Lamest billboard ever
(Thanks to Don Surber for sending photo)
I said last week that Democrat donors ought to question whether the DNC was using its money wisely by indugling in an anti-Rush Limbaugh billboard.
See, I told you so. The Christian Science Monitor skewers the results:
New Limbaugh billboard slogan announced – creativity was not considered
Setting a world record today for beating a dead horse, the Democratic National Committee will announce they’ve selected an anti-Rush Limbaugh slogan to be placed on a billboard in the radio host’s hometown.
The DNC began soliciting slogans a week ago in response to Limbaugh’s well-known statement that he wants President Obama to fail.
“If you’re anything like me, then you’ve had the urge to talk back to a right-wing talk radio host more than a few times. Now you can,” reads an email blast from the executive director of the DNC. “Can you help us come up with a message for Rush that we’ll place on a billboard right in his hometown?”
The envelope please
That message has apparently been decided. CNN is reporting that the billboard will say, “Americans didn’t vote for a Rush to failure.”
Apparently, more than 80,000 slogans were emailed in and astonishingly all were somehow deemed worse than that one.
FAIL.
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Sorry ILMY, but you are obviously trying to hijack this thread and we aren’t going to bite, are we everyone??
The winner get a brand new tin foil hat courtesy of Reynolds Corp.
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They could have used mine. “Rush is right! Rush is right!
It appears the billboard will use a headshot of Rush.
You can talk back to any right-wing radio host that I listen to. They all have an “800″ number to call. Rush will even put liberals to the front of the queue.
But a billboard is much better because then a liberal doesn’t have to engage in a common sense discussion based on facts.
Yeah, it seems that there are two alleged versions of the billboard, so at least some people are getting fooled.
The Democrats control all 3 bodies of government and this
3rdkindergarten slogan was the best they could do?
Not only do we say God Bess America we must also cry out to God, please, please help America.
Forgot to add; Wish the Dem’s would pay their taxes rather than wasting it on billboards.
Funny how 3 of the top 5 mention not rushing things but that’s exactly what Obama’s been doing. The republicans are the ones wanting to slow down and examine the options more carefully.
If I wasn’t already familiar with the brouha and happened to drive by the billboard, I’d think Rush put it up as a slam on Obama. Makes me wonder if a conservative submitted it as a joke and the Dems are too stupid to realize it.
This is just begging be photoshopped into “Americans didn’t vote for Rush, but they should have!”
Along with the same big cigar photo! That would be a very nice slam on that slogan.
Slightly OT, the SF Police Union is accusing Ayers and his stooge wife of murdering a SFPD officer with a bomb years ago. No statute of limitations on murder. The A$$hole may end up in prison yet.
Is using his image without his consent legal? I am just curious.
Lame with a capital R (and a capital AMERICANS DIDN’T VOTE FOR A USH TO FAILURE, and a doodle of a guy with a big, long cigar).
If I had photoshop, I’d change all the text to black (but otherwise leave it unchanged), replace the cartoon of Limbaugh with a caricature of the photo of Obama smoking a cigarette (or use the photo itself), and set an image of a stack of papers with the word STIMULUS on the cover page alongside the other elements or in the background behind the other elements.
That actually sounds like they’re condemning the Usurper in Chief!
They’ve totally outdone themselves…
I’m kind of bummed that they didn’t use my slogan. I went to the FL Dems site and entered the following idea (uncensored):
“I’m a f@#%ing idiot. That’s why I vote democrat.”
Of course, now I’m getting email from Jen O’Malley Dillion of Democrats.org, but that’s the price you pay to poke fun at the sanctimonious.
Hahahahahahaha Will the real William C please stand up? I know he has to be a closet Conservative at least, if not a Conservative playing a really massive joke on the DNC? You really could not make this stuff up!
Good…he can bunk in with Bernie Maddoff
Heh.
The Dems think that people stupid enough to vote for Obama in the first place will pick up on the Limbaugh reference without a flashlight and a map? Do people who don’t like or listen to Rush even know that the guy digs cigars?
How do these Dummycrat “leadership” imbeciles function without life support, anyway?
When I first saw that billboard, I thought it was funded by conservatives to criticize Obama’s ridiculous policies. Who’da thought it was mean to criticize Rush Limbaugh!
This was the best they got?! It seems like they need to heed their own advice before picking a slogan. It sure looks they rushed through this one.
