That’s right. The Landmark Legal Foundation, “the premiere public interest law firm fighting for conservative principles in America,” has nominated the rotund one (who serves as an unpaid member of Landmark’s Board of Advisors) for the Nobel Peace Prize. Here’s LLF’s nominating letter.
The italics have been added to highlight the “reasons” Limbaugh was nominated:
February 1, 2007
Professor Ole Danbolt Mjos
Chairman,
Norwegian Nobel Institute
Henrik Ibsens Gate 51
NO-0255
Oslo, Norway
Dear Dr. Mjos:
Landmark Legal Foundation herewith submits the name of Rush Limbaugh as an unsolicited nomination for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
We are offering this nomination for Mr. Limbaugh’s nearly two decades of tireless efforts to promote liberty, equality and opportunity for all mankind, regardless of race, creed, economic stratum or national origin. We fervently believe that these are the only real cornerstones of just and lasting peace throughout the world.
Rush Limbaugh is a nationally syndicated radio talk show host in the United States and one of the most popular broadcasters in the world. His daily radio show is heard on more than 600 radio stations in the United States and around the world. For 18 years he has used his show to become the foremost advocate for freedom and democracy in the world today. Everyday he gives voice to the values of democratic governance, individual opportunity and the just, equal application of the rule of law – and it is fitting the Nobel Committee recognize the power of these ideals to build a truly peaceful world for future generations.
Thank you for your thoughtful and serious consideration of this nomination. Should you require additional information, please don’t hesitate to contact me.
Sincerely,
Mark R. Levin
President
Consider Mr. Levin’s “reasons” for nominating Limbaugh in light of the latter’s record.
(CNN) – Amid a storm of controversy over his racially charged comments
on a weekend TV show, conservative commentator and radio talk show host
Rush Limbaugh announced on Thursday that he had resigned from his post
at ESPN.
CALLER: It [the Abu Ghraib torture] was like a college fraternity prank that stacked up naked men –
LIMBAUGH: Exactly. Exactly my point! This is no different than what
happens at the Skull and Bones initiation and we’re going to ruin
people’s lives over it and we’re going to hamper our military effort,
and then we are going to really hammer them because they had a good
time. You know, these people are being fired at every day. I’m talking
about people having a good time, these people, you ever heard of
emotional release? You ever heard of need to blow some steam off?
Given that Limbaugh saw torture as fun-and-games, it wasn’t surprising when he made fun of Michael J. Fox’s Parkinson’s disease.
Possibly worse than making fun of someone’s disability is saying that
it’s imaginary. That is not to mock someone’s body, but to challenge a
person’s guts, integrity, sanity.
To Rush Limbaugh on Monday, Michael J. Fox looked like a faker. The
actor, who suffers from Parkinson’s disease, has done a series of
political ads supporting candidates who favor stem cell research,
including Maryland Democrat Ben Cardin, who is running against
Republican Michael Steele for the Senate seat being vacated by Paul
Sarbanes.
“He is exaggerating the effects of the disease,” Limbaugh told
listeners. “He’s moving all around and shaking and it’s purely an act.
… This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn’t take his
medication or he’s acting.”
Limbaugh claimed Michael J. Fox “didn’t take his medication.” Rush, on the other hand, took his even when it was not prescribed:
If you believe a woman named Wilma Cline, the nationally syndicated
radio personality Rush Limbaugh would drive three miles from his $23
million Palm Beach, Fla., estate to a Denny’s parking lot so that she
could hand over a cigar box concealing dozens of tiny prescription
painkillers. The loquacious Limbaugh, his housekeeper says, was often
high on “hillbilly heroin.”
(CNN) – Rush Limbaugh announced on his radio program Friday that he is
addicted to pain medication and that he is checking himself into a
treatment center immediately.
“You know I have always tried to be honest with you and open about my
life,” the conservative commentator said in a statement on his
nationally syndicated radio show.
“I need to tell you today that part of what you have heard and read is
correct. I am addicted to prescription pain medication.”
Law enforcement sources said last week that Limbaugh’s name had come up during an investigation into a black market drug ring in Palm Beach County, Florida. The sources said that authorities were looking into the illegal sale of the prescription drugs OxyContin and hydrocodone. [italics added]
Why would Landmark Legal Foundation make a fool of itself and a mockery
of the Nobel Peace Prize by nominating Rush Limbaugh? Perhaps the
answer can be found in the nomination’s announcement carried by James
Dobson’s CitizenLink
newsletter:
“Earlier this week, former Vice President Al Gore was
nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Now Rush Limbaugh is up for the
honor.”
Al Gore was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize because of his work to
inform people and hopefully ward off not only the greatest threat to
global peace, but to life on planet Earth. Mocking and dismissing the
reality of climate change and global warming have been mainstays of
ultraconservatives and some religious fanatics like James Dobson and Lou Sheldon who prefer to keep their heads neatly tuck in their own political rectums, a place well known to the Bush administration that, among other collusions, is infamous for suppressing and changing scientific studies to suit its political needs:
“The Democratic chairman of a House panel examining the government’s
response to climate change said Tuesday there is evidence that senior
Bush administration officials sought repeatedly ‘to mislead the public
by injecting doubt into the science of global warming.’”
The consensus and recent report of international scientists and climatologists are compelling to say the least. As a February 4, 2007 New York Timeseditorial put it,
A distillation of the best peer-reviewed science, the report expresses
more than 90 percent certainty that man-made emissions from the burning
of fossil fuels have caused the steady rise in atmospheric
temperatures, with the destruction of tropical rain forests playing a
lesser but important role. …
This is not a report compiled by a bunch of activists or alarmists. It
is a consensus document, the inherently conservative product of three
years of study and debate among mainstream scientists from 150
countries with often competing agendas. And in its modesty, it is
alarming enough.
It also shines a bright light on the blatant lies and cover-ups perpetrated by the Bush administration:
Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global
catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters.
A secret report, suppressed by US defense chiefs and obtained by The
Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising
seas as Britain is plunged into a ‘Siberian’ climate by 2020. Nuclear
conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt
across the world.
The document predicts that abrupt climate change could bring the planet
to the edge of anarchy as countries develop a nuclear threat to defend
and secure dwindling food, water and energy supplies. The threat to
global stability vastly eclipses that of terrorism, say the few experts
privy to its contents.
‘Disruption and conflict will be endemic features of life,’ concludes
the Pentagon analysis. ‘Once again, warfare would define human life.’
The findings will prove humiliating to the Bush administration, which
has repeatedly denied that climate change even exists. Experts said
that they will also make unsettling reading for a President who has
insisted national defense is a priority.
“Limbaugh calls concern about the ozone layer
‘balderdash. Poppycock.’ The only people who worry about it are
‘environmental wackos,’ ‘dunderheaded alarmists and prophets of doom.’”
No doubt the Nobel Institute will give the nomination of Rush Limbaugh
all the “consideration” it deserves and will view any future
nominations from Landmark Legal “appropriately.”
Come on, guys. Yes, Limbaugh was once hugely overweight. But he lost the weight and has been height to weight proportional for years. That kind of ad hominem attack would be puerile were it accurate, and calls into question other more substantive criticisms.
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