Democrats protest plan for Rush Limbaugh bust in Missouri

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Democrats protest plan for Rush Limbaugh bust in Missouri

By Bruce Olson

ST. LOUIS | Tue Mar 6, 2012 5:58pm EST

(Reuters) - A plan to place a bust in the Missouri Capitol to honor Rush Limbaugh, the conservative broadcaster embroiled in controversy over his calling a university student a "slut" on the air, has drawn protests from state Democrats who are trying to block the effort.

The bust, proposed by Republican state House Speaker Steve Tilley, would sit in the Capitol rotunda alongside those of other prominent Missouri natives such as writer Mark Twain and former president Harry Truman.

Some 47 Missouri Democratic leaders, in a letter delivered to Tilley on Tuesday, said Limbaugh should not be honored and that the action would be "inappropriate and offensive," a spokesman for Tilley confirmed.

"Honoring Mr. Limbaugh in the wake of this incident would be seen as a tacit endorsement of his misogynistic attitudes," read the letter, circulated by House Minority Leader Mike Talboy.

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[zbdent]

1. I wouldn't "protest" ... but, when nobody was looking, I'd "adorn" it with something quite fitting

to what comes out of his mouth ...

[mmonk]

2. A false idol of the sick of mind.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

3. Here's the prototype of the statue

[eShirl]

5. lol

DH said it would look more like a giant moob

[IDemo]

8. ->

[shark_attackk]

9. He looks great!

The artist who did the bust prototype was very generous. He looks MUCH better there than he does in real life.

[billybob537]

4. I would argue

It's not becouse of what he's already said, but becouse he's likely to do worse in the future. How embarrasing will his next faux pas be? Nobody knows????

[underpants]

6. They actually are guided by their proganda

We all know that but this is astonishing --an homage to him? Next to Twain and Truman??

[donco]

7. Think we could

get a condom big enough to fit over that melon?