OMG, they've named a courthouse after Rush Limbaugh!

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http://www.talk.newsweek.com/politics/default.asp?item=533684

On Wednesday, March 21, 2007 the President signed into law:

H.R. 342, which designates the United States courthouse in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, as the Rush Hudson Limbaugh, Sr. United States Courthouse.

We know what you're thinking: the Rush Limbaugh? Not exactly, but close. The courthouse, located in Limbaugh's hometown, is actually being named after his grandfather, who was a pretty famous guy in his own right. Rush H. Limbaugh was a prominent civic leader and a onetime ambassador to India under President Eisenhower.

[whistle]

1. Was Rush H. Limbaugh Sr. as bib an asshole as his name-sake?

[Xithras]

4. Lol, no.

Excerpt from another article:

The patriarch of the Cape Girardeau Limbaughs was Rush Sr., who in 1923 started a law firm that still bears his name. He argued dozens of cases before the state Supreme Court, served as president of the Missouri Bar and chaired an American Bar Association special committee on the Bill of Rights.

He also headed the Missouri Historical Society and was a civic leader on the boards of everything from the local schools, hospital, Boy Scouts, library and Salvation Army to the Missouri Human Rights Commission. The annual service award at the Cape Girardeau Rotary is named in his honor.

The Limbaughs clearly tilted Republican, but unlike his grandson, Rush Sr. is remembered not for bombast but rather moderation and modesty.

"The grandfather was the epitome of what a lawyer and distinguished community leader should be," said Frank Nickell, director of the center for regional history at Southeast Missouri State. "He was very cultured, very genteel, very quiet and very polite."

Remember that prior to the 1960's, "Republican" meant a very different thing than it is today. This excerpt doesn't even mention that he was the nations oldest practicing attorney when he died at 104, that he helped found the Missouri Highway Patrol, and that he helped to draft the current Missouri Penal Code.

There was a discussion about this a couple of months back, and I was as against it as anyone when I first read the headline "Rush Limbaugh Gets Name On Courthouse". After reading up about the guy, I think he probably deserves it though. It sounds like he was a better man than his grandson.

[BlueEyedSon]

2. His name is Jeff Christie, no?

[independentpiney]

3. They have pigboys face on the river wall mural though

and the road out of the airport is Rush Limbaugh Blvd. I almost turned around and got back on the plane. Lovely town otherwise.