Clear Channel removes Rush Limbaugh ad from Tucson billboard

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Rush Limbaugh, like all talkers on hate radio this past week, has been portraying himself as a "victim" of the "left's" complaints about the toxic environment and vitriolic nature of the medium of hate radio that he helped to create and has come to personify. I don't know where the "left" — I prefer reasonable, rational people with a sense of basic human decency — would get this idea.

Here are just a few of the "lowlights" from Limbaugh's radio show in the aftermath of Saturday's massacre in Tucson:

* Limbaugh Attacks Obama For Calling On Americans To Live Up To The Dreams Of 9-Year-Old Shooting Victim

* Limbaugh Rejects Calls For Civility And Healing: "We Don't Need To Heal"

* Limbaugh Attacks Tucson Memorial Service With Lazy Fixation On Wellstone Memorial

Clear Channel Outdoor (the billboard side of Clear Channel Radio that owns the talk radio station on which Rush Limbaugh is broadcast in Tucson) this week removed a tasteless and insensitive billboard ad for Rush Limbaugh in the aftermath of Saturday's massacre in Tucson. Somehow I think Rush would object, because that's just the kind of guy he is. 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."