Posted on 04/01/2010 6:55:09 AM PDT by Grig
Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh will be announcing his run for President of the United States when he returns to hosting his popular broadcast following the Easter Weekend.
An anonymous source close to Limbaugh has revealed that he has been rapidly gearing up for the GOP nomination race while he as been away from the show this past week. His website only says that he is in a 'super secret location', jokingly suggesting he may be looking for health care alternatives.
The source elaborated that Limbaugh's feelings about running for office have been slowly changing over the past year as the cost of having Obama in the Oval office has approached the pay cut he often cited as his reason for not running in the past.
It is expected that his campaign will be a great boon for the conservative wing of the GOP, attracting millions of his fans (often called dittoheads for their slavish devotion to Limbaugh's views)...
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
The STINGER for VP-—gotta love it
after all—it’s a BIG F-=KIN’ DEAL
“This is gonna be fun!”
This is also April 1st;)
I hate April Fool’s Day.
Noooooooooooo. ...He is unelectable on a national scale. Just imagine the media having a field day cherry picking various soundbites over the years. Not to mention then the exaggeration his past addiction issues.
Yeah which was my point...
Oh FGS. Let’s hope this is an April Fool’s joke.
True, there was a tsunami that hit Hawaii on April 1, 1946. Many people did not believe that it had happened, delaying help and costing lives.
I’ll mention that to Rush when we talk this weekend.
#1 He wouldn't want IMO the stress or pay cut.
#2 His prior drug use would be all his campaign is about, not discussing any issues.
#3 He couldn't stand IMO taking people's money to run.
I remember that. Their were so many listeners that believed it........... crazy
Conservatism is mainstream. Not sure if Palin is a conservative though.
No, Constitutionalism is in the center. I wrote an entire book about that.
The lousy MSM will attack and repeat he is an addict to drugs.They will dig until they make crap up. Yet Obama got a pass.
OH WAIT NO ONE can say anything bout Rush and addiciont because Obama did cocaine and was a pothead.
LOL. I feel the same way. I am not into pranks...I think they can be incredibly funny, but I have seen a few go awry.
When I served on the USS JFK back in the Seventies, there was a sailor on watch one night on the Port Quarter (Left side of the ship, all the way towards the back, for you lubbers out there...:)
It was about 0300, the sailor was sitting in a chair, peacoat on, soundpowered phones on, looking out at the ocean and...he fell asleep. A couple of his buddies came down to say hello, saw he was sleeping, and had a great idea for a prank.
They crawled over and tied the shoelaces on his boondockers together. They retreated back into the hatch and then called out in semi-hushed tones “Man Overboard! Man Overboard!”
Well, it had the desired effect. The sleeping sailor jumped to his feet and fell flat on his face.
Unfortunately, someone on a catwalk above heard them, and raised the alarm. The entire battlegroup came alive, 6000 men on the carrier, and thousands on the destroyers, cruisers and support ships were rousted from their beds and ran to their battle stations to report in as the ships maneuvered in unison to come about.
Needless to say, the men were court martialed.
Another time, we were sitting in our shop, long days at sea and were unable to fly, so there was a lot of sitting around being bored.
This one guy fell asleep upright while sitting at a table, his chin cupped in his palm, and his elbow resting on the table. This friend of his creeped up, pulled out his cigarette lighter and lit it. He put it under his armpit, far enough down where it wouldn’t be overtly hot, then he was going to move it closer until the guy woke up. Kind of the armpit equivalent of a hotfoot.
As we all watched he moved it closer, then all of a sudden the guy screams and leaps to his feet, the smell of burning hair filling our nostrils. The guy was hopping mad, but he calmed down pretty quickly.
Thing was, he had a hole in the armpit of his flight deck jersey, and the tip of the flame went right through that little hole...hence the burnt armpit hair.
Recently, I had an experience that made me realize again how pranks can go the wrong way.
I work at a hospital, and have always tried to project a complete air of professionalism, even though I don’t let the workplace get in the place of a good laugh when it is warranted. Which made me the person a guy wanted to call to play a trick on his wife. He does server support in IT, and his wife does server support in the same group with him. Very nice people, I had worked extensively with them on various projects, and respected them and their work unequivocally.
I work on the clinical side in Radiology, so when she came down to have an x-ray one day, she kept the scrub bottom that had been given to her to change into for her exam. (People do that all the time-it is even taken into account for budgeting purposes)
Her husband called me, and asked me if I would call her, and in all seriousness, ask her if she had unintentionally forgotten to place her scrub bottoms in the dirty laundry bin when the exam was done.
I thought this would be funny, and knew I could do it without cracking up, to devastating effect. So, I dial her immediately and she picks up the phone:
HER: “Jane Smith, IT”
ME: “Jane, how are you? This is Bill Johnson over in Radiology.” (Spoken with a familiar tone, yet reserved and official)
HER: “Oh! I just visited you guys today for an X-Ray!”
ME: “I know. That’s what I am calling about.”
HER: “Really?”
ME: “Yeah. I was calling to see if you forgot put your scrubs from the exam into the used laundry bins.” Our patient flow coordinator was counting out the tops and bottoms, and came up one short. They asked me to call you because I knew you. I told them you probably just forgot. Do you have the scrub bottoms?”
HER: “No!”
ME: “Oh, okay. I’ll tell them you DID put yours in the bin, so it must have been one of the other patients. But don’t worry. We will find out who it is. We count them every hour, so we just look at the list and track them down. Sometimes, they are still in the hospital, and they bring them back down, no questions asked. Sometimes, we have to call them after they get home, and some people get really indignant. They usually relent, though, when you tell them that you CAN have the police come come to their house and do a search, and when they see the scrubs of the same kind we use, with the GENERAL HOSPITAL logo stenciled on them...it is an open and shut case.”
HER: “Oh!”
ME: “Well, thanks. Don’t worry about the scrubs, See you.” (CLICK)
Almost immediately after I hung up, the grin on my face melted just as fast as it got there, when I realized: “She lied to me. When she finds out it was a joke, she’s going to know that I knew she had those scrubs all along, and that...she’s a liar.”
She was going to be jaw droppingly mortified.
My mouth fell open, and I immediately called her husband to explain this angle to him, which he hadn’t even considered either. He told her, then I called myself immediately after.
It was damned awkward, but she understood the intent, and forgave us.
yeah, but trading in a G4 for AF1....tempting...........
LOL...great point!
I thought Exit 148 was!!
Thanks all of you for your replies, they made my day. I totally made up every word of it, including the fake links.
Wouldn’t it be great next year if we all worked together to pull off a really BIG PFD joke on the MSM, get them to really make fools of themselves in some way (more than usual).
PFD = AFD
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