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Rush Limbaugh launches his own brand of (patriotic) iced tea

ptif219 said:
No Rush speaks truth, you just can not handle the truth
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Rush is a paid mouth piece of the Heritage Foundation:

Heritage pioneered the sponsorships in 2008 partly as a way to broaden its appeal outside the Beltway. In 2009, it dropped Ingraham and added Limbaugh, and – according to its tax forms – paid $3.3 million to Premiere Radio Networks, which syndicated Limbaugh’s show and also had picked up Hannity’s show.
“We decided ‘let’s go with the largest audiences,’ which are Rush and Sean,” said Heritage’s Wood. While she wouldn’t provide the precise breakdown, Wood said it’s roughly – but not “exactly” – accurate to say Limbaugh’s sponsorship cost $2 million and Hannity’s cost $1.3 million in 2009, and that the rates remained similar last year.


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Last month, in the midst of a flurry of scrutiny of GOP presidential candidates’ stances on health insurance mandates similar to one included in the 2010 Democratic healthcare overhaul, Limbaugh took to the airwaves to defend Heritage’s past support for such a proposal.
“The Heritage Foundation to this day says they are being impugned and misrepresented in terms of their advocacy for such a thing,” Limbaugh said, explaining that the venerable think tank “abandoned the idea once they saw it implemented” and realized “it doesn’t work.”

Read more: Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck sell endorsements to conservative groups - Kenneth P. Vogel and Lucy McCalmont - POLITICO.com


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So what is your point?
 
ptif219 said:
More hate speech from the left
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Yet you are a huge fan of someone who constantly spews hate for the left. Why does that get a pass from you?

Also, if Mike Moore sold some tea the same way that Rush is doing, I can guarantee you would not place an order.
 
Guy Incognito said:
Bah. You're the one who either doesn't understand or is remaining willfully ignorant. It's clear as day.

A picture of a flag is governed by flag code.
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A picture of the United States Flag is governed by the flag code. The flag on the label isn't a United States Flag. It doesn't have 50 stars.
 
Middleground said:
Yet you are a huge fan of someone who constantly spews hate for the left. Why does that get a pass from you?

Also, if Mike Moore sold some tea the same way that Rush is doing, I can guarantee you would not place an order.
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Does he spew hate, or does he just express his disagreement with Leftist policies? Or, do Libbos see them as being one in the same?
 
apdst said:
A picture of the United States Flag is governed by the flag code. The flag on the label isn't a United States Flag. It doesn't have 50 stars.
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It's rather sad someone would make an issue of such a thing to begin with.

Holy dog****, it's just some ice tea...
 
Phantom said:
The slogan should be "teabag your thirst!"
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That is a great slogan. I envision the commercials like the cheetos commercials, when they toss the cheetos in somebody's mouth, but instead you just lean back and somebody will dip a soggy wet tea bag in your mouth. Refreshing!
 
Jetboogieman said:
It's rather sad someone would make an issue of such a thing to begin with.

Holy dog****, it's just some ice tea...
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It not just ice tea. If you don't buy it, you hate the troops!
 
SheWolf said:
That is a great slogan. I envision the commercials like the cheetos commercials, when they toss the cheetos in somebody's mouth, but instead you just lean back and somebody will dip a soggy wet tea bag in your mouth. Refreshing!
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I got a tea bag over here at my place
 
Go, Rush, go. Hit it, and hit it HARD, Dog.
 
ElCid said:
Go, Rush, go. Hit it, and hit it HARD, Dog.
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That's right! Rush did something that Obama hasn't been able to do...create jobs! :lamo
 
Middleground said:
Yet you are a huge fan of someone who constantly spews hate for the left. Why does that get a pass from you?

Also, if Mike Moore sold some tea the same way that Rush is doing, I can guarantee you would not place an order.
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Stating facts where they lie and deceive is not hate,
 
ptif219 said:
By the way I give to Blinded Veterans Association,Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund ( This is the mobile Vietnam memorial mobile wall) Paralyzed Veterans of America,Wounded Warrior project
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I bet you are in Rolling Thunder and you know my friend Chris (recovering from hip replacement, drives a red car). I was at UF recently, preparing my proposal. Say hello and show him the tavern pics page, ay?

FWIW, I think Rolling Thunder is really great, especially that piece of legislation they helped push through. I think Rush is ok sometimes, but this product is lame in more than one way.

Here's my favorite Rolling Thunder thing:

http://www.rollingthunder1.com/about.html
 
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I do not belong to any club as a truck driver I do not have the time for a club.

The tea is very good it is not meant as a political thing as much as a business adventure. We need more people to start business if our economy is to recover.
 

See?? If it weren't for the drugs.. That mistake might not have happened.. It doesn't take much brain power to fill a pick order.. But when your stoned?? Who knows what your going to get.. Well.. You do.. Diet tea is what you get..

Just saying.. lol :lol:
 
ptif219 said:
I showed they screwed up my order but the tea is great. Your hate would never let you admit Rush could do anything right
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Rush got the facts screwed up...... as always.
 
apdst said:
A picture of the United States Flag is governed by the flag code. The flag on the label isn't a United States Flag. It doesn't have 50 stars.
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Even granting you this argument, is a bad faith argument. Frankly when it comes use of the flag in advertising, it is ignoble to play the lawyer.

Moreover, your argument is incorrect. Reread the flag code. It applies even to parts of a flag. If it's meant to look like a flag, then it's a flag.

I remember in another thread, I was discussing an American Legion outdoor flag-mural, that had no stars whatever. I tried to argue that this wasn't a flag for flag code purposes, but I believe it was Tucker Case who rightly pointed out that even this is a technical violation due to its containing parts of the image of a flag in a place where it can be rained on and otherwise exposed to the elements.

Using the flag or parts of the flag in a patriotic outdoor mural is a technical violation. Using the flag or parts of the flag as an advertisement is dowright scummy.
 
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