Posted by Tina
Kids and teachers across the nation have been expressing their enthusiasm for Rush Limbaugh’s first book for children, “Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims: Time-Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans.” The enthusisam spilled over recently and made it possible for Rush to earn the Children’s Choice Book Award for author of the year. Book Sales decide a book’s eligibility for the award and then children are encouraged to vote for their favorite book from among the top sellers.
Congratulations to Rush whose second book, “Rush Revere and the First Patriots,” came out in February. The books are also available in audio versions.
An honor he deserves.
No, not teachers. This is a vote by children organized by a trade organization for children’s book publishers.
The book won nothing. Rush won author of the year.
Name recognition is a terrible thing.
That strange sound you hear is from Libs’ gnashing of their teeth, accompanied by tearing of their hair.
Way to go, Rush!
Sorry Libby I did not mean to imply teachers vote. I was referring to the teachers that have called Rush to say they have been reading the book/s and how much the kids enjoy them.
“The book won nothing. Rush won author of the year.”
Picky picky. And oh so petty too. Must be that progressive style of “inclusion and tolerance.”
Feelin’ the love.
Libby, I don’t even get how this is a result of name recognition. What children do you know that give a crap about the name Rush Limbaugh? Certainly there were names on the list that children are more familiar with? Authors who’ve written more than one book?
Weird.
“By the way, Junie B. Jones is a slut,” Rush presumably said as he concluded his awards speech, before dropping the mic and walking out.
:p
Re #3 J. Soden : A lovely sound and added plus.
Chris: “What children do you know that give a crap about the name Rush Limbaugh?”
Well maybe none that Libby knows personally but the nation is chock full of Rush babies from prenatal to “kids” pushing thirty that are/have been raised on Rush.
“Authors who’ve written more than one book? ”
He’s already published two…it’s a series that will include more…some may even be headed to television or full length movies.
@#6…must really rankle.
John 8:7
Mathew 7
Too funny. The left is beside themselves. “Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims: Time-Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans.” is a hit.
Tina: “Well maybe none that Libby knows personally but the nation is chock full of Rush babies from prenatal to “kids” pushing thirty that are/have been raised on Rush.”
OK, I wasn’t too bothered by Rush winning the award (I just found it kind of strange and funny), but this…this bothers me.
A steady diet of hate is good for no one.
By the way, I stand foursquare against anyone who calls Sandra Fluke a slut. She is a government subsidized slut.
Ah, Chris, if the radio’s on, they’ll pick it up. I was raised with the classical radio station on in the background. So many sad children are not so lucky, and I fear for the Republic.
As to his public demeanor … the man’s a creep … nobody expects his behavior to be any better.
Is there any group more arrogantly full of themselves than liberals/progressives? Man are they full of themselves!
“I was raised with the classical radio station on in the background”
I was raised with all kinds of music, including classical music…so what?
Maybe the lack of variety in your wee life explains how you can today be so ignorant regarding your heritage as well as unappreciative of the freedom that made your idyllic childhood possible.
If hate is the thing liberals and progressives, including several who post here, should take a bow. The hateful things you say are meant to hurt…designed to wound and serve no useful purpose.
The often absurd things that Rush sometimes sprinkles in his dialogue always have a purpose and in context make sense and are not meant to be hurtful or to wound. They are intended to spark interest, discussion and independent thought.
When people pretend that its possible to live in a “nice bubble” and then set out to achieve the creation of that “nice bubble” by bullying people to speak and act only as they proscribe, they murder honest and open discussion and ultimately greater understanding.
You don’t get Rush because you can’t get past your own hate and you can’t get past that because ypu live in that pretend world.
Get real!
Pie when I posted this I had no idea the left actually protested formally and tried to get the decision changed. The nice people strike again!
Tina: “The often absurd things that Rush sometimes sprinkles in his dialogue always have a purpose and in context make sense and are not meant to be hurtful or to wound. They are intended to spark interest, discussion and independent thought.”
Rush: “Junie B. Jones is a slut.”
Tina … say that again.
“Slut” would spark independent thought about an author’s work … exactly … how?
And I will be requiring a response to this. Come on … tell us.
Is a woman who writes for a living a slut?
Is a woman who crosses Rush a slut?
Is an author who happens to be a woman who crosses Rush a slut?
Come on. Make something constructive out of this. Or we’re all going to have to start saying out loud things about self-loathing that we’ve been thinking for quite some time.
Oh, fer pity’s sake … and from HuffPo:
Nominees are selected by the most objective method possible, sales, while the winners are supposedly picked by kids, who vote online. But executive director Robin Adelson of the Children’s Book Council and Every Child a Reader, nonprofit organizations that co-founded the awards seven years ago, acknowledged Thursday that adults could easily vote and vote multiple times, a problem not uncommon for Internet competitions.
“Every one of our finalists gets fake votes every year,” Adelson told The Associated Press. “We like to think that’s the enthusiasm of adults who love children’s books.”
Adelson cited three ways that people can vote: a widget that can be embedded in such popular kids’ websites as http://www.poptropica.com, a link on the awards website (http://ccbookawards.com) that allows individuals to vote and a link on the awards site that allows teachers, librarians and others to submit bulk votes on behalf of their institution.
