We need to compile some quotes of Rush deriding drug addicts....

[phillybri]

Anyone have any leads?

For the record, I don't plan to say anything negative about Rush that he hasn't already said about others. I urge everyone here to do the same.

I hope he gets better, but no free rides...

[Howardx]

1. heres a good one

"What this says to me," he told his listeners that day, "is that too many whites are getting away with drug use. Too many whites are getting away with drug sales. Too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too."

[soupkitchen]

2. Bye-Bye Rush

[demgrrrll]

3. Atrios had a pile of quotes on

his blog You will probably have to scroll down a while they were on right after the story broke.

[phillybri]

8. Even in his statement Limbaugh sounded like an insufferable prick...

He's was still trying to put himself above all the "celebrities and athletes" that have been through the same situation...

My prediction: All RW commentators will be saying in chorus:

"LOOK AT ALL THE LIBERAL HYPOCRITES TAKING PLEASURE IN THE ADDICTION OF RUSH LIMBAUGH. HOW SHAMELESS!!!!"

[reachout]

4. Here is one

"By legalizing drugs, all you're going to do is define further deviancy downward. We have a duty to pass on values to our descendants, values that will maintain the standards of behavior and ensure the survivability of the American way of life. And drugs are no different. You end up destroying more than yourself."
-- Rush Limbaugh Playboy interview, December 1993

[Justice]

5. "You end up destroying more than yourself"

so who else has Rush destroyed? The minds and hearts of all of his listeners - poisoned by his words?

[Justice]

6. Are Other RW Media Types Addicted to What they Profess to Abhor?

Rush was spouting hate against those paralyzed by drug addiction when he himself was paralyzed by it --

I can't help but wonder if there is a broader point here. Other RW media types are obsessed with sex or abortion etc - does their obsession suggest they are (like Rush) personally paralyzed by the very thing they profess to abhor?

[jimshoes]

7. This may or may not be helpful but

About one and a half or two years ago, RL was having some dental work done and was prescribed Vicodin (He related this story on his show btw) and went on to tell his listeners that he could not understand what the attraction was to these kinds of drugs as they made him really loopy. (I'm paraphrasing here because I don't have the exact quote) I dont have it on tape or anything but if anyone has transcripts of his shows from that time period it's in there.

hyp-o-crite noun- one who affects virtues or qualities he does not have : dissembler
Rush is a big fat hypocrite