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The DNC solicited suggestions for insults to hurl at Rush Limbaugh, and boy howdy, did Democrats deliver! This stone cold rebuke to the leprous sea-monkey Rush Limbaugh will surely have him curled in a fetal position, on a pile of money. [The Democratic Party]
11:54 AM
on Thu March 12 2009
By
Sara K. Smith
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Is that the creature from “Alien” bursting out of his mouth?
It looks like they darkened his complexion. So racist.
Hmm…. Epic failure, epic waste of time, epic waste of money, epically lame. Why didn’t they just throw stuffed animals at him? Same result.
A great big, steaming pile of rebuke.
laaaaame.
as usual, democrats are the best at turning something potentially great (the limbaugh hoopla) into something monumentally stupid (the crappy billboard); they should have quit while they were ahead (the apology website).
Sigh. Shut up, DNC. It’s a wonder you ever win anything without your opposition being kidnapped and transported to Mars.
It looks like they’ve created a Rush-WALNUTS! hybrid lovechild. What’s with the cheeks? Thanks for the hellish visual, DNC!
Ha! In your FACE Limbaugh-er! See! See what I did there?!
Y’all are missing the point. This is the DNC’s idea of a STRONGLY WORDED memo to Rush.
…you guys cant blame me, I wanted: “Rush? Rash? Whats the difference?!”
More viral to incite kiddies to do the Rush Dance in clubs, which is jumping up & down, chanting like a gargantuan, barking sow, jowls loose and flapping: Rush-rush-rush-rush. In fact at every invocation of his name we all should do it, repeatedly.
Why am I embarrassed? Is this how they make Republicans?
Well, that’ll show him.
Up next, the DNC hints (no, has INDISPUTABLE PROOF) that a third-grader has cooties.
You know when Rush sees this he’s just going to jerk off.
…they really should have put Rahm Emanuel in charge of this “contest”.
I wish it had said, “You’ll bend over and grab your ankles and like it, Fat Boy.”
Whoop-de-freaking-doo.
He is going to cry so much!!!
AngryBlakGuy: I was really hoping the DNC would saddle up and go with Rush Limbaugh: you are a seething pile of shit. You are worse than that. You are the shit-eating organisms that cause diseases. You fucking hack. I wish the DNC would grow a set.
Monsieur Grumpe: …nah, I believe its called spontaneous ejaculation. And by the way, ENJOY your lunch everyone!
They should’ve just thrown it out there; “Suck it Rush”..
Pathetic.
Hopefully someone will affix a big ol’ pair of TRUCKNUTZ to that cigar.
leprous sea-monkey. Sara K. Smith rules.
DoctorCulturae: gargantuan, barking sow. alright, Doctor Culturae also rulez.
DoctorCulturae: a gargantuan, barking sow
Thank you for making me laugh, something the DNC is incapable of doing, except nervously, while looking down at my shoes.
Monsieur Grumpe:
You know when Rush sees this he’s just going to jerk off.
Does Rush ever do anything else?
It’s a good thing nobody suggested to the DNC that the words appear as a balloon coming out of Harry Ried’s mouth, ’cause that would have been even stupider, and they would have gone with it.
And they cut off how many pounds of ugly fat? What was wrong with the Jabba the Hutt picture?
As usual, the Dems manage to take a winning position and turn it into an embarrassing defeat. I’ve got a sign in my cube that I’d like to refer the DNC to: I’d offer to help, but you’d just find some other dumbass way to shoot yourself in the foot.
Morons.
This just in: Bernie Madoff married in prison.
shortsshortsshorts: …nah, that’s a bit wordy. I would have went with: “Do humanity a favor and overdose already!”
Um, they’re not actually going to erect that thing are they? Because I will be happy to make a personal field trip to the site for the sole purpose of defacing it and supplanting a spray-painted veiny dick in place of that cigar. Because sometimes a cigar is a veiny dick. Is my point.
This is as momumentally uncool as when my parents try to talk hip hop.
AngryBlakGuy: I was thinking, with that picture, maybe something like, “sometimes a cigar ISN’T just a cigar”.
This billboard is a Rush to Fail. Why can’t the dems just shut up? Shouldn’t they be spending this money on getting people elected somewhere, somehow? Ugh, waste!
