I love Rush.
This is incredible showmanship. I laugh til it hurts. He’s buying into the culture of victimization. The investigation isn’t a result of his actions that he has to take responsibility for, it politically motivated. Rush was just minding his own business doing his radio show when, BAM! out of nowhere authorities seize his medical records. Poor, poor baby. He’s a victim of the Liberal police dept in FL.
Oddly enough, this makes me want to listen to him more. Sadly, I don’t get the chance as often as I’d like.
You are absolutely correct. It is NOT funny, and that is the point. I don’t happen to find any aspect of our legal/justice system humorous, given its deadly serious purpose. Unfortunately, Limbaugh apparently doesn’t get that. He’s whistling past a graveyard right now, when he should be thinking instead of all the potential consequences of what is going on, some of them profoundly unpleasant.
You are missing part of the point of the OP. We’re not debating here hether he’s guilty or innocent; either way, that’s for the courts to decide. My point was that whether he is guilty or not, he is acting like a pompous asshole.
This is not the only such story about comments Limbaugh has made on his sho, it’s just the onlyone I had handy to link to. It is at least the third such story I have read on seperate incidents. I wouldn’t have started this thread over the single article I qhoted in the OP.
Read the last paragraph of the original article again. It clearly states “2,000 pills” and “four doctors.”
“What these records show is that Mr. Limbaugh suffered extreme pain and had legitimate reasons for taking pain medication,” Limbaugh said, reading from the statement by attorney Roy Black. “Unfortunately, because of Mr. Limbaugh’s prominence and well-known political opinions, he is being subjected to an invasion of privacy no citizen of this republic should endure.”
I’ve personally have thought Rush Limbaugh the king of lowest common denominators ever since I found out about how he called Chelsea Clinton the “White House dog” on his television show back when Chelsea was 12 or so. (I found out about it long after the fact.) IMHO, as soon as you take to attacking the families of people whose political opinions don’t mesh with yours in cheap ways like that, you’ve only begun on the remarkably short road to destroying your own credibility. Rush Limbaugh is scum, with no interest of rising above the level he is currently at, because he has a loyal fanbase of “dittoheads” who are only too happy to parrot his words.
So tell us why a search for “Limbaugh” on Dean’s official website (which includes his weblog) produces a whopping five hits! Only one of the hits leads to an actual statement from Dean regarding Limbaugh (a statement on Limbaugh’s ESPN comments) and the rest are either links to outside sources that refer to Limbaugh in an innocuous way or refer back to this one statement (a search for “Bush” maxes out at the 500 hit limit). Your “Clinton blaming Rush” claim is also bullshit.
(Starting off a post by making blatantly false claims would make many stop reading any further, being a “wishy-washy” liberal though, I continued.)
The DA’s office began their investigation 10 months prior to the National Enquirer story. Were any public comments made by the DA prior to the story? Any leaks to the press (because the “liberal” media would surely print them, right?)? As for the media, why did the Enquirer sit on the story for 10 months instead of printing it right away? How many stories has The New York Times (that purported bastion of liberalism) run specifically on his addiction? From my quick search, there are a grand total of Five! That includes one news brief of less than 100 words and two articles appearing in the Arts/Culture section E! And even assuming all five articles/news briefs are slanted against poor Rush, I would still fail to see anything remotely like some horrible media backlash.
And look who also is linking to the very same dishonest, horribly slanted AP story linked by the OP; it’s the Rush-hating Matt Drudge.
Take a look at Limbaugh’s site. What’s one of the first things you see? “Rush’s Attorney Roy Black on the Today Show”. So Rush, through his attorney, is using the “liberal” media to defend himself, yet you find it so unbelievable that he has done anything of the sort on his show?
Can you point to me where you see such pouncing? The NYT only has one news brief, less than 100 words, on the seizure of documents and quotes Rush as describing the actions by the DA as a “fishing expedition”. Is that “pouncing”?
It’s cute how “innocent until proven guilty” has become the new dittoheaded holy mantra. Rush would never make any accusations of guilt against anyone until after proven in a court of law, right?
Well, yeah, but only if records from pharmacies near your mansion totalling over 2,000 powerful opioid pills traced back to just four doctors, of whom Dean was one. :wally
Somehow I suspect that Dr. Dean is among the vast majority of good physicians, rather than a drug dealer with an MD.
I always snicker when Rush goes on about “The Media.” With 20mil+ listeners, he’s definitely a part of it. I’m not sure what the actual numbers are, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he had more listeners than the major network news programs or the major newspapers have readers. But it’s hard to play the victim w/o an evil oppressor. But humor is my reason for enjoying his show so much. I also get a big kick out of knowing that there’re literally millions of people who’re listening to the same thing as i am who’re swallowing it whole w/o chewing on it first. Listening to Rush makes me feel smarter.
Ouch! Well, the good folks over at thesmokinggun.com have been nice enough to post one of the Affidavit and Application for Search Warrants in this matter. Top of page 3 is rather damning. It details how members of the State Attorney’s Office and Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office:
Boy, just think how many pills he’ll need to relieve those sphincter aches after a few weeks in the hole.
And yes, I do find jokes about prison rape funny.
Eh, I still like Rush. Out of all the right-wing political radio hosts, he’s the only one that generally stays out of the moralist social conservatism nonsense (by which I’m referring to Hannity, among others), so short of actually getting the local station to carry all 3 hours of Neil Boortz, Rush is the best this libertarian’s gonna get. He’s still pretty funny when he brings up some wacky news items, as there’s no shortage of crazy ideas those lefty radicals want to implement. The recent story of the U of Ill.-Chicago trying to eliminate gender-segregated bathrooms was priceless. When Rush sticks to that sort of thing, he’s gold.
Anyways, if all those idiot Hollywood celebrities basically get off scot-free for their drug problems with a stint in rehab and a slap on the wrist, I don’t see why Rush should be treated any more severely.
Uh, maybe because those “idiot Hollywood celebrities” didn’t go around denouncing all drug abusers as criminal scum who should be imprisoned, but Rush did?
Rush: “Drug abusers are scum and should be locked away!” rjung: “But you’re a drug abuser.” Rush: “…except me!”
