Limbaugh Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize

While not being able to keep up with all of his many accomplishments over the years, I do speak from personal experience when I say Rush Limbaugh's 1992 Best Seller The Way Things Ought To Be may have done more to carry discussion of conservative ideas and the concept of political freedom into elements of American popular culture where it was never thought much about before.

So it's good to see Mr. Limbaugh finally nominated for the Noble Peace Prize:

LEESBURG, Va., Feb. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Landmark Legal Foundation today nominated nationally syndicated radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

Limbaugh, whose daily radio show is heard by more than 20 million
people on more than 600 radio stations in the United States and around the
world, was nominated for the prestigious award for his "nearly two decades
of tireless efforts to promote liberty, equality and opportunity for all
humankind, regardless of race, creed, economic stratum or national origin.
These are the only real cornerstones of just and lasting peace throughout
the world," said Landmark President Mark R. Levin.

Unfortunately, this might not bode well for his career. In 1988 the Nobel Peace Prize went to the United Nations Peace Keepers, who went on to distinguish themselves as sex traffickers and under-aged skin traders of world renown.

As if those shoes aren't hard enough to fill, there's always the 1994 winner, terrorist Yasser Arafat - one of the few individuals to often meet privately with then President Bill Clinton without fear of staining his dress.

And who could forget 2001 winner Kofi Annan, or 2002's Jimmy Carter, both somehow allegedly long on being noble, questionable on anti-semitism, and extremely short on actually bringing peace to anywhere, certainly not Rwanda or Iran and the Middle-East, respectively.

With some thought, perhaps the real question is, were the honorable Mr. Limbaugh to ultimately win the prize, is it one he should even accept?

Though were he to put it on E-Bay, I suppose a fellow named Clinton could be counted on to run up the bids.

Oh, some guy named Al was nominated as well. Is he a plumber, or something?

Comments

[Oregonian]

I'll bet Dan gets hot just looking at that big, phallic cigar cradled in Limbaugh's hand.

[Artie]

What a sad, impotent drug-addict. Loved his MJ Fox impression - so did SENATOR McCaskill!!! Hahahahaha!!!!

[Dan Riehl]

I never did see what there was to get all shook up about.

[Legalize]

Does this remind anyone else of that Johnny Thunders song, "No More Junkie Business"? Me either.

[Jon G]

First, these jokers have no standing to actually nominate anybody. Nice try though. But the good news is the Al Gore nomination is real - and I'm rooting for him to win it, the Oscar and then the Presidential election.

"Nomination to the Nobel Peace Prize is by invitation only. The Nobel Committee sends confidential forms to persons who are competent and qualified to nominate. The names of the nominees and other information about the nominations cannot be revealed until 50 years later."

http://nobelprize.org/nomination/peace/nominators.html

But the nomination for Al Gore is real.

[Bill Adkins]

Dan, Dan, Dan!!! You are one of those people fooled all the time!! Not that Limbaugh in any way merits the award, but Landmark Legal Foundation cannot nominate someone for the Peace Prize. Did you get this release from the same person who produced that Arkin forgery? Then again, I've seen Levin and he may very well be deranged enough to believe he can nominate and you may be deranged enough to believe him.

"The candidates eligible for the Nobel Peace Prize are those nominated by qualified persons who have received an invitation from the Nobel Committee to submit names for consideration. No one can nominate himself or herself."

Do you really think the Nobel committee would demean themselves to such a degree to ask Levin for any thing, even direction to the men's room?

http://nobelprize.org/nomination/peace/

[yyy]

Dare I say, Dan is an 'asshat' for this stupid, childish post.

Who can we report a Nobel Prize Nomination Hoax to?

[Dan Riehl]

Who can we report a Nobel Prize Nomination Hoax to?

Uh, read the rules, you can't You have no idea who can nominate and who can't. ; )

[Jon G]

Read again Dan. Right in the nomination it says that Landmark offered the nomination as UNSOLICITED. ; )

And here's a list of who is a qualified nominator. Law firms don't get in.

September – Nomination forms are sent out. The Nobel Committee sends out invitation letters containing confidential forms to individuals qualified to nominate – members of national assemblies, governments, and international courts of law; university chancellors, professors of social science, history, philosophy, law and theology; leaders of peace research institutes and institutes of foreign affairs; Nobel Peace Prize Laureates of previous years; board members of organizations that have received the Nobel Peace Prize; present and past members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee; and former advisers of the Norwegian Nobel Institute.

[gobblegobble]

"Landmark Legal Foundation herewith submits the name of Rush Limbaugh as
an unsolicited nomination for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize."

Hey asshat!

The keyword here is UNSOLICITED.

[yyy]

I can say with 99.9999999999 percent certainty that Rush Limbaugh was not nominated for a Nobel Prize.

[Dan Riehl]

I can say with

Then you would be a fool, one who obviously not read.

"an unsolicited nomination"

Now, were you intelligent, you could say you believe there's a x % chance the nomination won't be accepted, you might even say 100%. What you cannot say is that he was not nominated. Thanks for playing.

