Really? Is now really the time to honor Rush Limbaugh—or even his bust—with an official spot in the Hall of Famous Missourians?

If the leader of the Missouri House has his way, the broadcast icon soon will be in the company of Harry Truman, Walt Disney and Stan Musial.

Also in the company of Mark Twain, Warren Hearnes, John Ashcroft, Edwin Hubble, Bob Barker, Walter Cronkite, Sacagawea, and Dred Scott.

Unless Democrats in the Missouri legislature can block the plan.

“We are doing everything we can to stop this,” Democratic State Rep. Stacey Newman told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “If it’s something I have to lay down in front of, I will.”

Eli Sanders is The Stranger's associate editor. His book, "While the City Slept," was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He once did this and once won this,...

5 replies on “Limbaugh, Busted”

  1. Now this is politics. One side fighting to spend money for something doesn’t matter, while the other side ready to do anything to prevent something that doesn’t matter. Meanwhile, important issues get ignored or real policy goes un-made.

  2. I can see why Missouri would be proud of Rush: his parents fucked there and gave birth to him there, he flunked out of college there, and he’d never consider living in the state again because he’s too miserly to live in a place where he’d have to pay an individual income tax on his vast “earnings.”

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