Gary Johnson Steals Shovel Ready Line from Rush

[Amish]

Last night at the Presidential Gary Johnson got some laughs for his line about his neighbor's dogs creating more shovel-ready projects than OBAMA.

He stole the line from RUSH who said it in yesterday's program.

[Retired Greyhound]

Who cares?

It was a great line that needed to be said in a presidential debate on prime-time television.

All great lines should be “stolen” and repeated as often as possible.

[hinckley buzzard]

It's OK. Johnson was only there as comic relief anyway.

[douginthearmy]

I think Rush got it from the web. The line was posted on #AttackWatch as a joke.

[iowamark]

Every conservative borrows from Rush. If they don’t, they should!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/22/rush-limbaugh-gary-johnson-joke_n_977152.html
“Rush Limbaugh On Gary Johnson Joke: ‘Guess I’ve Become Show Prep For The GOP Debates’”

[mmichaels1970]

I think Rush got it from the web. The line was posted on #AttackWatch as a joke.

You're correct. During the first few days of the "attackwatch is the laughing stock of the web" stories, this joke was cited as one of the funnier things reported to #attackwatch.

[cripplecreek]

I’m not sure why he was even there, of course I ask the same question of Ron Paul.

[WOBBLY BOB]

Perry said to keep that joke all to himself would have made Johnson uncompassionate.

[justice14]

Yep, that’s what I saw as well. It was one of the tweets sent to Attackwatch. If I recall correctly.

[cripplecreek]

Perry said to keep that joke all to himself would have made Johnson uncompassionate.

LOL With a last name like Johnson, what do you expect? Nothin but a heartless gringo.

[Leep]

I wasn’t a big Miami Vice fan.

[RowdyFFC]

I thought I’d heard it somewhere already yesterday. But it is a good line....

[Retired Greyhound]

Ron Paul’s abortion answer was one of the best of the night.

He said that our problem in America isn’t a lack of laws, it’s a lack of morals.

Walter Williams has made this point in the past, and I agree 100%.

[aruanan]

Maybe more, but pretty much of the same quality.

[BuddhaBrown]

“I’m not sure why he was even there, of course I ask the same question of Ron Paul.”

The persistence of Ron Paul enabled the presence of Gary Johnson.

[barstoolblues]

Come on. That joke almost writes itself.

[Las Vegas Ron]

Actually it was around before Rush said it, in fact it was posted on a thread here a few days ago.

[skeeter]

ABC rushed this 'scoop' onto their website this AM.

No time to cover the Fast & Furious scandal though.

[zerosix]

Seeing as how Rush has a listening audience of around 20M, the chance of the audience having heard the same line earlier in the day, or at least heard someone repeat the line, the "1% popularity (somewhere in some country) Johnson" was unfunny to say the least.

Yeah, there he was grinning into the camera, restating Rush's line verbatim!

What novelty, what a refreshing change.......what dribble.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Don’t know if Johnson, someone Rush is not a fan of, is a fan of Rush or not. Glad he used the line, he delivered it well, and it worked. All the other candidates really laughed at it and it was a nice break in the tension.

And Newt borrowed, roughly, with attribution from Reagan V Carter. That was great too. I say we beg, borrow or steal the most pertinent and funniest and cutting sound bytes we can and multiply them as often as we can in front of as many people as we can.

A line like that is exactly the kind of thing that might puncture a closed mind or clarify a confused mind. And to paraphrase from Herman Cain, we got a lotta puncturin’ and clarifyin’ to do.