Posted on 10/14/2007 2:05:44 PM PDT by blam
Rush Limbaugh Earns Big Money From Senate Letter Chastising Him
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Rush Limbaugh
WASHINGTON — A letter sent to Rush Limbaugh's boss demanding he be chastised for comments he made on the air about "phony soldiers" is now on the auction block, and the latest bid is a cool $41,400.
One hundred percent of the money raised from the eBay auction will go to educate the children of Marines and law enforcement officers who died while on duty, the auction says.
Bids will continue until Friday for the letter signed by 41 Democratic senators and sent on Oct. 2 to Mark P. Mays, president of Clear Channel, the parent company of the conservative talk show host's radio broadcast. The winning bidder will get the letter, the "Halliburton briefcase in which this letter is secured 24 hours a day;" a letter of thanks from Limbaugh and a picture of the talkmeister announcing the auction at a speech in Philadelphia delivered last Thursday.
"This historic document may well represent the first time in the history of America that this large a group of U.S. senators attempted to demonize a private citizen by lying about his views. As such, it is a priceless memento of the folly of (Senate Majority Leader) Harry Reid and his 40 senatorial co-signers," reads the eBay announcement.
As of midday Sunday, 95 bids by 36 bidders had been made on the letter, whose opening bid price was $100.
Playing up the controversy over comments Limbaugh made last month in which he used the term "phony soldiers," seemingly to describe U.S. troops opposed to the Iraq war, Limbaugh told his audience last week
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We have serious problems when we get this big a crowd of idiots in the Senate. They’re so stupid, they don’t realize their lie can be found out by the public.
It’s merely another example of how the Congress doesn’t really look out for you and me, but for itself.
I’ll take a SWAG (Scientific Wild A$$ Guess) and conjecture that it tops out about $175,000...just my guess.
As Rush has said before, democrats hate nothing worse than actually doing something about any agenda. They consider talk to be actually doing something.
Reminds me of Slick Willy talking about AIDS for eight years, then just after Bush was elected, he (Bush) handed South Africa forty or sixty million and never said a word. This is how you play liberals at their own game.
41 grand. That’s about a day’s pay for the Rushmeister.
How bout Dick Cheney...... he has some work in the Senate and woild set the example for the others.
What a crappy headline. As if Rush would even blink about $41K
That’s a nice round number.
Nice neighborhood...
"Yeeeeaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!"
Bush has given Africa $15 billion and then an additional $30 billion for AIDS. I was none to happy about it. That’s a hell of a lot of tax dollars.
As you say though, Clinton was a hand job alright.
Note STILL NOTHING IN THE BROADCAST OR PRINT MEDIA!!
THE MSM is still stealth on this story.
NOT EVEN AN AP BLURB.
Foxnews.com putting this out is just a concession to the internet. The NYC based media wants to keep the attack Reid put out to stand alone in Nexis/lexis searches without any counter.
If this gets articles written then it will be not a balance but a counter.
FNC has COMPLETLY and UTTERLY FAILED.
MSM now equals FNC.
Does anyone know of a Republican Senator who would read or comment on this auction on the floor of the Senate so this would become part of the congressional record?
Since Reid was able to make his slander part of the congressional record, Rush should be allowed to have the truth and the Reid failure become part of the congressional record.
Will there be a Senate hearing or perhaps an investigative panel of has beens to make political news out of an issue not worthy
And will they have a hearing on the hearing? Most likely!:-t
“41 grand. That’s about a day’s pay for the Rushmeister.”
No, more accurately, about thirty-six and a half hours pay, if bonus is included.
Or not.
I can hardly wait. :-}
so rush only makes $2-300K A YR?
dont think so
I don’t understand her question. What if Rush was a Supreme Court justice?
Does it relate to this issue- as in what if a Justice made the “phony” comment?
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