Rush Limbaugh doesn't deserve your pity.

[angka]

Do I sound overly harsh? Should I now acquiesce, make nice, maybe start praying for him?

No I don't think so.

"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, October 5, 1995

(thanks nu_duer for digging this gold up)

This is what they call hypocrisy. Do you think he would have copped to any of this if he wasn't right about to be busted? It is not forgivable. He should have the same book thrown at him that he himself advocates.

He has found himself on the wrong side of the drug war he so assiduously pushed on us. Isn't that justice?

[Demobrat]

1. I don't feel sorry for him at all.

I hate a hypocrite. And Rush can afford the best care the world has to offer, unlike most of those he was so eager to send up the river. I know he won't, but I hope he goes to prison.

[PlanetBev]

2. No mercy for swine...

Don't even look this way, Rush. No quarter given here.

[Terwilliger]

3. Rush scandal a headline on local news

KTVU in the SF Bay Area

[BiggJawn]

4. Good, because I'm not giving him any...

Shit, wasn't Herr Goebbels a drug freak, too?

I'm adding pigboy to my schtick...

"Friends, have you ever looked at the grill on the end of a microphone...I mean REALLY looked at it? Did you know you can see...What? No, I DON'T want anymore coffee...Folks, Bo Snerdly has gotten it into his head that El Rushbo here needs sobering up or something....Wow.....Have you ever noticed how these suspended acoustical ceilings breath when they think you're not looking at them?...What?...."

Instead of that Chrissy Hinds riff he's been using for his theme he should use Willie's "Just a lil' ol'-fashioned Karma comin' down"....

[DemocratSinceBirth]

27. Herr Goebels

I like the Julius Streicher analogy myself....


-;)

[BigBigBear]

5. My bottom line

I do not wish addiction or recovery on anyone.

I AM NOT glad he is battling drug addiction.

I AM glad his ego is taking a few downward clicks.

I WOULD BE glad if he faced the same prosecution for illegally obtained drugs that the rest of us would, and I WILL BE pissed off if he doesn't face ANY criminal consequences over it.

But I know too much about addiction recovery. It hurts people who have real souls, so I'm not too worried about Rush.

AM I jumping up and down - 'yay, our side is winning !' - no. I'd rather retain my class, thank you.

Spinning this as some kind of vindication of my political beliefs doesn't fly with me and plays into the other side's venomous rhetorical traps.

I'm just as right and he's just as wrong without taking glee in knowing he's facing some painful days. I take him no more seriously now than I did before.

I'll speak up if he gets a legal slap on the wrist and I hear him later lambasting the drug rehab/criminal gestalt.

What's the old saying?

A liberal is a conservative who just got busted.

[waywest]

7. I could hardly pay less attention.

Limbaugh amounts to a fart in a windstorm and nothing more. I wouldn't stand downwind sniffing, and I wouldn't listen to his rantings.

(fiw - vonnegut)

[oasis]

6. Rush dodges his pledged explaination about the ongoing police drug probe.

He lied to his dittoheads.

[HEyHEY]

8. A couple years ago

Premier of Alberta Ralph Klein was drunk, walked in to a homeless shelter, started throwing change around and saying "Here take this and get a job!" Naturally the shit hit the fan;....how was it quelled you ask?

He had his P-R people start in on a "Poor Ralphy has a drinking problem" bit...worked to, this is a typical way to avoid responsibility

[Cat Atomic]

9. The only way Rush's addiction could be funnier to me is if

Sean Hannity had it, too.

[IggleDoer]

23. Sean Hannity is addicted

... to his own name

[varun]

31. he must have...

...some skeletons in his closet too...

just u wait

[Festivito]

10. Give Rush the same compassion he showed others alike to himself.

Prison, its more than tough love, its tough luck.

Really, I hope Rush recovers, he has lost a lot, maybe his hearing. A high price to pay.

I do hope he quits lying for the sake of conservativism. But, therein lies one addiction I don't think he'll overcome -- money.

[Brian Sweat]

11. Well then, I don't feel so bad for not giving him any.

[incapsulated]

12. Every human being *deserves* pity

But that doesn't mean they are going to get it.

Rush will walk away from this unscathed, believe it. Not one word have I heard about his previous statements about drug addicts in the media (but I haven't been paying that much attention, either).

Already, he is being portrayed as a "victim".

Already, his dittodolts are making excuses for him.

He'll be back!

[Booberdawg]

13. No pity here

I see it as poetic justice

[neebob]

14. It seems to me all this hatred of Rush

is based on the assumption he believes what he says. What if he was just a cynical con man with no real convictions other than a lot of people enjoy hearing what he has to say and he can make a lot of money off of it? What if he just had a pathological need for attention, saw an audience, and made things up to suit that audience? Wouldn't that sort of change things?

Sure, he promotes hate and lies, and yes, he rallies and gives a voice to the stupids and the pretend-thinkers. But wouldn't they still be there and be just as wrong without him? Is he worth the emotional investment in hating him? I don't think so.

What if he likes the criticism and hatred just as much as the dittos? What if it makes him feel even more powerful? Isn't it better, in that case, to ignore him? I don't mean in the sense of doing nothing and hoping he'll go away, but of reducing the amount of thought space he occupies.

