was asked what is the most dangerous thing Obama can do to America?....He replied: Get re-elected.
that's so true...the re-election of Obahbah..(& his ilk.)
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Posted on 07/02/2011 8:53:01 AM PDT by Hojczyk
JOPLIN, Mo. — Rush Limbaugh will come to Joplin on Monday, along with a truckload of ice tea products for revelers at the annual Fourth of July celebration.
Limbaugh’s appearance evolved from a contest conducted to promote his company, “Two If by Tea.”
The contest sought nominations for Limbaugh to send a truckload of chilled tea products to a Fourth of July celebration of a city that “celebrates American pride.” A number of contest entries nominated Joplin as the destination, citing local efforts to recover from the May 22 tornado.
Limbaugh announced on Friday that the truckload of tea will go to Joplin’s Fourth of July celebration at Landreth Park. He said he’ll come to Joplin too, arriving about 8 p.m.
“I’m looking forward to it,” the conservative talk-radio commentator said on his radio broadcast.
Maurice Filson, Joplin, is a Limbaugh fan and one of those who wrote letters nominating Joplin as the contest winner. Filson on Friday said he is thrilled that Limbaugh will come to Joplin as well.
“I was astounded when he said he’d come to Joplin,” Filson said. “That wasn’t really in the plan, but in my email, I told him we’d be honored if he would.”
Filson said Limbaugh read some of the emails about Joplin during his radio show, but he was uncertain if his was one of them.
“They talked about how bad the tornado was, how hard everyone was working to pull themselves up by their boot-straps, and about how many people were coming in to help.”
Filson said the opportunity to see Limbaugh has changed his mind, because he originally had not planned to attend the Landreth Park celebration.
The lineup
Joplin’s “Rockin’ Fourth of July” starts at 3 p.m. with performances by Joe Diffie and Confederate Railroad to be featured. Fireworks will begin at 9:50 p.m. and Liberty Pyrotechnics made a donation to double the size of the fireworks show. Parking will be allowed at the park and Ozark Christian College, and trolley service will be provided from Memorial Hall between 7 and 11 p.m.
Could be another bake sale..
Rush Loads up a Truckload of his product to pass out for Free and gets 100 Times the cost of the product back in Publicity for the Product!
I love to see Master Capitalists at work!
Dan’s Bake Sale II????
Not to mention that it’s a real shot in the arm for the folks in Joplin to let them know that people still care.
Ultra-Mega dittos!
Yes, Dan's Bake Sale was one of the biggest spontaneous events of the last century!!!
Bravo, Rush!
Now if we can only get Sarah to come and announce she’s running, I’d call it a PERFECT event for an exceedingly worthy cause!
Especially touching was Rush saying how many other people from all over the country nominated Joplin. (The birthplace of my “resting peacefully” sainted mother.)
I even have the pull quote:
“I know nature did this and not Obama, but if he gets another 4 years, the whole country is gonna look like this”...
Oh yeah, definitely a Win-Win for all involved!
Thaddeus McCotter, who's announcing today that he is running for the WH, in an interview with the Daily Caller, was asked what is the most dangerous thing Obama can do to America?
He replied: Get re-elected..
Have a great 4th!!
that's so true...the re-election of Obahbah..(& his ilk.)
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Soon in the Media:
“Rush Limbaugh is taking advantage of a national tragedy, in a crass attempt to push his new commercial venture at a 4th of July event in Joplin MO, thus exploiting people at the lowest point in their lives.
“By giving away his ‘Two If By Tea’ as a loss-leader, he is also impacting those small vendors normally at this event who depend on such meager income to keep them from becoming another statistic in the current economy. [which, by the way, is NOT Obama’s fault! ]”
Yup.
As some one who entered that contest, I can tell you that I can abslutely see why Joplin won, and how well it fit into
themes of people coming together in a spontaneous act of mutual aid in the face of a natural tragedy,not waiting or begging government to come to their aid, BUT I’m kind of disappointed he didn’t mention, even for a moment,any details of the other 3,000 entrants, like MINE!~ would’ve taken half a minute to mention 2 or 3 others.
Obama made an appearance down there exactly a week later, assuring the people there “you are not forgotten, we will be there......” he was well-received, even got a standing O in one place, but I wonder if anything has been done yet.
This tornado occurred little more than a month ago.
Rush was already made aware yesterday soon after he announced the winner on the air, that someone was saying his free tea would put a dent in whatever vendors would be there selling drinks. He didn’t seem to be able to come up soon enough with a good answer to that, seemed to be wanting some extra time to think about why that wasn’t true.
Joplin is no longer front page news but the task of rebuilding is far from complete.
The non MSM attention that Joplin gets will remind us all that there are still ways that they can use our help.
Thanks Rush
Maybe he’ll personally visit the vendors there and buy stuff from them ;)
You hear of promo contests all the time where someone wins free this-or-that, with hardly a mention of how it impacts those who are usually at such events ... perhaps not on the scale or as visible as this, but you know this will be played up in a negative light.
It helps that the product is really good Tea. If you want to know if a bottle or canned ice tea is really good, open a can or bottle that has yet to be chilled and taste it. The immediately taste a chilled can or bottle. The really good tea will have a slightly ‘fuzzy’ taste sensation at room and lose it completely when chilled, but the taste of tea will remain consistent.
Yeah, right. It was a marketing scam on his part as an excuse to continue talking about his latest venture, the same way his "staff" encourages him to talk about - promote - the tea, and the same way they only let people on the air if they talk about the tea. He pulled the same stunts with his tie business.
I'm happy a disaster-struck area like Joplin was chosen for his marketing promotion, but it was another convenient (and deserving) excuse to promote the tea. If he didn't waste so much other time over-promoting the tea, it might have had a bigger impact
I once had an exchange with a guy that "survived" a hurricane hit where I had relatives. A local brewery bottled/canned filtered water for free distribution. The point being that I seriously doubt his event will have all that much of a negative effect on the local vendors. Maybe the local vendors' suppliers will lower the price or have a BOGO promotion if they (the suppliers) fear Rush Limbaugh's mail order tea.
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