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

[joe]

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

One would think that x amount of years spent in college without getting laid because of sophmoric and childish behavior like this would dissuade one from behaving in the same childish manner later in life.
Guess not.

[johanna]

rush was nominated the same way i could nominate my dog! gore has an actual nobel nomination. totally different, gore's is prestigious, rush's is juvenile!

[ahem]

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

After which you ordered 100 pizzas for a random neighbor? Wow, the humor of a kid who knocks on an old man's door and runs away. So indicative of the wingnut fraternity. Make up your damn silly mind, Riehl: either it's a worthless prize that Limbo Drugster would be demeaned to receive or be associated with, or it's a 'nomination' worth having.

In the meantime, Levin's well on his way to a 2007 Kippy, and it's only February.

[DANEgerus]

This isn't the 'coverofSportsIllustrated' jinx... all of those criminals chose to be exploitive walking/talking POS's.

It diminishes the Prize to have given it to so many enablers of tyranny.

[prozacula]

I gotta admit, dan - that was actually funny. I know everyone here is calling you a rube all the time, but this ONE time, I won't do that.

There really is something funny about Limbaugh being 'nominated' for the Nobel Peace Prize.

What's truly funny is the fact that he's about the best candidate you rightards could put forward for said prize. I mean, come on, whatayagonnado, nominate Bush? They don't have the Nobel WarMonger Prize yet, but if you clap hard enough...

[Pierre Tristam]

Nominating the whores of the world for a Nobel would be more just. They're more useful, and of course more honest, than that limbless rash of the airwaves could ever hope to be.

[Daniel DiRito]

See a tongue-in-cheek visual of Rush "rising" to the occasion...here:

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

[LOL]

limbaugh fits right in with yasser arafat

[calling all toasters]

Wait!? An actually decent human being, Al Gore, is nominated in reality, and right wingers in response nominate Rush Limbaugh in a fantasy? And the right wingers refuse to ever admit the difference between their wishes and actual real things? What does this remind me of...?

Oh, yeah: the last 20 years in America.

P.S. I am now nominated to be Giselle Bundchen's boy-toy. Thanks for the inspiration, Dan!

[KRank]

Hey Dan, don't you find you piss off the REAL right-wingers with your "I'm a dumb fuck right-wing pundit" schtick? Or do they not realize you're parodying them, like Colbert?

Either way, thanks for keeping all the entertaining comments. It's a hoot!

[brad]

I hereby nominate myself as Christ Reborn. Also as God Himself. And the reincarnation of Elvis.
Thank you, Dan Riehl, for showing me how to pad my resume in a highly effective manner.

[b]

I nominate George W. Bush for the Nobel Prize in Sucking.

[God]

I have a special place for Rush and His demonic worshippers....just ahead of Hitler and right in front of the furnace.

RIP right wing whackos!