Rush admits he's a pill popping junkie!

[Tmy]

HAW! This is great. Not in a "great hes a junkie" but Its always fun to watch hypocrite holier than thou types crash n burn!

Just like when the "Rev" Jessi Jackson had an illegit child.

If your gonna hold yourself out, you better be clean.

[Tmy]

A little background: I guess he admitted it on his show today and now hes off to 30 day rehab. It is unclear if hes goingto deport himslef to Europe. Donavan Mcnabb could not be reached for comment.

[Furious]

Yup, he did it.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Limbaugh%20Painkillers

I'm looking for more links.

[Barkhorn1x]

Another link;

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&e=3&u=/ap/20031010/ap_on_re_us/limbaugh_painkillers

What a weasel.

Barkhorn.

[Ladewig]

I am surprised this type of thing happened after so many years of his claiming to be the best at spotting motes in other people's eyes.


I just wish he had choosen October of 2004 instead of October of 2003.

[Furious]

His full statement.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/10/10/limbaugh.statement/index.html

I have no idea if Newsday.com is biased in general, but this was definitely biased against Rush. But it is pretty good at outlining some of the hypocrisy of his own words:
http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-nyhen033479176oct03,0,955478.column?coll=ny-news-columnists%20target=

He'd be doing jail time according to his own comments.

"There's nothing good about drug use," he was saying. "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."

Even though blacks and whites break the drug laws in roughly equal percentages, he noted, black druggies go to prison far more often than white druggies do. But to the liberal-bashing host, this was no reason to ease up on blacks.
What this says to me," he told his listeners that day, "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."

Think he'll willingly serve jail time? (I'm assuming this is an offense that would require jail time, though I bet it isn't.)

[Chad Noles]

On a human level,I hope he(Rush) gets the care he needs to overcome his addiction.However,on a cynical,self-gratifing level,the words of Samuel L. Jackson come to mind...."Yes they deserved to die, and I hope they burn in hell!" :p

[American]

Your reaction is much like when you heard that he was going deaf. Only a democrat would make fun and cheer as if it's a character flaw.

[Silicon]

Furious,

That wasn't a news story from Newsday.com. It was a COLUMN by Ellis Henican.

A column isn't a news article. It's an OPINION.

Yes, Ellis Henican is biased against Rush Limbaugh.

[Furious]

Originally posted by Silicon


That wasn't a news story from Newsday.com. It was a COLUMN by Ellis Henican.

A column isn't a news article. It's an OPINION.

Yes, Ellis Henican is biased against Rush Limbaugh.

Er, yeah, I knew that it wasn't a news story, I was just protecting myself from a possible "That's a lefty propaganda publication, you kook" attack in case the column was representative of the whole publication. I was too lazy to investigate the whole site for bias.

I only wanted Rush quotes and didn't want to get into a big debate about the source of where I googled for them.

[Barkhorn1x]

Originally posted by American
Your reaction is much like when you heard that he was going deaf. Only a democrat would make fun and cheer as if it's a character flaw.

This is why I don't post in this particular forum - the relentless partisanship - on BOTH the left and the right.

Did you read the quotes from the man himself provided above? Did you manage to miss Rush doing his best weasel moves when he stated that he "was unaware of any investigation"? This was probably true - but he declined to even acknowledge the reason for the investigation in the first place.

He has shown himself to be a man w/ opinions on those drug uses who "ought to be convicted and sent up." He is a HUGE HYPOCRITE. This has nothing to do with his political leanings.

Barkhorn.

[Mr Manifesto]

You know, this isn't the first time Rush has been a hypocrite (http://www.snopes.com/military/limbaugh.htm).

[corplinx]

I guess the methadone clinic is too good for el rushbo. It took 6 months of morning methadone treatments for my brother to kick oxycontin (which like rush he started taking for back pain).

[crackmonkey]

Actually, Rush said something along the lines of
"I don't know of any investigation, but there's more to this story. I'll tell you more than you probably want to hear, but I've been advised not to talk about it right now."

[Frank Newgent]

Rush would never lie to you (http://www.drudgereport.com/rtl.htm)

Well, I've been doing a lot of soul-searching this past summer because of some things that have happened to me, that have caused me to redefine what's meaningful and what is happy and important and what's not. Simply put, I noticed on the 29th of May, I'll never forget the date, that I could not hear anything in my left ear.

