Rush Limbaugh nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
posted at 12:27 pm on February 2, 2007 by Ian
Radio talk show host Mark Levin of Landmark Legal Foundation nominated Rush:
Landmark Legal Foundation today nominated nationally syndicated radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
Limbaugh, whose daily radio show is heard by more than 20 million people on more than 600 radio stations in the United States and around the world, was nominated for the prestigious award for his “nearly two decades of tireless efforts to promote liberty, equality and opportunity for all humankind, regardless of race, creed, economic stratum or national origin. These are the only real cornerstones of just and lasting peace throughout the world,” said Landmark President Mark R. Levin.
Levin writes to Nobel Professor Dr. Ole Danbolt Mjos:
Dear Dr. Mjos:
Landmark Legal Foundation herewith submits the name of Rush Limbaugh as an unsolicited nomination for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
We are offering this nomination for Mr. Limbaugh’s nearly two decades of tireless efforts to promote liberty, equality and opportunity for all mankind, regardless of race, creed, economic stratum or national origin. We fervently believe that these are the only real cornerstones of just and lasting peace throughout the world.
Rush Limbaugh is a nationally syndicated radio talk show host in the United States and one of the most popular broadcasters in the world. His daily radio show is heard on more than 600 radio stations in the United States and around the world. For 18 years he has used his show to become the foremost advocate for freedom and democracy in the world today. Everyday he gives voice to the values of democratic governance, individual opportunity and the just, equal application of the rule of law — and it is fitting the Nobel Committee recognize the power of these ideals to build a truly peaceful world for future generations.
Thank you for your thoughtful and serious consideration of this nomination. Should you require additional information, please don’t hesitate to contact me.
Sincerely,
Mark R. Levin
President
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Can someone nominate me? If Limbaugh and gore can get one, I want one too!
Mazztek on February 2, 2007 at 12:36 PM
It’s so great. Apparently it’s really infuriating lefties around the world. Olbermann named Levin the worst person in the world last night, though the specific reasoning I didn’t pay attention to. Basically, they all take this idiotic award seriously, no matter how much they complain about Kissinger getting it they still want to love it again. Plus, they wanted to parade Gore’s nomination around for a while and now Levin has gone and spoiled it for them.
Alex K on February 2, 2007 at 12:36 PM
ew…poor Rush
fancy being associated with an award presented to Jimmy Carter, Yasser Arafat, Mohamed ElBaradei, Kofi Annan…
uptight on February 2, 2007 at 12:37 PM
Let’s CNN and MSNBC would say. Hannity trashed Gore yesterday.
Ouabam on February 2, 2007 at 12:40 PM
FABULOUS!
PinkyBigglesworth on February 2, 2007 at 12:41 PM
Ok, I’m going to go waaay out on a limb here and predict that he won’t win.
Yeah, you read that correctly. I’m layin’ on the line with that prediction.
thirteen28 on February 2, 2007 at 12:41 PM
Lefty howling to begin in 5…4…3…2…
KelliD on February 2, 2007 at 12:44 PM
all kidding aside, if it were a true peace prize Limbaugh would be a good candidate.
jp on February 2, 2007 at 12:49 PM
Libs blood pressure is already starting to rise:
dalewalt on February 2, 2007 at 12:52 PM
My money is on Eric Cartman.
(I hate slow news days)
Limerick on February 2, 2007 at 12:53 PM
Rush has a better chance of getting elected Mayor of New York.
Kid from Brooklyn on February 2, 2007 at 12:54 PM
Him and Tookie.
see-dubya on February 2, 2007 at 12:55 PM
Heh. That’s awesome, because–just like Rush–it pisses off all the right people.
As if the Nobel Peace Prize committee gives a rat’s ass about things like “liberty, equality and opportunity”. They’re too busy giving them out to terrorists (Arafat), anti-Semitic terrorist enablers (Carter), and junk science gurus (Gore).
ReubenJCogburn on February 2, 2007 at 12:57 PM
Perfect… finally someone turns the tables on the leftists and shows them the absurdity of this stupid award. The Peace prize deserves to be mocked. It’s been meaningless for 30 years.
spmat on February 2, 2007 at 12:58 PM
I’m pretty sure this is symbolic, and doesn’t actually mean Rush will win, or even be in close contention.
But if you makes you feel good, I say go with it.
Enrique on February 2, 2007 at 1:04 PM
There, fixed that… :^)
db on February 2, 2007 at 1:05 PM
I could have sworn you needed to be one of the following to become nominated:
1. Terrorist
2. Communist
3. Anti-Semite
Tim Burton on February 2, 2007 at 1:06 PM
But Rush doesn’t have any film credits on his resume. I thought you had to be nominated for one of those gazillon Hollyweird awards before you could be entered into the Nobel competition.