[Booberdawg]

16. I didn't see the word "hate" anywhere in this thread

I just don't think anyone cares a flying fig what happens to him, nor does anyone feel any compassion. I don't think anybody cares enough about him to "hate" him. I know I don't.

[Piperay]

15. Rush gets the same sympathy from me

that he gave to others who had the same problem, zip, zero and zilch ! :nopity:

[Mari333]

17. Rush has a lot of "amends" to make

starting with every dead soldier, wounded soldier and every dead or wounded person in Iraq.
I doubt he will let his bloated insecure ego do anything but continue complete denial.

[dutchdemocrat]

18. Snopes proves he said "Take that bone out of your nose and call me back".

Talk radio host Rush Limbaugh once told a black caller to "Take that bone out of your nose and call me back."

http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/limbaugh.asp

He deserves everything we hit him with and more.

[angka]

20. he's spent too many years building to this hypocritical moment

for him to just get let off the hook. i wanna see charges.

[LunaC]

19. He should receive the same as he dished out.

That's how instant karma works.

[soupkitchen]

21. Feeling compassion for Rush is like mourning the hangman

[dbt]

22. Please don't dismiss Rush as being unimportant

I have seen this in a few posts above. Limbaugh has been as important to the Right Wing in this country as Goebbels was in Nazi Germany. Hell, he's probably reveling in all the attention that he's getting lately, knowing full well that there's no such thing as bad publicity.

If he is, indeed, "addicted to prescription pain relievers," I'm sure he will be glad to show us the prescriptions.

Why am I suddenly hearing "Sympathy For The Devil?"

:freak:
dbt

[angka]

24. he's a man of wealth and taste

i'm sure he had a scrip years ago, but doctors have a way of cutting off patients who are turning into junkies. even the rich ones.

junkies should get 'sent up,' right rush?

imo, it all comes down to salving his conscience. few things do that like smack.

[KittyWampus]

25. I Don't DO Pity- I Do EMPATHY

And I can put myself in the shoes of any individual and try to understand what went into their situation.

We dig our own holes....

We can lift ourselves out of them... or be buried. It's our choice.

[Eloriel]

26. Just remember

Addiction is an illness (a spiritual illness as much as a physical one, but an illness nonetheless).

All the hypocrisy, grandiosity and pomposity, etc., are part of that illness.

No, that doesn't mean I have much sympathy for him. He's done a lot of harm to this country -- probably more than anyone else in our history with the possible exception of GWBush who probably wouldn't have been possible without a Rush Limbaugh.

But it does occur to me that citing symptoms of his illness (hypocrisy, etc.) as the reason we don't have sympathy for him is a little off base.

Eloriel

[angka]

28. well it didn't seem like hypocrisy

during his years of grandstanding on this exact subject. such denunciations have been his stock and trade for years.

as someone who recovered from a hard drug addiction just a few years ago (and having never advocated the persecution of fellow addicts), i feel more than qualified to judge his statements and actions here.

i do not consider this particular hypocrisy to be a symptom of his illness. rather the reverse—the illness is just one manifestation of the larger hypocrisy.

[Selwynn]

29. No he doesnt - and we should give it anyway

Because we are better than he is, in theory, but so far not in practice. And compassion isn't given on the basis of the merits of the receiver.

[charlie]

32. Deciding that he isn't worthy

but extending it for your own purposes isn't compassion, it's going through the motions. Especially if you think it makes you better than him. Can the incessant condemnation of DUers and just ascend bodily into heaven already.

[swinney]

30. BEST NEWS-=-MUSH DIMBAUGH IS DEAD

I COULD CELEBRATE.

[stlsaxman]

33. oh yes, poor Rush needs to go to treatment- IN A FEDERAL PRISON! nt

[angka]

34. competing threads kick

the merciless versus the merciful. doesn't rush always say, though, the the centerpiece of conservatism is responsibility?

[angka]

35. ahem

i'm right about this you see.

[eleny]

36. I'm going to be on tenterhoooks in 30 days

While driving around on errands toady, I was listening to yet one more radio talk show about Rush. The host was discussing it from the drug addiction angle. He was asking people if Rush deserved our sympathy.

As has been discussed, it's not about the drugs. I believe that's a smoke screen. It's about knowing that the personal delivery of his evil gospel is off the air for four weeks.

During his show on Friday, he commented that Medicare is unecessary because people got along fine without it in the past. Right to the bloody end he was pedalling a corrosive message. Like some dark angel reaching out to drag souls down to hell as he was being sucked down to haedes himself.

So, sympathy has naught to do with Rush in the light of today. I'm scared of the day he comes back to the microphone and takes it back up more credible to his faithful than ever. I'm saving my sympathy for his victims.

[mitchum]

37. kick...

in the teeth for the windbag

[Mari333]

38. Ill save my compassion for the kids Rush helped to kill

"I wish Mr Limbaugh hadnt supported the invasion of Iraq, otherwise I would be alive today".

[the_real_38]

39. "Mega-dittoes".

Another muthafuc*a cheerleading GW Bush's laser-ray death machine. He deserves far worse than scorn.

BTW - in case no one has said it - "Rush Limbaugh is a big stoned idiot"