Federal Courthouse to Be Named 'Rush Limbaugh' (Grandfather of Rush)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/1/22/141106.shtml

Legislation has been introduced in Congress to name a new U.S. courthouse in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, after Rush Limbaugh.

Yes, it’s true – but it’s not for the Rush Limbaugh America loves as its No. 1 radio talker.

The honoree, in fact, would be the popular radio host’s grandfather and namesake, the late Rush Hudson Limbaugh Sr.

The elder Limbaugh practiced law for nearly 80 years until his death in 1996, arguing more than 60 cases before the Missouri Supreme Court. He also served as president of the Missouri Bar and chaired an American Bar Association special committee on the Bill of Rights.

[rfranklin]

1. Was he an asshole too?

Just asking.

[shain from kane]

5. Yes. (Just guessing.)

[Buzz Clik]

10. No.

I met him while doing some work for the Limbaugh, Russell and Syler. He was kind, knowledgeable, and very supportive of his staff. He also bore no physical resemblance to Piggy.

[RamboLiberal]

11. Maybe they ought to put a sign on the courthouse

Rush Limbaugh Courthouse - No not that Rush Limbaugh!

Or put it up with a portait of Sr so everyone knows it's not named after OxyRush!

[cascadiance]

12. How about a sign that says "No, not the a-hole!"

Then everyone would be able to keep straight which Limpbaugh they're talking about, unless of course they're both a-holes, which then begs the question of why they're naming it for him in the first place!

[alfredo]

13. You know rush will say it is for him.

[Deja Q]

23. Or the full name, Sr. and all - but the photo would not come amiss either.

[closeupready]

27. So then how do we explain the Cokie-Robertization of his grandson?

n/t

[sakabatou]

32. I wonder what happened...

[Homer12]

2. It's a good thing that Jeff Christie is not related.

[fooj]

8. BWAHAHAHA!

[progressivebydesign]

16. That would be entirely different type of building, I'm thinking.

Something with a red light on the porch, perhaps?

[Jim__]

3. The dems oughtta be able to shoot that down - I hope! - n/t

[shain from kane]

4. May the earth open up and swallow it. (New Madrid fault)

[YOY]

6. Remember criminals! If'n you ever get into trouble at the courthouse

Just point out the building's structural defect on its back door! That's how the real one got out of trouble!

[Robb]

25. I'm going to snicker at this post

...just in case it slips by. Good one. :D

[fooj]

7. Jeff Christy...Rush Limbaugh

What's in a name, anyway?

[bmbmd]

26. If you come in the back door

you enter the Jeff Christy chamber.

[sutz12]

9. Sign over the entrance:

Abandon hope, all ye who enter here

[TexasLawyer]

14. Aren't there any OTHER Missourians who should be honored?

Here are a few. Mark Twain, perhaps? Perhaps a non-white, non-male? Sheesh.

