Like many of you, I’m assuming he is going to explain, mea culpa style, why he was such a hypocrite on the drug war.
Or, not?
Many US talking-head type conservatives have lined up to defend Rush as the intellectual leader of the modern conservative movement. Which, I guess, makes modern conservatism not unlike the 1960s counterculture movement led by Jimi Hendrix or Keith Richards.
Maybe he’ll give Donovan McNabb props for his stellar performance yesterday and his team’s five straight victories. That’s more likely. Still unlikely though.
There’s a NY Times article on this subject, which includes the line:
Which explains why Bill Bennett’s in his corner.
Oh hell. I thought they were releasing a new album today.
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GAH! I missed the first 13 minutes. He did go through all the “12 step” mantras at the end. Now he wants to discuss politics. Judges? That’s ironic.
Football? Oh, man, I have some crow cheese to eat.
I’m waiting… Taps watch. Rush’s site where he will post his comments.
“Purple Haze all in my brain. Lately things just don’t seem the same…”
“…There was no phoniness…”
“…I was honest with you throughout the whole time…”
“…I meant what I said…”
First caller: “We are so proud of you…”
Whether or not this can be documented, there are not nearly enough rolleyes smilies in the entire SDMB smiley bank to respond to such a statement.
I wonder how proud of him they’d be if it was heroin instead of Oxycotin.
I ask all these questions, but I never get the answers I want…
Hey! The live album was released just three weeks ago!
They’ve sucked goats since Moving Pictures. Better forgotten than unfondly remembered, in my opinion.
That’s because the people who could answer have all been the recipients of “Limbaughtomies”.
Doesn’t seem to me he admits to being a hypocrite. That’s a damn shame. I am pretty sure at one point, before he started popping the pills, he would have asserted that the vile person doing the same thing he ended up doing needed to be incarcerated.
“talking-head type conservatives”
I would define as: Ann Coulter, Michael Reagan, Sean Hannity, Joe Scarborough*… I’ve heard Coulter, Scarborough and some others defend Rush as being different than other drug addicts because, well, “he had pain” in a phrase – then go on to explain how important he is to the whole conservative movement. Roll your eyes until you pull a muscle.
He is important from a “every day for three hours” standpoint. For years there wasn’t anything quite like Rush, then there was. Like Elvis, only moreso.
*R, FL / talking head – I think I debated against that guy a couple times in HS. Weird. I just checked his bio and some other stuff. I really think I did now. You know you are getting old when… :eek:
You forgot Mike Savage, who tonight declared that “Captain and Commander”(sic) was just unbelievably bad because it was a NAMBLA fantasy world where people (read: fag screenwriters) actually play instruments and sing which, according to him, is historically inaccurate. I assume that he must think that singing and instrument playing among soldiers and officers and intellectuals was invented by Broadway, because that was his point over and over again, among other races and nationalities that he thought should eat shit and die.
From websters dictionary;
Main Entry: hy·poc·ri·sy
Pronunciation: hi-'pä-kr&-sE also hI-
Function: noun
1 : a feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not; especially : the false assumption of an appearance of virtue or religion
2 : an act or instance of hypocrisy
I can’t believe he actually said he wasn’t guilty of hypocrisy and then went on to give a near perfect textbook definition of it 
I love Rush Limbaugh. He’s a smart guy who has worked hard and a true professional. I agree with about 90 percent of what he says.
I know Rush rankles most people on this board, and that is great by me. We will have one hand tied behind our brain just to make it fair!
Go Rush!
Grady
You omitted “drug addict” from your description.
You and Rush, huh? Arm in arm in your battle against the evils of liberalism, eh.
I’m sure Rush appreciates your support.
If Rush never claimed he wasn’t on drugs it’s not technically hypocrisy (what are the chance he’d ever have to?). Of course there’s always room for pointless semantic debate.