Rush, a victim of drug companies or petty addict?

[sistersofmercy]

Petty addict is my guess, well, so what? Most of us have a drug of choice, be it alcohol, prescription drugs or other not so legal things. So what I say, 'tis a minor hypocrisy! So what?:toast:

[styersc]

1. I have (as a chef) catered many dinners for Pharmaceutical Reps...

...and none of them took place in a Denny's Parking Lot!!!

[Demobrat]

3. LOL

Good one.

[sistersofmercy]

4. Hehehehehhe!

Rush is a douche bag but I don't care about the drugs! Like they would use the Patriot act against him like a meth dealer? huh?

[morebunk]

25. Not a 'petty addict' He's a wealthy addict!

Every bit as addicted and every bit as guilty of a crime as poor minority crack addicts.

[HalfManHalfBiscuit]

2. Certainly no victim

Laughable. Kind of like the people who blame McDonalds for making their kids fat.

[sistersofmercy]

6. Precisely...

the ones who buy a big mac and a diet coke. What's up?

[FlemingsGhost]

5. Neither. He is a phony.

Jeff Christie is a frightened, insecure man who hides behind the mask that is "Rush Limbaugh."

He numbs his self-loathing through drugs.

(edited for clarity)

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

7. Speaking as a former...

Cocaine user and Alcohol Self-Medicator(so my therapist tells me...), the only real thing an addict is a victim of is his or her own hubris and stupidity. We can all handle it. It won't get us. We're in control.

Horse Shit.

Yes, it deserves to be called an illness, for that is what it is. They have scientically proven that alcoholism can be treated, effectively and over the long term, with seratonin antagonists. That shows that the roots of addictive disease lie in subtle brain dysfunctions. Having said that, I made a choice, too, and I was kidding myself like it was going out of style. Just totaly delusional.

If Rush REALLY wants to recover, he has to walk away from it all. Terraform his life. Change everything.

In doing that, he will be doing everyone a favor. Especially himself.

[sistersofmercy]

11. I'm sorry.

O8) I just think making an issue of it, well, it just shouldn't be a dem issue.

[Desperadoe]

18. That will be the hardest part

I agree with what you've said, especially about the lifestyle changes. Terraform his life.

This is the most difficult decision and addict/alcoholic HAS to make. You can never get well until you make a firm decision to abandon your former lifestyles and begin a new direction. Otherwise you keep making the same mistakes, expecting different results.

This is where most addicts fail in recovery. Sometimes it even means abandoning family and friends and YOUR JOB.

[Terwilliger]

8. oh sister...you're so funny

look, Limbaugh has exacerbated the drug war. Fuck Rush Limbaugh. You want to talk about the 99% of everybody else who isn't spewing hateful propaganda and malicious jingoism and asinine moral terpitude that would fit better on Goebbels himself...

Never mind his ass, and kick him to the curb with everybody else affected with the miserably failed drug war. Should he get away with his addiction like Noelle Bush did??

[caledesi]

9. Contact John Asscroft....Rush is helping the terrrosits.

according to the PSAs about drug abuse and terrorists.

The ONLY reason, I repeat, the ONLY reason Ruah confessed is because he was caught!

He has been in rehab 2 times and still was using? :wtf:


Hypocrite!

[sistersofmercy]

10. Terwilliger, I just love you baby, but...

I pay no mind to Rush already, he's kicked to the curb.
Just a venomous pez dispenser in my book, no use dwelling on it!
Drug addict! I say give him some morphine. That'll ease is pain, painy wainy!

[Terwilliger]

29. morphine is the closest elementally

100 pills a day means he was a DRUGGED man...really medicated!

http://www.rxlist.com/cgi/generic3/oxycontin_ids.htm

[Clete]

12. Petty addict.

Pretty obvious.

[sistersofmercy]

14. Yep!

[DBoon]

13. No victims in Rush-land

In his world people take responsibility for their actions. Victims are losers who refuse to accept the consequences of their actions. So is Rush.

[sistersofmercy]

15. Had enough caffiene this evening?

[gate of the sun]

16. who cares?

aand how would we know anyway? It's all a judgement call on our parts. It's too petty to even care about.

[sistersofmercy]

17. Ah Duh!

That's basically what I'm saying! So you agree then?

[4thepeople]

19. Neither, and I do feel sorry for him,

because he is obviously trying to cope with a great deal of emotional pain and self destruction and/or denial. I feel bad for anyone in his situation. I think these emotions and his inability to deal with them is what has driven him to be such a hate monger. That is really sad for him, for his simple-minded minions and for the rest of us. Nevertheless, I am absolutely appalled, but not surprised, by his hypocracy. He has been absolutely heartless when talking about drug addicts. For his sake, I hope he gets more compassion than he gave to others.

The good news for the country is, I think his following will dwindle and his career is basically over. The dittoheads can't handle gray areas or human frailities.

[sistersofmercy]

21. Oh no, this will be played for sympathy!

That's why we shouldn't make a big deal of it.

[Booberdawg]

20. Drug companies?? He didn't get his drugs through drug companies

He got them off the streets illegally. He's a petty addict. Not only that he's an ASSHOLE. He should get locked up JUST for being such a pompous ASSHOLE!

[sistersofmercy]

22. LOL!

Think they can squeeze the pompous asshole clause into the PA?

[quinnox]

23. He knew what he was doing

He is no victim.

[Cat Atomic]

24. I remember how he laughed at people for

blaming their cancer and their smoking on the cigarette companies.

Why pass up a chance to be hypocritical? It'd be a shame to miss one now.

[Kurt Remarque]

26. with his obvious predisposition to overconsumption...

he could have been addicted to anything. it's a common issue.

the difference here is that he commanded a national audience of followers who believed he was without fault. he told them so. moreover, some folks emulated this ass. he is the prototype for all current conservative bullies, including the non-famous jackasses that we deal with every day.

his esposure as a hypocrite is very significant.

[sistersofmercy]

28. Welcome to DU Kurt Remarque!

I think the republic' will offer sympathy, just watch it'll be played for all it's worth in that department!
Anyway welcome!:hi:

[Kurt Remarque]

27. rush...

he could have been addicted to anything. it's a common issue.

the difference here is that he commanded a national audience of followers who believed he was without fault. he told them so. moreover, some folks emulated this ass. he is the prototype for all current conservative bullies, including the non-famous jackasses that we deal with every day.

his esposure as a hypocrite is very significant