“Clear Channel Outdoor management in Tucson quickly elected to take down this ad – believing that discussion of its interpretation would not contribute to the desire for healing in the Tucson community,” Clear Channel said.
Hopefully they can find something else to put up that contributes to the Tucson community being absolutely titillated for healing. [TPM]
{ 59 comments }
Also, every time they change the billboard, the local affiliate pays for it. Ad biz is slow these days and you need to find the revenue where you can find it.
Green shoots in struggling economy.
The billboard wasn't in poor taste, "discussion of its interpretation" could lead to blood libel, though.
Don't want no Billboard Libel.
Yeah, stop interpreting, hippies!
"When it came night, the white waves paced to and fro in the moonlight, and the wind brought the sound of the great sea's voice to the men on shore, and they felt that they could then be interpreters."
Has Rush whined about being the victim in this yet?
Civility and good taste are nothing more than censorship.
Might I suggest something classy–watermelons on the White House lawn, perhaps?
First they came for the bullet-ridden billboards……
"Quickly?" Hasn't that thing been up since before the shooting?
typical lamestream liberal media.
If they really wanted to gross people out, they should just put up a picture of what Rush looks like naked, or worse yet, what he had for dinner.
It's lunch time here – stop that.
young boys?
Rush Limbaugh is not hurt by this setback — he never feels any pain.
Not as long as he keeps popping Oxy like Skittles, anyway.
I knew Tucson was seeking some healing, but I didn't realize they wanted sexual healing.
Sounds thoroughly Gaye!
Quickly–replace it with a Crossroads of the West billboard! Time's a-tickin'!!
How about a picture from Rush's "colon-cam?"
Understandably shot in super wide-angle Cinemascope.
I can only handle half the truth, I'll settle for his semi-colon-cam.
I couldn't agree more, meta-who-deserves-positive-pee. The next thing you know, the (half dozen) liberals in Oklahoma will want to go back to telling Bubba he can't conceal/carry at the tavern. And that's utter bull shit. Because that's where he gets the most pissed off and needs his glock, or whatever they call them.
(Fail! Being unable to name a weapon reveals fact I am one of the six.)
I don't know if you live in Oklahoma or not, but I think you will agree with me when I say that State's adherence to Sharia Law has already cost the Sooner's a shot at the national title as well as contributed to stonings in town squares, especially out in the panhandle.
I remember when downtown CDA started having issues with public drunkenness and idiots pulling out their concealed handguns to provide second amendment remedies, the local papers were full of ravings about how the liberals were going to use this to take away their guns. I wanted to write in and tell them that as one of the three liberals in Kootenai County, I had no problems with them getting drunk and shooting each other, as long as they made sure the shots were fatal.
That's only for defense, because taverns in Oklahoma are high priority terrorist targets.
A "Summer's Eve Douche Island Splash" billboard (Limbaugh's main sponsor) would be an appropriate replacement.
Pass the douchey on the left hand side.
'Escape From Douche Island' would make a great reality show.
I agree, now who would it star? Give me a list of celebrity appearances. I think Glenn Beck would be the first to sign up. They could have a treasure hunt for gold.
Kurt Russell could reprise his role as Snake Plisskin. It could complete the trilogy.
Westboro Baptist should have taken this opportunity to put up their message of god's healing love. Couldn't be any more offensive than Rush.
Billboards don't kill people, healing kills people.
believing that discussion of its interpretation would not contribute to the desire for healing in the Tucson community
And Limbaugh does contribute? Or are they taking him off the air too?
Maybe the local teabaggers could replace it with something tasteful, like "Tell Congress: You're fired upon."
They'll be sure to include a surveyor's mark, I'm sure.
Actually, Rush demanded that the billboard come down, as the gunshots made it look like someone was damaging property, instead of a colored person, which is what Rush wanted.
Only 1 in 10 meccas of prejudice and bigotry ever heal.
Where's the outrage?
Aisle 17. Past the Cleaning Supplies, over between the Pet Food and Household Heavy Weaponry sections
Forgive if this has been commented before (seems too obvious to have not), but what was the straight shooter aiming for? The billboard looks like Dick Cheney and Mr. Magoo went to target practice tripping.
The sixties were so long ago I had to think a second on tripping. I guess the new horoscope alignment was why the age of Aquarius turned into Mars.
"Rush Limbaugh Will Shoot You in the Face"
I like it…I like it.
I'm guessing that even with a fistful of Viagra, he needs a couple hours to accomplish that (and he needs to hear you say, 'Time up, you shoot junk now' for most of that time).
I hate my imagination.
Now miso horny. I hate your imagination, too.
Someone told Rush "The jig is up" and he assumed that meant a black man was hovering over the billboard.
To be fair, a large portion of Wal-Mart's customers are mentally deranged, yet only a handful of bloody massacres can be attributed to them.
Thank you Clear Channel for giving us some extra mileage out of this outrageously typical example of Limbaugh/Rightard idiocy. Keep up the good work, you money-grubbing cocksuckers.
From time to time the tree of liberty must be watered with the spittle of feckless PR functionaries.
What happened then?
Well, in Tuscon they say
That Clear Channel's small heart
Grew three sizes that day!
What are they going to replace it with – Palin's crosshairs map, now that it's been taken offline, so everyone can see whether they really were crosshairs (in the name of healing, of course)?
Greetings, all you conversationalists across the fruited plain. Welcome to the Excellence in Broadcasting Network. I am Rush Limbaugh, and remember, I AM EQUAL TIME. And now, a word from Ginsana and Bose Wave Radios.
Today's Fux News is not any different from Limpball's show in its heyday. My doctor had Fux on in the waiting room yesterday (no remote control, no off switch!); 20 minutes of Megyn Kelly's Blonde Ambition Tour was basically like this:
Arizona Shooting Tragedy and liberals exploiting same.
Commercial for Goldline
Commercial for asbestos lawyers (HEY WAIT A MINUTE)
Interview with John Stossel about Evil Teachers' Unions
Commercial for hip replacement lawyers
Story about "Old Testament-like" flooding in Australia
Commercial for investment in antique gold coins
Coming up next: Shortages that could lead to HUNGER RIOTS.
I've been titillated before.
Are they gonna drive around and replace all the road signs that have been shot up by all the toothless fuckers there? Fuck Rush. Also.
Rush Limbaugh is a straight shooter. Yet all the bulletholes indicate the otherwise. And why are people shooting at a the name of Rush?
This ad makes no sense to me.
I would not hit that
Clear Channel clearly hates our freedoms and Constitution now. Grammar and civility mind control through class antagonism have finally gotten to them. Sales were up. Doesn't anyone care about the market anymore? Free clear channel!
Why did they just "take it down", when they could have blown it up with a should-be-legal-for-anybody-to-own-because-that's-what-the-founding-fathers-would-want rocket propelled grenade?
Wussies.
Why does Clear Channel hate America?
Double rainbows and unicorns would be nice for starters, Rushbo…
Comments on this entry are closed.