# Rush Limbaugh admits prescription drug addition **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 10, 2003, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-admits-prescription-drug-addition/206716 "2003-10-10T18:59:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-admits-prescription-drug-addition/206716/61 "2003-10-12T00:17:04Z")
If this area is any indication of anything, **RT** , Oxycontin is BOTH a street drug and a prescription drug. You can get it (often ground-up so its effects come about more quickly) on the street. There’s a reason this is called the Oxycontin capital of the world. **fizzy** and I were going through one of her yearbooks and she was telling me who was addicted to what various substance(s). ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-admits-prescription-drug-addition/206716/62 "2003-10-12T02:09:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hajario \* > \*\*Listen carefully to Rush when a liberal calls in. If they’re an idiot liberal he mocks and ridicules them. If the screener screws up and lets an intelligent liberal on the air, Rush lets them speak their piece and sluffs them off. He never engages them. Compare that to Liddy who used to give up to an hour of airtime to a smart liberal and have quite an interesting discussion. > > Haj \*\* This is precisely why I detest Limbaugh. While I do not agree with the political viewpoint of Limbaugh or Liddy, I’ve always respected Liddy and detested Limbaugh. Liddy is honest, both generally and intellectually. Limbaugh isn’t. And I’ll say what I said earlier. I intend to follow Rush’s own directives regarding how we should feel toward drug abusers. Currently I’m not exactly sure what he’s said in the past. If Rush has counseled compassion and understanding, why, that’s what I intend to extend to Mr. Limbaugh. If he’s told the dittoheads to think some other way, well, I think we should all follow his advice. After all… Rush is right. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-admits-prescription-drug-addition/206716/63 "2003-10-12T02:21:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Frankd6 \* > **Liddy is honest, both generally and intellectually.** Odd thing to say about a man convicted of conspiracy, burglary, and illegal wiretapping… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-admits-prescription-drug-addition/206716/64 "2003-10-12T02:47:48Z")
Ah, but Liddy went to prison, paid his debt, etc., etc. Did he emerge a changed man? I’m seriously asking – I haven’t followed his post-Watergate career. ---
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-admits-prescription-drug-addition/206716/65 "2003-10-12T03:09:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by EddyTeddyFreddy \* > \*\*I hope you’re right, **ivylass** ; but if he’s indeed gone through two previous rehabs, and come out just as much of a self-righteous jerk as he was before, I won’t be holding my breath that he’ll be “kinder and gentler.” Leopards and spots, ya know. \*\* I couldn’t have said it better myself. Let’s contemplate whether Rush would have told his audience about his drug addiction by himself - I believe not. This news, on top of his fiasco attempting to be a sports announcer without making racist statements, makes me dislike him more than ever. Hell, I’ll listen to Howard Stern before I listen to Rush Limbaugh. ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-admits-prescription-drug-addition/206716/66 "2003-10-12T04:30:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Revtim \* > \*\*Odd thing to say about a man convicted of conspiracy, burglary, and illegal wiretapping… 😉 \*\* True, he was convicted of each of these crimes. He also readily admits that he committed them and takes full responsibility for them. I think he believes himself justified in committing them, but he doesn’t deny his actions in the slightest and was always prepared to take the consequences (even to the extent that he was willing to be assassinated if necessary). Please understand that I am diametrically opposed to Liddy politically, and I do not agree with his methods. But Liddy at least has the common decency to apply the same standards to himself that he judges others by. Also, speaking as a lawyer (another reason I feel an affinity for Liddy, we share a profession) neither conspiracy, burglary or illegal wiretapping involve intentionally telling an untruth to another. Conspiracy = plotting with another to commit a crime; burglary = breaking into premises to commit theft; illegal wiretapping = listening to electronic communications without permission from Congress or a judge. None requires you to tell a lie. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2003, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-admits-prescription-drug-addition/206716/67 "2003-10-13T00:14:06Z")
I realize this is a hijack, **Frank** , but I don’t understand your value system here. Exactly how high up the ladder can one go before it’s as bad as a lie? Criminal conspiracy, illegal wiretapping, burglary, breaking and entering…well, they’re bad, but it’s not like he _lied_. (For purposes of this discussion, it’s too bad the Brookings firebombing was headed off. :D) At least that’s how I’m reading your words here. Can you clarify? Because I can’t quite believe that’s what you _meant_. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2003, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-admits-prescription-drug-addition/206716/68 "2003-10-13T21:14:02Z")
I don’t have cites handy, but I remember his very heartless comments on the deaths of Jerry Garcia and River Phoenix (and I believe Kurt Cobain). _Deaths_, mind you. As someone said earlier in this thread: rejoicing in a fellow human’s suffering is cruel, and diminishes you. But I’m having a damn hard time feeling a whole lot of sorrow for Rush. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Doghouse Reilly \* > \*\*Cite? I don’t think he’s generally shown heard-heartedness toward individuals who are in one bind or another, including addiction–just scepticism toward the liberals who cynically exploit aforesaid individuals’ pain with dishonest, self-serving, and ineffectual policies. \*\* [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-admits-prescription-drug-addition/206716.md?page=3)