Famous Missourians

Robert Altman film director, Kansas City
Burt Bacharach songwriter, Kansas City
Josephine Baker singer, dancer, Saint Louis
Wallace Beery actor, Kansas City
William Bent fur trader, pioneer, Saint Louis
Robert Russell Bennett composer, Kansas City
Yogi Berra baseball player, Saint Louis
Thomas Hart Benton painter, Neosho
Bill Bradley basketball player, Crystal City
Omar Nelson Bradley five-star general, Clark
Grace Bumbry soprano, Saint Louis
William Burroughs writer, Saint Louis
Sarah Caldwell opera director, conductor, Maryville
Martha Jane Canary (Calamity Jane) frontierswoman, Princeton
Dale Carnegie teacher of public speaking, Maryville
George Washington Carver educator, agricultural chemist, Diamond Grove
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) author, Florida
Walter Cronkite TV newscaster, Saint Joseph
Robert Cummings actor, Joplin
Jane Darwell actress, Palmyra
Charles Stark Draper inventor, Windsor
Jeanne Eagels actress, Kansas City
T. S. Eliot poet, Saint Louis
James Fergason inventor, Wakenda
Eugene Field author, poet, Saint Louis
Redd Foxx actor, comedian, Saint Louis
James W. Fulbright senator, Sumner
John Goodman actor, Affton
Betty Grable actress, Saint Louis
Dick Gregory comic, activist, Saint Louis
Jean Harlow actress, Kansas City
Edwin Hubble astronomer, Marshfield
Jack S. Kilby inventor, Jefferson City
James Langston Hughes poet, Joplin
William Lear aviation inventor, Hannibal
Rush Limbaugh communicator, Cape Girardeau
John Huston film director, Nevada
Jesse James outlaw, Centerville
Bernarr MacFadden physical culturist, Mill Springs
Mary Margaret McBride TV hostess, Paris
Robert D. Maurer inventor, St. Louis
Marianne Moore poet, Saint Louis
Geraldine Page actress, Kirksville
James C. Penney merchant, Hamilton
Marlin Perkins TV host, zoo director, Carthage
John J. Pershing army leader, pershing rifles, Linn County
Vincent Price actor, Saint Louis
Ginger Rogers dancer, actress, Independence
Charles M. Russell painter, artist St. Louis
Nellie Tayloe Ross first woman elected governor of a state, Saint Joseph
Ted Shawn dancer, choreographer, Kansas City
Casey Stengel baseball player, Kansas City
Gladys Swarthout soprano, Deepwater
Sara Teasdale poet, Saint Louis
Virgil Thomson composer, Kansas City
Harry S. Truman U.S. president, Lamar
Mark Twain author, Florida
Dick Van Dyke actor, West Plains
Dennis Weaver actor, Joplin
Pearl White actress, Greenridge
Roy Wilkins civil rights leader, Saint Louis

[shain from kane]

17. "Rush Limbaugh communicator, Cape Girardeau" What we have here is failure to communicate.

[hughee99]

18. How many of these people

Cape Girardeau, Missouri? How many practiced law at all (let alone for 80 years) and argued any cases before the Missouri supreme court? If they build a new theater, sure, name it after a performer, director or choreographer. If they build a new sports stadium, sure, name it after an athlete. I don't really have an issue with this, and I doubt almost anyone else would if Pigboy was going by the name Jeff Christie now.

[PittPoliSci]

19. The Vincent Price Courthouse has a nice ring to it.

[AnneD]

21. So does..

the Red Foxx Center for Justice (and free speech). Some of us old timers are chuckling right now and remembering those 'party records'.

[SiobhanClancy]

20. My grandfather is at least as eligible as this Limbaugh....

As a young state legislator he introduced the Women's Suffrage Amendment for ratification by the Missouri legislature,and he also served as a federal judge for many years with distinction. It's hard to see how this Judge Limbaugh is any more deserving,really.

[Maddy McCall]

22. Wow.

What a great man he must have been.

[Irreverend IX]

35. The main reason is probably...

Because Cape Girardeau is where Limbaugh lived (and where Pigboy was born). If it's such a tiny town, I wonder why they put a federal courthouse, there, though.

[rinsd]

34. LOL. You do realize most of your list are white males. (nt)

[madrchsod]

15. rush interveiwed him when he was 100 years old.

it was like listening to a history lesson of the country,it was really an amazing interview.there is no reason why he should`t have a courthouse named after him.

[mopinko]

28. just living in that teeny, tiny town for 100 years is enough

to earn a reward like this. ever been there? it is just a wide spot in the road. i couldn't stand it for 1 year.

[mitchum]

24. Maybe they can name a bus station men's room for his grandson

fit for a tea room queen

[slackmaster]

29. They just don't make Rush Limbaughs like they used to

:crazy:

[classysassy]

30. An outhouse

for the Limbaugh clan.

[Infinite Hope]

31. They ought to include his middle name to water it down. n/t

[MindPilot]

33. Yeah the "R. Hudson Limbaugh Courthouse" would

be a lot more palatable.

[superconnected]

36. Poor man, to have his name tainted so badly, by his grandson.