Doors to Limbaugh's Missouri "Honors" Locked, guarded by armed Missouri Highway Patrol members

[Amerigo Vespucci]

May 15, 2012 04:57 PM
Rush Limbaugh Inducted into Hall of Famous Missourians Behind Locked Doors

By Heather

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/rush-limbaugh-inducted-hall-famous-missour



Rush Limbaugh was inducted into the Hall of Famous Missourians yesterday, but the whole affair seemed strangely cloaked in secrecy.

The AM talker was ushered into an invite-only ceremony that took place behind closed doors inside the State Capitol's House chambers, "which were locked and guarded by armed members of the Missouri Highway Patrol while the ceremony took place," according to the Kansas City Star. Democratic lawmakers were banned from the induction.

A bust of Limbaugh, a Cape Girardeau native, was unveiled at the Hall of Fame ceremony. But for the first time in memory the chamber galleries were closed to the public. And the Republican Speaker of the Missouri House, Steve Tilley, who selected Limbaugh for the honor, gave the media just twenty minutes notice before the event took place.

The hush-hush nature of the event, which more closely resembled a clandestine political event than a feel-good acknowledgement, likely stemmed from the extraordinary controversy the selection sparked. Owing to Limbaugh's growing toxicity outside the narrow confines of right-wing talk radio, the backlash to the Missouri announcement was swift and fierce, coming as it did directly on the heels of Limbaugh's searing Sandra Fluke controversy.

[lumberjack_jeff]

1. When you induct people into your hall of fame secretly and...

Protected by armed guards, you are doing it wrong.

[Suich]

4. LOL! My sentiments, exactly!

[lpbk2713]

2. Limbaugh is a Black man??

Who knew?

[richardmyers]

3. In case anyone wants the link

StopRush is here:

http://stoprush.net

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. Who are the other losers in the picture?

His circle of friends?

[GoCubsGo]

6. I don't know, but I do know who they aren't.

Not one of them is his wife, which I find rather interesting.

The current Mrs. Limbaugh--Sorry, I couldn't find a photo without her shitstain husband in it:

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

8. She charges him extra for public appearances.

[ScreamingMeemie]

14. I'm not a body language expert and you can see that lean away.

[MineralMan]

7. Funny!

Limbaugh is famous, though. Famous doesn't imply either good or evil. It just means people know about famous people. Notorious is another similar word. One can be famous and still be an ignorant, lying asshole. Limbaugh is famous in just that way. That they had to lock the room and station armed guards at the door is good evidence of that.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

9. Limbaugh's bust is hard-headed with no actual brain inside that giant head.

In other words, a perfect replica!

[MatthewStLouis]

10. Now I'll have someplace to stick my gum, next time I'm at the capital. /nt

[Ganja Ninja]

11. Old lard ass's bust will have to be displayed inside a security case.

I guarantee someone will vandalize it if they don't.

[Mike Hall]

12. Here's what we posted at AFL-CIO Now

If only the rest of Rush Limbaugh’s career was behind closed doors and out of earshot of the public like this week’s secret induction of Limbaugh into the Hall of Famous Missourians.

In an almost clandestine operation at the state Capitol in Jefferson City, closed to the public and, behind closed doors, guarded by Missouri Highway Patrol officers, House Speaker Steven Tilley (R) and other Republican lawmakers fawned over the extremist hate-talk radio host.

Tilley announced in March that Limbaugh would join Mark Twain, Harry Truman, Walt Disney, Laura Ingalls and other Show Me State natives in the hall. There have been unconfirmed reports that Twain, Disney, Truman and several others are posthumously resigning from the hall.

Read more here.

[ScreamingMeemie]

13. Ha on the uncomfirmed reports!

Welcome to DU!