Limbaugh Makes Major Lemonade

When life hands you lemons, make lemonade.

I can hardly think of a more appropriate description of the recent events surrounding Rush Limbaugh in the MSM. I've already blogged about the first part of the issue, so I won't recap all the details, but the short version is that Rush Limbaugh was talking about a phony soldier who accused American troops of atrocities in Iraq; the MSM (more specifically, Media Matters, a group begun by Hillary Clinton and funded by George Soros) twisted his comments to make it sound like he considered all soldiers who opposed the war effort to be 'phony soldiers'. Despite making the audio and transcripts of his comments public, Limbaugh's statements were continually misrepresented by the MSM and the Democrats, even to the point where 41 Democrat Senators sent a letter to the head of the company that broadcasts Limbaugh's popular radio show in an effort to shut him up. This was an historic event - the U.S. Senate trying to officially censor a private American citizen.

Limbaugh, in response, put that very letter up for auction on eBay, pledging to donate 100% of the proceeds to the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation, which provides scholarships for students of Marine/law enforcement families who have lost a mother or father in action. In addition, he pledged to match whatever the final bid was, doubling the contribution.

Well, the eBay auction is over now, and the winning bid came in at a whopping $2.1 million, so the total contribution is around $4.2 million! That's a whole lot of lemonade!

The funny part, to me, is that Limbaugh also challenged (before the auction was over) the Democrats who signed the letter to also match the winning eBay bid. Naturally, they haven't, and as far as I know none of them have donated anything.

Don't the Democrats want to take care of children, and don't they support the military? If that's the case, why the silence now...?

Oh, yeah, it's because they don't, and they don't.

Once again, the Democrats were outflanked, outplayed, and outed for the hypocrites they are by a true American.

There's my two cents.