Rush Limbaugh on crack.

“(and no, "intellectual conservative" is not an oxymoron.)"
DeadmanWalking
01:38:17 AM
10/08/03

Of course it isn't. Perhaps the smartest guy I've ever met in my life, and one of my closest friends in the world is a hard-core conservative. We have disagreements that we debate and sometimes come to just disagree on. Other times, we come to mutual understandings.”

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As a young broadcaster in the 1970s, Limbaugh once told a black caller: "Take that bone out of your nose and call me back." A decade ago, after becoming nationally syndicated, he mused on the air: "Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?"

In 1992, on his now-defunct TV show, Limbaugh expressed his ire when Spike Lee urged that black schoolchildren get off from school to see his film Malcolm X: "Spike, if you're going to do that, let's complete the education experience. You should tell them that they should loot the theater, and then blow it up on their way out."

In a similar vein, here is Limbaugh's mocking take on the NAACP, a group with a ninety-year commitment to nonviolence: "The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies."

When Carol Moseley-Braun (D-IL) was in the U.S. Senate, the first black woman ever elected to that body, Limbaugh would play the "Movin' On Up" theme song from TV's "Jeffersons" when he mentioned her. Limbaugh sometimes still uses mock dialect -- substituting "ax" for "ask"-- when discussing black leaders.”

“ i have listened to him a thousand times and never ever heard him say one thing that was in any way racist. if i thought he was, or ever saw evidence of it, i wouldn't listen to him.
stratdewd
11:02:30 PM
10/07/03

Since you're so intellectually honest, I'd assume you'll be listening to the latest herbalife infomercials in the car from now on?”

“Come on, people. Limbaugh is an entertainer. He's in a business. Libs take him WAY too serious. They fear him. That's nonsense. Rush does things to keep ratings high, which means he gets more advertising $$. He makes no bones about that. He's a flippin' radio talk show host. He doesn't mold minds of mush like he says... Rush didn't create his audience, his audience liked what he says and so they tune in while nodding their head in agreement with much of what he says. That's it. Libs get pissed off because they can't find enough people in a given market to have a screaming liberal do the same thing. Some local dude in S.F., that's about it for them. Enjoy your NPR while listening, and your CNN and major networks while watching. It's cool. You fear Rush too much. And you fear FOX News too much. Eat, drink, and be merry... for tomorrow we hike. YAAA!”

“Everytime Rush screws up, I hear from the right: "Rush is an entertainer".

Whenever some leftie politician screws up, it's rush's rhetoric spewed almost verbatim from those same people.

Whatever. the guy annoys me with his small-mindedness. He can't hold a job as a sports commentator, but he's supposed to have some special insight into American politics?!

Please. He's a dope-fiend greedy rightie with a loud mouth, and that's about it.”

“Eat, drink, and be merry... for tomorrow we hike. YAAA!"
Buck
02:08:53 AM
10/08/03
You lucky dog. The next three days at work are going to drag by. But then, it's TC3 and I finally get to meet some of these folks around here and prove I'm real. _{And keep my mouth shut all weekend, acting the complete opposite of how I do here}”

“"Everytime Rush screws up, I hear from the right: "Rush is an entertainer"."

Of course he's an entertainer. What, is he in a political office? If Rush does drugs, well, then say his mind is whacked on drugs and enjoy the thought! :^D

"Whenever some leftie politician screws up, it's rush's rhetoric spewed almost verbatim from those same people."

First of all, that's "Rush" with a capital "R", MISTER! Second, leftie politicians are in a constant state of screwing up. HA HA! Okay, I jest, sort of. Really, mostly. And if Rush rhetoric is spewed, that's because Rush is confirming what his audience thinks, and not the other way around. I don't listen to Rush, but I have heard him once or twice, and he hasn't made me do or think anything I wouldn't have already done so. Does Bernie Ward make people think certain ways, against their normal thinking behavoir? No, liberals listen to Bernie Ward not to be brainwashed, but to listen to a guy that says things they believe in and share the same values and have their own thoughts confirmed, not created. I have spoken.

"Whatever. the guy annoys me with his small-mindedness."

HEY NOW! I thought one of the shining lights of liberalism was "understanding" and "tolerance" of various peoples, religions, thoughts, etc.! Here you are trying to conveniently box up Rush and call him small minded. That's not very open-minded of you. I thought that was a trademark of Conservatives®. Ha!

"Please. He's a dope-fiend greedy rightie with a loud mouth, and that's about it."

That's cool that you think he's a dope-fiend greedy rightie with a loud mouth, it's fine and dandy, but you thinking that about him doesn't change the fact that he has the largest audience and most popular radio program in existence in the solar system, and perhaps the entire Milky Way. We're still awaiting ratings from other galaxies. Maybe Rush even likes guys like you disliking him so much... it's controversial and good for his ratings. Ka-ching!”

