Rush admits to pill popping

[Jazz Kid]

on his show today, he admitted to being addicted to pain medication

[bombastic]

In the past, he has said, drug users ought to be "sent up". Well- send him up! :laugh:

[marvin g]

If I had a head that FAT I'd be addicted too! :indiff:

[Fran]

Originally posted by bombastic
In the past, he has said, drug users ought to be "sent up". Well- send him up! :laugh:

I always yold his "fans" he was quite a send up anyway.

[bombastic]

Put him in a cell with a big, mean, ugly, southern boy lovin' Liberal!!! :( :eek: :mad: "Drug users should all be sent up."-Rush Limbaugh, Idiotic Conservative-1951-2003 :laugh:

[clifton]

I don't like Rush Limbaugh at all, and he's certainly a hypocrite for supporting the war on drugs and demanding hard time for drug abusers while he's abusing drugs all along. But I, for one, hope he gets clean and reconsiders his views. I can't ethically oppose the war on drugs (which I do) and at the same time support jailing Rush (which might be cool street justice, but...). Let's be better than our worst thoughts.

[Jazz Kid]

wow, i don't care for Rush either, but you guys don't seem to care that he is a human being....:frown2:

[Mailman]

Yeah he's a human being alright, smirk. When did he ever care about human beings. What goes around comes around, payback is a bitch etc. Send him up and let the dittoheads visit him.

[Jazzmoose]

Originally posted by clifton
I don't like Rush Limbaugh at all, and he's certainly a hypocrite for supporting the war on drugs and demanding hard time for drug abusers while he's abusing drugs all along. But I, for one, hope he gets clean and reconsiders his views. I can't ethically oppose the war on drugs (which I do) and at the same time support jailing Rush (which might be cool street justice, but...). Let's be better than our worst thoughts.

Well put, Clifton.

[bombastic]

I still say stick his hillbilly ass in the can! :laugh:

[3pointdeli]

there is nothing special about human beings. fuck him.

[bombastic]

I didn't realize you could write "fuck" here anymore. In that case...Fuck Rush Limbaugh!!!

[3pointdeli]

i apologize if i've started a trend towards more profanity. please note that my post was typed at the beginning of my work week, which makes me more likely to curse.

as for rush...

i don't hold his drug addiction against him. i've known plenty of people who were addicted to drugs.

nor do i hold his opinions about the drug war, and drug users, against him. everyone is entitled to their opinion.

however, blatant hypocrasy (not to mention constantly lying about all sorts of things) is something else altogether. for that, i hope he rots.

[bombastic]

It's okay 3point. I'm only goofing around. I don't like profanity that much either. Limbaugh is a self-righteous asshole though! :laugh:

[KolumBUZZ]

i noticed Newsweek has a really mean-toned article toward Limbaugh. I hate Limbaugh as much as any other liberal, but we liberals are never going to truly stand on the moral high ground until we can resist trying to kick enemies when they are already on the ground.

there was an undercurrent of reveling in his demise, in this news publication- that smacks of adolescent vindictiveness.

[WestCoast Ghost]

Which article did you read? The cover story is a complete sop to the guy. I agree with the spirit of your remarks, but if anything the Newsweek cover story offended me the opposite way--it almost read like a PR piece for RL. Check out this blogger's rundown on the article:

RushinNewsweek (http://uggabugga.blogspot.com/2003_10_12_uggabugga_archive.html#1066033003929239 69)

[3pointdeli]

on the ground? demise?

i hate rush as much as anyone, but anyone who believes that he, or his career, will be tarnished in any way by his drug addiction is a sucker.

this pill addiction episode will be spun to make rush a hero. (gwb already called him a "great american") the worst that will happen is that he'll have to be more careful what he says about drug addicts.

just watch.

[bombastic]

Bush calling Limbaugh a "Great American"! That's like Butthead saying that Beavis is a genius!!! :laugh:

[Rooster_Ties]

If Bill Clinton were an addict, here's how Rush might spin it

By Bill McClellan
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
10/12/2003


Somewhere in a parallel universe, where we are all the same people - but things have happened in slightly differently ways, Rush Limbaugh greets his loyal listeners this morning...


"Lots to talk about today. You all know already that Bill Clinton, our former president, has admitted an addiction to prescription drugs.

"It's interesting to see the way the liberal media are playing this. I'm looking at a copy of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Saturday, October 11th, edition - the day after the big announcement. Well, the story is on Page 2, and right next to his photograph, in large boldface print, is the following quote: 'I take full responsibility for this problem.'