So I went to the doctor.

They assumed it was earwax as they always do. I'm 50 years old.

And took my oral history and found out that there's some genetic hearing loss in my family, and immediately chalked it up to that. The bottom line is, from May 29th up until about, I'd say, ten days ago, I lost hearing every five days, to the point, ladies and gentlemen, I'm now totally deaf in my left ear. I cannot hear a thing in my left ear, with hearing aids, the most powerful made, mean nothing. I have the ability to recognize sound but not identify it in my right ear.

I cannot communicate with people. I can occasionally talk to people in person one on one if their voice frequency happens to fit the range that I can still hear, but I cannot hear radio, I cannot hear television, I cannot hear music.

I am, for all practical purposes, deaf, and it's happened in three months. I have been to what I learned were the finest doctors and clinics throughout the country, focusing on one, and every effort has been made to stabilize the loss, with the hope of restoring it. No success has been reported, in either stabilizing it or losing it -- or restoring it. Now, all during this summer, the loss, even though rapid, by the middle of July, for example, I was told that from the end of May to the middle of July I had lost what the average person loses in 15 years, in terms of hearing. Hearing aids are of such improved quality today that they accommodated the loss. My hearing wasn't normal, but I could function. I could have one on one conversations -- I could do everything but listen to music.

Music was just a mass of noise, I was unable to hear it. I still don't know music. I haven't been able to recognize a song I'm hearing since the middle of July. I have been able, though, to get powerful enough hearing aids to where I can communicate one on one with people and, up until about ten days ago, was able to listen to things on radio and TV, but I can no longer do that, and the odds are that within another month or so, if the pattern keeps up, I will be entirely deaf, 100% so, and at that point a decision has to be made as to what to do about it, because my desire is to continue doing this, and there are an infinite number of ways of continuing. I mean I'm doing this program today, ladies and gentlemen, in effect, total deafness.

I have taken two phone calls today and have not heard a word any of the callers said to me. I'm not going to explain to you how we're doing this. Put two and two together, if you wish, but as long as the passion exists to do it, then we'll find a way, because -- I'm at that point now, this is where I am. What do I do about it? Now, I've been luckier than most people will ever be in life, I can retire if I wanted to and not suffer. I don't have a worry in the world when it comes to finances. That's how fortunate I've been.

And as such, I have options. That's, again, getting back to what I was referring to earlier when I talked about all the options that we as a free people have. I can still, even with this, get up, and if I want to, with the help of other people, come in here and do this radio program.

I can do this radio program every day without taking a phone call, if I have to. And in my mind still outrate 99% of the people who do it. Or, if I want to take phone calls, we'll find a way to do that. In fact, we already have.

And that's what I was doing all last week was rehearsing ways in which to conduct this program in a way that would allow me to perform in such a way that it would meet and hopefully continue to surpass the expectations that you have.

So that's my challenge is how to structure this in such a way as to continue to be able to do it at the highest levels, my desire, my expectations, and yours, without dwelling on on (inaudible) is the relate, it's happened, and -- I mean there are things that are being done. I am -- you would not believe the medication that is flowing through me in an attempt to reverse this. . There is a theory as to what's happening, but I'm -- I'm going to keep that to myself. It is not genetic..

There's something more going on than that. . I have been through every conceivable medical test and exam this summer you can imagine. All those times that you thought I was on vacation or playing golf, I've been in an MRI machine or getting blood drawn, or on a stress EKG machine or at a cardiologist, wherever, hearing aid doctor, the hearing doctor, where have you.

The only thing that is really going to change is that I may have to be absent a day here and a day there, more so than I would like, just in order to see the doctors.

Now, if it eventuates that the medication that is literally -- I mean I'm popping pills, I'm shooting up stuff, I've never done stuff like this before. If this stuff doesn't work, then there is one other option that is relatively new, but it's not something that has been done enough to where a pattern has been established to say that it's acceptable.
Just to himself.

[Pyrrho]

Rush never said he was addicted to drugs or that he has been abusing drugs. He said he was addicted to pain medication. Yes, I know, there's no difference, but I won't be surprised when a Rush apologist draws a line of distinction between the two.