“Saying that McNabb was hyped because of his skin color is racist. Duh!”

“Limbaugh having the "largest audience, etc." just goes to show how many stupid people there are in this solar system.”

“Strat will disappear for a few days until the evidence of racism above is hidden.”

“Strat will come back when you stop posting as Fear Drugs. It sends too much fear into the neocon chickenhawks to think that their fearless leader is on drugs. Before you know it, the fad will catch on and all neocon chickenhawks will be knocking off drug stores for the oxy-contin.”

“You mean they aren't all on powerful, mind-altering drugs already?

Go figure...”

“"Strat will come back when you stop posting as Fear Drugs."
Doomadan

I suspect he's busy repairing the trailer park after in his off time after rippin' $h!t out of it last week.


"You mean they aren't all on powerful, mind-altering drugs already?

Go figure..."
viOliN
07:34:53 AM

If those paranoid whack jobs aren't on powerful anti-psychotics already, they should be.”

“"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."

Rush Limbaugh 1995
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Friday, October 10, 2003

NEW YORK — Radio talk show host and political commentator Rush Limbaugh stunned listeners Friday when he admitted that he is addicted to painkillers.

"You know I have always tried to be honest with you and open about my life," Limbaugh said on his program. "So I need to tell you today that part of what you have heard and read is correct. I am addicted to prescription pain medication."

Limbaugh said he began taking the medication "some years ago" when his doctor prescribed it after spinal surgery, to treat post-operation pain.

His back pain stemming from the surgery persisted, so Limbaugh said he started taking pills and became hooked.

He said he's tried to break his dependence on the drugs and twice checked himself into medical facilities for treatment.

He promised listeners he would once again enter rehab for the next 30 days, immediately following Friday's broadcast, "to once and for all break the hold this highly addictive medication has on me."

Limbaugh didn't mention what specific painkiller he was hooked on.

The radio host had already been cited as a possible target of a criminal probe into the sale and use of illegal drugs.

Limbaugh, who quit his job as a football analyst for ESPN Oct.1, had multiple sources from whom he could obtain the prescription drugs, namely OxyContin and other painkillers, law enforcement sources said last week.

Reports in the New York Daily News and the National Enquirer alleged Limbaugh got the drugs from his housekeeper, Wilma Cline.

Sources close to the investigation told Fox News that Limbaugh had other drug suppliers and said the popular conservative personality could face a criminal inquiry by the Palm Beach County state attorney's office.

Limbaugh acknowledged the drug probe on Friday.

"At the present time, the authorities are conducting an investigation, and I have been asked to limit my public comments until this investigation is complete," Limbaugh said on his program.

Fox News' Catherine Donaldson-Evans and The Associated Press contributed to this report.”

“"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."

Rush Limbaugh 1995


Sources close to the investigation told Fox News that Limbaugh had other drug suppliers and said the popular conservative personality could face a criminal inquiry by the Palm Beach County state attorney's office.”

“I wonder if the drug pusher, Wilma Cline, will have her date in court or is she a victim?”

“Who cares? Unless she spouted fifteen years of personal responsibility hypocrisy on the air, she's small potatoes right now.

Or... Wait, are you trying to deflect blame from El Rushbo? Could it be that he was POWERLESS to resist the evil HOUSEKEEPER?

Hmmm...”

“I care. If she was committing a criminal act, she should face charges also.”

“Whatever. Rush was the employer here. He was the person in a position of power, and he was the person making a choice to go against everything he publicly stands for. The housekeeper is next to irrelevent to this story, IMO.”

“She could have just said no. Following orders is no excuse.”

“Define: "immunity".”

“Same goes for him. Addiction, according to him, is no excuse. Again, she's not the one who spouted years of moralistic trash about this and other issues. Next we'll hear that he secretly voted for Clinton!”

“At this time, I ask you all to pray for Rush.”

“I said that prayer six times fast, and now I feel like raiding my cousin's medicine cabinet...

Violin, what have you DONE TO ME?!?”

“Does drug addiction give you a receding hairline and a bulbous forehead, or do people with a bulbous forehead and receding hairline have a vulnerability to drug addiction?”

“Why would you ask me that question?”

“err... Sorry, bud.”

“She is not irrelevent she knowingly participated and benifited from illegal actions. Rush is just the easier target of the two due to the amazing hypocracy from someone so outspoken on this and many other moralistic issues.

It takes two and both should be held responsable for their actions.

Hopefully they will both get themselves cleaned up and move forward.”

“I hope to hell this this lunatic preacher,self righteous holier than thou retard goes to jail for a very long time.The only thing worse than rush' drug use hypocracy is all his apologists.Or maybe rush is a closet hippy liberal.Either way,throw away the key on this pathetic,repulsive druggie.”

