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Rush Limbaugh Earns Big Money From Senate Letter Chastising Him (Phony 41)
Fox News ^ | 10-14-2007 | Fox

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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KEYWORDS: letter; limgaugh; mediamatters; phony; phonyharry; punkharry; rush; rushlimbaugh; senate; stinkingharry
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To: blam

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.


61 posted on 10/14/2007 2:53:33 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Get Reid. Salazar, and Harkin out of the Senate.)
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To: DoughtyOne

I’ll take a SWAG (Scientific Wild A$$ Guess) and conjecture that it tops out about $175,000...just my guess.


62 posted on 10/14/2007 2:53:45 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: DoughtyOne

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.


63 posted on 10/14/2007 2:54:30 PM PDT by BerryDingle (Illegitimi Non Carborundum (Don't let the bastards wear you down))
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To: blam

41 grand. That’s about a day’s pay for the Rushmeister.


64 posted on 10/14/2007 2:54:40 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: stephenjohnbanker

How bout Dick Cheney...... he has some work in the Senate and woild set the example for the others.


65 posted on 10/14/2007 2:54:47 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Moveon is not us...... Moveon is the enemy)
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To: blam

Frickin’ brillant.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260170172469

Up to 41K. WooT!


66 posted on 10/14/2007 2:54:56 PM PDT by Baladas
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To: blam

What a crappy headline. As if Rush would even blink about $41K


67 posted on 10/14/2007 2:55:53 PM PDT by RushCrush
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To: Joe 6-pack

That’s a nice round number.


68 posted on 10/14/2007 2:57:34 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Hillary has pay fever. There she goes now... "Ha Hsu, ha hsu, haaaa hsu, ha hsu...")
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To: Joe 6-pack

Nice neighborhood...


69 posted on 10/14/2007 2:57:56 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Hillary has pay fever. There she goes now... "Ha Hsu, ha hsu, haaaa hsu, ha hsu...")
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To: clintonh8r
"Rush has created a slow-motion Howard Dean moment for Dingey Harry....."

"Yeeeeaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!"

70 posted on 10/14/2007 2:58:17 PM PDT by meyer (Illegal Immigration - The profits are privatized, the costs are socialized.)
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To: BerryDingle

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.


71 posted on 10/14/2007 2:59:52 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Hillary has pay fever. There she goes now... "Ha Hsu, ha hsu, haaaa hsu, ha hsu...")
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To: blam

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.


72 posted on 10/14/2007 3:02:34 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: All

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.


73 posted on 10/14/2007 3:03:48 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: EGPWS

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


74 posted on 10/14/2007 3:08:31 PM PDT by buck61
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To: Bobkk47

“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.


75 posted on 10/14/2007 3:13:36 PM PDT by BerryDingle (Illegitimi Non Carborundum (Don't let the bastards wear you down))
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To: Gone_Postal
Best cartoon I've read in several months.
76 posted on 10/14/2007 3:19:20 PM PDT by RayChuang88
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To: ImpBill
The kicker will be when Rush matches the winning bid with a donation to the MCLEF and shames the democrat Senators into doing the same.

Or not.

I can hardly wait. :-}

77 posted on 10/14/2007 3:21:28 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: BerryDingle; All

so rush only makes $2-300K A YR?

dont think so


78 posted on 10/14/2007 3:21:39 PM PDT by jbp1 (be nice now)
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To: lilylangtree

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?


79 posted on 10/14/2007 3:23:10 PM PDT by getitright
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To: DoughtyOne
Bush has given Africa $15 billion and then an additional $30 billion for AIDS

You can bet a lot of that will be stolen by the corrupt officials in Africa etc
80 posted on 10/14/2007 3:34:21 PM PDT by uncbob (m first)
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