Is there an official "Limbaugh drug abuse quotations" thread?

[BigBigBigBear]

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I've never been able to find a decent online source for Rushboisms.

[mumon]

1. This just in !

http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2003/10/10/limbaugh/index.html

On Sept. 23, 1993 (on his now-defunct TV show): "If there's a line of cocaine here, I have to make the choice to go down and sniff it … If there were a gun here, it wouldn't fire itself. I've got to reach for it and pull the trigger … we are rationalizing all this irresponsibility and all the choices people are making and we're blaming not them, but society for it. All these Hollywood celebrities say the reason they're weird and bizarre is because they were abused by their parents. So we're going to pay for that kind of rehab, too, and we shouldn't. It's not our responsibility."

Jan. 15, 1996: ". . . there were a couple of drug convictions out in--I think it was a Colorado court. And these guys had--had done some really bad stuff, and there were mandated federal sentences for the crimes they had committed. And the judge apologized to the criminals while sentencing them because he thought it was too severe. He apologized and the community was outraged. So we've gone from a judge sentencing a mother who makes her child beg six months in jail, to judges apologizing for getting dope dealers and crack dealers and drug salesmen off the streets with too severe a sentence."

[oasis]

2. Put Pigboy under the slammer and throw the keys in the Grand Canyon.

[chromotone]

4. Or...,

Put the keys under the slammer and throw Pigboy in the Grand Canyon.

Instant dam.

[central scrutinizer]

7. NO!

I go backpacking in the Grand Canyon every spring vacation - please don't ruin it.

[eileen_d]

3. Oh, good

The best thing that could come from all of this publicity is exposing Rush's hypocrisy. More, more!

[PATRICK]

5. Buzzflash

An adequate selection of grossly hypocritical diatribes.

[Skip Intro]

10. Yes, Buzzflash! "send them up the river" sez the hippocrite

"If (Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders) wants to legalize drugs, send the people who want to do drugs to London and Zurich, and let's be rid of them.
-- Rush Limbaugh show, Dec 9, 1993

"There's nothing good about drug use. We know it. It destroys individuals. It destroys families. Drug use destroys societies. Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborhoods which become consumed by them. And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up.

"What this says to me 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."
-- Rush Limbaugh show, Oct. 5, 1995

http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/03/10/ana03004.html

so he's gone from "send them up the river" to "pray for me"

typical - all for harsh treatment of others, but he's somehow "special" and deserves pitty? ya get what ya give, rushbo

wish there were a way to ask the freepers what they think about these quotes

[angka]

11. a hahaha

fry with your own words, pigboy!

whatever sympathy i was starting to feel for him is GONE

[hexola]

6. Ah yes - from the "EIB Memory Division"....

Great work - !!! Thanks

[sam sarrha]

8. I heard a bunch of "MY prayers are with Rush to get through this, but they

selfrightiously put millions if jail with no treatment and release them with no treatment... but with Rush it is a Medical problem ?

[DoYouEverWonder]

9. Here's Rush advocating the legalization of drugs.

* RUSH: OK let me ask you a question because this came up yesterday and I gave an answer that many would call a flippant answer. I will give you the same answer you tell me if it's flippant.

** Based on the reality of how we're going after cigarette smokers, The thing that we cannot do in the drug fight right now is regulate because it's illegal. Drugs are against the law and so the manufacturers are illegal. They're not even on shore they're down there in Columbia and the Calli Cartel and they're working to poison the brains and minds of the future of America. And so what we do is to try to keep those drugs from getting in. And I agree with you that it's a half baked effort.

<snip>

*** It seems to me that what is missing in the drug fight is legalization. If we want to go after drugs with the same fervor and intensity with which we go after cigarettes let's legalize drugs. Legalize the manufacture of drugs. Licence the Calli Cartel make them tax payers and then sue them. Sue them left and right and then get control of the price and generate tax revenue from it. Raise the price sky high and fund all sorts of other wonderful social programs.

**** Because it seems to me, flippant as though it may sound to you, that what gives us the power to do what we're doing, what gives the government the _power_ to do what it is doing, state and federal, in cigarettes is that it's a legal substance regulated by uh the federal government. And they don't have any such power and control over drugs because it's illegal.