[Johnny Carson voice]I did not know that!
LakeRuins on February 2, 2007 at 1:07 PM
First you jerk their chain, then you teach them to sit and fetch. This is how you train a liberal, common sense and rational discussion doesn’t work.
right2bright on February 2, 2007 at 1:17 PM
Could you imagine how the Left would react if Limbaugh actually won it? Hehehehehe.
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GT on February 2, 2007 at 1:22 PM
Brilliant Mr. Levin at it again!
What makes me ‘feel good’ is that you take this charade of what Nobel has become seriously.
Mr. Nobel is dying every year, of embarrassment.
Stanley Tookie Williams III was reportedly nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize every year from 2001 to 2005.
What an elegant way to take the air out of the sails of the world elitist useless idiots!
Entelechy on February 2, 2007 at 1:28 PM
I am SO proud of my Honorary Dad!
RushBaby on February 2, 2007 at 1:29 PM
I’d say that Limbaugh getting the Nobel Peace Price has the same probability as that of a hydrogen atom in a tank of halogens remaining unattached.
georgej on February 2, 2007 at 1:31 PM
Nobel Prize, on loan from God.
right2bright on February 2, 2007 at 1:52 PM
Funny honorary child you are :)
For those who even contemplate that Mr. Limbaugh should get it, or doesn’t have a chance…this is better than either.
It gives the world a chance to see the treachery the ritual has become. If it was fairly meaningless of late, it now is zero. Root for Mr. Gore to get it!
Anyone sane would have to disrespectfully decline it, stating in clear terms why.
Entelechy on February 2, 2007 at 1:55 PM
What Reuben said.
thebookkeeper on February 2, 2007 at 2:03 PM
Maybe this is some kind of a mean joke, like they did to that girl, Carrie. Poor Rush.
bloggless on February 2, 2007 at 2:03 PM
It’s official…Hell has finally frozen over.
JetBoy on February 2, 2007 at 2:07 PM
I hereby nominate Rush for … UN Sec/Gen.
Tony737 on February 2, 2007 at 2:17 PM
Don’t worry folks – Al Gore can’t win the peace prize before Bill Clinton. If he does he had better not be hanging around any parks in the DC area.
Actually I think Clinton got nominated a few years ago for the PIECE prize and he got all excited ’cause he thought it was the PEACE prize.
OBX Pete on February 2, 2007 at 2:30 PM
Cindy Sheeh&n was nominated for the PIECES prize.
There goes my New Years Resolution. Lasted a month though!
RushBaby on February 2, 2007 at 2:42 PM
Nominate me–they can keep the medal, I just want the CASH. There is cash involved, isn’t there??? The kind that I wouldn’t have to donate to some damn peaceful cause.
robblefarian on February 2, 2007 at 3:21 PM
The best part of this is the title. Since Al Sharpton can always be called “Former Presidential Candidate.” Rush, for perpetuity, can have “Nobel Prize Nominee” before his name. Kind of like a thorn under the liberal saddle for eternity.
TugboatPhil on February 2, 2007 at 3:22 PM
About time.
The Noble Committee is an insular little group, with evidently a bad case of groupthink.
Gettign tired of Lefties giving themselves awards for movies no one likes, plays no one attends, books no one reads …. and getting tired of Lefties telling us that the reason we rubes aren’t absorbing all this culture is that we’re, well rubes, not that the products are crappy, tedious and weird.
They’re wrecking science, too. That guy got a Noble for unfinished work on prions for crying out loud. Unfinished! Meanwhile, Dr. Marshall turns ulcer research on its head (upset the consensus that had ruled for a hundred years) and discovers the cause, and subsequent cure for stomach ulcers, saving and improving lives of countless millions of ulcer-sufferers the world over, plus dramatically reducing the incidence of stomach cancer thanks to reducing the gateway ulcer infection, H. Pylori. Nooooo. Real science isn’t rewarded, just the stuff that globally warms the Leftie hearts of that committee.
naliaka on February 2, 2007 at 3:31 PM
(Mental image of ultra-liberal heads exploding from fury…)
Wow!
rmgraha on February 2, 2007 at 4:01 PM
You could probably get a few bucks for the medal on eBay. I’d pony up at least $10 for my max bid.
Laura on February 2, 2007 at 5:20 PM
Rush has been a thorn in liberalisms’ side for a long time.
For that he DOES deserve a Nobel prize.
Next on the list Ann Coulter LOL
Speakup on February 2, 2007 at 5:21 PM
Yes, Yes, that is worth it. The scroll under…. CNN…Nobel Prize Nominee, Rush Limbaugh.
right2bright on February 2, 2007 at 5:26 PM
I nominate “You.”
