Subscribe"What this says to me is that too many whites are getting away with drug use. Too many whites are getting away with drug sales. Too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too."
The news that Limbaugh, a savage critics of others' moral behavior, was addicted to drugs was taken as a sign of hypocrisy by his detractors. His friends and staunchest fans, however, said Limbaugh was merely working through the kinds of challenges that can affect anyone.Detractors were making false allegations against Rush loooong before he ever popped any pill. Observers who weren't detractors noticed the stunning hypocrisy of this man who claimed :
What this says to me is that too many whites are getting away with drug use, too many whites are getting away with drug sales, too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too. (Rush Limbaugh. October 5, 1995 show transcript.)But Rush friends aren't exactly friends, it's like being Howard Stern listeners : they are FANS. They don't criticize the great leader, they don't question the wisdom of his saying, they don't do much thinking either. Nothing wrong with that, except that when I say JUMP you jump just because I said jump.
In 1998 his coccyx bone was removed and it was found that he had cysts in his spine. He was being treated for the pain regarding these conditions at the Jupiter Out-Patient Surgery Center and they found he had degenerative disk disease and was being treated for chronic and intractable pain…In order not to use medication, because he knew and they knew what could happen as a result of using this medication, he agreed to a series of epidural steroid injections into his spine in order to prevent the pain from continuing. It was unsuccessful.Unfortunate indeed, but
Got that? Limbaugh says he's been a drug addict since as early as 1995, but that he only became a drug addict after having back surgery. But he didn't have the back surgery until 1998. Sure, Limbaugh's 1995/1996 quote could have been a slip of the tongue, or just evidence of a generally bad memory. At the same time, though, how hard is it to remember which year you had back surgery and then became a junkie?Just saying. Yet it's a lose-lose situation for him, because
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I loathe the guy for obvious reasons, but this is actually a fairly sweet deal for him (and one most of us mortals would never get). If he stays clean for 18 months, his record will be wiped.
"Crack--it's not just for the poor any longer." (tm)
posted by bardic at 6:41 PM on April 28, 2006