Does anyone else find this extremely disturbing, that a national organization designed to get Democrats elected, and which includes elected Democrats, is going after a private citizen? Is this not exactly what the 1st Amendment portion regarding Free Speech was about, that government cannot act in reprisal against private citizens who criticize them? Where’s the ACLU? Imagine if this was Bush and/or the RNC doing this: the outrage from the ACLU, the MSM, Democrats, the left-o-sphere would be at Category 5 hurricane status.
I know. I hate it when they do that.
It is disturbing, but Rush is laughing all the way to the bank, has picked up 30+% more viewers, and the whole thing will come back to bite the dems. So don’t worry about Rush. He will be just fine!
Oh, definitely, Rush is mopping up.
And this is the way Dems do things. You have BO and his peeps attacking other private citizens. ACLU, hello?
Just think of this, the DNC will spend this amount on a bill board, WHAT IS ACORN GOING TO DO WITH ALL THAT STIMULUS (5 Billion) from Obambi. All that prepaid FRAUD for 2010 & 2012
When will the GOP put a billboard near Soros’ house and say he is the face and leader of the Republican Party? Calling him “Lord of the Democrats” and the party’s “Daddy Warbucks,” in a GOP memo, is just not the same as the attack on Limbaugh that was launched from the Oval Office.
Chap – Your moral equivalency gauge is on permanent FAIL……….
Did the RNC make BILLBOARDS attacking Soros?
I recommended “I defend your right to say it”, knowing full well they would have none of this “free speech” nonsense. Too late, it hit me: “Tell Rush what you think 1-800-282-2882″. Maybe Rush can put up a competing sign?
After all that and the slogan they decided on is one that some idiot swiped from Rush himself?
It just absolutely must be one of the most ridiculous and stupid wastes of time any one political group has ever partaken is.
Why would they think it was such a good idea, so politically wise to spend such a large amount of money and time on a campaign to convince people who have never listened to Rush, let alone would never listen to him, to stop listening to him?
Why would they do the same thing in order to try and convince his loyal fans and supporters to stop listening and supporting him?
This has to be one of the biggest acts of futility in the history of American politics.
And in the end, it will change absolutely nothing, and will lead to a bunch of bigoted, hate-filled moronic Liberals slapping themselves on the back in some sort of enormous self-love ceremony, congratulating themselves for a job well done against the Great Conservative Satan, and Rush will still be the richest, most famous, most listened to radio personality in history.
Who STILL has a higher approval rating than his detractors in the American Congress…laughing all the way to the bank.
Wait… The slogan came from El Rushbo himself?
Maybe Rush submitted it anonymously (or at least some Dittohead) and the libtards picked it.
No, they completely ripped off their little slogan from Rush’s live appearances of about two years ago that he called “Rush to Excellence”.
So, in a typical Liberal attempt at humor, the switched it to “Rush to Failure”.
Now, that said, I must say that I completely agree with what the statement says. I honestly believe that the people in this country did not purposely voe for a “Rush to Failure”.
However, Obama has made sure that everything he has been doing is being “rushed” though constantly.
He rushed Porkulous through so fast that no one had time to read any of it, he rushed to sign it claiming that the whole country was going to collapse at any moment if it did not get done, rushed off to Chicago for dinner on Valentine’s Day, rushed from one massive amount of tax payer dollars into the next and then rushed from that one into the one he just signed for over $400 billion…
He has been rushing towards failure since the minute the Election results were final, and will continue to rush his Socialist/Marxist reforms/take-over until either the people of this nation finally put their collective foot down and throw him out, or this nation is irreparably destroyed to the point that it resembles Checheslovakia cir. 1982.
So no, I do not believe Americans voted specifically for a “Rush to Failure”, but seeing as how the MSM hid who and what Obama really is and what he had/has planned for this nation, as well as turning blind eyes and ears to those of us who did all we could to warn them, electing Obama as President is exactly what they got…a Rush to Failure.
They didn’t even use lower case so the R in Rush could stand out as capitalized? How hilarious. No wonder it failed. But I will agree with the sign in one sense–we DIDN’T agree with Obama’s rush to failure. I think some who read this billboard will think that’s what it meant! More fail, dems!
Btw, they didn’t pick my submitted suggestion: “We love you, Rush!”
