Limbaugh's 'Straight Shooter' Tucson Billboard is Removed

Rush Limbaugh 'Straight Shooter' Tucson Billboard Removed
aolnews via tpm CLEAR CHANNEL STATEMENT : "Starting several weeks before the recent tragic incident in Tucson, Clear Channel Outdoor had been displaying an ad campaign created by a local Tucson talk Radio Station to promote its broadcasts of Rush Limbaugh's nationally syndicated radio program. This particular ad - which used the common expression "straight shooter" to describe Mr. Limbaugh's candid and direct style -- was designed and contracted for by the local station's promotion departmen...

Rush Limbaugh Takes Down Straight Shooter Billboard in Tucson
Celebrity Endorsements: Money for Nothing? A spokesman for the shock jock’s syndicate says a Tucson billboard featuring Limbaugh’s name, the phrase “straight shooter” and bullet hole imagery was designed by a local station and removed after the shooting massacre that took place in that city. UPDATE: The billboard was removed on Monday, a spokeswoman for Limbaugh’s syndicator told Politico. “The ad campaign was created by a local Tucson talk Radio Station to pr...

Clear Channel Yanks 'Straight Shooter' Limbaugh Ad In Tucson
Several weeks ago, NewsTalk 790 KNST in Tucson put up a billboard to advertise Rush Limbaugh's Radio Show. The text reads, "Rush Limbaugh/Straight Shooter," and the ad is riddled with images of bullet holes. In the wake of the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) and 18 others on Saturday, KNST's parent company, Clear Channel, decided to take down the billboard. In a statement to TPM, Clear Channel, which also manages the billboard, said the ad "used the common expression 'straight shoot...

Gabe Zimmerman Dad: He Was My Best Friend
Like this Story? Share it: (CBS) TUCSON - The aide to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords who died in last weekend's shooting rampage in Tucson was remembered for bringing his gifts of good cheer and empathy towards others to public service. "The phrase I like to use is, 'My fine, strong son,'" Zimmerman told anchor Chris Wragge. "He was good-natured from the day he was born. He was an amazingly outgoing person, even as a child. It was striking. We liked having him as a son. It was great fun. We did things...

Rush Limbaughs Tucson Billboard Rankles HuffPo
Tucson, Arizona’s historic Old Town is in trouble. The Huffington Post doesn’t want the words “straight shooter,” or pictures of bullet holes in the heart of the old West. Rush Limbaugh has a billboard in Tucson that has apparently been there for some time. The Huffington Post suggests “Limbaugh’s people might want to take it down now . Will Old Town, the city’s most popular tourist attraction be forced to close the dangerous streets where gun fights pre...

Gov. Bans Officials from Talk Radio
(FOXNews.com) - Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee on Thursday defended his decision to ban state officials -- including himself -- from conducting interviews on Talk Radio, except in emergencies. When talk radio hosts engage in vitriolic political Rhetoric, "advertisers should shut them down," Chaffee said, according to the Providence Journal-Bulletin Chafee. A spokesman for the governor's office earlier said the decision is not related to the Tucson shootings and was considered before the tr...

Tucson Tea Party Co-Founder Blames Giffords For Getting Shot; Says Tea Party Is Also Shooting Victim
Trent Humphries, co-founder of the Tucson Tea Party, says if Gabrielle had security concerns she should have protected herself and not appeared without better security at an open event. (via Raw Story) The Arizona congresswoman shouldn’t have attended an event “in full view of the public” if she had security concerns, according to Tucson Tea Party co-founder Trent Humphries. Humphries told The Guardian, “We’re Victims, too,” worried that the fall-out from the ...

Limbaugh's 'Straight Shooter' Billboard Yanked in Tucson
Clear Channel to TPM: "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." ...

