Alaskan youth testifies on the Hill — and draws Limbaugh's ire

McClatchy Washington Bureau ^ | November 05, 2007 | Erika Bolstad

[Graybeard58]

Charlee Lockwood has never heard of Rush Limbaugh

One of the few people in the free world who hasn't at least heard of Rush Limbaugh.

[phrogphlyer]

Who’s going to write the ebay letter this time?

[Cowboy Bob]

Charlee Lockwood has never heard of Rush Limbaugh or listened to his radio program, and perhaps it's just as well.

Don't Eskimos have radios or electricity?

[fkabuckeyesrule]

From the snipet I heard on Rush’s radio show this kid is a total mental whack job.

[wastedyears]

Despite it not being connected to the lower 48, Alaskan coastal erosion would be on the news quite frequently.

[Rodm]

Never hear so much whining from an brain washed 18 yr old baby. Waanh Waanh Waanh the world is ending!

[dennisw]

Limbaugh's attack on the teenager was "outrageous and grotesque," said Deborah Williams, an Anchorage environmentalist who accompanied Lockwood on the teen's first trip to the nation's capital in 2005. It's one thing to take aim at a public figure, Williams said, but it's quite another to attack someone young and eager to participate in the democratic process.

Deb Williams' website with the requisite polar bear

http://www.alaskaconservationsolutions.com/acs/index.php

[gunservative]

On Monday, Lockwood offered an eloquent description of the effects of global warming on her own village of St. Michael. Moose once walked by the village; now, they've migrated farther north and are rarely seen. There are fewer fish each year at the family's summer fish camp, Lockwood said, and their favorite berry-picking spots aren't producing as much fruit anymore.

Bogus. Phony.

[Scotsman will be Free]

Barf

[chaos_5]

I listen to Rush nearly every day. I had to turn the radio off when this sniveling little brat started blubbering on.

[dfwgator]

The 18 year-old with a skull full of mush just learned that politics is a nasty business, wear a helmet when you decide to enter the arena.

[Bob]

It's one thing to take aim at a public figure, Williams said, but it's quite another to attack someone young and eager to participate in the democratic process.

I've got news for you, Mzzzzz Wiiliams -- Anyone testifying before Congress has just made themselves a public figure (or has been conned into becoming one).

[JennysCool]

Rush is doing yeoman’s work exposing the Democrat exploitation of kids and “victims” of this, that or the other. Average, non-political Americans are beginning to get wise to the scam.

One has to give Ann Coulter credit, too, for her brave calling-out of the “Jersey Girls.”

[Tamar1973]

I find it interesting that liberals enjoy using children and young adults has human sheilds. Seems they have something in common with the muslim terrorists!

[Freedom4US]

"For Rush Limbaugh to make fun of young people coming in and trying to be a part of the political process, it really shows a disdain for political discourse and for the role of young people in that political discourse,"

It shows a disdain for leftist tactics (which aren't even remotely democratic it should be pointed out) which parade children in front of congress to demagogue issues. Any first year rhetoric class will point out why this is done. It's just sickening how low these people will go.

[dennisw]

On Monday, the talk radio king told listeners that Democrats were exploiting the 18-year-old Yupik Eskimo.....

I'll bet he's never spent 10 minutes in an igloo

[balch3]

go Rush!

[BibChr]

“Um, well, we pretty well got our butts kicked up ‘round our ears over the whole ‘phony soldier’ thing, so... no comment!”

[kromike]

Soooooooo, what was the carbon footprint of tranporting all these wise-at-the-mere-age-of-18-year-olds?

Did they simply make out a check to King Gay-a, otherwise known as The Gore-acle?

[NurdlyPeon]

"really want to puke. I just want to throw up."

I heard it this morning. I'm with Rush on this one, made me want to barf too.