# Since when does Rush Limbaugh get to call Bonnie Rait and the Boss "drug addled"? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 6, 2004, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-when-does-rush-limbaugh-get-to-call-bonnie-rait-and-the-boss-drug-addled/258647 "2004-08-06T18:04:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2004, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-when-does-rush-limbaugh-get-to-call-bonnie-rait-and-the-boss-drug-addled/258647/1 "2004-08-06T18:04:46Z")
Just asking. What sort of universe do we live in where a recent drug addict can seriously call musicians against Bush “drug addled” (of course, Republican celebrities and musicians are okay), especially when they include Springsteen and Bonnie Rait, a grandmother? Limbaugh is a paid entertainer. So are they. What the hell is with the Republican double-standard whereby only Democratic celebrities are verboten to speak in public about what they believe in? ---
**Author:** ![Wartime\_Consigliori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9d8465/32.png) [@Wartime\_Consigliori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wartime_Consigliori)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2004, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-when-does-rush-limbaugh-get-to-call-bonnie-rait-and-the-boss-drug-addled/258647/2 "2004-08-06T18:07:51Z")
Apos, I tend to agree in spirit, but what was the context of Dimbulb’s statement? Was this on his radio show, or in a print interview? ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2004, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-when-does-rush-limbaugh-get-to-call-bonnie-rait-and-the-boss-drug-addled/258647/3 "2004-08-06T18:13:18Z")
> [@Apos](#): > > What the hell is with the Republican double-standard whereby only Democratic celebrities are verboten to speak in public about what they believe in? Rush Limbaugh doesn’t represent all Republicans. ---
**Author:** ![Chastain86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Chastain86](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chastain86)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2004, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-when-does-rush-limbaugh-get-to-call-bonnie-rait-and-the-boss-drug-addled/258647/4 "2004-08-06T18:20:59Z")
> [@Apos](#): > > Just asking. > > What sort of universe do we live in where a recent drug addict can seriously call musicians against Bush “drug addled”? See, you’re not supposed to **remember** that. After all, it happened, what, 6 months ago? **Apos** , why do you hate America so much? ---
**Author:** ![TonyF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de053/32.png) [@TonyF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonyF)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2004, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-when-does-rush-limbaugh-get-to-call-bonnie-rait-and-the-boss-drug-addled/258647/5 "2004-08-06T18:31:13Z")
To be terribly fair, just because he was an addict doesn’t mean he can’t call others on doing drugs. It just makes him look like a huge asshole, and everyone else look better. ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2004, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-when-does-rush-limbaugh-get-to-call-bonnie-rait-and-the-boss-drug-addled/258647/6 "2004-08-06T18:33:32Z")
How odd - Rush is usually so fair and impartial. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2004, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-when-does-rush-limbaugh-get-to-call-bonnie-rait-and-the-boss-drug-addled/258647/7 "2004-08-06T18:36:39Z")
He better lay off Bonnie Raitt and be a real man. That’s simply not the way you treat a lady. She looks like a sugar mama, but there’s hell to pay when you’re guilty. She’s nobody’s girl. Rush is just looking for something to talk about. He’s a three time loser anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2004, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-when-does-rush-limbaugh-get-to-call-bonnie-rait-and-the-boss-drug-addled/258647/8 "2004-08-06T18:39:16Z")
I’m pretty sure Bonnie Raitt is clean and sober. If that’s the case why then Rush is nothing but a big fat liar! ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2004, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-when-does-rush-limbaugh-get-to-call-bonnie-rait-and-the-boss-drug-addled/258647/9 "2004-08-06T18:39:39Z")
> [@TonyF](#): > > To be terribly fair, just because he was an addict doesn’t mean he can’t call others on doing drugs. Bullshit. As a prescription drug addict myself (59 days clean, thank you), I would never call someone “drug-addled”. After all I’ve gone through and all I’m going through now to stay clean, I know what it’s like. So to speak disparagingly about anyone else for the same thing is tacky and mean-spirited, to say the least. The fact that he has no proof that they even take drugs at all makes it all the more disgusting on his part. He’s a fucking hypocrite and this doesn’t surprise me a bit. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2004, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-when-does-rush-limbaugh-get-to-call-bonnie-rait-and-the-boss-drug-addled/258647/10 "2004-08-06T18:40:23Z")
**monstro** makes my head hurt like math. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2004, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-when-does-rush-limbaugh-get-to-call-bonnie-rait-and-the-boss-drug-addled/258647/11 "2004-08-06T18:42:03Z")
Have a heart, **andros**! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2004, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-when-does-rush-limbaugh-get-to-call-bonnie-rait-and-the-boss-drug-addled/258647/12 "2004-08-06T18:44:19Z")
