‘Rush’ Store Blames Loss of Lease on His Detractors
A vendor catering to fans of Rush Limbaugh is getting the bum’s rush from an upscale shopping mall.
Current Events, which sells Limbaugh T-shirts, baseball caps, coffee mugs and “Rush Is Right” bumper stickers from a kiosk at Lane Avenue Shopping Center, will lose its lease when it expires Saturday, said owner Bill Khourie.
He blamed pressure from anti-Limbaugh forces who have picketed the mall recently. “It’s tragic that this is happening, but I don’t own the shopping center,” Khourie said Wednesday.
Mall General Manager Marcy Starkey denied management was reacting to the handful of protesters. The decision not to renew the lease was part of a routine tenant evaluation, she said.
Steve Rosenberg, who led the protests, said: “We feel that the politics of divisiveness and hatred are bad business.”
Neither Limbaugh nor his chief of staff, Kit Carson, was available to comment.
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