Rush Limbaugh is a drug addict!

[Grubel]

Wasn't Rush saying that drug addicts are a drain on society and should be deported? Maybe he meant the 'poor' drug addicts, because if you have money it's ok.

[Restola]

Originally posted by Grubel
Wasn't Rush saying that drug addicts are a drain on society and should be deported? Maybe he meant the 'poor' drug addicts, because if you have money it's ok.

I would say there are also various levels of drug addict (if you can look at something with an open mind for a second).

Someone getting prescription pain killers from a dirty doctor (I assume thats where he got them) is a little different than someone supporting gang activity with their crack addiction.

Neither is right, but there is a difference (similar to getting a ticket for going 10mph over the speedlimit compared to going 60mph over the speedlimit). I think the law might be written that way as well, or at least the judge can consider that when he sentences Rush.

[1stdeadeye]

Rush can no longer hold the moral high ground in my opinion. I wish him no ill to clarify my position.

He will not go to jail nor be fined though. He is going o do rehab and move on. He was not a subject of the on-going investigation. He just got swept up in it as a client.

Sad to watch him fall, but he brought it upon himself. Kind of like Clinton," I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky!"

[Restola]

Originally posted by 1stdeadeye
Sad to watch him fall, but he brought it upon himself. Kind of like Clinton," I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky!"

2 things:

1. Why do you think Rush's career is over? He has something like 20 million listeners.

2. When did Rush lie under oath about it?

[-=Squid=-]

Wow. The liberal foolhardy elements on the left wing are going to have a field day.

[1stdeadeye]

Originally posted by Restola

2 things:

1. Why do you think Rush's career is over? He has something like 20 million listeners.

2. When did Rush lie under oath about it?

Not comparing the two tit for tat. What I am saying is that Rush and Clinton were caught in problems of their own making. Maybe he will be as successful as Clinton in continueing his career or maybe the EIB network will invoke the morals clause in his contract and fire him. Rush is not a lone voice any longer. There are plenty of great conservative talk show hosts out there now: O'Reilly, Hannerity, Glen Beck, Michael Smerconish, etc....

[FactsOfLife]

I can't disagree with ya more bud.

This country LOVES people who screw up and apologise for it, especially if they make good afterwords.

Here's an example I think works.

Pete Rose might be the best baseball player ever.

Pete Rose been berry berry good to baseball.

Baseball been berry berry good to Pete Rose.

Pete likes to gamble.

Apparently Pete bet on baseball.

A big naughty in baseball since that nonsense we like to call, "throwing the world series".


Now, Pete gets his butt banned from baseball for life.

A TON of people want to see him not only reinstated, but immediately enshrined in Cooperstown.

Up to this point in time, unless I missed it on tonights Fox News broadcast, Pete hasn't apologised for betting on baseball.

Think of the tremendous groundswell there'd be for him if he came out all teary eyed and apologised for his gambling and stonewalling.

He'd be in the Hall before the last camera at the press conference was turned off.

I have zero doubt in my mind that Rush on the same path to redemption.

Rush has a problem. When it became public, he confronted it. And now he's dealing with it.

Unlike the drug addicts he's talked about in the past, Rush to the best of my knowledge hasn't laid claim to VICTIM status. He's dealing with it like an adult.

Sorry for any spelling mishaps this evening, I seem to have broken my thumb today...

[clanger]

All people are mortal. All people make mistakes no matter what they preach. It happens sometimes. I never really listened to rush that much but he is a human being, he can make mistakes too. If you believe in bill clinton then surly you can believe in rush limbaugh. Just one little incident shows us who we really are and what were really made of. He will bounce back and still be on radio.

[Collegeboy]

Originally posted by FactsOfLife
Rush is hardly a hypocrite the way some of the people on the other side are.

God bless him as he gets his life back, it's going to be the single hardest thing he's ever going to do.

That has to be the most hypocritical statement I have ever heard.

[Albinonewt]

Originally posted by Grubel
Wasn't Rush saying that drug addicts are a drain on society and should be deported? Maybe he meant the 'poor' drug addicts, because if you have money it's ok.

To be honest, I have more tolerance for people's addictions when it doesn't cost the taxpayers any money. There's a big difference between a millionaire that's on a painkillers and someone that's hopped up on drugs that's in the emergency room with no insurance three times a week. My best friend's wife is a nurse at the Jersey City ER, and she sees the same druggies day in and day out.

Rush may have the same problem, but it's different for society between him and the street addict.

[FactsOfLife]

Originally posted by Collegeboy


That has to be the most hypocritical statement I have ever heard.

So by this we can assume you're a liberal now?

Rush is decidedly conservative, and I made the statement that hypocrisy abounds on the OTHER SIDE.

So either you're fianlly admitting you're a liberal or, you're just proving once again you're a dick.

So which is it Boy?

[Collegeboy]

Originally posted by FactsOfLife


So by this we can assume you're a liberal now?

Rush is decidedly conservative, and I made the statement that hypocrisy abounds on the OTHER SIDE.

So either you're fianlly admitting you're a liberal or, you're just proving once again you're a dick.

So which is it Boy?

"Rush is hardly a hypocrite the way some of the people on the other side are."

No your statement on bashing the left is what I said was the most hypocritical statement I have ever heard. I would do the same if someone from the left said something to the same effect.

I think liberally, but am not a liberal as it is defined today.

[FactsOfLife]

Originally posted by Collegeboy


"Rush is hardly a hypocrite the way some of the people on the other side are."

No your statement on bashing the left is what I said was the most hypocritical statement I have ever heard. I would do the same if someone from the left said something to the same effect.

I think liberally, but am not a liberal as it is defined today.

Yeah right you would.

And you are a liberal, the fact that you won't admit it is immaterial.

And you really need to look up the word hypocrite Boy, you have zero idea what it means.

[Collegeboy]

You will never understand X, without first trying.

I think it is sad that someone like Rush is accused of being a drug addict, I find it sader that people are making fun of him for a problem that he has. There is not one family on the face of this earth who has not have or had a person with a alcohol problem, or might even extend into some sort of drug problem (either legal or illegal).

I am not a follower of Rush enough to know if he spook out against drugs, or made fun of other people who used them.

If he did, I will not say shame on him or call him a hypocrite, for all I know that might has been his way of trying to stop using pills. He might have been struggling to quit, and found that as a way to help.

All I know now is that he needs help, if the above is true, and hopefully now he will receive it.

[1stdeadeye]

Originally posted by clanger
If you believe in bill clinton then surly you can believe in rush limbaugh.

Whoa!! I sure a hell do not believe in Bill Clinton!!!

I am just saying they created their own messes, thats all.

I still like Glen Beck better!

Facts,
You are probably right. People will forgive him and move on. That's the American way now a days!

CB,
No accusations. He came out and told the world about his problem.