"That's interesting, folks, because if you look at his actual statement - not what the liberal media say he said, but what he really said - you get a different take on it. First, he says he's got back problems. So he's blaming it on that. Then he says he had surgery, but the surgery wasn't successful. So he's blaming it on the doctors. Then he says the pain medication was addictive. So he's blaming it on the pharmaceutical companies. Folks, he blames it on everybody but himself! But as long as he puts in that obligatory line about taking responsibility, that's what the liberal media are going to grab: Clinton takes full responsibility!

"Here's another interesting thing in his statement. I love this one. He says a lot of athletes have admitted drug problems and have been treated like heroes. Huh? Can you name one athlete who admitted a drug problem and was then treated like a hero? How about Darryl Strawberry? Maybe liberals thought Strawberry was a hero, but I don't think most of us felt that way. And then Clinton says, 'I refuse to let anyone think I'm doing something heroic here.'

"You want to know what that's about? He's telling his friends in the liberal media how he wants this thing played. He wants to be called a hero for admitting his problem. That's why liberals confuse so many people. They mean the opposite of what they say.

"And I'm telling you folks, the liberal media are going to do it. He's going to be a hero. I can already see the spin on this: Clinton accepts responsibility! Doesn't blame others!

"I know you don't believe me - 'Rush, not even the liberal media can pull that one off!' - but just watch. I'm telling you. Just watch.

"Another thing. I heard him on the radio the other day. He was whimpering, 'I want to tell you about this because you're like family to me.' If there are any liberals out there listening, I'd like to ask you this: Weren't you people like family six weeks ago? How about six months ago? Two years ago? But he didn't feel the need to tell you then, did he? So why now? You think it could be because he's been caught? Because his high-priced attorney has told him he'd better act remorseful?

"Speaking of getting caught, have any of you read about those tapes and e-mails the cops have? Heh, heh, heh. You won't read them in the mainstream press, or hear about them on the Clinton News Network, but they're a hoot. He sounds like he's auditioning for a part in the next Cheech and Chong movie. He calls money "cabbage," and he refers to his favorite pills as "blue babes." It's always interesting to hear the way somebody talks when he thinks nobody is listening.

"I know what liberals are going to say: 'This is a time for compassion.' Let me be very clear about this, folks. I have compassion. But my compassion is for all the people who believed in the guy. He was their shining star. He could do no wrong. But you know something? I probably don't have to worry. Because his followers are going to still believe in him. That's the thing about liberals! You can't convince them! You can show them the facts. You can say, 'Look, here is what he really said, and here is what he really did,' but they don't want to know the truth. That's the big difference between them and us. Liberals are afraid of the truth."

[3pointdeli]

exactly.

[bombastic]

As Johnny Carson would say "That is weird, wild, wacky schtuff".

[Rooster_Ties]

Harry Shearer's "Rush to Recovery" (http://play.rbn.com/?url=livecon/kcrw/g2demand/ls/ls031012le_Show.rm&start=27:58.5&proto=rtsp) (you need the RealPlayer)

[bombastic]

Anybody else sick of hearing about this clown? I would just like to see him retire,so we wouldn't have to listen to his dumb right wing ideas anymore. I don't listen to him, but i'd just prefer not to hear his name anymore.

[Saundra Hummer]

Just another pompous pill popping ass, who it happens, is making a living off of other peoples hatreds. Hearing him once was enough for me, and that was years ago, and my opinion is still the same concerning him; an oportunist, like the gambling, do nothing to make a living, conservative whose name escapes me for the time being, oh, Bill Bennet. This just reinforces my belief that conservative is just another name for radical. Seems rip off artist should also apply, especially since people buy into such worthless tripe that he and Bennet have espoused, being the hypocrits that they both are.

His vulgarities about Anita Hill were stomach turning, and that is the first, and last time to listen to him for me, but I never forgot the smarmy way he approached politics that didn't agree with his warped view of things. I don't owe him compassion, he has enough for himself to go around. He certainly never showed much to anyone else, according to published reports, since his lifestyle has been revealed.

[Saundra Hummer]

Really! A good look at why I would like to have the edit option open, lost part of my thought train here, and the last sentence could use some help! Take us back to the days of old, when a miswritten statment could be corrected easily, no fuss, no muss.

[alsa]

"so we wouldn't have to listen to his dumb right wing ideas anymore"

Well, well, well. I guess the elites abound on this board, huh

Well, I came to bring a little balance. Let's see your left-wing ideas being taken up by the people in '04 :D

[Saundra Hummer]

"Elite."???

I don't think we have have ever been called "Elite."

Better this than "radical."