This one has to be shut down fast.. Rush nominated for award.

[4bucksagallon]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20070201/pl_usnw/landmark_legal_foundation_nominates_rush_limbaugh_for2007_nobel_peace_prize

To: RADIO-TELEVISION EDITORS


Contact: Eric Christensen of Landmark Legal Foundation, [phone], [phone] (fax), [e-mail]


LEESBURG, Va., Feb. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- 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.

[C_U_L8R]

1. PR Newswire

see next message

[CoffeeCat]

8. About PR Newswire....

PR Newswire is a service that businesses use to disseminate news story. For a fee, PR Newswire offers
businesses and other organizations a means of widely distributing news. PR Newswire is not responsible
for the content of news stories, nor do they write any content. They're simply a messenger--hired at
the behest of the company.

PR Newswire is the cousin of Business Wire.

The only people responsible for this, are the members of this legal organization. What in the hell
are they thinking? They fact that they nominated Rush and then wrote a press release about it--shows
that this was probably just a publicity stunt.

[C_U_L8R]

18. Thx for clarifying

i edited my post,

You'd think PR Newswire would have some kind of Code of Ethics
that would discourage their customers from sending out bogus news

[LaBanty]

2. This has to be a joke, right?

This asshole has offended every group of people on the planet, and is a world class hyocrite, besides. Just how has promoted peace by offending everyone and pushing Bush's bullshit agenda?

[Shipwack]

9. Less a joke and more of a publicity ploy...

or maybe a whine for attention.

Landmark Legal (whom Rush is a board member of, btw), is not one of the organizations that the Nobel board solicits nominations from. Therefore the letter nominating him went straight to the trash can.

So, technically, Landmark can nominate Rush for the Nobel Prize, just like they can nominate him to be Pope, and it will mean just as much.

[Divernan]

3. This "foundation" is not eligible to nominate for the Nobel Peace Prize

Only members of a select group are allowed to nominate for the Nobel prizes, and that does not include Landmark Legal Foundation:

Nominators

New nomination rules, effective from 2003. Compared to the old rules the list of nominators has been slightly expanded. Any one of the following persons is entitled to submit proposals:

members of national assemblies and governments;
members of international courts of law;
university chancellors;
university professors of social science, history, philosophy, law and theology;
leaders of peace research institutes and institutes of foreign affairs;
former Nobel Peace Prize laureates;
board members of organisations that have received the Nobel Peace Prize;
present and past members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee; (committee members must present their nomination at the latest at the first committee meeting after February 1);

former advisers at the Norwegian Nobel Institute.
Observing the rules given in the statutes of the Nobel Foundation, the Committee does not publish the names of candidates.

[4bucksagallon]

5. I hope this is just that ...... a bogus story.

[JacksonWest]

7. That's a pretty broad list. Really broad.

Anyone in Congress, every professor in the country(of social science, history ect...)

[CoffeeCat]

12. Information about Landmark Legal Foundation---

From their Web site:

"Founded in 1976, Landmark Legal Foundation is the premiere public interest law firm fighting for conservative principles in America. No legal group has been as successful as Landmark at protecting individual rights, challenging the scope and authority of government, defending free enterprise and exposing teachers' union fraud." (more)

http://www.landmarklegal.org/DesktopDefault.aspx


This nomination was nothing more than a publicity stunt. Like a previous poster pointed out--this
organization is not qualified to nominate people for the Nobel Prize. They're just sucking up to
their drug-addled master of deception.

Pretty pathetic if you ask me. I'm sure Rush will talk about this for at least 2 hours.

[Virginia Dare]

19. Right wing mouthpiece organization gives an award...

to a right wing mouthpiece, not particularly surprising..:puffpiece:

[CoffeeCat]

22. You know what I think their true intent is????

When Gore got a legitimate nomination--they needed to denigrate and trivialize
the Nobel Peace Prize--in general.

They're attempting to marginalize and downplay Gore's distinctive and important
work on global warming--by nominating a right-wing, blowhard circus clown--for
the same award.

This organization agreed to do the dirty work for Rove or some other conservative
group-that who is working to position Gore's honor on the same level with Rush's
three hours of daily blathering.