:)
- The Cat
MirCat on February 2, 2007 at 5:26 PM
At least he wasn’t nominated for Chemistry.
Think about it, you’ll get it…. ;-)
infidel4life on February 2, 2007 at 6:36 PM
Pithy, MirCat! LOL
RushBaby on February 2, 2007 at 7:25 PM
“We could make t-shirts with my face and the legend: ‘Give peace a chance’”
Rush, today in his radio program. A riot! I’d buy one!
Ropera on February 2, 2007 at 7:54 PM
So many Nobel Peace prizes in the past, so little peace.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm
SouthernGent on February 2, 2007 at 8:06 PM
Incase anyone didn’t get The Cat’s joke.
RightWinged on February 2, 2007 at 8:35 PM
Pshaw. Bill Handel (the one who chewed out the other radio show host on the air and got suspended, that one?) got nominated for a Peace Prize last year (or was it the year before? I misremember, but it was sometime during one of my deployments). The whole Peace Prize process has become a joke. Science, Economics etc. still have some validity, but poor Nobel’s once noble goal has been perverted by ideologues and internationalists who look more to their own agenda than to reality when discussing these things. Ah, well, c’est la vie I suppose. What we really need is for someone to pony up the cash to fund a “Liberty Prize” to award to someone who contributes to the cause of liberty on this benighted world of ours. We could nominate Winston Churchill and Ronald Reagan posthumously!
Militant Bibliophile on February 2, 2007 at 9:02 PM
Nobel invented dynamite. I won’t take his blood money.
(House)
bookwurm322 on February 2, 2007 at 9:39 PM
Win or lose he will from now on be known as Nobel Piece Prize Nominee – Rush Limbaugh. I love it.
oakpack on February 2, 2007 at 10:02 PM
Militant Bibliophile on February 2, 2007 at 9:02 PM
Bill Handel worked the nomination out with a Congressman from Calif. who remains unnamed as they don’t have to reveal themselves, ever, (based on nothing in particular) just in order to prove to his audience, and anyone really, how easy it is to get nominated. He did this during the fight to keep Tookie Williams from being executed.
Tookie was put to death on December 13, 2005 – thus, Bill’s nomination must have taken place just weeks ahead of that…It was indeed a great occasion to point out the worthlessness of the prize and Bill made lots of fun of himself & process.
Entelechy on February 2, 2007 at 10:32 PM
That would be the Heritage Foundation’s Clare Boothe Luce award, with which President Reagan was honored in 1997. Other recent winners include Lady Thatcher (the presenting speaker for Reagan’s award), William F. Buckley, and Milton Friedman.
Freelancer on February 2, 2007 at 10:43 PM
I know that’s a tongue-in-cheek line from House, which is fine. So don’t take this wrong. A thorough analysis of history shows that guns save more lives than they take. Nobal claimed to have regretted his invention for all the violence it could spawn, just as Einstein regretted nuclear fusion, saying that the next world war would be fought with the atom, and the one after that with sticks and stones. But “peace through superior firepower” is more than a slogan. Just remember this, only a tiny percentage of those who died during the regimes of Stalin, Hitler, Mao, or Pol Pot were killed using gun powder.
It isn’t out of line for a peace award to have Nobel’s name on it. It is out of line that it is too often awarded to idiots who have no respect for life, and wishful thinking instead of a clue about how to gain peace in the real world.
Freelancer on February 2, 2007 at 10:50 PM
How does Mark Levin qualify as a Nobel Peace Prize nominator? He doesn’t seem to fit any of the criteria, and Nobel nominations are done in secret (and kept secret for 50 years).
Plus, Rush Limbaugh said this:
Why would you “nominate” someone for a prize they look down upon?
Sounds like a marketing stunt to me. Have the Boston police been notified?
Mark Jaquith on February 3, 2007 at 12:44 AM
Rush for the Nobel Peace Prize?
Makes and much (or little) sense as Al Gore, I guess!
Emmett J. on February 3, 2007 at 12:48 AM
I find this delightfully hilarious–no matter if he wins or not. Heheeh
Bob's Kid on February 3, 2007 at 1:24 AM
Lighten up/F*ck off, Mark. I think it’s hilarious, and right in keeping with the seriousness with which the Nobel Committee does its business.
The Great One!
Jaibones on February 3, 2007 at 7:54 AM
Then how do we know that Al Gore was nominated?
The Monster on February 3, 2007 at 10:20 AM
I know. I just read the previous posting and thought of that line. I’m actually in agreement with you. :-)
bookwurm322 on February 3, 2007 at 11:44 AM