Noel Sheppard devotes a Nov. 26 NewsBusters post to rehashing a questionable defense of Rush Limbaugh against an accusation that he once referred to Chelsea Clinton as the “White House dog” on his 1990s TV show.
Sheppard asserted that “Limbaugh never referred to Chelsea as the White House dog,” then extensively quoted from an anti-Al Franken blog to explain “what really happened back then.” That blog post at the Lying Liar website, however, makes only assertions and quotes without providing links to the alleged source material — or, more importantly, the original video of Limbaugh’s TV show.
If Sheppard was really interested in getting to the bottom of this story, he would demand that Limbaugh release the original video of the incident so people can judge for themselves. He presumably controls that video, so it would be easy for him to release those excerpts, and the corrections he claimed he made, to settle the issue once and for all.
But given that Sheppard is such a slobbering right-wing sycophant that he will desperately smear one of Herman Cain’s sexual harassment accusers, he clearly doesn’t have the intestinal fortitude to seek the truth if it means one of his conservative heroes might look bad.