This will only be a win if they put it in Steele’s backyard.
Can Wonkette reach outside of the internet and snatch victory from the mouth of defeat? By which I mean, will somebody please deface that billboard before there are a hundred accidents at the foot of it from embarrassed drivers trying to look away from the AWFUL, AWFUL joke?
If I didn’t know that was a DNC ad, I would think it was an ad for Limbaugh’s show and that it was implying that Obama was the one who was failing.
If the whole point of this was to hassle Rush with puns, they just should have genetically engineered a real Magilla Gorilla to follow him around. Now THAT would have anyone crying (and gibbering) within minutes.
This isn’t rocket science: “Fuck off and die”.
I still like: “Rush - the thing you no longer get once you quit doing Oxycontin.”
Perhaps someone should have reminded the DNC that for an enter-taint-er there is no such thing as bad publicity.
Oh, dip, son!
Maybe it should have been just a picture of his big, angry head chomping on a cigar with the words: “Unending Flatulence.”
stopmebeforeitypeagain: …seconded!
He’ll just whine that the mean old Democrats are picking on poot little Rush. Can’t someone just get some pictures of Dominican hookers paddling his fat ass already?
Mr Blifil: Do it. Please.
All Rush has to do now is erect a billboard next to this one, with the identical image, except it would be electronic, and would show him over and over lighting his cigar by igniting that slogan, in the same way he normally lights his cigars with flaming $100 bills.
Mr Blifil: I was gonna say, at least they made the graphic look like Rush is performing a beej (inexpertly, at that).
Meh. The whole thing is dumb, but it could have been a lot worse.
The only thing more fucktarded than Republicans are Democrats.
Canmon (the Inadequate): Hahaha I took off my “librul goggles” and put on “logic goggles” and discovered that ya, you are totally right. It may as well be an ad for Limbaugh. Go DNC!
Mad Farmer Manifest: That’s poor, not poot. Tard. Maybe poot is funnier. Rush is a poot.
SK Smith, the Leprous Sea Monkey Anti-Defamation League is insulted that you would associate us with Rush Limbaugh. We demand an apology.
And we would like Michael Steele to Apologize to us, for laughs.
The DNC is like a couple of little old ladies out for a Sunday drive, but they are having a bad time because they can’t see over the dashboard. Meanwhile, normal people are wrapping cars around trees in an effort to keep them from getting killed.
Here’s mine: Rush is a tuskless walrus goaded into constant roaring by electric shock implants shoved up his rectum. Parents, please tell your children they’ll grow up to be like Rush if they don’t go Democrat. Vote liberal, because electric anal torture makes you crazy.
People! This isn’t the (lame) work of the DNC or DCCC. Blame Democrats.com.
(I hope they’re not related!)
Well, I’m glad to see that the money I didn’t send the DNC isn’t being wasted.
Lolo: Or, as monumentally uncool as it is when Republicans try to bring their values to “urban-suburban hip-hop settings”, i.e., complete epic failure.
Barry should have kept Rahm Emanuel in the House. He would have given El Rushbo a real Chicago-style message, like a horse’s head in his bed.
Well, at least they got the angle of the cigar correct. Although I wish they would have exaggerated it a bit more, like in every 80s movie ever made when an evil genius is finally confronted with evidence that his grand diabolical plan has been sabotaged by do-gooder kids.
I think ‘Guess What’s Coming Out of Rush’s Mouth” would have vibed better.
Also, is that light grey/dark grey shading of his face one of those optical illusions where if you look at one part of it you see a potted plant and if you look at the other part of it you see a craptacularly fat white man punching himself in the face because he can’t get it up for a 12 y.o. Dominican sex boy.
Why is the word “Rush” in red? Huh? Oh I get it. It’s a double meaning. Like Rush the guy and rush like hurry. That is funny. Thanks for putting in red Mr. graphic designer.
I liked my entry, which I ripped off from Al Franken: “Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot.” Sorry, Al.
Leprous Sea Monkey: penultimate
Flatulent Sea donkey: FTW!!
Some heroic youth will climb onto that billboard and spray paint a big hairy scrotum onto that lonely mouth-phallus within a week, mark my words.
That’s a good profile to put on Mt. Rushmore.
