That Rush Limbaugh, what a guy! What an American patriot. When he says support the troops, he means it. In fact, he supports them so much, hes developed a program to give troops one year complimentary 7/24 passes to his website through his bighearted program, Adopt a Soldier Today. Heres how Rushs idea of philanthropy works.

Now folks Im taking this right from his website. You cant make this stuff up.

When you enter his sites homepage, right up there in the top right hand corner, the best advertising real estate a webpage can offer, there is a box identifying his Adopt a Soldier Today campaign. Click on it. You get to read as slick a piece of patronizing patriotic punditry as ever an American heart could embrace. Ah, I feel the chutes of giving being greased like the ball joints on a Humvee. If you are an adoptee (i.e., a soldier), you click on the left button to see if there are sponsored funds available so that you might freely delight in Rushs world 7/24 for a year. If you are an adopter (i.e., non-Lib), you click on the right button to see the details of how you can helpbe sure to wipe the tears from your ditto-head cheeks first, lest they drop and short circuit your keyboard.

Aha! There you go; the details. You may donate as many yearly subscriptions as you would like at a reduced rate of $49.90 (a whopping $10 cheaper than the normal $59.90 annual subscription). The website will match the donated subscriptions with interested troops. Its a beautiful act of heartfelt generosity from Rush-o. I get all ferklempt just thinking about it.

Oh wait. What's that at the bottom PLEASE NOTE THAT GIFTS MADE UNDER THIS PROGRAM ARE NOT TAX DEDUCTIBLE.

Gee, I wonder why?

Because Rush pockets the money! Thats why! It's treated as any other subscription! What other reason could there be?

I cant put it any other way: Rush Limbaugh really should be ashamed of himself! Either that or he has some splainin to do!

Now maybe if he took every penny of that money and donated it to the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund that Don Imus harps on all day, Id feel differently.

Im not holding my breath!