How Rush Limbaugh Turned Lemons into Lemonade

About a month ago, Jessie MacBeth was sent to prison for six months for lying about being in the military and speaking out against the war. Rush talked about this in his show calling Jessie and any other person who fakes military service whilst making up wartime atrocities a phony “phony soldier.”

Forty-one Democratic Senators sent a letter to Limbaugh’s Corporate headquarters, Clear Channel Broadcasting, demanding an apology.

Limbaugh said he was speaking of real “phony soldiers” — men who had lied about their military service and invented stories of wartime atrocities.
In a classic move of turning lemons into lemonade, Limbaugh put the senatorial letter up for sale on eBay, with the proceeds going to the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation, one of the finest charities in the land.
Founded in 1995, the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation gives educational bonds to the children of Marines and federal law-enforcement agents who die while on active duty.

To everyone’s surprise, including Rush, the top bid for the letter was $2.1 million by Betty Casey, a long-time listener to Rush and a trustee of the Eugene Casey Foundation, a philanthropic organization. On Friday Rush matched the Foundation and donated an additional $2.1 million of his own money giving the organization a total of $4.2 million

Kudos Rush!