Could AZ Shooter Have Been Stopped? Foxs Megyn Kelly Asks OReilly: Where Were The Parents?
Fox’s Megyn Kelly sat down with Bill O’Reilly to talk about the red flags and-possibly-missed signals that might’ve landed the Arizona shooter into police custody or a Mental Health facility before Saturday’s nightmarish Shooting Spree. Kelly outlined the low-level run-ins with police that suspect Jared Loughner is known to have had in the months ahead of the shootings, but concludes that minor drug arrests would not have aroused much suspicion-perhaps...

Sarah Palin to Appear on Hannity Monday
Sarah Palin will appear on Sean Hannity's program on Fox News Monday, the New York Times reported Thursday night. This interview will be Palin's first extended interview since the shooting rampage in Tucson that killed six people and wounded 12, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords was holding an event outside a Grocery Store to meet with her constituents. Palin has been taking heat from both sides of the political spectrum since the shooting. In the days following the shooting before ...

Rush Limbaugh Billboard Promises People of Tucson More Shooting
Sure, the people of Tucson love getting shot. But did they know they can also get shot on the radio? It’s true! They just have to listen to Rush Limbaugh on their radio, according to this billboard that’s “down the street where Giffords was shot.” If you think about it, that shooter really wasn’t very good. His kill count could have been higher. His aim was actually a littler gay, if you ask us. Whereas Rush, who is fueled by beef fat and pills, shoots straight. In...

100 judges to attend John Roll funeral
TUCSON, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- More than 100 judges are expected to attend Friday's Funeral of U.S. District Judge John Roll, killed in the Tucson Mass Shooting, a U.S. marshal said. "I can't give a specific number, but there are about 100-plus judges who are coming in from all over the country, from Supreme Court justices to district judges," U.S. Marshal for Arizona David Gonzales told KTAR-AM, Phoenix. Security will be tight, Gonzales said, declining to discuss specifics measures. The Marshals Serv...

Former Judge to AZ Sheriff: Shut Up Before You Do Any More Damage to the Prosecutions Case
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) Former Judge to AZ Sheriff: ‘Shut Up Before You Do Any More Damage to the Prosecution’s Case’ CNSNews Rep. Louis Gohmert (R.-Texas), a former prosecutor and judge and a current member of the House Judiciary Committee, is offering some advice to Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik , who has gained national attention since Saturday for his suggestions that radio and television Talk Shows were somehow responsible for the shooting attack in Tucson that took th

Few US voters blame toxic politics for shooting
People look at a makeshift memorial outside the office of Rep. Gabrielle Gi... Most US voters say the Tucson shootings targeting Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords could not have been prevented while few blame the toxic political climate, a poll showed Friday. Saturday's attacks, in which a lone, misfit gunman killed six people and left Giffords fighting for her life, have unleashed a wave of soul-searching about America's political culture. In the wake of the tragedy, some say the shoo...

Arizona speech was challenge to write
Helping to craft the Speech that President Barack Obama would deliver in Tucson, Ariz., was perhaps the biggest assignment of White House Speechwriter Cody Keenan’s career. The task for the 30-year-old Northwestern University graduate: help the president eulogize the Victims of Saturday’s deadly shootings in Tucson, praise the heroes and unite the nation while, at the same time, rising above the bare-knuckle fight between politicians and pundits about the dismal state of political ...

Latest Lefty Outrage: Rush Limbaugh Billboard Has Bullet Holes In It
Oh the humanity! (Robot Celeb)- Rush Limbaugh is under scrutiny after his “Straight Shooter” billboard in Tucson, Arizona went viral on the Internet. It turns out after the recent Arizona shooting, people are looking for anything and everything to blame for the tragedy. First it was the Sarah Palin poster and blood Libel video, then Glenn Beck‘s gun toting website malfunction and now this Limbaugh bullet hole ridden billboard. This is exactly why I don’...

