ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society: The Ball Is In Your Court, Rush Limbaugh

File this one under "never gonna happen": Not that I wouldn't pay a few bucks to watch Yalies slap Oxy-rush around a bit. The reality is that my 12 year old daughter can see through his blundering, blubbering, slobbering, ranting, and raving routine for what it is. Is it really fair to put a doped-up fool against someone that is educated and capable at debating when the blimp can't even convince a naiive kid that he can make a sane point?

ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society: The Ball Is In Your Court, Rush Limbaugh:
April 15, 2005 04:59 PM Posted By Ian Questions & comments 14
The Ball Is In Your Court, Rush Limbaugh

Last weekend, ACS' Yale Chapter hosted a conference entitled "The Constitution in 2020," which conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh found quite objectionable:

[S]ome people got together to rewrite the Constitution. A bunch of liberal elitists gathered up at Yale to have this little pretend new Constitution. What it should say, what it should be, what the principles and guidelines of the new Constitution ought to be. So while there are those of us who are devoted to defending the current US Constitution, there are a bunch of leftists and liberals out there that are toying around with the idea of rewriting and changing it. (interruption) Well, I don't know if they've banned me, I haven't read everything that everybody there posited or wrote. Let me get the piece at the next break and I'll share with you some things that people are saying.


ACS's Yale Chapter has not banned Rush Limbaugh. In fact they have formally invited him to speak at Yale. In a letter to Mr. Limbaugh, the Yale Chapter wrote:

We are flattered by your interest in our recent conference and would be honored to have you visit Yale as a guest speaker. As you discussed in your broadcast, over six hundred progressives -- practicing lawyers, policymakers, academics, students and others -- came together to discuss a progressive vision of the Constitution, just as the Reagan Justice Department got together in the mid-1980s to produce a conservative vision of "The Constitution in the year 2000." You mentioned the possibility that you might be banned from such events. To the contrary! We would welcome you to Yale and believe that an event featuring you would be well-attended by our members, other students at the law school, faculty members, and representatives of the university.

In your broadcast, you also refer to our "little pretend new Constitution." Enclosed please find our gift to you: a pocket-sized copy of the U.S. Constitution. Since the Founding, it has belonged to all of us. While it is "little," it is certainly not pretend. We hope that you will come to Yale to speak and take part in this very real dialogue.