[American]

Originally posted by Pyrrho
Rush never said he was addicted to drugs or that he has been abusing drugs. He said he was addicted to pain medication. Yes, I know, there's no difference, but I won't be surprised when a Rush apologist draws a line of distinction between the two.


It's drug addicts who do. Not just prescriptions but alcohol, smoking tobaccy, chewing tobaccy, tobaccy tobaccy, caffeine, sleeping pills, waking pills, etc. All are legal, regulated, or illegal, depending on the situation, but they are all addictive drugs.

[Tricky]

Originally posted by crackmonkey
Actually, Rush said something along the lines of
"I don't know of any investigation, but there's more to this story. I'll tell you more than you probably want to hear, but I've been advised not to talk about it right now."
Yeah, I think when we heard this non-denial, we all knew that it was true, just waiting for the other shoe to fall.

I pity Rush. Being hooked on drugs is a terrible thing (and I have a close family member who has been through it.) At the same time, I remain outraged at some of the things he has said. Though I don't have any links, I vaguely remember that he has little use for those druggie types. I am glad that his hypocrisy has been exposed.

[Ladewig]

American-
Your reaction is much like when you heard that he was going deaf. Only a democrat would make fun and cheer as if it's a character flaw.


:rolleyes: Rush Limbaugh has spent his entire career discounting the idea of drug treatment programs instead of jail time. He lead the parade that included mandatory sentencing, stiffer drug penalties, no legal exemption for medical use marijuana, and reduced rights for those accused of drug use. He described drug users as "a drain on society." If anything, it is him and his ilk that consider drug addiction a character flaw.

I believe that any middle-aged man with no criminal record who was found with hundreds of illegal pills should be sent to a treatment program rather than jail. Rush has disagreed with that position in the past. I think it is somewhat humorous that he is now in a position where he can stand by his word (by pleading guilty to all accurate charges and serve jail time) or he can backpedal (by describing exemptions to the harsh laws).

[Nasarius]

Originally posted by Furious


Er, yeah, I knew that it wasn't a news story, I was just protecting myself from a possible "That's a lefty propaganda publication, you kook" attack in case the column was representative of the whole publication. I was too lazy to investigate the whole site for bias.

I only wanted Rush quotes and didn't want to get into a big debate about the source of where I googled for them.

Newsday is one of the biggest (if not the biggest) daily newspaper on Long Island. In all my years of reading it, I haven't seen any significant bias. There are days where all the editorials seem left-slanted, and days when they're all right-slanted. Other than that, they tend to report news in an unbiased manner. I guess if you look at some of their regulars like Paul Vitello, it might be slightly left-leaning.

[zakur]

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

[Crossbow]

Well I know that if I had to put up with Limbaugh even two hours per day, let alone all day, I too would probably wind up being deaf and addicted to pain pills.

[Tricky]

Originally posted by zakur
If Bill Clinton were an addict, here (http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/Columnists.nsf/Bill+McClellan/25FF9A36D42606EA86256DBE001517F2?OpenDocument&docid=25FF9A36D42606EA86256DBE001517F2) is how Rush might spin it.
Heh heh heh! That's a great parody!
I know what liberals are going to say: 'This is a time for compassion.' Let me be very clear about this, folks. I have compassion. But my compassion is for all the people who believed in the guy. He was their shining star. He could do no wrong. But you know something? I probably don't have to worry. Because his followers are going to still believe in him. That's the thing about liberals! You can't convince them! You can show them the facts. You can say, 'Look, here is what he really said, and here is what he really did,' but they don't want to know the truth. That's the big difference between them and us. Liberals are afraid of the truth.

[Marc]

Yup, great parody. Though I have a hard time having compassion for anyone who calls themself a 'ditto head'.

"Gee, I do not bother to actually think for my self and openly declair I think whatever he tells me to think"

[Upchurch]

Originally posted by zakur
If Bill Clinton were an addict, here (http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/Columnists.nsf/Bill+McClellan/25FF9A36D42606EA86256DBE001517F2?OpenDocument&docid=25FF9A36D42606EA86256DBE001517F2) is how Rush might spin it. Yay, Saint Louis!