Adelson said she doubted that parents or other grown-ups were voting through Poptropica, but acknowledged the awards site was more likely to be manipulated. An individual voter can vote multiple times and does not need to provide a verifiable email address or proof of his or her age. Bulk voters are required to submit a verifiable email, but there is no guarantee that a given teacher or librarian is really expressing the wishes of others.
“We send emails and make phone calls. A lot of manual labor goes into verifying (bulk voters),” Adelson said. “Do we catch them all? Of course not.”
Limbaugh has touted his nomination on his radio show and on his website, http://www.rushlimbaugh.com . Adelson said Limbaugh initially enjoyed a wide lead, but that voting tightened considerably in the final weeks and the outcome was “fair and close.”
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Jesus H.
“Author of the Year”, my Aunt Fanny.
The “Most Pathetic SOB on God’s Earth” is more like it.
Libby, maybe I’m misreading your comment, but I hope you understood that Rush did not actually call the fictional children’s character Junie B. Jones a slut. That was my attempt at satire.
But, given that Rush Limbaugh has complained about purportedly anti-free-market messages in “The Muppet Movie,” accused the producers of “The Dark Knight Rises” of plotting to sink the Mitt Romney campaign by naming the villain Bane (a villain that was introduced in the comics in the 1990s), and has said that Colbert taking over Late Night is an “assault on the heartland of America…”
Well, I can understand why you’d think it was the kind of stupid thing Rush would actually say.
Can you imagine a Soros slut like Chris writing a children’s book? Or Libby?
Gag me with a spoon.
LIE: “Rush is a drug addict paid to propagandize”
No Libby, A woman who passes herself off as a “poor” student who can’t possibly get through her expensive law school unless the taxpayers are forced to pay for her birth control is a woman who has set herself up to be discussed in terms of her priorities and proclivities within an overall discussion about whether the people should bear this ridiculous burden.
The slur began as a question as the show opened and was later acknowledged as a regrettable error in judgement. Two sincere public apologies were given by Rush, which is more than I can say for any of the many horrid males and females that have said this and more about Republican women. The deplorable behavior toward women of Bill Clinton was celebrated by your party faithful Libby!
You are a phony and a hypocrite!
Thank you for clarifying Chris.
And if you think Hollywood doesn’t play politics within their movies and propagandize to children to boot you are naive indeed. NOTHING is done by accident in a Hollywood movie…nothing!
Tina: “No Libby, A woman who passes herself off as a “poor” student who can’t possibly get through her expensive law school unless the taxpayers are forced to pay for her birth control is a woman who has set herself up to be discussed in terms of her priorities and proclivities within an overall discussion about whether the people should bear this ridiculous burden.”
That is not even remotely what happened.
“A woman who passes herself off as a “poor” student”
Fluke never described herself as a “poor” student. She did say “we students have faced financial, emotional and medical burdens as a result” of the lack of contraceptive coverage, and provided a lot of evidence to back up her claim.
“unless the taxpayers are forced to pay for her birth control”
This is a commonly repeated lie, but Sandra Fluke’s testimony had nothing to do with taxpayer-funded birth control. Georgetown’s health coverage is not funded by taxpayer money:
“In the case of Georgetown University, health coverage is not funded by taxpayers, but by premiums students pay for the Premier Plan that is underwritten by the United HealthCare Insurance Company. Students who enrolled by September of last year were charged $1,895 for one year of coverage.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/07/study-shows-birth-control-saves-taxpayer-money/
Although as a side note, the above link does cite evidence showing that taxpayer-funded contraception would actually save tax payers money in the long run, due to less spending on welfare and prison costs:
“A report released by The Brookings Institution this week showed that a $235 million program to expand access to Medicaid family planning would actually result in a savings of $1.35 billion. That’s a return on investment of over 500 percent.”
Tina: “…is a woman who has set herself up to be discussed in terms of her priorities and proclivities within an overall discussion about whether the people should bear this ridiculous burden.”
The majority of Fluke’s testimony centered on real health problems that are treated by contraception, not on its use for birth control, so you are absolutely wrong; her “proclivities” never should have entered into the discussion, since her focus was on medical treatment and not sex.
Furthermore, Rush and others showed a deep misunderstanding of female contraception in their discussion of her “proclivities,” repeatedly suggesting that she must be having “so much sex” if she is spending so much on birth control a year.
Despite having a cumulative total of four wives and zero children, Rush apparently is unaware that hormonal contraception doesn’t work that way. You don’t take X number of pills to have X number of intercourse. Most women on the pill must take it at regular intervals regardless if they are planning on having sex soon or not. So the amount of contraceptives Fluke or any other woman is taking has absolutely zilch to do with how much sex they are having. It’s amazing that many women actually defended Rush’s comments and don’t seem to know (or are intentionally ignoring; cognitive dissonance is a hell of a drug) this basic fact about women’s birth control.
Another argument, which has been made by you, is that women can just walk into a Walgreens and get very cheap birth control for far less than Fluke estimated. This ignores the fact that many women need a prescription for birth control, and often need to adjust their dosage levels more than once in order to get a pill that works for them. Hormonal birth control is complex, and those complexities are often expensive. It’s not as easy or cheap as you made it seem. (Again, it’s sad that I have to explain this to a woman.)