Attaboy, Rush!

by Geoff Metcalf | October 21, 2007

“Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic.” --Jean Sibelius

The new epitome for turning lemons into lemonade goes to talk show giant Rush Limbaugh. In the frothy wake of the perpetual acrimonious partisan spitting match between left and right, Limbaugh has eviscerated his petty mean spirited critics AND gifted a worthy charity with a financial windfall.

The New Jersey based, The Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation, a charity that gives scholarship money to the children of service members killed in war or in public duty, will receive $4.2 million (half of it from Limbaugh himself). And that is a good thing.

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