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"Rush Limbaugh admits to Drug use"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/ international/story/0,3604,1060907,00.html

Mwah ha ha ha haaaa! The darling of the American right is exposed as a fallible human being. I could go on about this, but instead
I'll paste something written by a friend on another web-board; it says it all.


: Oh s**t... the irony's just too great here... this is better than when Bill Bennett was found out to be a compulsive gambler. Rush "f**king" Limbaugh, the mouth of the right, the moralizer's moralizer, admitting to his vast audience of mouth breathing retarded sheep that he is indeed addicted to drugs.

: After I take in a deep breath and delight in the pure glee afforded by the moment, I detect a fire growing inside me, the beginnings of a real rage even. Limbaugh, in his statement (I'll supply the link), takes "full responsibility" for his actions and pledges that, immediately following the broadcast, he will check himself into a 30 day treatment center.

: Ahhhh... my ventricles are shredded at the thought of poor Rush forking out thousands of dollars to go to some post treatment center where he'll have to face up to his demons, undoubtably in a bucolic setting during group therapy. No doubt that he will be surrounded by other rich or upper middle class drug addicts, white, professional, able to enter back into their ordered little worlds once this unfortunate episode is over. It will be as if it never happened.

: But how would Rush judge himself? Fortunately, as the nation's #1 reactionary blabbermouth, he has a mountain of material on the subject. In fact, on many occasions, Rush used his show as a bully pulpit to PUSH THE WAR ON DRUGS. Let's see what he has to say:

: "I'm appalled at people who simply want to look at all this abhorrent behavior and say people are going to do drugs anyway let's legalize it. It's a dumb idea. It's a rotten idea and those who are for it are purely 100 percent selfish."
: -- Rush Limbaugh show, Dec 9, 1993

: "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

: Well, it seems that Rush favors the lock-em-up and throw away the key approach. Seeing as how he has admitted to illegal using drugs (Oxycontin, for God's sake--Hillbilly Heroin), and is under investigation for ILLEGALLY PROCURING THEM, wouldn't it be absolute hypocrisy of the brightest stripe if he were do anything but turn himself in, supplicate himself before the judge and BEG FOR THE MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCE? Beg, piggieman, beg.

: I want to see Rush housed in Rykers Island with all the crackheads. I want to see him serving time at Pelican Bay with Mexicans who got caught with a trunk full of pot and are now doing 20 years, HARD TIME. I want to see him with an apple in his mouth while getting assraped by the biggest, baddest prisoner on the block. I want to see him beaten up, peed on, a steamy pile of feces glistening on his chest. To hell with him. Throw him to the wolves. After all, he's one of the chief architects of their pen.

Belldandy wrote:
> Goatboy wrote:
> Light is not calling for Rush Limbaugh to be hung, drawn and
> quartered for being a drug addict.
> Light is enjoying the downfall of a right-wing hatemonger who has
> been discovered committing exactly the same sort of transgressions
> that he once railed against.
>
> Light wrote:
> >: I want to see Rush housed in Rykers Island with all the
> crackheads. I >want to see him serving time at Pelican Bay with
> Mexicans who got caught >with a trunk full of pot and are now
> doing 20 years, HARD TIME. I want >to see him with an apple in his
> mouth while getting assraped by the >biggest, baddest prisoner on
> the block. I want to see him beaten up, >peed on, a steamy pile of
> feces glistening on his chest. To hell with >him. Throw him to the
> wolves. After all, he's one of the chief >architects of their pen.
>
>
> Uh huh....the two statements seem to contradict themselves. And again
> I find it funny that someone who is supposed to be a lawyer/solicitor
> such as Light - whose job it is to operate within the law - and who
> has admitted to using drugs himself, is berating another person for
> likewise. Limbaugh's policy dictated the law, as would Light's work
> in his job, but, like Light, he did not stay within the law. Except
> unlike Light, who wants drugs legalised, he continued to try and stop
> their spread and effects.
>
> It's an illness he privately has. Since when did a politician have to
> make his private life policy ? This does not undermine his opinions,
> more it shows the sheer state we found ourselves in over drugs

Firstly: He's not a politician; he's a talk show host. Which shows your ignorance of this matter.