I agree. For anyone who doesn’t know about Der Fuhrer being upset about Churchill, and I thing even those that do, will not even know that the sign is supposed to be a slam against Rush.\
With what is supposed to be Rush standing there with a cigar, it merely looks like some kind of CEO or maybe even a Congressman or some other big-wig while claiming that America did not vote to be a failure so far as the economy is concerned.
This is an EPIC FAIL on the part of the immature, childish, lame Liberals and their hatred of their betters.
EPIC FAIL!!!!
Someone please photoshop this.
- Replace the cigar with Obama’s cigarette.
- Tint the skin Kenyan White
Now it’s appropriate.
That thought crossed my mind yesterday.
Perhaps the RNC should do just that.
Who cares whether they did or not? I was just providing another example of
What part of that criteria did the RNC not fulfull.
And don’t give me that moral equivalency crap. That is jsut the default position here when someone doesn’t want to have to deal with hypocrisy. I am not trying to excuse either party’s behavior, because franky I don’t see a problem with it. Limbaugh puts himself out as a political creature, as does Soros. They can handle the repercussions.
But in any case the billboards is very lame.
I can tell what the intent of the billboard is, but only because I’ve been reading articles about the whole thing online.
If I had not heard about all this, and just drove by, I’d have no idea what that billboard was trying to say.
Just proves, yet again, that libs SUCK at everything they attempt. This will end up helping Rush, if anything.
You forgot one thing: You gotta put a basketball in the picture somewhere.
How much is it going to cost these idiots to put this billboard up? That kind of thing isn’t cheap. I’m sure they’ll find a way to get the taxpayers to foot the bill.
Maybe that was the only submission that wasn’t grammaticly incorrect, misspelled, or profane.
I expected that “RUCK FUSH” would win.
I’ve been to West Palm Beach, Florida. It is not a nice town. I was confused because I had heard how nice Palm Beach was, then I crossed the bridge and figured it out. Palm Beach is very nice, the West side not so much. The election is over, I doubt West Palm Beachers are going to even take notice. Does I-95 go through there? If it is on 95, then it would depend on wether it is north or south side. People heading north will be overwhelmed with the tourist trap South of the Border billboards anyway. If they are heading south to Miami, they probably barely speak English. Oh well, Democrat ideas have never made much sense to me anyway. When I first read it, it sounded to me like it is a billboard telling Obama to stop failing.
I concur. I think it was very mean spirited and spiteful for several million blacks in the post-Civil War years to hope and pray the KKK would fail…
James Greenidge
Queens, NY
An economic policy so bad that even the Europeans (including the French!) can see through it. Rush to failure indeed!
There’s the whole quote Chap, with the pertinent part highlighted. CLEARLY he was speaking of the BILLBOARD which is the subject of this post. Nice diversion to only quote the part that can excuse your response. Lame, very lame and very hypocritical of you.
I don’t believe they selected any that were e-mailed in – - I’m sure the White House made that decision….since they instigated this whole ridiculous comedy of errors.
It is very disappointing to see the leader of this country participate in such trivial things when the country is being torn apart by what is happening in the world and right here in our own government. I would hope that a man elected to the office of President would have more intelligence and class and better things to do than attack someone who is exercising his right to free speech. But it appears not.
Oh my God – - you’re absolutely right frontierguy. This billboard could be used by Republicans …. and put just about anywhere!!!!!!
Don’t be stupid, Joy. First of all, this is not the government. This is a political party. And second, you are trying to argue that the specific technique the respective parties used to attack the private citizen makes that much difference? Please. The RNC has attacked Soros. No they didn’t do it through a billboard but they did do it.
Lastly, perhaps you should learn the meaning of hypocritical, because I have clearly stated I have zero problem with either situation. That term could seem to be thrown at you, however, who is trying to glom onto superficial differences to excuse the RNC’s behavior in light of your condemnation of the DNC’s.
A political party in power is not the government?! Obama appointed the head of the DNC and gave the go-ahead to attack Limbaugh. When did Bush order an attack on Soros and send out his chief of staff to get the ball rolling? When did Bush or the RNC take Soros’ words out of context for political gain? GOPers writing about Soros’ activities in memos and pointing it out on the party’s website, is not the same as the Dem leadership anointing Limbaugh as the leader/face of the GOP, or attacking him with a billboard in his neighborhood. This is gutter politics of the lowest kind. Our system makes “we the people” share in the power of “the government.” You donated to Obama’s campaign. That party members are not objecting loudly shows why it continues.