Rush will just respond that “REAL AMERICANS® did not vote for Hopey, only Fidel-loving commies did, so, therefore all REAL AMERICANS® did vote Republican. So eat it Pelosi!”
(REAL AMERICANS is a registered trademark of the Republican Party, a subsidiary of Rush, Inc.)
the billboard is fine. they just put the wrong end of rush up as the graphic.
DemmeFatale: No, the link goes to democrats.org, not .com. Sad, but true.
Wouldn’t this poster have been better if it had been done in a socialist realism style?
weak sauce!
I think (the late) George Carlin (R.I.P.) won this contest about ten years ago. “Sometimes a cigar is a big brown dick with a fat, criminal-business asshole sucking on the wet end of it.”
Was “Thanks for harming your party with stupidity and hamstringing your ‘leaders’, we couldn’t have done better.” or “You’re less popular than Hitler, keep talking.” too long/controversial? How about a simple “Thanks!”.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
If you look at the outline of the light part of his face, it looks like a little piglet. Also like a fluffy cloud, but we digress.
Is this what they call subliminal advertising? I suddenly have the urge to have pork barbecue for lunch.
yer alt-text is mis-worded.
For all that the Dems are the party of teh gheys, I see not one shred of gayness in this billboard. Real gays would have slashed Rush into ribbons and have a fabu graphic.
This is just gay in the junior high school sense.
Fuck this. Put up an ad that says “Rush For RNC Chair” and watch them turn inside out trying to respond.
Maybe they’re just waiting for the inevitable graffiti artist to tag this.
I hate to steal from a comedian as well, but the best billboard would have been Bill Hicks’ quote about Rush: “Doesn’t he remind you of one of those fat gay guys that liked to get peed on?”
I still can’t believe they didn’t go with my suggestion of “Just Shut the Fuck Up, Please.”
It should just rhyme Rush and Cush….that way you could also use Bush and Tush and Mush and Whoosh and…what the fuck are these Demented Dems wasting their hobo beans on, anyway?…. fuck it, just hire some hitman from Detroit for two quarts of Mad Dog 2020….say goodnight, Gracie….
What was wrong with wonkette’s “Free Princess Leia”? Why does the DNC even try to make jokes. Don’t they realize libruls are too nice to be mean (which is why we’re liberals) and wonkette libruls are too potty-mouthed to go public?
If a wonkerratti hangs a big ole’ pair of truck nutz on this sign, though, it could save Democrats some face, as I’ve heard they say in the far east, esp if it’s the finishing touch on turning the cigar into a dick. A hairy one.
Is that really the slogan they went with because that is was one of the stupid ones.
“Americans didn’t vote for a RUSH to failure”. You know Rush can turn around and say “So Americans voted for a SLOW pace to failure?”
If you read that slogan it’s saying that America will fail. I don’t like that slogan and there were WAY better ones than that one.
Democrats: A bunch of fucking wimps.
Also terrible at slogans. These are the same people who held up big “Let us vote” signs when the mean old republicans were filibustering the senate (when Harry Reid was in change, FFS).
Lord.
They should have just let people vote, then posted the best ones on the website and let some cable news service run the good ones.
Don’t know about you, but suddenly the interweb tubes are really slow. Or I’ve suffocated my keyboard with toast crumbs again and it isn’t functioning correctly. Ignore anything below this because I’m going to hold the keyboard upside down and shake out the crumbs.
Here’s some funny to counteract the not so:
Rush Limbaugh and his chauffeur were out driving in the country and accidentally hit and killed a pig that had wandered onto the road. Figuring they’d better tell the farmer, they drove up to the farmhouse, the chauffeur got out, knocked on the front door and was let in. He was gone for what seemed hours, and when he came out, Limbaugh asked him what took so long.
“Well, first the farmer shook my hand, then he offered me a beer, then his wife brought me some frsh baked cookies, and his daughter showered me with kisses,” explained the driver.
“What?? What did you say to the farmer?” Limbaugh asked.
The chauffeur said, “I told him that I was Rush Limbaugh’s driver and I had just killed the pig.
why couldn’t they have just said something like “rush, go fuck yourself”, the general consensus seems to be that the dems are lame and missed a great op. …as usual…