'Rush Limbaugh' defaced, city official cheers vandal

A Rush Limbaugh billboard in the city of Baltimore has been defaced, and a city official is cheering the vandal.

"It looks like they took globs of paint and threw it on his face. It looks great. It did my heart good," Robert Murrow, a spokesman for the city's Department of Public Works, told the Baltimore Sun.

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He admitted to not being a fan of the radio talk show host. And apparently he isn't the only one in Baltimore who disagrees with Limbaugh.

The billboard advertising Limbaugh's show, on Interstate 83 near the Guilford Avenue exit, was hit with paint, apparently during the overnight hours. Murrow contacted the Sun to say someone had poured the liquid on the image of Limbaugh's face.

Limbaugh's nationally syndicated show is heard in Baltimore on WCBM 680 AM starting at noon each weekday.

Murrow said he saw the vandalism as he drove to work, and noted since the billboard is privately owned, the city is not responsible for any cleanup.

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Limbaugh, on his top-rated radio show, responded by noting the attention the billboard is getting.

"I think I'm the one that needs Secret Service protection," he said. "All this talk about Obama and these presidential candidates. For crying out loud, I'm the one who needs it."

He wondered what happened to "civility" in society. "And I will be blamed for defacing my own billboard. Whoever did it will be made a hero," he predicted.

Kurt Kocher, a supervisor in the city's Public Works agency, told the Sun Murrow was not speaking for the department.

"As much as you don't like Rush Limbaugh, you don't endorse vandalism, period," Kocher said. "It's an outrageous comment, and he shouldn't have said it. It is not our policy. I think he got overenthusiastic about his feelings for Mr. Limbaugh. I am very upset about that comment, and I've let him know I'm very upset about that comment. It's his personal comment and it's wrong. It does not belong out there in any kind of official capacity."

The general manager for WCBM, Robert Pettit, told the newspaper the billboard will be replaced immediately. It already had been up for several weeks.

"It's tough to be number 1," Pettit said of Limbaugh's show. "People deface billboards all the time. It's going to be fixed today."

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