Secondly: As has been said, I'm not berating him for drug use, but the hypocrisy; he condemns drug use in others having used them himself. This was pointed out to you by Blank and GB, but you have decided to ignore that. Will you please acknowledge that point.

Thirdly: His work, nor mine, dictate the law. He didn't try to stop their spread; he merely condemned them on his talk show. Tell me Bell, do you actually know who Rush is and what he does?!

Finally: You may note that I didn't write this; a friend did. I acknowledge that at the beginning. You, being an ignorant coward, clearly failed to notice that.

Any response to make Bell?

Belldandy wrote:
> *ponders how long he can continue to purposely inspire furious reply
> posts from other people*

Hilarious. "JUST A TEST!!!!!11111cHEMICAL WEAPONS!!!!! 9/11!!!!"

Well done, Belldandy... well, well done...

*is proven right*

*chuckles at the hideous Belldandy get-out clause for mis-interpreting a valid point*

*ponders how long he can continue to purposely inspire furious reply posts from other people*

RM18 wrote:
> Er, Belldandy...
>
> Light wrote:
>
> "I'll paste something written by a friend on another web-board;
> it says it all."
>
> ...

Fantastic, fantastic point, hopefully it will now come to Belldandy's attention that Light's point is hypocrisy, and not the actual taking of drugs

Er, Belldandy...

Light wrote:

"I'll paste something written by a friend on another web-board; it says it all."

...

Belldandy wrote:
> Uh huh....the two statements seem to contradict themselves.

No, they quite clearly do NOT.

> Goatboy wrote:
> Light is not calling for Rush Limbaugh to be hung, drawn and
> quartered for being a drug addict.

Key words: FOR BEING A DRUG ADDICT. Light is saying that this guy is being hypocritical, he's not in any way saying that drug addicts should be punished. Read in future, please.


> And again
> I find it funny that someone who is supposed to be a lawyer/solicitor
> such as Light - whose job it is to operate within the law - and who
> has admitted to using drugs himself, is berating another person for
> likewise.

See above. READ. He's having a go at Limbaugh because it has come out that he has taken drugs after taking a hard line against them. If it was simply for taking drugs, don't you think Light would make a whole lot more posts containing opinions on other celebrity drug addicts?

It is the hypocrisy Light disagrees with, that is all. For the last time.

Goatboy wrote:
> Light is not calling for Rush Limbaugh to be hung, drawn and
> quartered for being a drug addict.
> Light is enjoying the downfall of a right-wing hatemonger who has
> been discovered committing exactly the same sort of transgressions
> that he once railed against.

Light wrote:
>: I want to see Rush housed in Rykers Island with all the crackheads. I >want to see him serving time at Pelican Bay with Mexicans who got caught >with a trunk full of pot and are now doing 20 years, HARD TIME. I want >to see him with an apple in his mouth while getting assraped by the >biggest, baddest prisoner on the block. I want to see him beaten up, >peed on, a steamy pile of feces glistening on his chest. To hell with >him. Throw him to the wolves. After all, he's one of the chief >architects of their pen.

Uh huh....the two statements seem to contradict themselves. And again I find it funny that someone who is supposed to be a lawyer/solicitor such as Light - whose job it is to operate within the law - and who has admitted to using drugs himself, is berating another person for likewise. Limbaugh's policy dictated the law, as would Light's work in his job, but, like Light, he did not stay within the law. Except unlike Light, who wants drugs legalised, he continued to try and stop their spread and effects.

It's an illness he privately has. Since when did a politician have to make his private life policy ? This does not undermine his opinions, more it shows the sheer state we found ourselves in over drugs