Taxpayers fund $1,100 for camera Rush Limbaugh

[KansDem]

Source: CBS News

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri House has spent more than $1,100 in taxpayer money on a security camera to keep watch over a new bronze bust of conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh.

House Clerk Adam Crumbliss said Thursday he authorized the camera because of concerns the sculpture of Limbaugh's shoulders and head might be vandalized.

Limbaugh was inducted into the Hall of Famous Missourians last week during a closed-door ceremony intended to keep away protesters. Some Democrats, women's groups and liberal activists opposed Limbaugh's selection.

The bust went on public display at the Missouri Capitol after lawmakers ended their annual session last Friday.

The hall features dozens of statues of people including President Harry Truman, Walt Disney and former Cardinals baseball star Stan Musial.

Limbaugh's is the only one with its own security camera.



Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501363_162-57441145/taxpayers-fund-$1100-for-camera-rush-limbaugh/

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Limbaugh's is the only one with its own security camera.


on edit: I wonder if CBS meant to say "Taxpayers fund $1,100 for Rush Limbaugh camera"?

[truthisfreedom]

1. Hate radio.

Whadda ya expect?

[freshwest]

9. Chief abuser of the Constitution gets the red carpet treatment as always.

[bluesbassman]

2. CCTV direct feed to Rush's bedroom.

[cstanleytech]

3. I think its truly horrid that they must protect a simple piece of carved stone like this.

Why it should be out in a nice park where everyone may enjoy........including the pigeons :p lol

[DCKit]

30. No kidding. All they had to do is make it life-sized, and it'd be as permanent as Mt. Rushmore.

They don't make lifting equipment that big.

[bupkus]

4. Yet another example

of just how fucking stupid Americans truly are.

[Grassy Knoll]

5. Ass Head....

[marble falls]

13. The only time you see Rush along the side of something with a fatter head.......

I wish I has the jiggling Rush clip Olbermann used to run.

[tularetom]

18. Rat cheer

[marble falls]

33. I can't begin to see that clip enough. I owe you.

[wordpix]

45. I wonder what drug Rush was on when that was filmed

[smirkymonkey]

54. God, how revolting.

Like the original wasn't odious enough. They had to go and make a copy.

[magic59]

6. I hope the pigeons use it for potty training

It should draw lots of crap because that's what comes out of his mouth all day.

[47of74]

37. Bring it up north here to Iowa

That way the birds will have something nice, big, and shiny to crap on and will stay away from my car.

[Voice for Peace]

7. ooh they're just asking for it..

a job for ninjas?

[caveat_imperator]

8. What a waste of bronze.

[freshwest]

10. And taxpayer money. Missouri's disgrace on display.

[lastlib]

11. I still say they put up the wrong head.

[marble falls]

12. The camera is worth more than the scrap value of the statue!

[Norbert]

14. Question???

How can you tell if somthing that fuggly has been vandalized?

[KansDem]

35. Maybe when you notice it's looking better?

Hey! Rush's bust looks better today! We'd better report the vandalism...

[bluedigger]

15. Job to monitor said camera unfillable.

[Turbineguy]

16. That's the least he costs us.

He's probably cost us closer to $1100 per capita.

[christx30]

17. To truely

represent LImbaugh's head, it should have been inserted into it's own rectum, while saying all women are whores/tramps.

[sky imager]

19. For once I wished I was a pigeon....

[Smilo]

20. Coming soon: Mission Impossible LoudMouth...........

.... saving Missouri from its own stupidity.

[BlueIris]

21. Disgusting.

That is the single most disgusting story I have encountered all month. That's really saying something.

[underpants]

22. "closed-door ceremony " He can't go out in public

People don't like him

What a sad sad life

[crunch60]

29. Limbaugh is a bloated, drug addicted, pedophile who can't get his

weenie up without massive doses of Viagra. Send in a drone to take care of that bronze statue.

