Hall worked in yet another defense of the extent of coverage of Limbaugh’s statement.  “Hey, this is where we work. But I mean we can – if we are doing something wrong – that's what I think is just kind of lame, to say ‘oh, don't talk about us, don't talk about me, let me see if MSNBC’s ratings are fine – he’s got a right to say it, but we have a right to discuss ‘Mr. Bouncy, Bounce.’”

First Hall cited Keith Olbermann when criticizing the comparison of the President to al Qaeda., then when trying to justify the obsession her network has with criticism of a radio talk show host she called Rush Limbaugh “Mr. Bouncy Bounce.”  You can’t say MSNBC does not have standards.  They are just for select groups of individuals – people like Rush Limbaugh, and George Bush and Dick Cheney and Sarah Palin and Carrie Prejean.

Why does MSNBC hold Rush Limbaugh to a higher standard of scrutiny than they do President Obama or any other liberal elected official or mouthpiece, including their own pseudo journalists Chris “tingly leg” Matthews, David “tea bagging” Shuster or Keith “O’Reilly obsessed” Olbermann? 

Why is it that anything the least bit provocative that Limbaugh says is dissected and repeated endlessly by the on air personalities at MSNBC, but when those on the left like  Janeane Garofalo call hundreds of thousands of peacefully protesting Americans a bunch of racist “tea bagging rednecks” who were “hating a black man in the White House” they don't seem to find the energy to scrutinize?

If those at MSNBC want to know why Fox News regularly beats them so decidedly in the ratings, they need look no further than their “Rush standard.”