This is just astonishing. Liberal Senators had no idea what they were doing when they attacked Rush Limbaugh on his “phony soldiers” comment, claiming that he had a track record of denigrating the troops. Limbaugh’s said a lot of things in his 20-year career, but denigrating the troops has never been one of them. To cut a long story short, leftwing U.S. Senator Harry Reid got up on the floor of the House, read a letter petitioning ClearChannel (Limbaugh’s syndication partner) to remove him from the airwaves. It was signed by quite a few other liberal Senators including presidential frontrunner Hilary Clinton.
Mark Mays, CEO of ClearChannel, is a friend of Limbaugh’s who, instead of removing Rush from the airwaves upon receiving it, simply passed the letter on to Limbaugh himself. Limbaugh (who is brilliant at public relations) then decided to auction it off on eBay, the proceeds of which will go to a charity which provides college tuition to the children of Marines who have died in Iraq. The highest bid on the auction was over $2.1 million, paid by philanthropist Betty Casey…. thus my suggestion that the Senators had no idea how this would come back to bite them.
Here’s Rush Limbaugh at a speaking engagement this week announcing the eBay auction. It’s a riveting video.
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