"If Bill Clinton were an addict, here's how Rush might spin it"

[Composed Thinker]

If Bill Clinton were an addict, here's how Rush might spin it
By Bill McClellan
Post-Dispatch
10/12/2003


Somewhere in a parallel universe, where we are the same people but things have happened in slightly differently ways, Rush Limbaugh greets his loyal listeners this morning.

"Lots to talk about today. You all know already that Bill Clinton, our former president, has admitted an addiction to prescription drugs.

"It's interesting to see the way the liberal media are playing this. I'm looking at a copy of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Saturday, October 11th, edition - the day after the big announcement. Well, the story is on Page 2, and right next to his photograph, in large boldface print, is the following quote: 'I take full responsibility for this problem.'

"That's interesting, folks, because if you look at his actual statement - not what the liberal media say he said, but what he really said - you get a different take on it. First, he says he's got back problems. So he's blaming it on that. Then he says he had surgery, but the surgery wasn't successful. So he's blaming it on the doctors. Then he says the pain medication was addictive. So he's blaming it on the pharmaceutical companies. Folks, he blames it on everybody but himself! But as long as he puts in that obligatory line about taking responsibility, that's what the liberal media are going to grab: Clinton takes full responsibility!...

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/Columnists.nsf/Bill+McClellan/25FF9A36D42606EA86256DBE001517F2?OpenDocument&Headline=If+Bill+Clinton+were++an+addict,+here's+how+Rush+might+spin+it

[NicoleM]

1. That

was perfect.

[Composed Thinker]

2. Did you read it all?

[NicoleM]

3. Yeah.

I read it earlier today. I'm fast but I'm not *that* fast. :)

[Composed Thinker]

4. :]

[Uben]

5. Very Good

Are you sure you don't have talent "on loan from God"? This sounds just like something Rush would say.

[newyawker99]

8. Hi Uben!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[CatWoman]

6. KICK

:kick:

this is good, folks.

[CatWoman]

7. nother

:kick:

[Wetzelbill]

9. Nice!

[Brian Sweat]

10. Wow, it's like he's channeling Rush! McClellan needs to be careful.

Getting inside Rush's mind like that can be hazardous to your own.

[Junkdrawer]

11. He's got the timing down. Phrasing is spot on too. n/t

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

12. He laid out some cabbage before he wrote the piece...

...and bought, and then popped, some blue babes.

[drewb]

13. Gotta love them hypocrites!

LOL!

[Manix]

14. It's so nice and kinda peaceful with "fat ass" off the air!!

n/t

[Garage Queen]

15. Beautiful, man.

Simply beautiful.

[DemoVet]

16. And in Rushbo's home state too,

Wonder how that read down in Cape Girardeu?

[kentuck]

17. Yeah, he didn't say the word, "drugs",,,he said "medications"...

''"addicted to prescription medications" ..as if they were his prescriptions?? Two lies in four words!