[wordpix]

46. DrugRush has the "honor" of having the only closed door public ceremony in history! Wow

[Woody Woodpecker]

23. Hopefully MO Legislature will turn blue

and ordered the Limbaugh into the recycliing bin taken away for melt-down.

He is not a famous Missorian - he's a pedophile, and will always be a pedophile. Does Missouri care to honor pedophiles?

[tawadi]

24. His likeness will break the camera

Costing the taxpayers even more money.

[benld74]

25. Check out this rebuttal by a dittohead in the Post Dispatch

in the coments on the story section

Oh, Marlena.

You don't REALLY dislike Rush because he snapped the leash of a professional activist who said something absurd in a... a... a pretend Congressional hearing and then got called out on it.

Just say what you mean. Try the truth. I can respect the truth. Just choose the real reason why you dislike Rush from the following list:

“I don’t like Rush Limbaugh because he effectively articulates values that I do not share.”

“I don’t like Rush Limbaugh because he was the vanguard impetus for a wave of conservative media (including Fox News) that makes it harder for the narrative of my values to flourish.”

“I don’t like Rush Limbaugh because he was the vanguard impetus of middle-finger political rhetoric that runs rampant today (and in which I often participate wholeheartedly while condemning publicly.).”

“I don’t like Rush Limbaugh because I am a Socialist and I cannot successfully debate his overarching theme of American Exceptionalism, Personal Responsibility, and the merits of Capitalism.”

Go ahead. Try it. Just say what you really mean. "Sex tourist?" "Women hater?" Nah. That's not REALLY why you dislike Rush. The truth will set you free.

[Canuckistanian]

42. Ugh. I could write an essay on each ONE of those sentences

"vanguard impetus of middle-finger political rhetoric"?

That line deserves a whole research paper on lingusitics.

[wordpix]

47. xactly. Throw a bunch of words together & sound erudite, NOT

[maxrandb]

57. Is that you Sarah?

or did this word salad come from someone else?

[4bucksagallon]

26. My guess....

They want to see if the pimple on Rushies butt talks to him like on the episode of Family Guy where Chris's pimple Doug took over his life. LMAO! Can't think of another reason unless they want to catch him sucking on a cigar in a non smoking area.

[malthaussen]

27. Only in America

Would a legislative assembly that is supposed to represent the people use the people's money to put up a statue that then had to be defended from the people at the people's expense.

-- Mal

[lunatica]

39. The irony is beautiful isn't it?!

[Fearless]

28. You know you're an asshat when...

People need to buy cameras to protect images of you. Speaking of which why on Earth did they pick him for a statue? Was Bundy taken already?

[trusty elf]

31. ..........

[IMG][/IMG]

[wordpix]

48. love it, thanks Trusty!

[Judi Lynn]

32. The sculpture has already been vandalized by its respresentation of human rubbish. n/t

[MatthewStLouis]

34. Why aren't teabagger patriots marching in the streets, protesting this egregious waste?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

36. This begs the question....

If the person being honored in the Hall of Fame is so unpopular that they need to add cameras to avoid defacement of the plaque, is he really deserving of such an honor?

[Canuckistanian]

43. Exactly

If the subject of an honorary statue is disliked by the majority of the people, should that honor have even been bestowed?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

56. I guess one *might* make an exception if the person had done something notable in life....

I mean, Ty Cobb had a nasty, ugly personality, but he was one hell of a ballplayer so they shouldn't take down his Cooperstown plaque for that reason alone. Nor should OJ Simpson's bust in Canton be removed on account of his well-publicized post-football career legal issues.

But those were people who excelled to great lengths in their career, notwithstanding their personalities.

What great things has Rush Limbaugh done? All the man does is sit behind a microphone and blabber for three hours. Give me a show and I can do the same. He got lucky through the syndication process and is heard nationally, but that's about it.

Any fool can talk for three hours. Not every fool can have 4,000 career hits or rush for 2,000 yards in a season, even if the people who do accomplish those feats are fools themselves.