(gotta stick up for the home town and all)

[Tony]

Being the optimist that I am, I can’t help but think that this might have some good repercussions in the long run. Perhaps some die-hard conservative rush followers might be keener to the ideas of drug treatment as opposed to jail, drug legalization, against mandatory minimums and drug users in general. If I were really optimistic I would say that this might move the whole conservative movement into a more libertarian direction. That’s a good thing.

[billydkid]

Does he admit he is the worst sort of slime sucking hypocrit?

[schplurg]

I guess Rush isn't Superman. He's not exactly Jerry Garcia though, as the one article brings up Rush's own words on Jerry Garcia and uses them against him. The difference is that Garcia's lifestyle revolved around drugs. Rush had a short term binge or two (or three) after recovering from painful back surgery. I know he's a great target to attack, and there is some hypocrisy here, but it's not like he's dealing crack on the street.

Rush is a blowhard, an entertainer. Even so, it was his show many years ago that really got me interested in politics and current events. After awhile I kinda "outgrew" his show and found my own place on the political spectrum. I really can't listen to him anymore at all now and I'm not familiar with his views on drug rehabilitation. Seems like the people bashing him here sure know his agenda, which just proves how successful he has been. Kind of like Howard Stern...his haters make up a large part of his listening audience.

He sets himself up for these kind of attacks by coming across so arrogant, and it's predictable that people would feed on his misfortune or weakness. Maybe he'll come down a notch. But I would see the hypocrisy aspect a lot clearer if he'd been caught at insider trading, or doing something truly dastardly. But a celebrity succumbing to pain pills? Booooring.

[Frank Newgent]

Originally posted by schplurg
I guess Rush isn't Superman. He's not exactly Jerry Garcia though...
I think you migh have a point there...


Truckin' Lyrics
by Lush Rimbaugh

Truckin' got my OxyContin
Keep truckin, just like those guys on ESPN
Together, me and Wilma Cline, just keep truckin' on.

Tens of thousands of Xanax copped with a fake prescription
In West Palm Beach I got power and financial means
Your typical city involved in a typical daydream
Doesn't matter 'cause I can't hear a thing.

Philadelphia's got no quarterback
Houston? Bush, he wants my autograph
In New York, got my cochlear implant
But I still don't know a damned thing, oh no.

Most of the Lorcet you buy on the streets costs too much,
Most of the time I wish I could buy it at home
One of these days I'm gonna get a prescription
If it were legal The Enquirer would be writing 'bout UFO's.

Truckin', like Don McNabb. Once told me "Why you babble so bad?
Did you just get back from Peru?
You must be sniffing glue."

Sometimes the light's all shinin' on me;
Other times Noelle Bush hangs up her phone on me
Lately it occurs to me: What an a**hole I have been.

What in the world ever became of my ratings?
My lawyers advise me not to say a thing
Talent on loan from hydrocodone
All a friend can say is "Ain't it a shame?"

Truckin', up to Betty Ford. Been thinkin', you got to take on
Behavioral psychotherapy, and maybe find the Lord.

At the buffet it'll be bombs away
What the Palm Beach County State Attorney wants me to say
Antipsychotics in the gravy
What have they put in the food to make me feel this way?

Busted by my housekeeper
Six figures is what I heard they paid her
Ditto to what I spent last year
On ten thousand elixirs, oh no

You know, I told you there’s nothing good about drug use.
It destroys individuals, families and societies
Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country
I'll meet you in the parking lot over at Denny's, okay?

Sometimes the light's all shinin' on me
Other times Noelle Bush hangs up her phone on me
Lately it occurs to me: What an a**hole I have been.

[Tricky]

Originally posted by Frank Newgent
I think you migh have a point there...


Truckin' Lyrics
by Lush Rimbaugh

Truckin' got my OxyContin
Keep truckin, just like those guys on ESPN
Together, me and Wilma Cline, just keep truckin' on.
...

My sincerest admiration if you wrote that. You should take personal credit. If you didn't, you should tell us who did. (I know it's not Lush Rimbaugh).

[Frank Newgent]

Originally posted by Tricky

My sincerest admiration if you wrote that. You should take personal credit. If you didn't, you should tell us who did. (I know it's not Lush Rimbaugh).
Sure as hell wasn't Arthur Rimbaud either. Yes, I wrote it. Glad you like it, sir.