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Right Lane Cruiser
09-28-2009, 07:11 AM
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/2/AmericanFlag.jpg 'Is this thing on?' (http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/09/25/rush-limbaugh-on-jay-leno-i-like-the-electric-car/)

http://www.hulu.com/embed/LVLQeswq1AiEKHp26hH_tg&hl=en&fs=1Andrew Heining - CSMONITOR (http://features.csmonitor.com) - September 25, 2009

Leno's efforts to present EVs in a positive light is working for even the most combative of skeptics! --Ed.

It was billed as an environmental grudge match – Rush Limbaugh, the king of conservative talk radio and avowed global warming skeptic, was taking a lap in a fully electric car on Jay Leno’s new show.

Would he refuse to participate? Crash intentionally? Last on anyone’s list of outcomes was “Love it,” but that’s what happened.

After a heated discussion (by Jay’s standards) of Limbaugh’s weight loss, capitalism, healthcare, the government’s stimulus plan, social security, and sky-high Wall Street bonuses, Limbaugh and Leno stepped outside to the show’s racetrack for two laps in the custom Ford Focus built for the show’s celebrity “green car challenge.”

After refusing to put on the helmet donned by other guests (”Jay, this helmet will not fit my brain!”) Limbaugh asks mockingly “Is the car running” and takes off.

After gingerly navigating the first lap of the course, Limbaugh turned up the juice, powering through the second lap’s onslaught of ping-pong balls and streamers. He didn’t, however, steer safely around the pop-up cutouts of environmental activists Al Gore and Ed Begley Jr., in fact... http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/09/25/rush-limbaugh-on-jay-leno-i-like-the-electric-car/

rdprice64
09-28-2009, 08:02 AM
I love how Jay keeps Rush from going too deep into any of his regular rants by cutting him off and moving on. It also seems that Rush was taking Jay's ribbing about being green better than he usually does.

I hope that Jay invites Al and Ed to race with a couple of Rush cutouts on the track ;)

Chuck
09-28-2009, 11:37 AM
It was mostly entertainment and nonsense, but perhaps it's progress.

I noticed the comments and it's the same moronic rants.

It's like the nation as a whole is behaving like high school punks that have to act and dress a certain way to "belong"....various types of vehicles, particularly the Prius is a gang uniform.

America grow up.

phoebeisis
09-28-2009, 11:51 AM
Well, this is a good thing. Many folks take RL word as gospel, so if he likes them, they like them.

Don't look this gift horse in the mouth.

Charlie

Indigo
09-28-2009, 11:51 AM
Besides, the Ford Focus is cool. Making it an EV can only make it cooler :)

hobbit
09-28-2009, 09:52 PM
Prius owners can't be a tight-knit gang -- I'm embroiled in a
bunch of internal strife over on Priuschat about following distance.
Lots of them just don't get it.
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