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Show THE TH U DERBIRD • SOLITHERN UTAH U IVERSlTY • THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1993 • PAGE Dan's Bake Sale goes Save Hundreds on crazy in Fort Collins Graduation Software Thunderbird writer covers conservatives REVIEW BY PAUL SMITH Thunderbird Slll{f Writer Fort Lins, Colorado, the scrne of what Jay I.mo call a •conservad 'W tock'" la t S rurday and thousands were there to, in the word oftbe event's sponsor Rush Lim ugh. "holi and enjoy Life.• Dan's Bake Sale. it ca.lied, when a caller eph n conservative national televisi n an radio personality Rwh Um ugh' show and asked for a compl mentary copy of the Umbaugh urur, a monthly magazine, beet hiA wife w uldn't J him to purch it. ·we could b3' ju.st made Dan a ward of the ta and depen enr on us r eve,rything but in the interest of promoting the Am rican dream and the meri of capitalism ~ u a!() that he throw a Ice sal (like those held to rai money r th n · oal d ht) and do more for the economy by keeping the money he made," said Umbaugh. Dan did just th.at, but in a way that now II beyond his wil t imagination. Due to the incredible n tional ttendon, (Umbaugh i Ii rened by more than l million people and hjs la night television show iA outwatched only by viewers f Len and Ni lulint) con rvadvea horn aU over the counay called to r Dan istance. An owner of ral billboards in Fort Collins ffcred top mo th event; a ew Orlean r taur:mt offered to nd • its ay chef nd Umbau even 1 Maybe he Teally IS on promised to h up to the event On Saturday, the downtown loan rom Od, 1 Sal'd a square of Fort Collins wa set with ---~m f G Denver DJ about Rush Limbaugh, host of Dans, Ba ke Sale. booth from u a hun rec1 sponsors selling everything from ·w Willy' golfbaUs to Bill Clin n floonn tha said "wipe your feet liberally." Th re was a ?1sclairner on the golf balls with ---~ Ointon' face on them, ·though they o~n waffle and change, have a hard tim deciding which direction to go and probably aren't preferable for the pros," it said. Conservative paraphernalia of all kinds surfaced: T hirts, bu ns, bumper · rs and litrrally everytbin imaginable. Along with the thousands of Dan's bake I T-shins were one, with ucb._notabl plu:ua as: •Bill Clinton doesn't inhale, he uc1ts•; •Anybody but Oin n in 96"; •Why be politically coma when you can be right"· • 1f Bill Clinton wan ID fttl your pain you should lap him: and •0an Quayle was rightMurphy b a ttamp!" My personal ri~ one that said, •1 really miss Georg,e---Hell, l ewn miss Jimmy: 0( coune ~ ~ platty of Umbaugh shirts as \ftJL. 11xiugh a event ol htJF proportion.,, it. was lianlly pas,sed OY'£I' by the media ho LJm}. oflm attWil::S of. liberal bi». The rYmt WU achldulul ID run &om l l a.m. ID 4 p.m., but was rolling by 9:30. By 11 a.m., most of the dty of Fort Collin was shut down due ID m · mffic and In lS leading in from Oenvet' was a jam of cam and Bus Caravana headed b r the •umbab.• In 1DWD square there was II line an hour-and- half long just ID meet Dan Kay dte man who bad stamd it all Umbaugh g:racr:d the gathering of mon. than 30,000 people in town square. •Sony I was latt fulb, he said, • it had nothing to do with the flight ~ y hairmaser WU jual running litd£ b • The crowd erupcm in earxy Ill the sight of Um ugh. He stepped on min~ wr a thunder-showff and the sun came out the second he walbd on stage. "This is a sign from God folks," said a Denve.r radio personality. •Maybe he really is on loan from God.• 9This is exactly I imagined ir,• Umbaugh told the crowd "People enjoying themselves and in good cheer." Umbaugh condemned the doom and gloom that permeates society and asked America ID remain in good cheer. Umbaugh also presentm Dan with a specially prcpand copy of the Umbaugh letttr a~T Dan gave him a check for $29.95. m The true spirit of capitalism Umbaugh endeavored to creat2 was evaywhe:n:. Upwards of $500,000 pouim in1D Fon Collins. Parlcine wau for up tD $1 S a slOI: and the low end T·shirt price was $15-$20. There la no official acmunting of how much Dan or the other sponson made on the ewnt that lhut the dty down ln a perpetual gridlock for boun and pl'Ohibitl:d an CltimalEd 50,000 people from even giening to IDWn watt. HoweYer, Kay said some of the money he made wouJd go to charity and the ~ would pay off his ltUdent loans and support him duougb padime Khool. An estimated 35,000 people congrept!d in IOW1\ square The Colorado Hl&hwa, patrol admM!d anodler S0,000 wae ~ll!d from aaiendinc beca. ol the lmllM pidlock o( Fort Col1ina and ill surroundini uas. 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