Rush Limbaugh named kids' Author of the Year

[alp227]

Rush Limbaugh, the conservative radio commentator who is a kind of a boogeyman to liberals, was honored Wednesday night with a children’s book award.

Limbaugh won the Author of the Year prize in the Children’s Choice Book Awards for his book “Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims: Time-Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans.”

In accepting the award, Limbaugh was typically combative (if somewhat more subtly than usual standards).

“I love America. I wish everybody did,” he said. “I hope everybody will. It's one of the most fascinating stories in human history ... and it's a delight and it's an opportunity to try to share that story with young people so they can grow and learn to love and appreciate the country in which they're growing up and will someday run and lead and inherit.”

full: http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-rush-limbaugh-kids-author-of-the-year-20140515-story.html

[hatrack]

1. By who? The League Of Reactionary, Dumbass Librarians?

[louis-t]

2. Tell rushie to stop indoctrinatin' our kids.

I mean it.


BENGHAZI!

[Shandris]

3. I didn't know manchild readers had their own award category for books written for them!

Ya learn something new every day, it seems.

[spanone]

4. fuck him.

[cheyanne]

5. You may not know that this award is not given for literary excellence.

They make a sort list of books based on the sales of children's books. If, perchance, some groups would buy these books in bulk, the book makes the list from which the winner is chosen.

[Faygo Kid]

6. Online voting determined it. His dittoheads stuffed the ballot box.

Stupid "award" has nothing to do with merit. It's just online voting, and he pitched for votes on his radio show multiple times. Of course he "won."

[Louisiana1976]

7. Well said! The fix was in.

[LLD]

8. I don't doubt voter fraud took place.

Especially given the vote was online. Feel proud of yourself Rush? You know you didn't win, so what are you proud of? Cheating perhaps? Losers cheat.