[Jon G]

Just like you can't say he's not a drug addict:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/rushsearch1.html

Just like you can't say he likes to take sex excursion to 3rd World Countries:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0706062rush1.html

[gobblegobble]

Poor Dan. How embarrassing.

Skanked again.

[Dan Riehl]

How embarrassing

Oh, I don't know. Mark and I had quite a chuckle over it in email.

[Alex]

"What you cannot say is that he was not nominated."

So, by this logic, if I get my friend to send the Nobel Foundation a letter saying I'm awesome and should be nominated, no one can say I wasn't?

Man, my resume is going to be SWEET.

[Legalize]

This is totally legit. My brother's roomate's boss' drycleaner nominated Courtney Love just the other day.

[yyy]

So, by this logic, if I get my friend to send the Nobel Foundation a letter saying I'm awesome and should be nominated, no one can say I wasn't?
------------------------------

Exactly.

You could even get your 6 year old to 'nominate' you in crayon and according to Dan that would count, you could write a press release saying that you had been "nominated" for a Nobel Prize.

Problem is, of course, that only SOLICITED NOMINATIONS COUNT...

What a pathetic loser you are Dan.

[Dan Riehl]

What a pathetic loser you are Dan

Um, why? I had some fun, a few laughs and it's you idiots that got all upset. ha ha ha

[yyy]

We're not upset, we already know you're a lying asshat, Dan.

I am just continually amazed at how low you will go.

[Carl]

All this shows is that the 28%ers are just bitter losers. Too bad they lose wars and elections and only seem to get nominated for Darwin Awards. Stay the course, brave patriots!!

[TheSpartan]

Dan you keep reaching with your posts, they get more pathetic everyday. Do they give a Nobel Douche Prize?

[Purple Avenger]

"But the nomination for Al Gore is real."

So was Arafat's, so I'm not sure how prestigious it is anymore.

[Oregonian]

Wouldn't you just love to suck on that cigar, Dan? Rush could pop one of those little blue pills he needs and you could take that big ol' stogie in your mouth and just puff and puff and puff.

[Quentin]

Imagine how much hilbilly heroin this fatass had to ingest in order to go deaf. What a sack of shit.

[tb]

Mr. Traditional Values never did explain what he was doing in the Dominican Republic with all that Viagra.

[don surber]

Well, he was Time magazine’s person of the year for 2006 ...

[Capitalist Infidel]

Why is it that the only kind of arguements the far left wing fantatical kooks at this site are ad hominem attacks? Are they all this intellectually vacant?

[Rob Kaufman]

"How embarrassing

Oh, I don't know. Mark and I had quite a chuckle over it in email.

Posted by: Dan Riehl | Thursday, February 01, 2007 at 04:46 PM"

I see only one problem with this claim Dan, for me to believe this I would have to jump a pretty high hurdle to get past the obvious fact that you are lacking a sense of humor. And no Dan being the butt of jokes does not mean you have a sense of humor.

[Daniel DiRito]

See a tongue-in-cheek visual recounting Al Gore's recent successes and the possibility of a more "lofty" goal...here:

http://www.thoughttheater.com/2007/02/oscar_nomineenobel_prize_nomineewhats_next.php

[chrys]

AH HA - - Maybe the Nobel Prize is headed by way of "Time Magazine's Man of the Year" - "Person of the Year"?!? They will put a mirror on stage with engraving over it and you can take a picture of you standing under the engraving! I'm still trying to figure out what "global warming" has to do with peace?!? How does the "global warming" ARGUMENT qualify for a Peace Prize? lol

[tb]

"Why is it that the only kind of arguements the far left wing fantatical kooks at this site are ad hominem attacks? Are they all this intellectually vacant?"

No, there's just not that much you can say when somebody writes something as crap-your-pants stupid as this post. Limbaugh's obviously the last person in the world you'd give the Nobel Prize for anything; by any rational standard he is a degenerate sleazebag and a hypocrite. Everyone understands that except you raving nutbag right-wingers. And of course, the people "nominating" him have no power to do so; they might as well nominate him to be king of unicornland. It's idiotic.

[Andrez]

I just nominated Ronald Reagan's favorite Teletubbie for the Peace prize. During the final 25 years of his life, Reagan was senile and his favorite companion was his Teletubbie. It gave The Great Communicator much peace and comfort.

[scarshapedstar]

"Noble"? Sounds counterfeit to me...

[djangone]

I nominate this page, including all of Dan's comments, for 'most illiterate blog-post of the year.' Dan, if you can't write a simple declarative sentence, you're not bloody likely to break out of your rut in the fourth-tier, ant-fart-in-the-corner backwater in the Grand Wingnut Movement. As low as are right-wing standards, you manage to not be meeting them all the same...and I say that in the best Dan Riehl style.

[Paladin]

Honestly, if Jimmy Carter can get one... how much could they be worth?

[abe]

Hmmmm....well let's see. Carter is a selfless advocate for democracy, peace and preserving the planet we live on for our children and grandchildren. Limbaugh...isn't.

