good for Kate, and the rest of America gets to see what middle class parenting is like.  I’m sure there is a whole demographic that finds explaing consequences to children, and putting them on time-out - completely novel ideas!

(I was horrified listening to Chris Rock describing the beatings that black parents give their children, compared to white parents who make suggestions for better behavior.  The crowd was laughing hysterically, but I was appalled.)

Mr. Wow…Thank you so much for disproving the comments that men never talk about other men’s dress or appearance from yesterday’s discussion about Hillary Clinton donning a head scarf in the middle east!

See ladies…men can be just as petty and bitchy about another man’s appearance as the women are!