I've got to hand it to the right-wing PR machine. I was a PR/media relations
guru for many years. They are effective. Evil and sociopathic--but effective.

[Longhorn]

25. I was thinking the same thing.

If someone as odious as Limbaugh can get a nomination, then the nomination must not mean much. Or perhaps if people scoff at it, then the process is "exposed" for its "liberal bias." I think this is a total reaction to Gore's well-deserved nomination.

[Jonathan50]

13. Limbaugh's idea of "peace"

"I tell people don't kill all the liberals, leave enough around so we can have two on every campus; living fossils, so we will never forget what these people stood for."

--Rush Limbaugh

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,982270,00.html

"If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron."

--Spider Robinson

[AllegroRondo]

15. Exactly - this "foundation" can nominate all they want,

but the Nobel committee wont accept it.

[tuvor]

4. Wasn't bush himself nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize last year?

[Ganja Ninja]

10. Yes and I think it was the same morons that made this nomination.

I wouldn't worry about Rush winning any awards unless they start giving awards for assholes.

[Swamp Rat]

16. Check out this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=98221&mesg_id=98221

[AValdoux]

6. Nominate Steven Colbert

What is the procedure to nominate? Is it a matter of sending a letter to the Nobel Committee? I remember one of the quacks who testified for the Schiavo family was also nominated. If a single letter is all it takes to say they've been nominated, why not Colbert? He did invent the word "truthiness". How's that for a contribution to world peace? That would let some of the air out of Limbaugh's sails. I would think Colbert would really play this for what it is, a publicity stunt.


AValdoux

[lynne]

11. Not a joke - it's factual -

- Limbaugh has it on his website here: http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_020107/content/america_s_anchorman.guest.html

Think Progress, DC is also reporting it here:http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/01/next-nobel-peace-prize-recipient-rush-limbaugh/

Landmark Legal Foundation is a conservative group.

[ima_sinnic]

21. not a "joke," as in funny ha ha "gag," but it is a JOKE nevertheless

... as mentioned upthread, the "nomination" has zilch/nada/zero legitimacy.

[NewJeffCT]

27. That's not the point of the "nomination"

They want to make the process look cheap - "look, anybody can be nominated for one of these awards..."

It will make it look like there are some nominees that are just publicity stunts (with the implication that Gore's nomination is also a publicity stunt)

[ima_sinnic]

28. oh, good analysis! yes, the worthless overstuffed piece of skin

would find it necessary to do that, wouldn't he?

[NewJeffCT]

29. I think the decision came from above Rush

One of the power brokers/money men behind the GOP probably came up with the idea, be it Scaife or Murdoch or one of those foundations with billions of dollars.

Gore has gotten a lot of good publicity (Oscar nomination, Nobel prize nomination, etc), and a way to tear that down is to cheapen the value of the award - or at least the nomination process.

[poverlay]

14. It's because he's pissed that Al Gore got nominated. Ignore him. He's not worth your boogers, let

alone your time and worry...

[Swamp Rat]

17. Rash "halfrican" Limpballs?

[mnhtnbb]

20. Doubtful that this group is eligible to make a nomination. Link to process

http://nobelpeaceprize.org/eng_com_nom.html

[LSK]

23. you have to be nominated by Nobel committee, not a right wing think tank

Much ado about nothing here.

[XOKCowboy]

24. Now he's like Hannity's "Nobel Prize Nominated" Doctor

he trotted out to say Terry Schaivo would soon be up and dancing again soon.

How long will it take before Rush has an into calling himself a Nobel Peace Prize Nominee?

[TZ]

26. publicity stunt

since only a certain group can nominate. Besides I think you have to actually "do" something to earn the peace prize outside of breaking the law *cough*drug addict*cough* and talking and what about promoting all humankind? Last I heard he thinks that if you are not a white christian rich male you are not worthy,aka subhuman maybe thats how he justifies his views as promoting equality. I know lets nominate him for the Aryan Bigot Ignorance Loudmouth Prize!! He's totally qualified.:mad: :grr:

[AngryAmish]

30. These peole must be destroyed

Find them and their families and make sure they are taught a lesson they will never forget.