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How Rush Limbaugh Supports the Troops
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Robert Crane
 
By Robert Crane
Published on 01/20/2006
 
That Rush Limbaugh, what a guy! What an American patriot. When he says ?support the troops?, he means it. In fact, he supports them so much, he?s developed a program to give troops one year complimentary 7/24 passes to his website through his bighearted program, ?Adopt a Soldier Today?. Here?s how Rush?s idea of philanthropy works.
How Rush Limbaugh Supports the Troops

That Rush Limbaugh, what a guy! What an American patriot. When he says ?support the troops?, he means it. In fact, he supports them so much, he?s developed a program to give troops one year complimentary 7/24 passes to his website through his bighearted program, ?Adopt a Soldier Today?. Here?s how Rush?s idea of philanthropy works.

Now folks I?m taking this right from his website. You can?t make this stuff up.

When you enter his site?s homepage, right up there in the top right hand corner, the best advertising real estate a webpage can offer, there is a box identifying his ?Adopt a Soldier Today? campaign. Click on it. You get to read as slick a piece of patronizing patriotic punditry as ever an American heart could embrace. Ah, I feel the chutes of giving being greased like the ball joints on a Humvee. If you are an adoptee (i.e., a soldier), you click on the left button to see if there are sponsored funds available so that you might freely delight in Rush?s world 7/24 for a year. If you are an adopter (i.e., non-Lib), you click on the right button to see the details of how you can help?be sure to wipe the tears from your ditto-head cheeks first, lest they drop and short circuit your keyboard.

Aha! There you go; the details. You may donate as many yearly subscriptions as you would like at a reduced rate of $49.90 (a whopping $10 cheaper than the normal $59.90 annual subscription). The website will match the donated subscriptions with interested troops. It?s a beautiful act of heartfelt generosity from Rush-o. I get all ferklempt just thinking about it.

Oh wait. What's that at the bottom ?PLEASE NOTE THAT GIFTS MADE UNDER THIS PROGRAM ARE NOT TAX DEDUCTIBLE?.

Gee, I wonder why?

Because Rush pockets the money! That?s why! It's treated as any other subscription! What other reason could there be?

I can?t put it any other way: Rush Limbaugh really should be ashamed of himself! Either that or he has some ?splainin? to do!

Now maybe if he took every penny of that money and donated it to the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund that Don Imus harps on all day, I?d feel differently.

I?m not holding my breath!

This article was written by humorist Robert Crane. If you like what you read, visit his popular website at: http://www.cranelegs.com