Was this suppose to be symbolic of something???? It kinda creeps me out. The hairs on the back of my neck just bristled.

A petition to remove conservative host Rush Limbaugh’s program from the Armed Forces Radio Network is nearing the number of electronic signatures needed to get a response from the White House, the Army Times reported.

Two online petitions are competing on the "We the People" section of whitehouse.gov, which encourages people to request government action on issues.

The petitions come in the wake of Limbaugh calling a Georgetown law student a "slut" and "prostitute" for advocating that insurance companies cover birth control.

The anti-Limbaugh petition, which had more than 21,000 electronic signatures as of Monday, asks Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to remove Limbaugh’s show from AFN for the host's "abusive, divisive, insulting language." If it receives 25,000 signatures by April 4, the federal government will respond, according to whitehouse.gov.

A petition to have conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh pulled from the Armed Forces Network has achieved the 25,000 online signatures required to get a formal response from the White House. However, it remains unclear when a reply might be forthcoming and whether there is any chance of his three-hour show actually being pulled from the military’s overseas radio network.

More than 25,000 signatures were collected in 10 days for