**** So let's legalize them and then go after them the same way.


http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n186.a08.html


Maybe we need to go after him in the same way too?

[Democat]

12. What did Rush say on the day Clinton apologized for Monica?

Does anyone know what Rush said on the day that Clinton apologized to the American people?

[lanlady]

13. all I know is--

--I'm going to a party tomorrow night where there will be 3 or 4 hard-core Rush-loving ex-Marines and for once I'm going to love every damn minute of conversation with them!


:bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce:

[ronzo]

14. Here's what I'm thinking....

To really nail hateboy, we need to be able to find references he's made during the past six years of admitted drug abuse. Anything at all... drugs, abuse, enforcement and such. I'm seriously doubting we have any rush subscribers here and even if we did, I bet he's has his flunkies check transcripts and remove some things.

That's what would really stick it to his fans.

[linazelle]

15. Here's one:

"And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up." date unknown


Also here's a song for pillboy:

"Because I Got High, the El Rushbo Version"
by, The Gopher

i was gonna do my radio show until i got high
i gonna be a co-host on espn but then i got high
now my whole career's messed up and i know why
cause i got high
cause i got high
cause i got high

i was gonna diss bill clinton before i got high
i coulda called hillary a feminazi but i got high
i am wishin for liberal judges and i know why
cause i got high
cause i got high
cause i got high

i was gonna say all blacks are criminals but then i got high
i said democrats are poisoning our values but then i got high
now i'm a total hypocrite and i know why
cause i got high
cause i got high
cause i got high

i'm on my way to rehab because i got high
i might end up someone's bitch in prison because i got high
now i'm gettin a criminal lawyer and i know why
because i got high
because i got high
because i got high

do doo do do do.

[Chovexani]

17. LMAO!

I love the original song, and that filk is too damn funny.

[mumon]

16. FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH! GET 'EM WHILE YOU CAN!

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_071603/content/stack_d.guest.html

: "Those given a high-fat diet became hooked, and if the fat was taken away, displayed symptoms similar to those of a drug addict derived of his or her fix. The research suggests that a high-fat diet alters brain biochemistry with effects similar to those of powerful opiates such as morphine."

This story purports to say that if you eat fast food for whatever length of time, you get hooked on it and then when you stop cold turkey, you go into withdrawal like heroin, cocaine and morphine addicts. Now, come on! This is not true. I have yet to see the Big Mac rehab center "Betty Ford For Big Macs." This is just part of setting up the lawyers to sue Big Food, not to help anyone but to line their pockets and those of big government.

-July 14, 2003

Spending on defense or letting the people keep more of what they earn outrages Democrats, but they're ready to spend $400 billion (which has proven a low estimate) in just 10 years for this prescription drug program that nobody wants!

-September 18, 2003

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/weekend_sites/week_in_review_072103___072503/content/drunks_sue_big_booze.guest.html

Now this from UPI: "Glasgow, Scotland - A dozen alcoholics ranging in age from 18 to 60 are going to sue drink makers for not warning them about the dangers of alcohol.... Attorneys representing the group said they will employ tactics used by attorneys representing cancer victims in suits against tobacco companies in the United States."

I just don't believe it! Attorney Jim Price said, "Alcohol is now promoted in the same way that cigarettes were in the 1950s. Manufacturers want us to believe that drinking alcohol is sexy and trendy." Yeah, Captain Morgan is the new Joe Camel. You know, there's this problem of not accepting responsibility for what you do. Somebody else is always to blame for the decisions you make. It's just maddening, this mentality to blame someone else for your thirty-seven adult beverages a day, and then find some greedy lawyer to buy you a ticket for the big-money lawsuit gravy train.

-July 21, 2003

These are recent folks! So don't let anyone tell you he wasn't saying shit like this up and until he went into Betty Ford!!!

[kaitykaity]

18. kick

:kick:

[Lindsey]

19. We MUST insist that

he be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. PLEASE call 561-355-7100 (Barrry Krischer, State Attorney General of the 15th circuit court) on Monday morning. We need to inundate their office with calls!

[cosmosmom]

20. kick n/t

kick

[SharonAnn]

21. Garrison Keillor on PHC tonight said, regarding Rush, that a

a Liberal is just a Conservative who has been through Rehab.