Casual Observation (Post Tucson ed.)
Things that make Republicans see red (and not in a good way) about the Tucson Memorial: Blue T-shirts, the crowd cheering (it was, after all, a Nuremberg-like rally) and Obama telling everyone Gabby Giffords opened her eyes. Well, I suppose if they couldn't attack the Speech Obama gave (then again, some of them did anyway), they had to find something else to keep their rage and victimhood memes alive. By the way, liberals' stole Rush Limbaugh's free Speech rights because they forced him to take...

Giffords progressing nicely, doctors say
TUCSON, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Critically injured U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., has marked major milestones as she recovers from a gunshot wound to her head, doctors said. But as remarkable as her progress is -- Giffords opened her eyes, tracked people and objects, moved her arms and dangled her legs over the side of her Hospital bed -- doctors warned her progress won't be always as swift during her rehabilitation, The (Phoenix) Arizona Republic reported Friday. "Every milestone, every bit of...

Mass Shootings and Mental Illness
Like this Story? Share it: (CBS) The events in Tucson left many of us asking - How could this happen? But we've seen this before - an unstable man, a senseless attack. It's put a spotlight on Mental Illness. In this country, 45 million adults are mentally ill. 11 million of those cases are considered serious. CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric reports on how those who need help most are falling through the cracks. "Oftentimes, when we have tragedies like this people will say there were no w...

Bob Burnett: Is the Giffords' Shooting a Teachable Moment?
While there is little doubt about the facts of the Tucson tragedy, that one man pulled the trigger on the automatic revolver that shot Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, killed six others, and wounded 12 more, the open question is whether it is a teachable moment. No one who heard the awful news on Saturday, January 8th, should have been surprised. Since the political Rhetoric escalated during the 2008 Presidential Campaign, Americans have being holding their breath expecting an assault on Bara...

Gabrielle Giffords' progress a 'leap forward'
(01-14) 04:00 PST Tucson -- Five days after she was shot in the head at close range, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is able to keep her eyes open for as long as 15 minutes and can move her legs and hands, although her right hand has only slight movement, doctors at University Medical Center here said Thursday. Doctors called her progress "a major leap forward" but expressed caution, saying that for now, they would not upgrade Giffords, an Arizona Democrat, from critical condition. Dr. Peter Rhee, he...

Treating the Mentally Ill.
The Giffords shooting has raised a lot of questions about how we treat the mentally ill. The alleged shooter, Jared Lee Loughner , exhibited signs we would recognize immediately as constituting a Mental Illness, but appears to never have been treated and was able to get his hands on a gun. That's led to calls for a lot of different action, from concerns over why Pima Community College, where he attended classes, didn't mandate that he seek care despite expelling him for his odd behavior, to call...

Tucson to bury judge slain in shooting rampage
He was shot to death as he dropped by to see her at a constituents' meeting outside a north Tucson Grocery Store last Saturday, on his way home from mass. His Funeral is on Friday morning. Among six people killed when a College Dropout pumped bullet after bullet into a crowd outside the Safeway store, Roll was a highly respected jurist. He joined the federal bench in 1991 after being nominated by President George Bush, on the recommendation of Arizona Republican Senator John McCain. He rose to ...

Tucson to bury judge slain in shooting rampage
Tucson, Arizona | Fri Jan 14, 2011 8:02am EST Tucson, Arizona (Reuters) - A devout Catholic and a respected Federal Judge, John Roll was also a close friend to Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. He was shot to death as he dropped by to see her at a constituents' meeting outside a north Tucson grocery store last Saturday, on his way home from mass. His Funeral is on Friday morning. Among six people killed when a College Dropout pumped bullet after bullet into a crowd outside the Safeway store, ...

New Gun Control in wake of Tucson tragedy unlikely
One of the first facts to come out of Saturday's events was that Jared Lee Loughner had shot 20 people with a Handgun and a a high capacity magazine, a magazine that would have been banned during the Clinton era.  The ban expired in 2004 due to a provision in the law that required an express renewal.  While efforts to do so were backed by President Bush, even that was not enough to get it passed.  Fast forward a little over 6 years later and Loughner was able to easily and legally...