After NewsMax et al, crowed about the Rush's legal coup, focusing only on the doctor's prescriptions... missed the thousands of pills that weren't purchased through legal channels, it's important to keep the focus on the hypocrisy.
"I bet you what, if I had been treated by Dr. Dean, I bet you Democrats in certain parts of this country would be demanding his records," Limbaugh said from his South Florida studio.Palm Beach investigators recently obtained search warrants for the offices of Limbaugh's doctors and alleged Thursday that Limbaugh engaged in illegal drug use and went "doctor shopping" for prescription painkillers.
His brief reference to the investigation came during his three-hour broadcast, which he has used over past weeks to defend himself.
Earlier Friday, Limbaugh attorney Roy Black accused the Palm Beach state attorney of investigating Limbaugh only for political reasons. Black said Limbaugh was not a target of State Attorney Barry Krischer's investigation until the National Enquirer quoted Limbaugh's maid in October saying she had unlawfully sold Limbaugh such medications.
"Suddenly an elected public official could not ignore the name Rush Limbaugh," Black said on NBC's "Today" show. Black is also a paid NBC commentator. "They are looking to publicly embarrass him and affect his radio program. ... Why is Rush Limbaugh the only person treated like this in America?"
He's not. Look at the vast number of non-violent criminals in our prison system today. What's the dealer to user ratio? Maybe, just maybe, people would be more willing to cut him some slack if crap like this didn't ooze from his blowhole during his drug haze.
I want to let you read along with me a quote from Jerry Colangelo about substance abuse, and I think you'll find that he's very much right…"I know every expert in the world will disagree with me, but I don't buy into the disease part of it. The first time you reach for a substance you are making a choice. Every time you go back, you are making a personal choice. I feel very strongly about that."...Posted by kerry at August 22, 2005 03:45 AMWhat he's saying is that if there's a line of cocaine here, I have to make the choice to go down and sniff it….And his point is that 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. It's up to the people who are doing it. And Colangelo is right.
--Rush Limbaugh TV show (9/23/93)
"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 show transcript.