> [@Lord Ashtar](#): > > Rush Limbaugh doesn’t represent all Republicans. True, but let’s face it, everytime a Democratic celebrity opens their yaps, a Republican talking point starts floating around about how dare these know-nothing elitist celebrities try to preach to the American people. Or course, Toby Keith and Limbaugh are just your friendly neighborhood millionaires, you know, regular joes. He doesn’t represent all Republicans in the same way that Bush doesn’t represent all Republicans. But him and his views, particularly this view, are definately a big part of the Republican mainstream line. ---
**Author:** ![syncrolecyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@syncrolecyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/syncrolecyne)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2004, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-when-does-rush-limbaugh-get-to-call-bonnie-rait-and-the-boss-drug-addled/258647/13 "2004-08-06T18:46:51Z")
Isn’t Bruce Springsteen about the only famous rock musician who has always been drug free and against drugs? This is stupid, even for Rush. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2004, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-when-does-rush-limbaugh-get-to-call-bonnie-rait-and-the-boss-drug-addled/258647/14 "2004-08-06T18:49:07Z")
> [@Apos](#): > > True, but let’s face it, everytime a Democratic celebrity opens their yaps, a Republican talking point starts floating around about how dare these know-nothing elitist celebrities try to preach to the American people. Or course, Toby Keith and Limbaugh are just your friendly neighborhood millionaires, you know, regular joes. > > He doesn’t represent all Republicans in the same way that Bush doesn’t represent all Republicans. But him and his views, particularly this view, are definately a big part of the Republican mainstream line. So can’t we just call him a hypocrite and be done with it? ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2004, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-when-does-rush-limbaugh-get-to-call-bonnie-rait-and-the-boss-drug-addled/258647/15 "2004-08-06T18:58:07Z")
> [@TonyF](#): > > To be terribly fair, just because he was an addict doesn’t mean he can’t call others on doing drugs. > > It just makes him look like a huge asshole, and everyone else look better. Well, I’m waiting for Apos to provide some content 🙂 (I can’t find anything on Google), but my suspision is he was not expressing a fellow sufferers concern over indivuduals actual drug use. Rather he was suggesting certain people’s opinions were just so ridiculous and stupid they could only be the product of drug use…the scary thing is he probably doesn’t even register the irony. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2004, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-when-does-rush-limbaugh-get-to-call-bonnie-rait-and-the-boss-drug-addled/258647/16 "2004-08-06T18:58:12Z")
> [@Wartime Consigliori](#): > > I tend to agree in spirit, but what was the context of Dimbulb’s statement? Doubtlessly this is a response to the [“Vote for Change”](http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/8/prweb147347.htm) concert tour, which is out to raise funds to toss Bush out of the White House come November. I’m no Springsteen fan, but I think this is going to backfire on Limbaugh. I suspect that if people have to choose between Bruce and Rush, they’re gonna go with Bruce two times out of three. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2004, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-when-does-rush-limbaugh-get-to-call-bonnie-rait-and-the-boss-drug-addled/258647/17 "2004-08-06T18:59:35Z")
I’m still waiting for a contextual quote or attribution. So far, I’ll I’ve found is a [comment from a couple of days ago](http://www.sun-sentinel.com/features/lifestyle/sfl-05concertsaug05,0,2159654.story?coll=sfla-entertainment-headlines): > [@](#): > > “This is nothing new,” he said on the air Wednesday. “It’s just some rock bands that are going to bash the president.” Again, **Apos** , where did you hear this? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2004, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-when-does-rush-limbaugh-get-to-call-bonnie-rait-and-the-boss-drug-addled/258647/18 "2004-08-06T19:04:11Z")
Since when does whether or not someone’s a grandmother affect whether or not they’re drug-addled? ---
**Author:** ![TonyF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de053/32.png) [@TonyF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonyF)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2004, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-when-does-rush-limbaugh-get-to-call-bonnie-rait-and-the-boss-drug-addled/258647/19 "2004-08-06T19:11:33Z")
> [@Nutty Bunny](#): > > Bullshit. As a prescription drug addict myself (59 days clean, thank you), I would never call someone “drug-addled”. After all I’ve gone through and all I’m going through now to stay clean, I know what it’s like. So to speak disparagingly about anyone else for the same thing is tacky and mean-spirited, to say the least. The fact that he has no proof that they even take drugs at all makes it all the more disgusting on his part. I agree - a better or just smarter person wouldn’t ridicule someone like that. Congrats on fighting the addiction, by the way. … I must say, I’m surprised that his addiction hasn’t caused him to withdraw himself from the public. I guess he’s on a crusade. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2004, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-when-does-rush-limbaugh-get-to-call-bonnie-rait-and-the-boss-drug-addled/258647/20 "2004-08-06T19:19:59Z")
> [@TonyF](#): > > … I must say, I’m surprised that his addiction hasn’t caused him to withdraw himself from the public. I guess he’s on a crusade. Or he could just be an asshole. I wouldn’t rule that out. 😉 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-when-does-rush-limbaugh-get-to-call-bonnie-rait-and-the-boss-drug-addled/258647.md?page=2)