“the drug thing has evaporated. wtf? since when do youse guys hang on every word from the nation enquirer? i mean really. do you really think aliens told regan how to run the country?
stratdewd
10:48:33 PM
10/07/03


Damn, those prescription drugs are expensive. This is what America needs for a better health care system.”

“Try living in Canada under a Liberal Government!!Leftism is destroying a proud nation.Give me the right ...any time.First Trudeau,Then Chreiten....We`re doomed ...of course the Progressive Conservatives are leaning to far to the left....TAX,TAX.....and then more TAX...Now we have Gay Marriages...cities forced to honuor gay pride paradeds or be fined....Gun control..(over two billion dollars and increasing) its not stopping crime!!!.Free Iv needle clinics for drug users...ask Holland how that worked out!!!Child Pornographers allowed to keep their art...as artistic pleasure....a once proud military reduced to rags ...Liberal...NO THANKS.”

“Fear drugs. Fear limbaugh.”

“Username: paddles

State of residence:

Other comments:
I AM CANADIAN !!! And nothing..... could be better!!!! Enuf said.”

“Alaska I love my country....It`s the Politicans that are destroying it that I dislike.I am not the only Canadian to feel this way.”

“Which has nothing to do with limbaugh on drugs.”

“it's sad.

you are sad.

hope you never get an addiction cuz you can only expect help from those who agree with you .


people who hated him will still hate him and those who like him will still like him.

and hate is not a family value....”

“Oct. 10 — After admitting his addiction to prescription painkillers, Rush Limbaugh asked his radio listeners to pray for him Friday.

Let's pray that some AIDS-infected junkie gets ahold of you in rehab.”

“you are a sick, hateful individual and a wonderful liberal role model...

did you're mother teach you to hate?

you are a conservatist. that's no better than a racist.

if this was clinton you'de be saying, naw...it doesn't matter what he does in his private life. no one else was effected. it didn't effect his job....

hell, ya'll wanna give needles to herion addicts..

but not conservatives...”

“Ain't nobody more conservative than Pat Robertson....

Broadcaster Pat Robertson calls for retirement of justices
Tuesday, July 15, 2003 Posted: 9:48 PM EDT (0148 GMT)



Robertson urged his audience Monday to pray for God to remove three justices from the Supreme Court.

VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia (AP) -- Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson urged his nationwide audience Monday to pray for God to remove three justices from the Supreme Court so they could be replaced by conservatives.

"We ask for miracles in regard to the Supreme Court," Robertson said on the Christian Broadcasting Network's "The 700 Club."


I'll also pray to God to turm Rush Limbaugh into a black man.”

“It looks like Rush is guilty of some hypocrisy here.

But, so far it looks like a victimless crime - I for one am not for putting people in jail on the first conviction for buying drugs to feed their habit.”

“hate speech....”

“No, no, this isn't victimless. Don't you remember the Bush administration ads warning that drug users were aiding terrorists?”

“phaedrus already posted this twice, but i guess it needs to be done again:

"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."


Rush Limbaugh 1995”

“And so if RUSH LIMBAUGH is violating the law by ABUSING PAIN-KILLERS, he ought to be accused and he ought to be convicted and he ought to be sent up."

2spooks 2003”

“that is, of course, if rush has the moral fiber to live out his convictions.”

“Yes,rush has said in the past that drug addicts should be jailed and that they are low lifes.He never had any compassion toward them,and always stated that they should get no sympathy.So,i will follow his advice and show no mercy and pray that he goes to the slammer.
For a guy who made a living off moral witchhunts and preaching at others on how to live the high moral life he deserves nothing but scorn for his hypocracy.
I dont see how anybody who's been a fan and agrees with his anti-social,right wing propaganda could make an exception and forgive him for this most immoral behavior.To do so would be...Oh,so 'liberal'.”

“Maybe one moral of this story is to take people who are so black and white in their judgement, people who will constantly tell you that their side is 100% beyond reproach and the sole source of morality, people who tell you without a shadow of a doubt that those who disagree with their viewpoint are ignorant, evil, and stupid, well if you hear people like this, you have an obligation to take what they say with a very small grain of salt. That is just one aspect of this story.
Read about McCarthy and his moralistic witch hunts. The loudmouths do fall hard, don't they?”

“But, so far it looks like a victimless crime - I for one am not for putting people in jail on the first conviction for buying drugs to feed their habit."
pedxing
11:22:46 PM
10/10/03



For the most part, ped, I agree with that. My beef with the guy has been his influence on gullible types who seem to believe his (now proven to be hypocritical) rhetoric down to the word. By pointing out his OWN stance on drug use and the fact he couldn't live up to it, I'm hoping that somewhere along the line these otherwise good people will realize that Rush can't do all the thinking for them.

In fact, considering his opinions have been formed under the influence of drugs for the last several years, I can't see how anyone could take him seriously as a political analyst at ALL.”