[LiberalLovinLug]

38. Looks like a job for Bart

[happyslug]

40. List of Names in the Hall of Fame

http://www.house.mo.gov/famous.aspx?fm=display


Name ..............................................Date Inducted
Rush Hudson Limbaugh III,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,May 14, 2012
Dred Scott .........................................May 9, 2012
John Jordan "Buck" O'Neil...................February 27, 2012
Warren Eastman Hearnes...................September 15, 2010
James Smith McDonnell April 12, 2010
George Caleb Bingham February 15, 2010
John Neihardt August 20, 2009
Ginger Rogers August 20, 2009
Betty Grable January 22, 2009
Alexander Doniphan July 11, 2008
Lamar Hunt February 20, 2008
Bob Barker September 12, 2007
Rose Philippine Duchesne November 17, 2006
Dale Carnegie September 13, 2006
John Ashcroft May 10, 2006
Jack Buck April 11, 2006
R. Marlin Perkins October 5, 2004
Edwin Hubble May 13, 2003
Stanley Frank Musial September 12, 2000
James "Champ" Clark June 6, 2000
Tom Bass April 12, 1999
Walter Cronkite March 8, 1999
Ewing Marion Kauffman May 12, 1997
Reinhold Niebuhr September 11, 1996
Emmett Kelly May 1, 1996
General John J. Pershing September 13, 1995
Joyce C. Hall April 10, 1995
Josephine Baker March 29, 1995
Charlie "Bird" or "Yardbird" Parker May 4, 1994
James Cash Penney March 2, 1994
Sacajawea September 15, 1993
Laura Ingalls Wilder September 15, 1993
Walter Elias Disney May 12, 1993
Scott Joplin May 5, 1992
General Omar N. Bradley May 5, 1992
Harry S Truman February 18, 1991
David Rice Atchison February 18, 1991
Thomas Hart Benton April 15, 1985
Susan Elizabeth Blow March 29, 1983
George Washington Carver March 29, 1983
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) September 8, 1982

Many of the people below have a better claim to be on the above list then Limbaugh:

list of Missouri Criminals and outlaws, all missing from the list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Missouri#Criminals_and_outlaws

