DCRTV is reporting that Rush Limbaugh was a “no show” at a big Meet the Press anniversary party last night, despite his earlier RSVP that he would attend — a big etiquette no no, except for, maybe, if one is dealing with a drug addiction relapse.

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DCRTV reports that Rush Limbaugh “will be taking a break from his anti-Hillary Clinton campaign to pay a visit to DC on Wednesday evening. That’s when a motorcade will wisk “El Rushbo” from his private jet at Dulles to the 60th anniversary party for NBC’s Meet the Press at the new Newseum near Capitol Hill.” Which is sort of odd, since Limbaugh has made his disgust for Tim Russert known many times over. Of course, we love to play with our enemies, too, so we shouldn’t talk.

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We’ve grown so accustomed to hearing conservative radio talking Michael Savage call Media Matters a “bunch of liberal gay fascists” that it took us by surprise to see praise for the left wing media watchdog organization. In fact, Jeff Bercovici, of Portfolio, goes so far as to say the group is “good for everyone.” Even Rush Limbaugh! Read more…

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Related: A Very Special Media Madness List!

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Some wacky stuff happened in our media world over the past several days, and we’re still trying to sort it all out. A friend suggested that writing our thoughts down in a list form might help. After pondering the top stories at Digg (”ten pen tricks to do when you’re not jacking off” and “five ways to make your chest bigger” ), we figured everybody likes lists anyways, so why the hell not:

1) Why did MSNBC bail on reporter David Shuster for asking Rep. Marsha Blackburn a simple question?

The net’s soon-to-be former General Manager Dan Abrams made Shuster issue an apology to Blackburn on-air after he asked the congresswoman to name the last soldier to die from her district. When Blackburn didn’t know the answer, Shuster said that Jeremy Bohannon was that person — which soon became a source of controversy, with some conservatives saying that Bohannon was not from Blackburn’s district. Before that important detail could be sorted out, Abrams made an unhappy Shuster apologize because he thought Shuster had gotten it wrong. In the end, it turned out that Bohannon was from Blackburn’s district.

Hopefully Abrams made it up to Shuster in private — not that he has much incentive to do so, since he’s in the process of leaving his management job to become the permanent host of the network’s 9 p.m. hour, which was vacated by Joe Scarborough earlier this year.

Media Madness Ranking:  (3) Patrick Gavins  Read more…

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