So I would say the prize is only "difficult" for Republicans to win since only humans are eligible.

Just saying.

[SOME COMMENTER]

Never really been to this blog before, Dan.

However, judging by the vitriol and nonsense and downright cluelessness displayed by your lefty commenters, let me say: keep up the good work!

[Sarcastro]

"Why is it that the only kind of arguements the far left wing fantatical kooks at this site are ad hominem attacks?"

The problem is the line blurs when the people you are addressing really are, quite literally, dirt-stupid repeat losers. I mean really, the right wing blogosphere is the freakin Washington Generals of the internet. You're just here to look stupid while Meadow Lark Atrios and "Curly", no! run circles around your trifling asses.

"Are they all this intellectually vacant?"

No, most are merely content to win the argument. Very few of us stay around to mercilessly mock the stuttering incoherance that inevitably follows.

I mean, really... the "I was really trolling" argument? It's been a decade since that craven excuse worked anywhere on the internet but AOL chat rooms for dyspeptic teens.

[abe]

"vitriol and downright cluelessness" SOME COMMENTER? Dan nominated RUSH LIMBAUGH for the Nobel Peace prize. Get it? Get it? No? hehehe...not surprised. Not even a little bit.

Carry on tiny brain. Soldier on my wingnut friend. YOU are the wind beneath my wings. You (yes, you SOME COMMENTER) make me proud to to be a leftie.

[AST]

I'm still wondering why George W. Bush hasn't been recognized. :) What good is peace, if it means that creeps like Saddam Hussein hold sway?

Now about Al "Private Jet" Gore and his moving picture, how much more carbon will be dumped into the atmosphere, first, by his flying to Sweden to accept the award, and then by his acceptance speech? This poor schmuck should get a pat on the head for debasing himself to declare Bill Clinton the greatest president in history, while Bill was busy humping his leg, then managed to control his weight for an entire campaign which he lost by the narrowest of margins, even while winning the popular vote.

It would be fun to see him get up and do his Baptist preacher routine over Global Warming, although I don't see the connection between that and world peace, but I think that he shouldn't win, because of the encouragement it would give to more Green Goofs.

[Lesley]

I gotta give Dumb Dan one thing. Unlike 99.999% of the other rightwing batshit insane pundits blogging tripe, he doesn't screen his comments.

[tally]

this is the worse winter weather i've had in years, what bad timing for al.

[Smgumby]

Hey, did you hear the news? RUSH LIMBAUGH has been nominated for KING OF UNICORNLAND!!! He must be so proud. And SadlyNo has nominated Dan for new Starlet of the year award! What kind of dress are you wearing to the ceremony, Dan?

[Purple Avenger]

"Wouldn't you just love to suck on that cigar, Dan?"

Sounds like someone is projecting to me ;->

[SOME COMMENTER]

"You (yes, you SOME COMMENTER) make me proud to to be a leftie."

Abe: you have nothing to be proud of.

Man, aren't all you libs so compassionate and tolerate of others viewpoints? You are, right? Hey, let's nominate Airhead America for a Nobel Peace Prize. Oh, right. AA has been canceled...everywhere. Oh, well, you guys will still have the voices in your heads...

[Abe]

God I love that "you're so compassionate" silliness. Jesus love me, you cons are a riot pulling the "we're weak stupid dummies please help us" shtick now that you've been shown to be losers and fuckwits. How sad. Continue on tiny brain. Try real real hard. You're still not smart enough to get it: and that's just pathetic.

Your idiot leader can't string two sentences together and apparently neither can you and you whine for me to take pity on you.

God you retards aren't worth the spit it would take to hock one on you.

[ajay]

Then you would be a fool, one who obviously not read. "an unsolicited nomination" Now, were you intelligent, you could say you believe there's a x % chance the nomination won't be accepted, you might even say 100%. What you cannot say is that he was not nominated. Thanks for playing.

If it was unsolicited, it's not a nomination. If I write to the Academy and say "I think my brother deserves a nomination for Best Actor", I can't then advertise my brother's movie with the tagline "NOMINATED FOR BEST ACTOR ACADEMY AWARD", because I don't get to make nominations. Suggestions, yes. But only a select list of people get to make nominations. Same for the Nobels. The Landmark press release is, frankly, a lie.

[TR]

Why stop with the Nobel Peace Prize? You should nominate Rush for an Oscar, an Emmy, a Tony, and an Adult Video News award.

[joe]

I love the way Danny boy foists the legitimacy of a Limbaugh nomination, then when called an idiot for backing an idiot he claims it was all a ruse to piss everyone off.

Dan, what are you? Twelve years old?

Jesus fucking H KEEEEEErist you people are the worst thing to happen to American credibility in 100 yrs at least!!!! You don't care about your dishonesty. You don't care about anything but your narrow agenda. Low Taxes. That's the basis of your entire existence. To hell with anything and everything. Just as long as your tax burden is negligable.

Pathetic little greedy fucks.