Anthony Brancato, (1913–1951), freelance mafia gunman, half of "The Two Tonys" portrayed in the movie LA Confidential.
Ray and Faye Copeland (1914–1993, 1921–2003), serial killers, oldest couple ever sentenced to death in the United States.
Egan's Rats - Early crime family in St. Louis.
Leo Vincent Brothers, (1899-1950), low-level member. Later moved to Chicago and became part of Al Capone's organization.
Fred Burke, (1893-1940), gunman for Egan's Rats. Later suspected of participating in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
William "Dint" Colbeck, (1890-1943), assumed leadership of Egan's Rats after the assassination of Willie Egan.
Walter Costello, (1889-1917), bodyguard to Willie Egan, killer of Harry Dunn.
Harry "Cherries" Dunn, (1892-1916),
Thomas Egan, (1874-1919), organizer of Egan's Rats
Willie Egan, (1884-1921), brother and right-hand man of gang founder Tom Egan. Led the gang after Tom's death.
Max Greenberg, (1883-1933), one of the few Jewish members of the mostly-Irish Egan gang. Also an associate/friend of Meyer Lansky.
Frank Hackenthal, (1891-1954), robber and resort owner/money launderer for Egan's Rats.
Thomas "Snake" Kinney, (1868-1912) Missouri State Senator and co-founder of Egan's Rats.
David "Chippy" Robinson, (1897-1967), bank robber and enforcer for Egan's Rats.
William "Skippy" Rohan, (1871-1916),
Roy Gardner, (1884–1940), arms smuggler and notorious 1920s bank robber.
Tom Horn (1860–1903), Old West lawman, army scout, outlaw and assassin.
Kansas City crime family
Charles Binaggio, (1909-1950), killed along with Charles Gargotta at the First Ward Democratic Club in downtown Kansas City.
Anthony Brancato, (1913-1951),
William "Willie Rat" Cammisano, (1914-1995), enforcer for the K.C. mob.
Charles Carrollo, (1902-1979), led the Kansas City mob after Johnny Lazia's assassination.
Anthony Civella, (1930-2006), led the K.C. crime family in the 1980s and 1990s. Son of Carl Civella and nephew of Nicholas Civella.
Carl "Cork" Civella, (1910-1994), brother of Nicholas Civella and a top lieutenant in the crime family. Father of Anthony Civella.
Nicholas Civella, (1912-1983), led the Kansas City crime family from the 1950s through the 1970s.
Carl "Tuffy" DeLuna, (1927-2008), underboss of the Kansas City crime family, brother-in-law of Anthony Civella.
Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, (1904-1934), took part in the Union Station Massacre.
Charles "Mad Dog" Gargotta, (1900-1950), top enforcer of the KC crime family.
Anthony Gizzo, (1902-1953), led Kansas City crime family in the early 1950s
John Lazia, (1896-1934), leader of the Kansas City crime family in the 1920s and early 1930s.
Kenneth Lay (1942–2006), chairman and CEO of Enron, convicted of securities fraud
James Earl Ray (1928–1998), assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King. Ray was an escapee from the Missouri State Penitentiary
James-Younger Gang:
Frank James (1843–1915), outlaw
Jesse James (1847–1882), outlaw
Cole Younger (1844–1916), outlaw
John Younger, outlaw
Bob Younger, outlaw
Jim Younger, outlaw
Bob Ford, outlaw (gunned down Jesse James)
Tom Pendergast, (1873–1945), long time political boss of Kansas City and western Missouri. Responsible for the political rise of Harry S. Truman. Imprisoned for tax evasion.
St. Louis crime family
Anthony Giordano, (1914-1980), leader of the St. Louis crime family in the 1960s and 1970s.
Matthew Trupiano, (1938-1997), nephew of Anthony Giordano, crime family boss in the 1980s
John Vitale, (1909-1982), crime family boss in the early 1980s.
Belle Starr, (1848–1889), famous female outlaw of the Old West.

[Norbert]

41. Then why aren't these famous Misssourians inducted in the hall

Dick Van Dyke
Maya Angelou
Sara Teasdale
Yogi Berra
Brad Pitt
Payne Stewart
Redd Fox
Geraldine Page
Harry Carey (the sports announcer)
Chuck Berry
Burt Bacharach
Robert Altman
James Smith McDonnell
David Sanborn
Dennis Weaver
Ryan Howard
Joan Crawford
Sheryl Crow
Langston Hughes
Vincent Price
Rusty Wallace
William Powell
Earl Weaver
Dick Gregory
Adolphus Busch
Jean Harlow
Mort Walker
Dwight Davis (of Davis Cup fame)
Ferlin Husky
Casey Stengel
Pat Metheny
Carl Edwards
Jane Wyman
Justin Smith
Tennessee Williams

Anyone that says the induction of Jabba the Rush was not political must have their head up their ass.

[siligut]

44. My belief is that Rush was given this as a reward for some rotten deed.

Something secret and disgusting.

[wordpix]

49. it would be good to know who besides Rush was behind this move

[Mimosa]

50. This is WRONG.

If we could travel back in the 'way back' 1950s no state entity would have enshrined the likes of father Coughlin or Senator McCarthy.,

Limbaugh has contributed NOTHING to any state or to our country. Has Missouri gone MAD?

[Quantess]

51. It's not funny.

[Incitatus]

52. Finally, something really fucking stupid happens somewhere besides Florida for once. nt

[misshu]

53. Spam deleted by Violet_Crumble (MIR Team)

[Arkana]

55. There's a bronze bust of that hateful gasbag in the middle of a museum?

[KurtNYC]

58. "It's big government nanny state wasting tax dollars to protect so-called art....

why it's outrageous.."